Industrial Revolution: Barrio Logan
August 30, 2010 | by Dylan | Comment
OK kiddies, lace up your boots. This Saturday, September 4th, is a big night in Barrio Logan. Our friends at Set & Drift have invited us all (that’s you too) to the opening reception of Current at The Bakery in Barrio Logan. The show will be featuring Mercantile, a pop-up-shop showcasing hand crafted goods from 9 American designers as well as an amazing knitted lighting installation by Kwangho Lee.
As if this wasn’t enough, around the corner, Glasshaus is opening its doors for Device Gallery’s Creatures of Industry reception featuring the works of Greg Brotherton, Nemo Gould, Jeremy Mayer and Guillermo Rigattieri.
…There’s more, believe it. Across the street from The Bakery, the opening reception for the group photography show Keeping Time will be going off at Voz Alta. Allright, I’m tired of typing.
Tags: Art > Barrio Logan > Chicano Park > Glashaus > Industrial Arts > photography > San Diego > sculpture > Set & Drift > Voz Alta
Crises of Capitalism… Animated!
August 26, 2010 | by Dylan | Comment
I love the title of this. you could put ‘Animated’ after anything and make it sound fun. David Harvey carefully suggests that it may be time to look beyond capitalism and The RSA does a magnificent job of making it playful and digestible.
If a Marxist perspective makes you squeamish then you may want to divert your ears and eyes. But hey, remember, being educated and using your brain to discern good ideas from bad ones is what makes you a good human… and plus, it’s Animated!
Tags: 21st century enlightenment > capitalism > david harvey > marx > the rsa
Pause For Techno
August 25, 2010 | by Dylan | Comment
Tiga “Shoes” from AlexandLiane on Vimeo.
This song has always been just OK but the video just made me weep.
A Really Bad Good Idea
August 12, 2010 | by Dylan | Comment
Catamaran made from 12,000 recycled plastic bottles crosses the pacific to raise awareness of our tendency to waste plastic like there’s no tomorrow …good idea? Here’s a cool video.
Ooops
August 9, 2010 | by Dylan | Comment
This is what capitalism sinking looks like. By the way, you might not be getting your new sneakers anytime soon. More on this here.
High Def: Positive Mental Attitude
August 5, 2010 | by Dylan | 1 Comment
Positive mental attitude “a psychological term which describes a mental phenomenon in which the central idea is that one can increase achievement through optimistic thought processes. PMA implies that one has a vision of good natured change in one’s mind; it employs a state of mind that continues to seek, find and execute ways to win, or find a desirable outcome, regardless of the circumstances.” -Wikipedia
Don’t care what they may say we got that attitude.
Don’t care what they may do we got that attitude.
Hey we got that PMA (positive mental attitude).
Hey we got the PMA. Hey we got the PMA. -Bad Brains ‘Attitude’
We got the PMA.
FYI: Bic Control
August 5, 2010 | by Dylan | Comment
The smarties over at biccontrol.com are building an online HQ for cyclists and well…non-cyclists too, in the spirit of making San Diego safer, cleaner, healthier, and ultimately more livable. As we enter the Post-Petrol age, organizing ourselves as cyclists instead of motorists is a positive response to declining energy and rising rates of obesity. Now, go rescue your old Peugeot from behind the garage or jump on your buddy’s pegs and cut up the streets. Bangarang!
BLU goes big in Berlin
August 5, 2010 | by Dylan | Comment
Street artist BLU gives his take on global warming in Berlin.
via JUST
Tijuego Street Art Bike Tour
July 30, 2010 | by Dylan | Comment
Instead of spending the weekend inside watching cartoons, our friends, SEZIO and Set & Drift decided to organize a rad street-art-bike-tour for San Diego and Tijuana on Saturday and Sunday. So for god’s sake, set your TiVo to record Yo Gabba Gabba this week and get out there on your bikes. We highly recommend.
Here’s the schedule we pulled from Set & Drift. Click here for even more details.
TJ Ride // Saturday, July 31 // 1:00 pm
Meet at the gates on the South side of the pedestrian border crossing in Colonia Federal. After-party at Pop Diner starting at 4pm
…SD Ride // Sunday, August 1 // 11:00 am
Meet at Urban Outfitters, Hillcrest by the OBEY mural
The ride will conclude at MCASD Downtown at 2pm
After-party at Super El Camino in Little Italy at 4pm
Tags: get some exercise > MCASD > San Diego > Tijuana > Viva La Revolucion
AN URGENT CALL TO DESIGNERS
July 14, 2010 | by Dylan | Comment
Stop it. Just stop it. Hold on to your humanity and stop it.
MXD MSG full version 7min from BREADTRUCK TV on Vimeo.
Adbusters posted this short film on their blog as “An urgent call to designers worldwide: It’s time to break free.” As a designer myself, I clicked. To my excitement, it was a short film created by one of my home-town heroes, Jeffrey Durkin. The film takes place in San Diego, and follows a graphic designer with ADD – and for me, that hits pretty close to home. Excited for Jeffrey and his blossoming production company, BreadTruck Films, I felt spreading the word was the least I could do. Keep it up Durkin – great stuff.
As for you creatives, I’m not done with you. For the last 6 decades we have basically tricked everyone into a lifestyle of false desires and consumption as remedy for the very stresses of life as a wage-slave. We coerce consumers in exchange for a paycheck. But the truth is we do not live in the Advertising Age nor the Space Age nor the Age of Industry. We live a Post-Everything world in which every product/corporation/government that still exists RELIES on you, the Creative. So just stop it. Make it obsolete. Advertise collaboration, thought & reason. Advertise health and love. You are culturally immersed, educated, constantly thinking and rethinking everything; what are you afraid of? We own them, and they know it. It’s time to switch sides.
>> Note to self: quit job.
Tags: Adbusters > Breadtruck Films + Design > design > Jeffrey Durkin