Art Exhibits

 CCA LECTURE - Digital Data Visualization 
November 4th 2010 
California College of the Arts - Timken Hall

Stamen Design was last to speak at the CCA Lecture about their new projects in info mapping. The image above is a still from an interactive cab spotting data visualizer. They showed some of their newest work Pretty Maps of New York and San Francisco.


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GAFFTA - Mileux Sonores / Sound and Imaginary Space
September 11th – November 19th 2010
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts

MILEUX SONORES

This exhibit was really interesting, you enter this big polygon room where there is a screen where the user can manipulate and change the sounds by touching and moving the illuminated shapes. The structures projected ceiling also changes with the sounds. The other installations with sound were odd and I couldn't grasp the concept but later in the night there was a live performance by a noise sound artist with choreographed light visuals projected onto a protruding 3D octagon screen.


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PORTO FRANKO ART PARLOR - Inna Razumova "Happy Hunting Grounds"
December 3rd 2010
953 Valencia Between 20th & 21st St

Russian Artist and City College art professor, Inna Razumova, displayed her work at Porto Franko in a solo exhibit last Friday. The most interesting work she had up were her ontological charts. She used some 3D rendering software and Photoshop to render some odd animal breeds.

Improbable Monument Final Solution

Improbable Monument Ideas

Bay Bridge S Turn Fatalities of 2009

 

This truck in full scale is frozen in a haunting free-fall depicts one of the accidents created by the new design of the San Francisco Bay Bridges "S" Turn in late 2009. In a period of only a few weeks the new design had led to numerous accidents along the turn from multiple car pile-ups to the plummet of a Semi-truck 200 feet to the Yerba Buena Island below. Totaling 44 accidents from opening of Sept 8th.

Links and Video

Big Rig Plummet

Big Rig Driver Killed | SF Examiner

Interview with Driver's Brother

KCRA Report on Crash 

Earlier accident

Safeway Truck Overturned S Turn

Drive the S Turn

Love and Haight

 

This idea commemorates the life, love, and freedom that San Francisco attracts and transmits. The love, art and music culture from San Francisco's 60s and 70s is depicted from this round bowl (symbolizing diversity and migration) spilling flowers (symbolizing life, growth and freedom) and producing trails of flowers running from the bowl down a path (inspiration, translation, growth, acceptance).

Bay Bridge Troll

A section of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge collapsed during the Loma-Prieta earthquake that rocked San Francisco Bay Area in 1989. The Bay Bridge was closed for several weeks while repairs were made. Construction workers traditionally have some sort of ceremony to mark the completion of an important project.

When the repairs to the bridge were nearly complete ironworkers smuggled an 18-inch metal troll onto the bridge and welded it permanently to a steel beam on the north side of the bridge. This unusual topping out surprise has become the subject of much curiosity and rumor around the Bay Area .^[1] In an article about the international scope of the topping-out tradition in the building trades, photographer, writer, and folklorist John V. Robinson cites the Bay Bridge troll as an example of a custom being adapted to an unusual circumstance.^[2]
The troll first came to the public's attention on January 15, 1990 when the San Francisco Chronicle ran a story about the small figure of a troll complete with a spud wrench that had been welded to the iron below the road on the north side of the bridge.^[3] The article quotes official spokesman for the state Department of Transportation, Greg Bayol, as saying, "If we were asked, we would have said 'no,' I'm sure." But the iron workers didn't ask, so the state is stuck with the troll.
The troll is placed where regular people would never see it. It is on the north side of the outside rail, where only maintenance people and ironworkers ever venture.^[3] The troll's creator, Bill Roan, is a blacksmith turned artist who lived near the Bay Bridge.
As of 2010 a new span of the Bay Bridge is under construction and people are starting to ask what will become of the troll when the old span is demolished. Cal-trans has not yet decided whether to retire the troll to a museum or to attach it to the tower of the new bridge.
A little known fact about the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge troll is that it has a twin brother. When the troll was made, the contractor, Rigging International, ordered two: one to put on the reconstructed Bay Bridge, and one to keep on display in the companies' office in Alameda, California. The doppelganger is mounted on a damaged section of the old bridge and sits on display in the lobby of their Alameda office.

Found and copied from Wikipedia

Dolores St Spanish War Intervention

We decided to spice up the Spanish American War Memorial statue on Dolores St at Market in the spirit of Halloween with a festive display in respect to the culture of the Castro.

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 Second State

First state

Mitchel Kofer

Mitchel Kofer is one of those guys that just that just does not hold back how ridiculous he is. His life consists of TV, mountain biking, golf, tennis, and taking photos with his friend Bobby. He's what you call a loner. His favorite thing to do is taking photos, although he has no interest in photography and he likes to fill his digital camera with relatively the same shot.

He lives in Ames, Iowa where he studies Sociology at Iowa State University. He moved to Iowa after high school to get away from the standards of Southern California where he was considered an outcast. Leaving his family, he found one trustworthy friend and a spare room with a family he found online.

Mitchel works at the local Best Buy, where he recently has been promoted to assistant supervisor of the appliance department. His achieved top sales for the month in July for selling the most refrigerators. He enjoys his job most for the discounts on DVDs and video games.

If you ever run in to Mitchel Kofer you should definitely try to start conversation with him... you'll understand then.

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