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Sally Pressman (born August 1, 1981) is an American dancer and actor.

About SallyEdit

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Sally as Roxy LeBlanc in Army Wives

Sally Pressman was born and raised in New York City, where she was classically trained in ballet and became a member of the Manhattan Ballet Company. While studying at Yale University, she played notable roles in a number of stage productions, including the works of Shakespeare and A.R. Gurney. After graduating cum laude with a B.A. in theater studies, Pressman treaded the boards as Mrs. Grimes in Roger Kirby’s “Burleigh Grimes” in London’s West End.

Pressman appeared in the romantic comedy “My Best Friend’s Girl” opposite Jason Biggs, Kate Hudson and Dane Cook. Her additional television credits include guest appearances on two CBS series, “Shark” and “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” and the Lifetime movie “Love Sick: Secrets of a Sex Addict.” Her feature film credits include the independent film “The Dread.”

Sally Pressman

August 1, 1981 (age 30) New York City, New York, USA

As a child, she attended Spence School for girls in New York. She was classically trained in ballet and was a member of the Manhattan Ballet Commpany. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in theater studies from Yale University, where she also participated in such productions as The Merchant of Venice, The Dinning Room, Freeomland and Sylvia. In London, she played in the West End premiere of Burleigh Grime in the role of Mrs. Grimes (2004).

Apart from a minor role in the film Swordswallowers and Thin Men, shot at Yale while she was still a student, her film career effectively began in 2006 with the independent horro film, Last Rites of the Dead (released as Zombies Anonymous ). She also appeared in another independent horror film, The Dread, released in 2007. In 2006, she appeared on American network television in the series Shark. She currently appears on the Lifetime Television series Army Wives as Roxy LeBlanc.

With other members of the Army Wives cast, she joined the Picket Line on November 13, 2007 in support of striking writers

Year Film/TV Series Role Notes
2003 Swordswallowers and Thin Men Monica shot at Yale
2006 Zombies Anonymous Angela's Boss Minor role
2006 Shark Deena Brock Pilot episode
2007 - present Army Wives Roxy LeBlanc Regular
2007 Crimmial Minds Chrissy Wilkinson One episode
2007 Life Unkind Amelia Short film, comedy
2007 The Dread Teri Lead role
2008 Love Sick: Secrets of a Sex Addict Sue Silverman Direct-to-TV film; lead role
2008 The New Adventures of Old Christine Melanie Guest, one episode
2008 My Best Friend's Girl Courtney Minor role

Pressman is the daughter of Penny Ann Pressman and Jonathan Bernstein. Pressman's mother studied fine arts and theater at Brandies University and works for Christine's Auction House. Pressman's father is a lawyer and investor. She no longer uses her childhood name of Sally Bernstein professionally, preferring her mother's maiden name. Pressman has a brother, Benjamin Rhodes Bernstein.

Her maternal grandparents were Rhoda and William Manny Pressman. William Pressman, as Executive Vice President of Hasbro Toys, is credited for creating the G.I.Joe action figure, an armed forces doll.

Her maternal great uncle was Jack Pressman, the founder of Pressman Toy Corporation .

On October 19, 2010, Pressman accepted the marriage proposal of her longtime boyfriend David Clayton Rogers. The couple met at Lesley Kahn's Acting Studio.

  1. ^ Cast Bios: Sally Pressman, Lifetime television
  2. ^ Playwrights database: Roger Kirby
  3. ^ "Picket with the Stars: Tuesday, 12-2 at Universal". United Hollywood. 2007-11-13.]
  4. ^ New York Times Obituary. Deaths:PRESSMAN, WILLIAM M.Published: May 22, 2008. Retrieved July 10, 2011:
  5. ^ "Army Wives's Sally Pressman Engaged to Cougar Town Actor." People Magazine. Monday October 25, 2010. Retrieved July 5, 2011:,,20436735,00.html

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Monday, December 15, 2014

McCovey Monday #65 - Sweet LCS Auto Pickup plus a teammate

My favorite player of all time is Hall of Famer Willie McCovey.  I have amassed a collection of over 1200 different  McCovey cards since I started collecting him in the late 1980s.  I will show off one of my favorite cards every Monday.  Stretch was one of the most feared hitters of all time and I am excited to show off my collection.

Last week I went by my LCS and saw a beautiful card in the case of my favorite player of all time. The price tag was more than I typically pay for a McCovey auto but I asked to see it anyway.  He had it priced at $100 but quickly told me he would take less and hopped on his computer.  He had put it up on eBay with a $100 or best offer and had gotten an offer for around $40 which he declined.  He offered it to me for $35 which I jumped on.  Here is the card:

 Even though it lacks the SF on his hat, I think this is a great looking card.  I love being able to see his #44 on the back of his jersey and the slight smile.  The card is nice and thick and sports an on card autograph is a nicely place white box that allows the auto to pop.  The little blue corners makes this a blue parallel and sports a low 09/10 serial number.  I was super happy to pick it up and wasn't planning on picking up any other singles but then this caught my eye:

Another Immaculate auto of Willie's former teammate HOFer Gaylord Perry.  This is the Heroes subset and as you can see is serial numbered 23/25, another nice low number.  This card sports Panini's typical cut off head but I still think the design works and the card looks great.  The on card auto adds to the cards beauty. This one had a $40 or $50 price tag on it but I was able to pick it up for $20, a great price in my opinion.

For $55 I was able to pick up two awesome cards for my collection, this is why I stay away from box breaks and stick to picking up singles.  He had a couple other cards in the display case that caught my eye that were a little too rich for my blood but knowing he will give me pretty steep discounts, I am going to have to see what else I can score.

  1. That is nice he was willing to deal with you so much. Great cards!

  2. Awesome cards for prices you literally can't beat. Congrats!

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Happy Halloween!

I dug this one out of the archives. It's an old pastel I did (from my warped imagination) for a Halloween contest. I still think he's pretty scary.

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Sweet Tea ~ WIP 3

Here is the latest update. I've made some progress but had hoped to be further along by now. The girls are finally starting to get their hair and I need to work on the grass as well. Ah, the grass. There will be lots of it as this is a full sheet of 300# Arches CP w/c paper. It's been a long time since I've worked on this weight of paper and forgot how it loves to gobble up pigment. I'm also used to working on bright white paper (and this isn't) but my reasoning is twofold. My client requested that the palette for this portrait go with her wallpaper. It doesn't have to match but can not clash. She sent me a sample so I have a reference to work by and the colors are low chroma for the most part so bright white paper wasn't necessary. Also this portrait will hang in an area that may expose it to some humidity and the 300# is less likely to buckle.

Working out the background has been challenging. I have only a very basic knowledge of landscape painting and how to create depth of field so I'm learning more as I go. My client suggested the tea party be flanked by trees and trees I do know how to paint. I decided a lavendar hedge would be lovely on the right but I'm not sure what's going on the left yet.

Monday, October 22, 2012

Sweet Tea ~ WIP (better photo?)

A slightly better image. It's been cloudy all day and for some reason I could not get a sharp image but here it is as promised, warts and all. At least the distortion is gone. I've since begun working on the tree on the left side and added a lot more masking for the flowers and grass but the light is just too dreary to try another photo today.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Sweet Tea ~ WIP 3

First, I want to apologize for the lousy photo I've posted. I'll take a better one tomorrow using the tripod. It's also distorted because I was shooting at an odd angle. I was losing the natural light so I rushed.

I took a break after completing the final sketch(last update). Truth be told, I was simply burned out and didn't want to hurry into painting and ruin this portrait. Instead I threw myself into some Spring cleaning. Yes, I know it's Fall but better late than never...huh? I started painting yesterday and by today managed to get the girls mostly completed. The skin tones were my biggest concern and because I have no real references I've been flying by the seat of my pants here. They still need hair and clothes but I think I'm going to start on the background next and let it tell me what reflected colors, shadows, etc. I should add. And I promise to post a better image tomorrow.

Sunday, October 07, 2012

Fall Header

The photo for my new blog header is courtesy of Julie Christiansen of Charlevoix. She's an amazing photographer. Thank you, Julie!


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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

"Little Red"

"Little red" is a relatively small doll for me, only 9.5
inches tall.
"Little Red" is the name that I gave this creation of mine. "Red" was born when I decided to try  "Fimo Puppen" polymer and see if it works for me. As soon as this sweet face emerged, I could not stop until he was completely finished! I have been busy lately, but had enough time to work on him. So here he is, quite a dandy, in his bright red suit. Made of scraps, in a scrap of time…


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Track and field

January 13, 1991

Although he settled for second place Friday, Ben Johnson was hopeful about his prospects after coming off a 28-month absence from competition. Johnson, in his first race since he was found using steroids at the Seoul Olympics, was nipped at the wire by American Daron Council in the 50 meters in the season's first Grand Prix meeting.

"I don't consider this a failure," said Johnson, who finished in 5.77 seconds to Council's 5.75. "But I know I still have lots of work to do."

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How To Assure Return Of Your Apartment Security Deposit

March 31, 1985

If you leave an apartment in the same condition as when you moved in, chances are good that you will get a full refund of your security deposit, said Herbert Meyers, resident manager at Two East Eighth. The 29-story rental apartment building is situated at Eighth and State Streets, directly south of Chicago`s Loop.

Most building owners require tenants to pay a security deposit, usually the equivalent of one to two month`s rent, when they sign a lease. The purpose of the security deposit is to help insure that the property will be well maintained and that all other terms of the lease will be fulfilled.

