My name is John Trippe. I run Fecal Face. Below are some photos I've shot during my life these last couple weeks. I live in San Francisco, California and prefer french fries over chips.

When we can, my wife and I spend time on our crusty sailboat.

There are nice things to see.

Bowling is addictive.

Wolfe can really capture my bowling prowess.

Henry Lewis and Mike Davis show has ended... Tofer Chin's show ALEX opens Thursday Feb 11th @FFDG.

Had some friends over to kill defenseless crabs.

Wine and the internet

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Ran into Kevein Taylor and the boys.

More b owling

Bowling and karaoke.

Matt D ain't scared to kick it off.

George from London stopped through to interview me for VNA magazine... Nice magazine.

Wonder if this is David Choe's car... Photos up soon.

Maya Hayuk's show @Gallery 16.... Photos up soon.

Groshong turned 30.

Took more English people out on the boat.

Felt like spring has sprung.

Love making bread.

See you Thursday.

ALEX

Tofer Chin
Opening Thurs Feb 11th (6-9 pm)
@Fecal Face Dot Gallery

A highly-regarded explorer of visual communication, Aldous Huxley once said, "The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never quite be the same as the man who went out." The same can be said about a few particular months of teenage life experienced by artist Tofer Chin, depicted, from memory, in his new body of work, showing at the Fecal Face Gallery in San Francisco.

Entitled "Alex," Chin's new show further represents his on-going relationship with Op-Art, as well as his perseveration on sensory perception and mind expansion, while also impressively marking his move to wholly personalize and reinvigorate the movement. Whereas previous works used unnatural color and concept to examine the spiritual and psychological impact of synthetic LSD, "Alex" strives to enhance the personal and shift to the organic by refocusing on the naturally-derived hallucinogen, mescaline. Unlike LSD, mescaline never lies. Instead, the mescaline experience includes visual enhancements of originating truths.

Identical to the intricate components frozen in each of Chin's new works, these fleeting enhancements come in the form of recurring visual patterns such as stripes, checkerboards, angular spikes and other very simple fractals which can and ultimately do turn very complex. This, en total, surmises the intended shape of Chin's current exploration.

"Alex," Chin's most personal showing to date, represents a finite period, a series of particular months, connected by a hard line of earth tones, deliberately involved, only to be exhilerated through the mescaline eyes upon which they reflect. Catch a glimpse from the confines of your controlled mind as trip excerpts pause on the gallery walls. Bare witness, assuredly safe, as Chin completed the actual experience evoked, long, long ago.

Chin's showing at the Fecal Face Gallery also marks the release of his new limited-edition acid print. Entitled "No. 1.2." This signed and numbered print will be available through the gallery.

About Tofer Chin
Tofer Chin, a Los Angeles native, continues to exhibit, in both gallery and museum, in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Barcelona, Sao Paulo and Australia. Past works appear in The Los Angeles Times, Flaunt, Nylon, Theme, Trace, Big, Vice and Rojo. In 2006, Rojo published his first book of photography, entitled 'Finger Bang', and in 2008, published his highly anticipated follow-up, entitled 'Vacation Standards'. In 2009, Chin participated in ROJO - OUT Urban Stage Sao Paulo where he was selected to create a permanent site specific painting on three massive concrete structures in the center of Sao Paulo, Brazil. {moscomment}

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Your SF Photos

Last week we did our first themed Photo of the Day asking you to email in your quintessential San Francisco photos. We got so many great entries and couldn't squeeze them all in. So, here's a bit of overflow from the images emailed in.

Hola from Tequisquiapan Mexico

Hey there, I just got back from a short residency down in a small town two hours north of Mexico City called Tequisquiapan. I was asked to come down there to meet some of the crew of the Clipperton Project, which basically is going to be a crazy boat trip in March with scientists and artists going out to a very remote atoll in the Pacific called Clipperton Island. Anyways, I thought you might like to see some photos of the town and the graffiti that I was surprised to find there.

