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Cheap controled strobe lights?

write_guy — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:31:18 GMT

I’m trying to duplicate the effects of "Lightning strikes units" in a budget. If you don't know what that is cool. But if you have watched any David lynch films and the actor is bathed in a flashing strobey light that is controlled this is them. A simple strobe light pulses to fast and is no good. The before mentioned LS units cost way too much to rent for an artist of my paltry means. It’s a little off topic but I have seen some wacky stuff for cars perhaps that’s a way to go? Any help thanks

Duane

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Night Light: An Evening of Luminous Environments

Phil — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:02:13 GMT

Night Light: An Evening of Luminous Environments

On the evening of May 17th, 2008, the entire building that houses Climate Theater and Gallery NINE (formerly the Anon Gallery) will be taken over by a select group of artists who use light and electricity. 22 eclectic spaces including two theater spaces, multiple rooms as well as a rooftop garden will be filled with illuminated installations, projections, sculptures and performances. The curation is by a group of local artists who are the visual arts and film curators for Climate Theater.

Please join us for this very exciting and unique event!

Saturday May 17th, 2008
8pm-midnight
$7-10 sliding scale admission

Climate Theater/Gallery NINE
285 9th St (at the corner of Folsom)
San Francisco, CA 94103
www.climatetheater.com

Climate Theater is an alternative arts space in San Francisco's SOMA district that encourages the development of non-traditional performance and experimental work with a focus on collaboration and exploration. Established in 1985, Climate is known for such innovative landmark programs as the Solo Mio Festival, which helped launch the careers of Josh Kornbluth, Anne Galjour and Justin Bond and is currently home to the weekly Music Box Series, Night Vision experimental film series and a wide variety of new circus and other theatrical events. The Climate is run by artistic director Jessica Heidt, formerly of the Magic Theatre.

Participating Artists:
Shiloh Burton (slide projection) http://www.shilohburton.com/
Michael Clarke (illuminated sculpture) http://www.theinnershade.com/
Colby Claycomb (mylar installation)
Gary Clemenceau (photography) http://www.smokecitystudio.com/
Jen Cohen (video and mylar installation)
Ian Cone (video landscape)
Carmel Louise Crane (video drawing)
Clint Imboden (photographic sculptural installation) http://www.clintimboden.com/
Brendan Leonard (video installation) http://www.brendanleonard.com/
Magnanimous (blacklight musical performance)
Elyse Mallouk (digital animation on mylar) http://www.elysemallouk.com/
Luis Maurette and Gregg Kowalsky (video and sound installation) http://www.luismaurette.net/
Valerie Mendoza (illuminated sculptural installation)
Ranu Mukherjee (animated video projection)
Luis Recorder (video installation)
Kit Rosenberg (sculptural installation)
Liena Vayzman (video projection) http://www.lienavayzman.com
DOUBLE VISION (intermedia performance company) http://double-vision.biz/

Music By:
The Duke of Windsor - DJ specializing in 60's garage, psychedelic, beat, freakbeat, BRITISH/Euro/down under rock http://www.myspace.com/djdukeofwindsor

About our Curators:
G. Cole Allee received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007. Her work has been exhibited in San Francisco, LA and Tokyo. She is a photo-based artist exploring landscape as cultural iconography, and sometimes, vice versa. She has lived in San Francisco for a decade, teaching photography to youth at risk in Bayview Hunter's Point and recently with the Sixth Street Photography Workshop. While at SFAI she co-curated the Swell Gallery, the graduate venue. She is currently one of the Visual Arts curators for the Climate Theater

Jen Cohen is a video, performance artist who attempts to break the narrative, cinematic genre through the creation of abstract video motifs projected onto non-traditional surfaces. She has exhibited her work through out the Bay Area including venues such as the de Young Museum, Recombinant Media Lab, CNMAT, SomArts, 21 Grand, Roxie Cinema, The Lab, The Fine Arts Cinema and Artists Television Access (ATA). She received a B.F.A in Media Arts from California College of the Arts. Last October she started the 4d Dream-a-thon experimental film series at The Climate Theater and continues to co-curate the series

Kaliisa Conlon is a film and video artist based in San Francisco. After performing with her mystic rock band Pizza Party in the Pacific NW, she received her BFA in Film and Video at California College of the Arts in 2007. Kaliisa now co-curates the experimental film series at the Climate Theater in San Francisco and concocts her witchy art and psychic films from her bedroom in the Mission.

