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Tip Your Hat: Paul’s Hat Works & O’Lover Hats from Oakland are putting together a hat show/trunk show on August 21st from 7-10 pm.
There will be 5-6 other Bay Area Hat designers, hatters and milliners, that will be showing. Most likely all featured include:

Katie Burley, Jasmin Zorlu, Justin Credible, O’Lover Hats, Paul’s Hat Works, Ricardo Felix
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a unique review…
By Ari Brouillette (Kensington, CA United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
This review is from: Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Paperback)
Let me preface this somewhat negative review by stating that I come from a family of walking enthusiasts and I myself am an avid collector of all literature dealing with personal locomotion. I must therefore judge this effort via comparison to the great pantheon of walking literature and not merely as an isolated effort. If you are a walking neophyte this book may well be the catalyst that sparks your interest for further study but I would not suggest this work as a thorough or exhaustive study of two legged ambulation. Indeed, this scant 335 page work rarely delves beyond walking and completely fails to examine other forms of personal transport such as tottering, strolling, or even waddling. It must therefore suffer in comparison to the exquisite detail in Sarah Bernhardt’s “One leg too few: A history of hopping”, in which the author painstakingly details and diagrams the kinetics achieved by Anthony Cumia, the only one legged person capable of moseying. It also suffers from a very sparse history of walking and does not cover any of the critical walking related achievements from our rich colonial times. I believe that most readers will be greatly displeased to know that no mention is made of Margaret Brent’s trailblazing non-stop saunter from Philadelphia to Boston or the ensuing legal trials that resulted in her conviction and lengthy incarceration for inciting civil unrest by “walking in a salacious and wanton manner”. While most historical treatises on American women’s suffragist movements make no mention of the early campaigners for equal walking rights I certainly expect more from a novel claiming to be a “History of Walking”. I know that the casual reader may take offense to such detailed scrutiny but it is a great sense of passion for the subject which guides my critical eye.

I need a cup of the brown stuff, the shade of an acorn.
Made warm by the same source that I take my cakes from.
Using a tea pot, a mug, or fine china…
Being hooked up to IVs, and constant supplies.

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• PhotoShop of Horrors

Please join us this Friday night at 7pm for the screening of 25 video pieces by 13 artists. Young Turks is curated by Tony Labat and hosted at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions. Approximate program time: 1 hour, 25 minutes.

The program includes videos by:
Natasha Agrama, Tucker Bennett, Karla Claudio Betancourt, Lena Daly, Maggie Dilley, Aimee Duddridge, Misty Epperson, Taeer Maymon, Rebecca Parks-Ramage, Christopher Ritson, Hannah Ruskin, Zachery Shipko, and Dominic Tiberio.

Also in the gallery until June 20th we have an exhibition of San Francisco Art Institute Alumni and Faculty titled A Thin Slice.
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• chris jordan photography
  Running the Numbers II - Portraits of global mass culture - 2009
  (tags: Gallery Art)

The largest show of its kind at a single venue in the Bay Area, the 2009 MFA Graduate Exhibition will feature work by nearly 100 artists. The result of an intense period of collaboration, investigation, and artistic development, the work on display will represent a range of interests, media, and approaches—providing patrons with an overview of some of the most challenging and exciting directions and strategies in contemporary art today. Continue Reading »