Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Slutty designer taser
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is winding up this week. It’s the world’s grand geek gadget fest each year, and Las Vegas is ground zero. An eruption of techno-porn, thinly veiling pent-up consumerism, greed, and outright lust… it’s perfect for Vegas!
Top on my list… the leopard taser. With an MP3 player!
Top 10 Reasons We’re Doomed […]
No Comments » - Posted in Weird, Items of Interest by Janet Galore
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Good-bye Old Virginia Inn!
Last chance to party like it’s 1983.
The Virginia Inn is closing it’s doors after Sunday for an extensive re-model.
Rumour does tell that many of Seattle’s old guard are meeting to reminisce about the ‘day’….as in asymmetrical hairdos, the last aired episodes of both M*A*S*H and Laverne & Shirley, smoking indoors, and secretly wanting to split […]
No Comments » - Posted in Items of Interest by Cissy
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Ken Kelly @ Howard House this Thursday!
Ken Kelly rocks! If you don’t know him go to this show and get to know him!
Ken Kelly: Future Perfect (Center Gallery)
January 10- February 23, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 10, 6-8pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, January 12, 12 N
604 Second Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98104
http://www.howardhouse.net
(Since you’re in Pioneer Square stop in the Catherine Person Gallery and meet Nola […]
No Comments » - Posted in Art Galleries, Lecture, Exhibits by Cissy
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
“REBEL VISIONS: The Underground Comix Revolution”
Opens Saturday January 12 at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery in Seattle.
The youth rebellion of the 1960s produced some of the most stunning artwork and graphics of the 20th century. Four decades later, this imagery still resonates. The artists of this era will be featured prominently in Seattle at the dawn of 2008. The Frye Art […]
No Comments » - Posted in Visual Arts, Books, Lecture, Exhibits by Cissy
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
My phone tells me to do bad things
Seattle-area artist Ries Niemi presents a vision of cell phones as a life form, manipulating humanity for their own purposes. Ries says he purchased, sight unseen, this collection of objects from a mini-storage auction. In this new exhibit, Niemi examines just how exactly that cell phone got into his pocket, and who is really in […]
