A simple, one session, how-to class on cutting and using your own stencils. Perhaps getting a bit more advanced than the basic one-layer cardboard stencils, I would like to learn how to use mylar, acetate, vinyl and flexible plastics - as well as learn the differences between these materials (when to use which and why). It would also be great to be shown how to fabricate identical stencils for use in multi layer images.
The Los Angeles mirror session for the Berlin reading group will meet this Thursday at 8pm, poolside at the Westin Bonaventure hotel. We are meeting at the Public School through July, and in August, we will go nomadic. Please join us - readings are listed on the class comments.
Semiotext(e)’s Intervention Series offers polemical texts by intellectual agitators. Short, engaged, and highly focused manifestos, essays, and critiques, these palm-sized salvos address a variety of political and cultural topics but share a passion for provocation, and allow for more immediate excursions in Semiotext(e)’s ongoing mission of intellectual activism.
in this class we will read and discuss all six books in the intervention series. we will meet and discuss the books one at a time and in the order of their release (the coming insurrection, the screwball asses, the violence of financial capitalism, introduction to civil war, a thousand machines, the agony of power).
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A workshop style class in which students would learn how to drape and create patterns in order to create clothing of their own design.
hello everyone. we ordered 10 pounds of beans (5 pounds of guatemalan and 5 pounds of kenyan). this will allow everyone to do a few roasts and then take home some green beans.
The Punk Hollywood site visit will likely happen sometime down the line, but folks in town are ahead of the resurrection game this Friday Jul 09 at El Cid. This band got their start playing in '77 at The Masque in Hollywood and the DJ, pioneer of the Atomic Cafe in Little Tokyo, will be spinning 45's from the Atomic jukebox.
For those interested...
Punk LA resurrection
A full spectrum of topics can be discussed stemming from, but not limited to, authors of color theory such as Joseph Albers, Johannes Itten. Tonality, tints, hues of individual colors, and the harmonies and disharmonies between mixtures of colors. Color symbolism, the psychologies of color combinations, and how color is manifested in the fields of design, art, architecture, however it may extend to a broad array of work like floral design, knitting, interior decoration. Color distinctions throughout the course of history, and how meaning has become attached, and how geography and resources can influence the colors of a particular region. Copious amounts of images from contemporary paintings and sculptures from artists whose use of colors are exemplary. May cover RGB and CYMK as an overview to analog and digital color processing techniques. After taking this class, you might see the world through a totally different perspective.
This would be a 2 or 3-meeting class and we would
1. Read about revolutionary struggles in Guatemala (URNG), El Salvador (FMLN) and Nicaragua (FSLN) during the period from roughly 1965 to the fall of the Sandinista government in 1990. Discuss.
2. View movies, such as Pictures from a Revolution (On an American photograph in Nicaragua during the triumph of the Revolution) or Voces innocentes (on the civil war in El Salvador).
3. Bring in speakers and lectuers who took part in these struggles and-or have studied them extensively.
The purpose will be to understand the way in which these movements came to be and existed in the face of dictatorship, the tactics and theory used by the revolutionaries, how the increasing importance of women changed the face of the revolution, an analysis of the Sandinista government (1979-90), the role of the US in suppressing these struggles, as well as their possibilities and limitations.