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October 24th, 2009
Join LA’s most intriguing & celebrated artists, writers and curators for a most unusual silent auction. Each has contributed a book from their private collection that influenced their life’s work. Tucked inside each book — for the buyer’s eyes only — is an autograph and secret inscription from the contributor explaining the book’s significance.
Most starting bids are $75.
October 1st, 2009
Last nights AIGA event was awesome. Tomato was awesome.
If you missed Michael Horsham, Dylan Kendle, and John Warwicker below are the pictures.
This is just one small example of the Awesomeness that an AIGA membership brings you.
If you are a designer and you are bummed that you missed it. Make sure that you don’t miss the next one.
Become a member and they will hook you up. I just renewed my “lapsed” membership. I was able to do the $79 a quarter version to save on the cashola – as you know times are rough…
September 2nd, 2009
Featuring Nova Jiang, Len Lye, Robert Rauschengerg, Jacob Tonski, Peter Fischli & David Weiss
LM PROJECTS (Formerly know as Bank) is please to announce its first exhibition, “Cause and Effect,” showcasing a collection of video based performances and kinetic sculpture from the mid 1960’s to the present.
Though the discourse surrounding each of the selected works diverge from one another and their classification as kinetic art, they nonetheless are linked through their mechanical, temporal, and movement based components. Glenn Kaino’s “In Revolution” and Len Lye’s “Trilogy: A Flip and Two Twisters” serve as a point of departure for the rest of the exhibition as performance and theatrics commingle with art and engineering. Rauschenberg’s “Open Score” and emerging artist Jacob Tonski’s “Balance Study, Threshold” are performative works dependant on the action of participants, while Peter Fischli and David Weiss rely on the chain reactions of common place objects and combustibles in “The Way Things Go.”
July 20th, 2009
The new downloadable Groopies are up! Check out our Groopie page where you can download various Groopies such as Dorky Groopie, Catalyst Groopie, and Wrangler Groopie. Great for your desk, computer monitor or dash board.
Click the link below, and follow the instructions to build your very own Groopie!
June 5th, 2009
The Opportunity Green VIP Party was crazy fun. Sorry if you missed it. Check out the sexy pictures.
April 14th, 2009
INCOGNITO, the Santa Monica Museum of Art’s highly anticipated annual art exhibition and benefit sale, returns for its fifth year on Saturday, May 2, 2009. The element of surprise that underlies INCOGNITO reflects the essence of discovery that inspires SMMoA’s exhibitions, education, and outreach programs. All proceeds directly support the museum, which in 2008 celebrated two decades of creative accomplishment.
INCOGNITO 2009 will feature an unprecedented number of acclaimed artists—more than 480—who have donated their works in an 8” x 10“ format. All works are $300 each. Complete artist list below.
Attendees—from sophisticated art supporters to first-time collectors, artists, and art enthusiasts—are encouraged to trust their instincts to guide their selections, as works are signed on the back and artist identities are revealed only after purchase. For this year’s benefit, John Baldessari designed an extraordinary logo that represents the spirit of this groundbreaking event.
INCOGNITO 2009 Participating Artists (as of 4/10/09):
