http://www.gallinvanting.com traveling addcits & globetrotting secrets Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:04:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.gallinvanting.com/2007/09/21/black-sheep-trailer/ Paris Roubaix 1976 http://www.gallinvanting.com/2007/09/19/69/ Continually updated post on all the necessary long term travel info and gear. Websites: CouchSurfing: See the city from a locals point of view, and their living room from the resourceful CouchSurfing site. Gmail: Best email! Use this for my domain account and @gmail address. Google Documents: Don't ever need to use Word on ... http://www.gallinvanting.com/2007/06/04/traveling-resources-thread/ San Francisco Zine Fest is happening today and tomorrow with all types of crafters and printers. Cheap bookbinding workshops too. September 9–10, 2006 @ CELLspace (2050 Bryant St, in the Mission) SF Zine Fest SF Zine Fest 2005 recap ZineWiki http://www.gallinvanting.com/2006/09/09/san-francisco-zine-fest/ Moleskin launches a new set of city specific notebooks for the traveler hitting many of the big spots across the globe. The new notebooks include maps, street index, pockets, and of-course blank pages. Individual(!) notebooks include: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Prague, Rome, and Vienna. City Notebooks by ... http://www.gallinvanting.com/2006/09/08/city-specific-moleskin-notebooks/ New acrylic and ink works by Coop going up at sixspace gallery Saturday, September 9, 6 - 9pm. Info at sixspace Coop site Coop art blog http://www.gallinvanting.com/2006/09/07/coop-opening-brand-recognition/ Collection of approaches and new movements in urban design. Good Magazine 'Public Domain' article BBC Urban Planet Urban design book list 'Packing the Pavement' Urban Places and Spaces car culture feature photo by bfeil http://www.gallinvanting.com/2006/09/07/rethinking-urban-spaces/ Recorded in 2002 as part of the Platinum DVD of Fellowship of the Ring, Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky lend perspective into Tolken and Jackson's visions. Audio Commentary by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky for The Fellowship of the Ring, via McSweeney http://www.gallinvanting.com/2006/09/07/chomsky-and-zinn-audio-commentary-on-fellowship-of-the-ring/ Sticking it to 500 copies of Paris Hilton's new album 'Paris' famned Londner Banksy adds some content and kind words. Full BBC Story Flickr Set of a CD Opening YouTube 'punking paris' http://www.gallinvanting.com/2006/09/07/banksy-does-paris/ Washington D.C. is ofcourse known for it's populous of politicians but few know it as the epicenter for East Coast punk and hardcore. Yellow Arrow documents the scene with maps and quality mini-docs. Capitol of Punk Washington, D.C. hardcore @ wikipedia Banned in DC http://www.gallinvanting.com/2006/09/01/washington-dc-hardcore-mini-docs/ Supertouch interviews favorite Adbusters subverter Ron English. New Jersey based Painter, Billboard hijacker & all-around provocateur Ron English is at the forefront of a modern art movement set to take over the art world by any means necessary. Culture Jamming with Ron English Billboards by English Graffiti.org feature http://www.gallinvanting.com/2006/09/01/inside-culture-jamming-with-ron-english/ Brian Barnelco is a San Francisco artist who is lending his paint stylings to the side of FoodCo a grocery store in the Mission district between 14th and 15th Streets on Shotwell. The two hundred-foot piece explores the source of our food from seed to dinner plate. Still in progress ... http://www.gallinvanting.com/2006/08/31/sf-food-chain-mural/ Karolina Sobecka's wildlife street art takes your favorite beast and projects it onto the city streets from a moving vehicle. Software installed in the car detects the speed and adjusts the running animals animation accordingly. Some stills and video n more info Karolina's personal site http://www.gallinvanting.com/2006/08/30/projection-street-art-by-karolina-sobecka/ Google's attempts to catalog the world’s libraries at first came with resistance, then speculation, and now are slowly being embraced by many major partners. Being all for the access to as much information as possible we're glad to see you can now also download pdfs of works from Google Book ... http://www.gallinvanting.com/2006/08/30/google-books-adds-more-public-domain-works-pdfs/ We're big fans of Flickr and yesterday they announced a new geotagging feature for all members. You can now drag and drop your photos over a Yahoo! generated map and get pretty little pink dots on the location of your shot. Links below will help to get you started posting ... http://www.gallinvanting.com/2006/08/30/flickr-adds-geotagging-features/ Mark Jenkins is a Washington DC based artist, who's work includes tape babies and lollipop parking meters, may wake you up from that urban everday daze sometime. Video of Jenkins work on the street Morning News Interview Mark's Stroker Project http://www.gallinvanting.com/2006/08/30/mark-jenkins-urban-art/