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the visual arts collective

do you know about the Visual Arts Collective?  

the Arbiter, Boise State's student paper just wrote an excellent article about the VAC.

> Read more about the VAC and the multi-use art house that we love

> Visit their Website

> Find them on Facebook

playing with strangers : boise flash mobs

fantastic article by Tara Morgan of the Boise Weekly about the Boise Flash Mob scene.

> Read "Playing With Strangers" Flash Mobs expose Boise to the perks of play.

nollifur : the halloween show october 30 & 31

nollifur : the halloween show october 30 & 31, originally uploaded by arecity.

this halloween - this is what's to do.

and not just because i'm participating - but because it's going to be unlike anything you've seen in a long long time.

come.

arecity throws a costume party

at Modern Art 2009, at The Modern Hotel in Downtown Boise, arecity transformed Room 222 into a Participatory Costume Photo Shoot between 5:00 and 9:30pm on May 7th.

 

The Modern Hotel Blog has a post about the project as well.  

More Photos of the entire Modern Art Event are Here
(please forgive the link to F15 - i generally dislike their style/methods - but they have the most comprehensive photoset)

New Song By Doug Martsch "Save Me"

Boise resident Doug Martsch, also known as the lead singer of Built To Spill, recorded a new song for an excellent local compilation called Rotating Tongues 2, which was just released April 18th.

democracy now - broadcast April 24 from boise

Boise Creative & Improvised Music Festival

Human Rights Protest

Downtown Boise, Idaho

art play in are city

wendy fox : ignite boise 01

giant motorized cupcakes

via Boing Boing tv presents CUPCAKE CUTTHROATS, a cakesploitation epic exploring the dark side of electric art-cars shaped like baked goods. These homemade vehicles are crafted by Silicon Valley nerds (including one engineer from Tesla Motors) and Burning Man enthusiasts in a Berkeley, California, warehouse. In today's episode, Xeni joins the marauding muffineers for a 15-mph thrillride down mean, sugar-sprinkled streets.

Kite Skiing On The Camus Prairie

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We Need Bike Lanes

There was a scuffle on Thursday that featured Wayne Hammond, Budget Director of the State of Idaho, shuffling off the idea that Bike Lanes were anything more than a North-End dream.  The meeting was featured in the Twitter Feed of Idaho Reports Thanh Tan, and the Boise Weekly's CityDesk editor Nathaniel Hoffman.  Sen. LeFavour wrote a great piece about it, and there are some excellent comments from readers.

Since that time, Idaho Reports taped it's weekly show, which featured Wayne Hammond! Betsy Russel asks "If the 'enhancement' fund is not going to be spent on bike paths, it's going to be spent on landscaping."

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Ignite Boise #1

the presentations have been announced for Ignite Boise #1 in which looks to be an interesting event with pretty diverse topics. 

arecity will be doing a 5 minute presentation on art, play and creativity . . . don't miss it.

http://igniteboise.com

Freedom From Religion Foundation

via Buddy Stone on Flickr

on background: On Fairview Ave near Maple Grove. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, with more than 13,000 members, is the largest association of freethinkers (atheists and agnostics) in the United States. FFRF has been working since 1978 to promote freethought and to keep state and church separate.

snow-ffiti

death of the rocky mountain news

Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.

Rotating Tongues 2 @ the VaC

breakdance thursday

local boys doing some crazy spiderman shit

LifeStyle Kings vs Connect

flying, interspersed with breakdancing

Real Name: Shin Kyu Sang Bboy Name: Bruce Lee

TODAY'S VISUALIZATION

Enormous Undulating

brought to you by Jim Risch, US Senator from Idaho

Sen Risch hopes by Thanksgiving, we'll be able to identify improvement with either the "enormous" spending package or the vagaries of an "undulating" world economy, or some other way - like with better policy - he said today in his first speech in the Senate, where they were debating the Stimulus Package.  It passed, 61-36.

Afterward, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell gives him some love, as does Sen. Max Baucus - Democratic Senator from Montana.  Baucus explains that although he strongly disagrees with Risch, he hopes to work together in the future on Western Issues.

< listen here >   < House vs Senate #s >   < AP overview  another AP view >

 

ABOUT THE IMAGE:  One of Santiago Calatrava's finest works is the Bodegas Ysios in Laguardia, Alva, Spain. Its undulating roof and silvery edges are equisitely articulated.
from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Flash Mob @ Boise Towne Square

Saturday January 31st, 2009.   Boise Flash Mob finds its way to the central court of the Boise Towne Square and freezes in place for three minutes.  via arecity

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