2005btest

2005b (2004)(2004a)(2004b)(2005)(2005a)(2006)(2000-2010)(Table of Contents)

Sources

Anon. Ocean Park and Venice Timeline (1890-1909), Web Document, 2005b, 1910, 1909, 1908, 1907, 1906, 1905, 1904, 1903, 1902, 1899, 1898, 1895, 1893, 1892, 1891 See Text

Discography and A History of Recordings, remixes, production, projects, and project art: Daedelusdarling.com, 2006 2005, 2005b, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 1999 See Text

Email announcement of performances by Daedelus*, Wendel* and others, 2005b See Text

Elizabeth M. Drake-Boyt Dance as a Project of the Early Modern Avant-garde The Florida State University: College of Arts and Sciences A Dissertation submitted to the Program in the Humanities in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Degree Awarded: Spring Semester, 2005b, 1904 See Text

Frank Gruber* When More was Okay The LookOut, 10 October 2005, 2005b, 1983 See Text

Pat Hartman Spade Cooley Virtual Venice http://www.virtualvenice.info 2/5/2005b, 1940s See Text

Walter Hopps, renowned art dealer and museum curator, dies at 72
Associated Press, San Jose Mercury News-California & the West
Posted on Tue, Mar. 22, 2005, 2005b, 1999, 1965, 1964, 1950s See Text

Christopher Knight Walter Hopps* [1932-2005] Curator Brought Fame to Postwar L.A. Artists, Los Angeles Times, 22/3/05, pp. A1, A19 1999, 1965, 1960s, 1954, 1927, See Text

Dan Knapp Offering brains and brawn, a film collection in the Specialized Libraries chronicles the historic Santa Monica fitness venue known as Muscle Beach. New Acquisition Pumps USC Up, 11/28/05 Contributed by A.Weisberg-Roberts*@warwick.ac.uk, 2005, 2005b, 1959, 1940s, 1934 See Text

Nora Marshall*'s recollection, told to Kelyn Roberts* 04/29/05, 2005b, 1940s, 1930s See Text

James McManus Poker: Play It Close to the Muzzle and Paws on the Table, The New York Times, 3 December 2005, B23, 2005, 2005b See Text

Walter Mosley Cinnamon Kiss, Warner Books: NY, 2005. 313pp., 2005b,1966 See Text

Alyssa Navapanich* Emile Pourroy,* Dalila Pourroy,* and the McGinley* Estate, Oceanpark.ws, 2005, 2005b, 1975, 1941, 1919 See Text

New Neighborhood group takes new direction, Santa Monica Daily Press, 30 September 2005, p. 3 2005b See Text

Jack Peters Chess: Pros find team concept a winner, Los Angeles Times, 2 October 2, 2005, p. E48, 2005b See Text

2005 Partial Planting Inventory: 2421 Third St. See Text

Documents


Anon. Ocean Park and Venice Timeline (1890-1909), Web Document, 2005b, 1909, 1908, 1907, 1906, 1905, 1904, 1903, 1902, 1899, 1898, 1895, 1893, 1892, 1891
1891: "Abbot Kinney* and Francis G. Ryan* purchase controlling interest in the
Ocean Park Casino, a country club featuring tennis courts. In September the two partners purchase a 1-1/2 mile long, 275 acre tract of partially marshy beach front land south of Santa Monica."
"Santa Fe Railroad passenger depot built in Ocean Park. First trains arrive on June 18th."
1893
"Kinney* and Ryan* begin selling small 25 x 100 foot beach lots at their "Santa Monica Tract" in March.
"The YMCA decided to build a bathhouse and two story pavilion on donated land in June."

1895
"The Small community was renamed Ocean Park in May for a small eucalyptus grove on the adjacent Vawter* property.
"A 500 foot long pier was built into the ocean just south of Hill Street in September."

1898
"The resort in March consisted of 150 beach cottages, and a small commercial district along Pier Avenue.
"A building boom added 40 new beach cottages, several stores, and Kinney*'s new 40 acre Ocean Park race course and golf links.
"Kinney* and Ryan* granted permission to built a 1250 foot long pier at Pier Avenue over Santa Monica's city outfall sewer pipes. The town celebrated the pier's opening on August 29th with a clambake picnic.
"Francis Ryan*, Kinney*'s partner, died of a heart attack."
1899
"Ryan*'s widow married Thomas Dudley*, a Santa Monica businessman and becomes Kinney*'s new partner."
1902
"Dudley* sold his half interest in Ocean Park to Alexander Fraser*, Henry Gage* and George Merritt Jones*.
"Sherman and Clark announced the formation of the Beach Land Company to develop the marshy land at Playa del Rey into a Venetian style beach resort. With the completion of the Los Angeles Pacific's electric trolley line in October hundreds began visiting the resort.
"To assure electric trolley service to Ocean Park from downtown Los Angeles, Kinney* formed a partnership with Hook, the owner of the rival Los Angeles Traction Company. Although construction of the line started, Hook sold out to railroad interests who didn't want competition."
1903
"Kinney*'s partners built a Casino containing a restaurant and vaudeville theater beside the Ocean Park Pier.
"Kinney* and his partners began to disagree on the development of the marshy undeveloped southern portion of their property."
1904
"Kinney* and his three partners meet in January to dissolve their Ocean Park Development Company partnership. Kinney* won the coin toss and choose to own the undeveloped marshy property.
"Voters residing in the unincorporated section of the Ocean Park Development land, south of Marine Avenue, voted to establish the city of Ocean Park on February 12th.
"Henry Huntington and Arthur Parson's Pacific Amusement Company announce plans to develop Naples, a canaled town near Long Beach.
"Strong* and Dickerson* acquired an 1800 foot long tract of beach front land south of Kinney's tract and began selling lots in their South Ocean Park development.
"Kinney* sent Frank Dunham*, his building superintendent, to the east coast to visit various seaside resorts. He travelled to Boston where he hired one of Olmstead's apprentices as Venice's landscape architect and town planner. Dunham* returned to Venice with preliminary plans in June.
"Kinney* signed contracts to dig the Venice's half mile long, 70 foot wide Grand Canal and build a 900 foot long, 30 foot wide pleasure pier at Windward Avenue. Work on the canal began in July and in September on the pier.
"Final plans for Kinney*'s resort arrived in July and he hired architects Marsh* and Russell* to design its principal buildings. All buildings were be built in "Venetian Renaissance" style, with buildings featuring enclosed colonnaded walkways.
"The Los Angeles Pacific completed its Short Line electric trolley line to Venice in September.
"Contracts for Kinney*'s Ship Cafe and Auditorium, located on the pier, plus four business structures on Windward Avenue were awarded in the fall.
"Kinney*, unsatisfied with progress on the canals, in November hired the Hall Construction Company to use a steam dredge to complete Kinney*'s two miles of waterways.
"Residential lots were offered for sale on November 12th.
"The St. Mark's Hotel on Windward broke ground on December 5th."
1905
"Enormous waves from two disastrous winter storms in February and March demolish the entire Venice Pier. All the pier's buildings were damaged beyond repair. The beach was a pile of driftwood and many building sites were flooded. Damages exceeded $50,000 and set the resort's planned May opening back several months.
"Venice of America's grand opening was rescheduled for the July 4th weekend and 1000 workers worked in shifts to rebuild the damaged pier and its Auditorium and Pavilion buildings in time.
"Water, flowing from the sea in two huge pipes at a rate of 500 gallons a second, began filling the canal network's central lagoon on June 30th. Coffer dams held back water from the unfinished portions of the canal network where workers were cementing canal walls.
"Opening weekend's events included yacht racing, swimming races in the lagoon, the opening of his six week long Assembly in the pier's 3000 seat auditorium, and band concerts and evening fireworks at the lagoon's huge 2500 seat amphitheater. Each day 20,000 visitors thronged Venice's streets for the four day holiday weekend. Many of the resort's buildings and attractions weren't open yet, but visitors found the resort enchanting. With only a few hotels open, many tourists stayed at Kinney*'s Tent City alongside the Grand Canal.
"Ocean Park dedicated its enormous $150,000 indoor heated salt- water plunge on July 4th.
"Strong and Dickerson* began selling canal lots in their adjacent Short Line Canal tract on July 6th. Work began shortly afterwards to dredge their canal network and connect it to the Playa del Rey lagoon and to Kinney*'s Venice of America's canals.
"Venice's imported gondola fleet and miniature railroad began operation in July.
"Venice of America's canal network was completed in September.
"Kinney* announced that the sideshows and amusements from the Portland World's Fair would come to Venice. Construction of buildings to accommodate them began in an area beside the canals.
"In the off-season, the lower floor of the pier's Auditorium was converted to the Venetian Gardens. They served refreshments at tables while patrons listened to Ellery*'s Royal Italian Band."
1906
"Midway Plaisance opens along edge of the Grand Canal in January.
"Sells-Floto Circus chooses Venice as their winter quarters.
"Kinney*'s Lagoon Bathhouse with a 70 x 70 foot heated salt-water plunge opens in February.
"Ocean Park built a 6000 seat auditorium adjacent to its Ocean Park Pier. A skating rink occupied a portion of the immense building. It opened in the spring.
"Venice's skating rink, located at Trolley Way (Pacific Avenue) and Loreli, opened on May 11th. Venice quickly fielded a roller hockey team and challenged team from other southern California cities. The roller skating fad ended by Christmas.
"Sarah Bernhardt, the controversial French actress performed at Venice's Auditorium on the Abbot Kinney Pier.
"Kinney* built a huge dance hall on his pier. When it opened in July, it could accommodate 800 couples on its wooden floor.
"As Kinney* began to consolidate power and gain control of many of the town's concessions, simple disputes with partners turned into a series of nasty lawsuits in the fall. He proved to be a ruthless businessman.
"The Sells-Floto Circus made Venice their winter quarters from December to March. They returned in 1907 and 1910.
"In December Harriman, who owned both the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Los Angles Pacific trolleys, gave Kinney* an ultimatum to sell Venice of America. Kinney* reached an agreement with the railroad baron that would allow him to develop the ocean front as a harbor. Fortunately Harriman lost interest."