Under Illinois law, when the tenant moves out, he or she is entitled to get the security deposit back within 30 days if the terms of the lease have been satisfied. The tenant also is entitled to annual interest of 5 percent on all security deposits held for six months or longer, if the building occupied by the tenant contains 25 or more apartments.

Meyers pointed out that in the best-managed buildings, an apartment is in first-class condition when it`s turned over to a new tenant. Walls and ceilings have been freshly painted (usually a neutral color that goes well with any type of decor), appliances and fixtures are clean and in working order, carpeting is either new or freshly shampooed, and shades, draperies and blinds are clean.

``Of course, we expect normal wear and tear,`` Meyers said. ``Picture-hook holes and soiled carpeting won`t pose much of a problem. But if we find the tenant has burned a hole in the carpet with a cigarette, or has painted a graphic design on the wall, the tenant either has to repair the damage or we`ll apply the security deposit to make restorations.``

He said good maintenance habits, such as periodically cleaning appliances, washing floors and watching interior decorating can virtually assure the complete return of a security deposit.

``Things to avoid are contact-type and cork wall coverings, tacked-down carpeting, wall-mounted bookshelves, dark or wild paint colors, and other physical additions that have to be removed or altered before the apartment can be rented again,`` Meyers said.

Before doing any decorating or modifications, check first with your landlord or apartment manager, Meyers suggests.

``If you go ahead with a decorating project without asking, don`t be surprised if part of your security deposit is withheld to make repairs when you move out,`` he said.

Appliances are another part of the apartment that must pass inspection before the security deposit is returned.

``Dishwashers, garbage disposers, refrigerators, stoves and ovens should be clean and in working order,`` Meyers said. ``If you have problems with any appliances during the course of your lease, report it before you move out. After all, you have a right to have everything in working order while you`re living there.``

He added that most managers prefer to avoid security deposit controversies and will itemize repair costs should withholding become necessary.

``Ideally, you should discuss apartment maintenance with your building manager when you sign the lease,`` Meyers said. ``From the very beginning, find out what condition your apartment should be left in. The better the communication at that time, the less chance for problems later.``

Two East Eighth is currently renting 575- to 600-square-foot convertible one-bedroom apartments, 671- to 735-square-foot one-bedroom and 932- to 985-square-foot two-bedroom apartments, from $480 a month. Two-bedroom duplexes, from 1,650 to 1,895 square feet, also are available, starting at $1,350 a month.

When completed, building amenities will include a grocery store (expected to open in April), 24-hour doormen/roving security watchmen, party room, two sundecks, exercise room, and a heated indoor swimming pool. Inside self-parking for 221 cars is available. Current monthly self-park fee is $65.


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Dossier: Johnny Reno & The Sax Maniacs

March 04, 1988|By Lynn Van Matre.

SUBJECT: Johnny Reno & the Sax Maniacs

PLAYERS: Johnny Reno (pictured), saxophone and lead vocals; Bill Eden, saxophone and keyboards; George Reiff, bass; Dick Ross, drums; Tony Sommer, guitar.

HOME TURF: Dallas-Ft. Worth area

SOUND: Danceable, R&B-influenced rock `n` roll with screaming saxes

FOR THE RECORD: Reno and an earlier Sax Maniacs lineup recorded one EP,

``Born to Blow`` (1983), and one LP, ``Full Blown`` (1985), both distributed by Rounder Records. The current Sax Maniacs lineup, which has been together since January, is working on material for a new album.

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MANIAC: Reno became interested in rock

`n` roll at age 5, thanks to an uncle who played in a rockabilly band with Ronnie Hawkins. ``I heard him bashing out a Little Richard tune,`` recalls Reno, ``and I really dug it.`` As a teenager he listened to rock, R&B and Motown music. Took up the sax seriously after dropping out of the University of Texas. ``I was studying economics, headed for law school, when I decided that I wanted to do something crazy before I got really settled in a career,`` explains Reno. The sax player and singer later spent a year or so backing Stevie Ray Vaughan (``This was around 10 years ago and nobody knew who he was then; we were playing clubs in Austin, Tex., for $30 a night``) and played with another Texas blues group called the Juke Jumpers before founding his own band, the Sax Maniacs, in 1983.

MUSICAL HEROES: ``Clarence Clemons is probably my favorite saxophonist, but I`m also influenced by a lot of sax players from the golden rock `n` roll days of the 1950s, like King Curtis and Junior Walker. And then there are a couple of Texas sax players like Arnette Cobb and Illinois Jacquet who play a style called `Texas tenor,` that real honking kind of sound. They were instrumental in that early rock `n` roll, R&B sound, and I hunted them down and went to their houses and absorbed their vibes.``

JOY OF SAX: ``I`m a bit of a romantic about the saxophone. After I got into it and studied the history, I found this whole stylistic thing, this musical continuum, that I wanted to be a part of-while still taking an original, contemporary approach. The horn that I play is a Selmer Mark VI. It`s a real neat horn, the hot horn to play. They made them from the 1950s until the early 1970s; mine was made in the mid-1960s. They`re kind of hard to find now, but they`ve got a great sound-smoky and jazzy, but you can make them scream.``

ON WITH THE SHOW: In concert, the Maniacs generally spend about one-third of their time doing cover versions-``R&B nuggets,`` explains Reno, ``not cover versions of big hits. We might do some songs originally recorded by Bill Haley and the Comets, or some Big Joe Turner songs, and some real obscure things from the 1940s. We rock the stuff up, though, so you might not even recognize it. And we might cover a Blasters tune. The rest of the set is original material I`ve written with the rest of the guys. Everybody in the group works on the songs.``

AMBITION: ``To tour Europe. They`re really into sax players over there.`` WHERE TO CATCH THEM: Thursday at Gaspars and March 11 and 12 at FitzGerald`s in Berwyn.


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California and the West | CAPITOL JOURNAL

In the Ring, With Contenders for Governor

March 23, 1998|GEORGE SKELTON

Gray scored points, but Jane racked up the victory. Al needed an ice pack.

Lt. Gov. Gray Davis reverted to habit Sunday and attacked his campaign opponents. That seemed to startle--if not exactly surprise--many of the 1,300 delegates at the Democratic state convention in downtown L.A. But, in truth, Davis had little alternative, given his slim pocketbook and waning position in the gubernatorial race.

Political neophyte Al Checchi, meanwhile, tried to gloss over the fact that in all his TV ads he has yet to acknowledge being a Democrat. He went on at length about "why I'm a Democrat." It's "central to everything I believe," summarized the candidate who has been targeting Republican and independent voters.

Rep. Jane Harman of Torrance asserted right off that "I'm proud to be a Democrat"--hoping to clean up a little mess she created recently by bragging about being called "the best Republican in the Democratic Party."

Harman was attacked for that goof by both Checchi and Davis as the candidates appeared back-to-back for the first time in the campaign. But Davis saved his biggest hit for Checchi, denouncing the airline tycoon for donating money in 1996 to Republican presidential candidates Bob Dole and Steve Forbes.

The only candidate not throwing blows was Harman.

She was the main object of curiosity at the three-day convention. A candidate for less than six weeks, Harman suddenly has surged ahead as the Democratic front-runner, according to the independent Field Poll. A recent survey showed her leading Checchi by two points and Davis by six. It further indicated that her support has come out of the hide of Davis, who in February led the Democratic field.

Checchi, a super-rich corporate takeover artist, and Harman, whose wealthy husband manufactures audio equipment, both have one huge advantage over Davis: very deep pockets. While Davis scrambles for private donations, Checchi and Harman write their own checks. He can't afford TV ads; they run commercials ceaselessly.

Poor Gray. Literally.

Poor Gray might as well have been Davis' given name at the convention.

"Poor Gray, all that [party] work for all these years and now no money," one delegate was overheard telling another Friday night as candidates made the rounds trying to hustle up volunteer workers. One neutral politician, alluding to the immense, insider cynicism toward Davis after his 24 years of aggressive politicking, told me: "The word going around is, 'I actually feel sorry for Gray."'

This convention was particularly important for Davis. Since he'll be vastly outspent by Harman and Checchi, the lieutenant governor needs to attract party activists for free labor.

Friday night resembled a cattle show for delegates, as political consultants led their candidates from caucus to caucus for pitching and pandering.

"Friends, I have walked the walk with you for a very long time," Davis told the gay caucus. "I have marched in seven gay parades."

Checchi, whose grandparents emigrated from Italy, told the Latino caucus: "I guess we Latin people are a lot alike. We share a common religion. . . . We know how to work hard."

"Hello, sisters," Harman greeted the women's caucus. "May the best woman win."

Since Harman is the only woman among the major gubernatorial candidates, she's in great position. An estimated 56% of the Democratic voters are women. She also benefits from apparent voter dissatisfaction with the other choices. Unlike Checchi, the congresswoman has government experience. And unlike Davis, she is a fresh face to most Californians.

The consensus, however, is that this race still is up for grabs.

Harman now needs to sustain her momentum through the next round of polls to convince party activists she really is the front-runner. For many of them--and especially the political pros--the crucial question is not who would be the best governor, but who's the best candidate to battle Atty. Gen. Dan Lungren, the prospective GOP nominee.

Davis registered highest on the applause meter Sunday, evoking a David and Goliath persona. "I know two things," he said to cheers, referring to his rich rivals. "Your vote is not for sale. And second, I offer voters a wealth of public service experience that no amount of money can buy."

But Harman won the weekend skirmish, because Checchi got bloodied and Davis did the dirty work. Davis did what he had to do--start trying to take out Checchi and become Harman's main male opponent.

Harman, meanwhile, took only light hits and walked away looking upbeat and positive. She'll let the guys beat up on each other.

