OPENING PHOTOS <-- Solid lineup for the first show of this new San Francisco gallery space owned by Andres Guerrero, previous co-owner of White Walls. Chris Hamilton brings the flicks and text.

A TOOL TO DECEIVE AND SLAUGHTER (2009) <-- It is a physical sculpture that is perptually attempting to auction itself on eBay... Every ten minutes the black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet connection to check if it is for sale on the eBay. If its auction has ended or it has sold, it automatically creates a new auction of itself. Work by Caleb Larsen --> Check this interesting interview with Caleb from NPR's On the Media discussing the project. Totally radical.

FISH UPDATES FROM THE ROAD <-- he's out in Austin for a show opening Saturday @Okay Mountain then heads to Denver for a show opening March 20th. Check it.

So just starting to work on my 45 min. Semi-Permanent talk set for March 19th in Sydney. Hum, what to talk about? What would people wanna know? If you spent money and this Fecal Face guy came onto the stage to speak, what would you wanna know/ hear me ramble about? Probably a good idea to get your opinions before I get too far into this. Your thoughts much appreciated.

You just heard it seconds ago. It happens every Tuesday @12pm here in San Francisco. Well, this short film will teach you what that siren is all about.

From Goddard's Band of Outsiders

SOME PHOTOS <-- from the Armory show which went down in NYC last weekend. Marty shot a few works that caught his eye.

I'M SPEAKING AT THIS YEAR'S SEMI PERMANENT IN SYDNEY MARCH 19TH <-- yep, I am to a (*gulp) whole lot of people... along with many other talented folks such as Mel Kadel and Travis Millard. If you're in that side of the world, get your tickets now. We'll be blogging from our travels beginning next week.

Chris Hamilton made it over to the Partisan Gallery last Thursday to check out Liz Harris & Jamie Potter's show. Grouper performed as well --> PHOTOS AND WORDS

PHOTOS <-- from openings at 111 Minna and Ever Gold last Thursday here in San Francisco. Artists Seth Armstrong & Christopher Russell @111 Minna with works from David Mark Grant and Chadwhick Heath Moore - both nice shows. Check the pics.

The internet, shacks, Michael Sieben, Tacos, Austin, mini ramps... I've seen the first episode. It makes me happy, and it will thus make you happy. --> but wait, THERE'S MORE

ARTY ART SHOWS TONIGHT/ SATURDAY: Our trusty gallery watcher and Free Fridayz assembler, Ashley Taylor is showing some of her photos along with a grip of other talented shutter bugs tonight at the home art space 31 Rausch down in the SOMA. 31 Rausch showcases work under $200 and artists receive 100% of the sales. Nice place. Show Details 6-10pm
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The brand spanking new Guerrero Gallery opens tonight with a super solid group show. Beautiful huge 3,000 square foot space and complimentary beverages. Not to be missed. Check the lineup. Expect great things from this new gallery in the Mission. 2700 19th 7-11pm
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Down at White Walls/ Shooting Gallery/ Gallery Three in the Tenderloin (same building) is a grip of shows opening tonight. @White Walls you have two artists creating paintings of street scene snap shots of facades adjourned in graffiti - Kevin Cyr and Jessica Hess - @The Shooting Gallery will be Aaron Nagel's naked ladies paintings - upstairs at Gallery Three will be work from Jessica Whiteside. All worth getting to and all in one convenient location. 835 Larkin St 7-11pm
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Just down the street from the previous art complex is the newish Gallery Heist and they're showing work from artists who live in the Tenderloin and one of them is no other than Megan Wolfe who you may have seen FFDG gallery sitting. show details - 679 Geary St 7-11pm
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More shows: Jerry Ross Barrish @Sculpturesite Gallery - 100 Performance For The Hole At SOMArts - T.w Five ON TIME @ SOAP - Austin McManus @FreeGoldWatch - Babylon Salon @Cantina SF.

SAVE YOUR LAPTOP/ CELL PHONE BATTERY LIFE <-- by unpluging it from time to time.