1907
"Kinney* and the town's Trustees were embattled in a power struggle over control of Venice of America. When they banned Sunday dancing in his Dance Hall and rescinded his liquor licenses, he closed down operations to deprive the city of most of its tax revenue. The Trustees, who badly miscalculated, yielded.
"When Kinney* decided to build a new ocean front bathhouse and plunge near his pier, several of the Trustees who owned the Ocean Park Pier refused to issue a building permit. Kinney* didn't wait and poured the concrete foundations. When the sheriff decided to dynamite the foundations in June, the woman's Pick and Shovel Club held a picnic on its walls. The sheriff gave up. Kinney* finished construction and his open-air pool opened in August. It was free to the public.
"Bowling alleys replace the Japanese Exposition in the pier's Pavilion.
"Kinney* loses the dis-incorporation election on September 30th. Venice of America remains part of Ocean Park.
"Venice's new city hall, located on the eastern outskirts of the community opened on October 31st. When the citizens passed a bond issue to finance it, Kinney offered several parcels of land that would have given it a central location. But the Trustees who were at odds with him, instead accepted a ten acre site for $5000 offered by David Evans* who was friends with Mayor Burke*. A building contract for $10,798 was awarded in May. When it opened, citizens dubbed it "Tokio Palace" because they thought it was about as far away as its namesake in the Orient."
1908
"Kinney* got his revenge when his Good Government League slate of candidates for Trustees defeated his entrenched enemies. Although Kinney*'s supporters were clearly dominant, they were unable to muster a 2/3 majority to dis-incorporate from Ocean Park.
"Work on Kinney's $100,000 bath house and plunge resumes in March. The 100 x 150 foot salt water pool could accomodate 2000 bathers. It opened for business on June 21st.
"The 1908 summer season was the last for the Midway on the lagoon.
"Fire fighters saved the Abbot Kinney Pier when a fire broke out near the Venice Theater at midnight October 26th."
1909
"The Venice Aquarium on Kinney's Pier opened in January. It's sunken seal and sea lion tank was surrounded by 48 glass tanks that contained specimens from the Santa Monica Bay."



(Back to Sources)

Email Announcements of performances by Daedelus*, Kneebody*, Wendel* and others, 2005b

AmmonContact, Daedlus, Laura Darling*, Dwight Trible 2005b Little Temple, 4519 Santa Monica Blvd., Silverlake, 17 and 26 March 2005, 2005b
Ben Wendel* Quartet @ The Vic, 2005b Thursday, October 20, 2005 www.benwendel.com: Larry Koonse (Guitar), Darek Oles (Bass), Ben Wendel*(Sax), Nat Wood (Drums), 2005b
Wendel, 2005b: Adam Benjamin, Rhodes; Kaveh Rastegar, Electric Bass; Ben Wendel*, Saxophone; Nate Wood, Drums, 2005b

Discography and A History of Recordings, remixes, production, projects, and project art: Daedelusdarling.com, 2005

LPs, EPs, and Between: Plug Research Emails: miscellaneous http://plugresearch.blogspot.
Ninjatune Press Release (2006)

Daedelus Her's Is > [sic] Phthalo #: PHTH 34, 2005b

"Breakcore/Hardcore/cerebral-listening-noise-sample-pastiche. Very thematic 'story' or 'narrative' (loosely please) following a woman rambling/rhapsodizing about difficult things and being at odds generally with all. (Phthalo textbook-eh!) L.A. native Alfred Weisberg Roberts-Breakcore/oldskool DJ + Avant Garde Jazz Academic shoots us a take from his history's beginning. Jungle roots! Todd Dockstaeder's, Robert Ashley's, John Cage's and David Tudor's, and ...'s and George Clinton's and the Funkadelic's raison d'etre. Alfred is able to turn his musical forebearer's turgid academics into a leit motive, a high seriousness that enables one to somesault three times in the air comfortably, and pierce the water with nary a wave."

dublab presents: Freeways Los Angeles, Emperor Norton Records, EMN-7039, compilation comp LP, cd/ vinyl, 2001

Artists include: Languis and Fer Chloca, Daedelus*, Mia Doi Todd, Dntel, John Tejada, Mannequin Lung, Yesterday's New Quintet, Divine Styler, Damon Aaron, Nowhereman, Ammoncontact, Skull Valley, Adam Rudolph*, 2001

dublab presents: Freeways, Emperor Norton 7-inch, 2005b

Mia Doi Todd and Daedelus (featuring the song Lovers Dub), 2005b

"Dublab.com was launched in September of 1999 by a small group of Los Angeles DJ's with the desire to present new and ground-breaking music to a global audience via the potential of the internet. Now Emperor Norton Records and Dublab are collaborating to produce a series of compilations and artist albums that will extend the Dublab musical aesthetic to the platform of CD's and vinyl. The first release, dublab presents: Freeways Los Angeles, is an audio tour through the burgeoning electronic/underground hip-hop scene in the city of Los Angeles. Every track on the compilation is an exclusive song that will not appear anywhere else."

Daedelus Portrait of the Artist Distill Records, vinyl, 2001

Cover Art Lauradarling, 2001
2Mex B Boys in Occupied Mexico, Mean St. Records MEA 020, cd, 2001, 2005b: Featuring Busdriver, 2005b, 2001
dublab Presents: Summer Hefty compilation LP, cd/ vinyl, 2005b

Burnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players, Cody ChesnuTT, Prefuse 73, Beneath Autumn Sky, Burdy, Michael Flume, I-Wolf, Backyard Bangers, Manitoba, The Dylan Group, Tom Chasteen, Daedelus* & Frosty

"Welcome to a Dublab block party. The world favorite Internet radio pioneers unveil the next direction in future roots music, fusing modern forms of jazz, hiphop, electronic, soul/r&b, breakbeat and dub music. This hot follow up to the critically acclaimed dublab presents: freeways is stocked with 12 fresh summer jams. Each summer artist donated their song to benefit Dublab's positive transmissions. Most songs are exclusive to this release."

Daedelus Invention Plug Research PR 034 cd/vinyl, 2002,

Drawings by Chris Ellis, Photos by laura darling; Design by Brandy Flow ; sax, Ben Wendel; Flutes, laura darling, Ben Wendel; vocals: MCs Busdriver and Sach Quiet Now , Pursed Lips Reply; Experience , 2005, 2002

"Caught between myth and reality, past and future, Daedelus* produces his sonic mazes from a studio deep in Santa Monica, California. Crafting his waxen wings from a background in live instruments, he began as a boy noodling bass clarinet notes, and soon graduated into the covenant of double-bass. After his ill-fated affair pondering classical and jazz, rave paved the way, and a burgeoning record collection fuelled his artistic creativity as it prepared the path to his first full length release Invention. With 30ties, 40ties and 70ties inspired grooves, Daedelus gradually begins to venture into the L.A. afterdark, by defying genres such as downtempo and hip hop. The music on Invention combines multiple instruments, including non-traditional ones such as computer printers, toy pianos, and the techno harp known as the Omnichord. He also invites local MC talents Busdriver and Sach to flow over two masterful tracks. Invention unfolds in dynamic ranges of emotion-Open your ears to Daedelus ' world of musical tinkering and you'll be walking faster, seeing clearer and feeling deeper."

