Big Art For Everyone!

My favorite progressive SF contemporary art gallery SOMA has an open call for submissions to their new "big art" show. All prints $69! BIG WALL GRAPHICS are printed with eco-solvent digital inks on state-of-the-art self-adhesive fabric paper, with fibers actually woven between the matte presentation layer and the repositionable adhesive substrate. The result is a final product that is both gorgeous AND durable. BIG WALL GRAPHICS can be stuck on any surface and re-positioned countless times, while still retaining adhesion without leaving a residue. It's basically big stickers!

Will Dante's Inferno Be Any Better Then Tomb Raider?

Today, EA and Starz Media’s Film Roman announced the production of a feature-length animated movie based on epic poem Dante’s Inferno – one that will expand on the story told in the game of the same name being released by EA in 2010. Co-produced by EA and Film Roman, the movie will feature animation from different studios to depict each of the nine circles of Hell. Starz Media’s Anchor Bay Entertainment will hold exclusive worldwide home entertainment distribution rights to the movie, with Starz Media’s Worldwide Distribution group handling international television and domestic syndication sales and Starz Digital Media responsible for global digital distribution. The trailer sure looks cool.

Making Art and Shining Some Light On Homelessness

This is a good example of how you can use art and technology to create awareness of a social problem. Local filmmakers projected video of a street scene on a homeless man in Dusseldorf, Germany, making him appear transparent. I can relate to this, especially since I'm in San Francicso this week and there are just so many homeless people here that it is impossible not to be affected by their presence, still most people pretend to ignore them. Via Laughing Squid.

Curious About How They Designed Alien Genitalia in the Star Trek Movie?

If you want to make it a full night of art inspiration and culture, first hit Getto Gloss gallery for the show described in the post below and then Mindshare downtown. The line-up for the latter is as follows:

Neville Page / Character Designer (Watchmen, Star Trek, Cloverfield)
Designing Alien Genitalia

Jose Caballer / CEO and Executive Creative Director, The Groop
Rebranding the Republican Party: Bringing ‘Cool’ to the Right Wing

Lindsey Richardson / Marketing Specialist, S Factor
Fitness through Poledancing

David Markoff / World Renowned “Memory Man”
Hacking Your Memory: Unleashing Memory Reserves in Daily Life

Gregory Ferenstein / Organizational Psychology Researcher, UCI
Decentralizing Organization: From Economics to Capoeira

DOORS ARE AT 7PM, PRESENTATIONS WILL START AN HOUR EARLIER AT 8:30PM
Address: 1018 S Santa Fe Ave, LA, CA, 90021

Get Some Ghetto Gloss Tonight!

Check out some cool new paintings tonight by my buddies Jeremy Bernstein and Morgan Kelly, as well as J.J. Villard, Tim Lamb, John Chiu, Samir Rahimi, Adam Greene, Tony Ortiz, and Jimmy Thompson. The show runs from March 19th to April 1st. 2380 Glendale Blvd. Doors open at 7PM.

Trendhunter's 64 Outrageous Skins, Prints and Object Wraps

Gadget tattoos, hence custom design etches on computers and cellphones, are slick alternatives to stickers. It is just one example of what's on a very interesting list of skins, prints and objects which Trendhunter.com recently posted. Check out the whole list here.

Forget the skins from AT&T and Speck - Go with Infectious.com

So you finally got your hands on an iPhone? Congrats. Now make it your own, inside and out. Forget about the boring skins and cases you can get in the Apple store or at the AT&T store. Check out the website Infectious.com. They have what you need. 

Coming Soon: The Grateful Dead iPhone App

San Francisco-based rock photographer Jay Blakesberg goes web 2.0 with a little help from Mosaic Legends, a digital media company. Together they have created a cool interactive electronic book of the Grateful Dead. Available exclusively at the Apple iTunes App Store, this eBook utilizes over four hundred photographs and original text to create a content rich experience.
“Working with this project has given me the opportunity to share my photographs with Deadheads in a whole new ground breaking way,” says Blakesberg. “I’m looking forward to opening my archive to Mosaic Legends so they can continue to create new and entertaining Apps of the many artists I’ve had the opportunity to photograph.”

Take that, Flickr!

Buzz Watch: “Latin Revenge”

Oakland based mc Azeem ascends the New Mission Cinema marque, in the new “Latin Revenge” music video off of his album Air Cartoons. Reportedly, the animated video was created by shooting thousands of photos in San Francisco’s Mission District and animating them in After Effects. Another great example of what I call "video-game cinematics," leveraging the look and feel of a video game, supposedly a great way to speak to the Millennial generation. (Via Laughing Squid)