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YOU ARE HERE: LAT HomeCollectionsDoctors

The doctor is in (in movies, that is)

June 08, 2009|Chris Lee

Before comedian Ken Jeong cracked into pop cultural consciousness as Hollywood's newest cameo king, he didn't crave movie stardom. The raging Asian guy seen venting spleen and spouting invective in several of the last few years' high-grossing gross-out comedies wasn't even a professional joke-teller by trade.

Before a casting coup landed Jeong an enviable spot on the batting order for some of movie comedy's heaviest hitters -- Judd Apatow, Todd Phillips, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay among them -- Jeong's day job didn't involve making people laugh at all. Unless prescribing pain medication for, say, an angry patient with a herniated disc is your idea of funny.

"I practiced internal medicine at Kaiser in Woodland Hills," Jeong said over lunch near his home in Calabasas. "Comedy was a hobby. It was like my golf. I had another life."

But once Apatow gave him his breakthrough -- a supporting part as the mucho aggro OB-GYN doctor who bullies and upbraids Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl's characters through the final contractions of her pregnancy in 2007's rom-com hit "Knocked Up" -- casting agents started calling. And nearly a dozen movies later, they haven't stopped.

With short but indelible appearances in such raunchy crowd pleasers as "Pineapple Express," "Role Models" and "Step Brothers" to his credit, Jeong can currently be seen in one of this weekend's top-grossing movies, "The Hangover," which arrived in theaters on Friday. And later this year, the MD-turned-comic will appear in "Couples Retreat" with Vince Vaughn, the Will Ferrell used-car comedy "The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard" and the romantic comedy "All About Steve" with Sandra Bullock.

According to "Hangover" director Phillips, Jeong's defining characteristic is his "fearlessness" -- something put on prominent display in the bawdy R-rated comedy that follows friends (Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms) trying to piece together what happened during a Vegas bachelor party gone horribly awry. Portraying Mr. Chow, an Asian crime lord who has been inexplicably locked in the trunk of their vintage Mercedes, Jeong literally bursts on screen; naked, swearing a blue streak and clanging a tire-iron upside the leads' heads like Barry Bonds. The idea to do full frontal was Jeong's.

"He just comes in and crushes those little parts in films," Phillips said. "That's what you look for: a guy who can come in and just destroy it. He's crazy!"

It's hardly the career path Jeong, 39, set out for himself. The North Carolina-born Korean American attended Duke University (major: pre-med, with a minor in drama) then attained his MD from the University of North Carolina. It was around that time he began going to open-mike nights at local bars and delivering his earliest stand-up routines.

"It was just goofy Asian stuff," Jeong recalled. "Definitely high energy, but I was too afraid to say I was in medicine. I'm just an educated idiot: I took that as my persona."

Moving to New Orleans for his medical residency, Jeong didn't let a 90-hour workweek keep him from the comedy clubs. "It was grueling, but I had a work-hard, play-hard mentality," he said. "Everyone has something to keep them sane outside medicine. Mine was comedy."

After winning a comedy contest called the "Big Easy Laff Off" and completing his residency, Jeong moved to Los Angeles in 1998. Even when his medical practice took off, he never gave up his sideline and performed at such Hollywood comedy venues as the Improv and the Laugh Factory.

Accepting small parts in NBC's "The Office" and HBO's "Entourage," among other TV shows, his comedy club exposure eventually led him to do his routine on Comedy Central and BET -- the latter appearance turning into an unexpected professional asset.

"I had a patient come in with a herniated disc," Jeong said. "He was in a lot of pain and really combative. Then when I got in the room he was like, 'Hey, you were on BET!' and he calmed down."

When it came time for Apatow to cast the part of Dr. Kuni, an on-call obstetrician whose bedside manner bewilders but ultimately bonds the expecting couple in "Knocked Up," the writer-director was won over by Dr. Ken's real-life medical experience. On-set, though, his largely ad-libbed diatribe -- a caustic performance that is polished yet draws power from Jeong's raw immediacy as an amateur -- won him the crew's admiration.

Moreover, Apatow gave him some important advice. "He told me, 'You're funniest when you're angry,' " Jeong said. "I've held onto that ever since."

Bradley Cooper became a close friend while working with Jeong on both "The Hangover" and "All About Steve." He describes a Dr. Jeckyll / Mr. Hyde flip-switch that Jeong activates when the cameras are rolling.

"He can drum up that anger real quick. In 'All About Steve,' his character lets loose on my character -- it's great stuff! I think he popped some blood vessels in his eye," Cooper said.

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YOU ARE HERE: LAT HomeCollectionsOil Spill

Kevin Costner may hold key to oil spill cleanup

The actor has invested 15 years and $24 million in a cleanup system involving centrifugal oil separators. BP and the Coast Guard plan to test six of the machines on the spill next week.

May 21, 2010|By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times

The " Kevin Costner solution" to the worsening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may actually work, and none too soon for the president of Plaquemines Parish.

Costner has invested 15 years and about $24 million in a novel way of sifting oil spills that he began working on while making his own maritime film, "Waterworld," released in 1995.

Two decades later, BP and the U.S. Coast Guard plan to test six of his massive, stainless steel centrifugal oil separators next week. Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser welcomed the effort, even as he and Louisiana officials blasted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for delays in approving an emergency plan to build sand "islands" to protect the bayous of his parish.

"It certainly is an odd thing to see a 'Kevin Costner' and a 'centrifugal oil separator' together in a place like the Gulf of Mexico," said actor Stephen Baldwin, who is producing a documentary about the oil spill and Costner's device. "But, hey, some of the best ideas sometimes come from the strangest places."

Meanwhile, "Avatar" director James Cameron has said that he would make his underwater vessels available, and actor-director Robert Redford appeared in a commercial, sponsored by the Natural Resources Defense Council, that uses the spill as a clarion call to move forward on clean energy.

It is not the first time Hollywood has come to the rescue with cutting-edge technology. Paul Winchell, a versatile ventriloquist and the voice of Tigger in " Winnie the Pooh," was also an inventor who patented an early artificial heart in the 1960s. In 1940, glamorous movie star Hedy Lamarr helped design an un-jammable communications system for use against Nazi Germany.

Costner was unavailable for comment. But his business partner, Louisiana attorney John Houghtaling, said, "Yes, Kevin is a star, but he took his stardom and wrote all the checks for this project out of his own pocket. This was one man's vision."

Details of any contractual relationship with BP were not disclosed. Asked if the actor would charge for use of the machines, Pat Smith, a spokesman for Costner, said, "We don't know yet. We haven't had that discussion yet. This is only a test trial."

Houghtaling said Costner bought the technology, which was originally developed with help from the Department of Energy, after the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster and turned it over to a team of scientists and engineers for fine-tuning.

"The machines are essentially like big vacuum cleaners, which sit on barges and suck up oily water and spin it around at high speed," Houghtaling said. "On one side, it spits out pure oil, which can be recovered. The other side spits out 99% pure water."

If all goes according to plan, he said, "We could have as many as 26 machines dispatched throughout the gulf. Our largest machine is 112 inches high, weighs 2 ½ tons and cleans 210,000 gallons a day of oily water. We are hoping to have 10 machines that size out there — meaning we could potentially clean 2 million gallons of oil water a day."

That kind of talk has intrigued BP, the party responsible for the well blowout that caused an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon on April 20, killing 11 workers and triggering one of the largest oil spills in U.S. history. "BP has agreed to test Mr. Costner's machines," BP spokesman Mark Proegler said. "Of course, they need to meet regulations with respect to discharge."

With oil washing up on a portion of southeastern Louisiana's swampy edges, word of Costner's devices and their potential capabilities has triggered intense lobbying over where they should be stationed first.

High on the list of prospective sites is Plaquemines Parish, where "we've already lost 24 miles of marshland," Nungesser said. "Everything in it — frogs, crickets, fish and plant life — is dead and never coming back."

Houghtaling said he was working on a deployment strategy. "Some people want the machines placed out on the blue ocean where the oil is surfacing. Others want them placed along the coastline."

In the meantime, frustration escalated Thursday over the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' delay in authorizing dredging to build a chain of barrier islands with sand to protect sensitive coastal areas.

Parish leaders, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), a member of the Senate committee that oversees the Corps, demanded immediate approval of the plan they estimated could cost about $50 million.

"The Corps just doesn't get it," Vitter said in a statement. "Thick oil has already gotten behind our existing barrier islands and is infiltrating our marsh. Yet the Corps has no sense of emergency."

Corps spokesman Eugene Pawlik said that the agency is using emergency rules to expedite the request, but that it still has to comply with national environmental laws, including soliciting comments from other agencies.

Nungesser dispatched an urgent request to the Obama administration to force the Corps to expedite its review process. He also reached out to Costner, the man of the hour in Louisiana's bayou country.

"I have Kevin Costner's cellphone number and I'm going to call him and ask him to hold a press conference about the Corps' lack of response in this time of emergency," Nungesser said. "He is a caring man, and people know and respect him. Maybe he can help us."

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No more 'Dirty Jobs' on Discovery

November 21, 2012|By Yvonne Villarreal
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Mike Rowe, the host of "Dirty Jobs." (Discovery )

There are countless dirty jobs, and someone's got to do them -- but now we won't get to see Mike Rowe trying his hand at them: Discovery is pulling the plug on on its long-running reality series "Dirty Jobs."

Rowe, the show's host/creator/executive producer, announced the news in a blog post Wednesday.