Adam Rudolph*, Go: Organic Orchestra Web of Light, Meta Records Meta 007, cd, 2002

Recorded live at the Electric Lodge, Venice, CA, 2002. Carlos Niño; Ben Wendel, Flute;

Wendel, Wendel, Wendel Music, cd, 2002

Adam Benjamin, fender, Rhodes, piano; Shane Endsley, trumpet; Kaveh Rastegar, bass; Ben Wendel, sax; Nate Wood, drums, guitar. Art, Rice 510, 2002

Tigerbeat6 Inc, Tigerbeat6 compilation comp, 2 cd

Daedelus Exp., an edit of the song Experience from Invention

Busdriver Temporary Forever Temporary Whatever LP, cd / vinyl, 2002

Busdriver and Daedelus* Live Airplane Food, Temporary Whatever LP, cd, 2002

"Freestyle shows recorded from the end of 2002. Live by Busdriver, Daedelus*, Ben Wendel*, and David Murray* (formerly of Estradasphere)

Daedelus* The Quiet Party, Plug Research pr 400203cd, cd/vinyl, 2002

Features remixes by Madlib/YNQ & High Priest (Anti-Pop Consortium) + MCs Absract Rude & Busdriver

Artwork by Chris Ellis and Desgin by Brandy Flower

Daedelus Makes Friends, P-Vine, LP+, 2005b

(Japan-only release of Invention and The Quiet Party with Japanese liner notes), 2005b

Kei Kobayashi Routine Jazz #4 Substance records comp, cd

Daedelus Girls (with Busdriver and Abstract Rude)

Adventure Time (Frosty and Daedelus*), Dreams of Water Themes, Plug Research LP, cd/vinyl, pr43cd. 2003

Artwork by Kozyndan and Design by Brandy Flower

Vocals: Pigeon John, Sacajawea, Saul Williams, 2003

Adventure Time (with Frosty) Glass Bottom Boats,, Plug Research EP, PLG54, vinyl

Single for the lp Dreams of Water Themes,

featuring remixes by Caural and Nobody and orginal songs

Cover by Kozyndan and Design by Peter Rentz

Adventure Time (Frosty and Daedelus*) Hi-top Fade Parade" b/w My Petite, Plug Research, Pr 33-7, vinyl, 7-inch, 2003

Kozyndan, Art; Design, Brandy Flower, 2003

Piano Overlord (aka Scott Herren) Torture EP Money Studies, MS016, 12" vinyl,

"Scott Herren issues his second EP on Money Studies under the Piano Overlord persona. "Stay Home" is a plaintive keyboard lament over simple, downcast drums. The next track sees Daedelus arrive in his Adventure Time form, wringing the Savath & Savalas style track out with his quintessential cornucopia sample pastiche approach. Flip to two solid, outer limit hip hop versions with added vocal input from Count Bass D and Blu Jemz. These three remixes will not appear on any other vinyl release and the 12" will be deleted once it sells out. 12" - MS016 - not currently available - sorry! Limited EP in silk-screened sleeve.
2Mex Paladin Records cd PAL 2083, 2003

Featuring Omid, 2003

Ammoncontact Sounds Like Everything Plug Research LP, PR 45 cd /vinyl, 2003 (2001)

Daedelus* makes a guitar appearance on the song Black Stars and Super Eagles and on the cd there is small snippet of a Daedelus* remix for Hu-Vibrational Orchestra, Eastern Dev., 2003 (2001)

Bus Driver, RadioInacitive, with Daedelus* The Weather Mush Records MH 215 cd/vinyl, 2003

2Mex Additional vocals, 2003

"With a string of releases on Plug Research, Hefty, Tigerbeat 6, and Eastern Development, Daedelus* has refined a style that has no imitators. Contrasting IDM styled cut-ups with childlike arrangements from the 30's and 40's, he has created a sound that is entirely new. His productions find the hidden common denominator between modern electronica and sampled music from days gone by. Recording out of Santa Monica, Daedelus has recently begun to incorporate hiphop into his mix, with guest spots from Busdriver (Afterlife), Sach (Nonce), Absract Rude (Project Blowed), Madlib (Stones Throw), and High Priest (Anti-Pop Consortium), all leading to his work on the Mush full length The Weather with Busdriver and Radioinactive."

"Busdriver and Radioinactive as The Weather have created, along with producer extraordinaire Daedelus* , a million-word-a-minute marathon (The Weather will talk your head off') of inside jokes, twisted narratives and abusive free-association backed with blip-hop beats assembled from samples of children's toys, a century's worth of recorded music, and other unearthed sounds, all daftly computer-twisted to optimum effect. The release combines the distinct talents and trademark styles of three individuals to create a sound all its own: left-field and envelope pushing, but still grounded in solid writing, well crafted music, and perfect execution that seems effortless."

Daedelus Rethinking the Weather, Mush Records LP, mh-218, cd /vinyl, 2005b, 2003

"Daedelus* hooked up with emcees Busdriver and Radioinactive to produce Mush's February 2003 hit, The Weather. Using the instrumentals of that album as a base, Daedelus has chopped, relayered, remixed, twisted, and given life to a new instrumental project dubbed Rethinking The Weather. Fans of the original should take note that this is not your typical hiphop instrumental album, where the music is remixed without the vocals. Although the original was used as a starting point, the end result is something entirely unique and a glimpse into the mind of a one-of-a-kind artist."

Daedelus Some Favorite Things Disc Wave records, Yokohama, Japan.

Exclusive Daedelus mix cd

Ammoncontact Beats from Bina's House Eastern Developments EP, cd/ vinyl, ED003, 2003

Daedelus*ontributions to Playful

Daedelus The Household, Eastern Developments EP, Eastdev005, Hefty Records, 2003; cd/vinyl, 2003

Includes Busy Signal remix by Prefuse 73; Artwork by Kozyndan and Design by Peter Rentz, 2005b, 2003

Daedelus* Meanwhile... EP, Laboratory Instinct, LI001, cd/vinyl, 2003

Flute, Laura Darling*, saxophone, Ben Wendel*

Artwork and Design by John Pham

Take Colossal Volume I, Buttermilk EP, 12" vinyl BMR010, 2003

Daedelus* remix of The Start Of Our Ending, 2003

Technophonic Chamber Orchestra Nemoretum Sonata Suite Inc. LP , cd (Italy), 2004

Daedelus* remix Vitus

Ammoncontact Beat Tape Personalities Soul Jazz Records EP, vinyl, sjr 075, 2003

Daedelus* vocals The Stars are Singing Too

Prefuse73 One Word Extinguisher Warp LP, cd/ vinyl, Warp 105, 2003

Prefuse73 and Daedelus* collaborate on his remix of Busy Signal for the Makes You Go Bombing Mix

Offf festival compilation 2003

OFFF Festival with Daedelus, Taylor Deupree, the Rip-off Artist, Sutekh, Stephan Mathieu (May, Barcelona), 2003

Daedelus* and Boom Bip 28:06:42:12 Mush Records, mh 277, 7-inch, 2004

Daedelus* Of Snowdonia Plug Research, LP, cd, PR44CD, 2004

All instruments Daedelus* except for the Rhodes and Bassoon by Ben Wendel*, 2004 Cover art by Deth P. Sun; Interior photo by Alicia Weisberg-Roberts*; Design by Peter Rentz

Headset Spacesettings Plug Research LP, cd and vinyl, PR50 CD & DLP, 2004

Daedelus* collaborated with Headset on the track Outward Sound

Daedelus Something Bells, Plug Research EP, PR52, vinyl, 2004

Single for the lp Of Snowdonia

Featuring vocal versions by Busdriver, Pigeon John

Remixes by edIT, Omid, and Subtitle

Artwork by Deth P. Sun and Design by Peter Rentz

Madvillian (aka Madlib and MF Doom) MadVilliany Stones Throw LP, cd/vinyl

Accordion samples Experience from the Invention album, 2004

45 Seconds Of: Simballrec comp cd, 2005b

Daedelus* Stepping Razors, 2005b

Waajeed (of Platinum Pied Pipers) Universal Language mix Triple Five Soul, cd, 2005

Daedelus*, Something Bells

Soylent Green Software and Hardwar Pulpa records 01 EP, cd/vinyl, 2004

Daedelus* remix Altered State (March of the Green-Meanies)

Daedelus* A Gent Agent, Laboratory Instinct, LP, LI004 cd/ 2 vinyl 2004

Artwork and Design by John Pham (difficult to get in North America)

"Acclaimed Los Angeles producer Daedelus* fires his second salvo from the Berlin-based label Laboratory Instinct in the form of a new, full-length recording. A Gent Agent makes good on the promise made by the spy-meets-I-and-I spirit of the renowned bedroom artist's recent Meanwhile EP. The BBC has called his music, 'fiendishly clever and devilishly original'. Pitchfork found his sounds 'effortlessly charming.' Audiences in Japan, Europe and the United States have witnessed the man the San Francisco Examiner called 'an alt-tronic genius' working his magic live."

