#Lifeofbri New 52 Week Docu-Series

#lifeofbri is a new 52 week docu series that chronicles the life and times, ups and downs of Brian Gibbs an emerging choreographer/ artist trying to make it in La or wherever the world will have him and the adventures and jobs he takes to get there. Fun filled with a lot of humor, art, pics, music, skateboarding along with some famous faces and places so be sure to tune in every week.

Welcome Back

Sorry about the lack of post on this site. Sometimes a man has to continue on with his life and neglect the interweb. With that said this summer has been one of the best ever and I'm thrilled to share it with all of my 24 followers but you'll have to wait til Monday. There will be new pics from sold out shows, skateboarding, music and a HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT along with rolling out a few new crews from the TAGsf camp so be on the look out for all of that biz.

Until then here is some music that has been tying me over as of late.


 see y'all soon.



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Help Save West Wave

Head in the clouds a new dance creation by TAGsf that is centered around organized chaos that moves in and out of structure and improv featuring live visuals from Cats are the new dogs and brand new music by David Molina. Anyone who has ever seen any TAGsf shows you know to expect high quality balls to the wall unique movement with an urban edge, inventive lighting and of course brilliant performers but unfortunately this new commission might not ever happen because the West Wave Dance Festival based out of San Francisco might not happen this year due to lack of funding.

West Wave showcases local choreographers and dance companies all across the bay and beyond to commission new works every summer with performances in venues such as Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Z-Space and this year Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley. West Wave has featured artist such as Alex Ketley who had his work shown on So You Think That You Can Dance, Kara Davis who runs Project Agora and Maurya Kerr formerly of Alonzo Kings Lines Contemporary Ballet who now has her own company Tiny Pistol and is the 2011 winner of Hubbard Street 2's National Choreographic Competition. Last year five artist were nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance award after they're run at West Wave (SFs version of the Bessies in NYC). This particular festival provides a great outlet for artist to show the work and audiences always look forward to all of the various programing. Last year West Wave was the hot ticket in the city with performances by members of Batsheva Dance and Zuhkov Dance Theater giving audiences a real treat by the caliber of excellence from its artist who are from and have performed all across the globe. Please help insure that West Wave is able to continue its 21st season by donating below.

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Video below is of me performing One Minute Warning at last years festival. This particular section was going to be used in Head in the Clouds but as a group work so please hook up some money to make this happen.

Typo-Confeti death

Typo the Miami based graffiti artist created a new piece featuring a skull spitting a techno colored rainbow. The piece is titled Confetti Death. The funny thing is that my face looked like the skulls spew after last nights glitter shenanigans.

Any who...This is brilliant and he now has one more new fan. Peep more of his work here

NEW BANSKY ?!?!?!

Street artist phenom seems to be every these days. Even in your own neighborhood or television sets. Yesterday i was walking home after class and noticed a very Banskyesque tag on a wall in Hayes valley. Im not too certain if this is or is not a real Banksy. A lot of folks think that its someone biting his style or maybe hes making fun of himself. Who knows as of yet. What i do know is that he did the intro to the Simpsons! Check it out below.

Générique de Simpsons par Banksy
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Stanley Donwood Solo art Exhibition in San Francisco

Stanley Donwood is mostly know for his artwork for the band Radiohead ever since there sophomore album the Bends he has been doing they're now iconic album artwork. This Wednesday Donwood will be showcasing a solo exhibit in San Francisco marking his first gallery showing ever in the US. Id encourage anyone who's a fan to come out and support at the event.

Heres the official press release.

FIFTY24SF Gallery Presents “Over Normal”
New Works by Stanley Donwood

Fifty24SF Gallery presents “Over Normal”- a solo exhibition by Stanley Donwood and his first ever showing in the United States.

When thinking of iconic imagery in music from the last 20 years, Stanley Donwood’s work with Radiohead invariably comes to mind – and for good reason. Where Radiohead’s music stretched the auditory horizons and painted musical sceneries of mans place in the modern world, Donwood’s imagery and packaging forced us to face the gravity of the music from the minute the album hit our hands; and by creating cryptic, academic and (at times) dystopian layouts, the albums themselves became as striking and relevant as the music they contained.

