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Art by Kevin Evans from the awesome and upcoming Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society book; coming soon from Last Gasp. Via laughingsquid. Much more very soon on this!

My latest post for laughingsquid on the monumental Bay Lights public art project which went live this week. Check it out, lots of great video and images. A really exciting and fitting addition to San Francisco nights.

The All Worlds Fair is February 22 and 23rd at The Old Mint in San Francisco—I’ll be a part of making this amazing art event happen. Here’s more on laughingsquid:

All Worlds Fair, A Two-Night Art Experience in San Francisco

More great holiday fun on the very small stage of The Dark Room in San Francisco’s Merry Mission district: “Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!” not to be missed! via oftenon:

Hey, uh, do you guys like kid-friendly Christmas plays featuring characters wearing handmade dresses (pink dress by yours truly)? Then come see Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown! playing at the Dark Room Theater at 8pm for the next two weekends.

Note: Lucy’s eyes are luminous on stage, but not in the same way as in this photo.

My latest post on laughingsquid is about Long Now’s new salon/bar project. I’ve actually been helping out some on this project and have a lot of friends involved. Biased as hell in fact, but then it’s easy when the concept, mission, design and alcohol are all top notch. Check out the post, I got to share some fantastic new interview footage about the redesign by Because We Can and the special spirits being made by St George Spirits.

The Long Now Foundation Salon Redesign and Limited Edition Spirits

I’ll share another interview video here that’s not in the post. Dave from St George, as he grinds coriander for Long Now’s gin, talk about an artistic approach to distilling and the historical importance of spirits to people around the world.

Long Now Salon: Dave discussing the ingredients going into the gin from The Long Now Foundation on Vimeo.

Architectural clocks were a bit of a theme this week as I was hanging out with some of the UX/Untergunther crew who were in town to speak at Long Now.

They restored an historic clock in Paris without permission and without being detected. Some friends and I had the pleasure of sharing a few Bay Area activities and locations that matched their particular interests including the roof of another area clock tower.

I’ve been up to the top of this tower, too, years ago. Photo of San Francisco Ferry Building clock tower lit up via webuiltthiscity.

A few photos I took earlier this year at Creator’s Project San Francisco back in March. Art and tech colliding in incredible shapes and sounds. But I never got around to posting about it. Lots of fun stuff. Unfortunately I couldn’t take photos of the remarkable David Bowie recreation by Barney Clay using vintage video footage of 70’s Bowie singing “Life on Mars” shot by Mick Rock. Fortunately there’s the video featurette below which gives a glimpse (at the end) of the video and a lot of background on the project:

Awesome early press for “The Fifth Element: Live!” at The Dark Room which features a bunch of my talented friends. Friday and Saturday nights at 8pm in October in the middle of the Mission, San Francisco. You should see it if you can. Can’t wait to catch it myself. Congrats guys!

(via Fifth Element Gets the Stage Treatment | GeekNation)

Just in case you hadn’t heard The Princess Bride Live, the ridiculously successful small theater show that I’m in in San Francisco right now, added 3 performances. Thursday-Saturday on Labor Day weekend.

All advance tickets are ALREADY sold out for the 3 added performances (as well as this weekend’s 3 shows which were in the original run). But you can queue up like an hour before the show as there will always be a few seats night of. But there’s a lot of people lining up for those. Get there early. No, earlier than that, if you want to get in.

If have tickets sit as close to the stage as you can cuz… it’s more fun there.

Above a vintage Lucky Strike image by an unknown artist via mudwerks & oldcarguy41.

Below image by Cameron Eng for Foul Play Productions.

Princess Bride Live! rehearsals pix from our rehearsal process on Flickr give a glimpse behind the scenes at how we built Princess Bride Live! over the last 2 months. The play opens Thursday, August 2nd at Dark Room Theater in San Francisco’s Mission district and runs through August 25th (Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays). Details and tickets at the Dark Room site and on our producer’s website.

mudwerks:

Golden Gate Bridge from Lookout (by neville samuels)

Happy birthday to a dear friend and source of inspiration on her 75th birthday. #Goldengatebridge

Gaultier exhibit at De Young Museum SF, a set on Flickr.

We went to the “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier” exhibit at The de Young Museum in San Francisco this weekend. Here’s the proof.

The exhibition runs through August 19, 2012.