"A few weeks ago, I was officially informed that Dirty Jobs had entered into a new phase," he wrote. "One I like to call, 'permanent hiatus.' Or in the more popular industry vernacular, canceled."

The series, which spanned eight seasons, involved Rowe stepping into the shoes of American laborers with weird, strange or difficult jobs.

"'Dirty Jobs' is a very personal show, and it's difficult for me to imagine a future that does not involve exploding toilets, venomous snakes, misadventures in animal husbandry and feces from every species," he added in the post.

The series is the second to be canceled by the network this month. Last week came word that "American Chopper," about father-and-son motorcycle-builders, would be coming to an end after 10 years.

It wasn't the first time the series had gotten the ax, though. After a brief run on sister channel TLC, the series was canceled in early 2010 amid behind-the-scenes drama between Junior and Senior. After the dispute was settled a few months later, the show was brought back and returned to its Discovery stomping grounds. So maybe we haven't seen the last of them.

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January 15, 2004 | Elizabeth Shogren, Times Staff Writer
The Defense Department, having won exemptions from three major environmental laws in the last two years, now is seeking to be excused from three more. Requirements of the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act already do not apply to the Pentagon. Now it wants exemptions from the Clean Air Act and two toxic waste laws, which Congress has refused to grant in each of the past two years.
January 1, 2004 | Miguel Bustillo, Times Staff Writer
It never would have happened without the $100,000 fine, the five months in a federal halfway house and the seven months with an electronic bracelet shackled to his ankle, but Mike Zalenski, convicted environmental criminal, has become Mike Zalenski, environmentalist. "I wish I could tell you that it didn't take getting caught," Zalenski said, "but that would be a lie, and I'm not a liar."
December 25, 2003 | David Colker, Times Staff Writer
If there's a new computer under your tree this morning, you might be looking at your trusty old model with a sense of nostalgia. Environmentalists, however, see it as a toxic time bomb. "Lead, cadmium, mercury, bromated flame retardants -- they are all used in making computers," said Ted Smith, founder of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, a group that has been fighting for 21 years against the harm that electronics products and manufacturing can cause to the environment.
November 9, 2003 | Jill Lawless, Associated Press Writer
Plans to bring aging U.S. Navy vessels here to be dismantled are triggering strong opposition in this old shipping town, with many fearing that the environmental risks outweigh any economic boost. In its Victorian heyday, Hartlepool proudly built the ships of a global empire. That empire is long gone, as are the shipyard jobs. But residents say they don't want to be a "dumping ground for the world" -- and are skeptical that the new shipyard jobs will go to locals anyway.
September 26, 2003 | Nancy Vogel, Times Staff Writer
Gov. Gray Davis signed the nation's most comprehensive law Thursday to speed recycling of discarded computer monitors and televisions, an estimated 6 million of which are stacked in California offices and homes waiting to be tossed.
September 3, 2003 | From Times Wire Reports
Military officials are stepping up efforts to locate radioactive materials believed to be buried at the former Castle Air Force Base, now home to a federal prison holding about 1,400 inmates. The Air Force plans to interview more former airmen and conduct searches with metal detectors and ground-penetrating radar in late October or early November, said Jody Wireman, a toxicologist in the environmental radiation branch of the Air Force Institute for Operational Health in Texas.
July 28, 2003 | Anna Gorman, Times Staff Writer
Walking through an abandoned U.S.-owned factory, Lourdes Lujan cringes at the sight of mounds of broken battery casings and corroded barrels of lead slag. She covers her nose to block the noxious smell and pulls down her sleeves to shield her skin. Lujan blames the battery-recycling plant -- just a few hundred yards from her home -- for the red welts on her arms, the swelling in her daughter's chest and the high levels of lead in her sons' blood.
March 2, 2003 | Janet Wilson and Seema Mehta, Times Staff Writers
The obstacle-strewn odyssey of San Onofre's decommissioned reactor is just one piece of a looming dilemma: what to do with the remains of America's aging nuclear power plants. That problem will escalate, with more than half of the nation's 103 commercial reactors facing mandatory shutdown in the next three decades, according to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission data compiled by The Times.
February 15, 2003 | William Overend, Times Staff Writer
Federal environmental officials, announcing "an important step" in efforts to clean up the Casmalia toxic waste site in northern Santa Barbara County, said Friday that 50 private companies and federal agencies have agreed to pay almost $32 million toward the overall estimated cleanup cost of $272 million.
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So you need to get rid of 150 drums of toxic waste in a hurry. Why not swipe a Los Angeles city trash truck, load it with all that dangerous stuff and leave it in the municipal sanitation yard? Federal authorities arrested a roofing company owner and a city trash truck driver on Friday and accused them of doing exactly that. Van Fuhriman, 59, owner of Facilities Services Corp. in East Los Angeles, and Alfred Vallejo Jr.
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Bethlehem Man Charged With Drunken Driving Police

February 28, 1985|The Morning Call

Jimmy Wayne Gibson, 35, of 1121 Dover Lane, Bethlehem, was arrested after he allegedly struck two parked cars Tuesday night in the 1400 block of Marvine Street.

Gibson was arraigned before Bethlehem District Justice Elizabeth Romig on charges of driving while intoxicated, giving false reports to police, driving without a license and a traffic violation.

He was committed to Northampton County Prison in lieu of $1,000 bail pending a hearing.

Bethlehem police said Gibson was traveling south on Marvine at 9:03 p.m. when he struck a parked car owned by Marta M. Guzman, 1408 Marvine St., and pushed the car into another parked car owned by Michael Lopez, 1406 Marvine St.

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DryHop to open in East Lakeview on June 13

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May 28, 2013|By Riley Blevins @Riley_Blevins | RedEye

If you’re strolling down North Broadway in East Lakeview in the next few weeks--stop!

There’s a trap.

If you find yourself mesmerized by the wafting smells of house-made English muffins, steaming grits and fermenting beers, it’s already too late.

You’ve fallen into Pete Repak’s strategically placed ambush.

The DryHop executive chef has been leaving the front windows open, hoping the smells of his locally sourced cooking perks a few noses--and a few future customers.

Dryhop Brewers (3155 N. Broadway) will finally be opening its doors for dinner June 13.

But don’t be mistaken, Repak’s food is only one side of the equation.

DryHop is a brewhouse first, restaurant second.

Hoping to be a moderately upscale neighborhood place, DryHop's small plates menu is created to compliment the work of brewmaster Brant Dubovick.

“Pete’s been really open about it,” said Dubovick, who moved from Pittsburg to Chicago for the opportunity to put his stamp on a handful of craft beers at DryHop. “The menu is built around my beers. I’m used to the kitchen telling him what to brew.”

Dubovick plans to offer two flagship beers--a wheat IPA and a Chicago common--alongside a rotating seasonal selection that includes a creamy coconut stout, a saison aged with chamomile and orange peel, an American pale ale and a Czech pilsner. All beers are brewed in-house, if you couldn't tell based on the massive steel vats sitting in the front windows.

As for the "stamp" Dubovick said he's looking to leave at DryHop, he simply said, "to brew some beers Chicago can dig."

While the joint is driven by Dubovick’s craft beers, Repak said the menu will still focus on big flavors.

These shared plates won’t be tapas that leave both your wallet and stomach cranky.

“The food will be familiar,” Repak said. “It’s all approachable, but it’s very technically executed.”

Repak said he plans to offer everything from upscale bar snacks, like a savory peanut brittle with smoked chilies, to burgers and dishes like lamb pastrami served in a sourdough bowl with arugula and Spanish cheese.

But Repak is especially excited to unveil what he dubs “the best version of shrimp and grits that any one will ever taste.”

“I was born in Chicago,” Repak said, “but I think I’m a secret southerner.”

In short, DryHop's menu will be very diverse. Repak says his food slate will always offer fresh fish and a range of locally-purchased greens.

DryHop also will offer a more chef-driven, late night menu.

While Repak was hesitant to release any spoilers, he did rave about a still unnamed dish. Currently, he’s leaning toward Pork-a-pooloza or HAMburger.

Either name is quite fitting.

This shrine to pork consists of ground pork collar, stuffed with pork belly, smoked country sausage, tasso ham, served on a house-made English muffin with crispy onions, garlic aioli and hot pepper relish.

“The menu will be both playful and bold,” he said. "It'll feature the kinds of dishes you'd expect a chef to eat after a shift at DryHop."

The gastro pub's decor will be a mix of rustic and contemporary, splicing concrete floors with rough-cut woods and other natural materials.

Repak said he wants customers to "feel like they’re sitting on their neighbors' back porch."

The brewing process will be front-and-center; beer will be poured straight from stainless steel serving tanks behind the bar, and the brewhouse will be adjacent to the dining room.

In a unique touch, the eatery’s bar top is crafted entirely out of a massive tree that was knocked down in a thunderstorm in Northbrook.

“We want this to be a place you go to every day,” Repak said. “We want it to be a part of your routine.”

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Burglaries Plague Storage Company

November 17, 1985|By Marci Richardson, Staff Writer

POMPANO BEACHLIGHTHOUSE POINT — A rash of burglaries Tuesday and Wednesday at a storage warehouse resulted in the loss of approximately $4,000 in property, police reported.

Warehouse managers at Tri City II Ltd., 2303 W. McNab Road, told police they were making a security check Tuesday night when they saw two men inside one of the storage units. When the men saw they were being watched, they turned out the storage room light, closed the garage-type door and escaped in a late-model car, police said.

The man renting the burglarized storeroom, a retired Pompano Beach resident, reported a black and white television and various power tools stolen. He estimated the loss at $2,830.

