Erik Otto:

All in all, I have created 24 original works — mostly paintings, but I am throwing in a few surprise 3-dimensional works as well as 2 site-specific installations. The opening nights will also be a chance to pick up a screen print series I am producing specifically for the show in a real low edition of 25.

I will save you the artsy talk and let you experience the works on your own, but for more info about the artwork please visit these links from the respective galleries. Be sure not to miss this one! Cheers.

@ White Walls
835 Larkin St, San Franciso CA 94109
opening reception: Saturday September 11 // 7-11pm
on view: September 11 – October 2

Press Release:

EVERYTHING NEVER GOES AWAY, Lost Coast Culture Machine’s third exhibition, opens with a reception Friday, August 6, from 5-9 pm. Please join us for fantastic art, self-watering planter making for kids & adults alike, and music & burgers from Joshua Short’s Grill of Steel.

EVERYTHING NEVER GOES AWAY is planned to coincide with California Coastal Cleanup Day on September 25 & riffs on the various associations between our ways of life and our trash: environmental degradation, chemical pollutants, waste management systems, refuse & recycling, plastics & the Pacific gyre, offshore oil drilling &, as if on cue, our horrific mess in the Gulf of Mexico.

The work featured in EVERYTHING NEVER GOES AWAY combines the aestheticization of trash with a commentary on American culture.  Mendocino artist, Hilary Dimock, transforms junk mail into miniature sculptures. Oakland-based artist Pete Glover presents his Junk Pirate Found Art Exhibition, in which commonplace items such as antiquated video game controllers are exploited for their aesthetic, as well as nostalgic, properties. In Rebecca Najdowski’s stop-motion video Trace, the natural world provides the setting for discarded remnants of the human material world to become biomorphic entities that invade, grow, and struggle with the space. Jane Kim & Joshua Short, both recent artists-in-residence at Recology San Francisco (the San Francisco Dump), use found and scavenged materials as their media. Kim, trained in scientific illustration, uses reclaimed house paint and sheetrock to make paintings that combine depictions of endangered species with architectural elements of design. Short’s Grill of Steel is a spectacular & fully functional DJ booth/hamburger grill constructed entirely of items scavenged from the SF Dump.

A selection of prints & photographs made by Louisiana artists in the wake of the April 20 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion comes to us courtesy of Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans. Brian Borrello, Teresa Cole, Stephen Collier, Bob Compton, Jennifer Odem, Cynthia Scott, Dan Rule, Dan Tague, & Charlie Varley react to the environmental disaster through their work. Proceeds from the sale of these prints will be donated to Gulf Aid, a 501(c3) nonprofit corporation established in response to the biggest oil spill in US history.

LCCM will be participating in California Coastal Cleanup Day as Beach Captains at Blues Beach, north of Fort Bragg. In addition to cleaning the beach, we will engage in a collective & collaborative creative endeavor with the trash & recyclables we collect before their disposal.

Lost Coast Culture Machine is located at 190 East Elm Street @ Franklin Street at the North End of Fort Bragg (across from the bowling alley). Hours are Wednesday–Sunday, 11am to 6pm. For more information, email info@lostcoastculturemachine.org or call 707.961.1600.

The summer months will bring a visual transformation to the San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design. Four California artists will enhance the bricks and mortar of our galleries with installations intended as encompassing experiences. Using traditional craft materials of paper, fiber, metal, and wood, this large-scale exhibition will recontextualize these mediums, pushing their limits to new artistic heights. Be prepared to fully engage once you enter our Museum space, and to enjoy a new level of excitement at SFMC+D.

One of our past featured artists Christine Lee (wood) will be exhibiting at SFMCD. Along with Tanya Aguiniga (fiber), Paul Andrew Whayes (paper) and Thomas Hill (metal).

via SFMCD.org

Bike Stuff

Matt just wrote an article on bike extras.  Here’s another one for ya.  Follow the link for pics of the inside.  I feel claustrophobic already.

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These guys called the Cycologists ride around town randomly performing music from instruments made from bike parts.  Double green!  Via Neatorama

DIY

A mini Altoid tin garden amongst many other ways to reuse these mint containers.

Before the summer weather is completely over, make a barrel bbq grill (Using containers previously holding oil and toxic material NOT recommended)

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More barrel DIY stuff, this time a water barrel (Even though it is the end of the rainy season) Via Makezine

Not that these poker chips were saved from the trash, but Mario is depicted quite nicely anyway.

Before: A couple ugly chairs.   After: a nice designer-lookin bench.  Via Dornob

Find out more about how two Cal Art grads made a planetarium from 6000 sheets of paper found in recycling bins @Treehugger

Events

This vase by Paul Cocksedge lights up when a flower is inserted.  It’s one of the works by 21 European artists exploring low energy lighting and alternative energy in the exhibition In Praise of Shadows at the V&A in London Sep 19-27.  Via DesignBoom

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Always refreshing to see good people putting on something like this Maker Faire in third world countries, in this instance, Africa. Via Makezine

General News & Info

-Cash For Clunkers, Toys R Us version Via Huffington Post

-Need help recycling and want to be cool at the same time?  You’ll need an iPhone to use these free apps that will help you locate recycling centers and understand the difference between the numbers on plastics.

-New Ziplock Evolve bags use a little less plastic=greener?

-Slideshow of ice sculptures in Beijing marking 100 days until the Copenhagen Climate Summit

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After being incapacitated for most of the weekend as a result of going to a friend's bachelor party, I found out that other people were being productive and posted a lot of articles over the last two days. So I've decided to organize this week's Over the Weekend post into categories: Art & Design, Lifestyle, and Technology