Exhibit #4 for this year, and best of all you can go shopping during this one...
Gabe Scelta at Good Vibrations
November 3rd - December 8th
1620 Polk Street (At Sacramento)
San Francisco, CA
Reception: November 13, 2008 6pm-8pm
Gabe Scelta
Come eat some cheese!
Come drink some wine!
Come see my stuff!
Did I mention the wine?
The Crest Art Show in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (which
includes one piece of mine and one from my mom) was featured over the weekend
in the New York Times.
In Williamsburg Store, Customers Find Art Among the Wrenches
One night last month, Joe Franquinha closed the store after the last customer left and turned the artists loose to set up their work... Read more >>
Photos from the Fucking Daphne Kick Off Reading at City Lights Bookstore are up in Marlo Gayle's Flickr Stream. You can't tell from the photos but I am completely chuffed to be reading at Lawrence Ferlinghetti's shop.
Photo by Marlo Gayle, 2008
A recording of my portion of the reading is available at DubLit
Both my mom (Bernadette Scelta) and I have pieces in the Crest Art Show in my hometown, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The show runs from June 7th to July 11th, 2008. Go take a look if you're in the area. You can see some photos of our art in the show on my Fickr stream.
We just finished some data cleaning and customer segmentation at work.
According to Claritas, and based only on my address, this is the
description of the person who lives in my apartment:
Segment 04: Young Digerati
Young Digerati are the nation's tech–savvy singles and couples living
in fashionable neighborhoods on the urban fringe. Affluent, highly
educated and ethnically mixed, Young Digerati communities are
typically filled with trendy apartments and condos, fitness clubs and
clothing boutiques, casual restaurants and all types of bars–from
juice to coffee to microbrew.
ouch.
and creepy.
When people ask me what I do without a TV, I should just send them to this article: Gin, Television & Social Surplus. She heard this story and she shook her head and said, "Where do people find the time?" That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, "No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you've been masking for 50 years." So how big is that surplus? So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project--every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in--that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. I worked this out with Martin Wattenberg at IBM; it's a back-of-the-envelope calculation, but it's the right order of magnitude, about 100 million hours of thought. And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit, that's 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television. Or put still another way, in the U.S., we spend 100 million hours every weekend, just watching the ads. This is a pretty big surplus. ...but incidentally, Clay, your MT commenting script is broken, so I can't use my surplus effectively, so I'm posting this instead. This calculation alone is pretty mind blowing. I was talking to someone a while ago about why US soccer fans aren't as ravenous as soccer fans just about everywhere else in the world. For me, it came down to american TV consumption. Soccer fans everywhere else - or even in newly-emigrated populations here - grown men are going out on their lunch time or days off to play the sport that they are interested in following. They are invested because they are involved, even if it is only in their neighborhood game, while here in the US, most of the time they are just watching it passively. If we could get American politics to be more like soccer everywhere else, things would probably look a lot brighter. I'm not pessimistic about this ideal, but I'm not holding my breath either.
Where: The Gallery Space @ Eros, 2051 Market Street, San Francisco
When: April 17, 2008, 5pm-8pm
What: This will be showcasing my most recent work, figure drawings & paintings. I'd love to see you all there!
