Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Our de Young Museum just kicked off its new show, Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown, last month.
It’s hard to believe how old these Amish quilts are. Some of them look new, like modern art.
Consider Tumbling blocks, Stairway to Heaven from 1935. Dig the crazy colors, man:
Almost looks like the modern video game hero Q*Bert would feel at home, huh?
There’s your Tumbling Blocks/Stairway to Heaven straight out of Holmes County, OH, circa 1935 67″x75″
Now, you know better Your Amish Abstractions.
See you there!
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Our de Young Museum is kicking off its new show, Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown, this Saturday, November 14th, 2009.
It’s hard to believe how old some of these Amish quilts are. Some of them look new, like modern art.
Consider Indiana Puzzle, from 1930. From some angles, especially this one, it looks like a simple pattern of black pinwheels. Click to expand:
But if you change the lighting a bit, you can see horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines. See?
“The Indiana puzzle quilt pattern changes with the angles of view. this effect is lost in a photograph, so I am guessing it has something to do with the fabric, which is a wool twill. I saw it at the Denver Art Museum, but they were equally baffled. Has anyone else seen this and does anyone know how do duplicate it?”
There’s your Indiana Puzzle.
Now, you know better Your Amish Abstractions.
See you there!
Tags: 2009, 2010, Amish Abstractions, brown, collection, de Young, de young museum, Faith, museum, Quilts, Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown, stephen
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Read all about the stabbings that sent graffiti artist Chor Boogie (aka Jason Hailey of Glen Park) from Mid-Market to the emergency room last Saturday night in this bit from Mike Aldax. And video here from Lilian Kim.
This was the scene Saturday night, when I was trying to figure out how much the Feds were kicking in (if any) to this little project. (You know, these days, The Feds Must Be Crazy*, I don’t know, something must have gotten into them - Bridge to Nowhere, Mana From Heaven “Also Benefits Newsom“, the Chinatown Subway (aka Big Dig West - will our costs overrun by 1000% also?) - Uncle Sucker just might run out of our money one of these days. Oh well.)
Mr. Boogie’s amazing Technicolor palette, as seen that evening, a scant half-hour before things got stabby:
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But he’s back on his feet, back at it. Good for him:
“YES IT IS SO ..I GOT STABBED TWICE LAST NIGHT BY SOME GRAFITTI VIGILANTES / SPRAY PAINT THIEVES WHILE IM WORKING ON MY 100FT OR SO LONG MURAL ON BEAUTIFUL MARKET ST.. THIS DOESNT STOP THE SHOW.. I AM ALL RIGHT AND WANTED TO GO BACK TODAY ACTUALLY TO PAINT SOME MORE..BUT NEED SOME HEALING TIME WILL BE THERE SHORTLY IN THE …WEEK OR SO.. . THIS COULD OF HAPPENED ANYWHERETO ANYONE AND MARKET STREET IS STILL AMAZING AND LOOK FORWARD TO HELPING BEAUTIFY THE COMMUNITY…..CRISIS PRECIPATATES CHANGE..AND CHANGE IT SHALL…THE SHINING..”
Get that, man, “the shining.”
Keep on keeping on, Chor Boogie!
*The Gods Must Be Crazy – seen parts of this movie 60 times, imprinted in the memory it is…
Tags: artist, Boogie, cans, Chor, Chor Boogie, collection, emergency room, er, feds, graffiti, hospital, market, mid market, spray paint, spraypaint, Stabbed, street, wonderland
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
You know Shepard Fairey from his Barack Obama Hope posters of last year and of course his related legal troubles from this month, right? (Always remember, when you borrow from others, it’s “fair use” but when others borrow from you, it’s cease and desist time for the infringing ”parasites“ - inn’t that right, Shepard?)
Anyway, brace yourself for this Thursday when Shepard and our corporate overlords at Levi’s team up for the debut of the “Obey X Collection.” See?
“The highly-collectible Obey x Levi’s® capsule collection will be carried exclusively at select Levi’s® Store locations in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago and Santa Monica and at Levis.com. A limited number of pieces will also be available at www.obeyclothing.com. The collection will be available beginning October 29 and will range in price from $34.50 to $148. To commemorate the launch of the collection, on October 29 Fairey will unveil a series of four new poster designs at a live art installation outside The Levi’s® Store in New York City’s Times Square. Once Fairey completes the installation, he will meet-and-greet event participants while autographing free museum-quality reproductions of his new posters.”
It’ll look like this. Just $37.78 for a grey T-shirt:
But there’s more:
“The series of four limited-edition Shepard Fairey posters will be given away as a free gift, while supplies last, with the purchase of any item from the Obey x Levi’s® collection in the following Levi’s® Store locations: Times Square and Soho in New York City, Union Square in San Francisco, Santa Monica and Chicago. The front side of each of the four double-sided posters features artwork that exists as a stand-alone piece. The reverse side of each poster also includes one piece of a oversized mural image specially designed by Fairey.”
That’s not dirt, it’s paint from all those nights you’ve spent tagging:
“Think & Create” and “Paint and Destroy”:
Is Obey “the new Ed Hardy,” or something? One thing’s for sure kids – quality will be higher and the cost cheaper compared to what Shepard normally offers.
See you at the Union Square Levi’s (300 Post Street) this Thursday!
Remember, Obey.
S.F. is 40 years old. (40 going on 28, or 17, or something.)
All the deets after the jump.
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Luxury denim maker 7 for all Mankind had a bit of a housewarming the other day for its relatively new San Francisco store at 224 Grant in Union Square. So that’ll be the only place in the Bay Area you can get its products outside of an upscale department store for now - don’t bother dropping by the Costco. (Of course Costco is the place to go to get lesser jeans that fall apart easily, looking at you Calvin Klein. Moving on…)
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It’s Spring, time for a new collection. Some of the products are super soft and “pre-distressed,” so they look like some strangers’ prized broken-in jeans. That’s where your money goes.
Straight out of Los Angeles County. When pants have a serial number…
Accessories as well:
In the face of our recession, 7FAMK is opening up boutiques all over the country this year.
Somebody still has money to spend, apparently.
That’s encouraging. Srsly.
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