Artist Credit: Brian Ross

On February 6th, 2010 Crewest Gallery will be delivering over 1,000 Valentines Day cards created and donated by 150+ artists from all over the world to the patients at The Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, The Children’s Hospital in Orange County and the Youth at LA Youth Network and possibly even more. →

The Bloggomist: Acorn & Oak Tree
Culture Opinion

As every tech company seems to be releasing tablet e-readers, nearly every publishing giant cuts down on both their staffs and titles, and even seasoned media vets move online, I suppose it should be pretty apparent that the newer, democratically conceived voices undercutting established ones are, indeed, undeniably potent. →

Inspired by the Minutemen song, Evil Monito’s “Tour Spiel” highlights the musician’s life on the road. Each week, we’ll check in with some of our favorite artists touring stateside or abroad. We’ll provide an intimate look into what it’s like to be packed in a van or waiting for a flight with the same people for hours on end. It takes a certain state of mind to survive any lengthy tour. Yet it’s the memorable experiences that make life on the road ultimately rewarding, if not interesting. This week we highlight the Khmer psych band, Dengue Fever who braved a strange cult commune in Sedona and food poisoning in Cambodia in their quest to bring a unique brand of rock to the world music circuit. →

“Light of Love”- Expressions

MGM with Wounded Lion
The Echo- Echo Park, CA
01/21/10

Daydream and dance to disco mavens Music Go Music. Channeling ’70s synth- pop sensations ABBA, MGM culls a warm and uplifting sensibility mixed with a dark rock edge that makes for a perfect day of rain and retreat. →

Toonstruck – Cartoons In Love
Cinefamily Theater-Los Angeles, CA
02/02/10

In the cartoon world, marriage is not exclusively for one man and one woman. It can be between two mice, two wabbits, even a skunk and a pussy-cat! Animation historian Jerry Beck (Cartoon Brew.com) opens the film vault and presents a collection of love-obsessed cartoon classics starring all your favorites — from the sex-starved Pepe LePew, to Tex Avery’s luscious Red Riding Hood. →

CSA California needs your help.   

CSA’s organic produce program has been growing strong for the last year and they are ready to take it to the next level. However, they are lacking the necessary funds to purchase a cargo van and invest in additional marketing materials like banners, signs, etc.   The van will cost around $4000 for a used model. Even if you can only donate $10 or $20, it will help them reach their goal. →

Mark Jenkins
Carmichael Gallery-Hollywood, CA
01/21/09

In January 2010, Carmichael Gallery presents Meaning Is Overrated, a solo exhibition of new hyper realistic conceptual works and site-specific installation pieces by Mark Jenkins that reconsider the aesthetic and practical qualities of the human body. Works range from those in which the human is recast as a specialized object, such as Spokes, which features a tape cast sculpture of a girl fashioned to function as a bike, to those in which human posture is contorted to resemble that of another animal. Each piece is “an exploration of evolution within the realm of the absurd,” says Jenkins. →

This latest video from OK Go features the band dressed in uniform, performing alongside the Notre Dame marching band. They walk across an autumnal grass field, where swamp things in camouflage emerge with trumpets and tubas. “This Too Shall Pass” is off of the band’s latest record, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky. The title comes from the album’s concept, which is based on an obscure, pseudo-scientific book from 1876 called The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Colour of the Sky, reportedly written by a Union army officer, Alfred Pleasonton. The colorfully tripped-out album cover apparently has something to do with the book. Read more about it here. →

Nao Bustamante’s “Filmformance”
Sundance Festival -
Park City, Utah
1/24/10

Filmmaker and performance artist Nao Bustamante returns to Sundance with a deliciously outrageous and ambitious new work; her short film Untitled #1 (from the series Earth People 2507), starring her toy poodle as a herd of buffalo, appeared at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

Silver & Gold combines film, live performance, and original costumes into a self-proclaimed “filmformance” that evokes the muse of legendary filmmaker Jack Smith →

Parallel Universe: Quintron and Miss Pussycat Live at City Park
NOMA – New Orleans, LA
1/29/10 to 4/28/10

Parallel Universe has already made ArtNet.com’s list of the Nation’s Top 20 Museum Exhibitions for 2010. Quintron and Miss Pussycat’s live rock/puppet throwdowns sweat creativity and bleed magic. These beloved subcultural icons have been to the center of the earth. Now they’re going to let you in (temporarily, anyway). The opening event takes place on January 29 at NOMA (5:30 to 10 p.m.). For the duration of the exhibition, museum visitors are invited to hang out in a specially designed recording studio and observe the making of what will become Quintron’s next full-length album. →