I’m bummed out! Due to my Creative Commons responsibilities next Wednesday, I can’t physically get to my wife’s art opening next Wednesday. So, I will try to drive as many people as possible to the show. Please do go if you are in the San Francisco Bay Area! Its free and will be great! I will get to the after-party as soon as I can physically drive back from Creative Commons “Future of CC” night event which several of you are going to attend.

Check out Lu’s big installation:

My latest project “Don’t Talk About Politic” is being installed in “We Remember the Sun” exhibition, a group show in the Walter & McBean Galleries. Opening is this coming Wednesday, exhibition on view through September.

“Don’t Talk about Politic” is a two channel video installation. Proposed plan is as image followed, as well as exhibition statement written by Mary Ellyn Johnson. I have been working on this in the past several weeks. And I found out that if you use NTSC video camera to shoot video in a lighted studio in a PAL country, then your video will be possibly have flickering all through it. What a lesson! Luckily I am able to eliminate this unexpected effect because it was shot in a blue screen studio. I am very excited to see when all is installed. And it should be an interesting show!

Some Video stills:

We Remember the Sun
Exhibition of Work by Fifteen Bay Area Artists
—Live Musical Performance at Opening Reception

Walter and McBean Galleries
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)

800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133

Opening reception:  Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
Cost: Free and open to the public
Exhibition Dates:  19 June–13 September 2008
Images: High-resolution digital images available
Press Contact: Bob Gamboa, (415) 749-4507, bgamboa@sfai.edu
We Remember the Sun, an Exhibition by Fifteen California Artists,
Opens at  SFAI on 18 June 2008

Here are the directions to SFAI.

Originally from Go Check Out Lu Fang Art Show Next Wednesday at SFAI

This just in from Mr Superhumanoid himself, Cam’ron Parkins: R-Kelly is not guilty on all 6 accounts!

This is a big day for one of the most creative and successful R&B/Hip-Hop artists of all time! Also, he is one of the highest level, if not the highest level musician to have Creative Commons licensed some music.

Here are some juicier tidbits from a news article:

Jurors, who began their deliberations Thursday afternoon, said that though most of them believed Kelly was the man on the tape, it was harder to positively identify the girl.

And…

Kelly’s attorneys had alleged that the star was framed by his former protégé, singer Stephanie “Sparkle” Edwards, the alleged victim’s aunt. Sparkle and parts of the victim’s family had teamed up with two Kansas City men to fake the sex tape, Kelly’s team alleged, saying Sparkle wanted “money, money, money.”

Neither Kelly nor the alleged victim were on the tape, they contended, claiming that a mole on Kelly’s back did not appear on the man in the tape.

And the resulting…

But an overcome Kelly dropped his head and began sobbing as the first “not guilty” was read shortly after 2 p.m. Friday, keeping it bowed for several minutes as he was cleared on each of the remaining counts.

Now, does this clear the way for a lil wayne and R-Kelly track or leaked album. I think R-Kelly’s Double-Up album had to be one of the best hip-hop albums of last year, and now Lil Wayne has dropped probably the hottest album of 2008 thus far. Can these camps get together please and make some jams.

Originally from R-Kelly is Not Guilty! Lil Wayne Collabo Possible?

I’ve blogged about my favorite rapper, artist, musician before, Lil Wayne, when he consciously leaked tracks prior to his upcoming album in understanding the effect that would have on spreading his music, encouraging sales, and more commerce around his entire existence. Wayne embraced piracy, or as Gilberto Gil calls it, “peer-acy.”

Well, now Lil Wayne’s latest album, Tha Carter III has been leaked 10 days before the album is to be released on June 10 (and through btjunkie its quite easy to find). So, who did the leaking? Since he leaked, er, released, er, leaked tracks prior to Tha Carter III back before Christmas 2007, these are supposedly the real tracks that some DJ released out of anger for Wayne dissing on DJ’s. The Wikipedia article clarifies:

On May 30th-31st, Tha Carter III was leaked internationally. The first of the leaks were distributed on May 30th at around 8pm where five songs from the track list were available on the internet. Hours later on May 31st at 12am-1am the whole album was leaked and posted on various websites for free download. The DJ responsible for the leaks was DJ Chuck T who retaliated for an interview conducted by Wayne, where he discredited all DJ’s and the mixtape scene days before.

Do you all think this is true? Wayne owes mucho to DJ Drama and the entire mixtape scene. I find it hard to believe that Wayne would diss DJ’s without a good reason. I could think of some good reasons to diss DJs after seeing gramps DJ in Beijing a couple of weeks ago. I’m talking about DJ Cut Chemist mixing music from 20-30 years ago! Yes, that is how old Hip-Hop is now! Amazing.

Originally from Lil Wayne Carter III Really Leaked May 2008