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Travel well, sanctuarians! Much love, s143.

We posted about Halleux a little while back, but with the launch of his new website we couldn’t resist spreading the word again.

Spend some time looking through his portfolio and get ready to see some pieces in person very soon. We hear Device Gallery may have some of his new work at an upcoming show (more on this later!).

photo credit: muriel thies

Get ready for an incredible 5 night music series from Sezio featuring 10 local bands, including Sanctuary143 co-conspirators Joel P. West and The Silent Comedy.

Tickets are limited, pre-sale only. Details here.

There is something fascinating about closing your eyes and imagining how a song might feel when accompanied by film. Radiohead’s famous title track from this mix represents one of these powerful moments in film, and it got me thinking about soundtracks ever since. Certain songs began to stick out from the rest. They seemed to hold some element that I couldn’t put my finger on, but that undeniably conjured images in my mind of hypothetical scenes from movies that didn’t exist.

I am a sucker for those incredible moments when the marriage of song and film nears perfection, one of my favorites being Nico’s cover of These Days (which Jackson Browne apparently wrote when he was 16 years old! I love wikipedia.) in The Royal Tenenbaums. I’m pretty sure this is why I love Wes Anderson movies… he pulls that shit all the time.

This mix is the first of many imaginary soundtracks that are floating around in my head. If it sparks any ideas for movies or even single scenes, drop a comment below.

Sean Kelley

Co-founder, Sanctuary143

I love all kinds of music, but I love certain kinds more. And here they are. This type of mix is what gets me through my day, and inspires me to practice being a good person and make fun art.

Hope you guys enjoy it. Sorry I don’t know how to make sweet blends and fabulous DJ techniques. So take time to enjoy the silence between the tracks too

Tocayo-
www.myspace.com/tocayodesign

1. Mistica – Orishas
2. Nag Champa (Afrodisiac For The World) – Common
3. The Light – Common
4. 2 AM – Slightly Stoopid
5. Oh Yeah – Foxy Brown
6. Mi Confesión – Gotan Project Feat. Koxmoz
7. Don’t Do Drugs – Danger Mouse & Jemini
8. Dying To Live – Diego Roots
9. This Ain’t Living – G. Love & Special Sauce
10. Charlie’s Kids – Gram Rabbit
11. Heartless – Kanye West
12. Wordless Chorus – My Morning Jacket
13. Bobby James – N*E*R*D
14. Shove It (feat. Spank Rock) (Album) – Santogold
15. Cotidiano – Seu Jorge
16. What a Bum Bum – Sister Nancy

P.S. – Don’t miss Tocayo’s next art show with Chris Kepler and DJ and co-conspirator Will Redd at Fowler’s in Solana Beach on 3/27.

Friday, March 13th drop by Noel-Baza Fine Art at 2165 India Street between 6-9 pm to check out “New Contemporaries 2″, showcasing the nominees for the 2009 San Diego Art Prize. Congratulations to nominee Keikichi Honna, who graced the last two Sanctuary143 shows with the Smart Car pinata and baby Jesus installations he created in collaboration with Sandee Manuel!

Sanctuary143 is proud to support Tocayo and DJ Will Redd (Room 01 of CONSPIRE) in their upcoming event with Chris Kepler at Fowler’s shop in Solana Beach Friday, March 27th. See you there!

Farewell, crates! It’s been fun.

We accepted these crates, originally used for high end museum art transport, to use as staging for the custom bikes shown at Reinventing the Wheel San Diego in September ’08. It was at that point that we voluntarily took on the responsibility to give these crates the longest life possible, circumventing their original path straight to the landfill.

We’re happy to pass them along to some creative folks who have a vision for them at Burning Man, and we’ve asked them to send us photographs so that we can all watch them travel along their way. We hope to give you an update on where they call home in 2009…and 2019!

A month after bringing Fallen Fruit down from LA, and a week after a sold-out screening of Beautiful Losers (which was apparently a difficult sell to the institution’s higher-ups, but don’t get us started), the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego had the wisdom to highlight local artist Wes Bruce’s Evidence of Searching at last night’s TNT. Here’s a photo journal from the install & exhibition.

Wednesday:

Early AM on Broadway on the way to MCA for the install day 1, we saw the man with the coolest suit in town.

Wes eyeballs the gates to the fortress.

Right this way…

A pickup full of 4′x8′ modular walls, designed and built by Sanctuary143′s Jeff Faeth and Wes for his MCA edition of Evidence of Searching.

Some beautiful light in the early morn. Zack was hungover from night golf but charged ahead in full force.

Jeff’s mockup. A-Team style.

Jeff surveys the west wing, about halfway there!

Thursday:

Backstage during TNT. That’s a 10′ wall people!

More backstage… Joel P. West on the iPod.

A room within a room!

While people browsed the installation, others were busy cutting & pasting.

A group Evidence‘ fest ensued.

Friends, family and strangers gathered thoughts side-by-side in deep concentration.

A good time was had by all.

Writer and Joel P. West played sets across the street. Photos are lacking here because I was busy listening.

On the walk to the car… a few peeps were still snippin’ away upstairs.

Thanks for having us Wes!

Photos: Sean Kelley