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Home BLOGS Music Music: 2 Days of Autumn Fest
Written by Jennifer Maerz
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Thursday, 14 December 2006 13:37
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![](http://www.fecalface.com/blogs/music/12-14-06/music.jpg) Featuring bands like The Court and Spark, Dodo Bird, Vetiver, and others
Happy Holidays... yeah, even the stinkin' hippies are feeling the season.
Before things turned all jingle bells, though, a group of us headed south down to Big Sur on one of the last gorgeous fall weekends in November. We hit the Fernwood, a mellow little lodge/campground/motel in the middle of the redwoods for the 2 Days of Autumn fest.
Even though the guy who puts on cool music events here (Britt Govea) goes under the production name (((folkYEAH!))), he doesn't only put together folksy shows. Sweden's Witchcraft played the Fernwood with one of my favorite localish stoner metal acts, Mammatus, and indie favorite Bonnie "Prince" Billy's hit the stage here as well. The weekend we were in town there were something like two dozen acts that took the stage, including Court and Spark and Fecal Face star Dodo Bird. Check out the crazy quilt that was commissioned for the show hanging at the back of the stage (it was three wolves howling crazy quilts into the ceiling).
Court and Spark
I took a couple trips to music festivals this fall but this one in Big Sur felt the most relaxed and casual, like a real vacation. It was pretty much like going to the woods for a party with good friends (or just good people from S.F. and L.A.) and a great soundtrack. My buddies Jesse...
and Shawn...
and Robin Miller... (who plays as Big Eagle with Bart Davenport (who played solo that weekend but who also plays around town with indie funksters Honeycut.
During the day we went to nearby Pfeiffer Beach, where the sand is purple for inexplicable reasons it was a beautiful 70 degrees outside. Definitely an incredible way to spend your time before a night full of music.
The music started in the late afternoon.... lots of folksy sorta stuff early on, and you could watch the bands, sit on the porches around the Fernwood (the back porch was surrounded by huge redwoods), or try really hard to find the meteor shower that supposedly started at 8:30 p.m. that night. I didn't see that many shooting stars, but I did see Jenny Lewis, who was a surprise guest (fY! folks leave room in the lineups to slide the occasional talented straggler interested in taking the stage). Jenny Lewis used to be in Rilo Kiley and her voice is pure honey in every sense -- rich, golden, and very sweet).
Jenny Lewis and her buddy/my buddy Jed
One of the main reasons I went to Big Sur was to see Vetiver - who live in S.F. but who I'd never seen live before, despite being a big fan of their music. They play I guess what you'd call cosmic country -- lots of acoustic instruments and vocals that sound warmed by a campfire and made for romantic times under the stars. If you've yet to hear them, hit their MySpace page and listen to "Been So Long." I was sad they didn't play that particular song that weekend but damn if that track isn't a heartbreaker even blasting from the tinny speakers of my little laptop.
One of the Vetiver dudes...
Frontman Andy Cabic of Vetiver is an incredible talent...he used to play in Tussle but in recent times works with both Vetiver and buddy Devendra Banhart. Can't wait for the next Vetiver record.
More Vetiver
Dave from Birdman Records, home to great tunes by Howlin Rain, Gris Gris, Greg Ashley, the Cuts, and more.
In the end, I'd highly recommend a trip down to the Fernwood for some sort of (((folkYEAH!))) show - you can't beat such an easy excuse to hear great music in a place where all the stars (shooting or not) hang above the front porch and everyone gets real friendly for a couple days. Britt supposedly has some big deal plans for New Years, but I'm still waiting to get all the details on that one. Check out his site to get announcements for upcoming shows.
Back in the city, though, I've kinda slowed down the show-going a bit. Last weekend I hit two fun little gigs, though. One was at the Knockout, which I'm embarrassed to say I hadn't been to since it changed from the Odeon (I just moved back to S.F. this spring). That place was a blast that night, even for the long of hair.
