BOOKSTOCK 2009! MUSIC, ART, & MOVIE FESTIVAL SATURDAY, JUNE 6TH @ 7PM on the field at AT&T Park
BOOKSTOCK 2009! is a summer celebration of art for the whole family, with partial proceeds benefiting the Giants Community Fund. Join us for an exceptional evening of art, music, entertainment, great food and plenty of children’s activities all on the field at AT&T Park.
Attendees will enjoy an evening of live music provided by top Bay Area bands including STROKE 9, EOIN HARRINGTON, and the MONOPHONICS, an art show featuring 25 renowned artists showing new works and painting live brought to you by ArtNowSF, and an advanced screening of Logan and Noah Miller’s film “Touching Home,” starring 4-time Academy Award nominee Ed Harris; the movie that inspired it all! Plus, the book release and signing of the Miller brother’s inspirational memoir Either You’re In or You’re in The Way, published by HarperCollins April 28.
Children 12 & under are fre e! TAKE THE FERRY from Larkspur directly to the ballpark: http://goldengate.org/news/ferry/book… ART SHOW by ArtNowSF: http://www.myspace.com/artnow THE MUSIC: STROKE 9: http://www.myspace.com/stroke9 EOIN HARRINGTON: http://eoinharrington.com/ MONOPHONICS: http://www.monophonics.com/
ARTISTS: (25 including)
ALEX PARDEE NATE VAN DYKE APEX CHOR BO0GIE CARLY IVAN GARCIA
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“Former club bouncer and Los Angeles native Estevan Oriol got his start in the entertainment business managing tours for huge artists like “House of Pain” and “Cypress Hill” almost 20 years ago. While globe trotting with them he began his photography career taking flicks of the madness and glitter that surrounds international celebrities. When he was back home in L.A though, it was a much different story. He took his cues from the street life surrounding him. The singular dramatic black and white photos he produces are gripping, beautiful, and authentically menacing portraits of individuals fully immersed in L.A gang lifestyle. Blessed with a talented eye and a hood pass, he takes pictures in places armed with a camera where most tough guys would take a weapon. Offered for the first time to the public for free, in this exclusive interview from “The Run Up”, Estevan Oriol expresses his thoughts, methods, and views on approaching everyday with the hunger of a hustler who doesn’t know where his next meal will come from.”
“I would like everyone to read before downloading: There’s usually a reason why I make every mixtape I make, but this one deserves a bit of an explanation. Now, I’m not one of those cats that can’t get over the fact that it’s no longer 1993, and that the state of Hip Hop is getting worse on a daily basis, BUT like most Hip Hop listeners young and old, I appreciate the Golden Era for molding me as a person and shaping the current “Hip Hop Renaissance” I started DJing in 1997, and that’s when early 90’s Hip Hop was being preserved as best it could, and I was also a vinyl junkee. Buying 12″ was a weekly thing, and frankly, I’m not sure if singles were really being pushed on any format. With that being said, if an artist had a remix of a song, SOMETIMES it would be a bonus track on an album, but usually the only way you could get it is on the 12″ single, or CD single (which Im sure no one was buying). THAT was the importance of the DJ, and THAT was the importance of collecting vinyl. If you were a HUGE Hip Hop fan, and bought every album that came out, and loved the music, there were a lot of remixes that weren’t available to you. Or if you’re a youngster that grew up a couple years after I did, these remixes may have got lost, erased, and forgotten. So Im throwin it back, bringin to the light music that only DJs would be available to DJs, vinyl collectors, and the truly extinct maxi-cassette single collectors. I’m also shoutin out the DJs that carried the vinyl and spent hours in the record stores. I also intentionally made this Mixtape have that throwback 90’s sound, so this one is geared for the O.G.’s and the New School heads When you remember the Golden Era, don’t for get the REEEEEEMIIIIIIXXXX!!” – DJ Haylow
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Alex Pardee’s (Juxtapoz cover #79) long-awaited (first ever) vinyl figure is the Walrus Rider, a two-faced creature, whose legs were stolen, seeking vengeance and searching for his legs atop his walrus associate. The figure is approximately 11″ tall and has bendy arms and a removable tusk, which fits into the rider’s hand. Make sure to mark on Saturday, May 30th on your calendars, as Alex will be releasing and signing his Walrus Rider at the UP flagship store in San Francisco. More info here…
