Silence Not Cake: An Offering

This Wednesday, on New Year’s Eve, Betsy Lohrer Hall will be engaging in a silence oriented action as part of the series of events taking place during Post-Post-Apocalypse. When you invite artists to riff off of your work, unexpected things come up.  While I definitely think of Post-Post-Apocalypse’s timing, crossing over one year to [...]

Your Moment of Apocalypse: A Russian Vision of Post-American Balkanization

From the ever brilliant BldgBlog, we get former KGB analyst Igor Panarin’s envisioning of the distribution of Post-American America, as explained in the Wall Street Journal.  Panarin predicts that the US will “disintegrate” in the Summer of 2010 and that it will break into six regions.  While Panarin’s handy map seems both naive [...]

Post-Post-Apocalypse: Survival – Update

Things really got cooking yesterday at The Loft. In just a few hours we managed to erect all the walls of the structure, making the whole place look like the site of a recession-abandoned housing project. Pictures tell the story better.  All pictures from Post-Post-Apocalypse are here.

Above – So the first thing [...]

Ten For MOCA

In which I give MOCA a to-do list, or maybe just some more unsolicited suggestions on how to get past hitting bottom.  Consider this my belated Chanukkah gift to you, you crazy museum, you.

1 ) The disturbing thing about last Tuesday’s announcement was that no trustees stepped down.  I guess letting them buy [...]

RIP Eartha Kitt

The only Catwoman worth a dime. Who will purr for Batman’s love now?

Technorati Tags: Eartha Kitt, RIP.

Nicholas Klemek’s Post-Post-Apocalyptic Family Film Festival: Red Section

Last Sunday’s films looked awesome in the space.  We had tea, cookies and a little booze, some nice padded, folding chairs, a projector and sound.  What more could you ask for?

Red Section, will start this Sunday, December 28, @ 6PM.  Since we keep The Loft locked up during events, if you’re interested [...]

Post-Post-Apocalypse Update – Foundation Laid

Last week, Edith and I built the foundation for the Post-Post-Apocalpyse house.  We tricked Bill (seen above, with nailgun) into helping us, since we needed a foundation that was strong enough to support the weight of both visitors and participants. 

Above – Edith mates braces to posts and beams. The beams [...]

Broad In, LACMA Out, It’s Official

Whew!

Broad, the Co-Chairs, various City of LA folks are going to do the whole press event thing this morning at Disney Hall. UCLA Chancellor Emeritus Charles E. Young is to be named MOCA’s first CEO, no-one is being named Director. The Broad option is in, LACMA sillyness is out and the Board can [...]

Your Moment of Apocalypse: Nuclear Blast Radius Simulation Google Mapplet Fun Time!

One of the funny things about living in San Pedro is the nuclear attack footprint of the South Bay. Being both one of the world’s largest harbors, being near the core of the American high-tech aerospace industry and much of the West Coast’s refining capacity, I remember once learning that there were 19 [...]

While We’re on the Subject of the Apocalypse on Film

Over the past year, I’ve heard more and more about everyone’s love for the 1988 film Miracle Mile, and then last week I rolled across the trailer on Curbed, and Nicholas has it teasingly mentioned as “Apocalypse of the Brain” on his proto-flyer for the Post-Post-Apocalyptic Family Film Festival. So that calls for [...]