The bands of course helped the fun along, though. Headlining was Total B.S. (Bob Seger cover band with members of Colossal Yes -- who also played that night -- and members of Harold Ray, Saviours, and Drunk Horse). Colossal Yes started things off.
CY is the drummer of Comets on Fire's other project, a really pretty little piano-based trio with sweet songs sung in Utrillo's featherweight falsetto. The other dudes in the band are from the Cuts and Drunk Horse.
Fun crowd that night too. This first guy, Nick, owns Jackpine Social Club , which put out great records by Kelley Stoltz and Parchman Farm, among others.
It was also a makeshift birthday party for Chris Owen, one of the head honchos of the big ol' garage rock marathon Budget Rock.
Normally I'm not a big cover band connoisseur. Aside from say the Dirtbombs and their catalog of non-originals, there are few acts I'd want to see play songs I've heard a million times already. But Total B.S. is a different breed - they've got the lovely ladies of the Husbands backing them, and when you hear them play you find a new kinda garage-y sentiment in ye olde classic rock fare like "Hollywood Nights." The whole damn crowd was singing along.
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The following night Tussle played Café du Nord. I like their new downtown funk/sci fi free jazz record, but I have to say they're a band that's even better live. I'm really getting into these beat-based acts that aren't about sitting around thwapping on a laptop - these dudes get movement started using live instruments, including a lot of percussion - and really make you want to dance. They're not some fashion act throwing in synthesizers to earn favor with the DJ crowd - but they're also not, thank god, a hacky sac jam band either. Somewhere in the middle is a group that can, say, have half dozen drummers on stage and get everyone involved moving their hands, their hips, and their heads.
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In an extended finale, Tussle handed out lots of percussion instruments to the crowd and everyone was banging away on some kind of noisemaker. It was really infectious. And kinda funny. The drummer in the photo above walked by me and said, "Man, it's kind of like Golden Gate Park in here now, isn't it?" True, but it smelled a lot better and no one brought their dogs on hemp ropes. (Plus no one was carrying around a 40, which seems to be the beverage of choice in my upper Haight hood.)
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Different night, different vibe: John Waters may not be the first person you think of when you think of the holidays, but he released a pretty sweet collection of Christmas tracks last year that included such treasures as "Here Comes Fatty Claus," "Fat Daddy," and "Santa Claus is a Black Man." He did a comedy show at the Swedish American Hall that was the typical crass laughs and obscure cultural references you'd expect from the pencil thin-mustachioed director. Good times. But he also brought along a wisecracking opening act, Wanda Jackson, the first lady of rockabilly. I'll admit I'm really not one for rockabilly, what with all the outfits and the hairdos and, well, the music, but when it's sung by a spitfire of a senior citizen who talks about learning guitar from (and then dating) Elvis, I'll be sure to change my mind for the night. Jackson's the original deal. She was really charming and funny, not to mention talented - and wearing a whole lotta bling.
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And yeah, sorry, that's all I've got this time. So I'll leave you with a lot at the art I walk by every day on the way to the Muni... I like how it's pasted all over this abandoned apartment.
Upcoming Shows Worth Checking Out:
- Comets on Fire/Crime in Choir (12 Galaxies, 12/16)
- Thee Oh Sees (Make-Out Room, 12/28); Diplo (Mezzanine; 12/29)
- Saviours (Hemlock, 12/29)
- Trans Am/Tussle (Mezzanine, 12/30)
- Drunk Horse/Ezee Tiger (12 Galaxies, NYE)
- Indian Jewelry (12/5, Hemlock)
- Black Lips/Gris Gris*** (1/16, 12 Galaxies)
*What shows do you plan on checking out this week?
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Alison Blickle @NYC's Kravets Wehby Gallery
Los Angeles based Alison Blickle who showed here in San Francisco at Eleanor Harwood last year (PHOTOS) recently showed new paintings in New York at Kravets Wehby Gallery. Lovely works.
