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My family takes a summer break at Johnie’s Italian ice.

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Hooray I got Italian ice!

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Right behind home plate.

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Hooray! A summer night at Wrigley…Just like when I was a kid! Thanks for the ticket Pell!

I got this little message at the top of my Gmail today…

“Recycling a 3-foot-high stack of newspapers can save one whole tree.”

It really puts things in perspective…

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Cat grave stones on sale! Invest in your feline’s future…

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Butterfly on plants at Wal-Mart

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Listening to Bethoven in Millenium Park…

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I have never seen this flower before…

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Hello from the Golden West Invitational…

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On the way to Sacramento

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Hooray for sunny days!

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Oh meat….

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The regal Presidio chahuahua…

As I sit here, sipping freshly brewed green tea, in my red sweat suit, tapping away at my 12″ Powerbook in my kitchen listening to birds with the sun pouring in, I am reminded of the goals I set for myself as a freshmen in college…

Granted at the time I made those assertions it was before I had been to Cali (the spring of 1999) and before I made the leap to study art, I was just finishing out my freshmen year and was applying to the Dual Degree program…

What’s important though is that I uttered these goals thereby affirming them into my consciousness… to others, they are equally poignant…Recently I’ve reconnected with a fellow freshmen from Dickson Hall who despite the almost 10 years since has written me a note recounting how I’m now close to my dream to “Live in California, someplace with a view, with a laptop, in boxers, and design roller coasters.”

So now it’s a reality…I’m living the life I’ve imagined and it’s great.

**update** July 12, 2007. I found a scholarship essay dated 1997 when I was at home sorting through papers from college…Topic: “What do you see yourself doing in 20 years?”

Earth’s colony on Mars is truly amazing, but it’s strange to think that I helped design it over ten years ago. After graduating from Cornell University with honors in the College Scholar Program in 2000, high jumping throughout Europe while participating in their Gran Prix Track Circuit for 4 years, taking part in the Olympics in Athens in 2004, and getting my Masters degree at UC Berkeley in Ergonomics in design in 2008, I had a wonderful opportunity to help NASA design the space station that so many people call home.

One beautiful afternoon in San Francisco I was working on my laptop on the sun porch, and I got a call from my old professor. He recommended me for the job of designing a habitable space station on Mars. I jumped right into the project, and with the new autoCAD technology I was able to completely design the station from my home. I was on site for the construction of the immaculate structure, and continued to use my skills to troubleshoot when the workers had problems building on the Martian terrain.

Now our colony has grown to nearly 2 million people, and our production of metal ore is in such demand we are a thriving metropolis rivaling New York and Chicago. Occasionally I travel back to Earth to see my old stomping ground, but up here we are always developing new ways of doing things, because on Mars, much like the high jump, the sky is the limit.

I even got the cities right…

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Two skaters on Fillmore…

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Pete and Emma

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The new Tasty Dog

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No catchup on a chicago style dog…

I think this is one of the best done “gallery” sites that I’ve seen…pretty fun to see interpretations of Margaritas…By Chili’s

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On the way to the top of Sutro Mountain with Courtney.

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Hello from Logan high school…

I really enjoy watching this little guy go.
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We are currently developing and studying dance-oriented nonverbal play with between children and the robot Keepon, designed and built by Hideki Kozima. Keepon is a small creature-like robot developed to perform emotional and attentional interaction with children. It has four degrees of freedom, a soft rubber skin, two cameras in its eyes, and a microphone in its nose.

I’ll be keeping an eye on this project….

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Ethan and Pete at Laney college coaching University track.

Oodles of fun with the parody of Wikipedia
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PC World reports that EMI will be releasing songs on iTunes that can be played on any digital music player that supports .aac they will be encoded at a higher bit rate, and will cost $.30 more per song.

Songs also purchased previously may be upgraded for the difference in price.

Today in the Examiner there is an article about UC Berkeley athletes working with the dancers from ODC, it sounds like it’s going to be a great event.

ODC dancers and University of California, Berkeley athletes, such as Anne Zivolich and Jordan Wilkes, compete Thursday in a fundraiser for ODC Commons.

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Area code 215…? SoCal 2007. (and I mean Cornell’s 2.15m CLUB) Jim’s on his way…

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Wahoo’s fish tacos…

Go DAD!

“Instead of saying ‘I see this handicap’ or ‘I see someone walking with
a walker,’ they don’t see that,” said Ippel. “When they see the dance,
that’s what they see.”

cbs2chicago.com – Disabled And Able-Bodied Dance For Oak Park Troupe

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I have been thinking a lot about reportage and how mobile technology and high-speed data transfer will change the rate at which we can experience news…at some point it can become the “nows” as true mobile reporting will have high-quality video, audio, and can be delivered instantly…

How very exciting!

Today Steve Rogers, known as Captain America, was killed by sniper fire. Born in 1941, he has left quite a legacy.

The superhero was spawned when a scrawny arts student named Steve Rogers, ineligible for the army because of his poor health but eager to serve his country, agreed to a “Super Soldier Serum” injection. The substance made him a paragon of physical perfection, armed only with his shield, his strength, his smarts and a command of martial arts.
-Forbes.com

You can read more about the history of the man put the scrawny art students of America on the map…
Captain America – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen…talk about colossal (squid that is)!

You can use THOMAS, the search utility. That way you can keep on the pulse of the nation’s politicians.

So Sarah gets to go to the big game, hooray for her…she’s always been the hugest Bears fan, and a riot to be around.

Congratulations Spain!

See the video here

Check out the contest on MySpace

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What a sweet ride.

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Ethan was on the CU track team and now pushes a bobsled, and Miki used to hang out with folks on the track team, and played pro soccer, and now owns her own organic pizza joint…

Very cool.

Grover NEAR and FAR – Classic Sesame Street

This is one of my favorite videos ever, very influential for me as a child. In the video section of Hypermodern.net you will find a video produced in Spanish called “Boca Loca Roja“, and there I re-create the scene with a green octopus, with Cerca and Remoto…though upon further study, I think Lejos may indeed be a better choice.

I found this on Indy Bay…so next month, let’s get out and get cultured…for free…

Good on you! You’ve decided to be more healthy…and as a result, the USRDA “My Pyramid Tracker” site has crashed. I hope that folks keep it up. I read a stat when I worked at the Presidio YMCA that 50% of folks are sedentary in the USA. And now Diabetes is creeping into youth because of lax diets, and no exercise…

Scary.

SO this website comes with HIGH HIGH HIGH recommendations, as it allows one to map progress on exercise, and breakes diet down to a simple input/output teeter-totter along with emoticons for nutrition.

Happy New Year!

More from the Mot…

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A close up..

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another with the ming

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Using the 50 mm macro

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In December…I found this butterfly dead on the ground on the 23rd. Used the macro lens on my Nokia 3660 for the closeup.

In a Washington Post article today, I was happy to note that our governor in California has taken a stand on environmental issues.

Because California has embraced conservation like no other big state, its per capita consumption of energy has remained flat over 30 years, while the rest of the country’s has increased by 50 percent. And total vehicle emissions of nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons have fallen more than 20 percent in 15 years, even though miles driven by state motorists are up by more than 20 percent.

Here’s the article

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Peaceful…

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I found this poster today when I was skating down in Soma…

So now I’ve been experimenting with the idea of cross posting, and using the features that I like from each series of blogging software…

So far I’m super frustrated with getting my 5 “old” Blogger blogs over to the “new” system…

Vox is really pretty, and really seems to have the SF Mission style going on the themes… haven’t had a chance to fully configure it yet…

WordPress is the most customizable so far…and I really like the community that supports it.

This article was helpful for me, I definitely noted a few of these traits in myself…though I’m trying to make hypermodern as full as content as possible…

Hooray for Photos and Videos!

Holy cats I’m impressed…check out m.flickr.com on the mobile, and you can browse upload and everything…so great.
Here is the most amazing sunrise picture I’ve taken since I’ve been living in California.

SO SO beautiful!

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Trader joe’s was full today…

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To mock trial

Geez, it was my first semester at college, and I can remember listening to Jay-Z…and my friend Dan B. who ripped his entire jazz library and shared it across that T1 line…and by December he was referred to the Judicial Administrator back then…this was 1997…10 years of music sharing…now that’s a digital history!

Read more about the early MP3s here…

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Fifth row! Thanks Scott!

Greg Louganis (Black Speedo, Pink Swim Cap, Scarf)
Web Surfer (Get fake spiderwebs all over my body, carry my surfboard)
AXL Rose (Standard rock gear)
Tomb Stone (make a sandwich board out of two foam tomb stones)

The winner…

From 2004 data as reported by National Public Radio,

Dropouts $20,000.00 and under
High School $ 28,000.00
College $51,000.00
Advanced Degree $78,000.00

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To being glam rock…

I’m really inspired by the implications of radio technology, afterall, that’s what cellphones and RFID are based on…to quote Andrew Lippman of MIT’s Media Lab…

“No matter what you think of the wireless devices you have today, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Radio is just getting interesting.”

I heartily agree, SO, if you want a good read, and get excited about tech for the masses, check out Lipman’s Scientific American article.

Wow, I have participated in multiple projects with telepresence, (Actvie Worlds Web Opera at Cornell connecting with Art Center College of Design, and then with a NASA sponsored program called “Skyways of Tomorrow” where we connected with two groups of grade-school students in San Diego and Kansas via the web) and neither was as seemless as this experience today. It seemed like a very simple set up, and there was little lag. Denver, Washington DC, New York, Chicago, and San Francisco were all represented, and the only button to push was the mute button on the microphone.

