Damn, our internet buddy Dugan O'Neal was on Charlie Rose promoting his new website: www.duganoneal.com

Click here to enjoy some of Dugan's video masterpieces. Dugan does A1 good job.

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Jesse Balmer, Niv Bavarsky and Michael Olivo are three Bay Area artists who started drawing together with little more than entertainment in mind. They are showing their collaborative works under the moniker Golden Source Power Three at Needles & Pens in San Francisco through March 3rd. The 3 discuss their works through email internet technology.

JB: We started drawing together in February of 2012.

MO: I started with Niv about a month before, in late January. That was two months after I moved to Oakland.

NB: Michael emailed me one day to tell me he thinks I am "a magical man" and when he moved to Oakland we started drawing together - Jesse saw the early results online and the three of us started working as a trio about a year ago.

JB: It's pretty simple. Each of us starts a drawing and we pass the three drawings to the next guy.

MO: Yea, usually consists of multiple drawings being passed around in a circular motion. Rarely is anything sketched in beforehand.

NB: It's pretty intuitive and playful - we work together in the same room, each working on something, and we rotate. We have good conversations. We do very little planning in the initial stages, but as a drawing starts to take form, we help direct each other. I'd say we all trust each other to pick up what the others are putting down.

NB: I have long flowing curly hair, and a beard.

MO: ...

JB: She does.

JB: In the beginning the drawings were significantly less coherent. We've definitely learned how to emulate bits and pieces of each others' style to make the drawings feel more structurally sound. It's pretty easy to see that evolution when you look at the work.

MO: It's similar to love-making. Tough to tell who's where sometimes.

NB: We've all absorbed little techniques from each other - one of us will make a certain kind of mark, and another will decide that kind of mark will go well in another part of the image, so this group vocabulary has started to emerge.

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Today we've launched a new music video I've created. The video is made in stop motion using an analog camera (Olympus Mju I) and around 80 films. It's for Kreatones a young wave band from the Netherlands. I hope you like it and like to show this to the Fecal Faces out there. -Jorrit Spoelstra

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Lola Dupre makes very beautifully intricate collages and is in a group show at CES Contemporary in Laguna Beach, California opening Saturday, Feb 16th.

Her piece below titled Processionary Squares | 100cm x 100cm / 39.5' x 39.5' will be in the show, and she emailed these process photos to give a little insight into her process... her, what we imagine to be, very patient time consuming process. Steady hand, Lola. Great work.

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I grew up in Los Angeles/ Inland Empire area and currently live in Oakland. Im 21, and I'm in my last year at San Francisco Art Institute. ayalamario.tumblr.com/

I guess I would tell someone I primarily work on paper, prefferibly stretched over panels. I use a wide range of mediums, gouache, enamel, oil, etc. My imagery derives from various interests I have, drug/alcohol consumption, Suburbia, and Santeria to name a few.

Jazz, Giorgio Morandi, James Bond, the Lost Bros familia, my dog Bubba Gucci, but my biggest influence has got to be my father. Hardest working man I know.

PIZZA!/ Sam's Burgers on broadway

Haven't done much traveling, but I recently visited New York for the first time last summer and was pretty stoked on it.

I try an work either early in the morning, but I usually end up working on things late at night shackled in my atelier listening to some jazz or oldies. You know, that Art Laboe shit.

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White Walls and the Shooting Gallery opened their new space with a bang this last Saturday night. After going through a boarded-up doorway with the names of the galleries and their new address of 868 Geary St tagged on it, you can no longer believe you are in the Tenderloin. 5,000 square feet of pristine gallery space, complete with cathedral ceilings made of reclaimed wood, open up to a truly amazing exhibition space, and it just keeps going. You're now going through White Walls, into the Shooting Gallery, and then into several separate project galleries and the multi-million dollar renovation was definitely spent wisely.

For this show, White Walls opened with the grizzly paintings of Chad Hasegawa. I've been a fan of this local artist since I saw his bear in Clarion alley, and he used this opportunity to bring his bears to the space of fine art, titling them appropriately for the role. Several paintings are titled with the names of modernist masters and their styles are replicated in the bears themselves. While Motherwell has thick, black brushstrokes, Rothko has a washed background and a fluid texture.

Moving further back brought visitors into Charmaine Olivia's Muses. This girl can paint with incredible detail and the works are undeniably beautiful, but this display was repetitive, they all kind of look the same. Her Muses are girly and pretty, which was seen in the audience attending, but they don't leave much room for anything but sexual femininity. But, that's ok. Sold individually, I can see any one of these works hanging in a girl's apartment anywhere in the city and it was great to see so much space devoted to a local artist.

Moving further back brought visitors into two project galleries, one by Sickboy and one by Word to Mother. Sickboy's installation, complete with a working coffin toy train, was my personal favorite of the night. The paintings are colorful and detailed, and I only wish that I would have been able to see them better. Moving around the train, it was really difficult to get to the paintings themselves, and I kind of wish they would have switched his gallery with Word to Mother, because that one is a little bigger. Word to Mother opened Fuck You Pay Me, a Giants-themed installation complete with baseball bats, foam fingers, and astro turf. Since there was only one painting, I popped in and out, but managed to score some cracker jacks and bazooka bubble gum before I left.

