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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Weekly What To Do: Podcast Comic-Con on the Moon

Please remember to check the Halloween theme park and film guide. Knott’s Scary Farm,
Delusion: Lies Within, Six Flags Fright Fest, Beyond the Mirror all start and this week and we see Beyond Fest starting at the Egyptian.


Fan and Gaming

Long Beach Comic-Con
Sept 27-28
Long Beach Convention Center
300 E Ocean Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90802
Starts at $20


Dress in a costume early or get tips on what to wear for Halloween. The Long Beach Comic-Con features artists, celebs and many costumed heroes all near the ocean. We wanna see a surfing contest for the best cosplayer one day. For specific go the link at the top.






Friday, September 26, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.
13625 Ventura Blvd
Sherman Oaks, California
Free
 
Filled with 15 arcade machines that hold up to 400 free games per machine. For the foodie, New American small plates (tapas) to try, one of the dishes is Cap’n Crunch Fried Chicken. To enjoy the evening, a 30 foot bar serving craft cocktails, draft and bottled beer.
 
Friday, September 26th at 9pm
NerdMelt Showroom
Free
 
LoopDeLoop presents a special screening of Moon Animate, Make up! A crowd sourced group animation project that re-animated an entire ep of Sailor moon, shot by shot, in each artist's style! http://moonanimate.tumblr.com/ Many L.A based Loopdeloopers contributed, so come check out the crazy collab effort: usual time, usual place...but instead of loops, SAILOR MOON!
 
 
 
 
 
 
Festivals
 
Sunday, September 28, 2014 10:00 am -
6:00 pm
Abbot Kinney Blvd
Free
 
Abbot Kinney Blvd comes more alive with a festival celebrating all it has to give to the community with 5 live music stage and 300 vendors to choose from.
 
LA Podcast Festival
Sept 26-28
Sofitel Los Angeles
8555 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Starts at $29

Listen to the rants and reviews of people to ugly to be seen... oh some of them vidcast, the poor bastards that have to... anyway, huge amount of top tier podcasters doing live shows here in LA over the weekend.
 
Saturday, September 27, 2014
5pm - 9:30pm
Central Plaza
943-951 N. Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Free 
 
Confucius say one who comes to his day is more enlighten by activities that strengthen the mind.



Film


Beyond Fest
Thu, Sep 25, 2014 - Sat, Oct 4
Egyptian and Aero Theatre
Hollywood & Santa Monica 
We get the LA premiere of V/H/S VIRAL + V/H/S Shorts presented by Bloody Disgusting and the ABC’S OF DEATH 2 – LA Premiere – Free screening. Those are the two most wanted horror anthologies coming out this year. Who isn't excited about all the delicious vicious horror?

Beyond that the festival is full of special guests like Nicolas Winding Refn, John Carpenter, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jonah Ray and Kumail Nanjiani. Just some of the talent.

Special screenings from Asian directors like Sion Sono'S Tokyo Tribe and if you missed it Hitoshi Matsumoto’s creepy-sex-comedy, R100.

Let us not forget a 4K screening of Halloween.

Be afraid of getting a seat at the free screenings!

H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon
Sept 26-28
Warner Grand Theater
478 West 6th Street
San Pedro, CA 90731
$25

If you have Cthulhu on the mind, we're sorry you've already been taken. If taken or not you'll want to explore H.P. Lovecraft at his film festival. His works have inspired in countless others in horror to present day. Special screenings include a secret, unnameable film at a close-by speakeasy and classic 3D, Creature from the Black Lagoon. Not all is film, you'll have some board games based on Cthulhu and plays to remember the master of horror.







Tazza: The Hidden Card
Starts September 19
CGV Cinemas
621 S Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90005

A highly anticipated South Korean gambling film, making its debut this week.

Art


BYOB [Bring Your Own Beamer] seriesThursday, September 25
8pm-12am
Werkartz
767 S Alameda St Bldg 2 Unit 100, 
Los Angeles, California 90021
RSVP for guaranteed entry by emailing [email protected]

WOAH is co-hosting with mobile studio Experimental Half-Hour and DTLA art space Werkartz.
Experimental Half-Hour will be providing live video synthesis and broadcasting performances throughout the night.  We would love to share this event with other video and sound enthusiasts Here is thr FB event.... And more more info will be on WOAH's blog.
 
 
 
"the day everything became nothing,"
Opening Reception Sept 26 7-10 PM
Gallery1988 (East)
7021 Melrose Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Free

Dan McCarthy has created a brand new body of work, including many cool glow-in-the-dark screenprints.

 













A Tribute to Naughty Dog: 30th Anniversary
September 27, 2014 - October 12, 2014
Sep 27, 6:00PM - 10:00PM
Nucleus Gallery
210 East Main St, Alhambra CA 91801

 A Tribute to Naughty Dog: 30th Anniversary show at Gallery Nucleus will showcase art based on the games you've grown up with and the ones you use to scare people (The Last of Us). Pieces from in studio will also be shown. As per usual the opening night will be a big celebration with the chance to meet the artists of Naughty Dog and get special stuff.



Scars & Stripes

September 27
6:30pm-10pm
315 S. Robertson Blvd
Free RSVP

New work by British artist D*Face.