Category Archives: Personal

Pete Ippel’s Art show Featured in SFweekly

I got a really nice writeup Wednesday in the SFWeekly…Thanks to Hiya Swanhuyser for the article. Pete Ippel is a modern exponent of a long-standing tradition: the bro artist. Think of athlete-philosophers like Jack Kerouac, Richie Tenenbaum, both Jack Johnsons, or Muhammad Ali…Ippel surfs, plays basketball, and his video work explores issues such as hands-free …

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Pete Ippel Celebrates Five Years as the San Francisco Ballet Residence Manager

Over the past five years, I’ve been working very hard to make Jackson Manor very livable and professional, and I’m happy to say that with all the support, it’s been a great learning process, and ultimately a resounding success. Nearly 20 dancers have gone on to San Francisco Ballet and scores more are professional dancers …

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Calm in the Maelstrom

I have been moving forward with my show installation bit by bit, and have been working on being diligent with my time while still having time to decompress and relax. Thank you for respecting my need to focus on myself a bit during this potentially stressful period. I have keeping an old Chinese saying in …

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I got a space pen today,…

[kml_flashembed movie=”../../flash/space_pen.swf” height=”930″ width=”500″ /] I got a Space Pen today, it is amazing. I highly recommend the bullet model shown above. It’s small enough to fit in a pocket, and it’s great to use for reading and annotating books while inverted in space…Or if you are laying on the couch.listen Powered by Jott

Scar Stories: Youth, Shopping Carts, and Television

When I was a child, I was very adventurous. I have many scars on my body that remind me of stories… I was born near Chicago Illinois in a small town called Oak Park. View Larger Map I lived at the corner of East Avenue and Randolph Street in an apartment with eight other families. …

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