A Joe Strummer and Clash Tribute is taking place this Sunday, December 7th at The Bottom of The Hill in San Francisco. The event is a benefit for Strummerville, an organization that helps create new opportunities for aspiring musicians.

Every year since his untimely death, the San Francisco music community has come together to celebrate the life, music and spirit of Joe. All proceeds go to Strummerville, the foundation in England set up in Joe’s name that aims to create new opportunities for aspiring musicians.

This year, Eric McFadden, The Armagideons (w/ members of The Black Furies), The Hooks, Dead Ringers, Ferocious Few and Rubberside Down are donating their time and effort for the love of Joe at The Bottom of the Hill on Sunday 12/7, Pearl Harbor Day.

photo by Marcy G.

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Joe Strummer & Clash Tribute, A Benefit For Strummerville

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Here’s the trailer for “Stingray Sam”, the new musical space western written and directed by Cory McAbee, with music by American Astronaut and narrated by David Hyde Pierce. Stingray Sam will be premiering at Sundance Film Festival 2009.

A dangerous mission reunites STINGRAY SAM with his long lost accomplice, The Quasar Kid. Follow these two space-convicts as they earn their freedom in exchange for the rescue of a young girl who is being held captive by the genetically designed figurehead of a very wealthy planet. This musical space-western miniseries is designed for small screens and perfect for screens of all sizes.

Cory’s last film “The American Astronaut” (2001) was amazing, so I’m really looking forward to seeing what he has in store for us in “Stingray Sam”.

Thanks to Because We Can for the tip!

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Stingray Sam, A Musical Space Western by Cory McAbee

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Mission Bazaar returns to San Francisco’s historic Armory this weekend, December 6th & 7th. A unique hybrid of craft fair, performance event, and community center, Mission Bazaar seeks to showcase an incredibly diverse range of vibrant Bay Area creative talents.

Mission Bazaar features a diverse collection of artisans exhibiting their creative works, products, fashion and accessories. There will be over 20 hours of live performances on three stages featuring live music, circus and dance acts, performance artists and DJs, including gypsy jazz, bellydance, spoken word, beatbox, choral ensembles, fashion shows, puppetry, flamenco guitar, and much more. In addition, Mission Bazaar has invited a cross-section of Mission-based non-profit organizations to attend.

Worth checking out, if for no other reason than to see inside of the State Armory and Arsenal building, one of the city’s most unusual historic landmarks, which was purchased in 2007 by local netporn success story Kink.com, and is currently being reborn as the Armory Community Center.

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Mission Bazaar Returns To San Francisco’s Historic Armory

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On his blog, UK-based web developer and hobbyist photographer Jeremy Keith recounts how a vacation photograph he took inside NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building came to be used in the 2008 blockbuster Iron Man.

Three minutes into the movie, there was my photo. It fills the screen.

The camera lingers over it while performing its best Ken Burns effect. Not only was Robert Downey Jnr. photoshopped onto the picture, Jeff Bridges was on there too! The Dude!! …On my picture!!! My Flickr pictures have been used in some pretty strange places but this must surely be the strangest …and the coolest.”

via Flickr blog

image via Jeremy Keith

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Creative Commons Licensed Flickr Photo used in Iron Man

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I Can Has Cheezburger has posted the world’s oldest LOLcat, a postcard from 1905.

image via I Can Has Cheezburger

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Pownce co-founder Leah Culver has just announced that Pownce will be shutting down as of December 15 and they they have sold their technology to Six Apart. Leah and Mike Malone, also of Pownce, will be joining Six Apart’s engineering team.

More Coverage:

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Roboexotica 2008, the 10th annual festival for cocktail robots organized by SHIFZ, monochrom and Bureau of Philosophy, kicks of this Thursday, December 4th at Freiraum in Vienna’s Museumsquartier and runs through December 14th.

Here’s a gallery of photos and video from previous Roboexotica events.

Until recently, no attempts had been made to publically discuss the role of cocktail robotics as an index for the integration of technological innovations into the human Lebenswelt, or to document the increasing occurrence of radical hedonism in man-machine communication. Roboexotica is an attempt to fill this vacuum. It is the first and, inevitably, the leading festival concerned with cocktail robotics world-wide. A micro mechanical change of paradigm in the age of borderless capital. Alan Turing would doubtless test this out.

Kal Spelletich of SEEMEN will be presenting his new cocktail robot “Sloth” at Roboexotica. Speaking of monochrom, Eddie Codel and Bre Pettis are this year’s artists in residence.

“Sloth” photo and video by Kal Spelletich

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Roboexotica 2008, A Festival For Cocktail Robots

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CupcakeCamp, a BarCamp style event focusing on cupcakes, returns to San Francisco for CupcakeCamp2 this Sunday, December 7th at The Satisfactory, the offices of Get Satisfaction in San Francisco.

See the wiki for more info, including cupcake registration.

Here’s GETV’s coverage of the very first CupcakeCamp that took place at Citizen Space in San Francisco back in June.

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CupcakeCamp2 At The Satisfactory In San Francisco

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Last Gasp founder and publisher Ron Tuner will be giving a gallery talk this Friday, December 5th at the Oakland Museum of California. Ron will be discussing the current L.A. Paint exhibition with the museum’s Chief Curator of Art Phil Linhares.

illustration by Frank Bella

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Ron Tuner L.A. Paint Gallery Talk at Oakland Museum of California

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Last night’s episode of The Simpsons (“Mypods and Boomsticks”) showed the citizens of Springfield getting their very first “Mapple” store, complete with MyPods, MyPhones, MyCubes and a Brainiac Bar. Even Steve Mobs makes an appearance.

You can watch the full episode on Hulu.

via Nick Douglas

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