Video was occasionally pixelated, and it was corrected very rapidly. I learned a lot, had my question answered regarding the best way to present portfolio material…I think I’m going to use Breeze to make a demonstration of my websites that I’ve created…that will convey much more information than a screen shot of the page.

Since 2001 and 2004, it appears video conference technology has imporved quite a bit. From what I could tell, there wasn’t a computer directly present, interaction was via TV with a camera on top that was using some computing power somewhere not in the same room (perhaps housed in the camera box).

In the two previously mentioned projects, the computers were doing double duty, in that the were running other applications as well as the one that was sending and receiving audio and video. I think in the CU project we were running 1.2mhz pentiums with windows 2000, and in the SFAI it was a single processor g5. I bet those new quad core Macs really zing…

I’m so excited about this experience, becase it shows me that telepresence can really happen at near real-time. I’m intrigued to see how the new macs work with the integrated camera and if it’s possible to have other users know what’s on your own screen…something to look into for PC aps as well, as the great majority of comp. users are still beige boxin’.

So just like the the Rufus Wainwright song,

Everything it seems I likes a little bit stronger
A little bit thicker, a little bit harmful for me

I was reading on BBC Mundo that there’s a province in Cuba where folks that drink alcohol, smoke, and enjoy healthy sex lives live longer…but what the biggest indicator of health seems to me like their diet and environment…

Casi todos se alimentaban con una dieta que incluía pescado, huevos, leche, pan blanco y vegetales, cocinados con poca sal y condimentos naturales. *In English* Almost everyone ate with a diet that included fish, eggs, milk, white bread and vegitables, cooks with little salt and natural condiments.

I would wager that heathy diet, plus tropical climate can equal out cigar smoking (as the smoke is not inhaled into the lungs) and alcohol (because in the study noone was alcoholic)…in addition to that, I imagine that walking is a big part of their lives, so exercize, climate, and diet definitely seem like they contribute to longevity.

I think this is rather rediculous…

Peter Hirtle, the university copyright compliance officer, explains the problem as a lack of understanding about electronic media. “Faculty members are now where students were five years ago with Napster. Just because it’s easy to take something and put it on a website doesn’t mean it’s legal to do so.”

Regarding fair use, and repetitive use…What if the prof. teaches the same class every semester, does he/she have to re-ask every time to use a material? Why can’t they just keep the material out?

However, repeated use is considered to have adverse impact on market sales. “We don’t know if repeated use is allowed… that’s a question we have not addressed.” Hirtle said. He added later, “The only time you know for sure if something is fair use is when five members of the Supreme Court say it is.”

And what about Google digitizing every book on the planet…seems to mee like information that is accessable is for the best…look what happens when one leaves a computer out for slum-kids to use according to Sugata Mitra, PhD.

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Early in the morning.

My friend Heidi had asked me to go up with her to Point Reyes last week, and I had to decline because was working hard on some Fulbright application materials, but we made it up this weekend…Goodness, the wildlife there is amazing. It was so nice to get out of the city today. I saw a cougar (it ran across the road, and jumped into some brush), gnat, hawk, caterpillar, pelican, horse, squirrel, bluejay, seagul, garter snake, duck, fly, crab claw, vulture, and a whole lot of other things I’m sure I’m forgetting…The image posted is my favorite from the trip. There’s more available in the gallery section of this site. Just click on the little blue camera icon at the top of the page.

Wow, I’ve definitely not been as impressed with an event at school as I have been with this one. From start to finish it was a great occasion. First off, the marketing for the event was direct in the sense that it was adderssed to me at my home, rather than an e-mail bulletin…the card was well designed and asked for an RSVP, with a postage paid envelope, felt good about sending that one in…The best part was it was FREE with FOOD(two positive four letter words, and a great attraction for recent alums)!

The show itself, held in the historic Diego Rivera gallery, was really well lighted and very crisp. I have to say that the image that moved me the most was a portrait of Mark Rothko smoking a cigarette taken by Bill Heick, studendt from 1946-1949. Alumni from the first 10 years of the program were present at the opening to chat with students and members of the public. It was indeed a great forum to just get a chat in with someone who shares the same passion as you do, 60 years removed…
The lecture about Minor White and the affect he and Ansel Adams had on the program, and afterwards the floor was opened for anecdotes by the former students. Particualarly I found Imogen Cunningham story, of “kumquat jam exchange” to me the most satisfying…becasue it delved into lives of the artists and students beyond the walls of 800 Chestnut street.
The next morning, a similar event was staged, with the discussion being moderated by Jack Fulton, the present head of the photo department, and again the stories were fabulous. I’m imagining that they recorded the audio and are archiving it in the library. I highly recommend it, what a lovely time…the talk was then followed by an open lunch to the public where we had the opportunity to mingle with everyone who had just spoken, and talk about digital photography, camera gear, and just the personalities of the people who touched alum’s lives.
Overall, I’m very pleased to be a part of something like this, it brings honor the San Francisco Art Institute, and it re-invigorates bonds with alumni. Specifically this art school seems to be in constant flux, and it’s nice to see that through all it’s ups and downs, art is still being produced, and a verbal-historical-pictorial record is being handed down directly artist to artist.

Specifically regarding the year 1492 in the history of Spain and the Nuevo Mundo. What boggles my mind, particularly was that the empire was so vast, and that the country itself was quite small and not really that populous. My professor joked that the biggest exports were “conquistadores y misioneros”…and the downfall of the Empire? Gold…because the folks in Spain stopped producing goods, and there was a cultural drain from the expulsion of the Jews (financiers), and the Muslims (industrialists, and producers of Silk). What also struck me was the first king of unified Spain didn’t speak Castellian.

Sooo, I got a MOPED…granted it needs a bit of work, i.e. it doesn’t run yet, however my good buddy Nate is coming over to help me out on Tuesday…I think I can handle the wait till then. This is the same model from the MOPED ARMY sitea 1981 Puch Newport II (and now you can see the improvement to hypermodern.net, I’ve included indications for external links and wikipedia links…thanks to software guide in Germany for this awesome link indication plugin.

In other news, I went on a little walk to the park today because it was so beautiful (San Francisco summers are in September and October) and there were some kids breaking a pinata in Alta Plaza Park. So there’s a new photoset in the gallery (the blue icon at the top of the page that looks like a camera)…once again demonstrating the mix of cultural influence of Mexico in California. Oh and by the way, if you want to call Mexico cheap…T-Mobile has a great deal where you can pay 5 bucks a month and then get 5 cents/min…it’s maybe a bit more than a calling card, but hey, it’s mad-convenient.

So continuing the post about “Leyenda Negra” I met with a good friend of mine, Edwin at his house on Friday, and brought my friend Craig (the one with the glass).

Here’s what Mr. Clark had to say about Utopia…

“Utopia is a mental concept which to make real has to assume identity to be recognized, meaning to appear in mind as there the then moment would be Utopian and subject immediately to change, which results in the reality being non-Utopian as the result of action. One could say the introduction of time is Utopian, but the immediate moment passing destroys the Utopian essence of time. Time reveals all things in inspection to be flawed except ART. ART is then perserved. The real World is subject to criticism so it can progress. This progress is seen to be flawed in an endless process that essentially never reaches Utopia as an appearance or is NIHILISM. Utopia is the Modern Myth that governs the Enlightenment and Liberal thought. Utopia cannot appear, CANNOT REACH RECOGNITION IN BEING. This imaginary concept, known as Liberal thought, finds itself outside the ruling principle of understanding the time the persona is in as real time in perception beyond technical processes, which essentially do not express time but are continuous within fixed parameters of thought. Science, therefore, does not progress and is the Modern Illusion of progress. Science is the expression of the Illusion of progress. The conception of Utopia cannot be, therefore cannot ground the Human mind in reality as action. The conception of the moment offers progress.”

To me the most important part is the last statement about the conception of the moment. Specifically I find it cripling to fathom the potential for annihilation in the world today, and that, to me, is why political art (when it’s only a political statement) fails.

Political art is easy when it’s a knee-jerk reaction to go against whatever it’s protesting. Would it be fair to say that the great majority of general artwork is political in its creation? I really like the article on Paul Chan in Art Forum in the summer issue…

“Collective social power needs the language of politics, which means, among other things, that people need to consolidate identities, to provide answers…to make things happen. Whereas my art is nothing if not the dispersion of power…And so, in a way, the political project and the art project are sometimes in opposition.”

Scott Rothkopf, the interviewer, is also clear to point out…”Surely we could draw a line between his video installations and his on-the-ground involvement with certain activist groups…The point, then, is not so much to delimit the aesthetic and the political but rather to relish the productve possibilities of their mutual contimination.”

Mr. Rothkopf really hits it out of the park there with the sweet-sassy-mo-lassy pop of an art critic on his “A-game”. So when is it ok to have that “art as life” intent…that’s something for the next post.

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With a great book, at Alta Plaza.

Congratulations to Fiid and Suz…a beautiful bouncing baby boy!

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Down town by Sutter and Kearny

So I stopped by to see the new hardware, and they only had the Nanos around…pretty nice feel of the cold metal rather than that glossy plastic from the old ones.  Specifically I’m interested in the new 80 gig one seems like it could be a mobile portfolio, as if I kept it around all the time, I would be able to show my work wherever I am regardless of internet connection, or if I brought my laptop.

