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"content": "\u003cp>Forty years ago Berkeley writer Ernest Callenbach self-published \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotopia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Ecotopia\u003c/em>,\u003c/a> a book about sex drugs, and sustainability, a kind of ecological hippie novel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callenbach imagined a future in which Northern California, Oregon, and Washington violently secede from the US to form a new country where cars are mostly banned in favor of bicycles, buses and trains, and everyone recycles.\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-11062036\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Ecotopia-Bantam-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"Ecotopia Bantam Cover\" width=\"213\" height=\"350\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ecotopia\u003c/em> has become a cult classic, selling nearly a million copies in nine languages, and this past weekend \u003ca href=\"http://eight.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/utopian-dreaming-conference.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Santa Cruz hosted a conference \u003c/a>on the book (and on the University’s own 50th anniversary).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callenbach was a Berkeley resident and an editor UC Press. But he grew up on a chicken farm in Pennsylvania where if anything broke, it got fixed or recycled. And he was both entranced by the radical lifestyles of Berkeley in the 1970’s, and appalled at the waste in the booming consumer economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is how \u003cem>Ecotopia\u003c/em> began. As a garbage problem,” recalls Malcolm Margolin, Callenbach’s friend and the publisher at Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://heydaybooks.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heyday Press\u003c/a>, which recently issued a \u003ca href=\"https://heydaybooks.com/book/ecotopia/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">40th anniversary edition of the book.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/231924340″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And out of that pragmatic technical concern, grew this whole book of other practices,” Margolin added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sustainability\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The novel is made of columns and diary entries from New York City reporter Will Weston, the first American to enter \u003cem>Ecotopia\u003c/em> after it seceded and closed its borders with the US.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weston is slowly seduced by the country’s sustainable ethic and a woman he meets there. It’s hoaky, and more tract than novel. But as a report on an experiment in urban sustainability, \u003cem>Ecotopia\u003c/em> is often quite prophetic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weston depicts San Francisco’s Market Street as a pedestrian mall studded with parklets (\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Turns-onto-Market-Street-by-private-cars-barred-6434413.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not so different from the Market Street of today\u003c/a>), where bike sharing is common. Even the Los Angeles City Council recently approved \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mobility-plan-20150811-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major improvements to the city’s bike lanes\u003c/a>. People belong to \u003ca href=\"http://www.localharvest.org/csa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CSA’\u003c/a>s and make a fetish of eating locally grown foods. And they recycle everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11062037\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Sandpipers-on-an-East-Bay-Wetland-001-e1447060428173.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11062037\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Sandpipers-on-an-East-Bay-Wetland-001-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"Sandpipers on an East Bay Wetland\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandpipers on an East Bay Wetland \u003ccite>(Photo: Cy Musiker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Which sounds familiar to anyone in a state where garbage trucks pick up \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenwaste.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/RecycleGuide_SantaCruzCounty_Residential_July2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three bins: one for recycling, one for green waste, and one for landfill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the beginning of recycling,” Margolin said of the mid-1970’s, “which you don’t feel now because it’s become an ordinary thing. But back then it was a wonderment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book also depicts a \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_18927046\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rejuvenated San Francisco Bay,\u003c/a> a leap of faith in 1975, when cities and factories were just beginning to treat their sewerage and runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And people from that time — I was there — remember when fires were burning here, garbage fires. The bay was continually being encroached on,” said Ken Brower, a writer, board member at Friends of The Earth, and son of the famed environmental activist David Brower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11062038\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Ken-Brower-on-the-shores-of-SF-Bay.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11062038\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Ken-Brower-on-the-shores-of-SF-Bay-1180x821.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Brower at Chavez Park in Berkeley\" width=\"640\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Ken-Brower-on-the-shores-of-SF-Bay-1180x821.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Ken-Brower-on-the-shores-of-SF-Bay-400x278.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Ken-Brower-on-the-shores-of-SF-Bay-800x557.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Ken-Brower-on-the-shores-of-SF-Bay-1920x1336.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Ken-Brower-on-the-shores-of-SF-Bay-960x668.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Brower at Chavez Park in Berkeley \u003ccite>(Cy Musiker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The former dump is now one of Brower’s favorite spots for bird watching, And there are\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_29008935/san-francisco-bay:-bird-populations-doubled-since-2003-in-vast-salt-pond-restoration-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> new efforts to reclaim bay salt ponds for birds and fish.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Still a Possibility?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Callenbach’s \u003cem>Ecotopia\u003c/em>, high speed trains link cities at 225 miles-an-hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That idea is still in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.hsr.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planning stages in California\u003c/a>, but I rode an on time Amtrak train, up to Davis to talk to Science Fiction writer \u003ca href=\"http://kimstanleyrobinson.info/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kim Stanley Robinson\u003c/a>, who spoke at the UC Santa Cruz conference. Robinson has crafted his own fictional ecotopias, most notably in Pacific Edge, set in Orange County in 2065.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11062041\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 783px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Whole-Earth-Catalog-e1446850105619.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11062041\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Whole-Earth-Catalog-e1446850105619.gif\" alt=\"Whole Earth Catalog\" width=\"783\" height=\"816\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whole Earth Catalog\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said \u003cem>Ecotopia\u003c/em> was part of a wave of Utopian writing in the 70’s, along with books like \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Small-Is-Beautiful-Economics-Mattered/dp/0060916303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EF Schumacher’s S\u003cem>mall is Beautiful\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and Stewart Brand’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.wholeearth.com/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>The Whole Earth Catalog\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially the hippies of the 60’s were growing up,” Robinson said over coffee, “they were having kids, getting jobs. And the question became how do we live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Robinson thinks boomer optimism has soured into millennial pessimism when it comes to climate change and the economy, as evidenced by the dystopian fictions of today, like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.suzannecollinsbooks.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hunger Games\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now young people are feeling scared and pessimistic about their future prospects,” said Robinson. “And this is like a giant warning signal that society is going wrong and we have to pay attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11062040\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Kim-Stanley-Robinson-e1446849873306.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11062040\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Kim-Stanley-Robinson-e1446849873306-1180x1010.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Stanley Robinson\" width=\"640\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Kim-Stanley-Robinson-e1446849873306-1180x1010.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Kim-Stanley-Robinson-e1446849873306-400x343.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Kim-Stanley-Robinson-e1446849873306-701x600.jpg 701w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Kim-Stanley-Robinson-e1446849873306-960x822.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Kim-Stanley-Robinson-e1446849873306.jpg 1357w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Stanley Robinson \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Kim Stanley Robinson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The book seems hopelessly romantic in its vision of an equitable worker-owned economy, and Ecotopia’s ban on cars seems an impossible dream for anyone stuck in the traffic gridlock common on California roads north and south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Not a Perfect World\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associate Professor of Sociology \u003ca href=\"http://sociology.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=miriam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miriam Greenberg\u003c/a> assigns \u003cem>Ecotopia\u003c/em> for a class she teaches UC Santa Cruz, and helped conceive the conference this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She notes \u003cem>Ecotopia\u003c/em>’s vision of a perfect world has some serious blind spots on race and gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black people in Ecotopia are not only segregated in (what Callenbach calls) Soul City,” Greenberg said, “they choose to self-segregate themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Greenberg says the book offends many of women students with its depiction of gender roles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a world where women seem constantly available for men’s pleasure,” Greenberg said, “and this is conveniently because women are depicted as sexually uninhibited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even some of the book’s sharpest critics say, don’t judge Callenbach by his biases, or by how much of \u003cem>Ecotopia\u003c/em> came true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publisher Malcolm Margolin said that \u003cem>Ecotopia\u003c/em> is worth re-reading because it gave the world a hopeful vision of the future, one still worth striving for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what we have to keep alive in the human imagination is this sense the world can be a better place.” Margolin said. “There’s this marvelous line in \u003cem>Ecotopia\u003c/em>, where someone says, ‘we don’t strive to be perfect. 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Robinson has crafted his own fictional ecotopias, most notably in Pacific Edge, set in Orange County in 2065.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11062041\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 783px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Whole-Earth-Catalog-e1446850105619.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11062041\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Whole-Earth-Catalog-e1446850105619.gif\" alt=\"Whole Earth Catalog\" width=\"783\" height=\"816\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whole Earth Catalog\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said \u003cem>Ecotopia\u003c/em> was part of a wave of Utopian writing in the 70’s, along with books like \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Small-Is-Beautiful-Economics-Mattered/dp/0060916303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EF Schumacher’s S\u003cem>mall is Beautiful\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and Stewart Brand’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.wholeearth.com/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>The Whole Earth Catalog\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially the hippies of the 60’s were growing up,” Robinson said over coffee, “they were having kids, getting jobs. 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The activity is easy to learn, great exercise and provides powerful camaraderie. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So powerful, in fact, that many cancer survivors are picking up paddles.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11041619\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9208.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11041619 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9208-800x157.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_9208\" width=\"800\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9208-800x157.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9208-400x79.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9208-1180x232.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9208-1920x378.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9208-960x189.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Live, Love, Survive is a Dragon Boat team composed of cancer survivors and their caregivers (Photo: Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our last race was super! It was the best of the season! I was so proud of so many people in the boat” says Cathy Freese, co-captain of Live, Love, Survive — a team of cancer survivors and their caregivers based in Foster City. Many of the women are breast cancer survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/232438170″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freese and her fellow rowers were among the more than 40,000 people present at this year’s Dragon Boat Festival on Treasure Island. The annual event presents a colorful scene: People circle up in life vests to stretch. There’s a lot of laughter and a lot of temporary tattoos. Out on the water, drummers keep time for the athletes. Vibrantly painted dragon heads adorn the front of each vessel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11041622\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9218-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11041622 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9218-1-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_9218 (1)\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9218-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9218-1-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9218-1-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9218-1-1920x1277.