The manager said he discovered seven other storerooms had been tampered with, noting pry marks on the warehouse doors. One of the doors was open, but the manager said the room had been empty during the breakin, sometime between 5:30 p.m. Monday and 8 p.m. Tuesday.

In another breakin reported Wednesday, about $1,400 in scuba diving equipment was stolen, police said. The owner of the property, a Dania resident, told police she thought the burglary occurred between Oct. 15 and Nov. 8 when she reported the theft to the manager, thinking he would forward the information to police.

A Pompano Beach man was robbed Tuesday after he paid for gasoline at an Amoco station, 2500 W. Atlantic Blvd., police reported.

The man said he was returning to his car, placing change in his wallet, when he was attacked from behind and wrestled to the ground. The victim told police one of the attackers held him while another took his wallet and a gold necklace.

The two assailants escaped with $70 in cash, but police said the victim`s identification cards were found the following day in the 100 block of Northwest 27th Avenue.

About $2,800 worth of power tools, lawn equipment and appliances were reported stolen Monday from a flower shop, police said.

The owner of Fernando the Florist, 2170 E. Atlantic Blvd., told police the items were taken from the business and a trailer parked in the back of the building.

Police said they think the burglar entered the business by prying open the back door.

A man held up a Seven-Eleven convenience store Wednesday, threatening the clerk with a wrench, police reported.

The clerk told police the robber entered the store, at 403 E. Atlantic Blvd., at 4:30 a.m., and stuffed a dozen cheese sticks into his pocket, telling the attendent he had a family to feed.

The man then pried open a cash register and walked away from the store with $40. A Pompano Beach man was arrested Tuesday after police said he tried to take a videocassette recorder from a Zayre Department Store without paying for it.

Police said Larry Davis, 28, of the 1900 block of Northwest Fifth Terrace, put the $399 recorder in a pushcart and left the store at 3772 N. Federal Highway. When security guards tried to stop him, Davis shoved the cart back in the building and ran, police reported.

Davis was apprehended a few blocks away from the store, charged with grand laceny and taken to the Broward County Jail.

A Lauderdale Lakes man was charged with possession of cocaine after police said they discovered two small packets of the drug in his pants pockets.

Police said John Alleva, 37, was driving his car erratically near the 4000 block of N. Federal Highway and was placed in a holding cell at the Lighthouse Point Police Department for observation.

Before putting Alleva into the cell, officers said they searched him for weapons and discovered the cocaine packets.

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Woman Held In Rent Scam

October 15, 1986|By DAVID ENSCOE, Staff Writer

A Delray Beach woman who police say rented apartments that she didn`t own to dozens of would-be tenants has been arrested in Arizona and charged with fraud.

Darlene Mitchell, 26, was arrested in Mesa, Ariz., on Monday and charged with collecting rent and security for the same apartment from at least two tenants. According to police, she wore wigs to disguise her blond hair, assumed at least three phony names, and fabricated imaginative stories while carrying out the scam.

Police suspect Mitchell`s husband, Doug, was an accomplice in the con game played in Arizona, North Carolina and Florida.

Darlene Mitchell already has been charged with leasing a Delray Beach apartment to as many as 25 different tenants in July. Police were alerted when two tenants tried to have telephone service connected to the apartment at Delray Place in the 200 block of Southeast 10th Street.

Mitchell is also suspected of renting an apartment west of Boca Raton to at least seven people. Police in Cary, N.C., near Raleigh, have charged her with collecting rent from seven prospective tenants for a luxury apartment.

``She had them all scheduled for interviews about a half-hour apart,`` said Detective Bill Goodfellow of the Cary police department. ``But a couple of the tenants came back after paying their deposits and bumped into each other. They were mad as hell when they realized what happened.``

Delray Beach police arrested Mitchell on July 25, but she disappeared after posting bail the next day. Police suspect she drove to North Carolina in early September with her two children, her husband, and the family dog.

On Sept. 25, after defrauding seven Cary residents out of a month`s rent and security deposit, Mitchell slipped out of town just a step ahead of the police, Goodfellow said.

She and her husband surfaced again in Arizona about a week later. Mesa police Sgt. Jim Mason said Mitchell rented a condominium in that city, then advertised in a local paper that she had an apartment to rent.

Mitchell, using the assumed name Linda Prine, paid the real owner $475 a month, not including utilities, for the condominium, Mason said. In her newspaper ad, she asked only $400 a month including utilities. Her low asking price is what got her in trouble, Mason said.

``The would-be tenant became suspicious because the rent was so low,`` he said. ``She did some research and was able to track down the rightful owner of the condo. She found out the condo had already been rented. When she called us, we told her to arrange a meeting with Mitchell.``

When the potential tenant arrived at the condominium for the meeting, Mason was right behind her. Mitchell found herself in the Mesa police station.

``She had a pretty good thing going for a while,`` Mason said. ``It took us a while to get to the bottom of it.``

According to Mason, Mitchell admitted to running the scam with her husband. She said that her husband rented apartments for a month, then set up interviews with callers so she could show them the apartment. Mitchell collected the deposits and told potential renters that the apartment would be available on Nov. 1. By then, she and her family planned to be long gone.

When Mitchell was arrested in Arizona, she was carrying three Florida driver`s licenses, each with the same picture, but with different names and addresses, Mason said.

Mason said he doesn`t know how many people paid Mitchell deposits for the apartment.

``I guess we`ll find out on Nov. 1, when everybody tries to move in,`` he said. ``If we see 15 U-Hauls lined up over there, we`ll have a pretty good idea.``

Police say Mitchell had no trouble finding renters because she offered to lease the apartments so cheaply. In North Carolina, she rented an apartment for $750, and then offered to rent it for $500.

Sgt. Mason said it is unlikely Mitchell will be out of jail in the forseeable future. He said she is wanted on three warrants from Palm Beach County, and another in North Carolina.

It may be a while before Mitchell is brought to Palm Beach County to stand trial.

Goodfellow said he has begun the process of extraditing Mitchell from Arizona to North Carolina. Mason said Mitchell probably will be tried in Arizona first.

``The way I understand it, whoever has her gets her first,`` Mason said.

Goodfellow is also considering charging Mitchell`s husband. He had not been arrested as of late Tuesday.

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“Sea Lion Women And Mermaids Doing Autopsies On Things While The Bad Ass In The Corner Looks On.” By: J.A. George – Oil and Acrylic on 18″ x 24″ Gallery Stretched Canvas

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Inspirations From A Princess And A Baroness

My friend, artist Jana Jones AKA; The Baroness Ampersand has a way with not only the tip of a brush but with the written word. She paints with vivid color in both mediums visual and literary. I sit fascinated and enthralled by all she writes because she writes of “The Artists Life”, as she calls it. I understand her ramblings and can relate to the depth of the soul from which they pour for I live the Artists Life daily.

Understanding her metaphors and similes (is that redundant?), is like deciphering a foreign language for the beginning student unless of course you are fluent in that language. Which I am! For so long I did not use that language, then one day I discovered Jana and rediscovered my artists tongue. So long unused I, at first, stumbled over the phrases, words and inflections. But I am again becoming fluent with that language of cryptic images and layered meanings.

I slowly fell out of use with the language during my relationship with my first wife. She could not understand and thought that it was crazy that I insisted that she not talk with me when I was creating. My concentration was such at the time that any disturbance killed the soul of my work. She was not an artist, she did not understand. Over time my art took a back seat to the desires of my penis. My brushes and pencils laid virtually untouched for years. Once in awhile I would pick them up, brushing off the dust and cobwebs but the passion was gone and I had forgot the language and they would, before long lay again untouched.

Oh if she had just understood and had not suppressed the language what art I could have made. She was an exotic dancer and was art in motion what paintings I could have created, what magic would have been revealed upon the canvas. But alas she had no understanding and I allowed her to engulf me in her desires instead of my own. After twelve years her needs became more than I could fulfill and she, like the Succubus she is, left me to drain a new victim.

As I began to recover and was starting to rediscover the language I fell prey to another Succubus. This one envisioned herself an artist, a decorator if you will, but never understood that lime green and burgundy are not complimentary colors. She continued the draining the first demon had begun and I started to shrivel and my soul started to wane. She drank and drank until I had no more to give. She drained my emotion, she drained my passion, she drained my bank account and when all was drained that she could drain she left me, as the first one had, for her new victim.

Oh, I fought her, I strived in numerous ways to regain the language, I did not succumb easily but in the end I lost the battle. I knew I had lost the battle the day she said, “I feel nothing when you touch me.” Her draining was complete. She left me with, “I was looking for a good father for my children and I at least accomplished that.” Used, abused and thrown away I lay crumpled, broken, drained. The language was, or so it seemed, forever lost to me.

Enter a graceful Princess to breath life back into my lifeless form. Debbie, being a caring Princess and taking pity upon this poor peasant nursed and healed me at a time when I felt I was forever lost. Though neither her nor I knew it at the time, she is an artist and she nourished me with her artistic soul. She fed me small amounts so that I would not become greedy and engorge myself and slowly I gained strength and started to again understand the passion and language I had lost.

One day Debbie said to me, “I wish I could paint.” With those words the lock was turned within the door that held her artists soul. That door was flung wide and Debbie is discovering, more and more, her own artists soul. It is a young soul and needs much nurturing but very passionate. I am here to help her grow and become strong within the talent she so recently discovered that she has. She is a quick learner and is learning the language of the Artists Life. Her tongue is still thick however and though she is slowly learning the language she is not yet fluent with it. Enter the linguist Jana.

