San Francisco's 7×7 Magazine just published their "Best of SF" edition. I was thrilled that they asked me for a list of my tech/art/culture "favorites" in the Bay Area. It's in the current issue of the print magazine and also online, along with a short profile. In addition to my picks that made it into the magazine, the original list I gave them also included: Creative Commons, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Survival Research Laboratories, and Maker Faire. I feel fortunate to live in a city where I'm surrounded by such creative and inspiring people. From the article:
"Once an email list, now a blog, Laughing Squid is the essential online resource for avant-garde art, technology and culture events in the Bay Area. They're a helluva Web host too."
"A day at the Musee Mecanique is a trip back in time to the pre-PlayStation penny arcades of yesteryear." (Pier 45, 415-346-2000)
"Since 1977, the Billboard Liberation Front has 'improved' public advertisements in the Bay Area, wittily altering marketing campaigns to reveal the real message behind the media."
"Rumored to be based in SF, the Imaginary Foundation is a mysterious Dada-inspired think tank using surrealist T-shirt graphics to spread its empowering message of creativity, experimentation and reality-hacking."
"Blurring the line between art and engineering, Dorkbot-sf is a semimonthly salon of people who are doing 'strange things with electricity."