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9218-1-960x638.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cathy Freese is co-captain of Live, Love, Survive. 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But dragon boating does provide a space for shared experience. “The support we get, just when we’re out on the boat talking and somebody says something about ‘oh how are you doing on your tamoxifen’, or whatever we’re going through,” Freese says. “Whether it be the side effects of chemo five years later or last week.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some people at the event say fighting cancer can be an isolating experience, so joining a team like this gives them an opportunity to find friends with a common story. It’s also an easy sport to learn. Festival organizers say you can learn the basics in under an hour.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11041620\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9091.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11041620 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9091-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_9091\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9091-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9091-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9091-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9091-1920x1277.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9091-960x638.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young lion dancers watch dragon dancers perform at the Treasure Island Dragon Boat Festival (Photo: Jessica Placzek: KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think it’s a wonderful opportunity for people who feel isolated that they come out and practice with us,” says Live, Love, Survive coach Akim Karger. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The sport requires teammates to paddle in unison, which means there are no individual stars. 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I am definitely reborn.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Robinson says she went from identifying as a patient to an athlete. Now she can even compete alongside her kids.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11041621\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9216.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11041621 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9216-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_9216\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9216-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9216-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9216-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9216-1920x1277.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/DSC_9216-960x638.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Tong Robinson with her Oyster Point Dragon Teammate, Joe Der. 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"content": "\u003cp>Some days, you wake up and the swirling black hole that is Mother Internet has nothing but bad news for you: Natural disasters, gun violence, \u003ca href=\"http://www.eonline.com/news/713073/blake-shelton-and-gwen-stefani-are-dating\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirmation of the unholy sexual union between Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some days, presidential hopeful Ben Carson's campaign team releases a minute-long rap song about Ben Carson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/231659314&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\">\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/abcpolitics\" title=\"ABC Politics\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC Politics\u003c/a> · \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/abcpolitics/ben-carson-radio-ad\" title=\"Ben Carson Radio Ad\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Carson Radio Ad\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/listen-ben-carsons-rap-ad-aimed-african-american/story?id=34988082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to ABC News\u003c/a>, the Carson campaign spent $150,000 for the ditty -- which is called \"Freedom\" -- to air as a radio ad for two weeks on \"urban\" stations in Miami; Atlanta; Houston; Detroit; Memphis; Birmingham, Alabama; Jackson, Mississippi; and Little Rock, Arkansas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rapper urging young hip-hop radio listeners to \"vote\" (and, upsettingly, to rhyme \"Carson\" with \"awesome\") over a flute riff and in between clips of Carson's stump speech is a guy by the name of\u003ca href=\"http://aspiringmogul.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Aspiring Mogul.\u003c/a> The MC's website indicates that he's a youth minister and young black Republican, as well as an \"original unique force within the GOP, one whom God has gifted on multiple levels of communication and political leadership.\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ASPIRINGMOGUL1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">His hometown is #INTERNATIONAL. \u003c/a>But nevermind Aspiring Mogul. Aspiring Mogul: This is not your fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Setting aside the hilarity specific to this situation -- \"I know, let's take a candidate whose predominant idiosyncrasy is that his speaking style \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/video/2015/10/ben_carson_is_calm_at_gop_debates_he_also_closes_his_eyes_when_he_speaks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seems like he might be falling asleep \u003c/a>and \u003cem>use his speech to make a rap song\"\u003c/em> -- this is really just the latest in a long line of politicians who are neither hip nor young attempting to pander to hip young #Millennial voters and instead mainly succeeding in making us all want to stuff cotton in our ears and hide beneath our desks for the rest of the day in embarrassment. And under that vast umbrella of pandering: \u003cem>Mega\u003c/em>-pandering to young minority voters via allusions to and/or attempted uses of hip-hop that most likely made Tupac roll over in his grave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's take a stroll down memory lane, shall we?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our first stop is an inexplicable rap song about Newt Gingrich that played during a Gingrich campaign stop in Florida over the course of his 2012 presidential run. (And henceforth, everyone thought of Newt Gingrich as a super-cool, urban -- wait, nevermind.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sample lyric: \"N to the E to the WT/Newt Gingrich taking over these streets/Is you ready for it yet?/I don't think so, where you at?\u003cbr>\nObama 'bout to step out the White House/Gingrich gonna get in the White House/He gon' have his wife, his spouse/Yeah, you know without a doubt.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKeKY8B0scg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's former Bush II Advisor Karl Rove, transforming into \"MC Rove\" at the 2007 Radio and Television Correspondents' Association Dinner. Dare you to make it through the whole video!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5RD9BhcCo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's Mitt Romney referencing a then-12-year-old novelty rap song on a campaign stop in 2012 for no apparent reason (other than that he's meeting young black people?).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDwwAaVmnf4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hillary is no stranger to young people-pandering, of course -- especially in this election cycle, which finds her on a desperate quest to prove that\u003ca href=\"http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/i-am-fun-51731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> she's not literally made out of wood\u003c/a>. Thus far her tactics include associations with hip young persons \u003ca href=\"https://instagram.com/p/9PO1JrEPjI/?taken-by=hillaryclinton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Katy Perry\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/hillary-clinton-lena-dunham-interview-213990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lena Dunham\u003c/a>. And yet: this \"whip/nae nae\" attempt from \u003cem>Ellen\u003c/em> a few weeks ago is the one that really sends us scrambling for cover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppgk9Mj1n88\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back to 2008: If someone hasn't looped John McCain saying \"Thank you, Daddy Yankee\" and used it on their own song yet I will eat my hat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0fbU1VGvS0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And last but certainly not least: This clip of Jeb Bush helping Jimmy Fallon out with a \"Slow Jam the News\" segment isn't technically hip-hop, to be sure -- but it more than makes up for that when it comes to making us want to gouge our eyes out rather than having to look at a politician's meaty, vacant face in the background while Fallon makes sex jokes!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5GMhGpk5jY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what have we learned here today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, President Obama has managed to make hip-hop references and still come off cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzXcNgCr0nk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obama is Obama. \u003ca href=\"http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/11/jay-z-says-he-texts-with-obama/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He is actually friends with Jay Z\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone else? 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And under that vast umbrella of pandering: \u003cem>Mega\u003c/em>-pandering to young minority voters via allusions to and/or attempted uses of hip-hop that most likely made Tupac roll over in his grave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's take a stroll down memory lane, shall we?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our first stop is an inexplicable rap song about Newt Gingrich that played during a Gingrich campaign stop in Florida over the course of his 2012 presidential run. 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Thus far her tactics include associations with hip young persons \u003ca href=\"https://instagram.com/p/9PO1JrEPjI/?taken-by=hillaryclinton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Katy Perry\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/hillary-clinton-lena-dunham-interview-213990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lena Dunham\u003c/a>. And yet: this \"whip/nae nae\" attempt from \u003cem>Ellen\u003c/em> a few weeks ago is the one that really sends us scrambling for cover.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ppgk9Mj1n88'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ppgk9Mj1n88'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Back to 2008: If someone hasn't looped John McCain saying \"Thank you, Daddy Yankee\" and used it on their own song yet I will eat my hat.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/F0fbU1VGvS0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/F0fbU1VGvS0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>And last but certainly not least: This clip of Jeb Bush helping Jimmy Fallon out with a \"Slow Jam the News\" segment isn't technically hip-hop, to be sure -- but it more than makes up for that when it comes to making us want to gouge our eyes out rather than having to look at a politician's meaty, vacant face in the background while Fallon makes sex jokes!\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/i5GMhGpk5jY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/i5GMhGpk5jY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>So, what have we learned here today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, President Obama has managed to make hip-hop references and still come off cool.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/kzXcNgCr0nk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/kzXcNgCr0nk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Obama is Obama. \u003ca href=\"http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/11/jay-z-says-he-texts-with-obama/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He is actually friends with Jay Z\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone else? 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"content": "\u003cp>On this year’s ballot, two propositions in San Francisco — Propositions I and F — have come to represent the city’s well-publicized tension between its growing tech-worker population and its long-established artistic class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, a fast-growing tech company has spent over $8 million to stop a proposition that would increase regulations on its services, which data shows have contributed to the city’s housing shortage and mass exodus of longtime residents. In the other, the passage of a proposition would mean that a new 4,000-capacity dance hall would be unable to open for three years, but it would also mean that a small-but-beloved music venue would get to stay open for a good while longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>For more information on these propositions, and other measures on this year’s ballot, see KQED News’ \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/2015-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 2015 Election Guide\u003c/a>)\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proposition I\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Prop. I’s main intent is to institute a moratorium on luxury housing in the city’s Mission District; it would block construction of any new residential buildings with five or more units, possibly for two years. But the proposition would also halt new “business development projects,” including the opening of Drill Court, a larger event space inside Kink.com’s Armory on 14th and Mission. If the proposition passes, Kink.com would be unable to convert the currently part-time space into a full-time music venue, thereby rendering it \u003ca href=\"http://sfist.com/2015/09/29/mission_moratorium_would_kill_plans.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">financially impossible to run\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Prop. I would save the Elbo Room from being turned into a five-story condo development for at least 18 months. When the cherished venue announced that its owners planned to shut down the club, late last year, local residents quickly \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2014/11/21/the-elbo-room-is-far-from-dying-but-theres-still-a-movement-to-save-it/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">came together to block the conversion\u003c/a>. 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Whichever candidate is chosen, he or she will impact the future of the local arts community, be it through funding decisions, housing policies, or other variables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reading the candidates’ websites and finding little to address the future of San Francisco’s arts community, I reached out to them to ask three questions:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>What are the most pressing issues currently facing artists in San Francisco?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If elected, how would you use the position to help local artists?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What else would you like to do for the local arts scene if elected?\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>Below are the unedited answers from those who replied. For those who didn’t reply, we’ve studied up and provided some brief analysis on how they might answer. \u003ci>(For more information on the 2015 election, please see KQED’s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/2015-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 2015 Election Guides\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/MAyor-Ed-LEe-large.