Category: Art

Unusual Life » Riverside California Folk Art:
Riverside California Folk Art

Clever Uses: Organize Your String, Twine, and Ribbon with Funnels – Lifehacker:
Organize Your String, Twine, and Ribbon with Funnels

Justin Quinnell – Pinhole photography:

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How old masters are helping study of global warming

Photos of ArtCar Fest 2007 & How Berkeley Can You Be?:


Telstar Logistics has a nice write-up on last weekend’s ArtCar Fest (see my previous post). Photos of the event are starting to surface from Lane Hartwell, Paula Wirth, Tom Djll, adda dada and bageler (including the ArtCar Fest Fashion show). Adrienne So did a write-up on ArtCar Fest featuring a gallery of Lane Hartwell’s photos.


Thomas Hawk shot some great photos of Sunday’s How Berkeley Can You Be? Celebration (see my previous post). Here’s his full set of photos on Zooomr.

Chinese prison is a toy factory:
Chinese prison is a toy factory

Todd Blair Injured After SRL Robodock Show in Amsterdam:
Todd Blair Injured After SRL Robodock Show in Amsterdam

Our good friend Todd Blair, a long-time Survival Research Labs crew member, was seriously injured during the clean-up after Saturday’s SRL show at Robodock 2007 in Amsterdam. A blog has been setup to track Todd’s recovery and a fund has been setup to cover his medical expenses.

Laughing Squid sends out our best wishes to Todd’s family, friends and the SRL crew. We all hope that Todd has a quick recovery.

Here’s more information from the SRL blog:

In a freak accident veteran crew member Todd Blair was knocked to the ground sustaining critical head injuries after the show on Saturday. The doctors in Amsterdam are keeping him in an induced coma and won’t have a complete prognosis for awhile. In deference to Todd, Alex (Todd’s girlfriend) and the families we had been keeping the information about this tragic occurence within the family. Amy Critchett and Eric Paulos were with Todd during his surgery and now Alex has arrived and he seems to be responding well to her presence.

Many people have been concerned and asking for details so while it is too early to determine what the outcome is, the news as of this morning is that his condition has stabilized and we will know more shortly.

Keep the love, prayers, and healing thoughts for Todd coming, it definitely makes a difference!

In the meantime, for those who want to show their support checks can be made out to Alexandra Ismerio and sent to

Susan Maunu
3828 Alzada Road
Altadena, CA 91001

Progress of Todd’s recovery can be tracked here. It will be regularly updated by Alex and Susie from his bedside.

photo credit: John Mathieu
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Imagine we are fish swimming in the sea, and no matter where we look we see advertising, branding, marketing, and corporate/governmental coercive messages everywhere.What we once thought of as news, knowledge, politics, culture, art, music, and wisdom has all become one with this ocean of marketing and mind-control. What to do? How to keep one¹s sanity, sense of freedom, and unique identity? What can we do to resist?

Coyle & Sharpe, Legendary Early 60’s Street Pranksters:

In the early 1960’s the legendary team of Jim Coyle and Mal Sharpe, known as Coyle & Sharpe, would roam the streets of San Francisco playing pranks on people using a microphone hidden in a brief case.

Perhaps 40 years ahead of their time, Coyle and Sharpe defined what is now commonplace on radio and TV with shows such as Howard Stern, Da Ali G. Show, Cash Cab, and more. Coyle and Sharpe met in a boarding house in San Francisco in 1959. Coyle was a benign con man who had talked his way into 119 jobs by the age of 25. Sharpe had just graduated college and had drifted out to the West Coast to check out the Beatnik scene. The pair found they had a mutually sick sense of humor. To avoid real jobs, Coyle and Sharpe thought they could make a living pulling pranks or “Terrorizations,” as they then called them. In 1964, they were hired by KGO in San Francisco to do a nightly radio show called Coyle and Sharpe On The Loose. In 1964, they recorded two albums for Warner Bros., The Absurd Impostors and The Insane Minds of Coyle and Sharpe. They did a hidden camera television pilot, The Impostors, contained on this release. In 1967, Coyle left California to pursue a career in tunneling. He died in 1993 while burrowing under the City of Barcelona. Sharpe continued to work in media where he did hundreds of man-on-the-street interviews for radio and television. In the year 2000, The Whitney Museum hosted a centennial exhibit, The American Century. Coyle and Sharpe were featured in the Soundworks Exhibit.

Here’s a video of Coyle & Sharpe doing “The Warbler” in 1963.

Last year Mal released a Coyle & Sharpe box set: “These 2 Men Are Impostors”

In March of this year Mal’s daughter Jennifer Sharp and Jesse Thorn of The Sound of Young America launched an excellent Coyle & Sharpe podcast, using audio from Mal’s archive including material that has not been heard since the 1960’s. Jesse also did a great interview with Mal back in August 2006 and Jennifer has a wonderful collection of Coyle & Sharpe photos and memorabilia that she has posted to Flickr.
For more info on Coyle & Sharpe, check out their website.

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Deitch Art Parade 2007 Photos:



The third annual Deitch Art Parade took place today in New York City, traveling down West Broadway through SOHO. The parade was organized by Deitch Projects, Creative Time and Paper Magazine.
Eric Mortensen was there and shot a bunch of great photos of the parade.

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