artwork by Andrew Goldfarb This month's Two Buck Tuesday is curated by Kate Stewart and is focused on skills. The skills you need to pay the bills, not monetary bills, no, nothing so crass, but the spiritual bills that we all run up living our daily life of compromise and practicality. Pay off the debt of wonder and satisfaction that you owe yourself with our panel of experts. HEAR THE SPINE-TINGLING TALES OF: --> OLLIE MOORE as he reveals to you the secrets of bike racing, giving birth (for fathers,) and the San Jose music scene. HE HAS THE SKILLS THAT PAY THE BILLS! --> GIANFRANCO PAOLOZZI has a story to tell you. "falling in love...yes...falling in love...you know!...when you are surrounded with that colorless odorless cloud that paralyzes you for minutes or years and you really do not know why but something is happening in your brain and you only see in front of you what is making you stunned...what is making you so passionate...what is making you finally again realize that life after all is good...yes...falling in love....and happened to me again...with a sound..." DOES THIS NOT SOUND LIKE THE SKILLS THAT PAY THE BILLS?! LEARN: --> The epochs-old art of Serigraphy with MICHAEL FOLEY. So simple that a child could manage it, and yet invaluable to our modern lifestyle, Serigraphy can give you THE SKILLS THAT PAY THE BILLS! --> Secrets tucked within your own soul as MATTHEW SEIGEL helps you uncover the lost technologies of letter writing. Do you know how to connect without email or facebook? Do you know what a stamp is? When is the last time you wrote your Grandmother? Charm friends and relatives while creating priceless records of the age that your grandchildren will cherish! Two Buck Tuesday brings you another of the SKILLS THAT PAY THE BILLS! SEE THE INEFFABLE DRAUGHTSWORK OF: --> Man-about-town ALVYN VILLANUEVA is as comfortable on the dance floor as he is with a paintbrush. Look upon his blog at www.mushapartment.com and know: HE HAS THE SKILLS THAT PAY THE BILLS! --> When zombies attack, go find MO MACHADO. HE HAS THE SKILLS THAT SAVE YOUR BRAINS! --> Musician and comic artist ANDREW POISONER GOLDFARB has toured America with his spooky rock show, produced and published his own comic series "The 10,000 Sorrows of Ogner Stump," and recently won KFJC's 50th Anniversary logo contest. Check out http://www.ognerstump.com/ and discover what so many already know: HE HAS THE SKILLS THAT PAY THE BILLS! --> Found at the age of 13 in a hollow log, AIDAN CASSERLY adjusted quickly to his new role in human society. Behold the man at http://www.aidancasserly.com/. HE HAS THE SKILLS THAT PAY THE BILLS! All this plus aural intoxicants, culinary dainties, and amazingly affordable art awaits you at KALEID Gallery on Tuesday the 15th of December from 6-9pm. KALEID Gallery 88 S 4th St San Jose, CA 95113 (408) 947-1785 www.kaleidgallery.com

Here it be!  Corpus Callosum's first ever music video & my first adventure with stop motion!

I buckled down & was the Production Manager on this music video, my first dabble into stop motion.  Its also their first dabble into both stop motion & music videos in general.  They will play live @ the Video Release party with BattleHooch at Anno Domini Gallery (8pm).  Expect megaphones, stilts, seizures, wine glasses, accordians, assorted junk-as-percussion, music boxes made out of suitcases, cardboard puppet shows, & so much more! I.heart.Corpus Callosum! =) ...& so will you. promise. P.S. Buy, or at least look at, the art.  Its GOOOOOOOOOODDD!  Sam3 & Pjota- wickedly good artists!

Alternative Press Expo!!!  Come stop by my booth & say "Hi!"  I've been going the last 3 years & am stoked to be apart of this!  We are premiering our new book "Ten West Coast Artists Vol. 1"!  We may package some prints & whatnot just for APE so swing by!

Group Art Show put on by the wildly inventive Canvas Ghost Productions! This show is such a cool concept with very snazzy 3-d postcards! (Try printing it out & follow the dotted lines!) One night only! October 10th! I'm working on the next exhibit with them.  The theme?  Alice in Wonderland, of course! ;)

I'm in this cool new group exhibition inspired by the new album "+++" by DJ Hawke (aka. Gavin Hardkiss).  There are several cool events planned at the gallery and this show will travel with the CD release.  Project One Gallery, SF.  Artist meet & greet October 6th, 7-midnight.  Free CD & cool green-screened photo booth where you can get your picture taken with the art from the exhibit! October 6-18th.  Next stop, Costa Mesa.

Very cool opening at Psycho Doughnuts for the "Monsters, Mayhem & More" exhibit curated by the fabulous & talented Christine Benjamin. Nicolas Caesar from "Scary Art" created original sketches on-demand in the padded walls room & KSJS was there with a live band!  Had so much fun drinking mimosas & chowing awesomely creative doughnuts with the artists!  Three new works up in the show- check em out through October!

Wanna know what I've been up to this summer? The revolutionary forces behind Phantom Galleries did an interview with me and you can hear all about what's up!

I starred, last minute, in Benjamin Winter's new music video for "A Lighter Side".  He's just about to embark on his tour in Europe and the vid may make it to MTV2 Europe & FUSE (fingers crossed for him). Wouldn't that be random? It was shot by the awesome folks at Element 151 who are my new San Jose favorites.  The music video shoot was hands down the smoothest, fastest shoot I have ever been on.  Frank Door, the director, promised the crew it would be a 14 hour shoot and we were done in 12!  That's talent!  He took all my first takes (That's confidence).  I really appreciated the level of respect & professionalism- its the refining fire of Hollywood at work... but guess what- everyone's actually NICE! =) I'm sure there will be a screening locally by the label soon after the tour so stay tuned!