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/MAyor-Ed-LEe-large-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"MAyor Ed LEe large\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11053214\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/MAyor-Ed-LEe-large-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/MAyor-Ed-LEe-large-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/MAyor-Ed-LEe-large-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/MAyor-Ed-LEe-large.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/MAyor-Ed-LEe-large-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.mayoredlee.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mayor Ed Lee\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the incumbent mayor has proven difficult to reach, a look at Lee’s record speaks volumes about his priorities in the arts. Yes, his pro-tech policies have been blamed for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-tech-mayor-ed-lee-faces-cakewalk-reelection-campaign-2015-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent exodus of longtime San Francisco artists\u003c/a>, but he’s also acted to alleviate financial pressures for artists; in May, Lee’s office announced a plan to invest \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfartscommission.org/2015/05/mayor-lee-announces-7-million-shared-prosperty-package-to-support-arts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$7 million in programs supporting the arts\u003c/a> over the next two years. The “Shared Prosperity for the Arts Package” provides financial support to local arts organizations and $1 million in grants that may be used to rent or purchase artistic spaces — in addition to funding for the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) to research the feasibility of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfstation.com/2015/06/05/sf-commits-7-million-to-support-the-arts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">providing affordable housing to artists\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Artists have played an immeasurable role in shaping San Francisco into the city it is today,” said Lee, after the funding increase was announced. “The arts and culture sector also helps fuel our economy, drawing $1.7 billion in tourism each year. That is why we must act now to keep artists here so that they can continue to contribute to the vitality of our city. This increase in arts funding will help ensure that artists can share in the prosperity of this rapidly growing economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Stuart-Schuffman.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Stuart-Schuffman.jpg\" alt='\"Broke Ass\" Stuart Schuffman' width=\"668\" height=\"445\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11053102\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Stuart-Schuffman.jpg 668w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Stuart-Schuffman-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://brokeassmayor.nationbuilder.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>“Broke Ass” Stuart Schuffman\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951034/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Former TV show host \u003c/a>turned Bay Area blogger/character, “Broke Ass” Stuart Schuffman is a tireless self-promotion machine who jumped into the mayoral race “because the world needs San Francisco to be the haven for people who don’t fit in anywhere else.” He’s also said that he’s running as a “\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/2015/10/19/endorsements-2015?page=0,3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">journalistic experiment\u003c/a>,” yet his tenacious campaigning exudes a seemingly genuine desire to help the city. Here are his answers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are the most pressing issues currently facing artists in San Francisco?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most pressing thing for artists in SF is the lack of affordable housing and workspace. So many people I know have been evicted, or displaced in other ways, and what was once a thriving and pulsating art scene has been dealt a massive blow. It’s been heartbreaking to see so many of our best and brightest have to leave the city and go to Oakland, Portland, LA or somewhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If elected, how would you use the position to help local artists?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d like the city to invest in more housing and workspace and figure out ways to protect the little that we already have. I’d also like to see \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mspsegal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">P Segal\u003c/a>’s \u003ca href=\"https://sanfranciscoarthouses.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Art House Project\u003c/a> take flight. The idea for it is: we have so many tech incubators, why don’t we have any art incubators? The Art House Project would be one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What else would you like to do for the local arts scene if elected?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d love to put more of the city’s arts funding towards public art projects. It’s great that it currently goes to supporting such things as the opera and the symphony, but I’d love to be able to create more art grants that help local artists get to create art that lives in our glorious city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Any-Farah-Weiss.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Any-Farah-Weiss.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Farah Weiss\" width=\"668\" height=\"445\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11053103\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Any-Farah-Weiss.jpg 668w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Any-Farah-Weiss-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thinktwicevoteweiss.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Amy Farah Weiss\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy Farah Weiss made a name for herself when she led the charge against the construction of a \u003ca href=\"http://hoodline.com/2011/10/occupy401divis-movement-planning-boycott-of-chase-bank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chase Bank on Oak and Divisadero streets\u003c/a> — favored by Lee’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development — which displaced two small, independently-owned businesses. With decades of experience in the nonprofit sector, she is outwardly passionate about helping the little guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are the most pressing issues currently facing artists in San Francisco?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Arts Element of the San Francisco General Plan, our city has a goal to recognize the arts as necessary to the quality of life for all segments of San Francisco. However, the culture makers, arts organizations, and cultural venues that contribute to the unique city-wide and neighborhood character of San Francisco have been experiencing rapid displacement due to the economic and development policies instated by the Lee administration after the global financial collapse. For instance, public utilities of culture such as the Elbo Room, the Hemlock Tavern, and CELLspace/InnerMission have all been threatened with displacement for new development projects over the past year, and displacement of our neighbors and cultural contributors (including artists) through evictions has skyrocketed since Lee took office in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If elected, how would you use the position to help local artists?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last 11 months of my mayoral campaign I have engaged in grassroots efforts to protect at-risk artist studios and cultural venues (such as Inner Mission/CELLspace at 2050 Bryant and the Redlick Building at Mission and 17th) and participated in the call for increased funding for artists who support neighborhood cultural enrichment through Arts for a Better Bay Area (ABBA). I will continue taking a stand to protect cultural venues and arts organizations and will also work with city-wide arts and culture organizations and artists to develop and implement new programs that employ artists in service to the well-being of our neighborhoods. One of my first acts as Mayor will be to begin a voluntary housing-affordability registry for people who work in the city (including artists) and currently pay more than 30% of their income for rent. This registry will ultimately be used in order to connect low- to mid-income workers with affordable housing opportunities (some of which will be developed through my plan to support the financing, design, and construction of additional dwelling units within thousands of parcels already identified by the Planning Department).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What else would you like to do for the local arts scene if elected?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighbors Developing Divisadero (the community-based organization I founded in support of inclusive, culturally-enriching, and sustainable development in 2011) has been fiscally sponsored by Intersection for the Arts’ Incubator Program for over a year now. I will work towards enhancing programs such as Intersection’s incubator services that provide much-needed funding and management support to both established and emerging artists. My “transitional eco-village” policy solution for providing interim housing and additional services for thousands of our homeless neighbors will re-activate and beautify over 100 underutilized and blighted city properties (as indexed by Cal Berkeley professor Nicholas de Monchaux’s Local Code project) and provide employment for mental health/public health workers, permaculture workers, local artists, manufacturers, and the Burning Man community (headquartered in SF) in support of well-being, space-making and off-grid technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Reed-MArtin.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Reed-MArtin.jpg\" alt=\"Reed Martin\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11053100\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Reed-MArtin.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Reed-MArtin-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://mayorgrandsf.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Reed Martin\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed Martin is a designer and tech sector employee with a significant amount of local political experience. An avowed independent, he’s worked on several local political campaigns (last year’s Props A and B) and served on the the San Francisco Transit Riders board. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are the most pressing issues currently facing artists in San Francisco?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, affordability and lack of space are the biggest issues facing artists in San Francisco. As we’ve seen real-estate costs skyrocket, it becomes too expensive to live in San Francisco and to house spaces that support the arts. In the last few years alone, we’ve seen a number of studio spaces get priced out of the Mission and live/work spaces get converted to offices or condos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If elected, how would you use the position to help local artists?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco General Plan lays out a great framework for commitment to the arts, but it hasn’t been meaningfully updated in decades. There are a few policies we should enact immediately to protect affordability for artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, we need a comprehensive purchasing program from the city to purchase and maintain art space, managed by the Arts Commission. My plan calls for initially setting aside up to $250 million for these purchases. In addition to strengthening zoning laws on existing art spaces, the city would require first right of refusal on any property currently zoned for art activities, as well as on a number of properties that are identified as potential future space. Any time these properties change hands, the city would have the option to purchase the property before being made available to third parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, we need to simplify applications for affordable housing and Below-Market Rate units for artists. One critical concern today is that these applications require income reporting and forecasting, something that artists frequently find difficult as their income is inconsistent throughout the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third, we need to work strongly with the large number of tech companies in the Bay Area to help ensure a commitment to the arts. National art foundations and endowments have been decreasing funding across the country; we simply cannot rely on national funds to provide adequate support to local artists. As we’ve seen with a number of collaborations, from sponsorship of the Bay Lights project to tech/art space like Code & Canvas, there is great opportunity to leverage the tech industry’s creative side to ensure a commitment to the arts in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What else would you like to do for the local arts scene if elected?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celebrating the arts in San Francisco goes beyond affordability, letting San Franciscans of all walks of life embrace and gain exposure to our vibrant art scene. From music to literature to painting to media arts, San Francisco can celebrate the power of art in our city in our public space. That means actively encouraging and supporting art in our neighborhoods and on our streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my visions is to create a San Francisco “Nuit Blanche,” an all-night arts festival happening in cities around the world. Traditional museums, public art galleries, and cultural institutions would stay open all night free of charge. Designated spots around San Francisco from the Embarcadero to Golden Gate’s Music Concourse would be closed off and turned into public art space for galleries, performances, and cultural celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Francsico-Herrera.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Francsico-Herrera.jpg\" alt=\"Francsico Herrera\" width=\"668\" height=\"445\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11053101\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Francsico-Herrera.jpg 668w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Francsico-Herrera-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplescampaign.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Francisco Herrera\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A longtime local activist who co-founded the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfdaylabor.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Day Labor Program,\u003c/a> Francisco Herrera has yet to answer our questions, despite repeated requests. But being a musician who has his own \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-CCtN7ScMc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campaign theme song\u003c/a>, and who even sang a capella at a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/12/guide-to-s-f-mayoral-candidates-lee-vs-people-powered-challengers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forum organized by the San Francisco League of Women Voters\u003c/a>, we have a feeling that the needs of local artists are on his mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/KEnt-Graham.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/KEnt-Graham.jpg\" alt=\"Kent Graham\" width=\"668\" height=\"445\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11053099\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/KEnt-Graham.jpg 668w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/KEnt-Graham-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kentgraham4mayor.