eardrumbuzz: events

Sun, 06 Mar 2005 22:12:42 GMT

Located in New York City and now open in Los Angeles, teaches students the popular and musical art form of the DJ.

The mission of the Scratch DJ Academy is simple: Education and Access. Scratch intends to educate amateur DJ's and enthusiasts by providing them with the necessary equipment and instruction to learn this popular art form, as well as preaching its benefits through traveling symposiums, staged theater productions, and consumer and educational publishing.

Furthermore, Scratch aims to unify, legitimize, validate and extend the role and importance of the DJ into new arenas, by extracting the value of the DJ as an art, a hobby and a profession, constructively disseminating it to the public.

Thu, 18 Nov 2004 01:58:43 GMT

Election Verification Project Press Conference.

Washington, DC - A national coalition of voting rights and computer security experts will hold a post-election press conference to provide a preliminary analysis of electronic voting problems and solutions, and their implications for increasing voters' confidence in the legitimacy of elections.

Speakers will be:

- Kim Alexander, California Voter Foundation
- Lillie Coney, National Committee for Voting Integrity/Electronic Privacy Information Center
- David Dill, Ph.D., Verified Voting Foundation
- Will Doherty, Verified Voting Foundation/Election Incident Reporting System
- Chellie Pingree, Common Cause
- Matt Zimmerman, Electronic Frontier Foundation

WHEN: Thursday, November 18, 2004, 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

WHERE: Cabinet Room, Beacon Hotel and Corporate Quarters (formerly Governor's House Hotel) 1615 Rhode Island Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. (Metro Stop: Dupont Circle or Farragut North)

The Election Verification Project is a coalition of technology, legal and voting rights organizations promoting transparency and accountability in the voting process. The Project advances reforms that reduce computerized voting risks, and fosters public confidence in the integrity and accuracy of the electoral process.

The California Voter Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization promoting and applying the responsible use of technology to improve the democratic process. CVF-NEWS is a free, electronic newsletter featuring news and updates about the California Voter Foundation's projects and activities.

Contacts:

Faye Anderson
Election Verification Project
(718) 369-6059 cell

Matt Zimmerman
Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
mattz@eff.org

[EFF: Breaking News]

Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:24:59 GMT

Vertigo Road.
Wed, November 10th - 9:30
The Gig
7302 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles
323.936.4440
$6 (21 and over please)

Sat, 19 Jun 2004 22:06:41 GMT

Lessig speaks on tech IP law and indie filmmaking at LA Film Festival.
Saturday June 26 at the Directors Guild in Los Angeles from 10AM - 1PM:

Symposium on Copyright, Piracy, and the Future of Independent Filmmaking: The MPAA's screener ban was a wake-up call to the independent film community. With our future threatened, the community joined together and was eventually successful in defeating the ban in federal court. But policy is being created every day, at every level, that impacts the channels for distribution, access to independent films, and the protection of creative rights. This symposium (the first of two parts) offers a forum for critical analysis and debate about these important issues -- issues that are not easily or often addressed among the very people they impact most: independent filmmakers. Our goal is to form strategic alliances that will help us maintain and extend a production and distribution environment where independent filmmaking can continue to thrive. Part II of the Symposium will take place at the IFP Market in New York on September 26.
Join Lawrence Lessig, named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries and author of The Future of Ideas and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace examine copyright and anti-piracy policies affecting the motion picture industry today and the future of the independent filmmaker. Following a coffee break, a panel of experts and advocates will join him, including Robert Greenwald, (Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War, Burning Bed), producer, director and documentary filmmaker.

$15, located at 7920 Sunset Blvd. @ Fairfax. More on the fest: Link
[Boing Boing]

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 20:45:08 GMT

Power Tool Drag Race in San Francisco.
It's time again for the annual Power Tool Drag Races in San Francisco! This Saturday and Sunday...

