Artmurmur December 2013

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by Eddan Katz

I'm going to be applying for Art Murmur membership so that Sudo Room can be on there for First Fridays starting in Jan., 2014. > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Eddan <eddan(a)clear.net> wrote: > Since the subject of Sudo Room membership in the official Art Murmur program has come up several times - let me point people to where the conversation was left off on the Sudo Room mailing list. > Though it is not necessary and perhaps a distraction to discuss for planning this Friday, the fact that it's come up every time gives me the sense that people have strong opinions about it. > > http://lists.hackerspaces.org/pipermail/sudoroom/2012-July/000622.html > > > Tracy et al. Sudo Artists - > > Did we end up doing anything further about being members of Art Murmur after your message below? Do Sudo artists think it's worth being officially connected? According to the Art Murmur membership guidelines (http://oaklandartmurmur.org/images/stories/docs/oam-membership-guidelines-a…), galleries or mixed-use spaces participating in First Fridays receive the following benefits: > > * Representation on the Art Murmur map and postcard, which will be printed as needed. > * Representation on the Art Murmur website, with ability to update your events. > * Access to post on the Oakland Art Murmur Facebook page. > * Opportunity to participate in Saturday Stroll, which is marketed with its own postcard, ad campaign, program listings, and press campaign. > * Opportunity to participate in the annual Murmurama event, which takes place on the third Saturday in May. > * Opportunity to lead a guided tour of OAM galleries, which is a great way to bring new people to your venue. > * Sticker to identify you as an Oakland Art Murmur member, and temporary signs that wrap around poles, to install when you are open or on First Friday. > * Networking and press opportunities as they arise. > > As Tracy described in her earlier email below, the only real obstacle to our joining is the cost - $100 one time application fee and then $175/year membership. > > If we do join (and probably even if we don't), it seems like a good idea to create some way of regularly organizing events around Art Murmur. > There was an ad hoc list of a few people who expressed interest in helping out, but there wasn't much of a coordinated effort. Tracy's set-up in the box office was awesome last month, but we're going to need > more reliable participation for this to work. While an ad hoc group makes sense for particular projects, I think some kind of stable, but dynamic group of Sudo folk, even if just a few people, could really help round up participation for displaying the art people make anyhow as well as other coordination as required. I propose we form something like a Dynamic Association for Displayed Art (DADA) that rotates active contributors each month based on the particular installations and projects are going on. Documenting how we go about it each month on the Sudo Wiki would also be really helpful for coordinating future events more efficiently. > > Given the Ferro Fluids phenomena transpiring in Sudo Room and now the arrival of a giant papier-maché cruise-ship, we should get some Sudo folks on a cc:ed list to communicate about the Aug. 3 Art Murmur. This group can solicit people's art, make sure projectors, etc. are set up, make sure there are cups to accompany the wine, make sure teenagers don't exceed their turn playing Frogger, and other logistics evidently requiring organization. > > I want to put together a 'happening' connected to the box office maximum occupancy experiment on Aug. 3, if anyone else wants to help out with > that. And with the Ghostbusters showing at the Paramount - it would also be great to get some help with the 8.5 ft. inflatable Stay Puft Marshmallow Men (which ended up taking more than three hours to hang from the roof of 2135 Broadway, even with the landlord George's assistance.) > > So since the August First Friday Art Murmur is now coming upon us in a week and a half and with the possibility of also doing something for the Saturday Stroll, we should find out who's interested in being in the DADA committee for August. Following up on yesterday's meeting minutes > about Art Murmur (https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroom), please let Tracy (kinetical at comcast.net) and/or me know and we'll start off the planning discussion. > > -Eddan > [7/2012 DADA collaborator] > > > On 6/23/12 5:37 PM, Tracy Jacobs wrote: > > Welcome Hilary! > > > > So about the Art Murmur membership, I don't see anything on here that > > would exclude us, it might require some small time committments from > > people to have the "gallery" open. In theory the gallery could just > > be the box office, with a rotating show. > > > > http://oaklandartmurmur.org/get-involved/become-a-member-gallery > > > > The other thing though is there is a fee, it's pretty cheap for an > > organization, but too much for me to pay alone. $100 one time > > application fee and then 175 a year membership. Perhaps we can > > consider this at a future business meeting. > > > > I have yet to hear from any of you about your plans for the July 6th > > Art Murmur? Is anybody working today ? > > > > Tracy > > _______________________________________________ > Artmurmur mailing list > Artmurmur(a)lists.sudoroom.org > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/artmurmur > >