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kent Graham\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candidate Kent Graham is a \u003ca href=\"http://goo.gl/voFh0a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retired hospital administrator\u003c/a> with 35 years of business management experience who says he’s running because he feels that “San Francisco deserves a manager running the show and not a politician.” After repeated requests for input, and after hours of scouring online for any of his opinions on San Francisco’s arts scene, we have come up empty-handed. If he does get back to us, we will post his responses here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Check back to this story for updates.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Tuesday, San Francisco voters will take to the polls to decide if Mayor Ed Lee continues to represent their interests. Among those voters are the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/09/16/survey-confirms-market-forces-pushing-artists-out-of-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dwindling number of artists\u003c/a> who live in the city. Whichever candidate is chosen, he or she will impact the future of the local arts community, be it through funding decisions, housing policies, or other variables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reading the candidates’ websites and finding little to address the future of San Francisco’s arts community, I reached out to them to ask three questions:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>What are the most pressing issues currently facing artists in San Francisco?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If elected, how would you use the position to help local artists?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What else would you like to do for the local arts scene if elected?\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>Below are the unedited answers from those who replied. For those who didn’t reply, we’ve studied up and provided some brief analysis on how they might answer. \u003ci>(For more information on the 2015 election, please see KQED’s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/2015-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 2015 Election Guides\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/MAyor-Ed-LEe-large.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/MAyor-Ed-LEe-large-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"MAyor Ed LEe large\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11053214\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/MAyor-Ed-LEe-large-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/MAyor-Ed-LEe-large-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/MAyor-Ed-LEe-large-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/MAyor-Ed-LEe-large.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/MAyor-Ed-LEe-large-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.mayoredlee.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mayor Ed Lee\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the incumbent mayor has proven difficult to reach, a look at Lee’s record speaks volumes about his priorities in the arts. Yes, his pro-tech policies have been blamed for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-tech-mayor-ed-lee-faces-cakewalk-reelection-campaign-2015-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent exodus of longtime San Francisco artists\u003c/a>, but he’s also acted to alleviate financial pressures for artists; in May, Lee’s office announced a plan to invest \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfartscommission.org/2015/05/mayor-lee-announces-7-million-shared-prosperty-package-to-support-arts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$7 million in programs supporting the arts\u003c/a> over the next two years. The “Shared Prosperity for the Arts Package” provides financial support to local arts organizations and $1 million in grants that may be used to rent or purchase artistic spaces — in addition to funding for the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) to research the feasibility of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfstation.com/2015/06/05/sf-commits-7-million-to-support-the-arts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">providing affordable housing to artists\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Artists have played an immeasurable role in shaping San Francisco into the city it is today,” said Lee, after the funding increase was announced. “The arts and culture sector also helps fuel our economy, drawing $1.7 billion in tourism each year. That is why we must act now to keep artists here so that they can continue to contribute to the vitality of our city. This increase in arts funding will help ensure that artists can share in the prosperity of this rapidly growing economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Stuart-Schuffman.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Stuart-Schuffman.jpg\" alt='\"Broke Ass\" Stuart Schuffman' width=\"668\" height=\"445\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11053102\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Stuart-Schuffman.jpg 668w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Stuart-Schuffman-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://brokeassmayor.nationbuilder.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>“Broke Ass” Stuart Schuffman\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951034/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Former TV show host \u003c/a>turned Bay Area blogger/character, “Broke Ass” Stuart Schuffman is a tireless self-promotion machine who jumped into the mayoral race “because the world needs San Francisco to be the haven for people who don’t fit in anywhere else.” He’s also said that he’s running as a “\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/2015/10/19/endorsements-2015?page=0,3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">journalistic experiment\u003c/a>,” yet his tenacious campaigning exudes a seemingly genuine desire to help the city. Here are his answers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are the most pressing issues currently facing artists in San Francisco?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most pressing thing for artists in SF is the lack of affordable housing and workspace. So many people I know have been evicted, or displaced in other ways, and what was once a thriving and pulsating art scene has been dealt a massive blow. It’s been heartbreaking to see so many of our best and brightest have to leave the city and go to Oakland, Portland, LA or somewhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If elected, how would you use the position to help local artists?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d like the city to invest in more housing and workspace and figure out ways to protect the little that we already have. I’d also like to see \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mspsegal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">P Segal\u003c/a>’s \u003ca href=\"https://sanfranciscoarthouses.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Art House Project\u003c/a> take flight. The idea for it is: we have so many tech incubators, why don’t we have any art incubators? The Art House Project would be one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What else would you like to do for the local arts scene if elected?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d love to put more of the city’s arts funding towards public art projects. It’s great that it currently goes to supporting such things as the opera and the symphony, but I’d love to be able to create more art grants that help local artists get to create art that lives in our glorious city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Any-Farah-Weiss.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Any-Farah-Weiss.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Farah Weiss\" width=\"668\" height=\"445\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11053103\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Any-Farah-Weiss.jpg 668w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Any-Farah-Weiss-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thinktwicevoteweiss.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Amy Farah Weiss\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy Farah Weiss made a name for herself when she led the charge against the construction of a \u003ca href=\"http://hoodline.com/2011/10/occupy401divis-movement-planning-boycott-of-chase-bank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chase Bank on Oak and Divisadero streets\u003c/a> — favored by Lee’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development — which displaced two small, independently-owned businesses. With decades of experience in the nonprofit sector, she is outwardly passionate about helping the little guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are the most pressing issues currently facing artists in San Francisco?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Arts Element of the San Francisco General Plan, our city has a goal to recognize the arts as necessary to the quality of life for all segments of San Francisco. However, the culture makers, arts organizations, and cultural venues that contribute to the unique city-wide and neighborhood character of San Francisco have been experiencing rapid displacement due to the economic and development policies instated by the Lee administration after the global financial collapse. For instance, public utilities of culture such as the Elbo Room, the Hemlock Tavern, and CELLspace/InnerMission have all been threatened with displacement for new development projects over the past year, and displacement of our neighbors and cultural contributors (including artists) through evictions has skyrocketed since Lee took office in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If elected, how would you use the position to help local artists?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last 11 months of my mayoral campaign I have engaged in grassroots efforts to protect at-risk artist studios and cultural venues (such as Inner Mission/CELLspace at 2050 Bryant and the Redlick Building at Mission and 17th) and participated in the call for increased funding for artists who support neighborhood cultural enrichment through Arts for a Better Bay Area (ABBA). I will continue taking a stand to protect cultural venues and arts organizations and will also work with city-wide arts and culture organizations and artists to develop and implement new programs that employ artists in service to the well-being of our neighborhoods. One of my first acts as Mayor will be to begin a voluntary housing-affordability registry for people who work in the city (including artists) and currently pay more than 30% of their income for rent. This registry will ultimately be used in order to connect low- to mid-income workers with affordable housing opportunities (some of which will be developed through my plan to support the financing, design, and construction of additional dwelling units within thousands of parcels already identified by the Planning Department).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What else would you like to do for the local arts scene if elected?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighbors Developing Divisadero (the community-based organization I founded in support of inclusive, culturally-enriching, and sustainable development in 2011) has been fiscally sponsored by Intersection for the Arts’ Incubator Program for over a year now. I will work towards enhancing programs such as Intersection’s incubator services that provide much-needed funding and management support to both established and emerging artists. My “transitional eco-village” policy solution for providing interim housing and additional services for thousands of our homeless neighbors will re-activate and beautify over 100 underutilized and blighted city properties (as indexed by Cal Berkeley professor Nicholas de Monchaux’s Local Code project) and provide employment for mental health/public health workers, permaculture workers, local artists, manufacturers, and the Burning Man community (headquartered in SF) in support of well-being, space-making and off-grid technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Reed-MArtin.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Reed-MArtin.jpg\" alt=\"Reed Martin\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11053100\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Reed-MArtin.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Reed-MArtin-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://mayorgrandsf.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Reed Martin\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed Martin is a designer and tech sector employee with a significant amount of local political experience. An avowed independent, he’s worked on several local political campaigns (last year’s Props A and B) and served on the the San Francisco Transit Riders board. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are the most pressing issues currently facing artists in San Francisco?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, affordability and lack of space are the biggest issues facing artists in San Francisco. As we’ve seen real-estate costs skyrocket, it becomes too expensive to live in San Francisco and to house spaces that support the arts. In the last few years alone, we’ve seen a number of studio spaces get priced out of the Mission and live/work spaces get converted to offices or condos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If elected, how would you use the position to help local artists?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco General Plan lays out a great framework for commitment to the arts, but it hasn’t been meaningfully updated in decades. There are a few policies we should enact immediately to protect affordability for artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, we need a comprehensive purchasing program from the city to purchase and maintain art space, managed by the Arts Commission. My plan calls for initially setting aside up to $250 million for these purchases. In addition to strengthening zoning laws on existing art spaces, the city would require first right of refusal on any property currently zoned for art activities, as well as on a number of properties that are identified as potential future space. Any time these properties change hands, the city would have the option to purchase the property before being made available to third parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, we need to simplify applications for affordable housing and Below-Market Rate units for artists. One critical concern today is that these applications require income reporting and forecasting, something that artists frequently find difficult as their income is inconsistent throughout the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third, we need to work strongly with the large number of tech companies in the Bay Area to help ensure a commitment to the arts. National art foundations and endowments have been decreasing funding across the country; we simply cannot rely on national funds to provide adequate support to local artists. As we’ve seen with a number of collaborations, from sponsorship of the Bay Lights project to tech/art space like Code & Canvas, there is great opportunity to leverage the tech industry’s creative side to ensure a commitment to the arts in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What else would you like to do for the local arts scene if elected?