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Interview w/ Kevin Earl Taylor
We haven't been featuring many interviews as of late. Let's change that up as we check in with a few local San Francisco artists like Kevin Earl Taylor here whom we studio visited back in 2009 (PHOTOS & VIDEO). It's been awhile, Kevin...
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Peter Gronquist @The Shooting Gallery
If you like guns and boobs, head on over to the Shooting Gallery; just don't expect the work to be all cheap ploys and hot chicks. With Make Stuff by Peter Gronquist (Portland) in the main space and Morgan Slade's Snake in the Eagle's Shadow in the project space, there is plenty spectacle to be had, but if you look just beyond it, you might actually get something out of the shows.
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Jay Bo at Hamburg's Circle Culture
Berlin based Jay Bo recently held a solo show at Hamburg's Circle Culture featuring some of his most recent paintings. We lvoe his work.
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NYCHOS @Fifty24SF
Fifty24SF opened Street Anatomy, a new solo show by Austrian artist Nychos a week ago last Friday night. He's been steadily filling our city with murals over the last year, with one downtown on Geary St. last summer, and new ones both in the Haight and in Oakland within the last few weeks, but it was really great to see his work up close and in such detail.
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Gator Skater +video
Nate Milton emailed over this great short Gator Skater which is a follow-up to his Dog Skateboard he emailed to us back in 2011... Any relation to this Gator Skater?
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Ferris Plock Online Show Now Online as of April 25th
5 new wonderful large-scale paintings on wood panel are available. visit: www.ffdg.net
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ClipODay II: Needles & Pens 11 Years!!
Congrats on our buddies at Needles and Pens on being open and rad for 11 years now. Mission Local did this little short video featuring Breezy giving a little heads up on what Needles and Pens is all about.
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BANDES DE PUB / STRIP BOX
In a filmmaker's thinking, we wish more videos were done in this style. Too much editing and music with a lacking in actual content. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
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AJ Fosik in Tokyo at The Hellion Gallery
Matt Wagner recently emailed over some photos from The Hellion Gallery in Tokyo, who recently put together a show with AJ Fosik (Portland) called Beast From a Foreign Land. The gallery gave twelve of Fosik's sculptures to twelve Japanese artists (including Hiro Kurata who is currently showing in our group show Salt the Skies) to paint, burn, or build upon.
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Ferris Plock - Online Show, April 25th
FFDG is pleased to announce an exclusive online show with San Francisco based Ferris Plock opening on Friday, April 25th (12pm Pacific Time) featuring 5 new medium sized acrylic paintings on wood.
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GOLD BLOOD, MAGIC WEIRDOS
Backwoods Gallery in Melbourne played host to a huge group exhibition a couple of weeks back, with "Gold Blood, Magic Weirdos" Curated by Melbourne artist Sean Morris. Gold Blood brought together 25 talented painters, illustrators and comic artists from Australia, the US, Singapore, England, France and Spain - and marked the end of the Magic Weirdos trilogy, following shows in Perth in 2012 and London in 2013.
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Jeremy Fish at LA's Mark Moore Gallery
San Francisco based Fecal Pal Jeremy Fish opened his latest solo show Hunting Trophies at LA's Mark Moore Gallery last week to massive crowds and cabin walls lined with imagery pertaining to modern conquest and obsession.
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John Felix Arnold III on the Road to NYC
Well, John Felix Arnold III is at it again. This time, he and Carolyn LeBourgios packed an entire show into the back of a Prius and drove across the country to install it at Superchief Gallery in NYC. I met with him last week as he told me about the trip over delicious burritos at Taqueria Cancun (which is right across the street from FFDG and serves what I think is the best burrito in the city) as the self proclaimed "Only overweight artist in the game" spilled all the details.
