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This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
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Filed under 'art'
➠ March 12, 2012
➠ January 10, 2011
Gallery1988's "Is This Thing On" Art Show
Art for comedy nerds. I love the Orkan “ENLIST” poster.
➠ March 10, 2010
1024 bits of you and me
Another amazing Kickstarter project - For every $10 you pledge, you receive a 5”x5” mini painting inspired by a word or phrase you submit. The goal: A giant installation of 1,024 such paintings.
➠ November 29, 2009
Bands of color in four directions & all combinations, 1971
After the disappointment of the King Tut exhibit, it was fab to find a piece of art which made me smile, and erupted every geek OCD cortex in my brain!
➠ September 1, 2009
➠ July 17, 2009
➠ July 6, 2009
One & Other
A fantastically brilliant, stupid, and downright British arts project. Every hour, a different Briton stands on the “Fourth Plinth” in London’s Trafalgar Square and does whatever they want. The live webcam is somewhere between fascinating and deathly dull. In summary: Amazing.
➠ June 25, 2009
Slide lobby art
New art was hung yesterday in the lobby at 301 Brannan. Bonus: You'll have something to read while waiting for the elevator (it incorporates a page from "A Projection of Species Extinction")
➠ November 23, 2008
➠ November 16, 2008
➠ August 18, 2008
Braid's ending explained
SPOILER, natch. Internet theorising about a non-obvious subtext to Braid’s story. If Portal was a video-game short-story, is Braid a video-game poem?
➠ May 24, 2008
Biggest Drawing in the World
An artist uses the planet as his canvas, sketching a self-portrait by shipping a GPS-tracking briefcase around the world.
➠ April 10, 2008
Ten Thousand Cents
Mechanical Turk project where users were paid $0.01 to draw a section of the $100 bill.
➠ January 25, 2008
Boston Sports Propaganda
Fantastic limited-edition screen prints celebrating the Sox and the Pats. I’m trying to convince Joy that some of these would be dashing on our living room walls.
➠ December 20, 2007
➠ November 27, 2007
➠ October 24, 2007
Flickr: Photos from etchasketchist
Etch-a-Sketch art on Flickr. Some stunningly detailed stuff in here!
➠ April 17, 2007
DNA11 - From Life Comes Art
Get rather spiffy looking wall-art produced, based upon the DNA of you and your loved ones. A “snip” at $390+
➠ March 12, 2007
➠ February 17, 2007
➠ December 11, 2006
Le mètre cube de sperme. Participez!
A French artist wishes to gather and display 1000 litres of chilled spunk/spooge/love porridge. Sign up for your free “donation kit”. No, really.
➠ September 16, 2006
➠ June 29, 2006
➠ January 29, 2006
➠ November 11, 2005
About This Site
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.