Although Stanley Donwood generally avoids the grandeur of media and would prefer to be undersold, to speak only in terms of his work with Radiohead would be a disservice. From his exhibitions of intricate etchings at Lazarides Gallery in London, to the vibrant works that made up his show at Iguapop Gallery in Barcelona, Donwood’s gallery work has consistently mixed personal and political emotions with modesty and humor.

For “Over Normal”, the catalyst for the large works featured in the show is in Los Angeles, where Stanley began to notice (with equal parts amazement and distress) that the advertisements bombarding him on the multilane highways were made of seven basic colors, immediately grabbing viewers’ attention in a primal way. More recently, Stanley noticed a parallel between the use of those colors and an influx of spam emails that promised everything from more fruitful sex lives, to cheap foreclosed properties at the expense of someone else’s misery. The word’s that were used in the emails were formatted in the same fundamental way as color in the advertisement’s had been used: to grab unconscious attention and tell a story without the viewer knowing it. Marrying the immediate words used in these emails with the attractive and distressing colors of the advertisements, Stanley has produced a line of seven vibrant, original pieces for this exhibition.

Stanley has also produced a 12 page newspaper to accompany the show, this explains how he came about putting together a neuron firing sound installation in an artificial neural network which is also featured in the show and is entitled ‘The Overnormaliser’.

“Over Normal” will run from September 2nd – October 27th with an opening reception occurring on September 2nd from 7:30PM – 10:00PM.

Thank you everyone who came out last night to the INK works in progress at the Nieto Fine Art Gallery. We had a full house and everyone really seemed to have enjoyed what we had been cooking up.

Daniel you are fucking brilliant man. Its a pleasure to work alongside you again.

A special thanks to all of the dancers for giving it your all. Sorry about the lack of pics but more are on the way from a professional photographer.


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Works in progress showing of INK

Thursday August 19th we will be doing a works in progress for the new show INK by Daniel Diaz-Tai and the Dialecto at the new downtown art gallery called Nieto Fine Art. There will be live painting of the backdrops and live music accompanying the new choreography by me with some pretty amazing dancers from various backgrounds including SFB.

please come out and show some love. This is gonna be a great evening with live music, art and dance by some of the best that the bay has to offer.


See y'all there folks!

7pm Nieto Fine Art
565 Sutter St
San Francisco, CA



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NEW KANYE

I got the video from perezhilton but the shits hot so fuck it!

The Physical Impossibility of death in the mind of someone living.

Art work by Damien Hirst

FUNNY as S.H.I.T.

Starting the October the S.H.I.T. Show will be celebrating their one year anniversary. Personally, these fellas have made me a believer in theatre again because I cant remember the last show in San Francisco that has made me laugh so much from start to finish.

I have a silent invlovement in this season and let me tell you without spoiling all the fun, working with these guys is the exact same thing as seeing the perform live. LMFAO! This shit is funny:P


more info here:http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=162566188059

These Are My Twisted Words

Radiohead, my favorite band is back on the scene with new music/touring and so are we. As you can tell I am into many of things all being art related because I like to consider myself a renaissance man. Also I have been in Art School my whole life and know nothing else really.

As of today this blog will be featuring inside info on what is going down in the SF Bay Area Arts Community. Im always looking for sites that have relevant and up to date info on performance, audition info, exhibits, tours, openings with no luck. I’m talking about all of the arts ranging from dance to music to visual and music. I am fortunate enough to have a lot of resources at my disposal and I will be sharing that info with all of the Bay Area Artists. Of course you will be seeing my own shit as well (ha ha).

With that said I will start with this little piece of info from ODC Dance

ODC photographer casting for Surface Mag shoot on 9/4. Height req- 5'5 fem, 5'11 male, with dance exp. Email headshots to margomoritz@gmail.com



Any Bay Area Artists with relevant information feel free to contact me at Briand.Gibbs@gmail.com



Lets Go!




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Bansky Summer Show Bristol

BBC unveils a look into Banksy’s latest art exhibition, taking place in Bristol, at the city’s museum on Queens Road. The show looks to feature over 70 new pieces along with a revision of Banksy’s Animal Shop which was seen last year in NYC. Expected to run for 12 weeks, the show will officially open Saturday June 13th, 2009.



- scource: Hypebeast