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FRENCH in Melbourne
London based illustrator FRENCH recently held a show of new works at the Melbourne based Mild Manners
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Henry Gunderson at Ever Gold, SF
Ever Gold opened a new solo show by NYC based Henry Gunderson a couple Saturday nights ago and it was literally packed. So packed I couldn't actually see most of the art - but a big crowd doesn't seem like a problem. I got a good laugh at what I would call the 'cock climbing wall' as it was one of the few pieces I could see over the crowd. I haven't gotten a chance to go back and check it all out again, but I'm definitely going to as the paintings that I could get a peek at were really high quality and intruiguing. You should do the same.
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Mario Wagner @Hashimoto
Mario Wagner (Berkeley) opened his new solo show A Glow that Transfers Creativity last Saturday night at Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco.
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Serge Gay Jr. @Spoke Art
The paintings in the show are each influenced by a musician, ranging from Freddy Mercury, to Madonna, to A Tribe Called Quest and they are so stylistically consistent with each musician's persona that they read as a cohesive body of work with incredible variation. If you told me they were each painted by a different person, I would not hesitate to believe you and it's really great to see a solo show with so much variety. The show is fun, poppy, very well done, and absolutely worth a look and maybe even a listen.
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NYCHOS Mural on Ashbury and Haight
NYCHOS completed this great new mural on the corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco on Tuesday. Looks Amazing.
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Sun Milk in Vienna
With rising rent in SF and knowing mostly other young artists without capitol, I desired a way to live rent free, have a space to do my craft, and get to see more of the world. Inspired by the many historical artists who have longed similar longings I discovered the beauty of artist residencies. Lilo runs Adhoc Collective in Vienna which not only has a fully equipped artists creative studio, but an indoor halfpipe, and private artist quarters. It was like a modern day castle or skate cathedral. It exists in almost a utopic state, totally free to those that apply and come with a real passion for both art and skateboarding
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"How To Lose Yourself Completely" by Bryan Schnelle
I just wanted to share with you a piece I recently finished which took me 4 years to complete. Titled "How To Lose Yourself Completely (The September Issue)", it consists of a copy of the September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine (the issue they made the documentary about) with all faces masked with a sharpie, and everything else entirely whited out. 840 pages of fun. -Bryan Schnelle
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Tyler Bewley ~ Recent Works
Some great work from San Francisco based Tyler Bewley.
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Kirk Maxson and Alexis Mackenzie at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
While walking our way across San Francisco on Saturday we swung through the opening receptions for Kirk Maxson and Alexis Mackenzie at Eleanor Harwood Gallery in the Mission.
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Jeremy Fish Solo Show in Los Angeles
Jeremy Fish opens Hunting Trophies tonight, Saturday April 5th, at the Los Angeles based Mark Moore Gallery. The show features new work from Fish inside the "hunting lodge" where viewers climb inside the head of the hunter and explore the history of all the animals he's killed.
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The Albatross and the Shipping Container
Beautiful piece entitled "The Albatross and the Shipping Container", Ink on Paper, Mounted to Panel, 47" Diameter, by San Francisco based Martin Machado now on display at FFDG. Stop in Saturday (1-6pm) to view the group show "Salt the Skies" now running through April 19th. 2277 Mission St. at 19th.
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The Marsh Barge - Traveling the Mississippi River from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico
For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to quit my job, move out of my house, leave everything and travel again. So on August 21, 2013 I pushed a canoe packed full of gear into the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Lake Itasca, Minnesota, along with four of my best friends. Exactly 100 days later, I arrived at a marina near the Gulf of Mexico in a sailboat.
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Gone Fishin'
Tuesday, 13 October 2015 11:39
I don't think at this point it needs to be written since the last update to Fecal Face was a long time ago, but...
I, John Trippe, have put this baby Fecal Face to bed. I'm now focusing my efforts on running ECommerce at DLX which I'm very excited about... I guess you can't take skateboarding out of a skateboarder.
It was a great 15 years, and most of that effort can still be found within the site. Click around. There's a lot of content to explore.
Hit me up if you have any ECommerce related questions. - trippe.io
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SF Giants' World Series Trophy & DLX
Wednesday, 04 March 2015 17:21
I'm not sure how many people are lucky enough to have The San Francisco Giants 3 World Series trophies put on display at their work for the company's employees to enjoy during their lunch break, but that's what happened the other day at Deluxe. So great.
