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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

I am Elektro, err, Earthwise

Posted on December 7, 2012 by markweiss86

I made a poster in 1999 that advertised four shows, including Train, Mother Hips (who play tonight in Felton) and featured a photograph of a robot I had ripped from an ad and gave to my designer to photo-shop for … Continue reading →

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Dana King and Rodin ‘Prayer’

Posted on December 6, 2012 by markweiss86

Leah Garchik had a scoop about Dana King leaving KPIX to do her art fulltime. I linked from the comments to the Dana King art homepage and was suitably impressed with her sculpture and her charcoal drawings. Later that same … Continue reading →

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Juana Alicia mural at Stanford ‘Chicano’ center

Posted on December 6, 2012 by markweiss86

“El Codex Estanfor” is a new interior mural at Stanford, in the ‘Chicano’ center, near the bookstore, by Bay Area legend muralist Juana Alicia, also known as Juana Alicia Araiza. I wandered into El Centro Chicano, a student center that … Continue reading →

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Danse Macabre with my former classmate

Posted on December 5, 2012 by markweiss86

Somehow I found myself searching for Martin Kryska, my Dartmouth classmate who died in a car accident in 1992. I didn’t remember that he was at Anderson Ranch arts center near Vail, CO in residency at the time of the … Continue reading →

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Take 4:32 (Dave Brubeck tribute)

Posted on December 5, 2012 by markweiss86

file under: the joints are really flipping (when I heard about the passing of Mr. Brubeck, I thought to post a video of a performance of Oranj Symphonette, featuring Matt Brubeck, his son, on the strength that this was the first … Continue reading →

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Pandora is evil, Linda is beautiful

Posted on December 4, 2012 by markweiss86

Linda Perry, the song writer who penned Christina Aguilera’s hit tune ‘Beautiful,’ saw the song played more than 12 million times on Pandora during the first three months of the year. For that Perry earned $350. (Credit: Greg Sandoval/CNET) Read … Continue reading →

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life is so strange

Posted on December 3, 2012 by markweiss86

life is so strange (short review, plagiarized from heather desaulniers, about new work by mary armentrout) read more here: ^ ^ ^ > > ^ ‘   ,    , hey look I made the little mark dance along the … Continue reading →

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Unusual as it is being an adopted Korean Swedish Jew

Posted on December 3, 2012 by markweiss86

If it’s an okay (I almost said “aoki”) segue from Ai Weiwei below (and Kara Maria) to Rebecca Erickson, the self-described “Korean Swedish Jew”, I actually bumped to this because my morning email included a newsletter from my close personal … Continue reading →

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Year of the Elephant

Posted on December 3, 2012 by markweiss86

This is either the worlds worst preview for an art show or a pretty lame fan letter. I can edit to add the actual details of  #@&^ upcoming local show; I think it said Feb. 25, 20&^ at Café DuNord … Continue reading →

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If you’ve ever had the shrimp and grits from Crooks Corner, you may also put Clyde Jones in your pantheon, and this film with that one of Picasso

Posted on December 2, 2012 by markweiss86

Well, piss on a stick. If it’s just a link, and not an M bed, I ain’t gonna waste a whole post on it. Ok. now it works (excuse the foul language. I don’t recall ever saying “piss on a … Continue reading →

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