Step #2 drake’s deconstruction, black rock city 2009, by Dave Raphael

Check out drake’s deconstruction, black rock city 2009.

http://daveraphael.com/blog/?p=1202#respond

An amazing photographer Dave Raphael has documented the destruction: http://daveraphael.com/blog/?p=1202#respond

Come check out the Opening party this Saturday... 6-9pm
http://thefloatcenter.com/gallery.html

More images of FLOAT artist work, and floaters

Coming to the FLOAT gallery November 1st

t r a n s p o r t

Through the looking glass, a Mad Tea party coming to the FLOAT Gallery

Through the looking glass

Three artists reinterpret Wonderland...

Mad Tea party on September 26^th 6-9pm with live Jazz by "ManOverboard" and Bubbling Absinth spiked tea if you dare!

Show runs Sept 21^st- Oct 31^st

Join artists Bruce Tamberelli, Darwin Price, & Yvette M. Buigues for the opening reception of “Through the Looking Glass.”  Prepare to be amazed by strange and wondrous works of art. Enjoy the jazz stylings of  'ManOverboard' . You'll be grinning like a Cheshire cat! 

So book a float, with our mad as a hatter special and check out our Mad tea party on September 26^th. Great art, costumes, live music and wild libations!

FLOAT Gallery

1091 Calcot place #116 oakland

510-525-1702

Thefloatcenter.com

Only 4 more weeks of brilliant playful creatures, and junk yard kinetic art

Come check out “The Moose Must Persuade the Duck”
Encaustic Drawings & Monotypes by Cheryl Finfrock,
Kinetic art by Sudhu Tewari

Show runs through September 19th, 2009, Call for appointment M-Sun 10am-10pm
Both of these artist’s work is based in the exploration of seeing the world though childlike dreams. For art is the breath between the work and its viewer. Sometimes random and playful, it is the process itself that allows the collection of intention midstream. In this way, the Moose must persuade the Duck, as the work is pointing to a vision. Look, see it isn't all just all a thought experiment.

Cheryl Finfrock is an internationally known artist that creates monotypes, paintings on paper, canvas and wood. Narrative expressionism, humor, and symbolism are central throughout her work. Recent exhibits span US and Europe including New York City, San Francisco, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Berlin, Copenhagen, Montreal, Olomouc, Paris, and Sofia.

Sudhu Tewari is an artist, instrument builder, tinkerer and improviser. He has also been called a junkyard maven, bricoleur, and young-audio gadgeteer. An early interest in disassembling alarm clocks and coffee makers gave rise to electro-acoustic instruments constructed with the remains of discarded stereo equipment, kinetic sculptures and sound installations.

Moronic Urban Myths of Floatation Therapy (Sensory Deprivation)

Today I had a large crew of students come to float in my tanks, when I asked the main person in the group how he found us, he told me that his psychology professor told him it was a great way to hallucinate, and it is really fun.

Seriously should this professor really be teaching anyone anything? Dream state yes, theta waves yes, fun, most certainly. But without the use of drugs no hallucination’s in any commercial tank.

I have heard these and many more moronic myths about float tanks, such as…

People freak out (None in the history of commercial floatation tanks)
It’s claustrophobic, and it will make your more claustrophobic (Imposable without proprioception)
You will lose your bowels as soon as you get in the tank (Honey if you have that kind of a problem, we suggest you simply stay home until you get better)
You must use a tampon, or the salt will get inside of you (What are you smoking?)
You will absorb all the sodium, and it’s bad to be in salty water. (There is no sodium in a floatation tank)

Fortunately these ridicules urban myths are said by people who have never floated, and are just tossing out moronic opinions, as they apply butter to a burn. Thankfully my customers are far more evolved then them.

Please feel free to offer more Moronic Urban Myths of Floatation Therapy, as I suppose I should begin to keep a log.

June is all about Art in the East Bay!

June marks many art crawls around the east bay and specifically around the FLOAT Gallery.

Support your local artists, and come explore the wonders of the east bay art scene.

East bay open studios, June 6^th, 7^th & 13^th & 14^th

Jingle town Arts & Business Art Walk, June 6^th, 7^th & 13^th & 14^th

Estuary Art Attack, Art around the Island. Galleries open every 2^nd Friday of the month, 6-9pm.

Enjoy!