Luciana Abait, Gerardo Yepiz Acamonchi, Reverend Ethan Acres, Robert Acuña, Lisa Adams, Nick Agid, Lynn Aldrich, Peter Alexander, Cynthia Alexander, Terry Allen, Rachel Allen, Jami Allen-Snyder, Sophia Allison, Marcos Alvarez, Fumiko Amano, Kathryn Andrews, Eleanor Antin, Carolyn Applegate, Edgar Arceneaux, Oliver Arms, Skip Arnold, Carla Arocha, Joshua Aster, Karen Atkinson, Atopia Architecture, Chad Attie, Donald Baechler, Hilary Baker, John Baldessari, Glen Baldridge, Judie Bamber, Mely Barragán, Ray Barrie, Slater Barron, Judith Barry, Gary Baseman, Dan Bayles, Martin Beck, Tina Beebe, Quinton Bemiller, Tom Benedek, Billy Al Bengston, Sharon Ben-Tal, Jodie Berry, Guillermo Bert, Mariella Bettineschi, Hisham Bharoocha, Joe Biel, Sanford Biggers, Enid Baxter Blader, Alvaro Blancarte, Daniel Bohbot, Lauren Bon, Jill Bonovitz, Derek Boshier, Janet Bothne, Mark Bradford, Leonardo Bravo, Calef Brown, Edgar Bryan,
Jeremy Burleson, Bruce Busby, Luke Butler, Kristin Calabrese, Huguette Caland, Joshua Callaghan, Clayton Campbell, Giorgio Carlevaro, Barbara Carrasco, Karen Carson, Scott Marvel Cassidy, Carter Carter, Richard Carter, Jamison Carter, Cole Case, Carmela Castrejon, Enrique Castrejon, Jennifer Celio, Alida Cervantes, Exene Cervenka, Matt Chambers, Jamie Chan, Jeff Charbonneau & Eliza French, Fritz Chesnut, Mary Christiansen, Wayne Coe, Greg Colson, Matt Connors, Vanessa Conte, Michael Coughlan, Xavier Cázares Cortéz,
Erin Cosgrove, Lori Cozen-Geller, Steve Craig, Meg Cranston, Thomas Alan Cronk, Hugo Crosthwaite, Adam Davis, Jay Davis, Len Davis, Tony de Carlo, Raoul de la Sota, Mara De Luca, Michael Dee, Steve DeGroodt, Tony DeLap, Jane Dickson, Ann Diener, Laddie John Dill, Guy Dill, Abby Donovan, Mimi Drop, Sean Duffy, Barry Dukoff, Martin Durazo, Anna Dusi, Mark Dutcher, Mari Eastman, Ashley McLean Emenegger, Elizabeth Enders, Noah Erenberg, Samuel Erenberg, Carol Es, Marion Estes, Vidal Pinto Estrada, Ned Evans, Kota Ezawa, Mollie Favour, Diane Fenster, Carolyn Fernandez, Bruria Finkel, Chris Finley, Urs Fischer, Kim Fisher, Ed Flynn, Kianga Ford, Simone Forti, Andrew Foster, Bryan Freeny, Jona Frank, Terri Friedman, Gajin Fujita, Caroline Furr, Joe Fyfe, Francesca Gabbiani, Charles Gaines, Steve Galloway, Harry Gamboa, Jr., Corina Gamma, Charles Garabedian, Rico Gatson, Jordan Gaunce, Megan Geckler, Ana Marini Genzon, Lawrence Gipe, Milton Glaser, Michael Glier, Dan Goldman, Piero Golia, Marcelino Gonçalves, Yolanda Gonzalez, Joe Goode, Michelle Grabner, Alexandra Grant, Cameron Gray, Phyllis Green, Matt Greene, Mark Steven Greenfield, Margaret Griffith, Johan Grimonprez, Gronk, Iva Gueorguieva, Raul Guerrero, Shane Guffogg, Jody Guralnick, Mary Addison Hackett, Nancy Jean Hancock, Lynn Hanson, Willie Harris, Kira Lynn Harris, Karen Harter, Doug Harvey, Edgar Heap of Birds, Deborah Hede, Matthew Heller, Roger Herman, Pixie Herms, George Herms, Carlos Hernandez, Katie Herzog, Matthew Higgs, Gilah Yelin Hirsch, Thomas Hirschhorn, Asuka Hisa, Richard Hoblock, Julian Hoeber, Loren Holland, Evan Holloway, Cadillac Holmes, Violet Hopkins, Channa Horwitz, James Howell, Darcy Huebler, Salomón Huerta, David Huffman, Sara Hunsucker, Dusadee Huntrakul, Jessica Hutchins, Eva Hyam, Charles Irvin, Mac James, Max Jansons, Ellen Jantzen, Michael Jantzen, Amparo Jelsma, Greg Jezewski, Vincent Galen Johnson, Matt Johnson, Sharon Kagan, Glenn Kaino, Yoichi Kawamura, Matt Keegan, Szajna Kellman, Mary Kelly, Arnold J. Kemp, Brian Kennon, Kristi Kent, Martin Kersels, Linda King, Kaitlin Kirker, Julie Kirkpatrick, Bill Kleiman, Patricia Knop, Alice Könitz, Olga Koumoundouros, Thomas Kovachevich, Joyce Kozloff, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Royce Kunze, Alan Kupchick, Suzy Lake, Julia Latané, Caroline Lathan-Stiefel, Evelyn Lauder, Mimi Lauter, Lauren Lavitt, Diane Lavoie, Brendan Leech, Tom Leeser, Max Lesser, Joshua Levine, Les Levine, Sharon Levy, John Oliver Lewis, Clarence Lin, Jed Lind, Chris Lipomi, Annabel Livermore, Jay