Because We Are Your Friends [Wed. 4/16]

The Muffuggin Ripoff

Hippie-like Sunday [4:20]

[Green Apple Music Festival]
Last night in an attempt to hold off on the reality that Monday was almost here, I attempted watching Dave Chapelle's Block Party on Hulu. I fell asleep before the opening credits were done.
Today I find out the line up for the Green Apple Festival and it's almost like fate would have me not watch it so I could experience it all live. And for free, no less. DC yet again provides a great opportunity to hear some great minds speak on Greenifying and Global Warming whilst listening to some great live music.

Participants:

The Roots & Friends
featuring Doug E. Fresh, Ne-Yo,
Talib Kweli, will.i.am,
Chrisette Michele and more
O.A.R. Acoustic
Gov't Mule
Thievery Corporation (DJ Set)
Toots & The Maytals
Warren Haynes Solo Acoustic
Umphrey's McGee
CityDance Ensemble
Joy of Motion: Urban Impact
DC Boys Choir
Special opening performance by American Idol winner Jordin Sparks

Speakers:

Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson
Wendy Abrams, Founder Cool Globes
Actor and Environmental Activist, Ed Begley Jr.
Dave Chapelle, Satirist
Comedian, Actor Chevy Chase
Jayni Chase, Founder Center for Environmental Education
Richard Cizik, Vice President, National Association of Evangelicals
Donna Edwards, Member of Congress (MD-4)
Wayne Gilchrest, Member of Congress (MD-1)
Washington DC Mayor Adrian Fenty (invited)
New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman
Jim Fuschetti, Head of Environmental Affairs, Chase
Jane Harmon, Member of Congress (CA-36)
David Hawkins, Director of NRDC’s Climate Center
Denis Hayes, Organizer of the First Earth Day
Joe Holland, Olympic Skiing Medalist
NASA Climatologist and Columbia University Professor, Dr. James Hansen
Gene Karpinski, President, League of Conservation Voters
Edward Markey, Chair of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming (MA-7)
Actor, Ed Norton
Comedian Chris Rock
Reginald “Flip” Hagood, President, Student Conservation Association, Inc.
Goldman Prize Winners Rosa Ramos and Marina Rikhavanova
Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader
Kathleen Rogers, President Earth Day Network
Russell Simmons, Record Producer, Entrepreneur
Robin Talbert, Executive Director of the AARP Foundation
Rev. Yearwood,President of the Hip Hop Caucus
Cathy Zoi, President, Alliance for Climate Protection

Wreckfest @ Tiffany's

[Wreckfest]
Refreshments will be served after the Panel Discussion (Graffiti art and the influence of hip hop on art and culture) and before the party (DJ, Video, Fashion, and Swag).

Runs from 3 to 11pm.

Where:
Arlington Arts Center
3550 Wilson Boulevard
(Virginia Square metro station)

Art Imitates Life: Street Art...DC

On of GUE's illicit love affairs continues to be with Wooster Collective, beloved blog site featuring street art photography and video from submitters all around the globe, and they're coming to DC!!

Some of my favorite names I've learned through WC and continue to follow them outside of there. Wooster is also responsible (as far as I can tell) for a similar new photo blog by the name of Streetsy. Which also features some fantastic stencil artwork.

Marc and Sara Schiller, creators of the site, will be making an appearance in DC tonight! Presenting some slides and giving a lecture on the amazingly beautiful art one can find in the streets and how this art has become such an influence in modern and contemporary art that can now be found in galleries and museums throughout the world.

Marc and Sara will be presenting this fun, and sometimes powerful, ephemeral medium and outlining its explosion all around the world. Employing nontraditional techniques such as paste, stencils and spray paint, the artists show off their talents in unlikely places. "They travel to do it and are very considerate of what locations pieces go in," said Sara, "They are doing something illegal every day by putting up art to be consumed by the public, which flies in the face of what the art world is typically about." [DCist]

Street art defenitely influnces a lot of what I do as an "artist" as well as a lot of my lifestyle. So you can probably guess I've already wet my pants over this a few times since finding out. Make sure and come out!


[Wooster Collective]

From the Streets to the Gallery: How Contemporary Art is Being Influenced by the Urban Experience

When: Tonight from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Where: Katzen Arts Center at American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW.

RSVP to info [at] wpadc.com or 202-234-7103.