10 years, 11 months

Artmaking party after January 3 art murmur - year of the snake

by Romy Ilano

Hi I set up a wiki page with a summary of this event. -> it's not going to be a simple art exhibition -> it's after the art murmur I need help with this if anyone is interested. is anyone interested in selling sudomate, etc? https://sudoroom.org/wiki/ArtMakingParty About[edit<https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=ArtMakingParty&action=edit&s…> ] January 3, 2014 - we are having a post Oakland Art Murmur art making evening. The idea is that instead of doing an art show, we will create a space for people to create art, hack on stuff, dance and perform for everyone live. It's like a Jazz musician jam. There are going to be art MC's such as James Lamaste and roller skaters like Elle Seven cheering people on, presenting videos, and playing music. We need: - Art supplies, any old markers or pens you have - any extra electronics parts you have - Big rolls of paper - clean up, people interested in being mimes and performers Sites[edit<https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=ArtMakingParty&action=edit&s…> ] - Official Event Page: https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/art-year-of-the-snake-rebirth/?instance_id= - Facebook Invite Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1399202000323761/1399202003657094 Schedule[edit<https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=ArtMakingParty&action=edit&s…> ] - Opening ceremonies presented by James Lamaste - People are directed to where they can draw or hack, different stations. There will be standing areas for the MC to go to at various points of the night to showcase their progress. - Elle Seven will skate around, present her wonderful skate films set in Dakar and East Los Angeles. http://facebook.com/elleseven ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

10 years, 11 months

Re: [Artmurmur] do we have an overhead projector with transparencies that we can write on with markers?

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

But we have a functioning document projector that may suit your needs. It's in a black bag on the documentation cart. // Matt ----- Reply message ----- From: "Romy Ilano" <romy(a)snowyla.com> To: "mattsenate(a)gmail.com" <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> Cc: "sudo-discuss" <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org>, "artmurmur(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <artmurmur(a)lists.sudoroom.org> Subject: [Artmurmur] do we have an overhead projector with transparencies that we can write on with markers? Date: Sat, Dec 28, 2013 13:10 thanks everyone! I'm going to drop by SudoRoom this afternoon to drop off some cardboard backing paper for the event, and look at what we have. ============================= Romy Ilanoromy(a)snowyla.com On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 12:17 PM, mattsenate(a)gmail.com <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> wrote: We have 2 but no bulbs. We had one with bulbs but it turned out to belong to someone // Matt ----- Reply message ----- From: "Romy Ilano" <romy(a)snowyla.com> To: "sudo-discuss" <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org>, "artmurmur(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <artmurmur(a)lists.sudoroom.org> Subject: [Artmurmur] do we have an overhead projector with transparencies that we can write on with markers? Date: Thu, Dec 26, 2013 18:35 do we have a overhead projector, old school style, with transparencies that we can write on with markers?I seem to recall that we had one. I'd like to use this to do a live comic book / cartoon session during the Year of the Snake event January 3rd. https://sudoroom.org/wiki/ArtMakingParty ============================= Romy Ilanoromy(a)snowyla.com

10 years, 11 months

Re: [Artmurmur] do we have an overhead projector with transparencies that we can write on with markers?

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

We have 2 but no bulbs. We had one with bulbs but it turned out to belong to someone // Matt ----- Reply message ----- From: "Romy Ilano" <romy(a)snowyla.com> To: "sudo-discuss" <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org>, "artmurmur(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <artmurmur(a)lists.sudoroom.org> Subject: [Artmurmur] do we have an overhead projector with transparencies that we can write on with markers? Date: Thu, Dec 26, 2013 18:35 do we have a overhead projector, old school style, with transparencies that we can write on with markers?I seem to recall that we had one. I'd like to use this to do a live comic book / cartoon session during the Year of the Snake event January 3rd. https://sudoroom.org/wiki/ArtMakingParty ============================= Romy Ilanoromy(a)snowyla.com

10 years, 11 months

do we have an overhead projector with transparencies that we can write on with markers?