![IMG_9585_sm](/SF/../news2/IMG_9585_sm.jpg) SF skateboarding icons Jake Phelps, Mickey Reyes, and Tommy Guerrero with the 3 SF Giants World Series Trophies
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Alexis Anne Mackenzie - 2/28
Wednesday, 25 February 2015 10:21
SAN FRANCISCO --- Alexis Anne Mackenzie opens Multiverse at Eleanor Harwood in the Mission on Saturday, Feb 28th. -details
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The Death of the Artist—and the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur
Wednesday, 21 January 2015 10:34
When works of art become commodities and nothing else, when every endeavor becomes “creative” and everybody “a creative,” then art sinks back to craft and artists back to artisans—a word that, in its adjectival form, at least, is newly popular again. Artisanal pickles, artisanal poems: what’s the difference, after all? So “art” itself may disappear: art as Art, that old high thing. Which—unless, like me, you think we need a vessel for our inner life—is nothing much to mourn.
Hard-working artisan, solitary genius, credentialed professional—the image of the artist has changed radically over the centuries. What if the latest model to emerge means the end of art as we have known it? --continue reading
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"Six Degrees" @FFDG
Friday, 16 January 2015 09:30
"Six Degrees" opens tonight, Friday Jan 16th (7-10pm) at FFDG in San Francisco. ~Group show featuring: Brett Amory, John Felix Arnold III, Mario Ayala, Mariel Bayona, Ryan Beavers, Jud Bergeron, Chris Burch, Ryan De La Hoz, Martin Machado, Jess Mudgett, Meryl Pataky, Lucien Shapiro, Mike Shine, Minka Sicklinger, Nicomi Nix Turner, and Alex Ziv.
![17_ms](/news2/17_ms.jpg) Work by Meryl Pataky
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In Wake of Attack, Comix Legend Says Satire Must Stay Offensive
Friday, 09 January 2015 09:59
![Ron-Turner](/news2/Ron-Turner.jpg) Ron Turner of Last Gasp
"[Satire] is important because it brings out the flaws we all have and throws them up on the screen of another person," said Turner. “How they react sort of shows how important that really is.” Later, he added, "Charlie took a hit for everybody." -read on
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Solidarity
Thursday, 08 January 2015 09:36
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SF Bay Area: What Might Have Been
Tuesday, 06 January 2015 09:36
The San Francisco Bay Area is renowned for its tens of thousands of acres of beautiful parks and public open spaces.
What many people don't know is that these lands were almost lost to large-scale development. link
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1/5/14 - Going Back
Monday, 05 January 2015 10:49
As we work on our changes, we're leaving Squarespace and coming back to the old server. Updates are en route.
The content that was on the site between May '14 and today is history... Whatever, wasn't interesting anyway. All the good stuff from the last 10 years is here anyway.
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Jacob Mcgraw-Mikelson & Rachell Sumpter @Park Life (5/23)
Friday, 23 May 2014 09:22
Opening tonight, Friday May 23rd (7-10pm) at Park Life in the Inner Richmond (220 Clement St) is Again Home Again featuring works from the duo Jacob Mcgraw-Mikelson & Rachell Sumpter who split time living in Sacramento and a tiny island at the top of Pudget Sound with their children.
Jacob Magraw will be showing embroidery pieces on cloth along with painted, gouache works on paper --- Rachell Sumpter paints scenes of colored splendor dropped into scenes of desolate wilderness. ~show details
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NYPD told to carry spray paint to cover graffiti
Wednesday, 21 May 2014 10:37
NYC --- A new graffiti abatement program put forth by the police commissioner has beat cops carrying cans of spray paint to fill in and cover graffiti artists work in an effort to clean up the city --> Many cops are thinking it's a waste of resources, but we're waiting to see someone make a project of it. Maybe instructions for the cops on where to fill-in?
