Kung Fu Hustle

Everyone should go see Kung Fu Hustle at least twice.

Insect technologies and free mycological workshop

Phil Ross is in town to do some stuff at Machine this weekend which should be great.

8pm April 9th (Saturday)
Machine Project
1200 D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA
213-483-8761

Through the design and creation of highly controlled environments, Philip Ross manipulates, nurtures and transforms a variety of living species into sculptural artifacts. The objects he produces are at once highly crafted and naturally formed, skillfully manipulated and sloppily organic. His work lies at the disparate intersection of biotechnology, folk art, and ecological studies. Mr Ross will present a talk on his artwork, tracing the relationship between animal behavior, technology and the developmental processes that form the worlds we live within.

http://www.machineproject.com/philross/bio_techne.php

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Phil Ross - Fungamongus
12pm-4pm April 10th (Sunday)
Machine Project
1200 D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA
213-483-8761

Artist, educator, and fungal enthusiast Philip Ross will teach a four-hour long workshop on growing mushrooms for beginners. In this class he will cover all of the information necessary for setting up a lab, creating cultures, and the various techniques for starting home cultivation. Mr. Ross demystifies the ideas for this process using non-scientific language while utilizing cheap and easy to find materials. He has taught this class at the San Francisco Mycological Society, Symbiotica, and at various art schools.

http://www.machineproject.com/philross/fungus.php

Video Gong Show notes

1. Cue your tape. Some tapes got gonged before they started because we were looking at color bars. This made the artists mad. We're very sorry.

2. Cue your tape to the most exciting part, even if it's in the middle

3. If going for shortest tape, apparently raw footage of sim city is pretty annoying.

4. Years of sitting through video sceenings, art school crits and movies have made people quite brutal. No tapes lasted longer than a couple minutes.

Some actual documentation soon in the form of a short video and maybe a photo or two.

Machine's secret underground bunker not for rent

I rented the space to a small cadre of canadian spies. Thanks for all your email and letters.