THE GREATER GOOD or HUSTRAVAGANZA or 2ND HUSSA-VERSARY

Good Hustle is celebrating two years by bringing it back to one of the first venues they performed at. The performance will be a treat for longtime Hus fans and newbies alike, including plenty of fresh new material and all the classics. Good Hustle will also be premiering The Medley of Failure, a very intense and brief look at the expansive hus-tory that never was.

Cupertino legends the Emerald Hill start off the evening, with DJ sets by Hidden Danger, Ohmaigawd and Big Bamboo closing the night off with pleasure.

Not to be missed, please join us!

FRIDAY JULY 25TH 9pm-2am
Britannia Arms Cupertino
1087 DeAnza Blvd.

$5 advance tix $7 at the door / 21 and up only
thegoodhustle.com

A great (and long overdue) article came out today about our compadres, Sam & Matthew Rodriguez, aka Shorty Fatz. They've been busy since their "Lowrider Arcade" exhibit of custom made lowrider bikes in May 2007.

"Lowrider Arcade" exhibition at Anno Domini, 2007

When it comes to lowrider bike culture, these two are a bringin' it to a whole new level. Shorty Fatz opened a new studio just outside of downtown San Jose a few months back. Check 'em out and get your orders in!

East San Jose bike builders create rolling sculptures
by Joe Rodriguez, Mercury News
posted: 07/16/2008
Read the article

A crazy collection of 200 DIYers are selling their wares this weekend in San Francisco at the Fort Mason Center, and it's free! The Renegade Craft Fair hosts events in NYC, Chicago and San Francisco.

July 12 & 13th, 11am - 7pm.
Fort Mason's Festival Pavillion.

Hera (Frankfurt, Germany) has an amazing exhibit up at Fifty24 in San Francisco through July. She and Akut are usually known for their collaborative works (aka HERAKUT). Hera's work is more graffiti/street art based whereas Akut is more smooth and realistic which makes for very intriguing qualities to their collabo pieces. Thereapy Dropout is Hera's first solo endeavor - an impressive debut.

"If you paint what you feel, you drag it out of yourself and put it in front of you, where you can see it and deal with it. Once that's done you can turn your back on it and leave it behind. Others will eventually paint over it, but that doesn't matter, because you had never planned on keeping it anyway. You're moving on. That's it," states Hera of the meaning behind her Therapy Dropout exhibit.

There are photos here.
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Fifty24, 252 Fillmore St. San Francisco

AfterWorks begins this Friday at the Art Ark after the last of the ashes have fallen from the sky (or 10pm... whichever comes first). Featuring: the music of David Knight and Benjamin Henderson; Live Animation by M dot Strange set to the music of Panthelion, David Knight and Steve Barry; Live Painting by Brittany Rediger and Joe Barajas; Hooping by Rachel Radness.

The Art Ark
1035 S. 6th Street, San Jose, CA
Doors: 10 p.m.
Admission: free

This is one of our favorite sound art events to attend every year. It's well worth the trek if you don't live in Oakland. Thought I'd let someone else provide the accolades this round. Here's a nice write up from Jason Victor Serinusm of the East Bay Express.

Critics Choice: GARDEN OF MEMORY

The most extraordinary concert of the season, the Garden of Memory columbarium walk-through in the historic, Julia Morgan-designed Chapel of the Chimes, returns this weekend. The annual summer solstice celebration, whose fame has spread to Europe and the Far East, will scatter no less than forty local and international cutting-edge musicians and ensembles throughout the extraordinary facility. With acoustics to die for, and multiple, equally intriguing performances vying for attention, the more than 2,000 attendees expected this year are sure to find their consciousness and imagination expand. Arrive early to find decent parking and hear the most popular performers.

~ by Jason Victor Serinusm
via East Bay Express

Price: $12, students/seniors $8, under 12 $5, under 5 free
Time & Date: Sat., June 21, 5-9 p.m.

Chapel of the Chimes
4499 Piedmont Ave.
Oakland CA 94611
Oakland: Piedmont Ave./Montclair
510-654-0123

This is worth a road trip south! 150 amazing artists including past exhibiting A.D. artists: Dalek, Emek, Shepard Fairey, AJ Fosik, Sylvia Ji, Saber and Andrew Schoultz! The list is long and impressive, and some choices a bit curious which creates even more anticipation as to how it's all going to come together. For the full artists' list, visit the Laguna Art Museum website here.

from the press release: In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor is an exhibition that presents the work of approximately one hundred and fifty artists and posits that there has been a huge, but unacknowledged, art movement taking place in this country for the last forty years. Since 1994, this ground swelling of lowbrow, surrealistic, pop, figurative, and narrative work has coalesced and found a voice in the pages of Juxtapoz magazine published in San Francisco. This "rag" has become the most widely read art magazine in the U.S. It is an influencing force on the aspiring artists of generation Y and the millenials, who are now enrolling in art schools in numbers never before seen.