Debbie reads Jana’s communiqués with the same intensity that I do. She admits that she does not always understands but she is still held fascinated by the images Jana paints with her words. Jana too is teaching the fledgling artist to discover the language that lies within her soul.

As Debbie breathed life back into my artists soul Jana has reminded me of my native tongue. And in reminding me of that language so long forgotten she has struck up, within me, inspiration with her words. One example has already come to fruition and started with this phrase;

“A series of narrow doors, painted green, still line the side of the building, and if you don’t look too closely you can see the whores leaning on the door frames, smoking Lucky Strikes, backlit by the dim light of the interiors, calling out into what was an alleyway.”

This phrase from a writing of Jana’s inspired my painting “Whores In The Alley Smoking Their Lucky Strikes.”

Recent musings by Jana are the inspiration for two works I will be completing in the near future and one already completed derived from the same writing;

“….Miss America contest, circa 1950, when it actually meant something” – “…and thought about mermaids and Sea Lion Women, and wondered where they must live, in the ocean.” – “….he is the badass sitting in the corner, waiting for somebody to fuck up.” – “….here come those two Sea Lion Women, pecking at the drama because they like to perform autopsies on things.”

These phrases led to a work that I had, within my mind, “Sea Lion Women and Mermaids Performing Autopsies On Things As The Bad Ass In The Corner Looks On.” It took over a year to complete the painting. I kept getting blocked; my mind would not communicate with my hand and I could proceed no further. Outside of Jana’s phrases of inspiration I was missing the key element that would bring the work together. That element was found when I visited the Titanic Museum in Branson, Missouri.

The next inspiration came from one of Jana’s writings in which she states;

“The local Madame DeFarge laughs and knits.”

When I show off my knowledge of Dickens Literature with a follow-up comment soaked in metaphors from “A Tale of Two Cities” Jana shoots back with;

“GYPSY I wonder if you will paint a Madame DeFarge, knitting and laughing wickedly. Don’t give her red hair. But hopefully, you’ll paint black tights with a little hole in them, on her legs.”

This has inspired a future work which is bouncing around in my head as “Madame DeFarge Laughs and Knits as Madame Guillotine Sings.” I find black tattered tights sexy so they will somehow be included in the work and whether or not the antagonistic Madame DeFarge has red hair remains to be seen.

Last at the moment, but certainly not least is a inspiration derived from a quote in one of Jana’s writings today. It seems as though the Baroness Ampersand has lost a very dear friend whose pleasant memory is a piece of her artistic soul. The memory and force of the loss is evident within the writing as you read the cryptic passage from her past;

“I’d read a book during that time that talked about The Third Reich’s entry into France . The title to the book was, Is Paris Burning? I don’t remember the contents of the book, except for one particular fact. Hitler called his general every day and asked the same question, until he got the answer yes. Is Paris burning? And I linked the three questions in my head, at the time. Every day when The Art Teacher asked, Are you still a virgin? Have you been in his bed? I would answer, Is Paris burning?”

The work that is even now germinating in my head will simply be called, “Is Paris Burning.”

Debbie breathed life back into my artistic soul and Jana breathes life back into my work. Neither of these women set out to intentionally help me to rediscover my artists tongue but just by their words and actions both have helped me to rediscover the passion that lies within the language of the “Artists Life.” Who knows what future inspiration they will give birth to within my fertile soul but I anxiously await that next rush of creative erection that will climax in what I refer to as “A Mental Ejaculation Spewing Forth Creative Juices.” Thank you for the artistic ménage à trios Ladies you both leave me spent and satisfied!

“Art must evoke an emotion in order to be art. If it only creates indifference then it is not art, it is garbage!”


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Sunday, October 3, 2010

Gloms river

Oil on canvas, 24x33 cm

This one was painted with a Rosemary & Co. Ivory filbert size 12 and a painting knife. The brush is a synthetic bristle, and I like it more than the real thing. It keeps its shape amazingly well, the tip stays very sharp. The Robert Simmons Signet's I've been using are otherwise good, but the tip spreads too much. I'm going to order more of Rosemary's Ivory brushes for sure.

Erik said...

Nice work Arto.
I like the Rosemary & Co brushes a lot too. For the thick paint the ivory brushes are great, and for slightly softer paint my favorite is the eclipse line of brushes.

Arto Isotalo said...

Thanks Erik!


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California Arts Council

State of California

Strategic Plan

Adopted January 2014

The California Arts Council’s (CAC) Strategic Plan is crafted to further the CAC’s mission of advancing California through the arts and creativity.

The new Strategic Plan is intended to provide a road map for the CAC over the next three to five years. It reflects the best thinking of CAC staff and Council Members and incorporates input from hundreds of stakeholders throughout the state.

The Strategic Plan is organized according to four strategic pillars, each of which lays out an overarching goal and accompanying objectives and implementation steps. The Strategic Plan is an integrated document, and each pillar builds upon the others to achieve the vision that all Californians can thrive from public support for creativity and the arts.

Taken together, these strategies are intended to ensure that the arts are recognized, celebrated, and supported in communities across the state.

The California Arts Council’s Strategic Plan was developed with consulting services from Rodriguez Strategies. Leadership was provided by Susan Steinhauser, Immediate-Past Council Vice-Chair and Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee.

Questions? Contact Caitlin Fitzwater at (916) 324-6617 or

Click the links below to download various documents related to our new Strategic Plan:


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GOLD CUP DUO - DENMAN and KAUTO STAR by Joanna Stribbling

Gold Cup Duo - DENMAN and KAUTO STAR

by Joanna Stribbling

Image size: 18" x 14"

Limited Edition of only 500 prints worldwide

Each print is individually checked, numbered and signed by the artist and by trainer Paul Nicholls

This Limited Edition Print has been printed with lightfast inks on acid-free, high grade board from environmentally conscious paper suppliers.

Print only price: £95.00

Framed price: £155.00

Click link below to see more Kauto Star Prints

Joanna Stribbling was born in Kent in 1983. She started painting at a young age but decided to pursue her ambitions to be a scientist. She gained A Levels in chemistry, biology and physics and was accepted by Imperial College to study Equine science.

After a year of study Joanna opted to take a gap year. It was during this time that she took up painting seriously and after immediate acclaim decided to pursue a career as an artist. Joanna is an exciting new talent and her ability to capture detail and light should ensure an illustrious career.


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Monday, June 14, 2010

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth - Garage Artist

my friend Rat Fink

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth achieved many things in his life. He helped create modern pin-striping with his mentor Von Dutch, pioneered using fiberglass for one of a kind mobile sculptures mounted on fine tuned hot rods, and corrupted the minds of an entire generation with his "Rat Fink" monster shirts and model kits.

After his enormous success in the 60's, Ed's celebrity receded until the "low brow" art movement gained traction in the 90's. A new generation of artists and pop culture addicts proclaimed him, along with Robert Williams and Von Dutch, one of the godfathers of their burgeoning scene.

His death was a crushing blow for his many friends and followers and an outpouring of posthumous praise followed.  The Roth phenomenon took place before my birth, but I'm truly amazed at his effect on the arts some forty years later. When I came to Los Angeles in 2001 I was able to take advantage of his resurgence in popularity, attending the Peterson Exhibit held in his honor, witnessing the still vigorous hot rod culture in California, and observing modern pin-stripers practice their craft in the style of the master.

Ed Roth's legend casts a long shadow, yet he has always been a guiding light to artists and gearheads alike. Here are some of his best known supporters and contemporaries musing on the art, influence, and contradictions of the unforgettable "Big Daddy" Roth --

Roth's "Beatnik Bandit"
from Juxtapoz magazine
Portrait of the artist as a young man
Ed pin-striping in his autumn years
Automobile magazine's obituary
Roth by Revell
Ed "Big Daddy" Roth with contemporary Von Dutch
Poster for "Kustom Kulture" exhibit that revived interest in 60's "low brow" culture
Long Gone John and Ed
Ed Newton and Ed Roth
sundry business cards from Roth's endeavors
from Garage magazine

Ed and his clan
selection of Roth Studios' water decals
Ed with Revell staff clad in Roth's monster shirts
One of Ed's enormously popular model kits from Revell
Ed in tux and monocle
Ed's son Darryl Roth
my limited edition of "Rat Fink's Revenge" signed by Ed Newton and Robert Williams
Last Gasp's essential tome on Ed
Ron Mann's feature length documentary on Ed's legacy
Roth with "The Outlaw" rod and model
Roth with his creations "The Beatnik Bandit", "The Mysterion", and hovercraft "Rotar"
Roth's "Orbitron" at Revell waiting to be measured. It disappeared a decade later -
Darryl Roth drives his father's rebuilt "Wishbone"
"Orbitron" lost -- and found
"The Druid Princess"
Ed takes downsizing to a whole new level at Snow College
The Roth family endures -

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Bal Vikas Bank (Child Development Bank)

Bal Vikas Bank(as called in India) or The Children’s Development Bank (as referred internationally) is an innovative concept conceptualized and initiated by the global NGO Butterflies, as a vehicle to empower street and working children.

According to the Butterflies’ website —

CDB is a natural development and evolution of Butterflies’ saving and credit union schemes, working on banking and co-operative principles. Any street and working child can save money with the bank which is their own and is run by children like them, under the guidance of adult facilitators. Implemented as part of life skill education, CDB enables its members to earn an interest on their deposits and its adolescent members to access advances for initiating small economic enterprises or cooperatives.

The Children’s Development Bank is managed by Butterflies nationally and internationally. Butterflies networks with grassroots NGOs across states and countries for partnership for this initiative. It interacts with partners and provides technical support to them, sets up and implements a monitoring and evaluation system against which the milestones are tracked, conceptualizes and implements several innovations within the project.

