… Well, this was actually a poster for CiTiZEN KiNO #26 – c. 2013 – but we’re recycling it for our GOING-OUT-WITH-A-BANG & A-FEW-BUCKS sale… < May 30 > Treasures from the shipwrecker city, informal night-time Garage SALE at ATA, 992 Valencia St., SF ( before and after cinema, see below ). XLterrestrials are ‘celebrating’ another fabulous bout […]

: ::: ::::: Smart Cities / Dying Cultures / Resistant Strains Often when we prepare a theme for XLterrestrials analysis, we start with a vj tool called modul8 to produce a collage of overlaid imagery. And sometimes the topics themselves will be overlapping worlds too. Here we have 3 layers : 1.) A review of Gray Area Theater’s conference […]

… Feminist Fury Road Kill ?! “Fury Road, indigenous feminist crack made by white male cartoon pornographers, who wish they could feel the emotional rush of vengeance for something they think they might have lost.” XLterrestrials analyst … ” It’s important to go beyond these narratives and stop fetishizing the apocalypse and start fighting it like we mean it. […]

… ” Writing is a vanity, unless it’s for the friend. Including the friend one doesn’t know yet. In the coming years, we’ll be wherever the fires are lit. ” – Invisible Committee … - Upcoming events, XLt recommended - In Sf Bay: < May 16 > To Our Friends by The Invisible Committee. An evening discussion and celebration of […]

… { Art from the Valencia St. wall } … work-in-progress … “The next time the XLterrestrials come to a meeting of arts+culture people trying to save their city, we think it may be a good idea to bring along a couple of Darpa robots and/or real estate cronies and/or silicon valley execs to go over and lick someone’s face […]

… work-in-progress … “ ok, f*ck the frackbook, the XLt analysts are going off the CrunkCommunicationsFix for a little while to write about Danae Ringelmann, the true SF tech pioneer and social genius who no one has heard of cause Silicon Valley’s all holding their dicks up high in the spotlight for their 15mins of Famine in the […]

… { a new mural by Alex Rupert outside the warehouse artspace formerly known as Cellspace in the Mission District of San Francisco * foto: by Stencilarchive.org portrait of Victor Ayala, RIP } Corporacene. n. – the shortest-lived geological “epoch” on fantasy island, which entertains the miscalculated notion that corporate business models should and will be allowed […]

… { C-Kino #44 work-in-progress } < April 16th > CiTiZEN KiNO #44: The Bitmaker’s Afterlife, at Artists Television Access, w/ special guests and fundraiser launch party (part 1). 8:30 pm. 992 Valencia St, SF the Frackbook invite ( if you’re so inclined ) … We are continuously collecting an amazing archive for our upcoming show of media bits that will help you navigate Neo-Liberal and Neo-Libertarian Gentrification, Silicon Valley’s Technotopian Occupations, and the apocalyptic endgame of The Anthropocene-sters, which is NOT inevitable.

… It’s time to think BIG ! … There’s too little time for anything else… The Social Organisms are requiring a re-plant, a re-seeding, a re-harvesting… And a few matriarchal interventions ! So the XLterrestrials are launching a FUNDRAISER ! To help fund our east-side cultural exchange .. our upcoming tour… We’re heading on the road with Nomadic Village 2015, a project visiting the rural zones of eastern europe to research autonomous zones, healthier neighborhoods, sustainable collaborations, arts+praxis for the peeps !

… … * Stammtisch – translates to a table for the tribe(s), … a reserved table, usually at a local Bierstube / pub for a regularly attending group. … Social Laboratory nights for upgrading collective intelligence: A Stammtisch in Berlin was founded by the Telekommunisten, a politically engaged collective art group to have informal weekly gatherings of fellow […]

… The Mission District in San Francisco is under siege, again ! A diverse, ethnicly- rich, vibrant working class neighborhood is once again at the center of a collision between wealthy development players and the everyday citizens who struggle to survive. White-colonizer supremacy and gentrification takes on new monstrous proportions which brings to mind one of the creepiest sci-fi films we encountered back around 2010, as an in-flight movie ( released in 2009). We had to switch channels before the end, as it was truly freaking us out.

{ more great paste-ups in SF Bay … some of which may be from Political Gridlock, whom we’ve posted before. } … ” YEY, humans, we won, the Open net, we be cyborg sushi, who’s coming to the Amazoooglefrackbook party ? ;) “ XLt analyst … { from our friends at EFF } … The problem with electoral politics-crumbs in the age of neo-liberal corporate democracy vortexes, is that the public is likely to choke to death on them before any benefits ever trickle down into any real shaping of society.

… Washington Post reports today that Jeb Bush, Columba and Frank Zappa were wedded in 1974 , by photographer Marvin Bush. Here’s the WaPo facts . ( In short, the story goes, Marvin used the same roll of film twice, and all but one of Jeb’s wedding fotos were destroyed … by a Zappa concert. ) But we’ve got more … Truth be told, the XLterrestrials believe this WAPO bizness is to pre-emptively cover for fotos of Marvin, Jeb and Columba on the Sheik Yerbouti Tour in 1977, which are undoubtedly going to surface during the 2016 campaign, so why wait til then…

… When asked how they made their tough decision for the best documentary, an academy awards juror stated, “We felt it was a powerful story for our times about a white american tech bro.” The XLterrestrial Onion For more statistics on the diversity of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which governs the Academy Awards, […]

[ foto remix : podinski + ropinski ] Our XLterrestrials article for Otherzine’s Issue #28: Autonomous Zones…. which goes online on February 21, including articles and artists’ projects by Erik Lyle, Lynne Sachs, Eric Stewart, Erin McElroy, Walter Alter, La Caca Colectiva, XLterrestrials and others. Co-edited by Robert Edmondson and Molly Hankwitz. Taking over all your Netz… Read more here! … Here’s our piece, which we’ll be adding to on this site, as we continue to develop our CiTiZEN KiNO versions on the housing struggles…