Advanced Public Listening vol. 1 Laboratory Instinct comp, cd/vinyl

Daedelus Let's Be Brave, 2005b

U.S. Pop Life vol. 18 The Sound of Illusions Contact Records (Japan) comp, CR-028 bonus cd, 2004

Alder and Elius; Adventure Time; Buddy System; K-rAd; Freescha; Jon Sheffield; Salvo Beta; Stars As Eyes; Languis; The Timeout Drawer; Lullatone

Visuals/Art: Chris Jordan; Cory Arcangel; Giles Hendrix ; Someoddpilot

"Graphic Mystery: Time and space. it recalls illusions and views of various style of electronica and inculde 3 visual artistt's new experience of graphic mystery."
Keepintime: A Live Recording Keepintime/Mochilla comp, dvd/cd (UK)

Daedelus* All Lights on Stage that Night

Hu Vibrational Bonghee Music 2 Beautiful Soul Jazz LP, SJR 88, cd /vinyl, 2004 Adam Rudolph; Hamid Drake; Carlos Niño; Daedelus plays guitar on two tracks, 2004

Microsolutions to Megaproblems #1 Soul Jazz LP, cd / vinyl, 2005b

kit clayton-humbaba; secondo-we got it 303 (live edit); rekid-tranzit; ammoncontact- bbq plate (telefon tel aviv mix); a. greenman-sunday kind of love; sutekh-mouth party; ammoncontact-on bellflower (smyglyssna mix); hu vibrational-sunkissed (daedelus mix); kid606 -batmen; a greenman-sunday kind of love; kit clayton-enkidu; sutekh -boulez toes; hu vibrational- friends and gardens (corker conboy mix); tim exile-body ginger; kid606 banana peel, 2005b

Build An Ark Peace With Every Step Plug Research, PLG57 cd/viny, Oct., 2004

Ammoncontact One In An Infinite Of Ways Ninja Tune cd/lp, (2xLP/CD) Ninja Tune ZEN99/ZENCD99, 2004-11, 2004

Daedelus*, Dreamy; Lil Sci, Build An Ark, Dwight Trible

"Flowing from track to track like one of Niño's legendary Spaceways radio shows on KPFK 90.7FM in Los Angeles, "One..." was made on an MPC 2000 and an ASR-10, with a few keyboards and synths. Prefuse 73 has labelled the music "machine funk," which isn't a million miles from where they're at, as long as you remember the playfulness which leads Carlos to claim that "Ammoncontact are all about having fun as well as trying to stretch the boundaries of hip hop." Throw in guests including Daedelus, sometime Scienz of Life and now KMD member Lil Sci, plus musicians from the legendary Build An Ark group (including just a taste of the awesome vocal stylings of Dwight Trible) . . . sit back and feel it warm you up."

Build An Ark Remixes EP Plug Research EP, PLG59, 12", 2005, 2005b

Featuring remixes by Jnerio Jarel, A. J. Rocc, Nobody, Sach, Daedelus*, and Dimlite, 2005, 2005b

"Build An Ark is a Los Angeles based creative soul-jazz ensemble formed by producer Carlos Nino (Ammoncontact) and singer Dwight Trible in an effort to encourage peace and love throughout the world. The band has toured Europe, Japan and the States and is a favorite of DJs and tastemakers everywhere (Giles Peterson and Madlib just to name a few). Build An Ark Remixes is the first 12" release from Peace With Every Step (Oct. '04) and features incredible reinterpretations by some of Nino's favorite contemporary hip-hop and electronic producers.

"Philly's Jneiro Jarel reworks Phil Ranelin's Vibes From The Tribe composition for the intro to side A. J.Rocc of the "World Famous" Beat Junkies makes BAA's classic version of Pharoah Sanders' You've Gotta Have Freedom a dance floor hit. Nobody's remix of Ronnie Laws' Always There features a telling rap story by L.A. MC Sach (The Nonce) of his fallen partner Yusef to round out the side.

"On the flip side, Daedelus* contributes two tracks, one a remix of BAA's version of the Sun Ra track The Stars Are Singing Too and the other he pushes and pulls from a BAA jam session and creates something entirely new with guitars and synthesized drums. Switzerland's Dimlite (Sonarkollektiv) ends this dynamic 12" with a stunning remix of Michael White's classic The Blessing Song.

"All the tracks were originally recorded and released as part of Build An Ark's highly acclaimed debut album Peace With Every Step which included LA Weekly Music Award Nominees in 2004 and 2005 and a 8.7 review for Pitchfork amongst other rave reviews and accolades."

N.E.R.D. Maybe Virgin EP , import vinyl only, 2004

Remix by Sa-Ra; Daedelu*s, Bass Clarinet; Laura Darling*, vocals, 2004

Dwight Trible & the Life Force Trio Love is the Answer Ninja Tune LP, 3 vinyl and 2 cd, Zen 108 2005

Daedelus*; J. Georgia Anne Muldrow; Adam Rudolph*; Sa-Ra, 2005

Labwaste Zwarte Achtegrond Temporary Whatever LP, cd/vinyl, TW104CD 2005,

"L.A. residents Thavius Beck (aka Adlib, (Mush )) and Subtitle (GSL), as the art-super duo LabWaste, bring to the vanguard world of aesthetics and commerce their debut, Zwarte Achtegrond (Dutch for Black Background). LabWaste casually dips back and forth between genres creating hip-hop that has never been so adventurous or on the verge of utter collapse. With remixes by Daedelus (Get The Signal to make Go And Get The Signal Back) (Mush / Plug Research); Jimmy Tamborello (Postal Service / Dntel), Sixtoo (Sebutones / Ninja Tune) and a bonus Thavius Beck remix, this album is as challenging as a MENSA test. And it's an enhanced CD featuring a video for the single Dope Beat.

Busdriver Fear of A Black Tangent Big Dada LP, BD cd 077 cd / vinyl, 2005

"As the full length follow-up to the legendary 2002 release Temporary Forever, Busdriver has delivered the most cohesive work of his career, thirteen impressive tracks that range from lightning fast Project Blowed-style raps to sing-song pop. The album features production by Daedelus, Danger Mouse, Thavius Beck, Omid, and Paris Zax and has guest appearances by fellow Project Blowed emcees Abstract Rude, Ellay Khule, Mikah-9 ( Freestyle Fellowship), and 2Mex ."
Music For Robots vol. 1, Music for Robots LP, CD comp 2005, 2005b

Ten Eleven- A Watched Pot; Stiffed-A Day With Andrew; Mini Repertoire vs. Deadelus remix feat. Busdriver-Cat Whiskers; Stratageme-Mrs. Rational; Bumblebeez81-Cowboy Song;; Death From Above 1979-Little Girl (MSTRKRFT Remix); Seems So Bright -Numbers; David Brusie -Understood; Hysterics -Potato Famine; Subtle -I heart LA two; Mae-shi -Potential; Haywood -Mermaid; The Subjects-Saginaw; The National-High Beam; APSCI (feat. Mr. Lif)-See That; Avenue D-Just Keep Dancing; The Presets-Truth & Lies; Shush Shush-How to Lie; Bluffs-Euro Girl

Roots Manuva Too Cold Big Dada EP, vinyl, BD O78, 2005 Daedelus, bass clarinet on the Sa-Ra remixToo Cold, 2005

Dr. Rek This Business of Absurdity Absurdity.biz EP, 12", AB01, 2005

Remixes by Terminal1, Daedelus and others

We Can Share Bit of Heaven cd, BOH 003, LP, cd 2005

Slowman, Jeremy Dower, Rah a.k.a. Mitcho (Pepe California), Daedelus* and others

Dublab Presents In The Loop 2, Plug Research PLG62, Mini LP, 2005

Prefuse 73, Nobody, Daedelus (A Touch of Spring), Sa-Ra , Build An Ark, 2005, 2005b