That was a late night last night and only the first night in three with many-a-opening. Tonight see: SOEX MONSTER DRAWING RALLY <-- you should know by now that a crap load of artists draw live while you wonder around looking over their shoulders. You get excited and bid on thier work when it's posted to a wall. The night beneits SOEX and costs $10 to get in. Good cause and it's kinda a SF art convention of sorts as everyone seems to be there chatting and mingling. @Verdi Club 2424 Mariposa 6-11pm --> --> Been a long time since we've seen Dave Schubert's b/w photos of general debauchery. He's showing tonight @Electric Works with woodblock print artist Harry Clewans & Jeremiah Maddock - Show Details 130 8th St. 6-8pm Brian Barneclo is about to start a massive mural project at 7th and Townsend St based on Systems of all sorts. Tonight's show @Fabric 8 coincides with it. Show Details 7-10pm 3318 22nd St near Valencia

Help San Francisco become even a better/ safer place to ride your bike. They've released a new FREE app for the IPhone called CYCLETRACKS which records your bike route and then uploads it to the Transportation Authority's servers so they can help plan bike lanes/ routes/ lights/ etc... They can easily record auto info, but not bikes. By using CycleTracks, you'll be helping San Francisco's transportation planners better understand the needs of cyclists - and you'll get to see maps and statistics of your rides. Be a good citizen and use it from time to time.

Wow, it's the first of the month once again?! --> Here are some shows that we're going to check out, and there are many more on the calendar SF-NYC-LA --> Liz Harris/Jamie Potter/Grouper @Partisan Gallery <-- Never been to this cozy gallery space located in someone's home, but after a bit of research, we've noticed they've some good shows and has wet the whistle for tonight's. Seattle based Jamie Potter showing some video works with Liz Harris (of Grouper performing @8pm) focusing on drawings involving intricate black ink work. 112 Guerrero Street between Duboce and Clinton Park (6-9pm). details. Plastastik @Ever Gold Gallery <-- featuring eco-styled works from David Mark Grant and Chadwhick Heath Moore create works out of plastic which is a wink at rich guy David de Rothschild's sailing plastic garbage boat with the same name 'Plastastik' also created for enviro ideas. Hopefully the art show tonight doesn't try sailing to Australia. 6-9pm near Union Square. More info <-- --> Fort Big Mountain @111 Minna <-- features work from Oakland painters Christopher Russell and Seth Armstrong. We've admired Christopher Russell's work for sometime. Excited to see what he's up to these days. Opening 5-late. Details.

Megawords is a Philadelphia based free, non-commercial printed publication. This Friday, March 5th, Megawords is celebrating the opening of a new exhibition at Printed Matter in New York City. The show will offer an introduction to the entire project, including displays of all past issues, photos and work by Megawords and Megawords contributors, and other related ephemera and inspiration. In addition, a light and sound installation will be on view for the show's opening.

Another week has about passed (damn, that was quick), and another round of Free Fridayz will go live on Friday (or Sat) with yet another mature theme. This week's: Adult Diapers. Get your work in by Friday like Renato from Sao Paulo, Brasil has. Email your entries to freefridayz(at)fecalface.com

OPENING PHOTOS <-- from Jonathan Levine's 5 year anniversary show which opened last weekend in NYC. J.L. Schnabel brings back some photos and text.

Ok, some things are too good not to post.

PHOTOS <-- from the inaugural show of the new gallery Second Street in Hong Kong featuring works from Wu Yue (France) and Jasper Wong (USA).

Our buddy FISH DID A TEE FOR SNOOP DOG?!

OPENING PHOTOS <-- from Saturday's opening of Pythagorean Nightmare @Receiver Gallery where SF based artist Owen Schuh created a drawing machine... That wooden robot makes better work than a lot of people we know.

FRIDAY IS SOEX'S 10TH YEAR OF ITS MONSTER DRAWING RALLY <-- going down again at the Verdi Club. The evening will consist of four one-hour shifts with approximately 30 artists drawing simultaneously each hour. As the drawings are completed they will be hung on the walls and available for purchase for $60 each. Way too many artists to name. $10 for entry, but all proceeds help to support Southern Exposure's Exhibitions and Artists in Education Programs. Bonus: bike parking and curbside tacos for sale. Friday 6-11pm @Verdi Club - 2424 Mariposa. --> JOHN CASEY BLOGGED UP LAST YEAR'S EVENT.

Wanna get to understand the Norway Black Metal scene a little better, be sure to check out Until The Light Takes Us which focuses on the rampant music scene which lead to murder and church burnings in the mid 90s. Formerly San Francisco-based filmmakers Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell lived amongst the bands to get this intimate portrait of the scene and what transpired a decade or so back... Playing in Berkeley at the Elmwood Theater on Friday 3/5 --> As a warmup, you may wanna download our death metal podcast compiled by French.