I have to say that post-collegiate learning is really amazing…now granted, I’m still ‘in college’ because of my night classes over at CCSF, but I have to say that motivation is really flowing…

Here’s what I’ve been thinking about today…

1. International cell phone calling for 5 cents a minute; I signed up today with T-Mobile to pay a small premium (like 4 bucks a month or something) and then I get 5 cent minutes…now I know you can get cheaper rates with tarjetas de telefono, but the convenience is worth the extra few bucks a month…so I called my Abuelita (who lives in Guadalajara, Mexico) today and we chatted for about 40 mins. Now here’s the best part…I could understand and speak it was just like a game, I mean I really am feeling like I’m getting to KNOW Spanish. It’s super exciting, it’s like gaining a huge access to a culture that really interests me specificaly in regards to the “remix”…more on that later…

2. “Leyenda Negra” or “Black Legend” in English it’s the perception that somehow Spain is more malicious in what they did historically than say France, England, or the United States…the separation, at least to me, is that elimination is different than combination, whether it’s forced or not. Simply put, when Manifest Destiny happend, we (or at least our elected officials) put the Native Americans into government sanctioned areas or reservations. In South Africa, there was government sanctioned Apartheid, the results of which you can see below…

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When the Spanish arrived, soldiers were predominently the ones who traveled (as when virtually any army goes to conquer, they leave the majority of the women and children at home) so the 200 or so that landed were the ones changing that culture at that very instant. I’m reminded of quantum mechanics here, because of the similarity to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle which in my interpretation states basically that the moment one investigates a system, the state of that system changes instantly. (Now here’s where it gets super interesting) In terms of the history books that I have been exposed to in the USA, pretty much everything that the folks from Spain did was horrible, they brought dissease, raped, pillaged, and just looked for gold, destroying everything in their paths. Now, here’s the new info from Abuelita…

Right before the Spainish arrived, in North America, specifically in regards to Mexico, the Aztec people lived on an island and for whatever reason the fish started to die, and large numbers of people died of hunger. Unacceptable to the leaders of the tribe, they moved on, looking for a sign, as the legend goes, an eagle on a cactus with a serpent in its talons.

One other important piece of this story is that at the same time, just before the Spanish arrived, the Toltec people had scads of culture…poets, architects, music, dance, and according to the Abuela, even more than the Maya..(very similar to the Moors in the Iberian Peninsula who in 1492, lost their final strong-hold in Granada to the Castillian army from the north.The result of that battle was a people ignorant and supersticious were left of remnants of what existed before…thereby combining the moorish residuals with their own belief systems and culture)

Again, in regard to Mexico, the Aztec people brought their own supersticions and religions and warfare to what is now the Districto Federal or Mexico City (the world’s most populated urban area, I think). A New world equivilent to the “Dark Ages”. So the Aztecs conquered the Toltecs and used them in their sacrifices and they wanted to offer palpatating hearts to the gods…a heart will only beat for 6 seconds after it’s removed, and using obsidian knives, the Aztecs were able to execute this task (pun intended) with the utmost urgency…so needless to say the Toltec people were anxious to change their situation, and actually HELPED OUT the Spanish in order to get their way of life back without fear…little did they know that disease and other factors would reduce the population of all native peoples indescriminately…again Abuela quoted 20 million people down to about 3 million due to Smallpox alone. (I learned a new vocab word here, viruela en Espanol).

Montezuma also made a few errors (again depending on who you read or hear),

• He thought that that the horses and man were one being
• He gave away women as gifts (perhaps the birth of machismo)
• He thought they were vikings (because of light hair and eyes) or related to Catzequatl
• The most important of all, he gave them gifts of GOLD…which made them greedy…they should have just stuck with chocolate and flowers (which are a girls best friend…oh wait, that’s diamonds…and we’re back to African repression by the English *read De Beers*)

When I asked my abuela if the gold and disease didn’t happen would the Spanish still have dominated the culture, and I was suprised that she said yes. She mentioned that they would just keep bringing more and more soldiers over…my thoughts on this are:

• Over history it’s very rare that warriors lose when fighting a *DEFENSIVE* battle that costs a lot of money for the attacking country.
• If they can achieve stalemate, the attackers will withdraw…i.e. the Revolutionary War in the US, Vietnam, and presently Iraq…

So Back to the remix idea, here’s the path I see…
1. Rome defeats Iberia, brings Catholicism and integrates it with pagan traditions in the new land, and people breed, new culture with aspects of both.
2. Castillia kicks out the Moors after 8 centuries in 1492 integrates with Morish archecture (mission style) and music (Flamico) and other traditions. People breed, new culture with aspects of both.
3. Spain goes to “New Spain” brings everyting from before plus integrates with Native culture, specificly ideas of mother earth (Virgin of Guadalupe), and and the woman as an object (Malinche and Machismo)
4. Mexico moves north the first time, is met with cowboys soldiers etc. US steals the land fair and square, becasue of Manifest Destiny says we can, and we derserve it…just like we got Manhattan for some brightly colored beads…Minimal integration happens (as the US takes the stand that intermixing is bad, and it’s much better to only be white *evidence slavery and reservations for Indians*)
5. Which takes us to the present. Culturally Mexico has never forgiven the United States for taking their land, (California, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico) and has been trying to re-integrate ever since. The biggest development so far is the proposed installation of the Minute Men on the southern border, (which seems like a short-sited spending of funds when we have a “war on terror” going on)…And as I posted yesterday, there’s so much art that draws on this identity in question…

One other thing to ponder…is the economic impact of this legislation, if there are no more migrant workers, all the people who are advocating for the border protection will have to pay more for house cleaning, field workers, janitors, etc. Plus the costs of soldier’s salries, more fences, legal costs…wouldn’t it make more sense to open the borders for trade both culturally and economically (which I thought we tried to do with NAFTA)?

On a more profound note…how can people be illegal, what is the nature of the entitlement to live in the United States?

1. Geotagging photos: I’ve started using WWMX on the PC and highly recommend it…it makes tagging photos with coordinates as easy as drag and drop.
2. How do you answer the question of when a blog changes to be a “website” I’m interested what constitutes each…
3. I can hardly feel my left pinky and half my ring-finger, I have a case of “cubital tunnel syndrome” and it’s from pressure on the elbow and hand…and I know I got it from shooting photos with a long zoom, and then sitting at a computer and resting on my elbows…

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Before the magic happens…

I’m over 10,000 imagesHypermodern – Pete Ippel on Flickr, and was up all night uploading. I have a lot of tagging and geotagging to do so they can all be linked up on the trippermap at the bottom of every page.

In other news I’m super excited about the Fulbright, I really feel like I’m on a great path, what I’ve been learning over in City College with professor Jordan is really valuable, especially in relation to the “Leyenda Negra“. I was so thrilled todaywhen I was able to apply the history from the Roman conquest all the way to the present, and how it’s displayed in the De Young Museum Exhibit on Chicano cultre.
I also purchased the catalog today.

After the museum, I walked over to Hayes and Clayton to the Common Grounds Coffee Shop, and read a bit more of Carlos Fuentes’s Espejo Enterrado and chased it with an expresso float (the Italian name rhymes with Avocado) and a HUGE Colombian Coffee…so I’m pretty wired, got dinner at Papalote, and a 4 pack of ROCKSTAR for the next couple of days. I have to have the essay finished by Sept. 20.

I’m tutoring Felix tomorrow in Spanish, 8am at Perk Cafe, teaching from 9:30-12 and then rushing to a model appointment at Di Pietro Todd…and then likely over to SFAI to talk with the advisors there…

Whew…

Here’s a fun one from easter 2003. I will post more as I find them as I go through my image bank.

TONS of updated photos at Hypermodern – Pete Ippel on flickr

Steve Irwin, perishes at the point of a bull-ray, and an image from the San Francisco Art Institute’s comic board.

graffiti artists need to…, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

Learn to spell

silly videos that people found elsewhere on the net. If you want original content, and a community base similar to Flickr (which I really enjoy) sign up with Vimeo.

In other news, I’m really excited about the potential of “Project 1601″ in Oakland. Basically a group of friends, who happen to be artists too are going to be taking over a *big* space, curating, and showing their own work…more info on that as it develops.

There are also a ton of updates today on this site, more photos, more videos, and new texts. Please use the blue boxes in the navigation bar at the top of this page to view the updates.

So going vertical does indeed save space, and also allows great color choice when you’re needing to match your shirt/pants combo…
[gv data="http://www.hypermodern.net/video/kyle_art_theory.mov"][/gv]
Thank you to ITP at NYU for this real-time video comments plugin. We’ll try it with one of Kyle’s best home made t-shirts.

So I’m out with Jacquelyn and her family to watch her cousin get married…I’ll post some pictures when I have the opportunity…Llikely Tuesday, there’s a few uploaded to Flickr in the mobile section…

The weather has been really warm, and naturally there have been showers, and today it looks like it’s going to be a beautiful sunny day.

Just in, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

…to dirty Jerz.

Waitin’ for the…, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

Jackson bus.

Sweet Blue, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

Avanti, nice.

Good news, I have successfully reformatted my Nokia 3660 and now I have the ability to upload via T-Mobile MMS to YouTube using the program Camcorder Pro for video recording. The best combiniation of resolution and frame rate I have found is High Quality 15fps using the H263 Codec and a capture size of 128×96. If I was to record in MPEG-4 I would be able to capture a little bigger (160×120) but the color was washed out, and motion jerkier.

I have the ablility to record at faster frame rates and higher resolutions with Camcorder Pro, however this process cannot be “computer-free” as the file sizes exceed the 100kb limit (though I am able to save up to 1GB on the external MMC.)

Now I’m only limited by the phone’s inability to send MMS messages over 100kb. If you know a work around I’d love to hear it.

