CHIRP BLOG

Mar 17

five minute gesture from last night

five minute gesture from last night

Mar 13

snippets of last night, wherein we stumbled upon Street Food Fridays at Fabric8 and Ardeshir buys me a freshly flambéed treat from the Crème Brûlée Man in exchange for my teaching him Japanese
left: the icy-fluorescent bathroom at Fabric8, where goldfish are kept in the bathtubright: found object sculptures by Beth Mullins, currently showing at Ritual

snippets of last night, wherein we stumbled upon Street Food Fridays at Fabric8 and Ardeshir buys me a freshly flambéed treat from the Crème Brûlée Man in exchange for my teaching him Japanese

left: the icy-fluorescent bathroom at Fabric8, where goldfish are kept in the bathtub
right: found object sculptures by Beth Mullins, currently showing at Ritual

Mar 12

Modern Chess Set by Rachel Whiteread, part of an ongoing project featuring chess sets designed and reinterpreted by the world’s leading contemporary artists. this piece in particular speaks to my inner child and its weakness for all things miniature! (via pratt)

Modern Chess Set by Rachel Whiteread, part of an ongoing project featuring chess sets designed and reinterpreted by the world’s leading contemporary artists. this piece in particular speaks to my inner child and its weakness for all things miniature! (via pratt)

Mar 11

this program is brought to you by local underwriters

in addition to tiny icon designer, graphics monkey, and Spanish language billing correspondent, my role at work has expanded to lending my voice to a series of snippets for a radio show my coworkers tape twice a week in a makeshift recording studio — a large closet equipped with a jumble of boxes and wires, soundproofed by old blankets tacked to the walls.

some things I’ve learned:

- voice inflections can sound off-key, like bad singing

- basin rhymes with Jason, not raisinaurora is really hard to say twice in a row with a straight face

- the soothing public radio voice is simply the easiest one with which to stifle giggles

Mar 09

all of my impulse buys involve grey canvas and cute endangered animals

all of my impulse buys involve grey canvas and cute endangered animals

Mar 08

“fatmobiles”: Bimbo snack truck, work cruisers with cheeseburger bike bell

“fatmobiles”: Bimbo snack truck, work cruisers with cheeseburger bike bell

Mar 06

if you are in San Francisco tomorrow afternoon and without plans, you should check out Reply / a catalog of circles and incomplete cities, a visual arts performance at The Garage:
From falling, floating, disappearing, and appearing… Pieced together from an international collaborative, the performance work constructs a series of tableaux negotiating the edge space of landscape and circularity in the shared quotidian spaces of a city. Extracting for movement and image from Milan Kundera’s “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting”, and what he terms the “magic of the circle dance”, the mixed ensemble cast and a roaming camera move in and out of architectural patterns, place, and placelessness, exploring the nuances between memory, response, replication, and transformation. Compositions for music box, songs of Joni Mitchell, and disparate frames of silence create a score. Video shifts amidst the mixed topographies of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Volos, Genoa, and Berlin.
Isak Immanuel is one of my favorite figure models at the studio where I’ve been studying, who also happens to be an extremely talented butoh dancer and is always a treat to watch.

if you are in San Francisco tomorrow afternoon and without plans, you should check out Reply / a catalog of circles and incomplete cities, a visual arts performance at The Garage:

From falling, floating, disappearing, and appearing… Pieced together from an international collaborative, the performance work constructs a series of tableaux negotiating the edge space of landscape and circularity in the shared quotidian spaces of a city. Extracting for movement and image from Milan Kundera’s “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting”, and what he terms the “magic of the circle dance”, the mixed ensemble cast and a roaming camera move in and out of architectural patterns, place, and placelessness, exploring the nuances between memory, response, replication, and transformation. Compositions for music box, songs of Joni Mitchell, and disparate frames of silence create a score. Video shifts amidst the mixed topographies of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Volos, Genoa, and Berlin.

Isak Immanuel is one of my favorite figure models at the studio where I’ve been studying, who also happens to be an extremely talented butoh dancer and is always a treat to watch.

Mar 03

works in progress

works in progress

Mar 02

one morning bun fresh from the oven, coming right up

one morning bun fresh from the oven, coming right up

Mar 01

The Knife, in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, have released an opera based on Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species. how (r)evolutionary! chortle, knee slap.

The Knife, in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, have released an opera based on Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species. how (r)evolutionary! chortle, knee slap.

Feb 28

decadent and miraculously vegan desserts from the five-course tasting menu at Millennium
if I were to be relegated to the consumption of only one dessert for the rest of my life, I’d want it to be the chocolate almond midnight — that two-toned, nut-encrusted slice of creamy heaven to the right.

decadent and miraculously vegan desserts from the five-course tasting menu at Millennium

if I were to be relegated to the consumption of only one dessert for the rest of my life, I’d want it to be the chocolate almond midnight — that two-toned, nut-encrusted slice of creamy heaven to the right.

Feb 26

for those of you who missed the Lopped Off show last week, here’s my little phallus monster of cute.

for those of you who missed the Lopped Off show last week, here’s my little phallus monster of cute.

London designer Tithi Kutchamuch has created a necklace with charms modelled on the skull and entrails of a parrot.

London designer Tithi Kutchamuch has created a necklace with charms modelled on the skull and entrails of a parrot.

Feb 24

GPOYW: embracing the conspicuous irony of an iPhone app that simulates the analog interface and effects of plastic toy cameras.

GPOYW: embracing the conspicuous irony of an iPhone app that simulates the analog interface and effects of plastic toy cameras.