5 Uhr Frueh im Juni ueber London, aus der 5 AM and rising Serie

5am_8290b and 5am_8290a, Acryl auf Leinwand, je 165 x 35cm, 2008

5am_7856, Acryl auf Leinwand, 55x60cm, 2008

5am_7416, Acryl auf Leinwand, 60x80cm, 2008

5am_7412 Acryl auf Leinwand, 60x80cm, 2008

5am_7391, Acryl auf leinwand, 60x80cm, 2008

5am_7394, Acryl au Leinwand, 50x55cm, 2008

5am_7393, Acryl auf Leinwand, 50x60cm, 2008

5am_7389, Acryl auf Leinwand, 50x60cm, 2008

5am_7380, Acryl auf Leinwand, 55x60 cm, 2008

5am_7375, Acryl auf Leinwand, 55x50cm, 2008

5am_737, Acryl auf Leinwand, 55x50cm, 2008

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Artist General's warning

on Geary at Sutro park

get all the love you want on Baker and Fulton

in front of the Chinese embassy

on 7h and Bryant

Ronald F. Sauer on Lautreamont at Live worms gallery in North beach

, Parmi les rapports sapphics 2002, Diorama in wood enameled box with rabbit fur. Among the sapphic sympathies. The silence between two sights of love is fur.

Homage to Lautreamont 2002. Diorama in steel box with velvet and mirror. Dear Lautreamont, we miss you, with your taste for the absolute and your strong delights. You knew how to love woman, even if they were pregnant. Translation from the French

It is forbidden to typify Surrealism 2008

Three Neo surrealist objects by Ronald F. Sauer at the live worms gallery in San Francisco.

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Erika Hannes - Fimo monsters or magic mushrooms

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At a friends reunion Erika Hannes did those pieces during communication sessions over red wine and Jaegermeister. Friends from up to 15 years back, once met in San Francisco now living in Paris, LA and San Francisco got together for a weekend in Guerneville at the Russsian river.

Zeitgeist bathroom tags

Bathroom tags at the ZEITGEIST the only "real, (german inspired)''  Bar/beer-garden in San Francisco with BBQ burgers; bikers or anybody from cool and weird to hipster.

Hope, or Obama in Tenderloin

Obama posters and sleeper at Post and Hyde

Praba Pilar and L.M. Bogad - we remember the sun performance at the SF art institute

LM Bogad

Neruda by Praba

L.M. Bogad and Praba Pilar performed on 9.11 an original piece commemorating the anniversary of an infamous terrorist act: the CIA-assisted military overthrow of Chile's democratically elected President, Salvador Allende. This rooftop ritual rememberd the sun of hope and rebellion that shone around the world a generation ago, with its triumphs and failures, its precious solidarity and numerous betrayals.

I did like the multilayered complexity of the performance and how the audience got involved in the piece.

one of the multiple performance sets, it could be a play as well, great script and research.

another set of the performance, great tower piece, very intense...

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Pacific Bells 5000 miles of the coast of Japan

Videos taken at Rodeo Beach, looking out towards Japan a 5000 mile stretch of ocean in between.

Hirnverbrannt-don't call me retard

Selected images from the  Hirnverbrannt pen and ink drawing series by jtwine. These drawings are questioning physical and mental normality.

GG riders

This video fragment is from a golden gate bridge ride on the 76 bus. The only MUNI bus leaving San Francisco and crossing the bridge to Marin headlands (on sundays and holidays). The bus riders are a unique crowd of 90 % regulars, mostly single, retired males, having their chats about whatever. In summertime some stranded tourists are joining in to drive up to the vermillion gg bridge.

Unidentified African Landscape, paintings by G. Wessmann

Old Sun, 2008, Oil on Metall , 120 x 95 cm

Painting as a trace of memory. A shadowed light blue, a burning red, a corrosive stripe of purple combine to a picture. Wessmann calls it KARIBA after the dam constructed between 1955 and 58 in the Sambezi valley. Behind this wall of concrete and steel lies a reservoir, that before the erection of the Assuan-dam at the upper nile was the largest dam of Africa, But Wessmann quotes neiher the technical construction nor the topografic of the area or the prosperous wild- life which has it`s habitat there. Wessmann shows colors, recalling what he has seen. These colors are echoes. Echoes of lasting impressions. As the title of the picture is not describing, but sounds like a mysterious formular recalling the place mentioned: KARIBA...

View or read more of/about Gunter Wessman's work at his website.

1sec movies (On and Off videos/animated snapshots)

From left to right: Anna Oppermann exhibition shot of Being so different, Black forest Allerheiligen falls, Lake Thahoe winter drive, UN plaza oak leave sleeper. a jtwine project.

jtwine's white noise at Rhizome art base

white noise got promoted to the Rhizome art base

White noise is a noise- color-composer or a noise- color association interactive game simulator. An experimental approach of adding and subtracting noise-loops, creating color-patterns of noise while possibly splitting up the screen into smaller and smaller squares of color. The challenge is to create a noise free color combination space of peace.

