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California Roadtrip, July 2009


Pismo



Moss Landing



Santa Cruz



San Francisco




& d'awwww, cow + bull...

who is lejzinad
?

and why is she/he adding me + my friends?

is he one of your (people on my list's) friends?

 

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

GROUPLA 2008 LAUNCHES

An Intimate View of LA

A Digital PHOTO Installation

At MINARC / GALLERY SKARTS

 

April 4^TH through May 17^TH 2009

MOPLA PREVIEW RECEPTION: April 4^{th (7:00pm – 10:00pm)}

OPENING GALA: April 11^TH 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Hosted by Maker’s Mark

 

MINARC / GALLERY SKART

2324 Michigan Ave,

Santa Monica, CA

90404

 

THURSDAY MARCH 26, 2009, Santa Monica – GROUPLA 2008, a consortium of 30 Los Angeles-based documentary artist-photographers will launch An Intimate View of Los Angeles, the first in a series of site-specific digital exhibition installations, under the direction of Helen K. Garber and in collaboration with Bergamot Station-adjacent MINARC/GALLERY SKART.

 

Each participating photographer has marked their territory – by documenting the neighborhood in which they have chosen to reside, work or play to produce a narrative portrait – all of which have been formatted for a simultaneous looping, modular digital display, to deliver thirty unique, up-to-the-minute perspectives. Project Director Garber describes the overriding goal as “a means to unite the energy field of LA’s creative community.”

 

The artists of GROUPLA 2008 include Geoffrey Baris, Larry Brownstein, Rose-Lynn Fisher, Lisa Folino, Helen K. Garber, Shelley A. Gazin, Monica Gazzo, Ken Haber, Robert Hale, David Healey, Mark Indig, Judy Lawne, Nancy-Louise Jones, Marina de Leon, Donald Loze, Meg Madison, Jim McHugh, David Meltzer, Ted Meyer, Rosalyn Miles, Tom Paiva, Stuart Rapeport, Leslie Rosenthal, Hamesh Shahani, Kiet Thai, Rae Threat and Lillian Elaine Wilson.

 

Representing disparate socio-economic values and culturally diverse world-views, they merge with surprising equanimity as images collide in a digital time-capsule. The group will continue and expand as it documents the L.A. social landscape and invites other cities to exhibit at designated sites around the city and the country.

 

“We didn’t realize what a pivotal year in history 2008 would turn out to be when we started last January. The incredible change in the world’s economy gives the project immediate poignancy,” comments Garber who envisions the project as an evolving and traveling compendium as additional photographers and their cities come on board.

The corpus of photographic work is intended not only to provide a lay-of-the-land experience for viewers, but, to articulate a new view of primal territory as urban hoods bounded and uniquely characterized by historic trajectory and socio-cultural and economic influences are illuminated to assuage our discomfort with one another. The evidence of architecture, artifact, local personality, ethnicity, the unpredictable and the otherwise invisible intersect in counterpoint to zip-coded alienation.

 

Individually and collectively, the photographers of GROUPLA 2008 and beyond will embrace, update and preserve both the private and populist experience of our topographic and ethnographically defined era through art and information archiving.

 

HIGHLIGHTS:

The work of GROUPLA 2008 will be complemented by A Night View Collaboration, a 360 degree, 40 foot long panorama of the entire city of Los Angeles as seen from the downtown helipad of the US Bank Tower as created by artist Helen K. Garber to illustrate the vastness of Los Angeles’ terrain. Originally commissioned for the 2006 International Biennale of Architecture in Venice, Italy, Garber later invited locally renowned graffiti writers to use the panoramic print as a surface to ceremoniously tag the entire city of Los Angeles in one swoop, as a parallel to urban blight in all of its manifestations (telephone poles, wires, etc). Garber initially conceived the project to promote the importance of art education in public schools as a force against all forms of urban pollution. Contributing graffiti writers will be on hand at the opening celebrations.

 

GROUPLA 2008’s An intimate View of Los Angeles will also be a featured exhibition event at the forthcoming Month of Photography L.A [MOPLA], which will present dynamic programming, exhibitions and events designed to engage and stimulate the photography community in April 2009.

