Sunk in Sleep: Summer Special Sneak Peak
http://youtu.be/6m9YZKIsURQ
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Thoughts on Strangerhood: with help from Bruce, Bacon and Baudrillard
Reading Gemma's post about a European's impression of the US, I immediately thought of Jean Baudrillard’s book “America." Here are some gems from my well-underlined, college copy: “This (The United States) is the only country which gives you the opportunity to be so brutally naïve: things, faces, skies, and deserts are expected to be simply what they are. This is the land of the ‘just as it is’.” “America is neither dream nor reality. It is a hyperreality. It is
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GROUND SERIES : AUGUST
Hello again from past CounterPULSE interns and life long CounterPULSE fans, Sarah Ashkin and Brittany Delany. We are the curators of GROUND SERIES – a meeting place for artists to share, research and connect. August events happen each 1st and 2nd Thursday night at the Temescal Arts Center. To learn more about what we have been up to this summer, check out our first blog post and second blog post on the CounterPULSE website We would be honored to have the CounterPULSE community come
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PacMan, the dance.
Bianca Cabrera's Blind Tiger Society gets ready to premiere "Sunk In Sleep" in a few weeks. A photo from rehearsal of our recent section, lovingly titled "PacMan," for reasons you'll have to see to understand. Mosh Pit
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Stranger in a Strange Land
When James was 9 he wrote a song about his 57 Chevy, cruisin’ down the freeway. I’m not sure exactly how this is relevant to our upcoming workshop residency at CounterPULSE, but somehow it gets right to the heart of it. A child, living in England and never having travelled outside of the UK, decides to write a song. What comes out is a first person description of an experience that is alien to the culture that he lives in,
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Two amazing Homo File shoots last weekend
We had two amazing shoots last weekend for Homo File. The first was with tattoo artist Zeph Fish who was inking our Sam Steward played by Ned Brauer. Sam was mentored by tattoo artist Amund Deitzel. Sam himself was mentor to tattoo artists Ed Hardy and Cliff Raven here in the Bay Area after he moved here in 1967--(the year I was born). On Saturday Ned had an amazing image of Mercury put on by Zeph Fish at her studio
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Call for tattooed actors/models for video/photo shoot for upcoming Homo File Performance Project by Seth Eisen
Call for tattooed actors/models for video/photo shoot for upcoming Homo File Performance Project by Seth Eisen Sunday, July 22nd at Center For Sex and Culture 1349 Mission St between 9th & 10th Streets, on the corner of Grace Street, San Francisco, CA Interested models please send photos and info on your body type and tattoos Time will be given with confirmation. (DO NOT JUST SHOW UP. THANKS -- SEE BELOW) WHO AND WHAT: We are looking for male or
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GROUND SERIES : JULY
Hello from past CounterPULSE interns, Sarah Ashkin and Brittany Delany! We are the curators of GROUND SERIES - a meeting place for artists to share, research and connect. The events happen each 1st and 2nd Thursday night of the summer at the Temescal Arts Center. To learn more, check out our first blog post on the CounterPULSE website. We want to extend an invitation to the very special CounterPULSE community to join us for GROUND SERIES: JULY. --- July is