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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…

11 years

Fwd: #GivingTuesday: A New Holiday Tradition

by Eddan Katz

if you're wondering why you're receiving lots of emails from non-profits today -- > > > > > PCI Media Impact > 777 United Nations Plaza - 5th Floor > New ork, NY 10017, USA > T:(212) 687-3366 F:(212) 661-4188 > > To unsuscribe please e-mail dbase(a)mediaimpact.org > > Privacy Policy | Email Preferences Copyright 2013 PCI Media Impact - Headquarters > > > >

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Sudo Room Signage

by Eddan Katz

We should put up signage for Sudo Room on the Broadway side of the building. We've already asked George about whether it would be OK to put it on the arched awning above the 2141 Broadway door and have the go ahead. Apparently, if we use the same white on blue format, there are no additional costs. Other colored designs would require Sudo room being registered with the city & have to take part in paying for insurance for the building (albeit proportional). Does anyone have the tools necessary to make the stencil? Anyone up for painting over the stencil in the bear future? In fact, if it's trivial to do - might make sense to try and get it done by Art Murmur tomorrow night. sent from eddan.com

11 years

Sudo Square

by Eddan Katz

Reviving the conversation about Sudo Square and trying to coordinate something for next week's First Friday. On Apr 11, 2013, at 11:44 PM, Hol Gaskill <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote: > i am just tickled by the idea of birdhoused sudo wifi tent self square named networks > > > Apr 11, 2013 05:57:45 PM, eddan(a)clear.net wrote: > something like that. ; >> As far as I can tell, it's an informal agreement b/w Ike's & the Punchdown that people can eat Ike's sandwiches at the tables, and Ike's doesn't complain about the tables being locked up until 4pm. ; >> Can the Oakland wiki geeks point us to where we can verify information about this parcel. >> Once we confirm it's public, might be fun to put up an Occupy tent looking birdhouse that brings open free mesh wireless to the Square. The network could be named SudoSquare so that people outside this inside joke would care. >> >> sent from eddan.com >> On Apr 11, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Matthew Senate mattsenate(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Wait, sudo square is actually a public park--meaning it doesn't belong to the building owner adjacent to the square that has set up their own private chairs they lock at night, well pretty much most of the time? > >> // Matt >> >> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Eddan Katz eddan(a)clear.net> wrote: >> > >> Yeah, what Jenny is saying.And also in regards to what is Sudo about it: >> > The naming of streets and landmarks and parks is accomplished either formally by the state or the company willing to sponsor it. >> I think the Sudo way of naming landmarks should depend on what the community can collectively accomplish without confirmation by power or with money. It is peer produced because it depends on voluntary community collaborative participation of check-in in order to have legitimacy. Governments can't force Yelp to list some landmark the same as Google, Yahoo!, and FacebookHome. And the companies competitive interests prevent cooperation. > >> Which Franklin is it referring to? If it is Benjamin, I'd guess he'd be all for it. >> >> sent from eddan.com > >> On Apr 11, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Jenny Ryan tunabananas(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Mark: Thanks for the info! That sounds like a beautiful public transportation option. I was wondering what happened to Oakland streetcars and it seems there was a recent plan and push for them:http://www.oaklandstreetcarplan.com >> > > > >> JC: We are not a virtually community alone - sudo room is a physical space located in an actual place, with history and neighbors and all the intricacies that compose location-based culture. >> >> I'm a huge fan of Oakland Wiki and think it's one of the most important projects sudoers are working on right now. Attention to one's surroundings and the dynamics of a place one is relatively new to reflects a sensibility of understanding and attunement that is sadly neglected in this age of community alienation and displacement (how many of us actually grew up in this town?). >> > > > >> Jenny >> > http://jennyryan.net >> > http://thepyre.org >> > http://thevirtualcampfire.org >> > http://technomadic.tumblr.com >> > >> > `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` >> > > "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." >> > -Laurie Anderson >> > >> > "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." >> > -Hannah Arendt >> > >> > "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." >> > -Stéphane Mallarmé >> > ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` > > >> >> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:24 PM, J.C. r33lmm(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > > > This all sounds interesting and stuff, it would be helpful if you gave a quick context as to why I would care about this and how it relates to sudo'ism. > > >> >> > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:15 PM, mark burdett mfburdett(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > > > > the actual name is Franklin Plaza and yes it has a OaklandWiki page- we batch-imported all oakland parks :) ;http://oaklandwiki.org/Franklin_Plaza > > > > >> > > by the way, if you look at old maps, there used to be Southern Pacific streetcars running along Franklin St across Broadway onto 22nd street by the sudoroom entrance. from sudoroom you could take an electric train (1200 volts DC!) all the way to SF ferry building (via the SP mole which is now middle harbor shoreline park) in one direction and Alameda in the other. > > > > > > > >> Also - apparently when the land where sudoroom stands was first subdivided as "Wilcox Place" you could buy a lot for $900 gold coin.. >> --mark B. > >> >> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Eddan Katz eddan(a)clear.net> wrote: >> > > > > >> > > Hi all - >> I wanted to ask a flash-mob like favor from folks coming to Sudo Room this evening. Over the summer, several of us created the Sudo Square page at Foursquare (https://foursquare.com/v/sudo-square/50074796e4b092cb5fe8c83d) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sudo-Square/351059718301717) as part of a plan to name the plaza at the intersection of Broadway, 19th, & Franklin. Can you please check-in on your way in? > > > > > > >> It's a lovely day and the Punchdown (http://www.punchdownwine.com/) already put out the outdoor table seating. I'll be hanging out there until the meeting and will remind Sudo folk I see. > > > > > > >> Given the democratization of nomenclature afforded by geo-located mobile computing, I thought it most appropriate to have some kind of coordinated crowd in-checking initiative. There are some pictures, but it's a placeholder so far. So far as we know (& the Oakland Wiki folks could correct us), the square does not yet have a name. > > > > > > >> So not just today - but anytime - when you're passing by 22nd & Broadway and you're itching to check in on Facebook or Foursquare, or Yelp, or however it is you go about telling the world instantaneously where you are - please check in at Sudo Square - often and tell your friends about it too. I am also now trying to compile a list of the existing sites & services use for geo-located check-in fun - so let me know if you know of others. > > > > > > >> Perhaps during one of the upcoming Art Murmurs - we can have an official check-in dedication ceremony - we can invite the mayor. >> >> > > > > > > sent from eddan.com >> >> >> >> > > > > > > >> _______________________________________________ >> > sudo-discuss mailing list >> > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> > >> >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> > sudo-discuss mailing list >> > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> ThanX, > > > ;+) > >> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/%C3%9F%C3%AA%C3%A3%C2%B5 > > >> _______________________________________________ >> > sudo-discuss mailing list >> > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> > >> >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ >> > > sudo-discuss mailing list >> > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> > >> >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >>

