First off, my inner-geek needs to get this over with. Cargo Bay and StylinOnline.com are selling Star Wars themed sports apparel. May the Force be with them! Also, the folks at Lifehacker.com have compiled a list of the Most Popular Free Windows Downloads of 2008, which is definitely worth checking out. And for all you hipster fucks, the guys at Dev-Team have gone and unlocked the iPhone 3G. If you don’t know what that means, it means these good gentlemen have hacked the iPhone so that you can run third-party applications that Apple and the iPhone won’t let you run normally. The app is scheduled to be released by December 31st. Finally, something for Angelino Geeks that aren’t afraid to crawl from their internetz and computers, g33kd1nner is celebrating it’s 6th year anniversary tonight at uWink at 8PM. Also, Creative Commons, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon existing ideas of others, consistent with the rules of copyright, is celebrating it’s 6th birthday together with g33kd1nner. Bring money for food and drinks.

And moving on, I found these pictures from the riots in Greece of protesters clashing with police forces. Sparked by a small clash between two Special Guards of the Greek Police and a group of young men. It’s uncertain what took place, but in the end, the Guards fired three shots, and one of the bullets struck and killed 15-year-old Alexander Grigoropoulos. Great photos showing the destruction and conflict between protesters and police.

And something design and type buffs might be interested in. ITVS/Community Cinema, presents the movie Helvetica, screening at the Aero in West Hollywood tonight at 730PM. Admission is free.

photo from www.nasa.gov

There are lots of cool art exhibits going on all the time.  All of This is Melting Away has been going on since August at the Royal/T Art Space, and ends on the 31st of this month. The exhibit showcases work with themes of flattening, melting, transforming and such, with selections from Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Dave Muller and Franz West.

I’m not a big photography buff, but I think some of you photographers might appreciate this one.  At LACMA, there is going on the Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008, an exhibit showcasing the magazine’s archives of vintage prints along with contemporary photographs.  This one goes on until March 1, 2009.

To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book at MOCA’s Pacific Design Center is an exhibit that showcases artists’ books and how sequencing plays roles in different ways for different artists.  This one goes on until March 1, 2009.  And at the MOCA on Grand Avenue, The Problem Perspective is an exhibit showcasing works by Martin Kippenberger, an influential German artist whose works became popular in the mid-1970s until his death in 1998.  Exhibit showing through January 5, 2009.  And don’t forget that MOCA is free on Thursdays from 5-8PM.

And finally, this one is pretty interesting imho.  The Getty Center has an exhibit going on now called Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910-1917.  The exhibit explores how Russian writers and poets dealt with the civil unrest after the failed revolutions of 1905 through their book art.  November 19, 2008-April 19, 2009.  

I haven’t had a chance to check any of these out, but I’ll definitely set some time for them before they end.  

08.14.08-12.31.08 - All of This is Melting Away at Royal/T

10.26.08-03.01.09 - Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008 at LACMA

10.19.08-03.01.09 - To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book at MOCA [PDC]

09.21.08-01.05.08 - The Problem Perspective at MOCA on Grand

11.18.08-04.19.09 - Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910-1917 at The Getty Center

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