Y3K has the pleasure of announcing
Extreme Beauty: Approaches to the Real
curated by Kate Briggs
OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY 4TH DECEMBER 6-8PM
exhibition runs until 24th december
Best Inventions of 2010
The end of the year is still a few months off, but Time magazine has decided to call it early… Last week, Time issued its annual “50 Best Inventions” article. It’s an interesting and fun look at (arguably) the cream of this year’s crop of ingenuity and creativity. Some of these inventions, like the iPad and the first synthetic cell, have raised eyebrows across the globe, while others, like a green-energy underwater kite and spray-on fabric, have gone under the radar. Whether you’re an inventor or not, the inventions are sure to make you rethink current ways of doing things, and realize just how much can be accomplished in one year. Hopefully this will inform and inspire the hard working inventors out there with an idea that’s time has come. I wonder what 2011 will hold…
Attention Inventors: Everyday Edisons – Casting Call
Think you have a good idea? The Emmy and Telly-Award-winning PBS television show “Everyday Edisons” announced recently that it is currently casting for its fourth season, set to air summer of 2011. The program is looking for 10 small-time inventors with big ideas. According to their Web site, www.edisonnation.com:
They will pick 10 outstanding innovations. All it takes is a great idea. As they say, give yours a shot at success and find out if you have what it takes to become an "Everyday Edison!"
The winning invention featured on the show will have the option to enter a contract to receive money for sales of their invention, after it is commercially manufactured. Everyday Edisons premiered in 2007, and has become one of PBS’s most critically-acclaimed programs.
Steve Kado 'October Jr.'
Steve Kado (LA)
'October Jr'
If the success of a model depends on it's resemblance to a source then how much less than the thing itself does a model have to be? If a model is always something like it's source isn't it always also something more, namely a model? The argument, I suppose, is that a model is more in total than anything it could represent: it has to be both an abstraction of another thing (1/2) and it's own thing in it's own right (1). That's the math. A model of a thing is 1 1/2 times more of a thing than the whole original thing. I'd like to show you all this new 3/4 scale model of October 12 that I made.
Pictured here with Thomas Lawson, former editor of R E A L L I F E magazine, and ex-Afterall
INRI CRISTO + Sean Peoples '*see image'
INRI CRISTO + Sean Peoples
'*see image'
06/11/2010-27/11/2010
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Christopher L G Hill 'flowers of romance'
Christopher L G Hill
'flowers of romance'
06/11/2010-27/11/2010
TEXT:
Flowers of Romance.
Reading thru the text Simon gave me to accompany my show flowers of romance I thought it could be worth writing about the project and some other things that overlap and compliment it. The start and end of Simon’s writing some up an emotion of love that is both devastating, grounding and mesmerically blissful, a feeling in kin to sun kissed tears and the metallicness of auto tuned popular song, this is somewhat out of context with his overall text, but that is also in keeping with a momentary elusiveness that I hoped to evoke in the project. The vessel like a metaphysial hart, like the moment of romance in flowers. Emotion or poetry, something always imbedded in an object or person but not always at the surface. The album cover of Public Image Limited’s Flowers of romance has always seduced and perplexed me in this way, its gesture of anger and love, but a poetic play anger. It is a puppy love, a finding out the perimeters of emotions for the first time, a coming of age, not of years, but not of a relation or situation. A filtration or setting, kind of, a bit like a germinating yeast culture. Simon’s text has this momentary nature of a nostalgia and of it’s place in a current moment of un said things of contained spaces within mp3 or memory. Flowers have this, in the case of on growing geraniums and Liv and Joshua’s arrangement for the opening of the show. They both talk differently about this moment of poetic gesture, of growth and reflection, of symbology and formalism co-currently. The on growing flowers are still just a gesture of on going dialog or development of ideas and governing structure, the opening arrangement of a joyous moment filtered through the fleeting pleasure of a screen grab. The bottles are this too, a bunch of moments a folder of