"A massive 12" featuring five songs, all from future roots originators. Prefuse 73 leads off with a stunning snippet of radiant folk. Opening with gentle strains that gracefully give way to buoyant bounce, this brilliant beat provides the perfect liftoff point for In the loop 2. Dublab's own Nobody is a fitting, far-out figure to take the baton from Prefuse. He is a touring member of the live Savath & Savalas and Prefuse 73 experience as well as a production partner and pal of Scott Herren. Nobody's contribution gives listeners a sense of tumbling headfirst into his rare record collection. All the dust and magic of heavy 60's psychedelia rise to the surface, swirling into intoxicating colours. Daedelus (another dynamic dublab dj) keeps things rotating in perfect pace with a fine piece of cut and paste. His bubbling groove is strummed along by acoustic guitars and chipper chimes. Previously released on cd as part of Daedelus' The Quiet Party EP, this elastic epiphany quickly became a dj favorite. Now for the first time A Touch of Spring is available on gleaming vinyl. On the flip, Build an Ark ascend in soulful streams. The cosmic jazz supergroup assembled and energized by dublab's Carlos Niño features elder masters alongside shining, young musical spirits. Temple Jam is an epic Nate Morgan composition created in a collective, live improvisation he leads on piano and keyboards. Pharoahs co-founder Derf Reklaw and LA's Afro-beat king Najite keep the beat popping with percussion while Dwight Trible's vocals soar above trombone notes by Tribe Records co-founder Phil Ranelin. Build an Ark has already seduced luminaries such as Gilles Peterson and Madlib. This appearance ensures more giant steps. Sa-Ra are the ultra-advanced production trio the world has an eye on, having already produced hits for Jurassic 5, Pharoahe Monch, Dr. Dre, NERD, and more. Spaceways Radio Theme is a future forward ode to Sun Ra. This whirling gem serves as the theme song for Carlos Nino's Spaceways radio program on KPFK 90.7f m in Los Angeles. Essential music.

The One A.M. Radio On The Shore of the Wide World Level Plane Records EP, cd, LP78CD, 2005

"On the Shore of The Wide World, an EP of remixes, follows up the full-length album A Name Writ in Water, released in April 2004. Hrishikesh Hirway (aka The One AM Radio) creates intricate, lush compositions that Pitchfork said "simply feel colossal." On this record, seven of his songs are deconstructed and reinterpreted by a cast of luminaries. The line-up includes avant hip-hop auteur Daedelus (Under Thunder and Gale) (Ninja Tune/Mush/Plug Research/Eastern Dev), minimalist tech-house veteran John Tejada (Plug Research/Palette), ambient experimentalist The Wind-Up Bird(Music Fellowship/Translucence), shoegazey beatmaker Caural (Chocolate Industries), and Anticon MC and producer Alias.

"The artwork for the ep is a remix as well, by acclaimed artist Brian Alfred who based his illustrations on one of Hrishikesh's photographs from the liner notes of the full length."
Daedelus* Axe Murderation Remixes Phthalo, PHTH 045LP, 2LP, vinyl, 2005

Daedelus*, Eight Frozen Modules, Jason Potratz, Venetian Snares, Gerald Wenzel, Cover Art C. Brand 2005

"Daedelus aka Alfred Weisberg-Roberts has been very active in the years subsequent to his career debut release on Phthalo. He has recently issued albums on labels including Mush/Ninja Tune, Laboratory Instinct, Plug Research, and Eastern Developments. His live performances are unparalleled accomplishments-each one an epic, singular conjuring of transformative mania. In collaboration with Los Angeles MC Busdriver, detailed cerebral Hip Hop is crafted. On this-the first ever vinyl release on Phthalo-Alfred hosts a gathering of friends for the purpose of remixing a yet unreleased track of his entitled Axe-Murderation. The theme is a short recording of a girl rhapsodizing about her grievances and nefarious intentions with reference to dogs. The contributing artists/remixers are: Daedelus, Eight Frozen Modules, Jason Potratz, Venetian Snares, Gerald Wenzel. "

Daedelus* Exquisite Corpse, Mush / Ninja Tune LP, 232, cd /vinyl, 2005

Featuring: MF Doom, Prefuse73, Cyne, Mike Ladd, Sci, Jogger, Hrishikesh Hirway, TTC, and Laura Darling*.

Artwork and Design by Florencio Zalavas

Performances, Appearances:

Amoeba Records, Los Angeles, August 2002

Temple Bar, Santa Monica 2003

Accompanying MF DOOM on accordion at Madvillainy release 2004

Dataage, Dec. 10, 2005 943 N. Broadway (Chinatown), Los Angeles, CA Featuring The Flight Orchestra ; Airport 81 (San Diego); Daedelus; Antiquark (San Diego); edIT; DJ Olivia

Dublab and Plug Research present Los Angeles Record Fair and Swap, Dec., 11, 2005 The Little Temple, 4519 Santa Monica Blvd. (at Virgil), LA, CA, 90029 Daedelus vendor/artist: New and old records, blank shirts to screen

Edinburgh, Scotland

Headspace Radio, Hoseh, 8 p.m., KXLU, Dec. 20, 2005

88.9 FM in the Los Angeles area and online at www.kxlu.com

Special guest Adventure Time (Frosty and Daedelus, with special guest guests)

Daedelusdarling.com, 2005

See Discography and A History of Past Events

LPs, EPs, and Between, Ninja Tune 2006

(Back to Sources)

Elizabeth M. Drake-Boyt Dance as a Project of the Early Modern Avant-garde The Florida State University: College of Arts and Sciences A Dissertation submitted to the Program in the Humanities In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Degree Awarded: Spring Semester, 2005b

" Footnote 1: Conclusions

"An example of this conceptual flow from the spiritual self to spiritual works of art made from the self might be St. Denis' famous encounter with a poster for Egyptian cigarettes [1904] featuring a fanciful depiction of Isis, which she said completely congealed for her ideas for a new expressive dance (An Unfinished Life, 1939). The spiritual impetus offered her by the poster was filtered first through St. Denis, as she had herself photographed as the Egyptian goddess (1904), then created a series of Hindu Indian dances on spiritual themes of which one was Incense (1906), and only after that choreographed Egypta (1910) the first of a series directly related to the image on the cigarette poster. She herself stated there was but a very little difference between a theme of Ancient Egypt and a theme of modern Hindu worship, in part because the impetus of her conceptual starting point filtered through her personal spiritualism did not change (as she herself did not change), regardless of exotic theme."

(Back to Sources)

Frank Gruber* When More was Okay The LookOut, 10 October 2005, 2005b, 1983

". . .

". . . three and four story apartments like the one on Third Street, first built in 1907, that the wrestler Baron Leone later bought and expanded and called the "Baron's Castle." The Baron's Castle. (Contemporary photos by Frank Gruber*)

" . . .

". . . Phillips Chapel," the Christian (formerly "Colored") Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church at the corner of Fourth and Bay Streets. Phillips Chapel, Fourth and Bay Streets (Contemporary photos by Frank Gruber*)

"The views expressed in this column are those of Frank Gruber* and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Lookout."

(Back to Sources)

Pat Hartman Spade Cooley Virtual Venice http://www.virtualvenice.info 2/5/2005b, 1940s

"Spade Cooley-In the early 1940s, the Venice Ballroom was turned into a country-western joint called the Foreman Phillips County Barn Dance. The new hybrid sound, combining traditional and city slicker music. would entertain as many as 4,000 munitions workers and other displaced rural folks until dawn. It was the site of a monumental Battle of the Bands between Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, and Spade Cooley's outfit, which left Cooley holding the title "King of Western Swing." Cooley's story, like those of so many musicians associated with Venice, had a sad end. Suspecting his second wife of having an affair with Roy Rogers, he beat her to death (with their 14 year old daughter as unwilling witness) and died in prison less than a decade later."