Victoria Mara Heilweil is a photographic artist, educator and curator. She received her MFA in Photography from California College of the Arts in 1995. Her work has been exhibited nationally in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. Victoria was the curator and co-owner of a cooperative art gallery in the East Village in NYC. Currently, she is one of the Visual Arts curators for the Climate Theater and runs "Show and Tell" a monthly slide slam and pot luck. http://www.victoriaheilweil.com

Brendan Leonard uses a variety of media to explore the language and role of conceptual art in the 21st century. He received his BFA in Media Arts from California College of the Arts in 2008, and lives in Oakland, CA. Brendan is currently co-curating a film/video series at the Climate Theater in San Francisco. He also very much enjoys playing the guitar and singing. http://www.brendanleonard.com/

Liena Vayzman is a photographer, video artist, and curator based in San Francisco. She earned her PhD in Art History at Yale, went to art school in France, and is part of the GIA: Gender Intelligence Agency. Her interests include interdisciplinary collaboration and radical queer visual culture. Most recently, she curated "HOME: The Aesthetics and Politics of Home in Contemporary Art" at Root Division, SF, and has exhibited nationally and internationally. http://www.lienavayzman.com

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Call for Light Artists

Phil — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:55:30 GMT

**Call to artists from the curators of The Climate Theater/Gallery 9:

We are currently looking for submissions for our upcoming show, Night Light: An Evening of Luminous Environments.
22 eclectic spaces will available for installations including 2 stages with sound systems, several small galleries, a rooftoop, hallways and stairwells.
Suggested media for submission: sculpture, film/video, performance and installation.
Solo or group collaborations as well as live music/sound are also welcome.

To submit please send us the following information:
Your name
Phone Email
Title of piece
1 paragraph description of piece/proposal
web link to video documentation and/or attach up to 3 .jpegs
Please list the equipment that you will use (you must bring your own equipment)
any other special notes or requirements

Please send all submissions and inquiries to: mail@victoriaheilweil.com

deadline for submissions: April 15th
meeting with curators at the Theater/Gallery: April 26th

Event date: Saturday May 17th, 2008
8pm-midnight
$7-10 sliding scale admission

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PING: Heather??

Steamboat_Ed — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:18:04 GMT

--Heather used to work at CoolNeon, but she's "moved on" as the boss put it. Does anyone know if she's working for another EL company? Looks like the discounts I used to get went with her, sigh...

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Glowstick wine glasses??

Steamboat_Ed — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:40:53 GMT

--Looking for a source for those plastic drink glasses that have a place to put a small glowstick. Does anyone know a source? Got me a big birthday bash impending and I'm thinking these will be just the ticket...

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Optical fiber??

Steamboat_Ed — Mon, 29 May 2006 17:34:02 GMT

--Anyone got a source for the plastic stuff; i.e. the stuff that doesn't cost a king's ransom? I suddenly find I need a couple of hundred feet of the stuff.

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Sourcing Mini Blacklights

misterjellyfish — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:44:13 GMT

Hi kids. Trying to find a good source for smallish 12 volt blacklight tubes for the inside of her mouth:
www.MutantVehicle.com/mantis.htm

Point me to a website? Thanks!

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Good source for fiber optic cable?

Jade-Anomaly — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 02:59:53 GMT

Anyone know a good place to get some for art projects? I need both end emitting and side emitting.

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Post-Xmas Mall scores??

Steamboat_Ed — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 02:57:55 GMT

--Wondering if anyone found anything flashy and kewl. Here's a cc of what I found and posted on the Art Car tribe:

--Hiya gang! Probably in your local mall you've got something like Spencer Gifts; i.e. the joint that sells all the lava lights and the silly pull-my-finger farting Homer Simpson dolls and the like, yes? In the back they've got a section of "party" stuff; i.e. strobe lights, black lights, etc. Tonight, during the post Xmas sale I snagged a couple of 18" blacklight fixtures. They're AC but so what; one inverter later and you're running 'em off a car battery. They were incredibly cheap at $14.95 apiece and they also have a fairly substantial translucent green da-glo plastic enclosure for the guts, good enough to see any obvious problems. The housings also have enough empty space within for hacks you might want to add.
--I'm hoping to put one somewhere on "Short John Silver", maybe keeping the other as a spare if needed. Now I'm looking for ideas on what to illuminate with it.