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celebrating the arts in San Francisco goes beyond affordability, letting San Franciscans of all walks of life embrace and gain exposure to our vibrant art scene. From music to literature to painting to media arts, San Francisco can celebrate the power of art in our city in our public space. That means actively encouraging and supporting art in our neighborhoods and on our streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my visions is to create a San Francisco “Nuit Blanche,” an all-night arts festival happening in cities around the world. Traditional museums, public art galleries, and cultural institutions would stay open all night free of charge. Designated spots around San Francisco from the Embarcadero to Golden Gate’s Music Concourse would be closed off and turned into public art space for galleries, performances, and cultural celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Francsico-Herrera.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Francsico-Herrera.jpg\" alt=\"Francsico Herrera\" width=\"668\" height=\"445\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11053101\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Francsico-Herrera.jpg 668w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Francsico-Herrera-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplescampaign.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Francisco Herrera\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A longtime local activist who co-founded the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfdaylabor.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Day Labor Program,\u003c/a> Francisco Herrera has yet to answer our questions, despite repeated requests. But being a musician who has his own \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-CCtN7ScMc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campaign theme song\u003c/a>, and who even sang a capella at a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/12/guide-to-s-f-mayoral-candidates-lee-vs-people-powered-challengers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forum organized by the San Francisco League of Women Voters\u003c/a>, we have a feeling that the needs of local artists are on his mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/KEnt-Graham.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/KEnt-Graham.jpg\" alt=\"Kent Graham\" width=\"668\" height=\"445\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11053099\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/KEnt-Graham.jpg 668w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/KEnt-Graham-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kentgraham4mayor.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kent Graham\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candidate Kent Graham is a \u003ca href=\"http://goo.gl/voFh0a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retired hospital administrator\u003c/a> with 35 years of business management experience who says he’s running because he feels that “San Francisco deserves a manager running the show and not a politician.” After repeated requests for input, and after hours of scouring online for any of his opinions on San Francisco’s arts scene, we have come up empty-handed. If he does get back to us, we will post his responses here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Carmen Gonzalez combs through pictures of her youngest son, Jacob. She picks one that shows him in boxing gear, his gloved fists raised. He looks straight at the camera. In another, he’s more relaxed, with his long, wavy hair reaching down to his shoulders. His arm hangs around his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My son was a very charming, popular kid with girls,” says Gonzalez. “He was funny, and he always had a smiling face. No one could resist him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, when Jacob was 17, he was accidentally killed by a friend who shot him in the back while they sat in a parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230868753\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of waiting for a kid to graduate from high school or drive his own car, we have nothing. He just left. And he left us with an empty heart, because we love him so much,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez felt a deep sense of injustice over her son’s sudden death. She became depressed and angry. That’s when she decided to look for help and came to a grief group at Oakland's La Clinica de la Raza. Participants meet weekly to talk about their emotions and learn different ways to cope. And today, that includes tapping into traditional medicine and art as \u003cem>Dia de los Muertos\u003c/em>, the Mexican celebration of loved ones who have died, approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_100504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17254_IMG_9960.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-100504 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17254_IMG_9960.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Carmen Gonzalez (R) and other members of a grief group at La Clinica de la Raza in Oakland. Gonzalez’s son was accidentally killed two years ago at age 17. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17254_IMG_9960.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17254_IMG_9960.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17254_IMG_9960.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17254_IMG_9960.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17254_IMG_9960.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17254_IMG_9960.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carmen Gonzalez (R) and other members of a grief group at La Clinica de la Raza in Oakland. Gonzalez’s son was accidentally killed two years ago at age 17. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez and her husband first made a nicho -- a small box decorated to honor someone who has died -- in their son's memory for \u003cem>Dia de los Muertos\u003c/em> last year. They decorated it with things Jacob loved, such as green apples, Cheetos, Star Wars figurines and chicken. She says the process of making the nicho brought a lot of tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's hard to think that our kid is not with us anymore,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nicho that Gonzalez is making for her son this year is different. She glues red sequins onto the edge of the box and says she plans on adding a dancing \u003cem>calavera\u003c/em> or skeleton. The pain of losing her son hasn’t subsided, she says, but she feels less anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The one I’m doing now is a little bit like resignation, because I know he is connected. Energy always transforms into something different,” Gonzalez says. “And that’s what I want to believe, that he is still with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone in the group is busily working on tables with fabrics and flowers. They take turns using a glue gun to paste tiny ceramic figurines of tamales and enchiladas onto their boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Perez, 14, has just put the first layer of paint on the nicho for his parents. They died in a car accident when he was just 3 years old. He made a nicho last year with pictures of them and other items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_100505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-100505\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Yolanda Tell shows off a nicho she made for her daughter, as grandson Victor Hugo Perez looks on. Tell’s daugher died in a car accident when Perez was 3 years old. Tell takes care of him and his brother. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yolanda Tell shows off a nicho she made for her daughter, as grandson Victor Hugo Perez looks on. Tell’s daugher died in a car accident when Perez was 3 years old. Tell takes care of him and his brother. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My dad used to have his own workshop so I put cars, tools. And a hummingbird, because every time I used to see a hummingbird, that reminded me of (my mom),” says Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, he says, he kisses the nicho goodnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Psychologist Ricardo Carrillo leads the group, which is part of La Clinica’s \u003cem>Cultura y Bienestar\u003c/em> (Culture and Wellbeing) mental health program. He says that by making this art, people here are rerooting themselves in traditions that offer healthy approaches to life and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_100508\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17250_IMG_9896.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-100508\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17250_IMG_9896.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"A nicho at the Oakland Museum of California made in one of Alicia Diaz’s workshops. \" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17250_IMG_9896.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17250_IMG_9896.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17250_IMG_9896.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17250_IMG_9896.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17250_IMG_9896.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nicho at the Oakland Museum of California made in one of Alicia Diaz’s workshops. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It strengthens our mental health in that we have a place to bring our grief, bring our loss in a celebratory way,” says Carrillo. “We accept the fact that we are going to die. The question is, what do we want to leave and what did our loved ones leave for us? And that’s what we try to celebrate in the artwork that we are doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrillo is also working on a nicho for his sister, who died last year of complications from alcoholism. He paints it with bright pinks and purples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was a really girly girl, but at the same time had the heart of a tough guy,” says Carrillo. “She was a beautiful person, but she suffered her entire life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Art therapist Alicia Diaz started the grief group nearly nine years ago. She recognized the natural fit of making nichos to help this community, and now is setting up an altar with nichos at the Oakland Museum of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_100506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-100506\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Alicia Diaz, an art therapist, decorates an altar with nichos she helped others make at the Oakland Museum of California. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Diaz, an art therapist, decorates an altar with nichos she helped others make at the Oakland Museum of California. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If people can make that connection to the person that's passed away, let that creativity just run from their heart to their hands and create without judgment, it shows,\" she says. \"People love it, and people love to look at them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz didn’t grow up with the tradition -– this hybrid between popular and religious art. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Carmen Gonzalez combs through pictures of her youngest son, Jacob. She picks one that shows him in boxing gear, his gloved fists raised. He looks straight at the camera. In another, he’s more relaxed, with his long, wavy hair reaching down to his shoulders. His arm hangs around his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My son was a very charming, popular kid with girls,” says Gonzalez. “He was funny, and he always had a smiling face. No one could resist him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, when Jacob was 17, he was accidentally killed by a friend who shot him in the back while they sat in a parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230868753&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230868753'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of waiting for a kid to graduate from high school or drive his own car, we have nothing. He just left. And he left us with an empty heart, because we love him so much,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez felt a deep sense of injustice over her son’s sudden death. She became depressed and angry. That’s when she decided to look for help and came to a grief group at Oakland's La Clinica de la Raza. Participants meet weekly to talk about their emotions and learn different ways to cope. And today, that includes tapping into traditional medicine and art as \u003cem>Dia de los Muertos\u003c/em>, the Mexican celebration of loved ones who have died, approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_100504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17254_IMG_9960.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-100504 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17254_IMG_9960.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Carmen Gonzalez (R) and other members of a grief group at La Clinica de la Raza in Oakland. 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Gonzalez’s son was accidentally killed two years ago at age 17. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez and her husband first made a nicho -- a small box decorated to honor someone who has died -- in their son's memory for \u003cem>Dia de los Muertos\u003c/em> last year. They decorated it with things Jacob loved, such as green apples, Cheetos, Star Wars figurines and chicken. She says the process of making the nicho brought a lot of tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's hard to think that our kid is not with us anymore,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nicho that Gonzalez is making for her son this year is different. She glues red sequins onto the edge of the box and says she plans on adding a dancing \u003cem>calavera\u003c/em> or skeleton. The pain of losing her son hasn’t subsided, she says, but she feels less anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The one I’m doing now is a little bit like resignation, because I know he is connected. Energy always transforms into something different,” Gonzalez says. “And that’s what I want to believe, that he is still with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone in the group is busily working on tables with fabrics and flowers. They take turns using a glue gun to paste tiny ceramic figurines of tamales and enchiladas onto their boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Perez, 14, has just put the first layer of paint on the nicho for his parents. They died in a car accident when he was just 3 years old. He made a nicho last year with pictures of them and other items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_100505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-100505\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Yolanda Tell shows off a nicho she made for her daughter, as grandson Victor Hugo Perez looks on. Tell’s daugher died in a car accident when Perez was 3 years old. Tell takes care of him and his brother. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17253_IMG_9948.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yolanda Tell shows off a nicho she made for her daughter, as grandson Victor Hugo Perez looks on. Tell’s daugher died in a car accident when Perez was 3 years old. Tell takes care of him and his brother. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My dad used to have his own workshop so I put cars, tools. And a hummingbird, because every time I used to see a hummingbird, that reminded me of (my mom),” says Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, he says, he kisses the nicho goodnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Psychologist Ricardo Carrillo leads the group, which is part of La Clinica’s \u003cem>Cultura y Bienestar\u003c/em> (Culture and Wellbeing) mental health program. He says that by making this art, people here are rerooting themselves in traditions that offer healthy approaches to life and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_100508\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17250_IMG_9896.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-100508\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17250_IMG_9896.