by Romy Ilano

do we have a overhead projecto<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhead_projector>r, old school style, with transparencies that we can write on with markers? I seem to recall that we had one. I'd like to use this to do a live comic book / cartoon session during the Year of the Snake event January 3rd. https://sudoroom.org/wiki/ArtMakingParty ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

10 years, 11 months

Fwd: [sudo-discuss] Art Murmur discussion list sign up page

by Romy Ilano

Hi everyone, I've also made an artmrumur wiki https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Art_Murmur http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/artmurmur Please add as you see fit. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tracy Jacobs <kinetical(a)comcast.net> To: Everyone interested in receiving Art murmur related posts please sign yourselves up to the new Art Murmur mailing list: http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/artmurmur Thanks, Tracy _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

11 years

please email me/the list impressions or photos of first friday

by Romy Ilano

i'd like to make a blog post and get research done for the art murmur group.

11 years

artmurmur - saturday stroll + involving noisebridge?

by Romy Ilano

Hi all As you know, Oakland has the oakland art murmur on First Fridays. SudoRoom is in Oakland, and often people end up going to SudoRoom as an afterparty, when art murmur ends (around 9-10pm) There is also a "Saturday Stroll" where we can have SudoRoom open Saturday mornings+afternoons. This is a much more laid back affair. - *Could we involve Noisebridge in the art murmur at SudoRoom?* We would be able to have more art on display, and we could sell some more electronics kits, noisebridge t-shirts, etc? I am at Noisebridge a lot so I will investigate. I think it would be good to pool resources, and create a link between SF and Oakland Anyone interested in manning on a Saturday Stroll?