The NYPD is arming its cops with cans of spray paint and giving them art-class-style lessons to tackle the scourge of urban graffiti, The Post has learned.
Shootings are on the rise across the city, but the directive from Police Headquarters is to hunt down street art and cover it with black, red and white spray paint, sources said... READ ON
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Alison Blickle @NYC's Kravets Wehby Gallery
Los Angeles based Alison Blickle who showed here in San Francisco at Eleanor Harwood last year (PHOTOS) recently showed new paintings in New York at Kravets Wehby Gallery. Lovely works.
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Interview w/ Kevin Earl Taylor
We haven't been featuring many interviews as of late. Let's change that up as we check in with a few local San Francisco artists like Kevin Earl Taylor here whom we studio visited back in 2009 (PHOTOS & VIDEO). It's been awhile, Kevin...
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Peter Gronquist @The Shooting Gallery
If you like guns and boobs, head on over to the Shooting Gallery; just don't expect the work to be all cheap ploys and hot chicks. With Make Stuff by Peter Gronquist (Portland) in the main space and Morgan Slade's Snake in the Eagle's Shadow in the project space, there is plenty spectacle to be had, but if you look just beyond it, you might actually get something out of the shows.
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Jay Bo at Hamburg's Circle Culture
Berlin based Jay Bo recently held a solo show at Hamburg's Circle Culture featuring some of his most recent paintings. We lvoe his work.
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NYCHOS @Fifty24SF
Fifty24SF opened Street Anatomy, a new solo show by Austrian artist Nychos a week ago last Friday night. He's been steadily filling our city with murals over the last year, with one downtown on Geary St. last summer, and new ones both in the Haight and in Oakland within the last few weeks, but it was really great to see his work up close and in such detail.
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Gator Skater +video
Nate Milton emailed over this great short Gator Skater which is a follow-up to his Dog Skateboard he emailed to us back in 2011... Any relation to this Gator Skater?
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Ferris Plock Online Show Now Online as of April 25th
5 new wonderful large-scale paintings on wood panel are available. visit: www.ffdg.net
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ClipODay II: Needles & Pens 11 Years!!
Congrats on our buddies at Needles and Pens on being open and rad for 11 years now. Mission Local did this little short video featuring Breezy giving a little heads up on what Needles and Pens is all about.
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BANDES DE PUB / STRIP BOX
In a filmmaker's thinking, we wish more videos were done in this style. Too much editing and music with a lacking in actual content. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
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AJ Fosik in Tokyo at The Hellion Gallery
Matt Wagner recently emailed over some photos from The Hellion Gallery in Tokyo, who recently put together a show with AJ Fosik (Portland) called Beast From a Foreign Land. The gallery gave twelve of Fosik's sculptures to twelve Japanese artists (including Hiro Kurata who is currently showing in our group show Salt the Skies) to paint, burn, or build upon.
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Ferris Plock - Online Show, April 25th
FFDG is pleased to announce an exclusive online show with San Francisco based Ferris Plock opening on Friday, April 25th (12pm Pacific Time) featuring 5 new medium sized acrylic paintings on wood.
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GOLD BLOOD, MAGIC WEIRDOS
Backwoods Gallery in Melbourne played host to a huge group exhibition a couple of weeks back, with "Gold Blood, Magic Weirdos" Curated by Melbourne artist Sean Morris. Gold Blood brought together 25 talented painters, illustrators and comic artists from Australia, the US, Singapore, England, France and Spain - and marked the end of the Magic Weirdos trilogy, following shows in Perth in 2012 and London in 2013.
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Jeremy Fish at LA's Mark Moore Gallery
San Francisco based Fecal Pal Jeremy Fish opened his latest solo show Hunting Trophies at LA's Mark Moore Gallery last week to massive crowds and cabin walls lined with imagery pertaining to modern conquest and obsession.
