Art - The Canvas

Pi in the Sky

As the downtown lunch crowd most certainly noticed earlier today, a few planes were circling overhead writing some gibberish in the sky.  I assumed it was some iPhone 5 promotion gone awry, or at least a marriage proposal to a sex robot, but it turns out it's “Pi in the Sky”.  7x7 fills us in:

Midday Wednesday, a team of synchronized skywriters will encircle the Bay Area’s airspace with what, to most viewers, will appear a random string of rapidly fading digits. A select few, however, will recognize it as pi: 3.14159, and so forth a thousand places.

Artist ISHKY devised Pi in the Sky for the Zero1 Biennial, which kicks off today in San Jose. Titled “Seeking Silicon Valley,” the biennial includes a centralized exhibition as well as various public art projects that aim to bring the elusive nature of the valley into focus.

Cool!  Buttt it probably would have been radder if they wrote out “5318008” over and over again.

[Photo by WBTC]

Local Drag Queen Pays Tribute to Cindy Sherman By Covering Herself in Cheeto Dust

I don't really know much about this Cindy Sherman character, other than the fact Ira Glass loves her, her mug is posted all over 24th Street, and she posts a lot of photos of herself wearing different outfits on the tumblr “The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art”.  But here's local drag artist Lady Bear paying tribute to Cindy by painting herself Boehner with heaps of delicious MSG.

[via SFBG]

Tonight at Public Works: Chromatic Exhibition

This show opening at Public Works tonight promises to be pretty cool. From the website:

Do YOU dream in COLOR?

Are you blue? Green with envy? Or better yet, is your love like a red, red rose? Why is it that color inspires and evokes such powerful emotion in the human mind? Come and see for yourself at Roll-Up Gallery’s Chromatic Exhibition. A bold, richly hued group show featuring the kaleidoscopic works of six exceedingly talented local artists.

Zio Ziegler

Jeremy Scott Eaton

David Witt

James Reedy

Raun Harris

The show opening is tonight at 161 Erie from 6-9 pm. Check it out!

Digital Underground’s Giant Humpty Hump Head Needs a Home

If you're itching to desecrate some quintessential hip-hop iconography at Burning Man this year, some sketchy warehouse has a helluva a deal for you.

This giant head of Humpty Hump, used in Digital Underground's video for “Return of the Crazy One”, has been sitting abandoned in an Oakland warehouse for years, and the owner is just giving it away to whomever wants it.  What's better?  Shock G himself will have your back if you snag it, according to an email he sent to Steven Hughes:

Whoever grabs it up, please stay in touch, and when we next need it again, I’ll reimburse your transport, storage & cleaning expenses up to the current date, to either buy it back or rent it out if it’s no longer for sale. – SHKG

Here's the rundown of what you get:

  • dimensions are 12ft high by 16 ft wide at it’s base.
  • splits into 3 pieces for smaller storage or transport.
  • required an 18-wheel truck to transport and a 4-man fork lift team to move.
  • full dressing room inside, w/electric elevator that lifts out thru nose.
  • also has metal stairs inside and nose-door opens manually as well, in case of electric failure.
  • sunglasses light up and scroll circular light patterns around the rims.
  • The lips and chin double as steps to walk down to stage.
  • 50k to build; built by FM Productions South San Francisco. (they also did the giant pig for Pink Floyd. lol)

And should SF rents get too much, the head can double as an apartment.  Apparently a guy, upon getting evicted from his apartment, “lived surreptitiously in the head for several weeks before being discovered.”

Anyway, hit this dude up on Tumblr if you're interested!

[h/t Jackson West]

Crazy Talented SF Muralist Zio Zeigler Launches Web Store!

After dangling the carrot on his Instagram and Tumblr feed for about 3 weeks, Zio Ziegler has finally launched his webstore, Arte Sempre. You might recognize his work from the side of the Sycamore, or from this new collaboration with Ian Ross, up on Church & Duboce. The new webstore features mostly tshirts and a hat or two - here are some designs we plan on swooping:

Get 'em while they're hot!

The Fine Art of Justin Hager

Pop-culture pun genius and also artist Justin Hager currently has a bunch of drawings up in Emmy's Spaghetti Shack (as if you needed another reason to visit Emmy's).  And should you want need one of these hanging up on your own wall, it'll set you back a lean $120.

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