10 April 2008

03 April 2008

Press release.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact: Phantom Laureate Promotions
Contact Person: Rand Sevilla
Company Name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Telephone Number: 312.315.1802
Email Address: randsevilla@gmail.com

Year of the Rat: UIC BFA Thesis Show

Chicago, IL, April 18th-April 23rd — The University of Illinois at Chicago School of Art and Design is pleased to welcome all interested parties to the 2008 Spring Undergraduate Thesis exhibition opening Friday, April 18th from 5 pm to 8 pm at the school’s Great Space Gallery at 400 S Peoria Street.

Titled Year of the Rat, this semester’s crop of creative hopefuls present their respective bodies of work: video, painting, sculpture, photography, drawing and other media will be on display and up for discussion over catered food and rising talents. Consider this your opportunity to be able to say “I knew them before they were big”.

If you can’t make it on Friday, you need not fret. Year of the Rat will be open for viewing everyday from 11am to 5 pm until April 23rd.

For additional information or Questions Contact:
Rand Sevilla 312.315.1802 or randsevilla@gmail.com
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31 March 2008

Gustave Courbet



AMAZING WORK, LIFE, SHOW.

27 March 2008

power point pecha-kucha

"Let us now bullet-point our praise for Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, two Tokyo-based architects who have turned PowerPoint, that fixture of cubicle life, into both art form and competitive sport. Their innovation, dubbed pecha-kucha (Japanese for "chatter"), applies a simple set of rules to presentations: exactly 20 slides displayed for 20 seconds each. That's it. Say what you need to say in six minutes and 40 seconds of exquisitely matched words and images and then sit the hell down. The result, in the hands of masters of the form, combines business meeting and poetry slam to transform corporate clich into surprisingly compelling beat-the-clock performance art."

25 March 2008

Interesting "State of the Arts" article - Museums Refine the Art of Listening

SPREENG BRAKE!!!

I'm DJing tonight and I made a video flyer:


And heres an hour long, totally dated (but nonetheless relevant) BBC4 Documentary called (don't laugh) "Rave New World". The stern baritone british narration make it feel like your watching a nature documentary about "techno-hippies". This is almost my ideal date movie.

24 March 2008

John Gage's Colour and Culture




Please read Intro only (pp 7-10). Comment with a 2 paragraph response (thoughtful, intelligent, etc.)