"See average schmoes go up agaist GEARHEADS GODS in the age old struggle for Power Tool SUPREMACY! Watch as the finest minds in mutated motors RIP SHRED and BURN the track to TWISTED CINDERS! Nibble your carcinogen-laden fingers in suspense as the competition gets down to the FINAL BLOODY SHOWDOWN!"
[Boing Boing]

Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:27:27 GMT

MacHack becomes ADHOC
ADHOC 2004 happens on July 21st through July 24th, a few weeks after Apple's Information Dissemination conference. This should give plenty of time to absorb what was said there, get some work done for your bosses, and come to ADHOC with great ideas for spontaneous projects. ADHOC is a great companion to WWDC; and if the budgets can't afford Apple's conference, ADHOC is a wonderful way to get an introduction and hands-on experience with Apple's new technologies.

Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:06:25 GMT

Dare To Be There
Registration is now open for Apple's 2004 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which will take place June 28 through July 2 at the Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco, CA. Early Bird registration for the annual Mac developer event is US$1,295 ($1,595 after April 30). This year's WWDC Session Tracks will provide in-depth coverage on numerous Apple-related technologies and areas, including: Application Technologies, Development Tools, Enterprise IT, Graphics and Media, Hardware Technologies, OS Foundations, and QuickTime Digital Media. As you may recall, Apple used WWDC 2003 to preview Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, and to introduce the Power Mac G5, iChat AV and iSight.

Wed, 30 Jul 2003 05:54:42 GMT

SYNESTHETIC :: VJ Battle @ Siggraph Wednesday July 30th, 2003 --- 7PM-2AM featuring DJ Jason Bentley Location: Aubergine
500 4th Ave. in the Gaslamp
San Diego, CA
619-232-8100 The Siggraph Conference 2003 held this year in San Diego CA. is the largest and best-attended conference for computer graphics and visual effects. Siggraph is notorious for revealing the latest technology related to the world of graphic art. Just as famous are the parties held in the evening, over the top productions are not the exception during Siggraph; they are the rule. Artist from around the world will converge at the San Diego Conference Center July 28th July 30th. Many of these artists are creator of multi-media designed for live video mixing. The VJ battle will be the first of its kind held during Siggraph.

Tue, 08 Jul 2003 00:09:33 GMT

The Mysteries.

Why are we here? Where did we come from? Where are we going? The theater has addressed these mysteries since the dawn of its existence. The Mysteries is a new adaptation of stories from the original shock and awe campaigns of the Old Testament to the New Testament stories that are still the source of ongoing conflict and bloodshed today, as seen by voices from the 12th through 20th century. Directed by Brian Kulick
July 19-September 28
Thursday-Saturday at 8:00pm, Sunday at 2:00pm
[TICKETS]
[Tim Robbins' The Actors' Gang]

Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:46:54 GMT

SF film event: "Bad Reception: Wireless Revolution in SF".
News of an interesting film screening on Friday in San Francisco:

Following a well-attended premiere screening before an enthusiastic crowd in January 2003, Artists' Television Access is once again presenting "Bad Reception: the Wireless Revolution in San Francisco" - a vital chronicle of San Francisco community resistance to the telecom industry. The dot-com era in San Francisco provoked responses from the activist community over live-work lofts, illegal evictions, and the displacement of working people and artists from their traditional communities. Less widely reported was the response by ordinary residents to another by-product of this technological revolution - the proliferation of wireless antennas to feed the booming use of cell phones throughout the city. FRIDAY, JUNE 13TH, 8 PM - $5; Artists Television Access, 992 Valencia Street - San Francisco. Discussion with the producers and invited guests follows.

[Boing Boing]

Wed, 28 May 2003 20:08:22 GMT

Novecento's Mid-Summer Night's SCREAM!!!
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Thursday, May 29th
Crystal Cove Promenade
8001 Pacific Coast Hwy in Newport Coast
$20 - proceeds go to Children's Hospital of Orange County
Free open bar plus hors d'heuvres

Thu, 08 May 2003 18:36:57 GMT

Be Here Now.

Be Here Now is a fundraiser supporting

The San Francisco Late Night Coalition (SFLNC)
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
The Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF)
The Nature Conservatory (NC)
ABurning Man (BM) memorial project for Court Demas.

The event will take place on May 24th, 2003, at Studio Z in San Francisco, California.

Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:20:31 GMT

Electronic Entertainment Expo 2003.

