Yes this Earth Month April, in recognition of the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, I’m going green in a STEAMPUNK way!
Steampunk Bicycle First Friday ArtRide
First Friday April 2
530pm Meet California St. & Promenade
6pm Ride to Art Galleries & Studios
8pm Follow Us to the After Party TBA
Steampunk Bicycle Sunday ArtWalk ArtRide
ArtWalk Sunday April 18
130pm Meet California St. & Beach Promenade
2pm Ride to Art Galleries & Studios
4pm After Party & Fashion Show
Bell Arts Factory 432 N. Ventura
Show off your STEAMPUNK! Beer from Anacapa!!
What’s STEAMPUNK? Recycled Fashions! Wild Inventions! Recreate! ReUse! ReDesign!
Bring a cup & money to donate for beer & food!!
Watch for more information: here at Art Predator and at bikergogal on how to participate in the ride and fashion show and more details on what in the world we mean by Steampunk anyway!
Steampunk Bike and Light Instructable: http://www.instructables.com/id/Bicycle_Light_Steampunk_Style/step1/Junk-Fun-MUHAHAHA/
THE NEW DORK – Entrepreneur State of Mind (Jay-Z ft Alicia Keys Spoof)
Now I’m in the blogosphere,
Now I’m in the twitterverse
Fans get so immersed,
But I’m a nerd forever
I’m the new Zuckerberg,
And since my website
I been cookin dough
like a chef servin killa-bytes
Used to be the basement,
Back at my mom’s place
Buildin web traffic
so that we could sell an ad space
Make way for the
One man businesses
Bail outs finished with
White collar criminals
New sega genesis
Entrepreneur time
Makin big plans
To dominate the online
Yeah, I’m on YouTube,
this is one man
Sharin’ google revenue,
With songs on my webcam
Science is the new art,
Databases day to day
Geeks spreadin’ sheet smarts,
Hustle, make the data pay
I could be in Valleywag plus Geekologie
Tell from my avatar,
That I’m most definitely
The New Dork,
Social networks – what dreams are made of,
There’s nothing you can’t do
Now you’re the New Dork
This V.C. money is brand new,
The geek is now damn cool
Let’s hear it for new dorks, new dorks, new dorks
Catch me up in Techcrunch,
Right on the homepage
Hell, I’m on Gizmodo,
In a photo bout a phone craze
And I’m up in Mashable,
weekend trip to New York
Bar pitty, 1oak, parties full of New Dorks
Now I’m pitchin business plans,
From the backs of napkans
Micro-lend to Africans,
Monetize Kazakastan
Catch me up on linked-in, Dog, C.E.O.
You can see where I be,
With the I.P.O.
Now I’m up in skinny jeans,
Now a hipster’s lurkin’
Used to be a reject,
But now I’m steady jerkin’
Now my glasses mainstream,
Now the girlies eyein me
Popular kids copy me,
The new swag is irony
Comin’ from the small time,
Girls couldn’t find me
Now I scale models,
Like I climb on top of Heidi
Start big trends,
with tweets that I pass on
You should follow me,
cuz I’m friends with Ashton
No, I didn’t write this! Mashable posted it first. I did get a laugh out of it! I did write a poem about twitter last summer during the 3:15 Experiment.
For some real poetry, ride the Poetry Train! And for some of my poetry, go here or here for poetry videos and broadsides.
So just couldn’t find the right gown for tonight’s ride? Or you didn’t get a chance to hack it into shape by the time the wedding bells chime tonight at 5pm at City Hall?
Just wear white and you’ll look like a bride. Or put on that bridesmaid’s gown you’ll never wear again and be a bridesmaid. Or just dress up and attend the wedding, the ride and the reception!
Here’s the route for the Brides Ride:
5pm Ventura City Hall Steps,
California Street & Poli
Ride down California Street
530pm Beach Promenade for Photographs
California St & The Sea & Artists Union Gallery
6pm Ride off into the sunset
Cruise the Beach Promenade along the ocean and the Ventura River to Main
615pm Surfrider Foundation Fundraiser at CSUCI Gallery
California St & Main
645pm Laurel Street Galleries
on Laurel at Thompson
715pm WAV
Thompson & Ventura Ave
730pm Bell Arts Factory
432 N. Ventura Ave.
Food & Beer by donations
Riders who want to do a longer route can ride up Ventura Avenue then to midtown:
8pm Sylvia White Gallery for 5 x 5 Performances
Learn how to convert your thrift store prize into a Brides Ride ready fashion statement! It’s easy, it’s fun and it will make you feel oh so special! Once you have your dress and a white sweatshirt, there are only two easy steps to hack your dress into shape–your shape that is.
The 12th Annual Brides of March in San Francisco takes place in 2010 on March 13.
LA will hold a Brides of March as will other major centers of cultural cacophony like Portland and Austin. Or do a Brides of March in a City near you! All you need is another bride and it quickly becomes cacophonous…
A few weeks ago, Rick Bakas from St Supery organized a live twitter tasting about California Cabernets. Tomorrow, March 4 from 5-7pm, he’s hosting a Sauvignon Blanc tasting. To participate, taste and tweet about Sauvignon Blanc wine using the hashtag #sauvblanc so others will be able to track what you’re saying along with everyone else.