(Back to Sources)

Walter Hopps, renowned art dealer and museum curator, dies at 72
Associated Press, San Jose Mercury News-California & the West
Posted on Tue, Mar. 22, 2005, 2005b, 1999, 1965, 1964, 1950s
Los Angeles-Walter Hopps, an art dealer and museum curator who brought international fame to the first generation of Los Angeles artists and was most remembered for his 1963 exhibition that featured the works of Marcel Duchamp, has died. He was 72.
Hopps, who had pneumonia and several broken ribs that contributed to fluid buildup in his lungs, died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said a longtime friend and artist, Ed Moses.
In what became a seminal event in modern museum history, Hopps staged the 1963 exhibition of Duchamp's works at the Pasadena Art Museum, now known as the Norton Simon Museum. The retrospective became a symbol of a more freewheeling artistic climate in Southern California that was less bound by tradition.
During the show, Hopps arranged two chess matches with Duchamp-one for himself and one for writer Eve Babitz, who played nude against the impish artist.
Hopps' first exhibition was in 1954, when he rented the merry-go-round at the Santa Monica Pier for $80 and hung nearly 100 paintings by 40 artists, including Richard Diebenkorn, Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still. Not a single painting was sold.
Hopps and his wife, Shirley, also held exhibitions in their Brentwood apartment.
In 1957, he and artist Ed Kienholz opened Ferus Gallery, the first professional space in Los Angeles devoted to the Southern California avant-garde. It became the most adventurous and influential contemporary art gallery west of Manhattan and featured blooming artists, including Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Craig Kauffman and Robert Irwin.
Though talented as a curator, Hopps was known for his chronic lateness. During his tenure at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the staff made lapel buttons that said, "Walter Hopps will be here in 20 minutes."
"He didn't like museum bureaucracies," Moses said. "All his files at the Pasadena Art Museum were kept under the carpet. When he left there, he didn't let anybody know about the files. Later, when they rolled up this giant carpet, they found very careful files and letters."
His seven years at the National Collection of Fine Arts, now the National Museum of American Art, also were marked by chronic absenteeism, prompting the museum director to pay Hopps only for the time he was inside the building.
At the time of his death, Hopps was curator of 20th century art at the Menil Collection in Houston and an adjunct senior curator at New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim
Hopps once estimated that he organized more than 250 museum shows.
He is survived by his second wife, Caroline Huber. A memorial service was being planned.: Information from: Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com

(Back to Sources)

Christopher Knight Walter Hopps* [1932-2005] Curator Brought Fame to Postwar L.A. Artists, Los Angeles Times, 22/3/05, pp. A1, A19
Walter Hopps, an art dealer and museum curator who was instrumental in bringing the first generation of postwar Los Angeles artists to international prominence and whose 1963 retrospective of Dada artist Marcel Duchamp ranks as a seminal event in modern museum history, died Sunday in Los Angeles after a brief hospitalization. He was 72 and lived in Houston.
Frail and in ill health for some time, Hopps had pneumonia, according to artist Ed Moses, a longtime friend. Hopps was in Southern California for a 45-year survey of assemblage art by sculptor George Herms, which he organized for the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
Artist Larry Bell said that he had unexpectedly encountered Hopps in the coffee shop of a Venice hotel last Tuesday and that he insisted on taking him to see his doctor.
Bell said Hopps had fallen earlier and broken several ribs, which contributed to the buildup of fluids in his lungs. On Saturday, Bell and Moses had hoped to visit Hopps at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, but Hopps had been moved to intensive care and was in a coma. He died there Sunday morning.
At the time of his death, Hopps was curator of 20th century art at the Menil Collection in Houston, where he had been founding director, and an adjunct senior curator at New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. When the surprise dual appointment was made, Ned Rifkin, then director of the Menil, described Hopps as "a giant among his peers in the arena of modern and contemporary curators." He organized a large retrospective of paintings by American Pop artist, James Rosenquist for the Guggenheim in 2002.
Hopps' most celebrated exhibition was the 1963 Duchamp retrospetive, held at the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum) in its original home on Los Robles Avenue. Hopps was in his first year as curator. He had been introduced to the French expatriate's iconoclastic work in the late 1940s, during a high school visit to the Hollywood home of art collectors Louise and Walter Arensberg. Their formidable collection of Cubist, Surrealist, Dadaist and other modern art, now a centerpiece of the Philadelphia Musem of Art, included such classic Duchamp works as Nude Descending a Staircase (1912).
During the Pasadena show, Hopps arranged two chess matches with the impish artist-one for himself and one for the young writer Eve Babitz, who famously played her match nude.
The Duchamp exhibiton was typical of Hopps' modus operandi as a curator. He had come upon the artist by accident as an impressionable and inquisitive youth, and he was determined to follow his instincts; he knew from his conversations with young artists that their interest in Duchamp's art was far ahead of the musem establishment's. A Duchamp retrospective was not mounted in New York, where the artist lived, until 1973, five years after his death. The Pasadena show entered the realm of legend as a symbol of a more freewheeling, less tradition-bound artistic climate in Southern California.
Hopps' first exhibition, organized with his first wife, Shirley, in 1954, was itself unorthodox. Dubbed the Merry-Go-round Show, it arose from his concern that a new generation of Abstract Expressionist painters was not being seen in L.A. Hopps rented the merry-go-round at the Santa Monica Pier for $80, stretched tarp around the poles and hung nearly 100 paintings by 40 artists, incuding Richard Diebenkorn, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and Jay De Feo. All were for sale, none sold for more than $300. Nothing sold.
Hopps and his wife regularly held informal exhibitions in their Brentwood apartment, where occasional sales helped keep them afloat. He briefly operated a galllery housed in a small structure built from used telephone poles. Called Syndell Studios, it was named in memory of a farmer who was killed in a freak accident while Hopps was driving cross-country. At Syndell Studos, Hopps showed the seminal Beat generation artist, Wallace Berman, and he met Herms.
In 1957, he and artist Ed Kienholz, who would become an important figure in the development of assemblage art on the West Coast, opened Ferus Gallery. Ferus, the first professional space in L.A. to be principally devoted to the Southern California avant-garde, rapidly became the most adventurous and influential contemporary art gallery west of Manhatten.
In addition to showing the work of established Abstract Expressionistic painters, Ferus introduced young L.A. artists to the growing scene, including Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Craig Kauffman and Robert Irwin. Moses had his first exhibition at Ferus while still a student at UCLA. Hopps once told The Times that the name Ferus-Latin for "uncivilized" or "wild"-was "borrowed from an anthropological description of an aboriginal tribe with subhuman, irascible, possibly dangerous tendencies."
The implied link between science and art came naturally. Hopps was a native of Glendale, born in 1932 into a family of prominent surgeons. He was home-tutored until junior high school, when he entered the private Polytechnic School in Pasadena. From there he went to Eagle Rock High School. After so many cloistered years, he described high school as "the most exciting time of my life; all of a sudden kids, boys, girls-friends." It was with a class of Eagle Rock students that he first visited the Arensberg collection, to which he later returned on his own. The work of Duchamp, Picasso, Brancusi, Dali, Miro and many others made a profound impression on him.
"That was the clash." Hopps later told a Times reporter. "I thought of myself as a rational positivist. And I couldn't figure out why this seemingly nice, intelligent man [Arensberg was a prosperous businessman] had devoted his life to this collection. I started reading."
The Arensbergs had been the unofficial center of the European emigre Dada movement when they lived in New York; in Hollywood, where they moved in 1927, their role changed to that of keepers of its history.
Duchanp had been the primary advisor in the development of their collection, and for them he was the center of that legacy. It was a legacy that encountered much hostility in Los Angeles, where, just few years after Hopps' first visit to the collection, the City Council decreed that Modern art was Communist propaganda and banned its public display.
In 1950, Hopps enrolled at Stanford; a year later he switched to UCLA to study microbiology. He also studied art history. Shortly after opening Ferus, he began to teach at UCLA Extension; over the next four years he helped to cultivate a group of art collectors, informed about the avant-garde, including Betty Freeman, Monte Factor, Ed Janss and Fred and Marcia Weisman.
Kienholz made a witty 1959 assemblage-sculpture portrait of his early partner at Ferus, the title of which, "Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps," suggested his peripatetic energy. Its allusion to Beat era slang for illegal drugs also described a problem that followed Hopps for many years.
Part homage, part satire, the sculpture was made from a gas station advertising sign that featured a cutout of the Bardahl motor oil man. Kienholz turned the clean-cut image into a picture of a slippery salesman of Modern art. Hopps, with his trademark horn-rimmed glasses, black suit and skinny necktie, is shown pulling open his jacket, as if he were a sidewalk slicker hawking hot merchandise to unsuspecting passersby. Instead of jewelry or watches, however, he reveals vest-pocket pictures of paintings by Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline.
Turn around the sculpture-at 6 feet, 6 inches tall, appropriately just larger than life-and the back features a spine made from animal vertebrae, a rotary dial telephone and annotated lists of important people in the L.A. art world.
[Parallels arise: John Cage's acquaintence with Marcel Duchamp and his desire to teach Modern Art mirror Hopps' introduction to Duchamp's work; and Duchamp's reproduction of his own work as portable miniatures resemble the pocket art in Kienholz' "Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps." KR]
Kienholz left the gallery to pursue his own work, and Irving Blum, a Knoll furniture salesman, became Hopps' partner in Ferus. Conflicts between them-which later resulted in Shirley Hopps' becoming Shirley Blum-led to Hopps' departure. In 1962 he was hired by Thomas Leavitt to become curator of the Pasadena Art Museum. In addition to the Duchamp retrospective, Hopps organized the first museum shows of Frank Stella's paintings, a landmark survey of box assemblanges by Joseph Cornell and "The New Painting of Common Objects," a ground-breaking 1962 survey that heralded the emergence of Pop art. When Leavitt departed the Museum in 1964, Hopps was elevated to director; at 31, he was the youngest art museum director in America.
He was asked to resign four years later [1968], the first of many times that jobs ended badly or in a cloud of complications. He was celebrated for his curatorial abilities and his working relationships with artists, but was a notoriously poor administrator.
" . . .
"He didn't like museum bureaucracies," Moses said. "All his files at the Pasadena Art Museum were kept under the carpet. When he left there, he didn't let anyone know about the files. Later, when the rolled up this giant carpet, they found very careful files and letters."
Hopps was named director of the Corcoran (in Washington, D.C.) in 1970 and fired in 1972. His seven years at the National Collection of Fine Arts (now the National Museum of American Art) . . . Director Joshua Taylor . . .
Hopps joined Houston's Menil Foundation in 1980-artistically an excellent fit, given the collection's strength in Surrealism-and became founding director of its celebrated museum in 1987 . . . but patron Dominque de Menil . . . He was made chief curator and a new director was hired. In 2001 the Menil Foundation inaugurated the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement, a $25,000 prize bestowed biennially by an international jury.
Hopps once estimated that he organized more than 250 museum shows during his career . . . 1984 . . . The Automobile and Culture, a show for L.A.'s then new Museum of Contemporary Art . . .
"With him goes a certain breed of unorthodox curator," said painter and Newsweek art critic Peter Plagens, who lived in Los Angeles during Hopps' heyday at Ferus and the Pasadena Museum. . . .
Hopps is survived by his second wife, Caroline Huber . . .: (Times staff writer Suzanne Muchnic contributed to this report . . .)
The Merry-Go-round Show, Santa Monica Pier, 1954
Frank Stella's paintings, Pasadena Museum of Art
A survey of box assemblanges by Joseph Cornell, Pasadena Museum of Art,
The New Painting of Common Objects, Pasadena Museum of Art, 1962
Marcel Duchamp, Pasadena Museum of Art, 1963
West Coast Artists, Sao Paulo Art Bienal, 1965
The VIII Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil. 1965
The Automobile and Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1984
James Rosenquist, the Guggenheim, NY, 2002.
George Herms, Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2005

