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Films in the Park (SF)

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SF Francisco's E-car Plan

"San Francisco could become the first city in America to put electric vehicles on the road in big numbers and create the charging infrastructure to keep them going, a move EV advocates say would push electric cars from the fringes to the mainstream. Mayor Gavin Newsom is talking to Project Better Place about building a network of charging stations and automated battery-exchange stations similar to those the Silicon Valley startup is developing for Israel and Denmark. The mayor reportedly also is talking to several companies that would work alongside Project Better Place to develop the infrastructure." (Check Squatriglia, Wired)

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Dancing in the Streets of San Francisco

"Paris turns the banks of the Seine into a palm tree-studded, sandy-beach hangout in the summertime, and Bogota, Colombia, bans cars from its busy thoroughfares once a week and gives free aerobics classes in the streets. So why can't a think-outside-the-box city like San Francisco occasionally close its main drag and offer tai chi sessions along the waterfront and let people jog wherever they please? [...] "If we're a world-class city, then let's act like a world-class city and create a sense of city pride and take advantage of our unique character," said Newsom, who told staffers about his idea earlier this year after returning from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland." (Cecilia M. Vega, San Francisco Chronicle)

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Chuck Palahniuk @ Booksmith (May 28, SF)

on-stage interview/booksigning for Snuff
Wednesday, May 28 at 7:00 pm
 
Chuck Palahniuk's new novel, Snuff, is the story of a gargantuan gangbang. It tells the tale of an aging porn queen who intends to put an exclamation point on her career by having sex on film with 600 men in one day. The story begins with Mr. 600. The perspective then shifts to Mr. 72, before we encounter Mr. 137. Wild, funny, and thoroughly researched - Snuff goes where no literary novel has gone before. Who else but Chuck Palahniuk would dare do such a thing? Tickets for the event are priced at $35.00. Ticket price includes a pre-signed, 1st edition copy of Snuff. Books will be available for pick-up in-store after May 20, or at the event. Tickets are on sale at The Booksmith sale now!

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The Cinematic Map of San Francisco

"Hundreds of movies have been filmed in San Francisco over the decades. The map below shows just a few of the major ones; in the coming weeks we'll be adding more." (Map mashup by Justin Beck, Matt Petty and the Datebook staff, The  San Francisco Chronicle)

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The new new SF skyline

"A cluster of skyscrapers rivaling the Transamerica Pyramid would rise around the West Coast's tallest tower under an ambitious proposal that would shift the heart of San Francisco's downtown south of Market Street

The city's zoning plan, unveiled Wednesday at a packed public meeting, would allow as many as seven new skyscrapers to surpass the current 550-foot height limits in an area surrounding the planned Transbay tower - a high-rise of roughly 1,000 feet adjacent to a new Transbay Terminal at First and Mission streets." (Robert Selna, John King, San Francisco Chronicle)

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S.F. parking cops fear abuse with pricier tickets

"Dozens of San Francisco parking-control officers spent their lunch break at City Hall on Tuesday to fight higher parking fines - a move the ticket givers say will only mean more grief from angry drivers."Raising parking fines will lead to more abuse on the streets," said Luis Estrella, a San Francisco parking-control officer for the past eight years who said he was punched last year by a firefighter who got a $50 ticket" (Rachel Gordon, SF Chronicle)

This is why you need Robocop.

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Cool Product Expo 2008 - today @ Stanford!

      Stanford University 650 Serra Mall, Palo Alto, CA, 94305  map       

"Stanford University's Cool Product Expo (CPX) is a showcase of products at the intersection of manufacturing, design, and cool. This year will feature radically innovative products from over 35 firms and the folks behind them. Admission is free to the public. This year’s CPX will feature advanced clean technology from BMW’s hydrogen 7, a solar car, the all-electric Tesla Roadster, and Wrightspeed X1 (an electric car that goes 0-60 in 3 seconds) to portable fuel cells and wind generators. Guests can check out what’s trailblazing in green, or explore a personal sport aircraft, a 3D immersive vest, an online game economics engine, DNA screening, a lighting solution for millions of people in developing countries, a neural interface for consumer electronics, … and a lot more diverse, innovative products all connected by cool design. Stanford's goal in organizing the event is to help enrich the community’s appreciation for product design and technology, so admission is free and open to everyone." (SFSTATION)

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The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium: Kota Ezawa

April 7, 2008 | 7:30pm | 160 Kroeber Hall UC Berkeley, California

 

Text, Slides and Videotapes 

 

Kota Ezawa, Artist, California College of the Arts

 

The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium of the Berkeley Center for New Media presents a talk by the artist Kota Ezawa. Kota Ezawa's practice re-considers images from art-history and popular culture in animated videos, slide projections, lightboxes, collages and prints. His work has been shown is solo exhibitions at Hayward Gallery in London, Artpace in San Antonio, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Murray Guy Gallery in New York and Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He participated in exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, SF MoMA, the Andy Warhol Museum and Musie d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Ezawa is an Assistant Professor of Media Arts at the California College of the Arts.

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Things You Should Not Miss at CCA SF

California College of the Arts
Undergraduate Painting/Drawing Open Studios
Sunday April 6th, 2008
12pm to 5pm

Really good stuff, here. Some of my former students, like Neil Ledoux, Kara Nelson, and Justin Margitich are showcasing their latest artworks.

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Senior Painting/Drawing Studios
San Francisco campus
1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco, CA 94107-2247 
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