jpegs interacting with each other like a blog post, and like an internet based moment they seem at least to me like a mist, contained within certain perimeters indeed, but still transcendent, all hanging at the same hight close to the floor, like a long meandering internal dialog printed and with the individual words highlighted or something else. The relations of the bottles are varied, and form dialogs un spoken or un graspable, almost mystically abstract in a non formal sense. Their discardedness a testament to the importance of through away ideas, of belief and faith in oneself and those around her. Of romance and its power momentary on the individual or among their surrounding close ones. Of a recycling of the continual moment, reinterpreting ideas about political structures and personal possibilities within a poetic political dialectic. Thus the inclusion of a themed group show showing this as an extension of practise and an inclusion of others or the moment of engagement with others. The works by Helen, Nick, James, Joshua, and Virginia are an extension of the theme of growth, romance and love. All people who are very close to me in different ways, the frames and subject matter of flowers as a curatorial frame work for them to adhere too as an acceptance of the perimeters of friendship and collaboration, there is a push and pull with these and the highly contained aesthetic of the work made me have these works as a kind of aside to the rest of the show. Although they function with other trains of though and currents that run through the space. The colour of the window frames being a very literal form of this, the taking of a very simular colour to that which Kate Newby used to paint the ledge in her show at Y3K which I then chose to use on the frames in my show. The mirrors also talk of this not being just one body of work or one show (in that it captures the show many times again) of overlap, of repeated gestures and their subtle differences. Of evolution in a rhizomic non linear form, the geraniums symbolise this growth through love, care, or romance in a very straight forward way. But the combination of elements creates this balance, where the un noticed is rewarding too. Politics always interest me more when they have layers of the people involved in them, of misunderstanding or ideas not yet fully formed. This moment of clumsy realisation, of romance is what my praxis in the context of this show was aiming for. Of apprehension and freedom, of a conscious but selfless gesture of opening up to a crush.
Christopher L G Hill 2010-2011
Hard Rock Cafe Trademark Issues: Not Too Happy About Free Publicity
Among the already-raunchy assortment of reality TV shows, the new “Rehab: Party at the Hard Rock Hotel” is pushing the envelope. And the Hard Rock Cafe International, Inc. chain (a different company than Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel & Casino) doesn’t find the debauchery very entertaining. The Hard Rock Café recently filed a law suit for trademark infringement, trademark dilution, and a variety of other charges regarding the tarnishing of Hard Rock’s image. Hard Rock Hotel is a licensee of the Hard Rock brand. But Hard Rock Café now wants to revoke that license agreement.
The case is No. 1:10cv07244-UA, filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
According to the suit, Hard Rock Café was founded as a celebration of Rock and Roll, good times, and fun. But sexual harassment, violence and crime are not part of its credo. Apparently, TruTV has no plans for canceling, or altering the show, which it hails as a main revenue source. If Hard Rock Café wins, Hard Rock Hotel may have to change its name.
'Hotel Theory' curated by Liv Barrett
HOTEL THEORY
An exhibition over two weeks with two different presentations at Y3K Gallery
Curated by Liv Barrett
MATEO TANNATT PERFORMANCE 7pm AND CLOSING RECEPTION 6 – 9pm
SATURDAY 30 OCTOBER
WEEK ONE 19 - 23 OCTOBER
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday 6pm – midnigh
HOTEL THEORY
Hotel Women
Simon Denny mix
Design elements by Matt Hinkley
High Orders of Mixed Business,Joshua Petherick
Andy Warhol love story: two love-birds locked in a cage
Arrangements with Joshua Petherick, flowers renewed daily
Residue of Foodcourt du Jour with Tara Rawlins, Jarrod Rawlins, Nikos Pantazopoulos and James Deutsher
Humidifier / de-humidifier
Eau de Parfum
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WEEK TWO 26 - 30 OCTOBER
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday 12pm – 6pm
A DAY LATE
Mateo Tannatt (Los Angeles)
Exhibition
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