AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Join us for our weekly salon of art and fashion. Last week international leather designer Steve Roche stopped by to discuss speed traps in Elysian Park, canine dentistry, and the dusty cobblestone streets of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Who will stop by this week? The coffee will be on, NO RSVP NECESSARY.

Tawny Featherston and Howard Seth Cohen

check out this Sunday's salon's webpage on pingg,
http://MrMrs.pingg.com/April27-2008

Mr.Mrs.
4634 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90027

SATUR​DAY,​ APRIL​ 26

SOUR HARVE​ST & VENIC​E GRIND​ PRESE​NT
CANNI​BAL FLOWE​R
TRAVE​LING GROUP​ SHOW & PERFO​RMANC​E SPACE​
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FEATU​RED ARTIS​T
* JOSE CARAB​ES

LIVE PERFO​RMANC​E
*​PIEL MUSIC​

LIVE PAINT​ING
*​CHING​-​CHING​ CHENG​

GROUP​ SHOW

Being a model for life drawing classes is not particularly exciting; if anything, it is a testament to endurance, among other things.

While standing naked in front of a group of strangers you drop certain pretexts of perfection and hope to hell the students overlook the flaws you do worry about and really focus on muscle groups and mathematics of space and balance.

There is no glamour, no image or fantasy to project, and no way to hide a single thing as you would on a stage.

It is just you, simplified and straight forward.

Often the instructor might put on some music with which to create a relaxing mood for all involved.

Last week was my first week at Cal State for a class of beginners of varying age groups.

Hey Fam,

If you're free on Friday night (April 25th), come on out for a night of fun at the Hilton-Woodbridge.

I'll be playing 3 live sets of cover songs from
yesterday and today with the Blue Diamond Band.
We'll be pumping up the house with songs from
Can't Help Myself to Sexy Back...and beyond.

I hope you can make it out. For more info, check my website (news and calender). www.robertanton.com

Much Love,

Robert Anton

LA Ampers,
Below is a message from Tom Roche, associate producer of "Dare Not Walk Alone," a new documentary bringing light to the civil rights struggles in St. Augustine, Florida.

A trailer is available here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9lh4dGMHjo

Please spread the word about this tremendous project. It will run downtown for a week, beginning Friday.

Greetings,

I'm an Atlanta film editor needing just a little help. A film I edited recently is opening in Los Angeles this weekend for its first run... without a lot of press. It is a stark but hopeful documentary about the civil rights battle in St. Augustine Florida in 1964.

It is an exceptional doc. Period.

DAY 1, WEDNESDAY

gotussome people weve
gotussome foreigners weve
gotussome prisoners weve
gotussome terrorists they say weve
gotussome nasty little critters
gotussome leverage now weve
gotussome col-lat-er-al

50th Anniversary of the Debut of the Peace Logo Celebrated

ALDERMASTON, UK.-The 50th anniversary of the debut of the peace logo
and the first Aldermaston march was marked by the family of designer
Gerald Holtom by traveling to Aldermaston. Gerald Holtom died in
1985. He designed the logo in 1958 for a march and based it on the
fallen arms of a man in despair, while the semaphore signals for "N"
and "D" combine within the circle of life.

Darius and Rebecca Holtom, his son and daughter, travelled from
Montpellier in France to join the rally.

Darius Holtom, aged 41, said: "It's hard to believe it has taken off
and has dispersed miraculously all around the world. I think it's
amazing, and it's great there's at least a symbolt that people can

ZER01 Invites the World To Experience Art on the Edge at 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival

SAN JOSE, CA.- ZER01, organizers of 01SJ, a Global Festival of Art on the Edge, announced plans for its second biennial festival here, June 4-8. 01SJ will feature transformative and provocative new works from world-renowned artists and performers at the cross-section of contemporary art, technology, and culture. The five-day Festival will incorporate exhibitions, films, concerts, performances, happenings, and nightlife occurring throughout downtown San Jose's parks, public streets, museums, theaters, and clubs.

http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html

It's really a simple story Beings find planet. Beings treat planet badly. Planet goes about her business. Beings start to realize that they need planet, and had best learn to make friends rather than futilely keeping up enmity.

Gaea: A Ritual Performance

layers of imagery, music, tribal drums, futuristic dreams

Gaea was there, in the beginning. Gaea was all. Gaea was wise.
How could we not have seen, in the blindness of pride, of avarice,
of service pledged to false gods?

The journey was long.
The journey was cold.
The journey was lonely.

Asleep in a box with wilderness dreams. Or awake on the watch, wondering what was to come.