June 22, 2003
Exhibit and discussion on illegal art
Just came across this event:
Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age
SFMOMA Artist Gallery, July 2 to 25 (Fort Mason, Building A). Reception is Wednesday, July 2nd, 5:30 to 7:30 pm. 415.441.4777
Featuring new additions: DAVID BYRNE, TOM SACHS, ENRIQUE CHAGOYA, and LAURA SPLAN
Panel Discussion: Thursday, July 3, from 6 to 8pm. With Lawrence Lessig (Stanford Law Professor), Carrie McLaren (Stay Free! magazine), Kembrew McLeod (artist and University of Iowa professor), Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archives), Simon Frankel (lawyer, Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin), and Marcia Tanner (moderator). At San Francisco Art Institute, Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut Street. 415.771.7020. Suggested donation $5.
New bill injects FBI into P2P battle
A bill introduced in Congress on Thursday would put federal agents in the business of investigating and prosecuting copyright violations, including online swapping of copyrighted works.HR-2517, the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act of 2003, instructs the FBI to develop a program to deter online traffic of copyrighted material. ...
Lou Reed moves SF to the valley
It's our seventh wedding anniversary today. We did the partying last night, first hitting Kokkari, the best Greek restaurant in San Francisco, for dinner. And then catching Lou Reed at the Warfield.
Lou & co. were in pretty good form, with a driving rock set interspersed with more introspective and experimental numbers, like The Raven. They put a novel rhythmic spin on the classic Dirty Boulevard.
Lou's still got that New York attitude, big time. In introducing Small Town, he asked the audience members whether they considered San Francisco a small town. About half said yes and half no. But Lou went on to take a poke at the utterly savvy San Francisco audience (who need no lessons in urban hipness from New Yorkers) by saying something like, "Interesting reaction from here in the valley."
Uh, the valley? I don't think so.
Reminds me of watching Tom Brokaw on NBC Nightly News a couple of years ago. When the camera panned on the Bay Bridge between SF and Oakland, Brokaw said, "And that, of course, is a view of the Golden Gate Bridge."
Guys, there is life west of the Hudson.