Saturday night really was more of an event than an exhibition, this is a new upscale version of the galleries, and I should but an emphasis on the plural, this place just keeps going and going. It was a suit and dress kind of night, fancy for any Tenderloin event, but frankly, the space is fancy and deserves if not your Sunday best, then at least Thursday's finest. These galleries have really transformed themselves in this move and I cannot wait to see what they do next.

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El ESPACIO G3 acoge la nueva esposición del artista OKUDA SAN MIGUEL llamada RAINBOW IN THE DARKNESS.

Es un proyecto que combina escultura, instalación, mapping, fotografía y pintura. Esta primera muestra esta compuesta por unas 10 obras exclusivas:esculturas con proyecciones mapping (con la colaboración de René Athiel), una instalación, fotografía y tres pinturasl en colaboración con SUSO33. Todo ello sonorizado por BIG CITY LOVER. --- Opening:l sabado 16 de febrero de 21:00 a 00:00 h. G3 :C/Guindos n 3 (Madrid)con : ---GHETTO NAILZ: Nail art en directo ---BIG CITY LOVER & LEGRAND KOKUNA / MAR.YO / DJ FREIKETS .music djS

OKUDA SAN MIGUEL

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Photo: Arnold Powers

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For those who don't know who Ryder Ripps is, here is a brief introduction- Ryder gained recognition for creating websites like Internet Archaeology (a site that salvages and presents old content such as images, flash files, and gifs from Geocities- a site that is now shut down). Ryder also created Dump.fm (alongside with Tim Baker and Scott Ostler)- a site in which users (for the most part artists) chat in real time using images and animated gifs that they either find on the net or create themselves. Aside from those sites, Ryder has created websites for artist/musician M.I.A and punk/art band Ssion.

Much of Ryder's artworks are digital files, or websites, and he makes a lot of his physical work about using the Internet. It's hard to define exactly what he does because each thing he does is so different from the last and they are all special or peculiar. For example- Ryder has a site called "Where's The Pixel" in which there is a single pixel on the screen and your goal is to try and find it, or his site "Luckyplop" which is a site that you drag an image to the background and the image remains repeated until the next person comes along and changes it the same way you did.

I discovered Ryder's work because I moved in with some kids who were using Dump. They would often show me some of the images from the site and I was really impressed by what I'd seen.

Fast forward about a year and a half later (I moved to New York from Wisconsin)- I think Ryder would be a great subject for a studio visit. He said he was up for it, and on the following Sunday I went to his Manhattan apartment to visit him. My roommate gave me some Bud Lite "Lime-a-Ritas" so I brought those with me. When I got there, Ryder had Orangina and vodka or something similar and offered me some. Check out the Soundclouds in this interview to hear Ryder discuss his work, and the other stuff that we talked about. Otherwise, I'm just going to describe his studio.

Ryder's home doubles as his studio, although he also has a separate music studio in Park Slope. He had his floor painted with the same paint they use to paint the floors of aircraft hangers- this weird, shiny gray color. When I got there he was decked out in internet related garb- a Tumblr mug, Windows 95 hat and an iced-out Facebook chain he picked up from Chinatown. His studio had a very strange medical/hospitalish/sterile/futuristic feel to it, I think because of the lighting and the shiny gray floor... and the 409 and hand sanitizer on his glass table. He has a cat named Sally. Ryder would go back and forth from going on Dump.fm to dancing and rapping along with Riff Raff. It was one part studio visit/ one part fashion show/ and one part dance party. We got hungry and went for Thai food and talked about making a rap group about the Midwest. Eventually we went back to Ryder's house, and I bought some Roca Wear shoes from him. We kicked it for a while, which you can hear here- and then we went to a 711 and bought a ton of junk food, including hot dog flavored chips.

Eventually it got to be pretty late, so I had to turn in for the night and head home. Thank you Ryder for the visit.

You can see more of Ryder's work at www.ryder-ripps.com. Don't forget to also check out Dump.fm and Internet Archaeology.

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Some installation photos of Guerrero Gallery's current two solo shows featuring graffiti writers REMIO and Tim Diet.

Vancouver based REMIO started VTS crew (Vandal Team Supreme, Vandal Travel System, Vandalize Till Sunrise, Very Top Secret) in 2002 and is a current member of two other legendary collectives, Twists’ DFW/THR and Os Gemeos’ VLOK.

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Tim Diet began painting in the 80s, sneaking out of his parents’ house at night to “tag” alongside his older brother. The graffiti lifestyle immediately drew him in and influenced not only his craft, but his persona and idea factory as well. Diet has traveled across the US, Europe and Japan, just to paint. His recognizable work can be found on streets across the globe, in numerous books & publications, and now in galleries as his unique style continues to develop. This is Me will be the first exhibition of Tim Diet’s full body of work.

The shows run through Feb 25, 2013.

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Thought I'd send over these photos that I took of this wall that is going up in West Oakland. I've been watching it grow on my bike rides home for the last couple of weeks. From what I know its the work of Skinner, Sean Griffin, and Ernest Doty. Cool dudes making the neighborhood look great! -Tim Gatto

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We recorded an interview (MP3) with Ferris Plock on Saturday @FFDG touching on his love of San Francisco, ghosts, working with Kelly Tunstall, his son Brixton and the new one of the way... Plus, Ferris sings a song. Gotta listen to that.

If you do the IPhone thing, be sure to find our podcasts in ITunes and load us up through the great podcast app. Search "Fecal Face".

You can also listen to the interview through the player below.

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