Lizo, Karen Lofgren, William Longhauser, Mara Lonner, Renée Lotenero, Richard Louderback, Jean Lowe, John Luebtow, Heriberto Luna, Mela M., Kim MacConnel, Nancy Macko, Christina Madans, Monica Majoli, Constance Mallinson, Daniel Maltzman, Becca Mann, Daniel Marlos, Hudson Marquez, Luigia Martelloni, Virgil Marti, Jessica McCambly, Kim McCarty, Robin McCauley, David McDonald, Rodney McMillian, Christina McPhee, Blue McRight, Rob Mellor, Adrian Meraz, Gretchen Mercedes, Arnold Mesches, Sam Messer, James Miller, Brad Miller, John Miller, Adia Millett, Yunhee Min, Jason Miracle, Robin Mitchell, Bobbie Moline-Kramer, Nancy Monk, Lester Monzon, Dominique Moody, Angeles Moreno, Florian Morlat, Jim Morphesis, Rebecca Morris, Andy Moses, Ed Moses, Joshua Mosley, Avigail Moss, Carter Mull, Dave Muller, Thomas Müller, Manfred Müller, Doug Murphy, Hillary Mushkin, Tucker Neel, Geraldine Neuwirth, Kori Newkirk, Jessica Nicol, Margaret Nielsen, Leonard Nimoy, Danial Nord, Laurie Nye, Chris Oatey, Ruben Ochoa, Matthew Offenbacher, Lorcan O’Herlihy, John Okulick, Chris Oliveria, Michael O’Malley, Pat O’Neill, Yoko Ono, Kaz Oshiro, Jamie Ruiz Otis, John Outterbridge, Simon Ouwerkerk, Jim Ovelmen, Edward Carlo Pacio, Rosieta Pardo, Jeanne Patterson, Ebony G. Patterson, Rene Peralta, Luciano Perna, Renée Petropoulos, Raymond Pettibon, Margaret Pezalla-Granlund, Francis Pezza, Paul Pitsker, Bruce Pollock, Nancy Goslee Power, Lori Precious, Astrid Preston, Stephanie Pryor, Rosamond Purcell, Michael Queenland, Bill Radawec, Elsa Rady, Leta Ramos, Mel Ramos, C.E.B. Reas, David Reed, Miles Regis, Marco Rios, Elwood T. Risk, Ron Rizk, Lynn Robb, John Robertson, Walter Robinson, Jennifer Rochlin, Steve Roden, Brett Cody Rogers, Michael Rosenfeld, Rachel Rosenthal, Rachel J. Roske, Adam Ross, Richard Ross, Erika Rothenberg, Melanie Rothschild, Daniel Ruanova, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Eddie Ruscha, Jr., Alison Saar, Lezley Saar, Betye Saar, Julia Scher, Shirley Sacks, Souther Salazar, Gwen Samuels, Ruth San Pietro, Adrian Sanchez, Julião Sarmento, Larry Scharf, Christoph Schmidberger, Lothar Schmitz, Michael Schnorr, Kim Schoen, Kim Schoenstadt, Allison Schulnik, Barbara Schwan, Josh Schweitzer, Chloe Sells, Shelter Serra, Marie Sester, Tom Shannon, Jim Shaw, Peter Shire, Fran Siegel, Justin Siegel, James Siena, Elena Mary Siff, Tif Sigfrids, Richard David Sigmund, Elias Sime, Case Simmons & Andrew Burke, Kristina Simonsen, Elizabeth Simonson, Francesco Siqueiros, Keith Sklar, Alex Slade, Rena Small, Barbara T. Smith, Joe Sola, Mariangeles Soto-Diaz, Alyson Souza, Brad Spence, Jeni Spota, Zachary Stadel, Ricky Swallow, Randi Malkin Steinberger, Jennifer Steinkamp, Coleen Sterritt, Mary Clare Stevens, Whitney Stolich, Don Suggs, May Sun, James Surls, Carl Swallow, Ricky Swallow, Ami Tallman, Henry Taylor, Stefon Taylor, Masami Teraoka, Anita Thacher, Mungo Thomson, Mark Todd, Ruben Ortiz Torres, IM Toth, Kerry Tribe, Melly Trochez, David Trulli, Devon T.S. Tsuno, Kim Tucker, Iké Udé, Carrie Ungerman, Miller Updegraff, Kaari Upson, Migdalia Valdes, Lesley Vance, Monique van Genderen, Alison Van Pelt, Jennifer Vanderpool, Ariane Vielmetter, Catherine Wagner, Keith Walsh, Gary Ward, Esther Pearl Watson, Mary Weatherford, Marnie Weber, Roger Weik, Ruth Weisberg, Eric Wesley, Brett Westfall, Benjamin White, Charlie White, Pae White, Patty Wickman, Cynthia Wiggins, Edward Walton Wilcox, William T. Wiley, Brian Wills, Steven Wolkoff, Eve Wood, Susan Woodruff, Miriam Wosk, Tom Wudl, Leslie Yagar, Rosha Yaghmai, Hiro Yamagata, Michiko Yao, Gülbin Yavuz, Liat Yossifor, Kevin and Kent Young, Liz Young, Buzz Yudell, Christine Zelinsky, Jody Zellen, Sharon Zeugin, Bari Ziperstein, Kevin Zucker, Sarah Zwerling.