(Back to Sources)

"Russ Saunders* shows how to pick up women during the heyday of Muscle Beach.

"Russ Saunders* Collection: A rusting blue and white sign now stands along Santa Monica's shoreline, marking the spot where countless copper-toned hard bodies once flexed their muscles beneath the California sun.

"The original Muscle Beach is widely regarded as the birthplace of the 20th century's physical-fitness craze. One of the most popular destinations of its day, the famed locale left behind a storied legacy for historians studying Los Angeles.

"A recent acquisition by USC's Specialized Libraries and Archival Collections of seldom-seen film footage provides an intimate, firsthand account -and photographic view -of how this small strip of sand became a haven for the beautiful and health-conscious.

"It also serves as primary resource material for California pop culture and fitness scholars.

"Originally begun as a federally funded Works Progress Administration (WPA) project in 1934, Muscle Beach was a training ground for bodybuilders, circus performers, adagio dancers, Hollywood stunt people and gymnasts.

"In the 1930s and '40s, it was a trendsetting spot where fitness icons such as Harold Zinkin*, Joe Weider*, Steve Reeves*, Vic Tanny*, Jack LaLanne* and Joe Gold* developed their physiques.

"Thousands of spectators came to see the young men perform on weekends, and Muscle Beach soon eclipsed the Santa Monica Pier as the preeminent entertainment destination along Southern California's coast.

"As more observers became participants, bodybuilding and fitness became a part of the mainstream culture. Throngs of men and women lifted weights, built human towers and entertained the mesmerized crowds with somersaults and handstands.

"Over the years, Muscle Beach attracted countless colorful characters, including Paula Boelsems* and her waterskiing elephant.

"Boelsems*, a USC alumna, retired LAUSD teacher, former stuntwoman and 2005 inductee into the Muscle Beach Hall of Fame, donated to her alma mater the more than 15 hours of film-as well as more than 100 slides and 2,000 feet of audio recordings-relating to the Santa Monica hotspot.

"Boelsems* inherited the collection from her longtime colleague and friend, Russell M. Saunders*.

""Mr. Saunders* bequeathed his extraordinary collection to Mrs. Boelsems*, who cared for it for several years," said Dace Taube, a librarian who curates the collection for the USC Information Services Division's Specialized Libraries and Archival Collections department.

""We are very grateful to Mrs. Boelsems* for bestowing this extraordinary visual collection on USC. Historians and archivists can rejoice that Russell Saunders* had the foresight to document on film the legendary men and women who trained their perfectly sculpted bodies to perform acrobatics and stunts," she said.

"Saunders* shot most of the footage himself and was a renowned stuntman who doubled for many of Hollywood's most famous actors, including Lloyd Bridges, Gene Kelly and Alan Ladd.

"During World War II, Canadian-born Saunders* served as a photojournalist with U.S. paratroopers in Europe, and after the war, briefly attended the USC School of Cinema-Television before appearing in films such as "Singin' in the Rain," "Shane" and "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers."

"Saunders* also was Salvador Dali's model for the painting "The Christ of St. John," which hangs in the Glasgow (Scotland) Art Gallery and Museum.

"He and Boelsems* were among the first accredited U.S. judges for the International Federation of Sports Acrobatics.

"A teacher and coach, Saunders worked for more than a decade on television's Circus of the Stars, training Hollywood thespians for their acts on the show. Even into his 70s, he was still teaching gymnastics to youngsters on Sunday afternoons on the old Muscle Beach site. He died in 2001 at the age of 82.

""We need no further indication that the history of Muscle Beach is vital to understanding our state and region, than the fact that the current governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger*, began his bodybuilding and movie career at a nearby Gold's Gym in the 1970s," explained Philip J. Ethington, professor of history and political science in the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the North American editor of the Urban History journal.

"The halcyon days of the original Muscle Beach, however, faded almost as quickly as they began. The facility's popularity began to wane in the 1950s.

"After charges of sexual misconduct were filed against several weightlifters, Santa Monica city officials shut down Muscle Beach in 1959. Although the weightlifters later were exonerated, the city bulldozed the area, claiming it had become a magnet for "perverts" and "narcissistic parasites." Several months later, the city reopened the area as "Beach Park 4."

"The bodybuilding milieu subsequently reemerged in neighboring Venice Beach.

"In 2000, Santa Monica officials erected a new recreational facility on the site of the old Muscle Beach platforms, complete with an open-air weight pit and a place for children to exercise. There were, however, no performance platforms or viewing stands rebuilt to restore the exhibitionist or entertainment side of Muscle Beach that was integral to what the beachfront was in its heyday.

""The Paula Boelsems* collection is a remarkable addition to USC's archival resources documenting the key sectors of Los Angeles," Ethington said. "Some years ago, such materials as 16mm film documenting popular culture may not have been taken very seriously by historians, who treated manuscript collections as the gold standard for research.

""But the scholarly world has realized that visual culture was at the center, not the periphery, of the 20th-century world. That world was largely shaped by Californians and Angelenos, and there are few institutions better positioned than USC to take advantage of donations such as this."

"The housing, preservation and indexing of the Boelsems* Collection is a collaborative project of USC Special Collections and the USC School of Cinema-Television's Moving Image Archives."

(Back to Sources)

Nora Marshall's recollection, told to Kelyn Roberts 04/29/05, 2005b

Nora Marshall*, a Venice High graduate from the 1930s told me at Santa Monica Emeritus College where we are both volunteers that the high school students from Ocean Park who attended Venice High had special Red Cars to ride unlike students from other areas of Venice.
She remembers going to the Lick Pier and that many high schoolers were employed on the rides on the pier. No one thought that POP was all that interesting compared to the other piers.

Santa Monica was the place to go if you needed to shop.