 

GROUPLA 2008’s An Intimate View of Los Angeles will travel for the NY Photo Festival, May 2010.

 

www.monthofphotography.com

 

 

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eon mckai + lbn wrote the following, which i mashed up altogether, lawl --

Rae Threat personifies the artist who blurs lines through the whole media spectrum [ed note: wtf does that even MEAN??]. She mixes photography, music, and video as a reflection of our technology-driven world. She is a hybrid that only Los Angeles can create.

Raised by immigrant parents as a first generation Thai, she has tranversed cultural layers at an early age and groomed her wallflower ability to infiltrate and assimulate what ever scene is her whim. It's this sublime ability that makes her hyper aware of what her city is about.

Based in L.A., her artwork and photography have been exhibited at galleries throughout [ed note: two galleries, three shows]. Her work as a nightlife photographer has been featured on numerous online blogs and ezines [ed note: LAWeekly, PerezHilton, Metromix, Skinnie Mag, etc] and have been published in magazines worldwide [ed note: Europe, US, UK, NZ]. Her photography has also been featured in the Cameron Crowe film “Elizabethtown,” (2005) starring Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom [ed note: friend worked art dept, needed filler stuff for background art, lawl]. 2009 sees her branching more into fashion photography.

In addition to her work as a photographer, Rae has also produced numerous television commercials and programs for Thai television [ed note: this is true].

Rae currently resides in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

LAAAAAAAWWLLLL

"I live in L.A." has a different meaning depending on where in Los Angeles you reside, work or play.
30 Los Angeles based artists examine this phenomenon in a multi-media installation

Directed by Helen K. Garber

with Geoffrey Baris, Larry Brownstein, Rose-Lynn Fisher, Lisa Folino, Shelley Gazin, Monica Gazzo, Ken Haber, Robert Hale, David Healy, Mark Indig, Nancy-Louise Jones, Marina de Leon, Don Loze, Meg Madison, Jim McHugh, David Meltzer, Ted Meyer, Rosalyn Miles,Tom Paiva, Stuart Rapeport, Leslie Rosenthal, Hamesh Shashani, Kiet Thai, Rae Threat, and Lillian  Elaine Wilson.

April 11 through May 17,  2008

Opening Reception

April 11 from 6:00pm - 9:00 pm

Hosted by Maker's Mark Bourbon

MINARC
GALLERY SKART

2324 michigan ave
santa monica ca 90404

www.galleryskart.com <http://www.galleryskart.com/>
www.minarc.com <http://www.minarc.com/>

a friend told me the other nite, "there's always a camera between me and you". maybe... do you really want to see my reality?

why wake up, when you can live your life in your head... through the eyes of an insane beholder.


yea, i've lost it.

tonight, bob finally existed.
he actually showed up -- adsf, aka renfield.

we went to some "goth cabaret" show: the lost grind opera



lots of girls in corsets, dreds, steampunk attire, etc -- usual gothform

cabaret/burlesque show was fun. did it's entertaining. kept getting people coming up to us asking if we had drugs. apparently we really give off the cokehead vibe... or maybe it's just me. *shifty eyes*

diamondback annie's a new fav of mine -- hit both the military and asian motif for us two PIers, haha

afterwards, hit up some thai food place, where we once again got submitted to ppl in underwear -- this time a drunk tranny in "punk slut" garb

so many cliques in such a small little place. we had clubgirls, punks, soul food afro-americans, eastside cholos, and even steampunk goths coming in... for late nite thai food. loved it. love hollywood (miss those nights working at the office there)

had a good night


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tomorrow, gonna continue trying not to be depressed -- and actually be social as i have been
life needs to go on
can't let this sucker me into another rut -- won't let it

tomorrow, gonna have a mimosa brunch with a "friend" from a recent past
then, shopping and hitting up l.a. fashion week afterparties

hopefully, no drama between us. this is the olive branch i don't want to break.


don't need more drama in my life... at all.

http://blackbox.threat.tv

check it out sometime

oh.. and sometimes, it can be nsfw. but very mildly.