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Nate surf rack, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

So sweet…

What a lovely trip, lots of wind, and some great photos…check out the gallery for some new ones…

On Angel island, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

Looking for steaks…

Two in leather…, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

…At the bus stop.

Oh Boy…, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

At the salon…

Hukilau on Geary, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

Fun with Jacquie…

On top of the city, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

Over Geary at Japan Town

What a lovely opening, thanks to all who attended, what a great success…keep in mind that we’re over-stocked in wine, so likely will be having a “Closing Party” on the 29th of July 7-10pm.

Gallery hours are Tuesday the 18th and 25th from 5-7pm and by appointment.

Greetings friends, here is the needed information.
Best wishes, and sorry about the *two* emails. I know you get a ton
every day.
Have a lovely week,
Pete
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metaphors
be with you
Jacquelyn Strycker Pete Ippel

July 14th -28th, 2006
Opening reception Friday, July 14, 6-9pm

Icthus Gallery
1769 15th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
15th St at Guerrero
Open Tues. 5-7 p.m. and by appointment
415.563.3896

Metaphors be with you presents unseen works by Jacquelyn Strycker and
Pete Ippel, two artists with distinct, temporal strategies who share a
love of the phenomenological world.

Jacquelyn Strycker is a painter/ printmaker who has just returned to
the United States after a year in Italy. Her recent body of work has
taken the levels and stratums of Rome as its inspiration: she places
print upon print, drawing upon drawing, and finally blends these
pieces into a cohesive, melodic repetition of layers.

Pete Ippel, a multi-media artist who lives and works in San
Francisco, will be showing drawings, prints and a single channel
video. This collection of pieces explores essence and affect as it
applies to daily life.

For additional information please call Soo Ryu at 415.563.3896 or
visit
www.strycker.net and http://www.hypermodern.net

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metaphors
be with you
Jacquelyn Strycker | Pete Ippel

July 14th -28th, 2006
Opening reception Friday, July 14, 6-9pm

Icthus Gallery
1769 15th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
15th St at Guerrero
415.563.3896

“Metaphors be with you” presents unseen works by Jacquelyn Strycker and Pete Ippel, two artists with distinct, temporal strategies who share a love of the phenomenological world.

Jacquelyn Strycker is a painter/ printmaker who has just returned to the United States after a year in Italy. Her recent body of work has taken the levels and stratums of Rome as its inspiration: she places print upon print, drawing upon drawing, and finally blends these pieces into a cohesive, melodic repetition of layers.

Pete Ippel, a multi-media artist who lives and works in San Francisco, will be showing drawings, prints and a single channel video. This collection of pieces explores essence and affect as it applies to daily life.

Metamorphosis Jacquelyn Strycker KKAT-TV Pete Ippel

For additional information please call 415.563.3896 or visit
http://www.strycker.net and http://www.hypermodern.net

Here it is….God Save The Internet

Oh yea, Happy Independence Day…let’s keep it that way on the ‘net!

Two Beautiful Flowers, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

With a nice lens effect.

The bridge, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

Can you find the Golden Gate?

Bay Cruise, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

Smiles with Jacquie.

Poop on a wheel…, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

I found this and wonder how it all happened…

“Metaphors Be With You”, will present new work by Jacquelyn Strycker and Pete Ippel. The opening party with snacks and wine will be hosted by Gallery Icthus 1769 15th Street between Valencia and Guerrero streets, starting at 6pm and going till 9pm.

In addition to the opening, the gallery will be open from 5-7pm on Tuesday July 18th and Tuesday July 25th. The gallery is also open by appointment, and the show will close July 28th. Call 415.425.8863 for more information.

I have been working with WordPress for the past week or so, and there is so much more to tweak and control, I love how the community is so open and helpful when one catches a snag…so please forgive the momentary scramble…In the next few weeks I will be uploading portfolio images all the way back from 1998.

Oh boy!

Happy because…, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

Two more folks stopped by today to the gallery.

Soo and Pete, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

After my tofu house.

Blue Flowers, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

So pretty.

The New Alta Plaza Park, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

This place got a major upgrade…

Here he is with the quote of the day

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
– George Orwell

…and what have we done about it?

Day Two Sunset, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

So pretty as the night comes to the California state meet.

Not Quite…, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

Thank you Eve for giving us the opportunity to compete…

Tenth place this year, finals next year.

Huge Slug, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

On the way to work today, this thing was the size of my fist.

Mobile upload from Flickr, originally uploaded by hypermodern.

Using T zones.

A question that has been troubling me for months…

Opera mobile browser cuts up large images, and works much better than the default browser on the Nokia 3660…check it out for yourself, and there’s a “Myspaceish” component as well, this should make the Hypermodern Mobile Blog a bit easier to update.

Well, here he is…in full regalia…

I’ve uploaded, with the help of Booxter Software, my library in alphabetical order. Another way of networking across genres.

NEWS:

Hypermodern Art, Phenomenological Animals, and Free Sushi as it lasts…

Hope you can all make it to a new space, Icthus Gallery, and a PARTY…

New prints, and videos, as well as some old favorites…

Pete Ippel at Icthus Gallery

1769 15th Street SF, CA 94103 Between Valencia and Guerrero

Thursday May 11th, 7-9pm

The show will be up for a month, though after the opening, Icthus Gallery will be open by appointment only, so give an email or a call at 415.425.8863 if you want a private showing.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Greetings Matthew,

In the past week or so, initiated by hardware catastrophe, and freed by memory and loss, I have been driven through the night to organize, ponder and posit what technology affords (in the psychological sense). Excitement, thinking about various approaches to the hypermodern.net project, is stoked by your email.

I am back on the Thomas Edison/Leonardo DiVinci sleep schedule (more on this in the following posts) and I am in a position of “Hyper-Focus” (see the work of Thom Hartmann)I had marked your message to respond, and I apologize for being so vague at this juncture, I am in the process of writing the considered result that has been requested. I will post it as soon as it’s finished, and also forward it to you personally.

I have not yet had the opportunity to peruse the document you are producing, and I look forward to that endeavor tonight when I finish my commitments for the day.

Thank you again for taking the time to make these comments, and you have my word that I will do the same.

Best wishes,
Pete Ippel

World Intellectual Property Day

A Message from President George W. Bush

Today, April 26, is World Intellectual Property Day. The power of ideas as the seedbed for innovation and creativity is the theme of this year’s observance. President Bush issued the following message to mark the sixth annual World IP Day.

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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 25,2006
I send greetings to all those observing World Intellectual Property Day.

In today’s increasingly competitive world,improved enforcement of intellectual property rights is critical to establishing free and fair trade among nations and to protecting consumers and hardworking innovators. World Intellectual Property Day helps raise awareness about intellectual property and the many contributions scientists,engineers,and artists have made to our society through their work.

My Administration recognizes the vital importance of protecting intellectual property.Through the Strategy Targeting Organized Piracy,or STOP!,we are making the most aggressive effort in American history to prevent violations of intellectual property rights.This past March,I was also pleased to sign the Stop Counterfeiting in Manufactured Goods Act.This important piece of
legislation will help protect Americans from those who sell illegal products and steal intellectual property.In addition,we are working with our international trading partners to promote strong intellectual property laws around the globe and to encourage countries to be responsible stakeholders in the international economic system.

I appreciate the World Intellectual Property Organization,the U.S.Patent and Trademark Office,and all those who support and protect ideas and innovations.Your efforts advance justice and help create a future of greater freedom and prosperity around the world.

Laura and I send our best wishes.

I’m looking to integrate all of my information on a database across my web presence and local networks…it’s all about planning…

I’m really happy that he conceived of this project, then executed it with no intent to hurt Wal-Mart. It was all about the experience, relationships, and experimentation. Great work.

 
I found this old installation shot from December 2004 or so. Sweet.

Here are a few pics from around the city and Taq’s show shot on the ol’ 3660…



usually I would post this straight from the phone to the Hypermodern Mobile Blog although I can’t get the multimedia message to work here so I’m doing it by hand.

So far the trip has been amazing, and I have about 8 days to go…I just shot a video today and will be posting it as soon as it’s edited.

Rome story #1

I have been trying learn a bit of the Italian language and earlier this week I had over-heard some folks say “let’s go” or [Andiamo] and then later today I was hungry for lunch and Taq and I had just gotten back from that big stone mouth from the ROMAN HOLIDAY movie [bocca di verit�] and I get all excited to impress her with my new knowledge and blurt out [alimentari] which basically means “Delicatessen!” She got a good giggle from that, ’cause I had meant to say “let’s go” to lunch, and out comes out just “DELICATESSEN!”…

Later note: Upon looking up delicatessen it actually is [specialit� gastronomiche].

So I made it, and here’s a picture from the Roman Forum after I jogged around this morning.

I have a lot to do before I go, I’m excited!

So I woke to a dream of shiny quarters coming out of a slot macnhine, and received a gift of movie passes at the Y, a large piece of 300 lb paper…I also shot the project “Faking It” with Justin…learned to use Nikon D 70.

I ate a book in two days…that’s really fast for me…motivated to get this art business going…I learned a lot (and finally know the differnce between an asset and liability).

Moving forward from here, I am going to make my money work for me rather than work for my money…

Maurice’s Phenomenon was recorded at Jackson Manor Studios on 05_19_2005.

DJ Zeke Nasty AKA DJZN

The newest hit single from DJZN is blazing from the Bay.
Shot on a Nokia 3660.

So if I sell more “Anti-Valentine’s Day” T-shirts I get a video ipod…
Let’s see how it goes…you can get one from the Hypermodern Store at Cafe Press.

One hot bike.