E32003
Los Angeles Convention Center
Exposition: May 14-16, 2003
Conference: May 13-15, 2003
[registration]

Mon, 21 Apr 2003 23:57:47 GMT

Apple to hold special event April 28.
Apple will have announcements that will be music to your ears.
[MacCentral]

Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:29:51 GMT

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Coachella 2003 - April 26 & 27
Saturday

Beastie Boys
Groove Armada
Amon Tobin
Nightmares On Wax
Christopher Lawrence
Badly Drawn Boy
Blue Man Group
and many more....

Sunday

Thievery Corporation
Timo Maas
Black Eyed Peas
Primal Scream
Sonic Youth
Deep Dish
Mouse On Mars
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Blue Man Group
and many more....

Sun, 16 Feb 2003 11:25:39 GMT

"Live from the Blogosphere" instant-replay.
(1) Right in the middle of the panel discussion, Ev gets a call on his cellphone and announces live for the first time in public -- in person, and by way of his blog -- that Google bought Blogger (specifically, Pyra Labs, the makers of Blogger).
(2) Holy crap. Holy crap. Holy crap.
(3) Also for the first time publicly, during the panel discussion Ev and Noah Glass demo Audblog, a new service that allows you to "call in" a post to your weblog via mobile phone. Your speech, or the ambient sounds around you, are recorded and transmitted to your blog by way of your cellphone. Like magic, the demo is delightfully simple and actually works.
(4) A couple hundred or so geeks, writers, and webloggers from near and far show up, wearing "Hello My Blog's Name is:" stickers, and blogging throughout the event via hiptops and WiFi-enabled laptops. Lots of bloggers who'd only known each others' work online met each other in person for the first time. This is extremely cool, and really fun to witness. The crowd overflows out of the packed gallery, into Chung King Road; attendees outside who are standing too far away from the gallery doors to hear the panelists clearly just whip out their laptops and crank up the live Shoutcast audio stream. This is insane. And somehow, it works.
(4) Doc Searls, Heather Havrilesky, Mark Frauenfelder, Tony Pierce , Susannah Breslin, and Ev roll up their sleeves and deconstruct the blogosphere with the overflow crowd. They disagree on plenty, but agree that this is the year that weblogs will hit the mainstream. For-profit blogs and commercial blogging services start now. How this will transform what we know as egalitarian, anarchic, grassroots blogging culture -- and mainstream media -- remains to be seen. At the end of an historic day when millions of people worldwide took free speech to the streets, it seems particularly fitting to be exploring the power and impact of cheap, instant, easy online publishing.
(5) Somehow, SOCALWUG's wireless LAN, the audio stream, and the video stream all work. Archived streams of audio and video will be available soon, and I'll post links here as soon as they are.
(6) John Von Seggern from digitalcutuplounge.com delivers a smokin' Asian-fusion DJ set from laptops -- and debuts a new mash-up we'll post here later this week.
(7) Everyone rolls down Chung King Road to a smoky, crusty, 61-year-old Chinatown dive bar for real-time streaming beer and live wireless conversation. Life is good.
Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]

Fri, 14 Feb 2003 03:21:51 GMT

"Blogosphere!" event update: video webcast! Shoutcast stream! Live DJs!.
This Saturday, February 15th, @ 7:30pm, I'll be co-hosting "Live from the Blogosphere!" at the Electronic Orphanage gallery in Chinatown, LA with Rhizome and the Reverse Cowgirl. The event is shaping up to be much fun -- and we're going to (crosses fingers humbly) do live audio and video webcasts so would-be attendees around the world can tune in.

Press release is here. Map is here. People are flying in from San Francisco, Seattle, and Chicago to attend, but thanks to some fierce WLAN love from Southern California Wireless Users Group, live video stream will run here for those who can't make it in person (RealPlayer required). Prefer audio? A live Shoutcast audio stream will be provided here, courtesy of Gabe and AvantBard. 802.11a and 802.11b WLANs will be in effect, so attendees can blog wirelessly via laptop throughout the evening.

