Friday, July 20, 2001

KEEPING THE INTERNET INTERESTING WEBZINE
An Exhibition, Forum, and Party for Independent Online
Publishing

EVENT INFORMATION

WHEN: SATURDAY, JULY 21ST - NOON til 3AM
WHERE: CB'S GALLERY» - 313 BOWERY - EAST VILLAGE - NY,
NY
SPEAKERS: MICHAEL MOORE, ERIC ZIMMERMAN, ROBOT FRANK,
and MANY MORE»
MUSIC: FANTASTIC SNATCH, LILA, CHICA LOCA, STOLEY, DJ
HIRO and DELAWARE
SPONSORS: THREADLESS, NERVE MAGAZINE, SOFT SKULL
PRESS, INSOUND, 11211
MAGAZINE, GAZM.ORG, THE SILVER CAT
ADMISSION: 7$ AT THE DOOR

WEBZINE, an annual non-profit event held in San
Francisco for the last 3 years, is making its debut on
the East coast for the first time this year. It is an
all day event with various speakers and panelists as
well as entertainment. WEBZINE represents people with
a passion and a drive to create media that is outside
of the mainstream, media where expression, rather than
money is the bottom line. WEBZINE celebrates the fact
that the Internet is still a powerful tool for
personal publishers, despite the avalanche of
corporate sites....
for more information go to
http://www.webzine.ws

Wednesday, July 04, 2001

free speech is great - unless it's about graffiti

The totally misnamed "freespeech.org" has reportedly been kicking graffiti sites off its server without any warning. This is appalling behavour for any ISP in the "free world" and should not be tolerated. If you have a site on freespeech.org, vote with your feet, because first they came for the graffiti sites...

RIP Meta (Margaret Kilgallen)

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/04/obituaries/04KILG.html?searchpv=nytToday
[By ROBERTA SMITH]

"Margaret Kilgallen, an artist who contributed to the vibrant fusion of graffiti art, folk art, painting and installation art that emerged in San Francisco in the 1990's, died Thursday [June 28] in San Francisco. She was 33.

The cause was complications of breast cancer, her family said.

Ms. Kilgallen was born in Washington and raised in Kensington, Md. She received a B.A. in studio art and printmaking at Colorado College before moving to San Francisco. Exposed to bluegrass music as a child, Ms. Kilgallen was a skillful banjo player. In San Francisco she took up surfing, becoming equally adept. In 1990 she met her future husband, Barry McGee, also a surfer, and one of several young painters showing in galleries and painting noncommissioned murals on city walls. She and Mr. McGee, who were married in 1999, became part of a circle that included the artists Chris Johanson, Phil Frost, Ed Templeton and Thomas Campbell.

Ms. Kilgallen eventually painted hundreds of murals around San Francisco, most of which have been painted over.

[...]

Ms. Kilgallen's work is currently in "East Meets West," an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia through July 29, and at Stanford University, where she received a master's degree on June 17.

She is survived by her husband; a daughter, Asha, who was born on June 7 [...]"

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