Concept:

Chimera is a symbol of hope for our next step in the evolutionary time line. By creating a sculpture that includes participatory elements within an enticing form we create a space for participants to be, think, play and imagine. Chimera is a steel-based structure, whose presence describes a living creature at pause in its movement, while it manifests radical visions its simple mind can barely accommodate.

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Fishbug Holiday wishes and an update of sorts

Well hello there fishbug fanatics.
We are terribly sorry that we have forgotten to post anything of relevance here for quite a while. For the most part we have been busy since the playa taking our fishbug on the road and trying to find other festivals and locations for people to enjoy the wondrous creature that [...]

Hazmat Fashion

What we do for ART!
Love,
The Fishbug Crew

Talk about evolution – from idea to reality in less that 6-months!

Can you believe it?  We are now hours away from packing the Fishbug and taking off for her dusty debut.  As I write, I hear grinders, welders, and tinkering; the sound of finishing touches.  We are all pushing ourselves, many late nights, last minute work arounds, and general dashing to a fro to get ‘er [...]

Sneek Peek

Fishbug crew is in the Mad dash to the finish line, and soon to be playa bound. We miss our crew members who have had to leave for the playa; Austin, Robin and Paul. And Karen who had to go back to the East Coast.  We hope you like what you see!  We can’t wait [...]

Our FishBug Rocks

FishBug has landed back at the Shipyard after a wonderful debut at the Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival.  We couldn’t be happier with all of the great attention from the crowd at the event. Just wait until we finish it, you are going to love it even more.
We worked through some bugs although we didn’t want [...]

Fire Arts Festival

We are having a wonderful time meeting the public and introducing our creation. Not only is the crowd wonderful we are also amongst some other amazing artists and friends. Come join us tonight or Saturday night for a little fire and fun.
Dave Andres
Michael Christian – Elevation
Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito
Department of Spontaneous [...]

FishBug a Fire

We are installing at Fire Arts Festival as I write.
Fishbug is looking amazing and all of our systems seems to be working (cross fingers, I am not Jinxing us by writing this.)
We will post more tonight, but enjoy this from our first fire test Saturday, while all of you fools played in the Sand we [...]

I call this a good sign

Rainbows over the Shipyard today, an auspicious sign indeed, as FishBug gets ready for a debut at Fire Arts Festival.

Would you like some Fishbug with that?

This 4th of July the Fishbugs spent an all American day working on Art.  That sounds like a good tradition to me, making Art to celebrate the founding of our nation but I might be sort of biased when it comes to that.  Maybe I’ll send a proposal to President Obama about that for next [...]

PARTY and Support the FishBug!

When: Friday, May 29th, 2009
Where: Acme Warehouse, 1281 30th St, Emeryville, CA MAP
8-10 Early Bird Happy Hour Special
8:30 Fire Performance
9 Belly Dance Troupe nefertem from Fat Chance
10-5 DJs spinning
11 Clown Insanity
Music Main Floor:
10 – 11    Redstickman (Ambient Mafia)
11 – 12    DJ Free (Word of Mouth)
12 – 1    Djeeno (Word of Mouth)
1 – 2    Actual Rafiq [...]