Brady Brim-DeForest – Tiny Thoughts

I am Brady Brim-DeForest, Managing Director at Marx&Trotsky. These
are my thoughts.

I am CTO at Tubefilter.

I am co-founder of GoSustainable.

I am a member of the
Steering Group at DataPortability.

This is the gallery. This
is the new venture.

I have a RSS feed and an archive. You can email
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Jul
4th

Fri

I spent the last month directing and counseling 22 Los Angeles based artists for our second annual Joint Custody Project. All of that is about to pay off. The show opens tomorrow, July 5, right here in Silverlake. PS. Happy Fourth.

Jun
27th

Fri

I don’t think it should ever go into the public domain.

— Curt Smith of Tears for Fears, on his extensive body of music recordings (Found Gallery, June 26, 2008)

Jun
24th

Tue

My Interview with LA Taco

Over the weekend, I had the privilege of sitting down with Frankie from LA Taco, one of LA’s cleverest art and lifestyle zines, to chat about our latest show at Found. Highlights from the chat include a sneak peek into our marketing strategy in a city dominated by endless noise, why Los Angeles was finally ready for a show that has been around since 1976, and details about what’s next for your favorite east side gallery. Read the full interview for more.

Update: Taco appears to be down. Smiling Spider has mirrored the full text.

Jun
21st

Sat

Excerpt from a list of code names, compiled by Trevor Paglen, from classified U.S. military programs active between 2001 and 2007. Personally I would like to know what plural hemp, salty gecko, and salty nation are all about. The Comptroller of the Department of Defense publishes an annual report that has all kind of juicy details like these buried deep within it.

Jun
20th

Fri

Inspired design + inspired politics. (via dmolin)

Jun
18th

Wed

This might actually be the solution to the energy crisis. Other solutions I’ve dreamt up: steam engines, and wind-up cars.

Jun
16th

Mon

Drew and I are proud to announce the soft-launch of our newest brain-child – HopShare. Over the course of the next year, HopShare will bring community grown hops, and opensource brewing, to Southern California and beyond. Stay tuned for the launch of our website in the coming weeks. In the meantime, stay up-to-date on the first hop crop at HopFarm (in a brew near you this fall), as well as our other efforts, over at the HopShare Blog.

Jun
11th

Wed

Three of the sixteen images Princess Margaret wasn’t allowed to see in 1976. From Irene Kai’s What Do You See? at Found through the end of the month.

UPDATE: This ended up on BoingBoing today - which means that our server crashed, which means that you will have to content yourself with viewing the images on Found’s Flickr feed, and not on our website. Sorry folks.

Jun
9th

Mon

Is Apple Taking Over the World?

Is Apple taking over the world?

Steve Jobs, seen this morning at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, displayed this rather maniacal image in front of the audience at Moscone. I’ll let you decide what it really means. In other news, Apple finally released a 3G iPhone (with GPS) – for the low price of $199. Is there a connection?

Jun
7th

Sat

I’ll admit it – I like wine. Ever since I bought my Molo Floats last month, I have been hyper aware of what I pour my fermented grape juice into. Practical they are not, but you have to give it to Kacper Hamilton for boldly reinventing one of human kinds’ most important drinking vessels – the wine glass. The piece above is called Wrath - one of seven in a series inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins.