Jonathan reminisces about the early days of CELLspace at a brunch celebrating the art collective's 12th birthday. He quoted co-founder Paradox's words, "Dally on abstract spells no longer," while telling a story about how a group of puppeteers first got the lease for the warehouse while Tyson, of a much younger artist collective down the road, Million Fishes, listens in.

This is the drawing of the week for March 17-23, 2008.

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Chicken John Rinaldi played host to his excellence, Reverend Billy, and Billy's director, Savitri Durkee, at Chez Poulet for a discussion about art and perseverance in the face of bad modern architecture.

When I got there, Chicken and friends were finishing a screening of "The Times of Harvey Milk," a brilliant documentary about a true hero. Chicken was gasping as he watched Dan White get away with murder - he hadn't known the whole absurd story before. Hopefully, he'll read The Mayor of Castro Street and learn more about this history and the treachery of Diane Fienstein.

Reverend Billy was in town to promote "What Would Jesus Buy," a movie he made with producer Morgan Spurlock, showing at the SF Indie DocFest.

Listen their conversation here.

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The Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping preached in front of David Best's Temple of Forgiveness. Billy testified on anti-consumerism to bring a little explicit meaning at the end of the Burning Man week. He also officiated a wedding where two women vowed to be Best Friends Forever.

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We're considering hiring Marcus Rios for an event, so he came over to our kitchen to give us an example of his cooking. Marcus is all about the ingredients - he made a platter that included Drunken goat cheese and quince paste and presented us with a scrumptuous array of other delicacies, all served with pleasant foodie conversation.

This is the drawing of the week for May 6-12, 2007.

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At small backyard soiree to support Center for Outdoor Contemporary Art (COCA), Elliot Lessing mixes a cherry cocktail.

Lessing is one of the chief architects of this new arts organization. COCA will bring new art to San Francisco's parks October 19-21, 2007 with the Open Skies project.

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Luther Thie says that his art project, Acclair, a brain-scanning service, doesn't need to work to be creepy. He is presenting as part of an artists talk about the Corporate Art Expo '07 exhibit at the lab.

See more artists from this exhibition in "The Lab" topic gallery.

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Amanda Eicher talks about People Products 123, a project she created with Steve Lambert and the Anti-Advertising Agency as part of Corporate Art Expo '07 at The Lab.

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Nathan Lynch listened to the packed crowd at the 7th Annual Monster Drawing Rally through headphones attached to a tube attached to a gramaphone horn while he drew.

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I was a drawer at Southern Exposure's 7th Annual Monster Drawing Rally. This is a view from the drawing table created using ideas suggested by the jam-packed crowd of on-lookers.

I put out a piece of paper asking for words to describe the event replies included: "Beer Breath," "Stuffed," "Energized," "Sex (so it will sell)," and "Great People Watching" - and things that need to be included in a drawing of the monster rally. Some ideas people wrote were: "Unicorns," "Monsters!," "Monster sitting on a toad stool," "Lobster," "Space," and "An Elephant Drawing," all of which I kept adding to the drawing until I realized that it was 9 O'clock and my turn was up. John Casey's drawing hand also appears in this drawing (he's not the elephant).

This is the drawing of the week for February 18-24, 2007.

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Southern Exposure put together an all star panel of public artists for their "How Do I Make My Art Public Art?" workshop held at the Mission Cultural Center.

Aimee Le Duc, associate director of SOEX, moderated a panel consisting of Rigo, Seyed Alavi, the Living Lenses team of Po Shuwang and Louise Bertelsen, and Packard Jennings. The artists talked about their work - and they all do some fantastic work, really, click on their names and check it out - and then had a lively conversation with the audience.

They agreed that you've got to do public art that fits your own budget before you can get grants to fund larger projects. I commented on how the grant system has them everyone in the room spending a lot of time to compete with each other for the same small pot of money and asked if any of them had seen better models. Jennings said he likes the Christo model - to fund projects by selling off sketches and pieces of the project - but acknowledged that it's tough to pull that off without the celebrity factor.

This is the drawing of the week for January 21-27, 2007.

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