FFDG's Permanent Home

We can finally shut up about FFDG's fire, about FFDG's temp space, about all the transitions, because we signed a 2 year lease on a new space in the heart of the Mission District last night!

Real Etheral by Evan Mann

Real Ethereal embraces our mysterious relationship with life. It blends the physical with the metaphysical on a journey through an ever-transitioning space where common interactions become extraordinary and perception ventures into the otherworldly. Real Ethereal examines possibilities of unseen realities and metaphorically represents the winding path that reveals before us and conceals behind us; the future remains a mystery while the past fades quickly into the recesses of our mind. We are left with the present: the mysterious reality of our existence; the hair of time difficult to grasp.

High 5s: As The World Turns

... we look forward to the new year.

Josh Peters Interview

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Scanner Photography by Sean Vranizan

Recent UC Santa Cruz photography graduate Sean Vranizan emailed over this series of images he creates by using a scanner as a camera, upon which found and collected objects, both two-dimensional and three, were used in collage format.

Interview w/ Alex Ziv & Quinn Arneson

SF based artists Alex Ziv & Quinn Arneson are in their final year at the San Francisco Art Institute and open the two person show UNIBROW: BRIDGING THE GAP Thursday, Dec 8th at Gallery Heist.

Post War Years - All Eyes

Great new video by Philadelphia based director Tobias Stretch whose videos feature his puppet work - If you have some time, browse his other great bizarre dreamlike videos.

Double Breaks @Double Break

A few November weekends back, I headed down with Travis Millard and Jim Dirschberger for o Breaks, a group show curated by Jay Howell and Louis Schmidt, which opened 11.11.11 at Double Break store and gallery in San Diego, CA.

Dream Team in Sao Paulo - Part 2

Before the show it was pretty much just me and Pacolli painting the whole gallery and doing all the instalations and hanging all the work. lots of shit to be done. I also painted the front of Choque the week after the opening. And we had a little concert at Choque in which I played keyboard and two other folks played guitar and sang. Ephameron went there the day before the opening and did a tape installation as well. During the month we also had a zine/print/shirt sale at Choque as well. It all went very well and we had a blast! -Mildred

Pseudo-Advertising by Alexandros Vasmoulakis

I am dealing with a new series called "Pseudo-Advertising", where I focus upon the relationship between today�s muralism and the contemporary outdoor advertising.

Nick Howard

Got an email from Minneapolis, MN based artist Nick Howard with some works attached. Love the pieces.

Charles Martin for 11.11.11

Charles participated in the group show 11.11.11 at FFDG in Nov/ Dec 2011. He studies at Cooper Union NYC.

A Visit w/ Strange Bird

Last week, after swinging by Rebel 8 clothing's HQ in San Francisco, we swung by the HQ of Strange Bird Distribution distributors of Low Card, Think Skateboards, Hubba Wheels, etc...

A Visit w/ Rebel 8

Stopped through Rebel 8 clothing HQ last week to see what their up to. We've known Joshy D. 10 plus years back when he was doing the SF graffiti site, HiFiArt.com in the early days of the internet when Fecal Face was just getting its start. Nice to see Mike Giant, whose designs adjorn many of Rebel 8's clothing, and Josh doing so well.

Steven Riddle @Water McBeer

Water McBeer Gallery is proud to announce its curent solo exhibition "Dinner Guest" featuring work by Steven Riddle

Nathan Brown for 11.11.11

Nathan is curently showing in the group show 11.11.11 up now @FFDG here in San Francisco through Dec 17th.

Sage Vaughn @Fifty24SF

Los Angeles based Sage Vaughn opened up Runaways at SF's Fifty24SF last Saturday.

BIG DEATH SPANK

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Chicago's Andrew Mongenas

Chicago based artist/ craftsman and Chicago Art Institue graduate Andrew Mongenas' sculpture works.


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Mark Whalen & Autolux
Wednesday, 08 February 2012, 10:59am

Mark Whalen (Kill Pixie), who's showing with Jay Howell at FFDG w/ an opening set for Sat., Feb 18th (6-9pm), did paintings for Autolux's new video for The Science of Imaginary Solutions which was animated & directed by Thomas McMahan. The video premieres online Feb 12th at midnight.