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Kewl stuff: December, Exploratorium

Steamboat_Ed — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:55:43 GMT

--Have been perusing the Exploratorium newsletter; looks like December is about all things lighted and blinky! Here's a sampling of what they've got planned in the "Light Insight Series":
Saturday, Dec 10, 10:30AM-12:30PM:
EL Wire Workkshop: Adorn and Sculpt with Light
Sunday, Dec 11, 10:30AM-12:30PM:
Industrial Light: LED Workshop
--There are also a couple of other events on the following weekend; the biggie is Sunday, Dec 18: "Dress in Lights" and get half off admission if you're wearing "glowing accessories or outfits".

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Taking neon to new hieghts and depths

Jefe — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 04:18:48 GMT

I would love to collaborate with folks on neon projects for burning man
I had a wall of neon running over 100,000 volts with parts 20 ft high in 2004 at Camp doomtown (Jub Jub's Camp)
This year was a huge disappointment at Jub jub's plastique circus
My friends are cool but nothing got completed
I only go to be the most brightest installation in town
I live in Reno and have a shop in the old chicken coupe in my backyard so it is convenient to the playa
www.neonartnv.com
I made 20 neon cuthroat trout that swam up stream under the truckee river in 2001
A genuine original idea
It only worked with copper coil transformers
The solid state units wouldn't light the fish under water
I don't know why
When at first it didn't work I learned what it is like to be Evel kneivel in the bottom of the snake river

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High heat standoffs??

Steamboat_Ed — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 06:36:46 GMT

--Here's the thing: I've got a yen to decorate the boiler, stack and engine on my steamboat with EL wire, but I've got to figure out a way to keep the stuff from melting. Anyone seen anything off the shelf that would do the trick, or do I have to fab a bunch?

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Leopard Martini photos

waldemar — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 08:26:06 GMT

I posted photos from Friday's party at:

http://naturalturn.fotki.com/bm/bs/

See Elecktra playing with fire fans!

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Call for artists!

michael — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:33:29 GMT

Greetings all.
I'm looking for artists who would like to share their work at the upcoming San Diego/Orange County Decompression event Oct 21-23. If you are interested or would like more info please contact me at michael@mjhimages.com.

Cheers
Mike Hennig
Art Coordinator SD/OC Decom

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Attachment goop?

Steamboat_Ed — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:47:15 GMT

--Howdy all! Getting ready to attach my jutte cloth to a painted metal frame, then will attach EL wire-adorned armatures to this with zipties. Question: what's best to attach the jutte cloth to the painted metal? I'm liking silicone caulk, but all I seem to be able to find locally is "Silicone II" which is pretty dreadful stuff. Suggestions?

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Borg2 "Meet The ARtists" -- Saturday Night

paladin-sf — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 18:34:51 GMT

Don't forget ........

BORG2's "Meet The Artists" night is this Saturday, Aug 6, starting at 10 p.m. at Soluna Cafe & Lounge in S.F. ... All of the local Borg2-funded artists have agreed to attend and bring a special representation of their project (uhm, no fire in the restaurant, ok?). This is going to be a very special evening ....

A special reception in honor of our very own visionaries begins at 10 pm, with desserts, hot & cold hors d'oveours, and a change to meet and mingle ...

At 11 pm, we'll loosen up with bossa nova beats and other treats ...

Then at midnight, Ryel K. of Pink Mammoth fame takes the turntables so you can move your feet till 2 a.m. ....

Sugested donations are $10 - $40 ... but come out and tell us your sad story and see how cheap you can get in ...

TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW at www.borg2benefit.com

We're getting promises of good publicity from a bunch of community sources, and little hint of a buzz is developing ... But the restaurant has a finite capacity, and it would be whacked to turn away people who've been committed to this experiment all along ...

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Glow Sticks 4 Poi?

glimmer_kz — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:59:09 GMT

Hi, I am looking for a resource where I can buy glow sticks to attach to my practice poi. I had an awesome pair of LED lights but since they are my practice poi, I managed to break one of them in a month. So, I am looking for the chemical variety that last ~ 8 hours. Any suggestions?

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Pretty blinky "bling"

Amadan — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 23:16:15 GMT

Hi y'all.
I met a few of you at the last RWB burn, and I thought I'd pop in and say how doodly do, and mention that the weird prismatic glowy crystal pendant thingies I has with me might still be available. I've heard they are being discontinued, so I was pondering putting in a wholesale order for them, but I can't really justify the expence unless I either start selling them or have people who are interested in going in on the expence. Th

And Elektra... A pleasure to meetcha. I'll see if I can rustle up some batteries for your toys :P

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Templates?