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John Felix Arnold III on the Road to NYC
Well, John Felix Arnold III is at it again. This time, he and Carolyn LeBourgios packed an entire show into the back of a Prius and drove across the country to install it at Superchief Gallery in NYC. I met with him last week as he told me about the trip over delicious burritos at Taqueria Cancun (which is right across the street from FFDG and serves what I think is the best burrito in the city) as the self proclaimed "Only overweight artist in the game" spilled all the details.
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FRENCH in Melbourne
London based illustrator FRENCH recently held a show of new works at the Melbourne based Mild Manners
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Henry Gunderson at Ever Gold, SF
Ever Gold opened a new solo show by NYC based Henry Gunderson a couple Saturday nights ago and it was literally packed. So packed I couldn't actually see most of the art - but a big crowd doesn't seem like a problem. I got a good laugh at what I would call the 'cock climbing wall' as it was one of the few pieces I could see over the crowd. I haven't gotten a chance to go back and check it all out again, but I'm definitely going to as the paintings that I could get a peek at were really high quality and intruiguing. You should do the same.
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Mario Wagner @Hashimoto
Mario Wagner (Berkeley) opened his new solo show A Glow that Transfers Creativity last Saturday night at Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco.
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Serge Gay Jr. @Spoke Art
The paintings in the show are each influenced by a musician, ranging from Freddy Mercury, to Madonna, to A Tribe Called Quest and they are so stylistically consistent with each musician's persona that they read as a cohesive body of work with incredible variation. If you told me they were each painted by a different person, I would not hesitate to believe you and it's really great to see a solo show with so much variety. The show is fun, poppy, very well done, and absolutely worth a look and maybe even a listen.
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NYCHOS Mural on Ashbury and Haight
NYCHOS completed this great new mural on the corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco on Tuesday. Looks Amazing.
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Sun Milk in Vienna
With rising rent in SF and knowing mostly other young artists without capitol, I desired a way to live rent free, have a space to do my craft, and get to see more of the world. Inspired by the many historical artists who have longed similar longings I discovered the beauty of artist residencies. Lilo runs Adhoc Collective in Vienna which not only has a fully equipped artists creative studio, but an indoor halfpipe, and private artist quarters. It was like a modern day castle or skate cathedral. It exists in almost a utopic state, totally free to those that apply and come with a real passion for both art and skateboarding
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"How To Lose Yourself Completely" by Bryan Schnelle
I just wanted to share with you a piece I recently finished which took me 4 years to complete. Titled "How To Lose Yourself Completely (The September Issue)", it consists of a copy of the September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine (the issue they made the documentary about) with all faces masked with a sharpie, and everything else entirely whited out. 840 pages of fun. -Bryan Schnelle
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Tyler Bewley ~ Recent Works
Some great work from San Francisco based Tyler Bewley.
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Kirk Maxson and Alexis Mackenzie at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
While walking our way across San Francisco on Saturday we swung through the opening receptions for Kirk Maxson and Alexis Mackenzie at Eleanor Harwood Gallery in the Mission.
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Jeremy Fish Solo Show in Los Angeles
Jeremy Fish opens Hunting Trophies tonight, Saturday April 5th, at the Los Angeles based Mark Moore Gallery. The show features new work from Fish inside the "hunting lodge" where viewers climb inside the head of the hunter and explore the history of all the animals he's killed.
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The Albatross and the Shipping Container
Beautiful piece entitled "The Albatross and the Shipping Container", Ink on Paper, Mounted to Panel, 47" Diameter, by San Francisco based Martin Machado now on display at FFDG. Stop in Saturday (1-6pm) to view the group show "Salt the Skies" now running through April 19th. 2277 Mission St. at 19th.
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The Marsh Barge - Traveling the Mississippi River from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico
For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to quit my job, move out of my house, leave everything and travel again. So on August 21, 2013 I pushed a canoe packed full of gear into the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Lake Itasca, Minnesota, along with four of my best friends. Exactly 100 days later, I arrived at a marina near the Gulf of Mexico in a sailboat.
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