SPACE d’OM is a meditation environment, a utopian lounge, and constantly evolving multimedia crash pad nestled both inside and outside of a 17′ geodesic dome. We’ve been installing it all week for ONN/OF Festival in Ballard. You can read more about it here and here, or you can just come experience it for yourself this Saturday and Sunday at the Sweater Factory, 1415 NW 52nd.
When was the last time you had all your mental polarities reversed?
To mark the 5th anniversary of the passing of Robert Anton Wilson the folks over at Boing Boing are devoting a week to this great modern philosopher and comedian. Be sure and check it out.
“To make everybody less sure of themselves, that’d be great, huh?”-RAW
“Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.”
A multi-media experience and New Years bacchanal Saturday, December 31, 2011 Washington Hall 153 14th Avenue Seattle, Washington 98122 (14th Ave & Fir St) 9pm – 3am (21+) $100 tickets (limited to 300) complimentary food & drink www.strangertickets.com
“This New Years Eve join State V Pan for Cafe (un)American’s reprisal – an elegant evening of music, magic and mayhem. Join DK Pan and a constellation of debutantes, degenerates, aristocrats and anarchists for an unforgettable New Years Eve featuring 35 performers, specialty cocktails crafted from Sound Spirits liquors, award winning food from Madison Park Conservatory, desserts by Victoria Yee Howe and Theo Chocolates. Expect to enjoy an open bar and a special champagne toast at midnight, games of chance and skill, burlesque performances, music from many original Cafe (un)American performers, and full night of entertainment and surprises.”
Produced by:
State V Pan
Free Sheep Foundation
Canoe Social Club
Vital 5
Music by:
Jherek Bischoff
DJ Darek Mazzone
Gabriel Teodros
Nate Quiroga with Thomas Hunter
Sten Skogen
King Dro
DJ Steve Miller
Kate Ryan
AND featuring Special Uninvited Guests!
MC by:
Jed Dunkerley
Art installation by:
Celeste Cooning
Another great show at the Comet (Lesbian, La Otracina, Great Society Mind Destroyers, Hypatia Lake show the week before was incredible BTW)
Thanks to Mama Casserole and all the folks who support amazing touring bands like Chicago’s CAVE. Locals Are You a Cat?, Midday Veil and Kinski also tore it up for real.
Here’s a couple videos from the show featuring Portable Shrines light show by Aubrey Nehring and Rena Bussinger.
As most of the Northwest knows Tacoma has been turning itself around of late. Check out the Spaceworks Tacoma installations around the Theater District and take a walk around oldtown to fully grasp this rejuvenation of the artistic community. Then make sure to swing by The Tacoma Art Museum’s stunning exhibit of Virna Haffer’s Photography, Photograms and Woodcuts entitled A Turbulent Lens: The Photographic Art of Virna Haffer to ponder its very long experimental artistic legacy. Born in 1899 and raised in the anarchist community of Home, Washington Haffer began her career as a photographer in the 1920′s, continuing to create a prolific, internationally acclaimed body of work in many varied forms until the early 1970′s.
If you cannot make it the show (it ends November 6th) the Tacoma Public Library houses an image archive of her work…
Here’s some video of the mighty Macrocosm at Escalator Fest III this past weekend.
(more video and pictures to come, you can peep some here and here).
Thanks to all of the amazing bands that played this year- Fruiting Bodies, Lunar Grave, This Blinding Light, Swahili, Midday Veil, Ayahuasca Travelers, Macrocosm, Rose Windows, Diminished Men and Fungal Abyss (the perfect finale! Great job dudes). And to the DJs (Explorateur, Gel-Sol, Adam Svenson, Mama Casserole, Papa Yod and Miss Clarita -you guys are the jam) and video artists: David Golightly(Midday Veil), Darlene Nordyke(Lunar Grave), Ellie Dicola(Rose Windows), Rena Bussinger(Swahili) and Aubrey Nehring(everything else). Thanks to all of the many people who made it happen this year. Emily Pothast, David Golightly, Rena Bussinger and Darlene Nordyke (yall is freaks!) Scott and Li at the Lo-Fi, Dave Segal, Jonathan Meepers, Steve Quenell and a very big thanks to Andrew Crawshaw of 112 Printworks for the fantastic screenprint job on the Escalator III posters (We still have copies left for $10- contact aubrey@portableshrines.com to procure this fine hand made 3-color print).
And of course thanks to all you super freaks for coming down and hanging with us. It was a great weekend.
If you haven’t stopped by the 112 Printworks Shop you’d best do so. Aside from being a gallery of fine screenprinted art with new artists every month it also the new home to the most fabulous Leary Records formerly located at Resolution Audio in Ballard. They’ll be having a groovy DJ party next month to celebrate the merger.
One the Event is a free 3 day event with the intent of healing humanity regarding the 9/11 tragedy. Tens of thousands of people will be joining musicians, speakers, and celebrities, both live and on the web to intentionally send love, compassion and unity to all of humanity.
Please consider attending the Gathering events happening at the University of Washington Friday 9/9/11 and Saturday 9/10/11 for the 2-day Experiential Solutions & Empowerment Gathering & Global Webcast, featuring a speakers, workshops, community dialogues, solutions sessions, inspired live music, high impact poetry, delicious nutritious food and a global interactive webcast.
On 9/11/11 There is the actual One the Event featuring local music, inspirational speakers, celebration and ceremony in Seattle Center’s Memorial Stadium. The afternoon will culminate with a global synchronized moment of love shared with millions of people worldwide at 3:46pm PDT and lead by founder of ONE: Becoming One Erik Lawyer.
The event is still accepting volunteers as well-there will be a meeting today 9/8/11 6 pm in Red Square at the University of Washington, or you can go to http://onetheevent.org/volunteer.html to sign up.
Sooo many things going on in the imminent future… like for instance, ESCALATOR FEST III SEPTEMBER 23-24TH! (more on this very soon) But first things first- this Wednesday Aug. 10th at The Comet: “Return to the Fungal Abyss” This is the 2nd night of a month long journey into sound that will be happening every Wednesday in August and features all four members of avant-metal geniuses Lesbian taking an improvisational trip into realms beyond joined by numerous special guests. Each night will be a something new and different. This week the Curious Mystery open up with visuals by Portable Shrines and the All Seeing DJ One Eye spinning far-out records between sets. Reports from the 1st night indicate that this is definitely an event you don’t want to miss…
This will also be a party to celebrate the release of FUNGAL ABYSS’ debut album “Bardo Abgrund Temple” on Transliguistic Other. Hear a preview here: http://fungalabyss.bandcamp.com/
Thrill Jockey is a label that just can’t seem to put out anything that isn’t jaw-droppingly awesome lately. They just signed the Wooden Shjips and have been scooping up many of the most primo freaks currently making the scene. See Daniel Higgs, Zomes, Mountains, Sidi Toure and honestly too many others mention in one sitting. Get a little taste of White Hills having a rather Amphetamine Reptile moment below from their latest offering Hp-1 (they’ll be in Seattle September 9th at Nectar). And don’t miss the swirling majesty of Eternal Tapestry’s collaboration with Sun Araw entitled Night Gallery.
