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About markweiss86

Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play

Felix Gonzalez-Torres pieces at Stanford until March 21 or so

Posted on February 24, 2016 by markweiss86

Terry and I went by Stanford’s Cantor Museum to see the student-curated, 50-piece show. One of the most memorable works, new to me but she had seen before, was by Felix Gonzalez- Torres (1957-1995), “Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A”(1991 … Continue reading →

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The tough, the strong

Posted on February 22, 2016 by markweiss86

For certain members of the Gunn student body and community, the pulse must quicken with anticipation this week and perhaps for the next 12 days, a rarified situation created by Gunn’s selection to the Central Coast Section basketball tournament. The … Continue reading →

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Serra smile

Posted on February 22, 2016 by markweiss86

Apropos of her latest hair stylings, Terry, (Terry my Terry) sent me a photo we stood for in St. Louis, at the Pulitzer Foundation , in front of a Richard Serra called “Joe”. Hair, like life, I prefer “long”.edit to add: … Continue reading →

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Winter Sports Look to CCS: Boys’ Basketball

Posted on February 21, 2016 by markweiss86

Source: Winter Sports Look to CCS: Boys’ Basketball Gunn Titans basketball is 17-2, champions of SCVAL for first time since 2008-2009 (and only fourth time in school history) and surely anticipating the simple twist of fate wherein later today, which … Continue reading →

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Would that it were so simple

Posted on February 19, 2016 by markweiss86

I started out looking for examples of Shepherd Fairey that resemble Ainu owl pattern. That digressed into Shepherd and t-shirts for Bernie Sanders, then to excellent mark fallen Vallon critique of Fairey, then to Prince and Krantz. The headline references new … Continue reading →

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Award for welltimed silence

Posted on February 8, 2016 by markweiss86

I appreciated Bet Ratliff’s think-piece about jazz solos and the Grammy awards. and here is a screen shot of my favorite graph: (which is the newspaper equivalent to a jazz solo)

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How I mistook Christopher Walken for Willem Dafoe

Posted on February 8, 2016 by markweiss86

bemblycifer   Live dustpartch from our Centennial correspondent Dr. Brian E. Moore, pictured below:        

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Ten Palo Altans praying to their respective gods, 5:45 on a Tuesday in February

Posted on February 2, 2016 by markweiss86

File under the new Tower of Babel (I took note that everyone else in the room was working on their computers and not interacting with others in the room, whereas I was merely checking — and posting via — my hand-held; … Continue reading →

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Henry Plotnick (Field 5) at 4

Posted on January 30, 2016 by markweiss86

Henry Plotnick the teen minimalist composer does a live mic at 4 today at KZSU Stanford, 90.1 on the terrestial radio dial but since I can literally see the station out my window — well, I can see Hoover Tower … Continue reading →

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Stanford Wanted Posters and Earthwise posters

Posted on January 29, 2016 by markweiss86

I walked thru at a brisk pace the installation of “Wanted” posters on the second floor of Cantor, the modern room, maybe part of the Marmor collection, yesterday (Terry my Terry and I also walked thru the new McMurtry art … Continue reading →

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