25th Annual San Diego Street Scene
East Village – San Diego, CA
8/28/09 – 8/29/09
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Hosting veteran and up-and-coming musicians, the 25th annual San Diego Street Scene will take place on the streets of East Village, in the heart of Downtown San Diego. Across five stages, the festival will feature a top bill with the Beastie Boys, Black Eyed Peas and M.I.A., along with more local noise rock outfits No Age, Wavves and Crocodiles. The full eclectic lineup after the jump… →

Sticky ideas these days are about a dime a dozen, but Studio Brussels managed to take the things we use everyday and create an original idea that many will want to use.  Introducing the Eternal Moonwalk, a website created as a tribute to the late Michael Jackson, designed for a community that is still coming to terms with the superstar’s tragic passing. →

Dave Burke & Mia
Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
07/25/09
7-9 pm 

Corey Helford Gallery is proud to present major exhibitions of new works by Dave Burke and Mia with guest artist Sarah Folkman in the loft. These three incredibly talented and diverse artistic voices from Los Angeles’ New Fine Art Movement intersect for a summer showcase of stunning new paintings and drawings. Open to the public, the reception takes place on Saturday, July 25, and the show will be on view until August 11, 2009. →

Sources cited and photo courtesy of Associated Press, Licensed Under Creative Commons 

Artist Shepard Fairey stood on trial at Boston Municipal Court, 10 July, after 13 vandalism charges were brought against him. Publicly known for his “Hope” poster of President Barack Obama, Fairey, 38, is most infamous for popularizing street art. Back in February, while promoting his exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Fairey was arrested by police.

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3rd Annual Treasure Island Music Festival
Treasure Island Marina – San Francisco, CA
10/17/09 – 10/18/09
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San Francisco’s Indian summer is around the corner and with it brings the 3rd Annual Treasure Island Music Festival. Set against panoramic views of the city by the bay, Treasure Island Music Festival will stick true to form in offering an electronic and dance-centric lineup on Saturday, October 17 and an indie rock lineup on Sunday, October 18. With two stages and no overlapping sets, fans can enjoy every note of every act. Noise Pop and Another Planet Entertainment are pleased to announce the following lineup… →

Photo by CharlesFred, licensed under Creative Commons

California is currently in its third year of drought, causing alarm for state officials and farmers over the scarcity of the state’s most valuable natural resource. Water irrigates arid desert lands and makes possible the existence of suburban and exurban cities. This use of land is not without its costs, and the state continues to consume beyond what is healthy and replenishable for the environment.

In Iraq and Turkey, countries that share the Tigris River, the battle for water threatens to eliminate entire cultural heritage sites and diplace thousands of people. →

Partly inspired by David Hockney and The Beatles, Tokyo-based artist Mayuko Fujino makes collages using an X-Acto knife, paper and magazine pages. Each of her works is put together by hand using precise cutouts and glossy prints. After having watched an introductory video for the traditional Japanese dyeing process at a museum, Fujino became interested in cutting stencil plates and has since produced a large collection of collages that colorfully reveal her inner world. →

The Early Films by Robert Frank
The Silent Theater – Los Angeles, CA
7/18/09
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On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Robert Frank’s landmark publication, “The Americans”, and in conjunction with MOCA’s exhibition From the Permanent Collection: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”, MOCA, Los Angeles Filmforum and the Cinefamily present an evening of early films by the renowned photographer Robert Frank. Pull My Daisy (1959, b/w, 28 min.), directed by Frank and Alfred Leslie from a script by Jack Kerouac, is a classic, whimsical, even magical work of avant-garde cinema →

In case you haven’t heard, Buzz Aldrin doesn’t give a fuck. He isn’t fixated on the fact that he was the second human to walk on the surface of the moon. Nor is he looking to relive that moment time and again for the American public, no matter how much they ask. In fact, the 79-year-old former Apollo 11 astronaut is far more comfortable discussing how his hour and a half moonwalk on July 20, 1969 impacted his personal life –  and for good reason. →

We are hearing reports online and through the twitter grape vine that New York based artist Dash Snow has passed away.

Known for having a presence in both street art and in the fine art galleries, Snow’s death comes as a sudden shock.

For a more thorough report, go to Gawker.

UPDATE: Confirmed Dash Snow has indeed died.

According to the New York Times:

His death was confirmed by his grandmother, the art collector and philanthropist Christophe de Menil, who said that Mr. Snow had died of a drug overdose.

Ms. de Menil said that he had been in rehabilitation in March and had been off drugs until very recently.

On behalf of the EM Staff, may your soul rest in peace.