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"A nicho at the Oakland Museum of California made in one of Alicia Diaz’s workshops. \" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17250_IMG_9896.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17250_IMG_9896.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17250_IMG_9896.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17250_IMG_9896.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17250_IMG_9896.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nicho at the Oakland Museum of California made in one of Alicia Diaz’s workshops. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It strengthens our mental health in that we have a place to bring our grief, bring our loss in a celebratory way,” says Carrillo. “We accept the fact that we are going to die. The question is, what do we want to leave and what did our loved ones leave for us? And that’s what we try to celebrate in the artwork that we are doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrillo is also working on a nicho for his sister, who died last year of complications from alcoholism. He paints it with bright pinks and purples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was a really girly girl, but at the same time had the heart of a tough guy,” says Carrillo. “She was a beautiful person, but she suffered her entire life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Art therapist Alicia Diaz started the grief group nearly nine years ago. She recognized the natural fit of making nichos to help this community, and now is setting up an altar with nichos at the Oakland Museum of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_100506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-100506\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Alicia Diaz, an art therapist, decorates an altar with nichos she helped others make at the Oakland Museum of California. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/RS17252_IMG_9931.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Diaz, an art therapist, decorates an altar with nichos she helped others make at the Oakland Museum of California. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If people can make that connection to the person that's passed away, let that creativity just run from their heart to their hands and create without judgment, it shows,\" she says. \"People love it, and people love to look at them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz didn’t grow up with the tradition -– this hybrid between popular and religious art. 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Muñoz showcases three remarkable women from across Latin America, creating bespoke compositions and arrangements to fit the contours of their unmistakable sounds. Like so many Latin American musicians who have settled in the United States in recent decades, Santa Barbara-based Muñoz has created a highly personal style that could be called Latin jazz, though it has little to do with the Afro-Cuban/jazz synthesis forged by Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo and Mario Bauza in the 1940s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he’s crafted a luscious sound that’s more interested in song form and creating evocative settings for lyrics than groove. He seems particularly inspired by \u003ca href=\"http://www.magosherrera.com\">Magos Herrera\u003c/a>, a captivating jazz singer born and raised in Mexico City and now based in New York. 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"content": "\u003cp>In February, 85-year-old artist Ray Dutcher fled a wall of fire three stories high as it roared down the mountain toward his cabin near Bishop, a town in the remote eastern Sierra south of Yosemite. The self-described hermit took one thing: a painting he’d been working on since 1982. The Round Fire sparked the artist’s rediscovery and his first show in four decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230869006\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stand on Ray Dutcher’s porch and you start to get the whole hermit thing. The view from his cabin in an area called Swall Meadows is a breathtaking panorama of stark mountains, deep valleys and sky. If sky can be measured in tons, this is tons of sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came up here just to get away from L.A. and find a better place to create,” says Dutcher. “I liked the back country. I didn’t enjoy myself down there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10738716 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Glacier Lake,\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Glacier Lake,\" the only painting Dutcher took as the Round Fire blazed toward his cabin. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dutcher is a wiry man with bright eyes, long gray hair and a white beard. He’s a fast-talking fellow who’s sharp as a tack and in tremendous shape. He eats right, doesn’t smoke or drink, and faithfully strides miles a day in boots he found in a garbage can 13 years ago, covering the trails he’s been visiting since Herbert Hoover was president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first encounter with the eastern Sierras was 1933,” says Dutcher. “My folks brought me here in a Model T Ford and I wandered off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I was never a gallery guy because they want to sell paintings and make a living. I want to paint whenever I darn well please.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Before he made the permanent move to the Sierra region, Dutcher put in his big-city time, receiving his master’s degree in fine art from Cal State Long Beach in 1957. That same year he co-founded the Exodus Gallery in San Pedro, exhibiting work by West Coast artists Wallace Berman, Ed Kienholz and John Wesley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite that affiliation, the art scene was not for him. “I was never a gallery guy because they want to sell paintings and make a living,” he says. “I want to paint whenever I darn well please to paint.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dutcher’s last exhibition was in Encino in 1973. It sold out. After that, he moved to the Sierra, where he’s been working on his pieces -- often the same ones -- for decades in his backroom cabin studio facing western light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s where these works may have stayed, were it not for the Round Fire that swept through the area in February, consuming 7,000 acres and destroying over 40 homes and structures. Dutcher was forced to evacuate at the last minute, and took with him only one thing: a painting called \"Glacier Lake\" that he’s been working on since 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the fire, Ray’s 52-year-old son, Mark -- an artist in Los Angeles -- was unable to get in touch with his father, whose home was spared. He checked on him by way of Facebook and a Bishop-based gallery owner named Bruce Licher, who was a stranger to Mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10740157\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-800x788.jpg\" alt='\"Tundra Pond\" by photorealist painter Ray Dutcher. ' width=\"800\" height=\"788\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10740157\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-800x788.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-400x394.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-1440x1418.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-1180x1162.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-960x945.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Tundra Pond\" by photorealist painter Ray Dutcher. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t friends with him on Facebook,” Mark explains, “but I saw that he was posting images of the fire in Swall Meadows, so I contacted him in a message on Facebook and said, ‘My dad lives up there and I can’t get ahold of him. Can you check on him?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Licher and his wife, Karen, also lived in Swall Meadows at the time, “we didn’t even know that Ray existed,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet he dutifully trekked up the hill in search of Mark’s father, found the cabin and knocked on the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first thing I saw on his walls were these amazing paintings,” Licher says. “I thought, wow, you know, these would be great to show in our space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent Project Press is the Lichers' “space.” The couple’s main business for the last 30 years has been creating unique printed material on vintage letterpress equipment, veritable works of art unto themselves. The space also houses The Project Room, a gallery that’s helped to galvanize the local art scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Licher’s enthusiasm, Dutcher was not thrilled with the idea. His first reaction was, \"Oh no, I’m done with showing my work in galleries. Galleries just want you to produce lots of work and I don’t do that. I don’t work fast and I don’t want to sell these anyway. I want to pass them on to my son.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dutcher reluctantly agreed to an exhibition, after stipulating that none of the pieces would be for sale. Signed prints of the work are available, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it happened. The Sept. 25 opening night of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1495941167369951/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Adventures in Visual Thought,\"\u003c/a> a 40-year retrospective of Dutcher’s work, drew a significant chunk of tiny Bishop’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738726\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The adventures start here.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The adventures start here. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can see in his paintings, your mind’s eye would walk into the depth of them, so it’s pretty unique,” offers Karen Licher. “Ray’s got his own way to do this that I haven’t really seen with any other painter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small group stood in front of \"Tundra Pond,\" an oil on canvas image of yes, a tundra pond, but Dutcher has captured the light, the water and the moss-covered stones in such an exact manner it would seem to define photorealism. Yet this entire exhibition might not have happened were it not for the fire and Dutcher’s son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it weren’t for Mark, they’d never been shown,” says the artist. “And the Round Fire and Bruce. They all came together and got me down here. Otherwise, the paintings, maybe through selfishness, they’d never been shown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray left the family when Mark was 7 and, until recently, they saw each other only sporadically. But art is where they connect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that my dad is the reason that I’m an artist,” says Mark. “It gives me encouragement that he’s been painting all these years. It really inspires me to keep going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray’s art is what’s kept \u003cem>him\u003c/em> going. Each piece is continually evolving, and he doesn’t like to let them go. He still feels the sting of selling his work back in ’73.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just disappear,” he says. “What the hell have I got? Someone else has it. I have nothing to show for it but money. Money’s not that important to me. I’m not suffering for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his self-imposed four-decade absence from the gallery walls, Dutcher is glad to be back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m happy to have a show,” he says. “How long am I going to live? I’m a late bloomer, as they say, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Adventures in Visual Thought\" runs through November. Then Dutcher will pack his paintings into his old truck and drive them back up the mountain to his cabin.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In February, 85-year-old artist Ray Dutcher fled a wall of fire three stories high as it roared down the mountain toward his cabin near Bishop, a town in the remote eastern Sierra south of Yosemite. The self-described hermit took one thing: a painting he’d been working on since 1982. The Round Fire sparked the artist’s rediscovery and his first show in four decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230869006&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230869006'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stand on Ray Dutcher’s porch and you start to get the whole hermit thing. The view from his cabin in an area called Swall Meadows is a breathtaking panorama of stark mountains, deep valleys and sky. If sky can be measured in tons, this is tons of sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came up here just to get away from L.A. and find a better place to create,” says Dutcher. “I liked the back country. I didn’t enjoy myself down there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10738716 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Glacier Lake,\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17246_GLACIER-LAKE.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Glacier Lake,\" the only painting Dutcher took as the Round Fire blazed toward his cabin. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dutcher is a wiry man with bright eyes, long gray hair and a white beard. He’s a fast-talking fellow who’s sharp as a tack and in tremendous shape. He eats right, doesn’t smoke or drink, and faithfully strides miles a day in boots he found in a garbage can 13 years ago, covering the trails he’s been visiting since Herbert Hoover was president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first encounter with the eastern Sierras was 1933,” says Dutcher. “My folks brought me here in a Model T Ford and I wandered off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I was never a gallery guy because they want to sell paintings and make a living. I want to paint whenever I darn well please.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Before he made the permanent move to the Sierra region, Dutcher put in his big-city time, receiving his master’s degree in fine art from Cal State Long Beach in 1957. That same year he co-founded the Exodus Gallery in San Pedro, exhibiting work by West Coast artists Wallace Berman, Ed Kienholz and John Wesley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite that affiliation, the art scene was not for him. “I was never a gallery guy because they want to sell paintings and make a living,” he says. “I want to paint whenever I darn well please to paint.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dutcher’s last exhibition was in Encino in 1973. It sold out. After that, he moved to the Sierra, where he’s been working on his pieces -- often the same ones -- for decades in his backroom cabin studio facing western light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s where these works may have stayed, were it not for the Round Fire that swept through the area in February, consuming 7,000 acres and destroying over 40 homes and structures. Dutcher was forced to evacuate at the last minute, and took with him only one thing: a painting called \"Glacier Lake\" that he’s been working on since 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the fire, Ray’s 52-year-old son, Mark -- an artist in Los Angeles -- was unable to get in touch with his father, whose home was spared. He checked on him by way of Facebook and a Bishop-based gallery owner named Bruce Licher, who was a stranger to Mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10740157\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-800x788.jpg\" alt='\"Tundra Pond\" by photorealist painter Ray Dutcher. ' width=\"800\" height=\"788\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10740157\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-800x788.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-400x394.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-1440x1418.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-1180x1162.