11 years

Fwd: Volunteer for Plaid Friday, Nov 29

by Eddan Katz

Of possible interest to the Sudo ArtMurmur folks. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fwd: Volunteer for Plaid Friday, Nov 29 Date: 2013-11-04 15:07 From: Eddan Katz <eddank(a)gmail.com> To: eddan(a)sudoroom.tv Begin forwarded message: > FROM: Joann Lee <joannl(a)gmail.com [1]> > > SUBJECT: VOLUNTEER FOR PLAID FRIDAY, NOV 29 > > DATE: November 4, 2013 2:05:09 PM PST > > TO: undisclosed-recipients:; > > Hi Oakland Grown Street Team members! > > We need your help with our annual Plaid Friday event! See details > below and hope to see you there! And as always, let me know if you > have any questions. > > WHAT: Plaid Friday > WHERE: Downtown Oakland, CA > WHEN: Friday, November 29, times vary > WHO: Oakland Grown, East Bay Express, the Downtown/Uptown business > districts, In the Black, Oaklandish and many others > WHY: The name Plaid Friday was conceived from the idea of weaving the > individual threads of small businesses together to create a strong > fabric that celebrates the diversity and creativity of independent > businesses. Plaid Friday is the fun and enjoyable alternative to the > big box store “Black Friday,” and is designed promote both local > and independently owned businesses during the holidays. > > WHAT WE ARE ASKING FOR HELP WITH: > > We need about 40 volunteers to help out over the course of the day, > in > the following shifts > 9:00-12:00 > 12:00 - 4:00 > 3:30 - 7:30 > > 5:00-9:00 (in one of the bars, 21+ only) > > Roles include setting up, serving hot chocolate, helping with Santa > and Mayor's Toy Drive, monitoring the info booth, swiping people's > Oakland Grown Cards at participating bars, and a few other tasks. > > This is all to support our local small businesses, and in turn, our > local community, as local businesses provide more jobs and more > charitable donations, and generally do so much more for our > communities than big box stores. > > I hope you will consider helping out for a few hours! > > If so, please take a minute to complete this form [2] to let us know > your availability. (Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TF8VZVL [3]) > > Thanks!! > > Joann Lee > SBA Board Member Links: ------ [1] mailto:joannl@gmail.com [2] https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TF8VZVL [3] https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TF8VZVL

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