Her husband-to-be took her to the Santa Monica Arena on their first date, buying a seat in the front row where you could see the sweat and blood. This was before wrestling was televised.

(Back to Sources)

James McManus Poker: Play It Close to the Muzzle and Paws on the Table, The New York Times, 3 December 2005, B23, 2005, 2005b

"Cassius Marcellus Coolidge . . . born 1844 . . .

". . . received no formal art education, yet was placing sketches in his local newspaper by the time he was 20. He went on to become an accomplished cartoonist while pursuing a variety of careers in banking, education and journalism. He is also credited with inventing what he called Comic Foregrounds, placards of headless musclemen and bathing beauties that tourists could stick their own faces through to be photographed.

"Between 1906 and his death in 1934, Coolidge produced 16 pictures of dogs playing poker for the Brown & Bigelow company, a purveyor of calendars. . . ."

(Back to Sources)

Walter Mosley Cinnamon Kiss, Warner Books: NY, 2005. 313pp., 2005b,1966

"I parked my low-rider car across the street from an innocuous-looking place on Ozone, less than a block away from the Santa Monica beach. It was a little after seven and there was some activity on the street. There were men in suits and old women with dogs on leashes, bicyclers showing off their calves in shorts, and bums shaking the sand from their clothes. Almost everyone was white but they didn't seem to mind me sitting there. They didn't call for the police." p. 277

(Back to Sources)

Alyssa Navapanich* Emile Pourroy*, Dalila Pourroy*, and the McGinley* Estate, Oceanpark.ws, 2005, 2005b, 1941, 1919

"My Great grandparents worked for the McGinley*s and lived on the estate until my Great Grandfather died in 1941. My understanding is that [Walter McGinley*] purchased land from "Lucky" Baldwin's relatives [near Montebello], struck oil and became very wealthy. My Grandmother told stories of getting a spoonful of brown sugar from the kitchen during the depression. My Great Grandfather was the grounds keeper for the McGinleys and planted most of the trees that are still there at Joslyn Park. His name was Emile Pourroy*. My Great Grandmother worked in the house and cooked making fancy cakes, preserves and such. Her name was Dalila Pourroy*. My mother remembers the McGinley* Estate as all of my family has called it with fond memories. My Grandfather, Karl Rydgren*, still lives in Santa Monica on Fifth street in a colonial that was built by Haas-Baruch of Iris Foods. He has been living in Santa Monica since 1919 and can tell amazing stories about his life. My grandfather remembers everything including addresses of places that have been torn down. He is a treasure trove of Santa Monica trivia. Make sure you ask him about his house. It is the only house to go up the California Incline...."

See Karl Rydgren* (1914- ) I Remember, Unpublished Ms., 1975 [Reprinted 2005], 2000, 1942, 1936, 1934, 1933, 1932, 1930, 1930s, 1929, 1924, 1920s, 1919, 1914, 1908, 1906,

[Karl and Alice Rydgren raised a family of three, Alice, Jon and Dennis M., and have many grandchildren. Karl and Alice went to Santa Monica High, and their daughter, Alice, went to St. Clements. In a conversation in 2005, he spoke of wife's interest in collecting dolls and hand-painted plates, some of which had been painted by Mrs. McGinly herself. He also recalled that Mr. McGinley had worked for Mrs. "Lucky" Baldwin as her secretary but that he had had some sort of concession on either the Venice Pier or the Ocean Park Pier and had known a lot of circus people, many of whom came to visit his estate in Ocean Park. Other visitors included Alaskan Governor John Strong and Jack Dempsey. Rumor had it that McGinley had lost $25,000 dollars betting on one of Dempsey's fights. His house he recalls was moved to the site of an old town dump from the Gold Coast up the California Incline. Mr. Rydgren also mentioned St. Catherine's Hospital, on 4th and Bicknell, which later became a Rest Home before it was closed down and apartments built.]

Hello Mr. Roberts!

"I hope this finds you well. My grandfather and I put together a letter with photos for the landmark commission for his home on Fifth Street. He is very excited. I guess the Landmark Commission was to meet sometime this month. He really wanted one of the family members to buy and live in the house after he is gone but since that is impractical, he just would like for it to not be torn down.

"I finally did get a chance to look at the names and spellings on the story you put on your webpage from my grandfather. Here are the corrections I found:

"Karl Bertil Rydgren's parents were: Eric Arthur Rydgren and Clara Eureka (Carlson) Rydgren. Clara and Eric had 5 children: Clara who died in 1919 just after arriving in Santa Monica of diphtheria. Torsten (nicknamed Todd), Karl, Eric and Clarence.

"Karl and Alice Rydgren both graduated from Santa Monica High School and had 3 children: Alice, Jon and Dennis. (Alice and her brothers went to Saint Monica's Catholic School).

"Just a note, St. Clements is the church that my Great Grandparents: Emile and Dalila Pourroy, my Grandparents Karl and Alice Rydgren and my Parents: Ron and Alice Converse were all married and I was baptized there-of course so were all of my mother's relatives before me. I guess since 1914 (when my great-grandparents got married) that church saw a lot of Pourroys and Rydgrens through the years!

"Thank you so much for being such an inspiration to our family and for guiding us to the Landmark Commission. I hope that my grandfather's dream of his house living on long after he is gone will come true.

Thanks so much,

Alyssa Navapanich

(Back to Source)

New Neighborhood group takes new direction, Santa Monica Daily Press, 30 September 2005, p. 3 2005b
"The Ocean Park Association, Santa Monica's newest neighborhood group, will hold it first annual meeting on Oct. 1 with a board of director's election and a short presentation on the history of the neighborhood by local historian and author Paula Scott.
"Fifteen residents are running for the board of the 1-year-old Ocean Park neighborhood group in the election to held in conjunction with the general membership meeting at Joslyn Park's community center, on Saturday, Oct. 1 at 2 p.m.
"Ocean Park residents and the public are encouraged to attend. Residents may become members online at www.opa-sm.org or at the meeting and be eligible to vote in the election.
"Scott, author of the recently-released Santa Monica: A History on the Edge Arcadia Press: San Francisco, 2004, 160pp. will offer a short presentation on Ocean Park history. Refreshments will be served.
"The following Ocean Park residents are on the ballot for the election: Dennis Alard*, Pauline Bohannon*, Joel Brand*, Kristina Deutsch*, Dana Ehrlich*, Arlene Hopkins*, Mary Hubbell*, Jeffrey Jarow*, Susan Lewis*, Jan Ludwinski*, Lori Nafshun*, Jacob Samuel*, Bob Taylor*, Julie Weiss*, and Ted Winterer*,"

(Back to Sources)

Jack Peters Chess: Pros find team concept a winner, Los Angeles Times, 2 October 2, 2005, p. E48, 2005b
" . . .
"Local news: Grandmaster Varuzhan Akobian will give a simultaneous exhibition Oct. 10 at the Santa Monica Bay Chess Club. The club, which meets at 7 p.m. Mondays in Joslyn Park, 633 Kensington Road, Santa Monica, also plans a blitz tournament Monday and a tournament of 45-minute games starting Oct. 17. For full information, call Pete Savino*, at (310) 827-2789 . . ."

(Back to Sources)

2005 Partial Planting Inventory: 2421 Third :

Avocado 2005, 1976; A male and female Brazilian pepper, now four females 2005, 1978; Chinese Goose Berry Vine, 2005, 1990s; Fern, 2005, ?; Fig, 2005, (Cutting from Victor and ; Guava, 1976(d.); Hedge, 2005, 1976; Hibiscus, 2000(d.). 1976; Two Jacarandas, 2005, 1977; Jade Plant Bush, 2005, 1976; Lemon, 1980 (d.), 1976; Mock Orange, 2005, 1990s (Gift of Joe ?); Nasturtiums, 2005, 1976; Night-Blooming Jasmine, 2005, 1990s; Peach tree, 2000(d.), 1976; Four (one d.) Peach Trees from Original Peach Tree Pits, 2005, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s; Poinsettia, 2004 (d., 1976 (d);Two Prickly Pears, 2005, 1990s; Rosemary, 2005, 2000; Two Roses (one d.) 2005, 1980s (Gift of Betty and Jim Burns); Silver Dollar Tree (Eucaplytus cineria), 2005, 1985 ((Gift of Roger Genser and Katya Williamson)); Wild Anise, 2005, ?; Two unidentified trees and many unidentified cacti, flowers, succulents, palms, herbs, flowers, forage, roots and weeds, 2005, 1976

(Back to Sources)