Pipeline: Art, Surfing and the Ocean Environment

SFMOMA Artists Gallery • Building A, Fort Mason • San Francisco, CA 94123
(415) 441-4777

Exhibition continues through Friday, August 28, 2009
11:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Tuesday to Saturday

Pipeline: Art, Surfing and the Ocean Environment

SFMOMA Artists Gallery opened PIPELINE on Thursday, July 16, 2009 with multi-media works on display by artists and craftsmen using art, surfing and the ocean environment as a creative matrix. The exhibition curated by Rene Dicossio and Maria Medua features 22 surfers & artists from the California Bay Area and Hawaii who work in 3-d and 2-d including painting, photography, kinetic sculpture, natural & found objects, film & video and surfboard design and fabrication.

An educational resource library featuring books, videos, Surfer's Journal, and historical ephemera about Hawaiian surfing culture from the Duke Kahanmoku era is displayed along with photographs of Keone Downing winning the first Eddie Aikau Memorial surf contest in 1991 . Notable big wave pioneer Peter Cole presented a brief lecture on his recollection of the early big wave legends on Oahu's north shore in the early 1950's. Jeff Clark, one of the first to ride Maverick's displays his extensive quiver of surfboards from guns to fish designs that he hand crafted from his Half Moon Bay surf shop. To add sound waves to the event, The El Dorados, an original surf band played selections from their current CD. Local San Francisco animation artist Arnie Wong featured videos from the Kelly's Cove surf scene, circa 1965 to 1972 and clips from his classic cartoon 1968 animation Acapulco Gold.

Pipeline Artists and Surfers:
• Doug Acton, photography
• Anthony Bacigalupo, video
• Leo Bersamina, mixed media
• Charlie Callahan, painting
• Jeff Clark, surfer/shaper
• George Corzine, film & video
• Peter Shepard Cole, painting
• Keone Downing, surfer/shaper
• Jessica Dunne, painting
• Colin Gift, photography
• Terry Hoff, painting
• Dale Hope, surfer/art director for KAHALA
• Jack Y Ford, collector
• Ian Maclean, mixed media
• Reuben Margolin, kinetic sculpture
• Serena Mitnik-Miller, painting
• Linny Morris, photography
• Adrienne Keahi Pao, photography
• Christophe Piallat, sculpture/installation
• Frank Quirarte, photography
• Don Ross, photography
• Charles Valoroso, painting/multi-media installation

Join the Artists and Surfers who contributed works of art and creativity to the exhibition of PIPELINE.
Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 5:30 to 7:30 P.M.

SFMOMA Artists Gallery
Fort Mason, Building A,
San Francisco, CA 94123

Phone (415) 424-2264
http://www.sfmoma.org/pages/artists_gallery

E=MC2

The ancient people of Asia actually discovered the original theory of relativity over thousands and thousands of years ago with two sticks of bamboo...chopsticks!

Eating = Munching + Chewing...(with 2 chopsticks) or E=MC2.

Simple concepts are truly the stuff of life:

step 1. Tuck under thumb and hold firmly

step 2. Add second chopstick, hold it as you would a pencil

step 3. Hold first chopstick in original position, move the second one up and down. Now you can pick up anything!

E=MC2

Albert Einstein is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass=energy equivalence. Einstein's many contributions to physics include his special theory of relativity,
which reconciled mechanics with electromagnetism, and his general theory of relativity, which extended the principle of relativity to non-uniform motion, creating a new theory of gravitation. His other contributions include relativistic cosmology, capillary action, critical opalescence, classical problems of statistical mechanics and their application to quantum theory, an explanation of the Brownian movement of molecules, atomic transition probabilities, the quantum theory of a monatomic gas, thermal properties of light with low radiation density (which lay the foundation for the photon theory), a theory of radiation including stimulated emission, the conception of a unified field theory, and the geometrization of physics.

The Manhattan Project
Concerned scientists, many of them refugees from European anti-Semitism in the U.S. recognized the danger of German scientists developing an atomic bomb based on the newly-discovered phenomena of nuclear fission. In 1939,the Hungarian emigre Leo Szilard, having failed to arouse U.S. government interest on his own, worked with Einstein to write a letter to U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which Einstein signed, urging U.S. development of such a weapon. In August 1939, Roosevelt received the Einstein-Szilard letter and authorized secret research into the harnessing of nuclear fission for military purposes.

The Cold War era
When he was a visible figure working against the rise of Nazism, Einstein sought help and developed working relationships with the West and what was to become the soviet bloc. After World War II, enmity between the former allies became a very serious issue for people with international resumes. To make things worse, during the first days of McCarthyism Einstein was writing about a single world government; it was at this time that he wrote, " I do not know that the third World War will be fought , but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth --rocks!" In a 1949 Monthly Review article entitled "Why Socialism?" Albert Einstein described chaotic capitalist society, a source of evil to be overcome, as the "predatory phase of human development". With Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell, Einstein lobbied to stop nuclear testing and future bombs. Days before his death, Einstein signed the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, which led to the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

I'm feeling lucky!

Contrary to superstitious beliefs, Friday the 13th can be your lucky day. Check out this super lucky cat...he looks lucky to me!

Check out this site!

http://nuclearweaponsarchive.org/Usa/Test/index.html

Time to Tiki!

Urbanization created a need for an oasis from the overbearing pace of contemporary city life.

Since the end of World War II, American GI's brought back an appropriation of the exotic islands of Polynesia to the mainland United States in the form of kitsch tropical tiki bars and restaurants. The genre has been slowly fading from the American landscape since the 1950's and 1960's but a few still remain in cities scattered across the U.S. In the Bay Area alone, a few originals are still in operation as tiki bars. The city of San Francisco's North Beach area is the home of the infamous Bamboo Hut, and in the Financial District, The Tonga Room. A visit to these architectural icons will immediately transfix your sense of time into a completely different era or state of mind!