Documentary of a clandestine installation marking the closing of the Mother's Cookies factory in Oakland, California.
Installation by Alison Ulman, assisted by Lee Anne Phillips & Bruce Bortin.
Finished, or pritnear. Runtime 6:55
1.2 ml, once daily. Thank God for antibiotics. Oh, and thankyou Dr. Flemming for stumbling upon them. Saved my life more than once, and now they're working for Pearl
Twice this weekend. Because Pearl has booboo on gee-gee. And she refuses to swallow a pill. So now I know how to give a cat a subcutaneous injection. You might feel a little mild discomfort....
Documentary of a clandestine installation marking the closing of the Mother's Cookies factory in Oakland, California.
Installation by Alison Ulman, assisted by Lee Anne Phillips & Bruce Bortin.
This is not a final version of the flick. I've put it up for review purposes only.
xxBB
Dagmar's cat Pogo is having a hard time keeping it in his pants. Last night after a lovely barbecue, we caught him, on video, going at it. With a piece of leopard-skin fake fur fabric.
You go, Pogo.
VLOGGERCON 2006 is the intersection between media-makers and technology. A space for dialog and interaction. Of creation and collaboration. A media village born on the internet, and making camp for one weekend in San Francisco.
The Mother's Cookies plant in East Oakland is closing after 92 years baking cookies and employing workers. My friend Alison is working on an installation for the workers during their last week at the plant. I slapped together this short documentary of her preparations.
Music: The International by the New Singers
Too many products, and what's more, too many product names. Here's what I think: Everything that's sold gets renamed, and it's always the same name.
All products will be called "Gits-U-Laid®". Although for status' sake, you can also get "Gits-U-Laid® Premium" where "Premium" = "With the Partner of Your Choice".
...and somebody else, at the SloMo Video Festival, Lobot Gallery, West Oakland, last night.
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Featuring Ryan Junell and DJ Ray Liotta plus a bunch of hepcats of Eastbay & beyond.
We had to cab there and back again, because, 18th & Campbell on a Saturday night. Good crowd there. Ryan really got his hustle on promoting this showing.
I was easily the oldest person in the room. Which gave me the opportunity, during the 'Take an Oreo and pass them along' portion of the pre-screening festivities to say:
"Excuse me, ma'am, would you like a cookie?"
to the mid-twenties super-coolie to my left.
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From the "Before" series.
Crochet hats for the twins. I hope the yarn that I used will be alright for them.
Although there's eight hats pictured, I actually only made four of them. This picture is an example of what, in simpler times, would have been called 'trick photography'. It's really a double exposure of the hats, once lined up side by side, and once as nesting baskets.
Here's how the new lampshade looks from where Mary sits. It might need a little tweaking, but I think it could work.
It's actually a new shade for an old lamp that I inherited from my parents. The old shade was a heat-trap, and would fry the wiring after a few months' use. Then the lamp would flicker and eventually cease to work.
I made this new shade out of 4" heating duct, and left it open at the top to allow the heat to escape.
Dagmar & I went to Kinko's & printed up a bunch of posters for the SloMo Video Festival today. Here's one in the window of Taqueria del Sol. Details below, with the following caveat:
I just stopped by the Lobot Gallery space at 18th & Campbell in West Oakland. It's just a couple blocks from my old studio. The neighborhood's, eeeeh, a little bit gritty. Like, don't ride you bike there. Like, lock you car, set the alarm and post an armed guard. Like, if you're a woman and you're alone, don't. Just don't.
That said, please come for the show. I'll be there (onscreen, anyway), breaking glass in slow motion.
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May 20th -film festival
Lobot Gallery
1800 Campbell St
Oakland
$5 - doors @ 8
at loooonnngggg llllaaaassssttttt....
THE SLOMO VIDEO FESTIVAL
Premiere and Slowdance Party!!!
Sizzurupy slow JAmz by OonceOonce (tigerbeat) and DJ Ray Liotta (sneakmove)
SLOMO Video is a unique compilation of 100 one minute slow motion videosby 85 video artists and filmmakers from the bay area and beyond. This festival will stretch you through a molasses-tinged warp of catastrophic visual and audio beauty. See what your mind usually misses!
featuring notable slowness from artists such as:
LoVid // Matmos // Bec Stupak // Mudboy // Pea Hicks
Scott Arford // Lew Baldwin // Wiley Wiggins // Yoshi Sodeoka Keith Fullerton Whitman // and many dozens more!
Curated by Ryan Junell
FREE BEER // B.Y.O.Robutissin
Doors at 8pm // Screening at 9pm // Slowdance Party til Late!!!
This is the view outside my bathroom window.
Now repeat after me:
This photograph is dedicated to Katya Komisaruk
Replace watch battery. Five dollars.
This was after the place two doors to the left sold me a battery that didn't work. Well, it worked part of the time. It just didn't always work.
After some dealing, they agreed to buy the bad battery back. No, not for two dollars. No, even though it's no longer in the package. I bought it for five dollars, and I'm selling it back to you for five dollars.
Thank you.
The score was a set of two integers. Something to something. They were both positive integers.
Well, after a number of innings. The number was an integer.
--From the Coliseum BART platform
... on a tiny crochet hat. But she's not going to go all overboard about it or anything.... Nope, that is one cat who is able to control her enthusiasm. Neither willy nor nilly, that one. Unless there's a problem with her water glass. Or the closet door is closed, and she can't go in for an inspection tour. Or her brother looks too comfortable or something.
Photo by Mary Jane Foran, who would like it to be made clear that Ray enjoys this game. He's not being abused. Honest.
Sculpture in the background by Deborah Buttterfield.