A Unique Art Exhibition
12/12/09-12/17/09
Culver City, CA

The Corey Helford Gallery located in the Culver City Art District, is proud to present “The Multi-Plane Show”. The gallery, which was established in April 2006 by Jan Corey Helford and Bruce Helford, will have their largest group show of this year as they bring together their favorite artists from the new contemporary fine art movement to pay tribute to the early days of animation. For this exhibition, each artist used the multi-plane method which consists of three different surfaces housed in a custom-made frame and creates a depth and three-dimensional effect through two →

For much of 2009, Richard Schave and Kim Cooper, the married couple who are the brains behind Esotouric, L.A.’s most eclectic tour company, divided their energies between hosting weekly bus tours into the secret heart of the city and the transformation of the wildly popular monthly Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk into a non-profit community organization with an ambitious new program of cultural activities reflecting the grassroots event’s extraordinary draw for locals of all ages. That all changed on November 9, three days before Art Walk, when Richard and Kim resigned. →

Osamu Tezuka Festival
Washington D.C.
12/4/09-12/06/09

If you haven’t heard of the name Osamu Tezuka, you are not a true manga fan. Known as the God of manga and the father of anime, Osamu Tezuka’s work will be celebrated at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Tezuka’s manga comic books, films and television episodes have marked a new generation and have given a new definition to manga culture. The celebration will include workshops, screenings, tours and kamishibai performances by kamishibai artist, Yassan. For those of you who want to know, kamishabi was popularized in Japan →

The Bloggomist: Table of Content
Food review

Some women, when they crave, fantasize about sweets. Hot fudge sundaes, red velvet cupcakes, chocolate-covered anything and everything… but me? I want none of it. My hankerings typically run to the spice. If I can get that heat fried? Nice. Now if you can make it a chicken wing, oh, baby. You just might persuade me to do something I’d not in my right mind. →

Image courtesy of Bild, Licensed Under Creative Commons

Do you recall Charles Alexander Diez, the man who shot bicyclist Alan Simons? Reportedly, Diez was infuriated by Simons because he was leisurely riding a bicycle with a 3-year-old child? Luckily, the bike-rider dodged the bullet, but equally surprising, Diez received only 120 days jail time; that is a 4 months sentence. Has harassment and targeting of bicyclists become a recent trend?  →

Fascinated with space odyssey, human existence, and extraterrestial life? Step into a vortex of the unknown, where Laser Rays and psychonauts traverse through a new wave  time warp. In Bravery’s latest single “Slow Poison,” Buck  produces a mind altering, cathartic experience where the cosmos and the infintite offer solace. →

“The Projected Image” will explore the multiple ways contemporary artists utilize projections and installations to display still photographic images to create immersive and cinema-like experiences in museums and galleries. Departing from large-scale, tableau treatments of photographic images printed and framed as wall-based objects, →

The Bloggomist: My Celluloid Fix
Sisters (1973)

I woke up with a start, my heart racing and my pupils dilated from a nightmare still fresh. I stared into the facing window and freaked myself out, for an unfamiliar face had crystallized from brooding dark shadows gathered on the panes. Before I had a chance to scream, it dissipated into nothing.  My rational senses came to the rescue. →

Miles Tackett, or Music Man Miles as he’s colloquially called, is the lead man of Breakestra, the ten-piece funk orchestra from Los Angeles. He also heads the Funky Sole and The Root Down club events, where he spins classic funk, soul and jazz records to packed audiences. In the nineties, he formed a band called The Inclined with a couple of high school friends. The band got its start through Battle of the Band competitions and party gigs in the Pacific Palisades and Santa Monica area. Their progressive rock and melodic pop foundations bode well for the then-burgeoning grunge scene. →