Your Giant Holographic Icon, Hatsune Miku

Hatsune Miku is a software-based, Japanese singing voice that manifests in many forms, including live concerts. She has a specific appearance, long blue hair, loli-esque body and a Sailor Moon-y outfit, and can be seen and consumed in just about every media imaginable. I guess this is the Aidoru phenomenon in yet another fruitful [...]

City Council Meeting Update from Arts For LA – be there before 9 am!

Arts for LA just sent this out.  They’re doing an amazing job.  Big thanks!

Three final updates before tomorrow:

1. The Council Chamber doors may be closed shortly after 9a.m. due to capacity issues.  Therefore, you may not be able to get into the room and may be turned away.  [...]

Ad Hoc Meeting About Tomorrow’s Council Meeting – Tonight at Mandrake @ 8:00

I haven’t been able to figure out who’s organizing this, but there is an ad hoc meeting scheduled for 8:00 tonight at Mandrake Bar in Culver City about tomorrow’s City Council meeting.  Definitely worth checking out, especially for Westside folks.

Mandrake is located at 2692 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90034

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If You Intend to Attend the City Council Meeting Tomorrow

Arts for LA has just sent out an Email that’s your guide to tomorrow’s City Council Meeting.  If you intend to go, it’s a must read:

Over 2,000 letters have been sent to City Council members. This initial action sent a resounding message to our city leadership that the arts are part of our [...]

2-4 PM Today - Mass Phone Banking to Support the Department of Cultural Affairs

The survival of the Department of Cultural Affairs may be decided at tomorrow’s City Council meeting.  If you haven’t already written letters at Arts for LA, please do so.

We are trying to organize one last “pre-meeting” effort to support the DCA and get our message to the City Council before tomorrow’s meeting.  Today, [...]

Monday City of LA Budget Meeting Update. How Bad is the City of LA Budget Crisis?

I’m proud to say that a number of arts allies were in the room on Monday while the LA City Council Budget Committee yesterday.

So how bad is the budget crisis? So bad that Budget Committee head Bernard Parks has asked City Administration Officer Miguel Santana to come back to him with a plan [...]

Lou Mannick on the Stanley Saw

Lou is on my “favourite people” list. Above, he plays the saw at the opening reception for Actions, Conversations and Intersections at the Municipal Gallery of Los Angeles.

I know I’m harping on this, but it’s little bits of awesomeness like the one above that are threatened by the proposed cuts at the [...]

Back to LA on a Fuel of Bacon

I’ve been so busy here, working, meeting and sleeping that I haven’t had as much time to post about the amazing art I’m seeing as I had thought, or even a tiny portion of the food I’m eating.  So I guess that will have to wait for LA spacetime.  But one last bite [...]

RIP Captain Lou Albano

Captain Lou Albano represented everything that was comical and awesome about professional wrestling, back when Andre the Giant still roamed the land instead of on light poles.  Any like every other child of the Reagan Era, I came to love him via Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun video, which gave me [...]

You Ran 802m before hitting a wall and tumbling to your death.

Canabalt.  Can you Escape using only one button?  Try it.

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