<3

mix in a little Miss Kitty's 7 year anniversary party with that
@ the echoplex
and you get... yea, the fotos up








go see the rest: Flickr



and check out eon's ON MY DIRTY KNEES !




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Before this year is over, I will:
-- Travel to at least 3 other countries.

And that's it.

No more incredible goals, as I know my limits and am proud of what I have already achieved off of my 2007/2008 checklists. It's been quite the ride, this whole act of pretending to be a photographer. Come to the point where I chuckle at people's reactions to finding out what my real career actually is.


--

I'm thinking of buying yet another new (old) car. This time, a Jeep Wrangler. Hard top Jeep Wrangler.

Thought it over, dabbling between that and a Range Rover, but the latter really was too much, as too many old flings drive that wretched line of automobile. Jeep definitely won simply by its rugged appeal.


Not sure if I'll sell the Benz too, or keep it along with the Toyota, but... a single gal with three cars. It's a bit much. I'll figure something out. (I want a motorcycle too.)

Right about now was when I should've been unpacking my bags at some 4-star hotel cheap motel in Austin and grunting at the Milkman Dan about how his fart smells. But no, once again, fate didn't want it so. Instead of accompanying dear old grumpy ass to some "movable feast" on his end tomorrow and then dragging him off to see my wonderful pals, Punk Bunny (who are in town there on the 15th), we're whining, moaning, and bitching on the phone to each other... again... like we have been doing for the past... EIGHT... FUCKING... YEARS... NOW.

And honestly, I can't for the life of me, figure out, WHY THE FUCK NEITHER ONE OF US HAS MADE A SERIOUS ATTEMPT AT ALL TO "MAKE CONTACT".

Well, really, he says it's because "we don't care". I say, it's because things just work better this way. We're just doomed to be stuck in this imaginary internet relationship forevvvvvvvvvveerrr (and ever).

This is where he says, "I have to poo."

And I ask, "What do I say?"

To which he replies, "I say I have to poo and you actually go poo, so it's pooing by proxy."

This is V-Day for you.

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my last night hanging out with felix, he told me his favorite look of me... was after all the fun and shenanigans, when i realized that i was stuck... and stuck with them with no where to go, no place to stay (as I was only booked for one night), and had no options left (as I missed my flight back to Amsterdam (where half my luggage was) the day prior).

around the corner from where i was dubbed "the thai princess" and we got kicked out of these lovers' motel room, we stumbled into st. george's hotel... where all i asked for was a simple room, simple accomodations.

they booked me the penthouse suite

"this is your style, no?"

i leered at him, before jabbing him for snoring so loudly, reminding him to go catch his own flight back to germany (and not pull what i and our 3 friends already did, missing our flights).

this was the view in the morning, just a couple hours after we checked in, and half an hour after he parted ways...

of course, i'll remember london.

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Went "clubbing" the other night at LAX. Loved it when how, in between "breaks", everyone would stop dancing, reach for their cellphones/cams, and snap away at DJ AM. Definitely was a robotic crowd. And too many pretty boys. But totally loved all the dance wars going on on the dancefloor. Definitely made the night.



Also, c+p from another forum, as I completely forgot to post about it here (silly me):

Earlier, while eating at this Japanese "Soul Food" restaurant, I wanted to post and complain about how all I wanted was a quiet dinner with my sister (as this really is usually a quiet dainty little joint), but what we got instead was being forced to be surrounded by all these "industry families", going off loudly about the movies they're working on, how their scripts are going, wrap parties, blah blah blah, and of course all the tables around us knew each other, so it was super extra hectic/loud (mind you, this is a VERY small place). And the next thing we know, Marlon Wayans walks in...

And everyone else except for my sister and I seemed to care, hahahahah

And trust me, NOBODY still cares. Lawl, Marlon Wayans.


And a random note: "Chanram" is the Thai version of a corndog at Sanamluang. It's been my staple order there since 1998. SOOO delish. It's definitely worth the artery clog!!

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