Sunday was another beautiful(AND MUDDY) ride.

Go UHS Devils!?

Mud Ride! It was so fun, I was absolutely covered with little speckles, and my feet were like elephant skin…

Golden State lost to Miami 110 to 96. What a great experience, my first NBA game, thank you Eric.

Damage from Friday’s storm.

San Diego surf and slam champions…

Excerpt from Tyler J. Kinney

hey, i found your video page somehow,
liked your stuff,
here is my page www.nohandstv.com.

I’m so stoked that there are other video/net artists out there who check things out…

Well, this past Sunday was pretty amazing…we had TORNADO warnings for SF. I had my usual game down at the Y, and on the way back up the sky opened for a torrential downpour (actually it was sideways) and my whole body was completely soaked…I ran through puddles, and there was a waterfall on the steps of the apts. on the way to my house, full on 8′ wide of water coming down the rise of each stair. Plus the intersection of Jackson and Baker was filled with 6″ of water.

So I left for church at 11, and when I got there the sidewalk was flooded so we had to go in the sanctuary from the front, and it was pagent day so it was completely filled. About halfway through the ceremony, the power goes out. Thank goodness the building was built before electricity, the fire kept going, the candles and sunlight lit the room (granted it was over cast and very cozy). The pagent went on with everyone singing to the piano rather than the organ.

Outside you could hear sirens, and I know that there were a lot of people upset at home. The service went on, and was lovely, and we even still had coffee hour with no power, it really showed me a lot and I very much appreciated that everything went directly as planned. I’ve signed up for the 10pm greeter on Christmas Eve.

In other news, the kids did the gingerbread houses last night, and today I had to pitch them because of the ants, I was actually suprised that they made it through the night, when I awoke this AM, no ants to be found, however at 7pm when I got home from coaching they were covered!

Yuk.

Anyway, I’m feeling pretty Christmasy and I need to finish a card tonight to sent to everone on my list.

Union square for the holidays.

Eldridge Grade, 3000 vertical feet, great downhills, near catastrophic brake issues, and spectacular views I can’t even begin to describe…Witnessed an attempted airlift, and CPR treatment (though I think the man died on the trail from heart failure).

I am so happy about mountain biking!

View from the roof of Jackson Manor looking southeast.

Holiday decorations at the Powell St. Turnaround.

Goodness, the Headlands was amazing today, 3:11 of riding, and the steepest climb I’ve ever done up the Montok trail up to the FCC tower…I got a little twisted around on the Alta Trail, and ended up back on Bobcat, and took the tunnel back to SF and rode to the De Young. Great view from up there, and I’m very much inspired by the California artist room.

Then dinner at Fiid and Suz and Bendy’s house, and I got to feed the li’l guy. He loves the O’s and carrots.

Anywho, here’s some pictures from the day.

Sweet ride on Jackson Street.

Intelligent Design
Original Poems

Evolution knows exactly

what it is doing,

and why.

That’s how come

we’ve got giraffes

and the clap.

November 16, 2005
-Kurt Vonnegut

Sweet new coaches jacket…same colors as Cornell, and also called the Big Red, convenient.

Today I got to spend some time with Betty and Bob, and we checked out Ander’s new project…a condo building (just getting started with a 270 million dollar investment) What a grand project, and what a lovely afternoon.

My goodness it was so fun, the ladies got the joke very quickly, and the funniest thing of the night was when I was down in the Castro, and a BF/BF couple asked me “What are you supposed to be, a tooth?”

I responded with “I’m a feminine hygene product.”

and they followed that with, “I had no idea…”

The rest of the night was so much fun people just laughing, and then the walk home from Castro and Market up Divisadero to Jackson…the scavanger hunt was great too, though my team was last and got a whopping 24 out of a possible 100pts. The first place team had 68.

What a great night, there’s a reason it’s my favorite holiday…Oh! while I was down there I ran into a group of ballet kids, and Jan who I play basketball with on Sundays…small world!

Happy Halloween! I will post a pic from Castro tonight.

My goodness, this is great, I spent about 9 bucks for my costume, and it rivals those of an era gone by…Booger-Man, John-The-First, Cat-Fish-Ghost, Mt. St. Helens etc…I’ll post pictures of the production now…and later tomorrow night, I’ll post some action shots from candy time in the CASTRO!!!!
Fun fun.

All saints day.

Well, it’s definitely fall here at 800 Chestnut, the fog is back, and I think our “late summer” is officially over…bring on the rain! I’ve been an intern here at Leonardo for just about a year, and I’m moving to volunteer status starting Nov. 7th. I will be coaching women’s basketball at University High School so I can’t make it in every week like I had been this past year.

Thank you for everything, Leonardo.

Pete Ippel

Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, we give out information freely…bloger, gmail, froogle…what we buy, what we write, what we read “privately”…

Interesting. Has community outweighed the fear of being watched…

How does identity “theft” happen when we give it away to feel intertwined with our peers online?

I met some really cool people tonight, a former track and field athlete from ’94 who actually did professional triathalons…and a film-maker from Guadalajara, we ended up going for a walk to SFAI to see the Diego Rivera mural. The gallery was closed, and we went up to the roof over the theater to view the moon. While we were up there I bumped into EMMA the security guard, and asked very politely if she would open the gallery for us, and she did! So Nick and I had a private showing…

I hope we can collaborate on a project.

I got the assistant coaching job for women’s varsity basketball at University High School!

So today I went to University High School for an interview for their woman’s varsity team, I think it went really well, and should be hearing in a few days…

In other news, I got my glasses!!!

New glasses…you can hardly see ‘em.

From the new George Lucas campus in the Presidio.

Another lovely October day here at Leonardo, the courtyard at 800 Chestnut is filled with fruit blossoms, and the pond is teeming with goldfish looking for a snack from the crumbs of many an undergraduate’s Poptart…

Last night I got to head over to KQED and see inside thier studios, met some CU alums and really enjoyed the show…I also got to submit Rise to the show for next year…

The pond looks amazing here on the campus of SFAI, the sun is out, and ’tis over 70. Presenly it’s really nice to be here. I’m really pleased with our SF summer.

Today I went to Golden Gate Park (GGP) in the afternoon to play the Djembe for a while, the problem was the 43 bus, it took over 40 minutes southbound because of the airshow, and was *PACKED* to the gills, once I got to Haight, I got off and *walked* from Masonic to the end of Haight, and was as fast as the bus was.

The group at GGP was especially good today, got really syncopated rhythms. There were all types of percussion instruments, a didgeridoo, sax, and trumpet…super fun.

Then I left at 7:30 walked to Cole street, and just as I got there missed a #43 by about 1/2 block…Bummed out because I waited until 8:54 for the next one…over a !@#$%@^ing hour! (I felt really ripped off that the fare is an extra quarter now, and the service SUCKS, what’s worse, is I was late to Spanish on the #24 this week, as my class was at 5:30 and I left my house at 5:30 and the bus didn’t come till 6:25, so that meant I got to class at 6:55 and was late) I don’t know how they expect to gain ridership by raising the prices, and not having busses on time. I think it’s about time to write a scathing letter to MUNI.

Grrrrr.

Sunny and clear at 800 Chestnut today, issue 38:4 has just been mailed out to the authors, and now back to manuscript sending, and reviewer goading…

I saw this science fiction movie on Sat. night, and the crowd was what made it so special…it started with news reels and a Bugs Bunny (Rabbit of Seville one of my favorites) cartoon. The message geared for post WWII America is poignant now as we make our moves in the Middle East, and respond to the attacks throughout the world.

The message of be peaceful or be destroyed really hits home on a metaphorical level.

It’s very well done and makes a great point in 2005 just as it did in 1951.

I got a Djembe drum that I have wanted for a really, REALLy long time…I played today at the Golden Gate Park…It’s great, hand carved, chocolate wood, and a great dappled goat-skin head…

As I was exiting it was getting really dark, and you know right at the end of Haight street, there are a bunch of people with dogs, well, right as I walked by, one of the UN NEUTERED *pit bulls* attacked this fluffy white dog. The pit lunged at it from across the street, and I was so scared…the two owners were punching the pitbull to try and get it to release, and tugging at it’s back legs with all their weight, the whole time the white dog’s neck was in it’s mouth.

I was so scared that it was going to get me, I ran away across the street. it was literally 3 feet from me at one point, and when I turned around about a minute later, the white dog was still in the pit’s jaws.

I really want the ban on pitbulls in the city…I’m scared to walk around (and I already was aftraid of those dogs) and now I’ve seen them be vicious for NO reason at all.

Totally rocked. I am so happy that The City allowed the evernt to occur. I think it’s exactly what we need to get more tourists and events here. Not everyone made it to the competition, and yet it still was on the front page of EVERY newspaper as well as the USA Today show…

It was totally fun and Zany. I got a few pics from the event on my camera phone. You can also check out my mobile blog.

I bumped into Chris Bratton around 12:45 on Monday before heading over to Leonardo, and it was really great to see him, I think he’s making moves in the right direction. A very affable guy. It’s be so sunny this week too, so the rooftop at 800 Chestnut was amazing.

In other news, I have been researching the Busan biennial, looking into teaching in Rome for Cornell in Rome this spring, and trying to keep up with my Spanish garden (using the language every day)

Pisces
Creating something new will remind you how powerful — and unique — you truly are.

I have been working like crazy on hypermodern.net

that I revamped Hypermodern.net, it’s going to be peaceful, and clean.

“View the world with wonder, free from pretense, and joy will permeate your being.” -PI

Sunny, lovely day in San Francisco.