The National Foundation for India gave the initial seed money to initiate this bank. At present the CDB initiative is in Six countries- India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Srilanka and Nepal and within India in Leh (J&K), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Mujaffarpur (Bihar) and Kolkata (West Bengal) reaching out to around 5000 child members in the region.

More details can be found at:

Question then is, do you prevent child labor, or do you provide a better life for the kids, within their context of rag-picking and beggary-filled lives? Please comment.


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Zakir Hussain Award

Asha for Education (“Asha”), received the Dr. Zakir Hussain Award in Cleveland, Ohio on July 28th. Presented at the Aligarh Alumni Association annual meeting, the award is given each year to an individual or organization involved in selfless community service in India.

Divya Sridhar and Fehmida Kapadia from the Cleveland chapter of Asha accepted the award on behalf of the organization. They were invited to attend the meeting by Mr. Qamar Khan, President of AAA, and Mr. Zahid Siddiqi, President of the Cleveland chapter of AAA. Sridhar and Kapadia, long-time volunteers, made a presentation about the organization as well as local activities in Cleveland, including a dinner gala for donors, the Notes of Hope concert series, and an upcoming concert with an acappella group, Penn Masala. Asha Cleveland jump-started their chapter in 1996 and currently supports eight projects. These projects include Sanatan Rishikul Ashram Seva Trust (SRISHTI), a formal high school for children of tribal people in the Sambhalpur district of Orissa; Vidyarabam, a trust that created pre-primary and remedial centers in Tamil Nadu in the aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami; and Prayas, a project that seeks to provide quality primary education to children in the Chittaurgarh District of Rajastan.

Kapadia said, ‘Asha was very warmly received and the response to us and our work was overwhelming. There were several individuals who approached us and discussed their own work, expressing an interest to collaborate in the future.’
Asha for Education is honored to have received this award.


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Asian Meeting Festival in collaboration with Playfreely - CLOSER TO THE EDGE

Over the last two years, Asian Meeting Festival (AMF) has successfully presented numerous collaborations between Asian musicians in many parts of Japan, reaching out to a large and varied audience. Under the support of Asia Centre, on its third year running, the festival actively sought out partners with the idea of presenting the festival outside Japan. Playfreely festival organized by The Observatory came to mind. In 2011, The Observatory started Playfreely as a simple, relaxed platform to gather and showcase musicians from all backgrounds. Originally inspired by the programming of New York experimental music venue The Stone, Playfreely started out as a fortnightly initiative to foster regular sessions amongst musicians to create and play without inhibition. No fixed notions of what's appropriate or appealing, no complicated concepts, no genre fixations, and most importantly, no judgement. It soon morphed into somewhat of a catalyst, igniting musical partnerships and unpredictably cool collaborations. Closer to the Edge is the fourth incantation of Playfreely done in collaboration with Japan's Asian Meeting Festival (AMF) and with event partner The Projector.

AMF x PF 2016 : CLOSER TO THE EDGE Trailer

Night 1

Solo performances by:
- Master improviser OtomoYoshihide (Tokyo) on electric guitar
- Experimental film artist Takashi Makino (Tokyo) presenting a live audio-visual work - space noise 3D using a 16mm film projector
- Junji Hirose (Tokyo) who improvises with the saxophone
Improvisation sets of duos, trios, quartets and ensemble work by the other musicians

Date 8 December(Thursday) 2016, merchandise booth opens at 730pm / Doors open at 745pm / Performance starts at 8pm
Venue The Projector
Ticket Prices $25
Line up Atsusi Arakawa (Koriyama) / Junji Hirose (Tokyo) / Jojo Hiroshige (Tokyo) / Sudarshan Chandra Kumar (Kuala Lumpur) / Takashi Makino (Yokohama) / An Murazato (Omuta) / OtomoYoshihide (Tokyo) / Senyawa (Jogjarkata) / Dharma Shan (Singapore) / dj sniff (Hong Kong) / Tara Transitory (Chiang Mai) / Vivian Wang (Singapore) / T C. Spencer Yeh (New York) / Yuen Chee Wai (Singapore)

Night 2

Solo performance by:
- Jojo Hiroshige (Tokyo) from seminal noise band, Hijokaidan on electric guitar
Performance Segment by:
- Senyawa (Jogjakarta) comprising of Rully Shabara on vocals and Wukir Suryadi on DIY bamboo instruments
Improvisation sets of duos, trios, quartets and ensemble work by the other musicians

Date 9 December (Friday) 2016, merchandise booth opens at 730pm / Doors open at 745pm / Performance starts at 8pm
Venue The Projector
Ticket Prices $25
Line up Atsusi Arakawa (Koriyama) / Junji Hirose (Tokyo) / Jojo Hiroshige (Tokyo) / Sudarshan Chandra Kumar (Kuala Lumpur) / Takashi Makino (Yokohama) / An Murazato (Omuta) / OtomoYoshihide (Tokyo) / Senyawa (Jogjarkata) / Dharma Shan (Singapore) / dj sniff (Hong Kong) / Tara Transitory (Chiang Mai) / Vivian Wang (Singapore) / T C. Spencer Yeh (New York) / Yuen Chee Wai (Singapore)

Asian Meeting Festival Kuala Lumpur: Crossing Over

The Malaysia leg of the Asian Meeting Festival (AMF), a project of acclaimed Japanese musician and composer Otomo Yoshihide, in collaboration with Asian Music Network (AMN), is taking place on Saturday, 10 December, 8pm at Live Fact. Presented by Live Fact and the Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival (KLEX), "Crossing Over" features a stellar lineup of 16 musicians from #Japan & #SoutheastAsia playing in ever-shifting constellations of solos, duos and ensembles.

Date: 10 December (Saturday) 2016, 800pm,
Venue: Live Fact No.33-2, Plaza Danau 2, Jalan 3/109f, Taman Danau Desa, 58100 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Admission l RM35 (Presale), RM50 (Door)
Line-up : Atsusi Arakawa (Koriyama); Junji Hirose (Tokyo); Jojo Hiroshige (Tokyo); Sudarshan Chandra Kumar (Kuala Lumpur); Yong Yandsen (Kuala Lumpur), Kok Siew Wai (Kuala Lumpur), Takashi Makino (Yokohama); An Murazato (Omuta); Otomo Yoshihide (Tokyo); Senyawa - Rully Shabara & Wukir Suryadi (Jogjarkata); Dharma (Singapore); Tara Transitory (Chiang Mai); Vivian Wang (Singapore); C. Spencer Yeh (New York) and Yuen Chee Wai (Singapore).

The Black Axis Sessions is a parlour platform series held at The Observatory's rehearsal studio space at Goodman Arts Centre. For this second instalment, master improviser and composer Otomo Yoshihide will present 2 intimate evening sessions of dialogue, performance and workshop. His international acclaim includes a discography of over 200 titles. Otomo Yoshihide has worked with the likes of experimental giants such as Derek Bailey, Keith Rowe, Christian Marclay and Ryuichi Sakamoto. This is a rare opportunity to catch Otomo in this capacity and to learn more about what drives this man to perform relentlessly for over three decades.

Date: 13 December (Tuesday) 2016, 730pm,
Solo performance by Otomo Yoshihide on Turntables
Dialogue Session: "Why Perform? - Listening, Improvising, Composing"
Venue: Black Axis Blk L, #01-48, Goodman Arts Centre 90 Goodman Road, Singapore
Ticket Prices: $16

Date: 14 December (Wednesday) 2016, 730pm,
Workshop on improvisation
(Bring your own instruments, simple set up/ small amps recommended)
Joined by Leslie Low & Yuen Chee Wai
Venue : Black Axis Blk L, #01-48, Goodman Arts Centre 90 Goodman Road, Singapore
Ticket Prices: $25

Arakawa Atsusi
ArakawaAtsusi Born in Miharu-cho,Fukushima. After university he moved to Koriyama Fukushima and formed the band Redd Temple. In 2013 he set up the rehearsal studio "studio tissue ★ box" in Koriyama and it quickly became an important gathering point for many musicians touring past the Fukushima area. He was fascinated by the encounters with a variety of music and people and that eventually led to him developing his own style of playing the guitar and viola, both in improvisation and in his band. He currently plays in ReddTemple, lasnotrikalkulo, jamps and spinks.

Junji Hirose
JunjiHirose Born in Kokubunji, Tokyo, in 1955. Since the end of the '70s, Hirose has been active in the free jazz and improvised music scenes as a sax player. Since the early '80s, he has also been playing his self-made sound instruments (SSI), the noise instruments he makes by setting up household objects and odds and ends on tables. As of now there are nine SSIs (SSI 1 to SSI 9).

Jojo Hiroshige
JojoHiroshige Jojo Hiroshige was born in Kyoto in 1959. He formed the improvisational punk unit, Ultra Bide in 1978, and the seminal Hijokaidan in 1979. Radical live noise performances made Hijokaidan well-known in the world as one of the oldest noise bands. He started music label Alchemy Records in Osaka in 1984, and released many titles of unique bands such asHijokaidan, Incapacitants, Merzbow, Massona etc. Jojo is still continuing live performance in Hijokaidan,solo and collaboration sessions.

Takashi Makino
TakashiMakino After graduating from the Cinema Department of the Nihon University College of Art in 2001, Makino went to London to apprentice under the Quay Brothers. He then travelled Japan working in stage lighting. In 2002 he began working as a telecine colorist, and in 2004 he started organizing film screenings. Makino later went on to win the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. His spirited works have found success at many international film, music, and arts festivals. Makino continues to produce work that contains extremely experimental elements and a deep sense of abstraction, while still communicating to his audiences the various stories he has to tell.

