“…that’s the black box: It’s energy. It contains everything. It’s good, it’s bad, it’s the balance. It’s what everybody wants.” -Alfred

Welcome to the Black Scale Black Box Project.

Black Scale: black-scale.com | @blackscale
Music By: “Goodbye” | apparat.net

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Habit Hole Next Friday, October 28. Doors open at 7:00pm.

Dimension7
150 Folsom St
San Francisco, CA

Featured Artists
Alicia Dyche
Varun Mehra
Terry Barentsen
Sam Whittington

Music From
Bells & Whistles
Shackmen ft. MC Books

More info here.

“The Habit Collective is a group of young aspiring artists who collaborate to bring the Bay Area the freshest parties, music and art possible. With tracks in the mix and fresh photos and designs coming out daily, habit seeks to accomplish great things in the coming months.” —www.habitcollective.com

Patagonia and Nixon are pleased to announce the release of Keith Malloy’s latest project “Come Hell or High Water.”

The film explores the history and progression of the sport of bodysurfing and the pureness that comes from riding a wave. Shot primary in 16mm, the film takes a unique look at the culture, beauty and simplicity of the sport, capturing the stories and locations of those who belong to this community.

While Malloy is most widely known for his time in the water as a surfer, his exploration into the world of bodysurfing began some 10 years ago when he wanted to reconnect with the ocean and did so through bodysurfing. Said Malloy about this project, “It’s about taking a breath and kicking your feet in the big blue sea.”

The movie will be released through Woodshed Films in Autumn 2011. The European premiere will take place at the London Surf Film Festival (londonsurffilmfestival.com) on October 15th, 2011.

For more information, visit nixonnow.com | patagoniasurfeurope.com | woodshed.com |

“Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn”
© 2010 by Evelyn Evelyn
Produced by Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley
evelynevelyn.com

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Director: Hoku Uchiyama - hokuuchiyama.com
Produced by: Erich Lochner, Matt Miller, and Adam Bolt
Lead Animator: Adam Bolt
Executive Producers: Jason Webley & Amanda Palmer
Director of Photography: Adam David Meltzer
Evelyn Evelyn played by: Lexi Ibrahim & Nikki Ibrahim
Composite Work: Travis Gorman & Michael Scott
Additional Composite Work: Caleb Clark & Geronimo Moralez
Skeleton-Dance Animator: Julian Birchman
Additional Animation: David Johnston
Character Design: Adam Bolt
Additional Character Design: Odessa Sawyer
Wardrobe Designer: Jessica Huang
Production Design: David A. Novak
1st Assistant Camera: Louis Normandin
Gaffer/Dolly Grip: Rex Kinney
Sound Design: Mike Weinstein
VFX Consultants: Dan Blank & Arvin Bautista
Hair & Makeup: Stephanie Bravo
Skeleton-Dance Performance & Choreography: Shaheed Qaasim & Joanna Meinl
Production Manager: Sky Prendergast

Special Thanks:
Melissa Malandrakis, Steven Ritz-Barr, Daniela Meltzer, Robert Snyder, Brie Ford, Sanghee Oh, Scott Jones, Kent & Ruth Uchiyama, Mahea Uchiyama, Kevin Farey, and Karen Criswell

Video ©2011 Eleven Records
A Vanishing Angle Production - vanishingangle.com

Check it out below: via @fastcompany

San Francisco Hackers Work With The City To Make It Run Smoother

By: Ariel Schwartz

The Summer of Smart hackathon resulted in several sites and apps that can make transportation or food shopping easier. And the city is embracing them.

Think of a hackathon and you probably imagine a bunch of geeks huddled around a table, toiling away at code that may eventually win prizes–before it gets forgotten at the end of the event. And you’re probably right. Not so with the Gray Area Foundation For The Arts (GAFFTA) Summer of Smart, a series of three hackathons this past summer that brought together artists, community activists, developers, urban planners, and more to work on projects that address San Francisco’s biggest issues. This week, the four winning Summer of Smart teams will present their projects to the city’s mayoral candidates at a forum, marking the first time in political history that hackathon teams will offer up their projects to candidates during the course of an election.

“We wanted a direct dialogue between hackathon teams and the political class who has never been to hackathons before, who never have had a window into what the community looks like,” says Jake Levitas, research director at GAFFTA.

The four winning projects are: PublicArtSpaces, a matchmaking site for artists and underused spaces; GOODbuildings, a site that aggregates green building information across a number of indicators in the city, ie LEED certification; SMART Muni, an iPad app that acts as a trouble ticket system for the Muni transportation system; and Market Guardians, a smartphone app that allows users to report healthy food availability in local stores.

Most of the projects teams are already working with city officials. For example, the Muni team is in discussion with the transportation agency, and the Market Guardians team has been talking to the Department of Public Health. During this week’s mayoral forum, the teams will also present their ideas to candidates. A moderated discussion about the ideas (and associated city issues) will follow after each presentation.

The hackathon teams won’t stop working after the mayoral event–they will instead become part of a new civic residency program at GAFFTA that will provide them with a space to work, guidance, and connections. So where other hackathons leave participants with a pile of cash and some kudos, Summer of Smart is actually teams helping build out their projects and make the city a better place to live. “It’s an incubator for civic innovation,” says Levitas.

The mayoral forum isn’t just a way to get city officials excited about the potential of hackathons and hackers; it’s also a method to get citizens excited about talking to the government.

“It used to be that you could vote or pay your taxes or complain but you start running out of gestures,” says Peter Hirshberg, board chairman at GAFFTA. “At a time when there’s a certain ire towards government across our nation, this is a hopeful way of engaging in a new way.”

[Images: Summer of Smart]

Reach Ariel Schwartz via Twitter or email. 

Directed/Edited: TEAM MCTEE

Occupy Wall Street by Zack McTee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at vimeo.com. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at zackmctee.com/​contact/​.

A few weeks ago, we had the opportunity to check out “The Glory Hole” with The Full Frame Crew. Going on these types of trips is a constant reminder that riding bikes is not about the ride itself, rather the places it brings you to.

Music by: “Anemone” by Brian Jonestown Massacre
For more information: FullFrameCollective.com
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