Before the online release, they're hosting a preview party Sat evening across from LACMA in LA to celebrate and screen the new video. ~complete details.

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Mission Map Project
Tuesday, 07 February 2012, 12:46pm

A bunch of Mission district businesses here in SF (Mike Giant, Benny Gold, Joshy D, and others) got together to put together a Mission Map of businesses you should check out. Map and app release party goes down Saturday @111 Minna in SF (7-10pm)... We just moved FFDG to the Mission and didn't make the 1st version to be included. There are talks of a future V2 release.

Mike Giant talking about the Mission Map project

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MCD Prints Online
Saturday, 04 February 2012, 4:25pm

We still have a few prints left from the MCD show @FFDG. 4 color silk screens from the likes of Jeremy Fish, Aiyana Udesen, Matt Furie, and others for $75.

Jeremy Fish 4 color silk screen print

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Fecal Face's New Intern
Friday, 03 February 2012, 4:00pm

Say hi to Fecal Face & FFDG's new intern, Alexander Uhrich, who's in his last year at SFAI. He has to put in 90 hours of work, so you'll be seeing a lot of him.

Check his site to check his photography... Mucho eye entertainment to be viewed.

Photo by Alexander Uhrich

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Fecal Face Tumblr
Friday, 03 February 2012, 2:31pm

Hey, if you're a Tumblr fan, Fecal Face is on there as well. We'll be posting a taste of what you see here on the site... Tumblr was nice enough to give us fecalface.tumblr.com since someone had it but never made a post on it... You know what? Wonder if we claimed it years back and forgot about it. Hum.

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Texting by Albert Reyes
Friday, 03 February 2012, 1:55pm

Love this piece by Albert Reyes that's now showing in Future Colors of America @FFDG through Feb 11th. ~more.

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Ryan Wallace & Chris Duncan - Toronto Fri
Wednesday, 01 February 2012, 10:13am

Ryan Wallace & Chris Duncan open Transmission Lines in Toronto at Cooper Cole Gallery Friday, Feb 3rd.

Wallace and Duncan's linear variations of shape explore the margins of time and space while echoing the unstable tension between vision, perception, and reflection. Both artists explore a variety of materials to great visual effect. ~complete show details.

Polemic 5 by Ryan Wallace

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The Story of Sue Nami
Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 9:36am

In the days following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, I was asked to make a poster for the Devo show at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco. The image was a Japanese girl, wearing a nuclear t shirt, with the kanji character for earth tattooed on her shoulder. She was dead. I called her Sue Nami, and much to my surprise, the band liked it. ~keep reading Zolton's story of Sue.

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Josh Short @Ever Gold, Tonight
Thursday, 02 February 2012, 11:18am

Ever Gold in SF opens a month long residency with Josh Short's Bomb Shelter Radio and Tenderloin Self- Defense Club tonight, Thurs (6-10pm). Check the video for a complete picture of what to expect.

Over the course of his residency at Ever Gold Gallery, Josh Short will build "Bomb Shelter Radio" and host several live sonic events that will include experimental noise transmissions, live metal and hardcore bands, and subversive FM radio interventions. This will also be aided by guerrilla public installations of radios installed around the Tenderloin bringing his interventions directly to the street as a form of audio graffiti. During the day the gallery will become the "Tenderloin Self-Defense Club", where Short will offer martial arts instruction to the neighborhood inhabitants, artists, and musicians. ~show details

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F.C.A. @FFDG Opening Pics
Monday, 30 January 2012, 10:05am

A few pics from last week's opening of Future Colors of America @FFDG.

The rain came down hard on the 20th but people came through to view the massive show featuring works from Albert Reyes, Aiyana Udesen, and Matt Furie. The show runs through Feb 11th.

Albert Reyes (right)

Lizzy and Martin of the Vapor Room

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