Juxtapoz magazine was founded by Los Angeles artist Robert Williams. The :Juxtapoz aesthetic or lowbrow art" is almost always figurative and is inspired by movies, TV, advertising, black-velvet painting, psychedelic posters, pulp porn, sci-fi and horror, carnival art, comics books and all things lower and middle class. The magazine has and does provide a voice and validation for a brand of artist, like Williams, who has not been accepted traditionally by the typical art-world infrastructure of collector, curator, and critic. However, since its founding, it has been the inspiration for the creation of its own infrastructure supported by Juxtapozian art galleries (in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and New York), collectors, critical attention, and museum exhibitions at adventurous institutions. Since the mid 1990s, with its growing success, Juxtapoz has been a major contributor to the acceptance of painting again as a valid practice for artists, countering forty years of art school canon, which focused on the conceptual practice of context, collectivization, and dematerialization of the art object.

For the last decade the art establishment (collector, curator, critic) has argued that the idea, or construct, of an art movement is outmoded. This exhibition explores the idea of the "Juxtapoz Factor."Is it an organized movement operating under a singular manifesto? Or is it a wave of talented overlooked artists who decided to reach out to the public and create their own canon?

Laguna Art Museum
307 Cliff Dr., Laguna Beach, CA 92651

Summer Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.; Thursday: 11:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday: 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Sylvia Ji has a solo exhibit opening tonight at Whitewalls in SF. We're big fans of her work. If you can't make it out to the opening tonight, drop by the gallery before July 5th when it comes down.

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 14th, 2008 from 7-11 p.m.
On View through July 5th, 2008

White Walls
835 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94109

We've been trying to encourage Because of Ghosts (Australia) to visit the U.S. for a few years now. Their next major release "This Culture of Background Noise" comes out in September. Maybe if enough of us yanks buy it, they'll head this way!

Here's another one for you...

Creative Time presents Playing the Building, a 9,000-square-foot, interactive, site-specific installation by renowned artist David Byrne. The artist transforms the interior of the landmark Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan into a massive sound sculpture that all visitors are invited to sit and “play.” The project consists of a retrofitted antique organ, placed in the center of the building's cavernous second-floor gallery, that controls a series of devices attached to its structural features—metal beams, plumbing, electrical conduits, and heating and water pipes. These machines vibrate, strike, and blow across the building’s elements, triggering unique harmonics and producing finely tuned sounds.

There's a great interview by Anne Pasternak, curator of Playing the Building, with artist David Byrne about the ideas behind this installation, and his other work. Read it here...

Playing the Building
an installation by David Byrne
May 31–Aug 10, 2008
CREATIVETIME

"For the maverick rhythm scientist Paul D. Miller, sound is liquid; it spills over and slips under categories, firewalls, case law, and legal codes to find us and move us. In the same way, his important collection of sound thinkers and sound ideas calls us to remove the fake 'security' imposed on us by capital and state, and, more crucially, to reimagine freedom and reclaim our creativity." --Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

Come meet Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid at Anno Domini, First Frdiay June 6th at 7pm as he discusses his new book Sound Unbound. Free and open to the public.

Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician living and working in New York City. His artwork has appeared in the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale for Architecture, the Andy Warhol Museum, and many other venues. His written work has appeared in such publications as the Village Voice and Artforum. He is an editor of the magazine 21c and the author of Rhythm Science (MIT Press, 2004).

Anno Domini, 366 South First Street, San Jose

We first encountered this film "The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal" as an installation at CCAC (now CCA) in San Francisco. Created by Matt McCormick in 2001, its premise lies in the concept that "emerging from the human psyche and showing characteristics of abstract expressionism, minimalism and Russian constructivism, graffiti removal has secured its place in the history of modern art while being created by artists who are unconscious of their artistic achievements." It was nice to stumble across this 5 minute clip on YouTube. The original, shot on 16mm film, runs for 16 minutes. Check it out.

SOUND & VISIONS
A San Jose Group Photography Show
featuring: Aaron Choe, Kim Hoang, Junior Sanchez, Rachel Olmstead, Tomek, Jennifer Anderson, Andrew Peejack, Dave Imlay, Lucia Espinoza, and Whitney

Friday, May 30th from 8pm 'til Midnight
On the Corner Music
530 East Campbell Ave (downtown Campbell)

DIG DUG returns...
A Record Swap and Listening Party featuring

DJs:

David Ma (Wax Poetics, wttmradio.com)
Mr. Ma is a well-respected and widely published hip-hop writer who specializes in interviews with classic and emerging artists in the field. As a selector his tastes run toward 60's soul, Bowie, and the occasional party jam.
Chief Xcel: Core Collector

Justin Torres (Re-Joint Records, All Bay Productions)
Mr. Torres has held it down as a vendor for many of the past Dig Dug events, and we are very excited to hear some selections from his legendary collection. Though a specialist in soul and funk from the Bay Area, we're not quite sure what to expect when he takes the decks.
The Break Up Letters

DJ Platurn (Oakland Faders, Music Machine)
Platurnipus is one of the finest DJs in the Bay area and beyond. He is a prolific and award-winning battle DJ, mixtape DJ and, more recently, club rocker. He has promised to bring out the funk records that he loves but can't play anywhere else.
From Oakland to Iceland

Vendors:

Jeff Jagged from On the Corner Music in Campbell
Geraldine from www.fmgvinyl.com
King Most, in-demand DJ/Producer (Plug Label)
San Jose legend Joey Meyers
...and more