CUTEMESS

My crappy iphone pic of Sonic Youth from my perch backstage (thank you to the Sic Alps, who sounded awesome with a huge sound system btw, for making that happen). 

Another interview with Paul Negoescu about Radu + Ana

Paul Negoescu interviewed by Diane Pernet.

A short film by Paul Negoescu

Wacky Stocking Stuffers?: Bless Fur Stick?  Must be made out of real cat if it’s $265! (Oh, it’s mink!?#&*%$^!!!!) Bless has a whole line of jewelry for your computer cables too.  Image one is the USB key with fur, image two is the USB cable with fur.

Liz Taylor as Cleopatra.  If only Cleopatra lived in Hollywood in 1963.  The costumes were designed by Irene Sharaff.  Read here for an interesting passage on the Cleopatra costume on stage and in film.

Betty Nguyen, Creative Director of First Person Magazine, with Adam
Iscoff-Daigian, Contributing Photographer, pictured above in front of
First Person’s mega-zine installation on Taylor and Eddy St in San
Francisco’s Tenderloin District.

Nguyen’s installation was selected by a juried panel and funded by the
Mayor’s office to create a dialogue with the Vietnamese community
inhabiting the neighborhood.  Her wall-sized poster-zine features
interviews and works by contemporary Vietnamese creatives like United
Bamboo’s, Thuy Pham, a founding member of the Bernadette Corporation
artist collective and photographer Duc Liao, as well as personal video
footage she paired with an intriguing written narrative recounting her
own experiences and encounters while visiting Vietnam, titled “Now and
Then”.

Installation will be up through January 5, 2010.

Hui-Hui

Hui-Hui is rad.