Social Entropy Presents the Damask Boudoir Fashion Show & Performances will be happening at the Oakland Metropolitan Opera House on August 8th and I totally want to go. Look at the dress on the lovely lady above, it’s gorgeous!
Designers Dollymop, Anna Quinones, Luma Gallegos, and Erika von Petrin are a few of the creative fashion minds that will be present and showing their works at this Saturday nights event. There is also talk of treats of music, art, drag, burlesque, belly dancers and more.
What else could you want on a random Saturday night in August?
Via Haute Macabre.
This entry was written by , posted on August 4, 2009 at 12:10 pm, filed under East Bay and tagged event, fashion. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Over the weekend the dreamboat and I swung by the UC Berkeley Art Museum, and I must say I was slightly underwhelmed (by the art, not by the building itself, which is pretty damn awesome in its layout).
Enrique Chagoya’s Borderlandia is currently the main exhibit, and while it had some really awesome pieces, there is only so much political statement I can take in one sitting. I did really fancy his mix media pieces, and his adaptations on “The Disasters of War” artworks by Francisco Goya.
There were only a couple of other pieces in the museums other galleries that I really enjoyed, one being the photograph above; Zoe Leonard’s “Frontal View” (sorry for the slight blur, I get paranoid about getting a “talking to” from a docent, so I try to be quick). I love the shine, sparkle and Alice in Wonderland meets playing dress up feel. Just lovely.
This entry was written by , posted on May 13, 2008 at 4:46 pm, filed under East Bay, art ish and tagged museum, UC Berkeley. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
A couple weeks ago I started in on my goal to learn about Communism and Socialism. To kick things off I began reading Marxism and Communism: Essential Readings, a book I picked up from an awesome place in Berkeley called Urban Ore for 25 cents!
If you live in the bay area and haven’t been to Urban Ore, it’s a place you really should visit. I think it’s the first place the dreamboat took me when we moved here (he knew about it from living in Berkeley the previous summer for an internship). He was so excited about it. It is a creative/artist/pack rat/tech geek/eco-conscious/thifters dream.
This salvage yard is full of all kinds of things; clothing, records, dishes, old Macs, techie geek parts, abandoned art, books, all the National Geographics you could possibly want, old tools, beakers, dentist moulds of teeth, bath tubs, doors galore, toilets, big vintage things like ovens and pianos, lovely old suitcases, sports equipment, door knobs, awesome file cabinets, picture frames and bike racks just to name a few.
You can’t just walk into Urban Ore and go through the motions either. You have to get into full on pirate mode and plunder others and hunt for your treasures. Find the booty! Some things in our abode that we have found at Urban Ore include…
Crazy hipsteresque Pegasus Art. *There was a Cancer/Crab piece done in the same style, did you pick it up? Let me know if you did!*
Various picture frames
A child’s introduction to French record
and
Some of the speakers that make up our Entertainment area.
Thrifting/2nd hand hunting is truly a fun, cheap, and great way to furnish ones abode. What awesomeness have you picked up lately?
This entry was written by , posted on April 15, 2008 at 8:40 pm, filed under East Bay and tagged thrift. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
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showed these in support. coolnes 
http://tinyurl.com/lvmxan about 7 by 7 by nine – pride (in color)!