SFMOMA Podcast now up and ready to download!

WELL.

After pulling a couple of all nighters, enduring the entire obliteration of my laptop's hard drive, and struggling to learn Cool Edit Pro, I finally have the first 10 entries of my SFMOMA Podcast ready for you, the listener, to download to your iPods and .mp3 players. But, I have a lot more than 10 recordings and plan on adding extra podcast tracks for you to download in the future. Please check back periodically to see if there is new content!

To listen to a streaming version, just visit http://www.archive.org/details/17ReasonsPodcast.

AVAILABLE TRACKS:

Robert Gober, Untitled, 1992 *pics*
Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Pink Palace), 1946-48 *pics*
Yves Klein, IKB74, 1958 *pics*
Adrian Piper, Art for the Art World Surface Pattern, 1976/1987 *pics*

Andy Warhol, Red Liz, 1962 *pics*
Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #232: the location of a square, 1975 *pics*

Wangechi Mutu, Misguided Little Unforgivable Hierarchies, 2005 *pics*

Robert Rauschenberg v. Robert Ryman, The White Paintings *pics* v. Untitled [E] *pics*

Robert Irwin, Untitled, 1968
Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona Chair, 1929

**WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!**

GOOD QUESTION! This is a podcast about the SFMOMA collection, concieved of and edited by me, Ms. S. W. Pau, as an alternative audio experience to accompany you on your next Museum visit. The voices in these recordings belong to friends who have little or no formal art historical background (or least a heckuva lot less than your average curator or NY Times art critic). Armed with a lo-budget, lo-fi, rather janky mobile recording "studio"-- iPod, iTalk attachment and lavalier mic -- this small army of art lovers wandered through the SFMOMA galleries, capturing their uncensored reactions in digital form. I've edited down the content (some were 20 minutes long) and added musical accompaniment, but other than that, these are their unadulterated comments.

UM, OKAY. THAT'S COOL, I GUESS. NOW WHAT DO I DO WITH IT?

1. Download the .mp3s below and drop them onto you iPod or other .mp3 player.
2. Visit the SFMOMA galleries. Listen. Look. Enjoy.
3. Think about the art you are viewing, even as you listening to the thoughts and impressions of other visitors.
4. Pass it on to friends and family. Send comments to: 17reasons@gmail.com, or post them on my blog!

Icelandic Researchers Name "The Mint" America's No. 1 Den of Sin, Salvation

Last Sunday, after walking with 25,000 others at the San Francisco AIDS Walk, someone came up with a brilliant plan to celebrate 'Lil Nik's rare San Francisco appearance with 6 1/2 hours of drinking in the foggy back yard of Zeitgeist. In all, I counted 5 pitchers of Steelhead Pale Ale, a number of spilled Chimays, and untold Jameson shots among the casualties. Bonobo Jones replayed his beer-lap-drenching fiasco about 20 times (at James' teary-eyed request) and we all debated the merits of Ben Davis (the "Harley Davidson of coarse clothing" according to the website) v. Dickies work pants. No end in sight for this one, but so far the Dickies seem to be rallying more support.

Things I learned on Sunday:

1. Óskar (our new Icelandic friend and official San Francisco tour guide) was once in a hip-hop band called "The Sweaty Janitors". They rubbed corn oil under their arm pits to simulate the unmistakable yellow stink that we in the U.S. refer to as "B.O."
2. Other things learned about Óskar. Height: Same now as he was when he was 13. Must be all that hákarl he ate as a youngster on the frozen tundra. Favorite NBA Player: Carl Malone-- "Because he played dirty without anybody catching him". Best celebrity face impersonation: Owen Wilson (the effect is only complete with the help of JBDub's spot-on Owen Wilson voice impersonation.
3. For several weeks in the late 1990s, John Barretto (hereafter: "Big Daddy Kane" ) was sighted traversing the verdant grounds of Cal Poly's campus with the assistance of his grandfather's jaunty cane (hereafter: "kane"). This bold display of gangsta-lean all at once inspired both the ire and the backhanded admiration of Cal Poly's underclassmen.
4. In a battle between monkeys with knives v. a mace encrusted with glass shards, the mace will probably win.
5. Unless your name starts with an Ó or you once walked with a cane, drinking for 6 1/2 hours does not a great singer make. The proof is below:

Óskar "Sweaty Janitor" Arnórsson singing Bowie's "Ashes to Ashes"
James and Stephanie sing Air Supply's #1 hit "All Out of Love"
"Big Daddy Kane" Barretto on the mic doing Prince's "Kiss
"Big Daddy Kane" Barretto and 'Lil Nik nail Laura Branigan's "Gloria"

Two visitors to SFMOMA discuss Mies van der Rohe's modernist masterpiece, the Barcelona chair design of 1929

Visitors to SFMOMA discuss Robert Irwin's "Untitled" (1975)

Visitors to SFMOMA's galleries compare the white paintings of Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Ryman

Two SFMOMA visitors discuss Wanetchi Mutu's "Misguided Little Unforgivable Hierarchies" (2005)

Two visitors to SFMOMA discuss Sol LeWitt's "Wall Drawing #232" (1975)

An SFMOMA visitor discusses Andy Warhol's "Red Liz" (1962)

Four visitors to SFMOMA's galleries discuss Adrian Piper's installation "Art for the Art World Surface Pattern" (1976/1987)

An SFMOMA visitor discusses Yves Klein and his painting "IKB74" (1958)

An SFMOMA visitor talks about Joseph Cornell's "Untitled (Pink Palace)" (1946/1948)

Four visitors to SFMOMA discuss Robert Gober's "Untitled" Room Installation (1992)