Before and after the panel discussion and audience "town hall meeting" on the state of the blogosphere, master post-turntablist John Von Seggern (whose work was noted on BoingBoing here and here) will be spinning and mashing sick, dope, funky Asian-fusion grooves on his laptop. If you want to make a night out of it, galleries all along the Chung King Road art district are holding openings that evening. Get your food on before or after at local spots like Yang Chow, or Full House @ 963 North Hill Street. Afterparty at Hop Louie post-event, with mind-numbingly delicious Singapore Slings. Arrive early, as turn-out is expected to be strong. The Cowgirl says: "A $5 donation will be requested of you by the undeniable Chuckles the Clown at the door, or else she will get her spank on with your bootay." Meet BoingBoing's founding father Mark, plus Doc, Evan, Tony, Heather, Susannah, Beverly, me, and an overflow crowd of really cool geeks... just like you. See you there, or online.
[Boing Boing]

Fri, 07 Feb 2003 00:53:20 GMT

Conscious Living Expo in Los Angeles.
The definitive Body Mind Spirit Event on the West Coast with 15,000 participants, speakers exhibits, free lectures, healthy food and beautiful like-minded people.
FEATURING:

Margot Anand - Tantra and the Art of Sexual Exctasy
John Robbins - Keeping the Flame Alive
Marianne Williamson - Spiritual Victory In Difficult Times
Arianna Huffington - Conscious Politics
Rev John Morton - Agape Chior
Sean David Morton - The Exodus Generation
Caroline Casey - Visionary Activism
Concert For Peace w/ Dave Mason and Xenia Seabring
Barbara Marx Hubbard - Evolutionary Activism

Febuary 14-16, 2003
Los Angeles Airport Hilton and Skycenter

Thu, 23 Jan 2003 02:02:35 GMT

The Dead Zone.
New Episode: THE OUTSIDER
Premieres: Sunday, February 2, 10:00 PM
USA Network
Co-written by Steven D. Binder.

Fri, 17 Jan 2003 22:52:22 GMT

Supreme Beings of Leisure
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Thursday, January 30th, 8pm

The El Rey
5515 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, Ca. 90036
323-936-6400
[ticketmaster]

Fri, 17 Jan 2003 22:31:57 GMT

2003 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference.
April 22-25, 2003 Santa Clara, CA

Fri, 17 Jan 2003 21:19:27 GMT

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K I N E T I C A 4 - Abstraction / Animation / Music

The fourth of The iotaCenter's screening series, pays tribute to important works of abstraction in film and video, in Two Programs:

[1] The Sixties: Spirituality and Psychedelia

"The Sixties" follows the tradition of spiritual visual music into the 1960s and 1970s. The filmmakers in these decades expanded their imagery with new technologies including optical printing, video, the computer, and the elaborate multi-projector light-show. Some of these films have not been seen for decades, and were newly preserved for K4.

[2] The Contemporary Program of Abstraction

In the contemporary program of KINETICA 4, more recent 'visual music' animation will be screened - on film and video, both computer-animated and otherwise, from the 70s up to the present.

LACMA: Friday, January 17, and Saturday, January 18; 7:30 pm

Sun, 22 Dec 2002 00:04:22 GMT

Hess Events List - Macworld, SF, 2003

Macworld Expo keynote address

Wed, 18 Dec 2002 06:30:43 GMT


		Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs deliver the Macworld Expo keynote address from Moscone Center in San Francisco. See the live webcast right here on January 7 at 9am PT exclusively in QuickTime.

Fri, 13 Dec 2002 22:01:22 GMT

[Macro error: Can't evaluate the expression because the name "26443264" hasn't been defined.] Holiday Cheer @ Coffee Junction on Friday, 12/20 - 9:00pm

Oh the weather outside is frightful...
Ok, maybe it's not so bad, but believe me, the music will be delightful at

Coffee Junction
19221 Ventura Blvd
Tarzana, CA 91356
818-342-3405

This will be a really fun show. We will be singing some Christmas songs as well as some originals, including one brand new song. A great night to get into the Christmas spirit. Plus this show is even more special because Coffee Junction will be taking a break from the live music in the New Year. So get it while it's here!!

Come early and stay late for great music all night long.

8pm Susan Laurenzi - Folk Rock 'n Blues
9pm Vertigo Road - (Acoustic Style!)
10pm Mary White - Country

Love and Blessings to you and yours this holiday.

Peace!
K&D