It’s encoded in Quicktime 7 so be aware you may have to get the latest version from Apple

Just now, I went to investigate, and it was a mother racoon with 3 babies, and it was so amazing, they climbed the huge tree in my back yard…

In other news, the bonfire was really nice, and I ate s’mores like crazy…and did a mini tri today, run 1.5, bike 2, swim 3/4 mi.

I really like having Diego around, because I have been practicing my Spanish like mad.

Pisces
Seek out a mentor who can inspire your creativity and show you a new path.

Cheap babies for sale on California street.

Also 4 years after the WTC attacks…I’m treating myself to a Cubs vs. Giants game after I pick one of my residents from SFO.

I’ve gotten back some responses, some personal criticism…I blanked out their names with xxx…

“Pete, you were very bold to say those things…but your ideas are tainted. ” -xxx

“I’m surprised how far out of context one can drag Kierkegaard, that poor little whelp. Preaching the (Christian?) gospel of brotherly love implies that it?s ok to compromise ideals and sag under pressure? Or that there is no such thing as a lived ideology? Or that the very existence of art is a myth?

I appreciate your bizarre-to-the-point-of-surreal rant Pete, but I personally disagree with nearly every line. If you want to be famous, please be famous, but there are rewards beyond money and fame. Anyway, as the nature of art is rather subjective, I thought I?d throw my voice out as the yin to the yang.

(one of many artists slightly less hip than Pete) (one purist)

PS. No offense to the sellouts on this list (you rat bastards)

PPS. Pete, if you do get famous, will you please hire me to roll out the red carpet? Oh man I need the cash.” -xxx

“Pete, I echo xxx in saying that you are not reading our emails carefully enough. I never implied that SFAI is inherently superior to the Academy of Art or that we are better than their students. I LOVE my students at the Academy – they are intelligent, motivated, creative, funny and they GET TO CLASS ON TIME even at 8*&%$&30 in the morning!

My feeling has always been and is stronger now that SFAI and AAU serve different populations with different goals and needs, as evidenced by their clear mission statements. I admire AAU’s clear and successful goal of turning out students who have strong, professional, commercial portfolios and who understand how to enter the job market. I also completely and fully appreciate that SFAI deliberately does NOT focus on money and jobs but provides a kind of sacred space for considering art as a special historical, philosophical and intellectual entity.

This idea may have only been applied to the field of art for the last century or two but thinking, FOR THINKING’S SAKE, is much older indeed. It may seem a bit foolish, but this is not a mere indulgence; it is essential to the well being of a society to have places that examine society itself from a critical, intellectual viewpoint, free (somewhat) from the constraints of the market.” -xxx

“Doesn’t the the very concept of hypocrisy (“falseness”) imply some “truth”, some “authenticity”, that the “hypocrite” doesn’t live up to? i thought we were supposed to have debunked such models of “ideals” already.” -xxx

“I want whatever job pete has that he has time to write these six page emails. i don’t even have time to read them. ” -xxx

I thought the previous quote was ridiculous because both of my emails were created after 6:30 pm (work finishes at five PM), remember?

“Pete,
Are the people at the Art Academy REALLY as fun and hip as we are? Do you mean- the Academy of Real Estate, I mean of Art University?” -xxx

“Dearest Darling Pete,
I don’t think you are reading my posts very carefully… there is a lot less judgment there than you seem to infer.
Love right back,”
-xxx

From an activity this past Wed. in my Spanish class at CCSF…

Pienso que “El Gran Senior” es un hombre que hacera los suenos en realidad. Si el quiere tomar una vacacion, el puede tomarla. El siempre tiene tiempo para ver la familia y los amigos. El produje Artes Y cambia la vida del toda la gente que encontrarlo. El tiene salud y comparte en los suenos del otros. El ensena la rason a los ninos de la acciones de su vida.

Easy reading, tough concepts. Love is really, REALLY complex.

In other news I spotted an article about Tony Labat in this month’s 7X7 mag, along with a picture of Mike Lai and Christine Angalmo from the Gen Art IGNITE show…

Kudos…

An answer to the 2004 San Francisco Art Institute MFA crew, regarding comparisons of CCA, and change…

“…the one who is busily occupied tracking down hypocrites, whether he succeeds or not, had better see to it that this is not also a hypocrisy, in as much as such discoveries are hardly the fruits of love.” -SK

First the rants are about the lack of art-related jobs (c’mon selling art supplies, and photos of orchids) and then have the gall to take issue with other schools by criticizing them for being commercial??!?! Perhaps it would be wise to get off the “I’m a tortured romantic artist, and can’t make money for fear my artist peers dare think I’m ‘commercial’ “kick.

I’m going out on a limb to say it… I want to be “HIP” and I want to get compensated for the work I produce. I want to have friends who are designers, competent in computers, can make 30 second commercials, music videos, oil painters and metal sculptors, and 3d animators…I have friends at CCA and at the Art Academy who are just as much fun to hang out with as you guys (and damned good at bar-b-cue)! Diversity is the spice of life…Plus they give a different perspective to shared experiences.

The fact of the matter is that art for it’s own sake, and art history (thank you invention of photography) is relatively new…We didn’t really have either before the 1800′s…

What does that mean you ask? Broadly speaking, MOST ART IS COMMERCIAL. MOST ART IS FUNCTIONAL. (yes even yours) Do we not judge our peers success by how many shows they have, if they were reviewed in magazines, or got fellowships from the government or dare I say it the NEA (sniff sniff)…Without patrons the Renaissance would not have happened, perspective, architecture, and anatomy as we know wouldn’t exist. The Sistine chapel wouldn’t exist…WE need grants, we need friends, and patrons, a supporting community.

I digress…

“But without willing it and without coveting it, the person whose love truly bears its own fruit will expose every hypocrite who comes near him, or at least shame such hypocrites; ” -SK

Haven’t we learned from attending SFAI that the definitions of “ART” is malleable? I got naked at school, Mark Morris wiped his ass and called it a Rorschach test…so aren’t clothes and furniture (Sarah Barsness’ pieces) art? What matters then if the materials don’t play a role if it’s art or not? CONTEXT? Is being physically IN the walls of the Diego Rivera gallery, or the “hallowed” halls of Fort Mason permission to call it “art” while if the same ideas are shown at say, 16th and Wisconsin (cca’s grad gallery) they are criticized? I’m not saying it’s good or not, I’m saying it EXISTS.

“The most mediocre defense against hypocrisy is sagacity; indeed it is hardly a defense, but rather a dangerous neighbor” -SK

When we get over the pretentious bullshit, about who went to school where and what media they use to express their creativity (whether they identify as a “designer” or “artist”), and realize that we all bleed the same color, one will realize that we have a lot in common…

Creativity and the desire to produce affect our direct environment is what is important. It comes down to respect. We can appreciate the efforts, (or sometimes lack thereof) in all fields (including arts administration). That doesn’t mean one must like it subjectively, just that it is there and deserves to be acknowledged.

“The best defense against hypocrisy is love; indeed, it is not only a defense but a chasmic abyss; in all eternity it has nothing to do with hypocrisy.” -SK

Addressing the other two issues the magazine and “Design and Technology”: Leonardo has an amazingly complex history and is an organization that supports artists and introduces them to a keenly scientific network of academics. They are intimately tied with MIT, CAA (whose conference many of you attended) and also give monetary awards, and publish artist statements in each issue. I encourage you all to check out their website , especially the “about us” section.

D&T (not to be confused with WMD) has existed for a long time under another name and is (from my understanding last year as a member of Artech and hanging out with the kids in it) is the smallest department in the school (even less than printmaking). There is instruction now in video editing (which we’ve had for a long time) max/msp (digital music etc. which Charles Boone and Matmos in the past have taken a large role)…According to the SFAI website the mission is to “challenge students to use the tools of design (we’ve all used Photoshop right??!?) to explore how design functions and why our designed world reflects the larger social transformations taking place today…” My question is this, is the hang-up just the name?

“This also is fruit by which love is known-it secures the loving one against falling into the snare of the hypocrite.” -SK

Quit complaining…

We were at SFAI at the *WORST* possible time…As an art school we were 9 MILLION dollars in debt, the board of Trustees, especially Lydia Titcomb and Charles Collins and MANY other bailed us out…Larry Thomas was supposed to retire, and took the helm as requested..Together they bailed us out through many sacrifices by teachers and the then current students (remember how crappy 3rd street was?!?!). By leveraging our one asset…800 Chestnut, and selling 701 (and they weren’t allowed to know who they sold it to till AFTER so don’t blame SFAI for the Art Academy’s purchase) and the generosity of many, we were able to keep the doors open…The former president allegedly KILLED herself because she was blamed for the situation…No one person was to blame for that , it was institution-wide ***FAILURE***…I’m so thankful that SFAI is growing and changing out of that dysfunctional state.

Where do you guys get off saying that change isn’t good. You act as though you’re high and mighty as alumni, when the fact of the matter is you haven’t supported the school…Give back some money or volunteer your time, and I guarantee that you will see more results. Not to mention the fact that you will feel better as a person supporting your Alma Matter.

