Posts Tagged ‘artist’

Rolling Through the Bay San Francisco Bay Area Toothpick city

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

Artist Scott Weaver’s amazing piece “Rolling Through the Bay”, a toothpick Rube Goldberg machine was made with over 100,000 toothpicks over the course of 35 years. he started it in 1974. It is a depiction of San Francisco, with multiple ball running “tours” to different parts of the city. It will be on display in the Tinkering Studio at the Exploratorium until the end of June.

Awesomest video MUTO wall painted animation by BLU

Monday, July 14th, 2008


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MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU.
Wow this is such a trip! Have you ever seen anything weirder? Does it almost seem unreal?

Do you wonder if other graffiti artist consider this rude and disrespectful because he covers hundreds of other pieces and tags?

Maybe he uses more of a chalk and that will all wash away soon?

What do you guys think??? Leave some comments!

Youtube and his Website

The Genie scratch Guitarist

Friday, July 25th, 2008

6bebbac9b72588ea3632966cfc5cc392 The Genie scratch Guitarist pictureSo this guy seems to be on a whole nother level! I mean really have you ever seen anything like this? He creates bad ass beats with a laid out guitar as if it were some turntables and he loops, distorts and tweeks with his feet! You HAVEEEE to check his stuff out. I saw him last night at Speak The Music and bought both of his CD’s. I can’t even play the second one because the first one is too bad ass to take out. Here is a video but check him out.

Genie’s website
Genie Facebook page
The Genie Soundcloud Music
The Genie Youtube
Genie’s Myspace




Also be sure to check out my Oakland photography.

Oakland Photographer

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Oakland Art Murmur First Fridays

Friday, July 18th, 2008

987088e7ab6e59427f833f53c9295f24 Oakland Art Murmur First Fridays pictureThe Oakland Art Murmur takes place every month on the first Friday. It is spread out across different art galleries in Oakland with the majority of them being near Telegraph and Grand Avenue. It is a place where you can walk from gallery to gallery and enjoy fresh exhibits, art, clothing articles and other local artist created things. You can even drink in the galleries! Wine tasting is often abundant.

Rock Paper Scissors Collective

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Rock Paper Scissors Collective (RPS) is a local establishment. They are volunteer ran and put on art shows, give work shops and other activities that can help them give back into the community. They are also a consignment store if you make your own clothes, art and so on you should look into selling through their storefront on Telegraph. They are also a participant in the Oakland Art Murmur which takes place on the first Friday of every month.