Tag Archives: SF

01.02.2009

Two-Thousand-Nine.

Happy New Year everyone!! 2 0 0 9.

I flew into Cali right when the ball dropped in NYC. Dropped my bags off and went straight to Andrew and Rachel’s spot, where I chowed down on some great food they made. Then we headed out to a Current TV house party where we partied til the AM.

Before we headed out, Andrew, the master dumpster diver showed me his score that day, last one of 2008. Laxmi has a crazy light show and a choice of 3 songs to choose from, pretty dope.  They mentioned they were gonna stick it on their Roomba :)

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12.04.2008

Fast Friends.

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*PMH in SF.

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12.04.2008

Ala’s Book.

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I went to the Center for the Book tonight for Ala Ebtekar’s launch party.
I’ve mentioned him in a post a while back.

Each year the Center picks someone in the Bay area for their artist in residence program which offers the artist technical and studio support to create an editioned artist’s book.
2008 was Ala’s year.

Ala’s book was a response to a poem by the renowned Iranian poet and scholar H. E. Sayeh. The Farsi and English texts reads in opposite directions across a 7-panel accordion structure. Three layers of letterpress-printed paper creates a continuous loop of overlapping text and imagery. The book was really well done.

Glad I got out tonight to check out Ala’s work, was lucky enough to chat with him as well, super nice guy.

Also if you have some extra cash around you can purchase his book here. The edition consists of only 30 signed and numbered copies.

Here’s some of his other work, you can check out more on his site.

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These shoes are hot.

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11.30.2008

German Invasion.

My brother, Phillip(s), finally made it out to the west coast for a super quick trip.
He’s been talking about it for a while now, We had a lot of ground to cover in a short time…

Started out right straight from the airport, brought it back to his mothership……

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Hung out at Pixar for most of the afternoon the 2nd day.
They still have some Ratatouille sketches up in the gallery…

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Went hiking in Marin during the day. Then headed to a karaoke party that night and caused some trouble. Phillip(s) was gonna break into some Hasselhoff (Germans ♥ the Hoff), but they didn’t have any.

Nice sticker :)

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The next day, thanks to Bryan & his family, I had my first traditional thanksgiving feast ever.
Popped it with style….

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Later Phillips. We’ll bust out the bikes next time.

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11.24.2008

Yeasayer.

I finally got to check out Yeasayer on Saturday at Bimbo’s 365 Club.
I missed them in January, but I’m glad I caught them this time around, it was a really solid show. (right Sophia?)

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Here check them out playing one of their songs called 2080……….

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11.20.2008

Bodhisattva Jelly Time

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I went to this crazy Korean restaurant in a garage, called Toyose,  last night to celebrate P and Atsushi’s Birthday, it was a fun time. Met Hellen Jo there, I missed her at A.P.E. a couple weeks back but got to see some of her work today. Really enjoyed checking it out, the illustration above is called “Bodhisattva Jelly Time.” That title is way too funny. I think I’m gonna pick up one of these shirts as well. Weird.

Go buy her new comic!

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11.17.2008

Weekend.

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I finally got to see Deerhoof, one of my favorites, for the first time on Saturday.
It’s been a long time coming. Saunier destroyed the kit.

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Also went to see a couple flicks. I lost 2 hours of my life watching the new bond film (I’m glad I didn’t pay to see it; thanks Mouse.), but I gained it right back when I watched Slumdog Millionaire on Sunday. Wow, Danny Boyle did a great job on this film. I highly recommend this one if you get a chance.

A.R. Rahman did the soundtrack, which was really well done. He even collaborated on a track with M.I.A. Check out this short Q and A with A.R. in New York Magazine, it’s pretty interesting.

Here’s the Q n A

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11.05.2008

The Chai, The Right Way.

Dipak and I had some free time on our hands a couple weeks back and decided to do a quick short with Kumar Uncle, his father. Here it is, hopefully we’ll do some more soon.

How to make the chai the right way….

Thanks for posting the video E-S-P
Fresh mint supplied by Pluck & Feathers

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10.25.2008

Still On The Road…

This week and trip#3 are coming to an end. It’s really great to see the project keep evolving.
Hopefully we get some funding soon so we can head out for for #4 in ’09.

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We hung out with the mayor of Boron on Wednesday while we ate and drank margaritas at his restaurant. This guy is a trip, here he is showing us some of the astronauts that ate there.

Nice “McCain ’08″ button buddy.

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The food (and the fast food clientele) on the road was putting a toll on me…..

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We hit some great taco trucks, but the real safe havens were the motels with their home made food, I haven’t had proper Guju food in a while. Bomb.

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Heading back up from L.A.

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Email me if any of you want some *PMH stickers.
chiraag@pardonmyhindi.com

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10.07.2008

Pardon My Robot.

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My buddy Jon over at My Robot is Pregnant did a short interview with me last week about a project my friend Mark and I have been working on for a while now. We have been slowly interviewing and photo documenting Indian-American families that live and run in independent motels across America. Mark and I are off on another roadtrip at end of next week, this time concentrating on Northern California.

Here’s the link to the interview.

You can also check out more of Jon over at Current TV

Here are two shorts Jon made that are great! Check them out……..

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