You guys keep looking for the “Administration” to do something for you, bitching about websites, and alumni affairs…OF COURSE THEY HAVE BIGGER FISH TO FRY!!! Current students, the maintenance of the school, and the attainment of the best new faculty around, while paying off the bond incurred during our financial woes, seems like there’s more benefit there than catering to Alumni’s every whim…

There is no denying that alumni relations are very important, and instead of looking for what the school HASN’T done for you, try and put some of that energy into making the school a better place…if you don’t see something being done that you want, take it into your own hands, and then give it to the school already prepared…I’m pretty sure they’d be happy with all the help they can get…

Margarita has already done this..Clearly certain folks feel strongly that their voices need to be heard. Figure out how to do it constructively rather than moaning about change, because any changes are making it better than it was when we were in debt, with NO LEADERSHIP, and NO FUNDS. (insert your favorite slam about SFAI here)

Bryan, I’m pretty sure they didn’t fire someone because you wrote your letter and I commend you for caring enough to say something good about the experience you had with your teacher, I think you have a VERY valid point “If enough of us write, then at the very worst, our former teachers will know they did something that worked. At best, it may help make it so that future students get to study with they same excellent teachers we had the opportunity to learn from.” Let’s keep this in mind too though, that hiring new *tenure* track professors will prevent stagnant instruction, fickle adjunct faculty, and cronyism that results in husband and wife teachers who don’t have the qualifications to instruct in anything (which I know some of us experienced).

We should be thanking our lucky stars that SFAI remained open, to allow others the experience of attending one of the premiere art schools that BASES itself on progressive thought and multiple-viewpoints..

It only reflects negatively on you if you want to keep everything the same…Grow up, and let the new administration do their jobs. Judge after, not during the process. While things are changing offer support, dissent or whatever you feel, don’t just write them off. The Admins do have the best interest of the school in mind, even if that’s different than what you or I think the best interests of the school are…

Remember Terina…she spoke for all of us, and did so eloquently…”of the growing phase of SFAI” “Our complaints have leverage, and we believed in it (the vision of the school) and sometimes it looked like it was slipping away from us…being here in this strange and crazy place has changed our lives forever”. Yes we had it tough, and yes we *still* have it tough…and I know that we are lucky to have been together. I appreciate getting your emails, and this is a challenge to everyone on this list to advocate for change through positive volunteer time, money, and artwork.

Remember like Terina says…

“True art comes from somewhere just above your left shoulder…the midpoint between your heart and your brain.”

We have the power, and need to use it positively.

Does anyone want to set a deadline, gather 5 (72 dpi) images and 1 paragraph (.doc) bios of the alums on this list and prepare a CD to *GIVE* to the school so we can get this done all at once? I’m game…

Best wishes,
Pete Ippel

San Francisco sidewalk…

Zeke 05 FM on the 43 bus.

New haircut…

Look ma, sharks!

Air dry in mexico.

I’m in a very good place right now, reading, working out, and working on how to produce more artwork, at the same time market it, sell it, and save money…

I am an entrepreneur.

Vaughn McCutcheon, who I ran with on the cross country running and track team in high school and is now a MP in Baghdad, made a powerful statement on on the Bridge Tragedy in Iraq over AOL IM:

“No one should have to die the way people die here.”

He had to clean up the bodies.

Greetings from 800 Chestnut Street, orientation is this week, and there will be a whole new energy starting very soon. We are in conversation with SFAI and will be offering internships this year.

View from Garden of the Gods.

View from SFAI campus.

Tv night…

Muni night shot…

So being at 800 Chestnut now is really nice, the fish pond, more light, bigger offices…It’s going to be really interesting to see how things change when school gets in session!

Jacquie’s Fillmore banana split…

Dinner with Manny Mike and Jacquie…

San francisco union square…

I need to concentrate on a few things at a time, feeling a bit distracted by looking at everything at once…

So last night I competed in the Esquire and Macy’s “Best Dressed REAL Man Contest”…Got a shoe shine, and a flower in my lapel, and I was stoked to make the final 10, but in the interviews for the single finalist, I went first, and the microphone didn’t function…I wish I had gone 5th…I stated “Hello, my name is Pete Ippel, and I’m an artist and an athlete and I describe my style as joyful and full of wonder.”

The gentleman who won was very smartly outfitted with a nice wide striped tie, white pants and shoes, and a “preppy” (for lack of a better word) jacket with a patch.

It was really fun though, very glam indeed..Grey Goose cocktails, and a DJ on the 3rd floor of the Macy’s Men’s store…

I’ll post pictures when they become available

Hello, presently I am working on a redesign for my website HYPERMODERN, and I’m excited about networks, and community databases. I’ve written a paper recently about restructuring the mentor/critique system for art students and their instructors, and will be presenting it at The 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Science. It’s my first time presenting a paper, and also my first trip to Hawaii…I’m thrilled, and look forward to surfing without a wetsuit…

Regarding Leonardo, I was introduced to the publication at the School of Visual Arts. Jarred Loder gave me a copy along with a CD of his class on sound art during my graduate school search…He mentioned that there was a tech-art community in SF as well…which worked out, as I chose to attend the San Francisco Art Institute for and graduated in 2004 with an MFA in New Genres…

Before SFAI, Marcia Lyons and Michael Spivey were my undergraduate mentors at Cornell University, guiding my interests in art/technology/perception/cognition. You can check out parts of my thesis site and video

When the new version of HYPERMODERN is finished, my graduate thesis, and current projects will be displayed.

I also teach at the YMCA and I’m the residence manager for the San Francisco Ballet, I really love my jobs, because I can set my own schedule and have time to work on being the best artist/athlete possible.

I like being an intern at Leonardo, because it allows me to remain connected to what I’m interested in, while being a practicing artist, and everybody has such great stories in the office!

I”m feeling really angst-ridden right now, I feel like I”m moving in the right directions and I have a wonderful situation with the ballet where I can work on my own projects and move through the day from task to task…

Whether that’s developing my body, or artistic body of work…I feel like I need to work harder, and I get distracted so easily…I want to do music production, make videos, act, model, draw, have a cool website that ties it all together…

I have the tools and many years of material, I need to figure out how best to get other peopole to know about it, and provide a way for them to make purchases if they so desire.

*sigh* I love looking at atwork, and videos, and websites…after I see how other people are working, I feel like I need to do more more!!!!

*and still get enough money to pay my bills*

My posting has dropped off in the last *year* I just went through and read each blog entry, and I lament that I wasn’t more active with it as time passed. It’s becoming clear to me that I have myriad interests, all of them valid, yet have trouble focusing on projects to their final state…

My goals have maintained their same trajectory, though I still have not updated the pages I wanted, nor begun to focus soley on my work…

I have made some great strides toward integrating my athletic persuits and artistic ones with “Pisces Get To Water” and “RISE”…now it’s just a matter of doing onesimple tasks.

1. “Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”

-Unknown (saw it at a t-shirt at heps)

Thanks to Meredith Tromble, David Lawrence and the rest of the folks at Stretcher for having such a cool project as the green room…I’m very honored to be part of this process, toward the end of the clip is my comments about revising the words we use in critique in “A mediation on networks” .

So Sean is down for the count…

It’s been such a long time since I’ve been keeping up with this blog…

Recent important items.

1. SETI with J Bot 3000
2. Wrote the paper for Hawaii on critique revision
3. Two videos completed “Rise” and “Pisces Get to Water”

I’m looking forward to staying on track again.

Today was a really cool art day, I woke up and aroun 10:30 met wit Manolo and Jaimie to work on the “magnetic words” project. Basically we took pieces of white cardboard and wrote on them words that came into our heads (along with another whole group of girls) and we stuck them around the city.

A few alleys, playgrounds, etc. were affected by this movement.

Last Saturday I had a wonderful opportunity to speak at Southern Exposure in the www.Stretcher.org consortium.

It was really great to sit down and speak about the myriad networks that are present in our lives. I got to meet a whole bunch of new people and perhaps will be able to collaborate with them in the future.

Working on the plan to keep art and track balanced in my life, there’s a new job posting in the media department at UCSD, I would love to be teaching/training down there, and I feel like the experiences I’m having now with the folks at MSAT are really going to work to my advantage.

I’m so very pleased with the progress of my students, and I love asking them questions. It’s so satisfying to have a 9th grader first answer your question with a passive “I don’t know” and then ask a few more questions and come around another way, and deduce the solution.

Very exciting.

Also planning on making another push for the Fulbright to the UAE and Dubai Media City. I have a much better plan this year, and a more developed understanding of my work and how it would promote good feelings and understanding. Sending excerpts of YUK may not have been the best move, as surely it could offend some folks.

Today the 3 drawings were passed back to the students and their favorite single drawing was selected out of the personal coat of arms, avatar, and caricature.

The selected drawings were then posted on the wall, and a semi-circle was formed facing the work. Each student was encouraged to select a drawing from the group and talk about its formal issues, content, and rendering.

Vocabulary:

formal, line-weight, expressive, tight, loose, realistic, abstract, placement, confluence, horizon, perspective, foreground, middleground, background, symbolism, balance.

To close the class, avatar discussions were made public, and we talked about browsing habits and favorites.

So I went to the SFMOMA today, and I really like the Eggleston show, I would like to shoot that transparency and neg film to get such saturated colors…other things I enjoyed seeing was the simple charcoal line drawing on the second floor, and of course the Ducati sport bike in the design show.

Other things, if one is going to do a contemporary installation with paint (i.e. the big burst on the second floor) don’t drip! It looks sloppy and un-considered. Also about P. Rist. It’s weird how her work looks like its from 1998.

I need to figure out a strategy to get in galleries, museums and the like. I’m so very pleased that I have the time to work, train and read this year.

If SF would just stay sunny and warm like the last week for FOREVER, and have more LA/NYC galleries here that aren’t non-profit experimental spaces, and not comercial giants…where are the ones that sell things *AND* are in tune with young artists?

Seems like they’re in LA and NYC only *grrr*

That’s an open call to the galleries in SF…for 49 Geary, get young artists, and don’t send us to the mission…and Mission galleries, sell work!