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-960x945.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TundraPond-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Tundra Pond\" by photorealist painter Ray Dutcher. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t friends with him on Facebook,” Mark explains, “but I saw that he was posting images of the fire in Swall Meadows, so I contacted him in a message on Facebook and said, ‘My dad lives up there and I can’t get ahold of him. Can you check on him?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Licher and his wife, Karen, also lived in Swall Meadows at the time, “we didn’t even know that Ray existed,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet he dutifully trekked up the hill in search of Mark’s father, found the cabin and knocked on the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first thing I saw on his walls were these amazing paintings,” Licher says. “I thought, wow, you know, these would be great to show in our space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent Project Press is the Lichers' “space.” The couple’s main business for the last 30 years has been creating unique printed material on vintage letterpress equipment, veritable works of art unto themselves. The space also houses The Project Room, a gallery that’s helped to galvanize the local art scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Licher’s enthusiasm, Dutcher was not thrilled with the idea. His first reaction was, \"Oh no, I’m done with showing my work in galleries. Galleries just want you to produce lots of work and I don’t do that. I don’t work fast and I don’t want to sell these anyway. I want to pass them on to my son.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dutcher reluctantly agreed to an exhibition, after stipulating that none of the pieces would be for sale. Signed prints of the work are available, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it happened. The Sept. 25 opening night of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1495941167369951/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Adventures in Visual Thought,\"\u003c/a> a 40-year retrospective of Dutcher’s work, drew a significant chunk of tiny Bishop’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10738726\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The adventures start here.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17256_VISUAL-THOUGHT.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The adventures start here. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can see in his paintings, your mind’s eye would walk into the depth of them, so it’s pretty unique,” offers Karen Licher. “Ray’s got his own way to do this that I haven’t really seen with any other painter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small group stood in front of \"Tundra Pond,\" an oil on canvas image of yes, a tundra pond, but Dutcher has captured the light, the water and the moss-covered stones in such an exact manner it would seem to define photorealism. Yet this entire exhibition might not have happened were it not for the fire and Dutcher’s son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it weren’t for Mark, they’d never been shown,” says the artist. “And the Round Fire and Bruce. They all came together and got me down here. Otherwise, the paintings, maybe through selfishness, they’d never been shown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray left the family when Mark was 7 and, until recently, they saw each other only sporadically. But art is where they connect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that my dad is the reason that I’m an artist,” says Mark. “It gives me encouragement that he’s been painting all these years. It really inspires me to keep going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray’s art is what’s kept \u003cem>him\u003c/em> going. Each piece is continually evolving, and he doesn’t like to let them go. He still feels the sting of selling his work back in ’73.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just disappear,” he says. “What the hell have I got? Someone else has it. I have nothing to show for it but money. Money’s not that important to me. I’m not suffering for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his self-imposed four-decade absence from the gallery walls, Dutcher is glad to be back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m happy to have a show,” he says. “How long am I going to live? I’m a late bloomer, as they say, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Jassen Todorov doesn't seem possible. He's an aerial photographer, a licensed pilot, a music professor at S.F. State and an acclaimed violinist whose concerts take him around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I'm well organized -- which often times I'm not -- I can fly the plane, I can play my violin, I can teach, I can take pictures and I can take a second flight at sunset,\" said Todorov, 40, who lives in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He grew up in Bulgaria in a family of musicians and started playing the violin at age 5. When he was 17, he was given a full scholarship to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.idyllwildarts.org\" target=\"_blank\">Idyllwild Arts Academy \u003c/a>in Southern California. \u003ca href=\"http://www.jassentodorov.com/performances_past.html\" target=\"_blank\">His music\u003c/a> has been getting attention for almost two decades. Now his photographs are being noticed, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month Todorov's picture of Koehn Lake in the Mojave Desert won a first-place \u003ca href=\"http://www.photoawards.com\" target=\"_blank\">International Photography Award \u003c/a>and he was named Nature Photographer of the Year in the contest's non-professional nature category, which drew 2,449 entries. Earlier this year, his image of Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone finished second in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldphoto.org/about-the-sony-world-photography-awards/\" target=\"_blank\">Sony World Photography Awards.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shot Koehn Lake in August. His winning picture looks more like a painting than a photograph. Todorov thinks it resembles a magical forest, but it actually illustrates the effects of wind and time on a dry lake in Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I stumbled upon it around sunset. There's nobody there and it's very remote,\" said Todorov. \"When you're performing, you get a natural high. It was the same kind of feeling. I had goosebumps when I was shooting it. These abstract shots are the ones I love the most. This is nature's art.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He began flying in 2002 and is now licensed as a private, instrument-rated and commercial pilot, and a flight instructor, too. Five years ago, he bought a four-seat 1976 Piper Warrior, which he keeps at San Carlos Airport. It can go for 5½ hours at a stretch at 120 mph -- roughly from San Francisco to Twin Falls, Idaho.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739554\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10739554 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is one of Jassen Todorov's favorite subjects.\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-1440x977.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-1180x801.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-960x652.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is one of Jassen Todorov's favorite subjects. \u003ccite>(Jassen Todorov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jassentodorov.com\" target=\"_blank\">Todorov's mix of skills and passions\u003c/a> might seem improbable, but not to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a lot of patterns and repetition in music. There's a lot of discipline,\" he said. \"There are rules, but when you break them -- that's when it gets exciting. When you apply all of that to a new art form, you can advance quite fast. Music and photography are very similar in many ways.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other parallels, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can talk to people about what I've seen, but then I show them some pictures and they go 'wow' immediately,\" he said. \"That's the power of still photos. I can explain to you what Bach sounds like, but you hear it and it transcends you to a different reality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todorov's fascination with flying started a long time ago. He began collecting models of cars and airplanes when he was 5, and about 200 of them can still be found in his house in Bulgaria. His grandfather used to take him to the airport in Sofia to watch the planes come and go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The whole idea of traveling, of exploration, of discovery, seemed so fascinating,\" he said. \"It's much more interesting to see the world from above. Flying gives you wings! Who doesn't want to have wings?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739555\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10739555\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"The rivers of Iceland, seen from above, look more like abstract art than anything that actually exists in nature.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-1440x956.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-1180x783.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rivers of Iceland, seen from above, look more like abstract art than anything that actually exists in nature. \u003ccite>(Jassen Todorov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He was sitting in the kitchen of the house he rents in the Ingleside, a 15-minute walk from S.F. State. In the past 12 years, Todorov has taught classes there in chamber music literature, string methods, music appreciation, fundamentals theory and career management in music. He has also given private violin lessons to undergrads and graduate students -- as well as actor Richard Gere, to help him prep for his role in \"Bee Season.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although teaching and concerts are, as he puts it, his \"primary assignment,\" photography has become an obsession in the last three years, since he decided to seriously pursue it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todorov had just returned from a flight around the West that covered six states and 2,000 miles in four days. He'd shot about 800 pictures and had already posted some on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/jassensf/?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">his Facebook page.\u003c/a> But he was still editing and happy to relive the trip through the photographs on his laptop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You think of fields of potatoes when you think of Idaho. But they have these fields of craters. ... Here are reflections of clouds on a lake in Utah. ... I was 1,000 feet above Old Faithful here. ... Nevada is full of these red rocks. ... Look at these rivers of mud in Death Valley. Even though it's terrible, it's incredible to photograph.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739607\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10739607\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-800x527.jpg\" alt=\"This photo of a kitesurfer in the Pacific Ocean, just south of Half Moon Bay, was taken on an extremely windy day.\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-1440x949.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-1180x777.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-960x633.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo of a kitesurfer in the Pacific Ocean, just south of Half Moon Bay, was taken on an extremely windy day. \u003ccite>(Jassen Todorov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On average, Todorov flies twice a week. So far, he's racked up more than 2,000 hours of flying time since he got his license. He keeps a folding bike in his plane so that he can quickly get where he wants to go if he decides to land and take pictures from the ground. He used to lug along a bag full of charts, but now he relies on ForeFlight, an app on his iPad, for all his navigation needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His current camera is a Nikon D810, with a 70-200mm zoom lens. He holds it with his left hand and shoots with his right through a small open window. The camera is heavy -- about 5 pounds -- and Todorov lifts it up to demonstrate its heft. Then he brings out his Tomaso Eberle violin, which was made in Naples in 1778.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To put it in perspective, Mozart was 22 and Beethoven was only 8 when my violin was made,\" he said. \"But it's kind of like the camera. If you have a better instrument, it allows you to better express yourself. With music you want an older instrument. The more it ages, the more it starts to flourish. But with technology, in a year or two my camera won't be so relevant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the best equipment, though, clarity and sharpness can be elusive. But Todorov enjoys the challenge. He was dealing with high winds and turbulence at 11,000 feet when he shot his award-winning photo of Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You really want to take advantage of the morning light and the sunset light,\" he said. \"Sometimes I get lucky and sometimes I don't. If I don't, there's always tomorrow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739610\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10739610\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"People in Candaba, a town in the Philippines about two hours north of Manila, are using canoes to get to their homes after a terrible flood in fall 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut-1440x944.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut-1180x773.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17263_jassen-philippines-qut-960x629.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People in Candaba, a town in the Philippines about two hours north of Manila, are using canoes to get to their homes after a terrible flood in fall 2015. \u003ccite>(Jassen Todorov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His pictures have been published by National Geographic, The Guardian, China News, USA Today, The Telegraph and several other media outlets, and they've been exhibited in London and Chicago. In August, National Geographic asked him to be a guest editor for its \"Your Shot From Above\" assignment -- which entailed reviewing 17,442 photographs before picking 29 winners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there's no doubt that music comes first, to the point that Todorov did not have time to go to New York to accept his prize for the Koehn Lake picture, presented Oct. 27 at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lucies.org\" target=\"_blank\">Lucie Awards\u003c/a> in Carnegie Hall -- the same venue where he's performed twice as a musician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, traveling for performances gives him more opportunities to take pictures, and he often rents a plane. When he was in the Philippines in early October for a concert, he captured the struggles of people trying to reach their homes by canoe after a huge flood in the town of Candaba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a very humbling experience,\" said Todorov. \"It puts the problems of myself and my friends in perspective.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had a similar reaction shooting the oil fields surrounding Taft in Kern County. \"It's so polluted here,\" he said. \"This is what we do to ourselves. The oil rigs look like ticks sucking the blood from the earth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739613\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10739613\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Jassen Todorov has taken many photographs of downtown San Francisco in all kinds of weather.