After The Hunt…

Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on November 7, 2009

The First Red­bot Hunt…

After weeks of think­ing about what a Red­bot Hunt would be like, and sev­eral long days this last week bring­ing it into exis­tence, Fri­day evening arrived and the small Red­bot Street Crew went to work…

Tania and I along with Ryan Smo­lar from GLOBAL hit the street just before First Fri­days began, hunt­ing for metal sur­faces to post the Red­bots (there is a lot of alu­minum sur­faces in Bixby Knolls) while also post­ing fliers on shop win­dows and poles, as we trav­eled from the Bixby Knolls Busi­ness Asso­ci­a­tion office, to Dis­trict 8, and down the length of the First Fri­days Art Walk.

Din­ner Break…

We fin­ished just before 6:30 and headed back up Atlantic to go have din­ner with Ryan and our friends Tina and Noel at EJ Malloy’s and lis­ten to local musi­cian Jesica Specht.

After food, drinks and music, our crew headed back up to the large group show: Gallery Expo @ Expo and the “Dia de los Muer­tos” exhibit. At the exhibit they also had some painters cre­at­ing works in a large open stu­dio area, where I was very for­tu­nate to see Jonathan Bueno.

Jonathan is a Long Beach artist who was born in Mex­ico City. Tania and I met Jonathan sev­eral years ago, but hadn’t seen him since. I love his work, he’s one of my favorite con­tem­po­rary artists. If I col­lected art I’d be buy­ing up all his work I could… here’s a photo of one I really loved.

But mean­while…

…out on the street, a Red­bot Hunt still con­tin­ued and by the end of the evening 25 new Red­bots went home with new own­ers who had redeemed their Red­bot Own­er­ship Kits at Dis­trict 8…

…and Tania and I went home to relax and talk about the hunt, art, love and Red­bot until it was time for lights out and some well-deserved sleep.

After a Red­bot Hunt…

This morn­ing I went back up to Bixby Knolls to remove all our Red­bot Hunt signs… my brain hum­ming with new ideas since we got home last night…

So this after­noon I cut out seven new Red­bots and went for a bike ride through the alleys the Bluff Park area of Long Beach, post­ing the Red­bots and tak­ing pho­tos on a lit­tle project for the day called “7 for the 7th”…

Note: If you hap­pen to find one of today’s Red­bots, let me know and we’ll arrange for you to get your Own­er­ship Kit.

The ride was a excel­lent chance to unwind, enjoy the col­ors and tex­tures of the alleys, take my time plac­ing my Red­bots and pho­tograph­ing them, and let my head clear…

The hunt had pre­sented many new chal­lenges to me, and some project direc­tions for the future.

Red­bots are GO!

PS. Four peo­ple went home with one of the mul­ti­ples of a piece called “The Man Says You Bet­ter Lis­ten” — Con­grat­u­la­tions on the find!

PPS. The Red­bot Own­er­ship Gallery and Fea­tured Red­bot Owner sec­tions are get­ting major over­hauls this next week — or so my sched­ule says…

Street Art — An Appreciation

Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on October 25, 2009

Street Works

Red­bot, and this site — Red­bot Loves You! has grown from my love of street art…

That includes both the art posted by artists with stick­ers, sten­cils and other means, and also the art of the street, the ran­dom and anony­mous works I pho­to­graph — the chance works and other details which I find and rework — appro­pri­a­tion born of appreciation.

Here’s a Gallery of graph­ics I’ve made from images I’ve pho­tographed here in Long Beach — I call this group Street Work

Street Seen

This next Gallery is of var­i­ous pho­tos I’ve taken around Long Beach of oth­ers art work, many of them from back in 2007 at Taque­ria La Mex­i­cana on 4th Street when peo­ple could put stick­ers on the win­dows… Enjoy!

PS. I made and posted the Dick Cheney sticker on the Lost Dog flier…

Redbot at Soundwalk 2009

Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on October 3, 2009

Your host, Jon, one­hu­man­be­ing, along with his beau­ti­ful wife Tania and her fam­ily, had a great time at the Sound­walk this evening in the Art’s Dis­trict of down­town LB.

One instal­la­tion that really impressed me was a guy sweep­ing the side­walk with his broom hooked to a micro­phone that got fed through some effects and then played back to head­phones attached to the sweep­ers waist.

Sound­walk sweeper — photo by tania

A very straight-forward piece — just grab some head­phones and tune in to the won­der of sweep­ing sounds… seemed like some­thing Wayne from The Flam­ing Lips would use on-stage. Unfor­tu­nately I don’t know the name of the artist crew that did this piece.

Another cool piece was by a crew called HOLLOW BODIES that cre­ated a mes­mer­iz­ing sound blend with numer­ous effects, tape machines and inter­ac­tive sound boards — met Nolan from this crew — would love to see more of their work…

Hol­low Bod­ies at Sound­walk 2009 — photo by tania

The piece that Tania, Derek (Tania’s brother) and I wish we could have stayed longer at was the piece by the Hop-Frog Kol­lec­tiv that was a 5 hour spir­i­tual cleans­ing medi­a­tion of sound per­formed in a U-Haul truck in a park­ing lot — if you like long med­i­ta­tive drones that get under the skin and into the super­nat­ural fre­quen­cies you would have loved this piece…

Hop-Frog Kol­lec­tiv at Sound­walk 2009 — photo by tania

Sev­eral Red­bots got posted along the way…

…and I got to give away a num­ber of the spe­cial edi­tion but­tons that I’ve made to cel­e­brate Long Beach arts and artists this month…

I’ll be car­ry­ing a sup­ply of but­tons with me this month — so hit me up for a free­bie if you see me around — one of my great joys is giv­ing away my buttons…