…getting off the soap box now…

It’s been a whlile since I’ve posted.

I’m pleased to report that I finished my first commission ahead of schedule and the piece is hanging up in my room, waiting for me to figure out where to sign it.

In other news, I’ve applied to IPCNY new print show for November, and also will be in the show at teh Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. I would like to show more work there, and eventually move down there.

The image that will be in “Snap to Grid” it’s called “MSAS 2002″.

I’m teaching two days a week at the Marin School of Art and Technology, http://www.envisionschools.org/msat/ and the title of my class is “Tesseract”. I’m really excited that I get to use the curriculum that I developed over the years using the hypercube as a syllabus and the idea of Analogs…in terms of both definitions.

- – - Thank you Merriam Webster – - –
Main Entry: tes�ser�act
Pronunciation: ‘te-s&-”rakt
Function: noun
Etymology: Greek tessares four + aktis ray — more at ACTIN-
: the four-dimensional analogue of a cube

Main Entry: an�a�log
Pronunciation: ‘a-n&l-”og, -”�g
Function: adjective
1 : of, relating to, or being an analogue
2 a : of, relating to, or being a mechanism in which data is represented by continuously variable physical quantities b : of or relating to an analog computer c : being a timepiece having hour and minute hands

Main Entry: 1an�a�logue
Variant(s): or an�a�log /’a-n&l-”og, -”�g/
Function: noun
Etymology: French analogue, from analogue analogous, from Greek analogos
1 : something that is analogous or similar to something else
2 : an organ similar in function to an organ of another animal or plant but different in structure and origin
3 usually analog : a chemical compound that is structurally similar to another but differs slightly in composition (as in the replacement of one atom by an atom of a different element or in the presence of a particular functional group)
4 : a food product made by combining a less expensive food (as soybeans or whitefish) with additives to give the appearance and taste of a more expensive food (as beef or crab)

The end of the year boardmeeting was a resounding success, and I have to say that I actually lament that I’m not coming into this program now, having waited two years, because it’s in such a better position now than when I started…though some say adversity breeds success…

I know that my experience in SF was at times difficult, and much of it was my own doing, sometimes I feel like I may have benefitted from a university setting, or being in NYC…

Those feelings pass, and I’m so thankful that I am where I am right now. I have the opportunity to take time to read, create art, and train.

My only complaints now are weather, (which supposedly is going to be better in Sept. and Oct.) and not having quite the same art scene as LA or NYC.

I just need to get more work online and send out apps. That’s what will solve the latter problem.

Much has happened since the last time I posted, barring any unpaid bills, I have now my MFA or Mutha Fuckin’ Attitude as H. Feltersnatch would say.

Honestly, more than anything, I’m relieved…the hardest thing is realizing that I really don’t feel that much different, I feel like almost no time has passed, and that the extremely hard parts, agonizing as they were (and it truly felt like there would be no end to the bad luck) moved quickly.

This last year flew by, and much of the time I’ve been thinking about what I said I was going to do at the end…follow my dreams…

To the beach, (*I got the lappy*) and to be an artrockstar…I want to travel and get paid to come talk, to have residencies, and friends in so many cities that I can sleep on floors around the world.

I was part of Tim Sullivan and New Langton Arts “The ‘How-To’ Intensive”

The first night was an all male review with a multitude of one minute performances.

James Tantum
Paul Zag…
Peepers
Pete Ippel with “Pop Pop”
Steve C.

It went well, tonight I was “Tim” and talked about how to high jump…mostly a flatstep drill, mechanics, and what’s in a jumpers bag…

It was fun…and I looked really good which is always a plus.

I’m really looking forward to NY, and have to get this suit to the Taylor very soon, so I have to get the software from Vic ASAP.

*yikes*

I also met one of Nate’s friends named Anna, and her folks collect contemporary Chinese photography and video…I think she’ll like my art show!

Final Review was yesterday…Tony Labat, Jon Rubin, and let’s call him, Mr. X.

I took a cab and set up rather quickly, when I didi so I had the Pops video in the left corner, followed L to R, California Home Koi, the installation rendering, and then to the right was the Hypermodern Anaglyph in Negative Space maquette. After the folks looked around, I asked if they would like to see a section of YUK…this was a mistake, as it totally dominated the conversation of the other two reviewers besides TL who hadn’t seen it.

They spoke of irony, and sincerity, and questioned them…and as always Warhol came up. I successfully defended myself, though a few times I felt that the statement was mis-interpreted to mean “I use computers for everything.”

If one really reads it it’s ” touched by some aspect of mediation through the mechanical or digital” which means ANALOG is fine too…

I still will make art no matter what (more or less)…

Here’s my statement…

Hypermodernity is the conceptual groundwork for my present body of imagery and videos, insomuch as it serves not only as a thesis, but also as an explanation.

HYPERMODERN: pronunciation: ‘hI-p&r’m�-d&rn. From Latin hyper-, and modernus, also from Latin modo, just now. 1 : above : beyond : SUPER- involving recent techniques, methods, or ideas : UP-TO-DATE.

In my own words: A forum for expression and research influenced by technology.

Whether the work manifests itself as a website, performance, action, sculpture, video or two-dimensional piece, it is likely touched by some aspect of mediation through the mechanical or digital. This mode of production has lead to an artistic practice and a series of works that speaks to the personal, yet maintains an open avenue for viewer affect.

Pete Ippel
2004

I am headed to LA to Jump, hang out and enjoy spring break!

I started cutting the new octi-block and got a cool enjoi deck for my wall…”Octopuses fart too!”

I’m getting excited about the Ebay show at Pace University in NYC May 6th.

I’ve been working hard on getting all my things together, as I want to be ready to present my work on bowieart.com, as well as be ready for my review. I’m getting my materials in the mail very soon, and have a lot to do before the third weekend o fapril…

Especially this “home” video for the Diego Show.

Push push push.

I went to the Palace of the legion of honor today, and went to see the Art Deco show, and the way i made it was just stumbling upon it…and the musuem was free (except for the special exhibit *7 bucks!*) I actually was impressed with the space, there was also a flower/artwork show at the same time so that was pretty cool…

I got some books for people…one for mom (flowers) and one for dad (shadow puppets)

I also got the little prince for myself, as I had read it in HS in spanish, and I remebered it as a quasi-phisolophical book…maybe it will help me straighten things out about the L word…

Also welcomed Spyke to Cali…and I’m hoping to get down there sometime soon…97 bucks on Jet Blue…

Hooped it up today, and got a bit of a sunburn yesterday…(it’s been 9 days of SUN SUN SUN) so spring break in SF is pretty good though I want to get out for a bit…I need to leave to city in order to see how awesome it is from time to time.

I am planning to go down south for a bit to hang with the track kids…

Or maybe I should try and get to Amsterdam after all…

T- a few days…

Got some new cameras today a Konica Auto s2, and a Foldex 20 (med format) I went skating and the coolest thing happened, I was talking with Lori on the phone and goodled myself and Stretcher came up…and I was in the “bay area” section with my Creation Myth video from Playshop!

So I’m very happy. Big ups to the whole crew at Futurefarmers (especially Amy Franceschini for dealing with the Artechies and giving us a show at Yerba Buena)

Other links about Artech/Playshop/Etc

SFAI

Witney Artport and popup

and last but not least, playshop

It’s again been a while since the last time I updated this thing, I don’t know why it takes me so long now, it’s not like I’m *not* on the computer…Though I’ve been spending a lot of time with Jacquie.

Things are going pretty well, especially since my trip to NY, it’s been a bit easier to clear things up in my head…

Today it actually felt like California, and I went out and took pictures while in my boardshorts, sadly I lost my Benq 1300, because it fell out of my hoodie’s pocket. I’m so bummed, as I’ve had really bad luck recently with losing/things breaking. I left my Mp3/cd portible player from aunt naomi on the plane, and then lost this camera…

Plus my gamecube isn’t working…now I have nothing to do while my comp is out of comission when I burn CD’s and render videos…it was a really good efficient use of time.

In transportation news, I got my bike cassete on, and it’s SO SO SO much better, I just have to get a new headlight and adjust my brakes, and things will be awesome. While I was at Lombardi’s I got a pair of sky-blue Chucks…they’re size 9, cause they run huge!

Also found a pair of Rollerblades for 100bucks, and they were 250, a great deal for sure, and figuring that it would cost about 30 bucks to get my old ones send out, and considering that these are much bigger wheels and lighter boots, I figured I’d splurge…

I am sad, because I don’t think I am going to be able to go to Uganda, simply because I didn’t believe I could go…I waited and waited, and made up excuse after excuse…another big thing, was that I promised myself that I wouldn’t let money dictate what I do in my life, and that 1000 for plane fare wouldn’t be that much…the problem is thesis show coming up (which will cost 250 plus my expenses) and the fact that I’m nearly triple digits in debt from college…that alone makes me cringe.

I want to go though.

DAMN.

I had Korean food today with Jaq at “MY TOFU HOUSE” and it was really interesting, soup/rice/kimchi and very authentic.

Anyway, I’m behind in just about every facet of being prepared for May’s show, but playshop went well, and I’m pleased that I have a plan for my projects, and that at the end of this week I get my big print mounted on silk…hopefully I can order some tyvek and make some more prints…

I’m psyched because the publish feature on Blogger has been broken for a few weeks, and I’ve not been able to get thing viewable. Seems like the tech guys have come along and fixed everything. Wheeeeeeee!

Classes have started for my final semester here at SFAI, and things are looking up in the world, there are chairs in the CDM, a New President (a bit of leadership will do the school goo