GETUNCOMMON.COM <-- seems there are a million custom IPhone computer skin setups out there, but Uncommon seems pretty good (plus there are a couple Fecal Face skins up there). You can scale/ resize/ select/ upload your own artwork and images. Check it out.

PAINTING WITH LIGHT

THE TRAILER FOR THE RADIANT CHILD <-- Directed by Tamra Davis, the documentary features never-before seen footage of the prolific artist painting, talking about his art, and existing in the two years prior to his death in 1988. -view the trailer - The film, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance last month, was released February 21 and will be shown at SXSW.

HANGOVER-LESS ALCOHOL?! <-- Korean researchers have found a way of tweaking booze to limit the fallout - without cutting its strength.

FURTHER <-- order your copy now. We're dropping a bunch in the mail later today. The book is solid weighing in at over 4 pounds featuring work from artists Mars-1, Nome Edonna, Oliver Vernon, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Damon Soule, David Choong Lee, and Robert Hardgrave... The book is thick (353 pages!) and very nicely printed --> CHECK OUR PREVIEW - BUY HERE FOR $40

Don Pendleton just wrapped up this great mural @Juice Design here in SF. And if you're walking down 16th you should check out tyhe new mural out front by Charlie Callahan (collaboration with Cory Stafford). Thanks for the flics, Andrew. See previous murals they've had here.

ERIN SMITH <-- Australian artist who creates digital illustrations out numbers and letters. Best seen up close to appreciate.

Congrats to Andres Guerrero who opens his new gallery, Guerrero Gallery, this Saturday March 6th here in San Francisco. Andres used to be co-owner of White Walls and decided to take things in a new direction with this incredible looking space. Check the photos. Saturday's show features work from Brian Willmont, Christopher Russell, Richard Colman, Aaron Noble, Ryan Scott Shaffer, Tim Diet, Ryan Wallace, Rogelio Martinez, Adam 5100, Hilary Pecis, Mark Mulroney, Ala Ebtekar, Eric Yahnker, AJ Fosik, Mike Lesage, Allister Lee, Cleon Peterson, Ryan Travis Christian, Marissa Textor, Shepard Fairey and Bill McRight --> AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDRES @JUXTAPOZ - 2700 19th

PHOTOS <-- from last Friday's opening of Bro Palace @Park Life here in San Francisco featuring works from Skinner, Porous Walker, Jay Howell, Deth P Sun and Ferris Plock. Live performance from Thee Ohsees. --> fun night for sure.

Love seeing Thee Ohsees and last night's show Bro Palace at Park Life was another opportunity, but again a miss. Found ourselves outside not wanting to endure the crowd, but did you get any photos of the band/ art/ you/ your friends? If so, email them on over. We'd love to include them in our show coverage... You totally like so rule. photos(at)fecalface.com

OPENING PHOTOS <-- from Hiro Kurata, Tat Ito, & Tristram Lansdowne @Joshua Liner in NYC until March 13th

Got a late start today as we didn't leave Kelly Tunstall and Ferris Plock's (plus little Brixton) studio until 3am last night. Thanks for the dinner and awesome hospitality. We'll be editing the video and will get the studio visit up next week.

Be sure to get your Free Fridayz in this week for the theme: Super Cool Jesus - like David Venable from Denton, Texas has. We'll add them up Saturday to give you a little extra time.

Got an email from the founder of a SF based website called One Night Music - a collective of volunteers who film intimate live performances of independent songwriters and bands in the San Francisco Bay Area. They just launched an excellent new session featuring the music of the emerging San Francisco band Honeycomb playing 5 songs at Blue Six. Honeycomb's self-titled EP (recorded at Hyde St. Studio and Tiny Telephone) releases at Noise Pop this Friday during their performance with John Vanderslice at the Swedish American Music Hall --> SEE MORE VIDEOS HERE

FURTHER <-- we just got copies of the new great book from artists Mars-1, Nome Edonna, Oliver Vernon, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Damon Soule, David Choong Lee, and Robert Hardgrave... The book is thick (353 pages!) and very nicely printed --> CHECK OUR PREVIEW - BUY HERE FOR $40