December 29th, 2008
They both have to “get some traction” before cutting deals and getting funding.
An insightful article titled Musician Finds a Following Online in The Wall Street Journal Shelly Banjo and Kelly K. Spors tell the story of how bloggers, myspace and new promotion platforms such as TuneCore.com, CDBaby.com, Sonicbids.com, Slicethepie.com and Musicnation.com are changing the landscape of how music is produced, distributed and monetized.
The article chronicles Justin Vernon a musician who after recording an album in “his parents cabin” posting it to MySpace and sending it to key music bloggers was able to garner a good deal of traction with fans get on David Letterman, form a new band and get signed to a major label.
“Mr. Vernon’s rapid success shows how small, relatively unknown artists can gain fame via the Web without the large marketing budgets and backing of a major record label. The exposure on blogs, YouTube, social-networking, marketing and other sites can allow them to nurture a following quickly and cheaply.”
To me the takeaway is simple: Give a musician a record deal and he will eat for a few years, teach a musician the mechanics of the business and give him the tools, and he will eat for a lifetime.
Digital technology, the internet and the ever lower learning curve that creatives have to to create micro-enterprises will soon enough replace the macro-enterprises created by the economy’s of scale driven corporations of the 20th century.
I would dare to posit that once more talented (artist) musicians like Just Vernon discover and begin using the (rather simple) tools available to them to create, distribute and monetize their product (art) the music industry as is today will give way to micro-enterprises with the artists as CEO’s of their own destiny.
Lets look at some of the tools outlined in the article:
TuneCore.com: Create, upload and distribute your own music to iTunes, Amazon, eMusic and more. Keep 100% of your royalties.
CDBaby.com: The largest seller of independent music (CD’s) on the internet.
Sonicbids.com: Brings musicians and promoters together. Musicians pay $5.95 to $10.95 a month or $50 to $100 a year in membership fees.
Slicethepie.com: Allows musicians to raise money to record and promote their albums. Anyone can invest including the fans. Slicethepie keeps a 10% fee and a percentage of royalties for 2 years.
Musicnation.com: Connects musicians to fans by giving them tools and a platform to market themselves. Also gives contracts to to top talent.
This is only a small slice of the pie of what I know is out there.
It is unavoidable that new business models like direct sales, corporate sponsorship, touring and merchandise and others yet to emerge will make the 21st century the century of the creatives.
To quote (one of my favorite authors) Daniel Pink in his book A Whole New Mind:
“The last few decades have belonged to the computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But the keys to the kingdom are changing hands. The future belongs to creators, designers, storytellers, caregivers, big picture thinkers – will now reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest joys.”
And I believe this so much that I am betting on it. I created an education company to help educate creatives on business. I even called it:
Evilbusinessman
Can I get a “muahhahahahaha” from all my fellow creatives.
March 30th, 2008
Have you ever heard Tabla music? Yes? No? Maybe? I first heard Tabla music while searching for new music online. I found a group called Tabla Beat Science and got their album Tala Matrix .
I was pleasantly surprised to find TablaCentric at Machine Project in Echo Park during our ritual Sunday breakfast in Echo Park/Silver Lake.
TablaCentric is a month long project around Tabla, the traditional drums of North India that includes performances, film screenings, lessons and more.
The project is facilitated by a fellow named Robin Sukhadia from the bay area. We had a chance to chat about Tabla and to catch him play for us for a minute or two.
If you have a chance this week stop by and check it out. There are performances on Monday March 31st at 7pm and a Robot will be playing Tabla Thur April 3rd.
March 30th, 2008
For those of you who missed the March 19th opening of Panopti(con) at Bank, here are some pictures of the opening.
Click Here To View The Pictures
Panopti(con), a group exhibition curated by Los Angeles based artist Martin Durazo. This exhibition presents the work of 17 artists working in painting, photography, drawing, sculpture and video that engage in theories centered around power structures. Panoticon, from the Greek words for “all” and “sight,” refers to the ingenious late 18th and early 19th century architectural construction British philosopher Jeremy Bentham devised that became the ultimate surveillance machine (and ideal prison). Designed as a large circular building with a watch tower in the center, the Panopticon allowed the observer to observe at all times without being seen, creating the most invisible omniscient authority.
Since its inception in 2003, Bank has developed a distinctive curatorial platform
showcasing emerging and mid career artists working in all media. Located in downtown Los Angeles,
the gallery exhibits both national and international artists striving to make a significant contribution
to contemporary art.
June 8th, 2007
For those of you thinking about coming to Graham’s opening at Bank this Saturday, June 9th.
Get more details at: bank-art.com
