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funeral for analog tv
Have an analog TV? Then bring it to the funeral (I assume you own something black). This particular service will be held at the Berkeley Art Museum, Tuesday, February 17, at 7:00 PM°
They invite you to bring your Analog TV for display; they’ll be stacking the first 40 in memoriam (the remainder will be responsibly recycled). The guests/events at the ceremony include Author & Punisher performing a funeral dirge, Stanford Professor and media scholar Paul Saffo, and author Bruce Sterling who is set “to deliver the eulogy just before the analog signal winks out for the last time and the frequency wasteland is invaded by pirate TV artists. It’s rare that the entire nation gets a specific date on which one major medium dies and is replaced by another. This event will be a scholarly and artistic reflection on the passing of one of the dominant mediums and cultural influences of the late 20th century.”
Show up early and build your own pirate TV transmitters, which may get used for the funeral ceremony. Artists from Neighborhood Public Radio will teach attendees how to build small low-wattage analog TV transmitters that can accept input from computers and VCR’s.
Presented by the Long Now Foundation, Berkeley Center for New Media & Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive.
°Congress has debated changing the official date for the switch to digital television; however the event will proceed on Feb. 17 “because we prefer to bury a fresh corpse rather than wait for the walking dead to fall over.” You can also check out the FCC’s official page on the dtv transition with all the details.
The moon will be at perigee (the closest point in the moon’s orbit around earth each month) at precisely 11:37UT today, the closest perigee in 2009, orbiting roughly about 357, 298 kilometers from earth°. It will also be a full moon tonight (January 11th, 03:27UT), but that happens about 16 hours later. For those in the bay area (40° lat), the moon rises at 16:02, is completely full at 19:27, and then sets at 06:51 on Sunday morning.
That will make the moon appear almost 14% larger as it looms beautifully in the evening sky. It will also be a whopping 30% brighter, so if your looking through a telescope, use a filter to prevent eye fatigue. I’ll try and post some pics or video later this evening.
Plus, don’t forget venus which has been twinkling brightly in the west in the early evening; tonight at a distance of .71AU.
And if you ever want to know what’s in the sky, at anytime or anywhere on earth, check out the planetarium by paul neave.
°each month the shamptonian institute calculates this figure by multiplying the mean radius of the earth (6,371.0 km) multiplied by the true distance (as listed in the The Astronomical Almanac for the year 2009).
Seven victims, aged 15 to 30, were stabbed Sunday morning (June 22, 2008) at the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, with one victim requiring a life flight evacuation for a wound to the upper torso, in yet another tragic episode of ‘why drugs are bad’. I called the Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital to find out if the victim was ok, but the operator was unable to give me any information. I learned from the message boards that the victim was in stable condition.
Meanwhile, on Friday afternoon (June 20, 2008), lighting had passed through the area, igniting over a hundred blazes that would quickly choke the sky with a thick, unhealthy smoke. The Santa Rosa local paper, the Press Democrat, has good local coverage of the blazes which continue to rage. The air was so bad I slept in my car one night, and it reminded me of the San Diego fires in 2003. The sun was caught behind a smoky veil for the entire day, an orange globe trying to penetrate the haze. It is now hazy over the entire SF bay area. I woke up last night gasping for breath and had to break out my inhaler to help breathe.
if you need a card, they’re on the racks behind my dad. the polaroid got a little smudged on his hat and shirt. sorry dad.
Heroes for Ghosts, a show featuring new paintings, drawings, screen prints and sculptures from Michael Sieben opens this Thursday at FIFTY24SF.
What did they get you to trade?
Laughing Squid Lucky 13 tonight at CELLspace. Stamp from a recent batch scanned.
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A day to honor the fallen. I visited the San Francisco National Cemetery yesterday, later in the day as the fog rolled in. I didn’t take any pictures. The road was lined with large flags, while each of the tombstones on this quaint hill tucked away in the Presidio was decorated with a flag. The chairs were stacked, ready to go for today’s morning ceremonies. It was quiet and still. Promo for Memorial Day on Current:
Raashan Ahmad (from the Crown City Rockers) debuted his solo The Push (Om Records), featuring Chali 2na and DJ Vadim among others, at Amoeba SF last Tuesday. Finally had some time this weekend to get some choice selects uploaded. My battery was running out though, so it’s just a snippet; but a good track off his new release.
Hot May days. Bay 2 Breakers. Can you smell it? Can you smell spring? I can’t; my allergies are wack. But I can smell the hint of some sick indie hip hop getting ready to bust. Tuesday’s instore at Amoeba is a don’t miss. And in case you do, pay your penance and make you sure you see dizzee rascal on wednesday.
