CHIRP BLOG

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

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:14:26 -0800

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

“fatmobiles”: Bimbo snack truck, work cruisers with...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:43:00 -0800

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

if you are in San Francisco tomorrow afternoon and without...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:29:00 -0800

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.

works in progress

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:04:00 -0800

works in progress

one morning bun fresh from the oven, coming right up

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:35:00 -0800

one morning bun fresh from the oven, coming right up

The Knife, in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock,...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:37:21 -0800

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.

decadent and miraculously vegan desserts from the five-course...

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:26:00 -0800

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.

for those of you who missed the Lopped Off show last week,...

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:34:10 -0800

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...

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:12:00 -0800

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

Photo

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:58:00 -0800

GPOYW: embracing the conspicuous irony of an iPhone app that...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:43:00 -0800

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

Otter Pops and Polaroids? it’s like I hopped into a time...

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:03:00 -0800

Otter Pops and Polaroids? it’s like I hopped into a time machine back to grade school! taken by the ultra-talented Preet Shihn, at a fiesta last November.

The Cost of an Artificial Man, from Harmsworth Magazine circa...

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:14:00 -0800

The Cost of an Artificial Man, from Harmsworth Magazine circa 1892

woodswoodswoods:

Full Table refers to this as ‘Bodily Damage’, so presumably these are settlement costs for personal injury? If so, apparently just shaving your head entitles you to £85. Been in a freak moustache incident? £10 for you.

last night, I dislocated my elbow at the funny bone after a...

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:40:00 -0800

last night, I dislocated my elbow at the funny bone after a nasty fall at the rock gym. it’s a good thing I have brain damage!

I have a tiny, adorable contribution in this show, which opens...

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:42:34 -0800

I have a tiny, adorable contribution in this show, which opens on Tuesday, February 16 from 5-7pm at SFAI’s Diego Rivera Gallery. many thanks to the always excellent Jenny for its safe transport, who has also submitted her own small and delightfully squishy piece!

RIP Alexander McQueen (1969–2009)

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:50:58 -0800

RIP Alexander McQueen (1969–2009)

unhappyhipsters: There it hung — a bicycle built for two, an...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:25:00 -0800

unhappyhipsters:

There it hung — a bicycle built for two, an exclamation point to her lonesome heart.

Vija Celmins, To Fix the Image in Memory, 1977-8211 stones and...

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:48:00 -0800

Vija Celmins, To Fix the Image in Memory, 1977-82
11 stones and 11 painted bronzes

“It’s this guy who remembers everything he sees, and his head gets so filled up that he can’t function. Because he remembers everything. When I was looking at the rock and painting the bronze, I had to remember what it is I saw even though it was only five inches away. And it was like building a sort of memory. Then I was thinking, well, it’s sort of a criticism of realistic art, you know? Like a kind of ‘fuck you’. You point out that art is always invented, and that there’s nothing real about it the way nature is real.”

(via vesolt)

Design and Art Direction 1966 Annual, with superbly minimalist...

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:32:00 -0800

Design and Art Direction 1966 Annual, with superbly minimalist cover design by Alan Aldridge and Lou Klein. From D&AD’s Flickr page (via Peter Nidzgorski):

During the past few years one has been aware of a growing professionalism in editorial, film and advertising techniques. In this Annual you will see work where a strong idea has been welded to this competence, to solve a design problem with economy and flair.

(via matthewb)

GPOYW, part two: 23 seems like a good age for me to stop cutting...

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:59:00 -0800

GPOYW, part two: 23 seems like a good age for me to stop cutting my own hair.