In the video above, Rick talks about last month’s tasting and suggests you get a few friends together and a few bottles of wine and tweet, taste, and talk your way through them.
If only the #sauvblanc tasting was next Thursday! I’d have so much more to write about because I am going to a HUGE New Zealand tasting with lots of great Sauv Blancs at Nobu in LA on Tuesday March 9! I hope to get a post up about some of the highlights of the tasting on Wednesday March 10.
Will you be drinking sauvignon blanc with the rest of us tomorrow night? Are YOU on twitter? If you follow me, @artpredator, and @me a message, I’ll be sure to follow you back!
The San BuenaVentura ArtRiders Bicycle & Social Club
requests the honor of your presence forThe Brides of March:
Brides RideFirst Friday
March 5, 2010
5pm nuptials
City Hall, Poli St.
5:30pm Photographs
Ventura Beach & CA St.
6pm FFArtRide
Galleries & Art Studios
730pm Reception
432 N. Ventura Ave.
Bring gifts of cash & your own cup!
Beer: Anacapa Brewery
formal attire requested
RSVP In the comments below or to bikergogal
Please note: the honeymoon is a private affair!
Here’s a link to a previous post of possible 2010 themes with a video of last year’s Brides of March.
Up Next:
Steampunk Rides
FFArtRide April 2 meets 5:30pm Artists Union Gallery
Sunday ArtWalk April 18 meets 1:30pm Artists Union GalleryCome to think of it, that video above is an awesome example of STEAMPUNK aesthetic!
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Malcolm Gladwell Brings OUTLIERS to Santa Barbara 3/10/10
Bestselling non-fiction author Malcolm Gladwell is coming to Santa Barbara’s Arlington Theater Wednesday March 10 to speak about his 2008 book, Outliers: The Story of Success, where he reveals the real – and mostly overlooked – secrets to extraordinary success, suggesting that we pay far too much attention to what successful people are like and too little attention to where successful people are from: their culture, family and generation.
For example, in an interview on NPR that I listened to, he attributes the success story of Bill Gates to the fact that, in the 1960s, Bill Gates just happened to attend one of the rare high schools in the United States that not only had a computer hooked up to a mainframe, but to which Gates had access. That time in high school where Gates had the opportunity to program and experiment on a computer gave him a jump ahead of his whole generation when it came to becoming successful in the field of computers. 
Tickets for the event are a hefty $33. Learn more about Malcolm Gladwell and buy tickets here.
As much as I’d love to go hear him speak, with money as tight as it is right now for us with the Big Monkey out for two more months on disability and me on unemployment, I am wondering if the money and time would be better spent buying and reading his book, reading his blog, and listening to his TED talk or other youtubes than driving to Santa Barbara and attending. I could hang around outside the theater beforehand with my finger stuck hopefully in the air like at a Grateful Dead show, and see if anyone has an extra ticket to give me…or maybe I can get in as an usher? Where there’s a will there’s a way I always say.
Want to know more about him? Here’s the bio from his website: Malcolm Gladwell Read more…
Poetry Coming Up This Week in Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles
SATURDAY: Tonight, Saturday February 27, is the last Saturday of the month. And that means it’s time for Friday on Saturday–the poetry series hosted by Friday Lubina at Bell Arts Factory, 432 N. Ventura Avenue. Tonight’s featured poet is Florence Weinberger; an open mic follows. The festivities begin at 7:30pm.
SUNDAY: Big Day for poetry in Santa Barbara! Poet Enid Osborn invites you to come out for these two great readings:
4:00 CROW TALK! at Goleta Valley Community Center, Rm. 2, 5679 Hollister Ave., Free.Featured readers include: Cynthia Anderson, Bettina Barrett, Mary Brown, Marsha de la O, Suzanne Frost, William Gourley, Lois Klein, Noreen Lawlor, Teddy Macker, Enid Osborn, Edwin Shaw, Phil Taggart, and Paul Willis.
7:00 POETS FOR HAITI at Fe Bland Auditorium, SB City College, Cliff Drive, Donations to Haiti Soleil. Click on the image to enlarge for more details.
WEDNESDAY: Dolores Dorantes will travel from Ciudad Juárez, Sesshu Foster will travel from Alhambra and Jen Hofer will travel from Cypress Park to read poems, prose texts, and translations at Otis College of Art & Design this coming Wednesday, March 3 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Graduate Writing Program Visiting Writers Series, Ahmanson Hall Forum, The Otis Goldsmith Campus, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA. 90045
P.S. Any visitor now I’m going to have 190,000 page views on my blog! Will you be #190,000 I wonder?
Guest Post by Ron Wells on Oscar Nominee “Inglourious Basterds”: Not Funny, Quentin
I’ve seen most (all?) of Quentin Tarantino’s films, something that I’m not especially proud of, but people keep telling me what a genius he is, so I seem to keep coming back hoping for something spectacular. “Pulp Fiction” had great dialogue, and “Jackie Brown” was ok, but I’ve always thought the latter owed more to Elmore Leonard than it did Tarantino.
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