Here are artists and projects that I saw at APE that looked interesting (in no particular order). I recommend checking them out.

• Casey Storm
• Michael Manomivibul
• Andrew Mar is featured in the Chromagination Art Book
• Joey Chou (I really wanted to get some prints from Joey but I was on my motorcycle and wouldn't have been able to transport them)
• Pétur Atli Antonsson Crivello
• Josh Ellingson
• Monkey and Seal
• Snake Oil Clothing
• Laurent Kermel (Excellent stuff)
• Bill Robinson
• Corey Bernhardt
• Anthony Hon
• Islands in the Sky
• Mark Thompson (Scary stuff)
• Camilla Derrico
• Brandon Bird (This guys stuff had me laughing out loud at the show)
• Bill Presing and Josh Cooley
• Charlene Kelley (Glitter!)

First media and government redefine the word "hero", which used to mean something very different from it's current usage. Now it looks like the word "hoax" is under attack. Last time I checked a hoax was "An act intended to deceive or trick; Something that has been established or accepted by fraudulent means". How is putting up LED displays of cartoon characters deceptive, a trick, or fraudulent? I mean is the idea that these guys were actually trying to convince people that the cartoon character, Err , had come to life and manifested himself as an LED display?

1984 arrived 17 years late.

Hope took me to see Rain, a show at the Curran Theater by a group called Cirque Eloize. It was really good. If you might be interested in seeing it, let me know and I can tell you about it.