Sudarshan Chandra Kumar
SudarshanChandraKumar Sudarshan Chandra Kumar has performed for the CHOPPA Music Fest (Singapore), Playfreely (Singapore), Switch On (Malaysia) and KLEX Festival (Malaysia). He participates in Serious Play Improv Lab (SPIL; 2014-2016) regularly, a monthly experimental music series in Kuala Lumpur. Sudarshan has contributed vocals and live electronics to the following bands: HKPT, Takdir, Sorry and Think!Tadpole!Think!. Working with music for theatre, he is the music facilitator for Main Wayang (2015-2016), a children's theatre workshop which emphasizes on the basics for orchestrating D.I.Y multimedia performances and has directed and scored music for his musical "The Propitiation of Fundamentals" (2015).

An Murazato
AnMurazato Born in 1994, An Murazato is from Omuta City, in the Southern prefecture of Fukuoka. In 2009 she joined noise group Denshi Takujyo Ongakudan and now performs under the name Denshi Takuan. Since 2010 she is the drummer for junk-post-punk band Hakuchi. In 2011 she formed TOKOTOKOTONNTOKO'S and participated in L'Expérience japonaise held in Marseille, France in 2013. Other projects include solo with sampler and keyboard and two-piece band Kawaite Nodo.

Senyawa Jogjakarta's Senyawa embodies the aural elements of traditional Indonesian music whilst exploring the framework of experimental music practice, pushing the boundaries of both traditions. Their music strikes a perfect balance between their avant-garde influences and cultural heritage to create truly contemporary Indonesian new music.
Their sound is comprised of Rully Shabara's deft extended vocal techniques punctuating the frenetic sounds of instrument builder, Wukir Suryadi's modern-primitive instrumentation. Inventions like his handcrafted 'Bamboo Spear'; a thick stem of bamboo strung up with percussive strips of the animal skin alongside steel strings. Amplified it fuses elements of traditional Indonesian instrumentation with garage guitar distortion. Sonically dynamic, the instrument can be rhythmically percussive on one side whilst being melodically bowed and plucked on the other.
In 2011 they were invited to perform internationally for the first time at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival sharing the stage with many great musicians such as Faust, Tony Conrad and Charlemagne Palestine, launching them onto the international stage.
Since then they have gone on to perform at MONA FOMA Festival in Tasmania, the Adelaide Festival with Korean singer Bae Il Dong, toured as special guests of Australian supergroup Regurgitator, they have also performed at the Malmo Sommarscen Festival in Sweden, Salihara Literature Festival in Jakarta, Art Basel Switzerland, Café Oto in London, Cyptic Festival Glasgow, MONA FOMA Festival in Tasmania, Copenhagen Jazz House Denmark, Resonate Festival Belgrade Serbia, CTM Festival in Berlin, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, UNSOUND Festival Poland, Clandestino Festival in Norway and Oct Loft Jazz Festival in China.
They have collaborated and performed with many notable musicians such Yoshida Tatsuya, Otomo Yoshihide, Lucas Abela, KK Null, Keiji Haino, Rabih Beiani, Melt Banana, Jon Sass, Damo Suzuki, Jerome Cooper, Oren Ambarchi, David Shea and Kazu Ushihashi. In 2012 they completed a film in collaboration with French filmmaker Vincent Moon.

Dharma Shan
DharmaShan Best known as the former guitarist of Singapore out-rock group The Observatory, Dharma was with the band for the first 7 albums. His initial approach stems from guitar experimentations with effects and later on incorporating objects to bring it to a grittier, mystical and industrial-esque sonic dimension. Dharma's solo practice, which came to fore with his 2013 solo debut, Intergranular Space, has opened up new vistas for his guitar work. Using prepared and extended techniques, his guitar no longer just plays notes and chords, but conjures forth colours, textures and even beats.

dj sniff
djsniff dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) is a musician and curator in the field of experimental electronic arts and improvised music. His musical work builds upon a distinct practice that combines DJing, instrument design, and free improvisation. He has performed internationally at various venues and festivals around the world, and has released 12 DJ mixes and 4 albums, which includes collaborations with Evan Parker, OtomoYoshihide, Martin Tetreault, and Paul Hubweber. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, All About Jazz, The WIRE, and MusicWorks. During his appointment as Artistic Director of STEIM (2007 - 2012) in Amsterdam, he curated and produced over 100 projects including large-scale international festivals and award winning art works. Since 2012, he is based in Hong Kong where he is Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Creative Media CityU HK, and is Co-Director of Ensembles Asia / Asian Music Network.

Tara Transitory
TaraTransitory Tara Transitory aka One Man Nation makes work which some consider art, some consider music and some consider trash. But clearly, it never quite fits into contemporary categories. She is trans, nomadic and is exploring the intersections of gender, noise and ritual through performance and the collective trance.
She splits her time between asia<>europe where she directs the International //gender|o| noise\\ Underground and organizes the trans*queer themed Translæctica events. Currently she is working on a video-art piece based on ephemeral public interventions she does with other trans* women in south-east asia.
Tara performs solo as One Man Nation, with Truna as {23 Shadows of Amnesia} and with Pierre Bastien as Mecanation. She has collaborated extensively and her past collaborations include BambuWukir, Hilary Jeffrey, Iman Jimbot, Richard Scott and Vincent Moon; has performed internationally at Club Transmediale (Berlin), donaufestival (Krems), GaiteLyrique (Paris), Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao), ISEA (Ruhr), Museum of Contemporary Art (Taipei), Sonic Protest (Paris) and Steirischer Herbst (Graz) amongst many others.

Vivian Wang
VivianWang Classically trained pianist Vivian Wang diverged from much of her formal training when she started avant rock outfit The Observatory in 2001. A TV Producer-Presenter for arts and travel documentaries as well as a film music supervisor, Vivian has focused solely on music, performance and interdisciplinary work since 2008. Vivian performs on synth, keyobaord, voice and percussion. Vivian tags Alice Coltrane, Robert Wyatt, Mark Hollis, Bill Evans and Annapurna Devi as her all time favourite musical heroes.

Otomo Yoshihide
OtomoYoshihide Born in 1959 in Yokohama, Japan. As a teenager, he spent time in Fukushima. Staying independent, he has consistently composed a wide range of music from improvisation to noise music and pop, and his music talent has spread all over the world. He has a successful career as a film score composer and has produced more than 70 movie soundtracks. In recent years, he has produced special type of concerts and musical works in collaboration with other various artists under the name of "ensembles". In addition, one of his priorities is producing musical workshop projects involving handicapped children. In 2011, after the Great East Japan Earthquake, he started "PROJECT FUKUSHIMA!" along with people in various sectors. He has been active beyond the music scene and this is the reason that he has attracted a great deal of attention. In 2012, he received the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts in the category of Promotion for"PROJECTFUKUSHIMA!" In 2013, he received various prizes including the Japan Record Award for his accomplishments, such as composing the theme music for the TV drama "Amachan".

C. Spencer Yeh
C. Spencer Yeh C. Spencer Yeh is recognized for his interdisciplinary activities and collaborations as an artist, improviser, and composer, as well his music project Burning Star Core. Recent presentations of work include "Modern Mondays" at MoMA NYC, "Sound Horizon" at the Walker Art Center Minneapolis MN, "Ed Atkins: Performance Capture" at the Kitchen NYC, "The Companion" at the Liverpool Biennial, "99 Objects" at the Whitney Museum NYC, "Great Tricks From Your Future" at D-CAF in Cairo Egypt, Borderline Festival in Athens Greece, Kinomuzeum at Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw Poland, All Ears Festival in Oslo Norway, the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, and LAMPO at the Renaissance Society in Chicago IL. Yeh also collaborated with Triple Canopy for their contribution to the Whitney Biennial in 2014. He was a 2015 Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room NYC, and was included in the performance program for Greater New York at MoMA/PS1.
Recent recordings include "Solo Voice I-X" (Primary Information), "Wake Up Awesome", with Okkyung Lee and Lasse Marhaug (Software Recording Company), and "Long Pig" by New Monuments, his trio with Ben Hall and Don Dietrich (Bocian).
Yeh also volunteers as a programmer and trailer editor for Spectacle Theater, a microcinema in Brooklyn NY. His video works are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix. He is also a contributing editor to Triple Canopy and BOMB magazine, as well as contributing to The Third Rail and Personal Best.

Yuen Chee Wai
YuenCheeWai Singapore-based musician, artist and designer, Yuen Chee Wai's improvisational work explores relationships between sound, image and word. In 2008 together with fellow musicians Otomo Yoshihide (Japan), Ryu Hankil (Korea) and Yan Jun (China), they formed FEN (Far East Network) - an improvisational music quartet focused on cross-disciplinary collaborations within Asia. Yuen is the Co-Director of Ensembles Asia / Asian Music Network, which presents the Asian Meeting Festival annually in Japan. Being firmly plugged in Southeast Asia, he has been able to successfully bridge numerous new collaborations with musicians from Southeast Asia with others from around the world. Yuen is also a key member of avant/experimental rock band The Observatory (Singapore), with whom he plays guitar, synth and electronics. The Observatory runs an initiative called Playfreely, which focuses on collaborations between musicians of different styles and genres, traditional and experimental, coming together in an intensive environment, to workshop and produce new and interesting work. With 7 albums to date, The Observatory continues to perform and tour worldwide.