2 crows, or Mr.Blank and his assistant at work

Unrefined work shot and camera on and off shot (animated photography) at the Marin  Headlands.

Mr. Blank exploring his environment

Selected images from the NIESATT project Mr. Blank in Nature, a temporary posing and placing project in nature. View more posing and placing projects.

Reclining man (thinking of Bombay)

Sleeper on Hyde and Sutter

Sleeper on 4th and Townsend

These images are part of my evolving passing by strangers series, a digital gut shot photo project.

When walking the sidewalks in downtown SF early in the morning one sees almost on every block a sleeper or little sleeper colonies. It's hard to watch and to imagine how fast it could go till people end up on the streets; it always reminds me of the thousands of people I have seen sleeping on sidewalks in Indian mega-citys.

I was wondering what would be the representative posture of contemporary man. Maybe the reclining posture would symbolize the state of man at the beginning of the 21st century. Either he's lying down for being oppressed, hungry or suffering of epidemic diseases or he's just reclining for being a well fed and uncritical, passive consumer.

Walking man (thinking of Alberto Giacometti)

This piece is a walking scene at the Marin Headlands (San Francisco/ Sausolito) thinking of Giacometti's thin walking figure- sculptures. He was besides Beckett one of the greatest existencialist artists and to me the greatest 20 century sculptor.

jtwine's moviemachine at rhizome art base

moviemachine made it into the rhizome artbase

moviemachine is an experimental exploration of Paul Valery : "But simply remember, between man there are only two relations: war or logic."

3rd world US (though life)

I recently came across a peephole in a massive wooden fence on Market Street in San Francisco and saw this. I guess the images speak for themselves. 

Homage a Bernard

Bernard wearing his "fancy" self-designed art helmet. 

Bernard in his regular everyday outfit. 

Bernard : homme de art brut, Man of peace, Free spirit, a timemachined transformation of a medizin-man from precolumbian times, a walking art piece, a living sculpture, an interesting guy to talk to...

Objet trouve or the best art is on the streets anyway

on California and Market

on Hyde and Pine

South of Market

at Mission bay

on Bush and Leavenworth, August 23, 10 a.m.

Some hours later August 23, 1p.m. somebody must have moved the futon object to the other side of the street (the matress once belonged to me and was stored in the basement for about 3 years, I totally forgot about it. Somebody must have put it out on the street together with the small red plastic table.)

The images above are found objects or accidental nonart art installations photographed in various neighborhoods in San Francisco.

Objet trouve, term applied in the 20th century to existing objects, manufactured or of natural origin, used in, or as, works of art. With the exception of the Ready-made, in which a manufactured object is generally presented on its own without mediation, the objet trouvéis most often used as raw material in an Assemblage, with juxtaposition as a guiding principle. Prior to the 20th century unusual objects were collected in cabinets of curiosities, but it was only in the early 20th century that found objects came to be appreciated as works of art in their own right. Antoni Gaudí, for example, used broken pieces of pottery to cover exterior surfaces in the Park Güell buildings (1900–14) in Barcelona and on various buildings designed by him during the same period. The development of Collage in Cubism heralded a greater dependence on found objects, paralleling the... more

Phoenix - Bricks by Fung Lin Hall

brick installation in the Arizona desert and chihuahuas on patrol.

more work by Fung Lin Hall

Bang on a can experimental music

A performance of "Stroking Piece," written by Thurston Moore, performed by The Bang on a Can All-Stars and Thurston Moore on guitar. more on bang on a can

Wir koennen es

Este video alegoriza una suerte de empacho simbólico que se ha amplificado en estos meses "revolucionarios". Algo así como la patria empachada de tanta golosina nacionalista.

Nationalist symbolic overkill in times of revolutionary fervor.

This piece is by former San Francisco, now Quito (Equador) based artist Miguel Alvear. Miguel is working on a new movie called Black Mama, check out the film in progress site at blak mama.

Fung Lin in Town

one of those rare red sky sunsets in SF (apartment buildings at Lafayette park)

Today Fung Lin Hall was in town. We did a San Francisco, free on Tuesdays, museum tour. Talked about contemporary art and some of the stuff we saw displayed in various shows at the de Young and Legion of Honor. Talked about art and art on the net. Talked Beuys, Rusha, Nauman, Kiefer... Camus, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein...fried fish, bitter melons... Rilke, Hoelderlin, Bergmann, Fassbinder among many others. Haven't seen her for ten years.

These pieces were at the de Young museum. 

This guy seems to be the ultimate symbol of the human beast. 

Forgot the artist's name though.

Yard-Bricks, installation by Fung Lin Hall in Phoenix, Arizona