Steamboat_Ed — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:12:51 GMT

--Have a half-completed EL wire whachamacallit in the form of a travelling "ocean" wave. I made a template to attach sequenced waves and this idea worked very well. What I'd like to find is a source for line-drawings or templates of fish, boats, etc that I could use to "trace" with EL, to complete the picture, so to speak. Any pointers, links, etc appreciated.

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built-in lights for sculpture

lulubelle — Sun, 27 Jun 2004 21:56:45 GMT

hi all,
newbie here. i am a sculptor (mixed media, clay), and would like to add some built in lights to my pieces. i need to build the housing for the electrical wiring. since the lights will be in acqward positions within the piece, i am having difficulty finding the right fittings. is there some sort of flexible/curved pipe i should be using?

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Duplicate content groups??

Steamboat_Ed — Wed, 04 May 2005 19:23:18 GMT

--Hey Electra! I can't help but notice that Da Mongolian also has a tribe up covering electroluminescent stuff. Is there a reason why there are two groups?? :-)

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Burning Solstinox: Connections – March 5, 2005

elecktra — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:43:36 GMT

Friends of Curtis Present:
Burning Solstinox: Connections –March 5, 2005 8PM-4AM @ SOMArts, 934 Brannan St in SF
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Once a year, on the midpoint between burns when we are farthest in time from any, we come together to celebrate Burning Solstinox - a holiday of hope, rebirth, love and the creative thrill of radical participation, when we experience playa joys in default. This year ’s theme is “Connections ”, and we invite you to create some by making magic with us in an amazing space. Don ’t miss this one; we ’ll be halfway home!

We do this all volunteer, totally non-commercial, and following the 10 Burning Man principles, so radically include yourself and participate. Help create an outrageous evening in a burning village that will keep that rocking playa vibe alive for another six months - there ’s no better way to switch your psyche from its vault of dusty memories to new visions of chaos.

This year ’s event is a FUNraiser benefit for Friends of Curtis, and we ’ve lined up the area ’s best DJ ’s, dazzling lighting, insane lasers, eye-popping visuals, blacklit bars, super cozy chill spaces, and lots of special playa style amusements sure to please all your senses. Plus, a raffle & silent auction for one-of-a-kind burner gifts and experiences, and even free coffee when it ’s time to go! Every bit of it gifted, by burners for burners. All proceeds go directly to saving this burning musician ’s life and voice from cancer (www.friendsofcurtis.com).

$15.93 presale, $20 at the door. There ’s no ATM; bring extra cash for amusements, bar & raffle.

For advance tix and info, visit http://www.solstinox.com

Because some nights are so special they only come once a year …

and ELECKTRA is celebrating her 35th birthday there!!!!!!!!

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el wire

elecktra — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 18:49:18 GMT

ok, who has the down and dirty where to get the best el wire for the least amount of money?

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in sf - black light theater event needs performers!

pokiedot — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 05:07:49 GMT

hi hi! glad to have found this tribe.. as a poi spinner i've become a connoisseur of blinky light toys! anyways... why i'm writing today is to let you all know about an event that might be of interest to you.

i'm helping out with an event next friday, the 18th, at studio z in san francisco, called "the black light ball". as the title may have led on, this will be a big black light event. it's a fundraiser for a neato burning man camp that makes gigantic interactive black light puppets. take a peek here:

www.imaginaryartstudios.com/mysdom.html

neat, eh? so anyways.. we're looking for some black light poi/staff/dance/whatevs performances for the night of.

we're also looking for puppet operators, stage monitors, clean-up and set up crews, and any other kind of performer.

let me know asap if you'd be into it.. all performers and event staff get in for freesies.

private message me asap if you're interested!

-josie

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light pics

elecktra — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:52:10 GMT

alrighty then, I know you got them so dig those pretty light photos up and post them in our album!

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*Elecktra*Lites's topics - tribe.net

Cheap controled strobe lights?

Night Light: An Evening of Luminous Environments

Call for Light Artists

PING: Heather??

Glowstick wine glasses??

Optical fiber??

Sourcing Mini Blacklights

Good source for fiber optic cable?

Post-Xmas Mall scores??

Kewl stuff: December, Exploratorium

Taking neon to new hieghts and depths

High heat standoffs??

Leopard Martini photos

Call for artists!

Attachment goop?

Borg2 "Meet The ARtists" -- Saturday Night

Glow Sticks 4 Poi?

Pretty blinky "bling"

Templates?

built-in lights for sculpture

Duplicate content groups??

Burning Solstinox: Connections – March 5, 2005

el wire

in sf - black light theater event needs performers!

light pics

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