Uptown Oaktown

Hey, is Density from Valencia in the Mission moving over here?...

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:27:52 -0400

Hey, is Density from Valencia in the Mission moving over here? Hmmmm?

ELECTROAFROLITE ART SHOW

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:20:59 -0400

Diamond Shining Art collective will be showing artwork for the whole month of November starting at OAKLAND ART WALK this Friday the 5th. Artist Ras Terms, Deadeyes, Safety First, Ashrose, and Antjuan Telepathic Jones coming together taking you through afro-galactic fine street art and invocations.

2318 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, CA 94612

Check it

Hey, south side of Lake Merritt! PERFECT for the occult. Or...

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:16:58 -0400

Hey, south side of Lake Merritt! PERFECT for the occult. Or elves. or BOTH.

sfhaps: Blue Bottle Roat in Oakland via @bluebottlemint

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:53:52 -0400

sfhaps:

Blue Bottle Roat in Oakland via @bluebottlemint

Deep Oakland Call For Proposals

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:56:15 -0400

From: http://www.deepoakland.org/about?page=100

DEEP OAKLAND CALL FOR PROPOSALS

We are currently seeking proposals for intermedia projects to be presented online in 2009-10. We will be offering small start up grants (no more than $250 each) for proposals that need funding for materials.

We will consider both new creative works and archival projects. We are especially interested in work that examines the social, cultural, economic, historical and political conditions into and out of which Oakland residents live, relate and make (make art, text, family, video, buildings, clothing, etc.) We are also interested in collaborative and multi-disciplinary projects.

Some examples of proposed projects and/or projects currently underway:

• Studio visits / interviews with local artists.
• Scene reports from performance sites (music, theater, reenactments, readings, etc.)
• A piece that focuses on sound recordings from farmer’s markets in several different Oakland neighborhoods.
• A photography series of Oakland taco trucks documenting the customers at these locations at particular times, such as noon and midnight.
• A photography series of houses and institutions meaningful in the history of the Hell’s Angels, and a photography series of houses and institutions meaningful in the history of the Black Panthers.
• Video works: an hour-long visual & sonic exploration of east bay tides/shoreline.
• Mass observation of a location or event in Oakland and Miami, FL, and/or another city.
• Short interviews with longtime Oakland residents and then presentations of an older photo from their personal album, along with a current photo of the same location.
• A collection of photographs, zines and other materials from private archives of materials around the Weather Underground.
• Walking tours.

We encourage those interested to take a look at the website. Proposals should include a short description of the project, budget and material needs if any, and some sort of work sample.

Please email proposals to deep.oakland@gmail.com. Consideration of proposals will begin on November 1 and continue until we run out of funds.

EDITORIAL POLICY Deep Oakland is edited by David Harrison Horton and Stephanie Young, with input and assistance from a revolving curatorial board in various disciplines. If you have an idea for a project, content or a link that you would like to see included on the Deep Oakland website, please send us a query by email: deep.oakland@gmail.com.

We are particularly looking for:

• Work that is directly concerned with Oakland or, if a creative piece, is produced by a member or members of the Oakland community
• Work that adds to a better understanding of Oakland and its diverse communities
• Work that analyzes the social, political, economic, historic, ecological, and/or creative aspects of Oakland
• Work that records individual and group efforts to create change in Oakland communities
• Work that responds to materials already posted on the website
• Work that addresses neighborhoods or localities that are currently under-represented on the Deep Oakland website

We are not interested in:

• Work that replicates content already posted on the website, or work that is readily available from other sources
• Work that denigrates any community or group

Endless Canvas

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:42:32 -0400

Endless Canvas:

Endless Canvas adds original street art and graffiti photos to the site daily along with interviews and events. All the pics are taken by our own team of photographers.

Deep Oakland

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:41:20 -0400

Deep Oakland:

Cities are more than the people, buildings and geographical areas that define them. They are a nexus of connections creating active, vital communities. The size and shape of these connections may be invisible, even to the residents of a given city. And the location where one thing in the city connects to another thing is often on the move. Points of connectivity may be small, short-lived, visible only on a one-block radius. Connections mutate. Yet the way a city ‘looks’ from the outside (media) can remain proportionately static with the actual generation and re-generation of communities over time, the transit and intersections of people, water, money, memory, ballots, animals, concrete, water, labor, food and information.

Affiliated with neither the tourism nor better business bureaus, Deep Oakland seeks to create a compendium of inter-linked images, text and sound that represent the complications and vitality of Oakland’s current moment.

GATS.

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:37:14 -0400

GATS.

Swampy.

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:36:15 -0400

Swampy.

What's Going On Tonight?

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:30:54 -0400

Uptown: Sole/Astronautalis/Sahib - $10

The Fox Theater: Monsters of Folk - $40

Cafe Van Kleef: Musashi Trio - $5

The Stork Club: Tennis Pro, The Enigmatics, The Mopes, Sam Uptown - $5

924 Gilman: Schlong, Social Unrest, Classics of Love, Druglords of the Ave, Dr. Frank (acoustic), Fugitive Kind

sfhaps: Blue Bottle Roast in Oakland opening Monday Oct...

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:20:00 -0400

sfhaps:

Blue Bottle Roast in Oakland opening Monday Oct 19
http://sf.eater.com/archives/2009/10/15/blue_bottle_bonanza_3.php

Initial hours
8am-2pm
Mon-Fri

Blue Bottle
300 Webster St
Oakland
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=300+Webster+St,+Oakland

Photo: sarahp_3

"The best part about San Francisco is that you can see Oakland from there."

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:23:08 -0400

“The best part about San Francisco is that you can see Oakland from there.”

- From a bumpersticker behind the bar at Van Kleef’s.

The New Parish looks like it’s the place to be for the...

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:18:45 -0400

The New Parish looks like it’s the place to be for the next few nights—Common on Saturday, Mos Def performing Black on Both Sides on Sunday.

Photo

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:13:39 -0400

Welcome to Uptown, Oaktown, a tumblr blog about living in...

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:12:28 -0400

Welcome to Uptown, Oaktown, a tumblr blog about living in Oakland.