11 years

Dogtown Redemption in the LA Times

by Eddan Katz

> Makers of film on Oakland's recyclers await word from Sundance > > Filmmakers hope 'Dogtown Redemption,' a compassionate look at people eking out a living by recycling, wins a slot at Sundance. > > > > Amir Soltani, right, producer/director of "Dogtown Redemption," talks to Dee, one of many recyclers he has befriended at West Oakland's Alliance Recycling Center. The documentary, six years in the making, follows people who push shopping carts through town, collecting recyclables as a way of making a living. (Lee Romney, Los Angeles Times / September 11, 2013) > > By Lee Romney > November 30, 2013, 9:00 a.m. > > OAKLAND — Amir Soltani moved into his brother's townhouse eight years ago in a new West Oakland development touting itself as a bridge between "industrial and residential neighborhoods." > > He had fled Iran as a child for a life of relative privilege in Britain and the U.S., where he attended elite colleges. Yet Soltani understood displacement and the outsider's lack of belonging. And he saw and heard something he could not ignore. > > The clang clang of the shopping carts formed a spectral nighttime symphony as recyclers congregated from miles around. Some pushed loads of as much as a thousand pounds on rigs lashed together with street ingenuity. Their destination: Alliance Recycling. > > Local residents had long clashed with Alliance, and transplanted professionals who bought into the townhouse complex were even more vocal in their displeasure. The sounds were cacophonous, and the cash disbursed for glass and aluminum pilfered from private cans was often spent on drugs, booze and sex in plain sight. > > Soltani saw a bigger picture: the legacy of poor urban planning that had turned a thriving African American enclave into a destitute landscape pocked by industry. And now, gentrification and mounting tensions. > > He quit his job, bought a camera and became a fixture at Alliance. > > Six years later, "Dogtown Redemption," the documentary he created with co-director and cinematographer Chihiro Wimbush, is in the hands of judges who will announce this week whether it wins a coveted slot in the Sundance Film Festival. > > The duo hopes to spur discussion with an online interactive map on which residents and business owners can track recyclers' routes and upload their own stories and opinions. > > "It's film as a way to build community," said Soltani, 47. "There are all these people living at different levels here — sort of like a shattered mirror." > > Even before the film's release, the long act of making it would prove transformative — for subjects and filmmakers: Lives lost. Recovery. Despair. And most of all, deep, abiding human bonds. > > "I love Amir," said Hayok Kay, 59, a South Korean-born former punk rock drummer whose mental health demons have kept her on the streets for decades. "Because he's Amir." > > :: > > Soltani studied social and intellectual history at Tufts and Harvard universities, became a human rights activist and worked as a journalist before landing a Bay Area job here as Middle East editor for New America Media. > > Around the corner from his new home was Alliance, which opened in 1978 — after redevelopment made its mark. > > Freeways that promised connection to San Francisco had surrounded and isolated West Oakland. The depot at the western terminus of the First Transcontinental Railroad, which had brought in a flow of Southern job-seekers and cash-flush black porters, was closed. > > A vibrant blues music scene died out, along with black-owned businesses that had offered a path to the middle class. > > Alliance, in the neighborhood known as Dogtown, was a stage on which enduring consequences played out. Soltani settled in to watch and listen. > > In mid-2008, he was joined by Wimbush, who, born to a Japanese mother and white father raised in Kenya, shared Soltani's outsider perspective of urban America. > > Where many saw dank and sticky chaos, the pair found the underside of the green economy and a subculture of enterprise, where recyclers closely guarded routes built on long-cultivated relationships. > > On a recent day, Roslin Brister-Sanders, 56, showed off a heavy ring of keys around her neck that grant access to garages and gates along the two-mile route she has traced with her cart for more than a decade — first with her husband, and then alone, after he landed in jail and died under mysterious circumstances. > > "People think we're robbers, stealers, drunks," Brister-Sanders said. "This film sheds some light on what we do. It's showing that we are all taking part in society." > > :: > > Because of the heavy load she pulls, Brister-Sanders is the only woman welcome to join the self-titled "Breakfast Club" that gathers before dawn outside Oakland's E-Z Liquors. Wimbush, 44, regularly met her there, the cup of coffee she requested steaming in his hands. > > He has taken her to the hospital for bronchial infections more times than he can recall. "They can be sweet as gold or a pain," Brister-Sanders said of the group. "They haven't missed one of my birthdays. They always bring me a cake." > > Wimbush and Soltani bonded with "Miss Kay," the former drummer, after her longtime partner — a street artist — succumbed to chronic illness. They tracked her journey from crippling grief to a stint in a shelter, then back to the streets and, recently, to newfound companionship. > > They bore witness as Jason Witt, known as "the titan" for his monstrous rig, battled heroin addiction — and found his way back to a grounding childhood discipline: martial arts. > > Then there is Landon Goodwin, 58. Born to a family of ministers, he ended up addicted on the streets, in and out of prison, "hanging around with people who were in the same position and same condition." > > In lengthy chats, he told the filmmakers he had never lost touch "with that inner person I really was" but had failed to fulfill his destiny. Soon after, he was beaten with a lead pipe. But those conversations stayed with him. > > "You can't have a film called 'Redemption' where nothing is redeemed," said Goodwin. "Sometimes people kind of jump-start something that's in you. I didn't want to die on the streets. I wasn't raised there." > > He entered recovery in Vallejo, and, as Wimbush and Soltani stood by, became an ordained minister, fell in love and married. > > Soltani shared his own stories. When his fictional graphic novel, "Zahra's Paradise," was published in 2011, Brister-Sanders and Miss Kay both clamored for a copy. Set in the aftermath of Iran's fraudulent 2009 elections, it tells of the search by a mother and brother for Mehdi, a protester who vanished into an extrajudicial twilight zone. > > The displacement, grief and trauma experienced by Iranians, Soltani said, resonated. > > Still, the closeness with their subjects came as a surprise. > > "The way they have shared their stories, it's a tremendous gift," Soltani said. "The most humbling for me has been realizing that there are no easy solutions, no easy answers." > > :: > > As the pair scraped for funding, they found a warm reception. > > Tere Romo, who oversees the San Francisco Foundation's Bay Area documentary fund, said judges selected the project for going beyond an exploration of recycling to offer an intimate look at the humanity of the recyclers and the challenges they face. > > The Sundance Institute — which receives more than 1,500 applications a year and funds about 50, chose it for its focus on "homelessness, addiction, gentrification — problems facing lots of municipalities," said documentary film fund director Rahdi Taylor. It was afterward — when she met Soltani and Wimbush — that Taylor said she was so struck by "the open heart that they have." > > Sometimes, she said, where the public and private sectors fail, "artists can succeed in finding a new pathway to tell a different kind of story, to open a new window for a different kind of future." > > Goodwin put it this way: "I hope it brings attention to some of the homeless people who are out there who are pearls. You just never know until you get to know somebody what their potential really is." > > lee.romney(a)latimes.com > > > http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-west-oakland-recyclers-20131201,0,753559…

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Fwd: #GivingTuesday: A New Holiday Tradition

by Eddan Katz

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