Two great dudes stopped through FFDG. Daniel brought some of the tasty INDIO beer, and Jeremy Fish brought his wonderful self... Got some tasty to get us through the hot month of August... Wait, we're in San Francisco. Meant: warm August month.

'Bout time we got a beer sponsor with all the beer that gets drunk up in here.

Planned a bike ride to Sausalito this early AM (w/ a quick Hamburger Haven stop) but was foiled when we got to the Golden Gate Bridge and found it closed to bicyclists and pedestrian. We later learned it was due to some dude who climbed a cable to the top of the South Tower and spent the night till he was arrested this morning. Damn, can't imagine doing that without a harness... Remember this crazy ass post from awhile back?!

GG Bridge Climber this AM

Landing each hurried step within the narrow space from which my feet would not slip off the round cable I ran. Needing to get above the streetlights and not having time for fall protection I reminded myself to fall to the left should I slip.

One of the best in the city

Tonight, Friday 8/3, 111 Minna opens the 5 person group show Lethal Injection (5pm-late) featuring works from Robert Bowen, Isaac Pierro, Philip Lawson & Nicolas Giraud | Including featured portraits by Jason Mitchell & Stacey Ransom.

Although these three artists practice a variety of artistic mediums successfully, they will primarily be focusing on and delivering paintings for the Lethal Injection exhibition, but special guest artist, Philip Lawson will display his handmade weapons of light.

Work break for you San Franciscans. A little short video on the history of the Sutro Baths... Did you know that the zoo's parking lot used to be the Fleishhacker Pool, a pool was so large that lifeguards required kayaks to patrol it. Huge.

Ok, back to wrapping the Giant prints

Oakland based Brett Amory opens Dirty Laundry at LA's Thinkspace this Saturday, August 4th.

Thinkspace is pleased to present Dirty Laundry, an exhibition of new work by painters Brett Amory and Adam Caldwell. Amory and Caldwell each mobilize their unique representational strategies to invoke the modern day disconnect between time and space, self and other, and present and past.
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Fresh Bread Daily does 10 questions with Henry Gunderson who's out in NYC working on his upcoming show with Eric Shaw at FFDG opening Friday, Sept 14th.

Henry Gunderson's show at The Luggage Store last

Please tell me a little bit about yourself and your practice.
It is really hard for me to eat an apple. I like black socks. I don’t like cutting my fingernails. I can't remember my social security number or my astrological sign. I don't sleep with a pillow. My art practice is always growing but is predominantly painting and is the focus of mostly all energy. A lot of what I do is still a mystery to me that I'm solving and unsolving.

What have you been doing since graduating?
I graduated a couple months ago and drove across the United States with 3 other dudes in a van (see the post) and now I'm in New York for an indefinite period of time. I've been working on a series of drawings and doing a little bit of art production assistant work for MTV.
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Thanks again to the fine folks at INDIO beer for providing the tasty suds at Mike Giant's opening @FFDG last week. Meant to thank them before, but spaced it... In any regard, this new beer to the United States via Mexico is tasty, mellow and damn fine icy cold like how we served it... We'd for sure take some more of their complimentary cases to give out at openings in the future.

INDIO beer at FFDG during Mike Giant's opening

Today in awesome Mission signage.

As seen across the street from FFDG.

We won Southern Exposure's Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts supported grant in 2007 and used the money to buy a nice new camera. It's a wonderful program, and if you're a Bay Area based unincorporated groups, burgeoning art and gathering spaces, publications, websites, collectives, events, and projects that fall outside the traditional frameworks of support, you should apply.

Southern Exposure raised the awards to $5,000 per recipient this year. In previous rounds, the maximum grant award was $3,500. In 2012, Southern Exposure hopes to invest additional funds into each project, acknowledging the rising costs of our region and the ambition of potential projects.

Southern Exposure's Alternative Exposure grant program was launched in 2007 in partnership with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The program aims to fuel the energy of the Bay Area visual arts community and encourage the vibrant artistic activity that occurs on the ground level - artists or groups of artists making and presenting work in a committed but informal way. Now entering its sixth year, SoEx has awarded $286,000 in direct funds to 88 Bay Area projects through the first four rounds of Alternative Exposure.
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In random trip down memory lane, here's the cover/ back page and a spread from the 2nd Fecal Face zine (pre web) circa 1998... Check out the 1st issue of Fecal Face and read a lil' monkey story.

Zines are for filling full of your photos and wordages

Ok, this is a San Francisco shirt we can get behind besides a classic Giants logo or a ripping Escape from Alcatraz jimmy jam.

You purchase one of these Tucker Nichols designed Tees over at our friend's Park Life for $28.

This is a San Francisco shirt we can get behind designed by Tucker Nichols.

We got to check out Tiffany Bozic's forthcoming book Drawn by Instinct (published through Gingko Press) last night, and it's a beauty. 150 high quality pages features Bozic's line of work over the last 10 or so years. It's out in approx. 3 weeks time, and as soon as we know where you can buy one, we'll let you know. Will retail for $40 and worth every penny.

Tiffany Bozic and her new book out through Gingko Press

111 Minna hosts another round of Sketch Tuesdays tonight going from 5pm till midnight. Tonight's round features an all female grouping of artists. They draw live in front of you and you have the chance to purchase works you like for a good price. A nice Tuesday evening jam.
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The art/ culture/ skate magazine King Brown is about to drop their 8th issue with a massive party this Thursday, July 26th, in NYC at Klughaus Gallery featuring a new mural by Mike Giant, artworks from the likes of Mike Giant, Dave Kinsey, Grotesk, Kevin Lyons, Morning Breath, Jay Howell and many others. There's also to be a best trick skate competition across the street hosted by Steve Rodriguez/5boro. All goes down 6-11pm.
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Thanks to everyone who came out to Mike Giant's opening of Confessions of an Old Dirty Skateboarder on Friday @FFDG. Thanks to Alex Uhrich for helping serve prints, Amy Harrity for shooting photos (up in a few days), INDIO for the beers, and to Giant for signing prints and being an all around solid & talented dude.

Come through and see the show. Hours: Wed thru Sat (1-6pm)... We'll also have some prints and images of the work online in a couple days. Stay tuned for that.

Mike Giant up at FFDG through August 11th