WE HAVE LOVE, TRUTH AND BEAUTY ON OUR SIDE. WE WILL VOTE YOU OUT. WE ARE THE 99%. WE ARE ACTIVE. OCCUPY EVERYWHERE.

In the Bay Area, we are fortunate to live in a bubble where marijuana is quickly becoming normalized and increasingly legal. But outside the Bay Area, the world is very different. She was pulled over for going four miles over the posted speed limit on a road in South Dakota where people routinely [...]]]>

In the Bay Area, we are fortunate to live in a bubble where marijuana is quickly becoming normalized and increasingly legal. But outside the Bay Area, the world is very different. She was pulled over for going four miles over the posted speed limit on a road in South Dakota where people routinely drive fifteen miles over the speed limit. The California plates on her rental car didn’t help matters. She is facing a possible sentence of 4-5 years for the marijuana that was found in the trunk. To many of us, this is shocking and overblown. But it’s real. As Ryan prepares to be sentenced, we are gathering to RAISE MONEY in support.

Click on this link for info on how to donate:

How you can help | Ryan Smilin.

and/or come to the

Benefit at CounterPULSE ~ Thursday January 6th

There will be performances, incredible auction items and surprises. And it will give Ryan a strong, visceral memory of the community she will find when she comes home.

what: All for One, a benefit for Ryan Mesch
performances by:
Kirk Read
Suzanne Sterling
Emily Leap
Ed Wolf
Lil Miss Hot Mess
Sweetcheeks
Emil Miland
Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney

when: Thursday January 6, 2011 at 8pm

where: CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission St. at 9th in San Francisco

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Tom Sepe, an artist exhibiting in one of them, the “Steampunk Form & Function” show at the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation in Waltham, Mass., shipped his “Whirlygig,” a “steam-electric-hybrid motorcycle,” from his [...]]]> I was recently interviewed by Ethan Gilsdorf for an online article about Steampunk in the Christian Science Monitor:

Tom Sepe, an artist exhibiting in one of them, the “Steampunk Form & Function” show at the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation in Waltham, Mass., shipped his “Whirlygig,” a “steam-electric-hybrid motorcycle,” from his workshop in Berkeley, Calif. The circus performer discovered steampunk via the Burning Man art community, and looks at his life as art. “Every choice we make is part of a performance,” he says. “Every object we make or touch becomes an artifact of who we are and how we have been.”

For Mr. Sepe, “three crucial elements” keep him engaged in the steampunkmaker culture: the “warmth factor” of its handmade materials, its functionality, and whimsy – “free thinking imagination and fun.” Unlike other art forms, he says, “It doesn’t take itself too seriously.”

Read the whole article here:

Steampunk: The new Goth – CSMonitor.com.

And in Today’s NEWS:

Artist Tom Sepe experiences frustration and disappointment as the week draws to a close.

“I barely got half of what I wanted to get done this week, the weather is affecting my mood, numerous people who owe me money are flaking, I smoke too much and I live in a [...]]]>

And in Today’s NEWS:

Artist Tom Sepe experiences frustration and disappointment as the week draws to a close.

“I barely got half of what I wanted to get done this week, the weather is affecting my mood, numerous people who owe me money are flaking, I smoke too much and I live in a country that denounces Socialism.” said Sepe this morning at a local cafe.

“At least I have lots of friends on Facebook!” he decried while riding away on his bicycle.

Tom Sepe is an under-employed multidisciplinary artist who live in Berkeley, CA

You can view his un-marketable art-objects online at: http://tomsepe.com/recent.html

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I had a lot of fun being a track marshal last night for the first SF night Market. Five Ton Crane put together a fantastic 4-lane slot car racetrack in the back of a rented Box truck, and parked it at 24th St & Illinois in [...]]]>

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I had a lot of fun being a track marshal last night for the first SF night Market. Five Ton Crane put together a fantastic 4-lane slot car racetrack in the back of a rented Box truck, and parked it at 24th St & Illinois in San Francisco along with 18 other trucks each with different installations by different groups of artists. Big props to David Shulman for spearheading the effort and Greg Jones for all the slot car track!

Hosted by Lost Horizon, who have produced this guerrilla art event in Boston and New York in the past, there was a bowling alley in a semi-trailer, a entire garden, Mac and Cheese with attitude, a full gypsy band with stand-up piano, ballroom dancing and Grope-A-Clown just to name a few!

Check out more of these photos by my friend Nick Winterhaler on flickr.com

And here are some photos by from the High School Yearbook Box Truck picture booth:

Keep your ears peeled for the next Night Market East Bay in the spring of 2011!

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I designed [...]]]> Here’s a preview of the print-on-demand book I just made of my art. It’s meant to be like a portfolio, but right now its really more like a coffee-table style retrospective of the last ten years. I’ll probably trim it down and go with a smaller format for use as an actual portfolio.

I designed the book in Apple’s professional photo editing application, Aperture (which is kind of like iPhoto on steroids.) But for the next version I think I will go with Blurb.com and do a full re-design using their software.

(for best results click on the view “full screen icon” on the lower right)

Just found a picture of me from 2002 where I’m on stilts, dressed as Uncle Sam, drumming at an anti-war protest in San Francisco!

who knew? ]]> Anti-War Protesters Rally In San Francisco – Photo – LIFE

Just found a picture of me from 2002 where I’m on stilts, dressed as Uncle Sam, drumming at an anti-war protest in San Francisco!

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A Big hit hit with kids of all ages, the Raygun Rover rolled around the tarmac at Nasa Ames Research center April 10th, along with the Raygun Gothic Rocketship, Les Claypool, The Black Keys, Glitch Mob, Beats Antique and many more talented and amazing people!