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jassen Todorov has taken many photographs of downtown San Francisco in all kinds of weather. \u003ccite>(Jassen Todorov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The more isolated a place is, the better, as far as Todorov is concerned. \"Sometimes I feel like a pioneer,\" he said. \"Many of the places I fly, there's not a single soul for hundreds of miles. When I'm in these areas, my greatest inspiration is Bach and his music.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He often listens to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms with his iPod when he's flying, making his trips even more surreal. But it doesn't take music to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When my girlfriend and I were flying to Wyoming, there was a hawk next to us at 11,000 feet,\" he said. \"You don't think of hawks as going that high. And every once in a while, there are a lot of beautiful birds. They're moving and I'm moving. One day I saw a huge flock of egrets taking off from the salts in San Francisco Bay.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Todorov's outings are not always so ethereal. He recently landed in Kayenta, which is on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. The residents were surprised to see him pedaling through town on his folding bicycle, and a few invited him into their homes. That went well. On his way out of town, though, three large canines started chasing him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was imagining myself being ripped apart by these dogs,\" he said. \"They eventually gave up but it took awhile. I rode so fast. I couldn't wait to get back in the plane.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another time, coming back from Utah, he spotted trails -- the kind made by aerobatic aircraft -- on the right side of his plane. \"And then I felt crazy turbulence,\" he said. \"People were shooting manmade rockets. They could have shot me down. I could have exploded. Talk about the Wild West.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not scary but even stranger: In December 2013, he was returning from Mono Lake and flying over the Sierra when he shot a sunset photo with his cellphone to send to his mother and girlfriend. But he dropped the device and it fell 11,000 feet into the snow. Eight months later, someone found it on a trail. There wasn't a scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These kinds of things, when they occur, you think: Is that a dream?\" Todorov said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739615\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10739615\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jassen Todorov stands in front of his plane, a four-seater 1976 Piper Warrior that can fly almost six hours at a stretch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17264_jassen-plane-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jassen Todorov stands in front of his plane, a four-seater 1976 Piper Warrior that can fly almost six hours at a stretch. \u003ccite>(Alex Bederov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His favorite photos are from this past summer, when he went to Iceland. \"The rivers of Iceland are probably the most beautiful thing I've seen in my entire life,\" he said. \"Volcanic ash mixed with water -- I could not stop photographing. It looks so out of this world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he doesn't have to go far to get other amazing shots. South of Half Moon Bay, he captured a kitesurfer in the Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I went flying on a windy day,\" he said. \"When it gets very windy, you can't take pictures because the plane is shaking. I thought, 'I must be the only crazy person out and about.' Then I saw another crazy person. I saw the shape, the kite and the shadow of the kite. And then I saw him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's just one example of how aerial photography has changed his view of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see things I did not see before,\" Todorov said. \"And I get into a different dimension. When I'm playing music, it's not part of reality. It's the same with taking pictures when I'm flying.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Jassen Todorov doesn't seem possible. He's an aerial photographer, a licensed pilot, a music professor at S.F. State and an acclaimed violinist whose concerts take him around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I'm well organized -- which often times I'm not -- I can fly the plane, I can play my violin, I can teach, I can take pictures and I can take a second flight at sunset,\" said Todorov, 40, who lives in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He grew up in Bulgaria in a family of musicians and started playing the violin at age 5. When he was 17, he was given a full scholarship to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.idyllwildarts.org\" target=\"_blank\">Idyllwild Arts Academy \u003c/a>in Southern California. \u003ca href=\"http://www.jassentodorov.com/performances_past.html\" target=\"_blank\">His music\u003c/a> has been getting attention for almost two decades. Now his photographs are being noticed, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month Todorov's picture of Koehn Lake in the Mojave Desert won a first-place \u003ca href=\"http://www.photoawards.com\" target=\"_blank\">International Photography Award \u003c/a>and he was named Nature Photographer of the Year in the contest's non-professional nature category, which drew 2,449 entries. Earlier this year, his image of Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone finished second in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldphoto.org/about-the-sony-world-photography-awards/\" target=\"_blank\">Sony World Photography Awards.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shot Koehn Lake in August. His winning picture looks more like a painting than a photograph. Todorov thinks it resembles a magical forest, but it actually illustrates the effects of wind and time on a dry lake in Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I stumbled upon it around sunset. There's nobody there and it's very remote,\" said Todorov. \"When you're performing, you get a natural high. It was the same kind of feeling. I had goosebumps when I was shooting it. These abstract shots are the ones I love the most. This is nature's art.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He began flying in 2002 and is now licensed as a private, instrument-rated and commercial pilot, and a flight instructor, too. Five years ago, he bought a four-seat 1976 Piper Warrior, which he keeps at San Carlos Airport. It can go for 5½ hours at a stretch at 120 mph -- roughly from San Francisco to Twin Falls, Idaho.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739554\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10739554 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is one of Jassen Todorov's favorite subjects.\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-1440x977.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-1180x801.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17260_jassen-grand-prismatic-spring-qut-960x652.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is one of Jassen Todorov's favorite subjects. \u003ccite>(Jassen Todorov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jassentodorov.com\" target=\"_blank\">Todorov's mix of skills and passions\u003c/a> might seem improbable, but not to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a lot of patterns and repetition in music. There's a lot of discipline,\" he said. \"There are rules, but when you break them -- that's when it gets exciting. When you apply all of that to a new art form, you can advance quite fast. Music and photography are very similar in many ways.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other parallels, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can talk to people about what I've seen, but then I show them some pictures and they go 'wow' immediately,\" he said. \"That's the power of still photos. I can explain to you what Bach sounds like, but you hear it and it transcends you to a different reality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todorov's fascination with flying started a long time ago. He began collecting models of cars and airplanes when he was 5, and about 200 of them can still be found in his house in Bulgaria. His grandfather used to take him to the airport in Sofia to watch the planes come and go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The whole idea of traveling, of exploration, of discovery, seemed so fascinating,\" he said. \"It's much more interesting to see the world from above. Flying gives you wings! Who doesn't want to have wings?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739555\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10739555\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"The rivers of Iceland, seen from above, look more like abstract art than anything that actually exists in nature.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-1440x956.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-1180x783.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17258_jassen-iceland-qut-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rivers of Iceland, seen from above, look more like abstract art than anything that actually exists in nature. \u003ccite>(Jassen Todorov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He was sitting in the kitchen of the house he rents in the Ingleside, a 15-minute walk from S.F. State. In the past 12 years, Todorov has taught classes there in chamber music literature, string methods, music appreciation, fundamentals theory and career management in music. He has also given private violin lessons to undergrads and graduate students -- as well as actor Richard Gere, to help him prep for his role in \"Bee Season.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although teaching and concerts are, as he puts it, his \"primary assignment,\" photography has become an obsession in the last three years, since he decided to seriously pursue it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todorov had just returned from a flight around the West that covered six states and 2,000 miles in four days. He'd shot about 800 pictures and had already posted some on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/jassensf/?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">his Facebook page.\u003c/a> But he was still editing and happy to relive the trip through the photographs on his laptop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You think of fields of potatoes when you think of Idaho. But they have these fields of craters. ... Here are reflections of clouds on a lake in Utah. ... I was 1,000 feet above Old Faithful here. ... Nevada is full of these red rocks. ... Look at these rivers of mud in Death Valley. Even though it's terrible, it's incredible to photograph.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739607\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10739607\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-800x527.jpg\" alt=\"This photo of a kitesurfer in the Pacific Ocean, just south of Half Moon Bay, was taken on an extremely windy day.\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-1440x949.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-1180x777.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17261_jassen-kitesurfer-qut-960x633.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo of a kitesurfer in the Pacific Ocean, just south of Half Moon Bay, was taken on an extremely windy day. \u003ccite>(Jassen Todorov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On average, Todorov flies twice a week. So far, he's racked up more than 2,000 hours of flying time since he got his license. He keeps a folding bike in his plane so that he can quickly get where he wants to go if he decides to land and take pictures from the ground. He used to lug along a bag full of charts, but now he relies on ForeFlight, an app on his iPad, for all his navigation needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His current camera is a Nikon D810, with a 70-200mm zoom lens. He holds it with his left hand and shoots with his right through a small open window. The camera is heavy -- about 5 pounds -- and Todorov lifts it up to demonstrate its heft. Then he brings out his Tomaso Eberle violin, which was made in Naples in 1778.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To put it in perspective, Mozart was 22 and Beethoven was only 8 when my violin was made,\" he said. \"But it's kind of like the camera. If you have a better instrument, it allows you to better express yourself. With music you want an older instrument. The more it ages, the more it starts to flourish. But with technology, in a year or two my camera won't be so relevant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the best equipment, though, clarity and sharpness can be elusive. But Todorov enjoys the challenge. He was dealing with high winds and turbulence at 11,000 feet when he shot his award-winning photo of Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You really want to take advantage of the morning light and the sunset light,\" he said. \"Sometimes I get lucky and sometimes I don't. 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The oil rigs look like ticks sucking the blood from the earth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10739613\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10739613\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Jassen Todorov has taken many photographs of downtown San Francisco in all kinds of weather.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17262_jassen-sf-qut-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jassen Todorov has taken many photographs of downtown San Francisco in all kinds of weather. \u003ccite>(Jassen Todorov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The more isolated a place is, the better, as far as Todorov is concerned. \"Sometimes I feel like a pioneer,\" he said. \"Many of the places I fly, there's not a single soul for hundreds of miles. When I'm in these areas, my greatest inspiration is Bach and his music.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He often listens to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms with his iPod when he's flying, making his trips even more surreal. But it doesn't take music to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When my girlfriend and I were flying to Wyoming, there was a hawk next to us at 11,000 feet,\" he said. \"You don't think of hawks as going that high. And every once in a while, there are a lot of beautiful birds. They're moving and I'm moving. One day I saw a huge flock of egrets taking off from the salts in San Francisco Bay.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Todorov's outings are not always so ethereal. He recently landed in Kayenta, which is on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. The residents were surprised to see him pedaling through town on his folding bicycle, and a few invited him into their homes. That went well. On his way out of town, though, three large canines started chasing him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was imagining myself being ripped apart by these dogs,\" he said. \"They eventually gave up but it took awhile. I rode so fast. I couldn't wait to get back in the plane.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another time, coming back from Utah, he spotted trails -- the kind made by aerobatic aircraft -- on the right side of his plane. \"And then I felt crazy turbulence,\" he said. \"People were shooting manmade rockets. They could have shot me down. I could have exploded. Talk about the Wild West.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not scary but even stranger: In December 2013, he was returning from Mono Lake and flying over the Sierra when he shot a sunset photo with his cellphone to send to his mother and girlfriend. But he dropped the device and it fell 11,000 feet into the snow. Eight months later, someone found it on a trail. 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