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See ya all Sat!
-thx

kevin

Kevin Mathieu's 40th Birthdays party this Sat in SF ! Come celebrate and create your sash of vie

I'm having my 40th birthday ( and party) in just one day.

Saturday January 24th 2009. The party is at 9th & Fulsom at the gallery with the neon Jellyfish 2 doors down north east side of Fulsom 1286 Fulsom st, San Francisco, CA. 8 pm til late!

I'll have a few dj's, a bar ( plus BYOB if you can), and the party goes from 8 pm to late.
I could use a hand on a few things plus bartending so if you can help do let me know 415 640 3569.
If you can kick down a few bucks at the door to help defray the rental that would rock! If not ( I know too many pals are job free don't sweat the door fee ( its optional)t and don't stop yourself form arriving). I'll even get you a couple of drinks for sure until we run out.
This is after all a party and celebration

I want you there.

And I really, really want to see you.

This past 15 months I've been missing a lot of people as other obligations have obscured and blocked me from what I enjoy most. And that for me is seeing friends and spending time with them making new experiences and art.

So this is to make up for being absent and to reconnect with all.

The party is about who I've met, known, experienced life with, loved and cared for. As well as what I and you hope to experience in the next 40 years.

So to honor that concept everyone gets a sash with badges to show their own experiences and to mark at least one of those events where we have intersected and a few things they hope to experience or accomplish. This is my attempt to have everyone sorta slow down for a sec and go aha, "How did I get here?", and "how do I get there? ".

I hope you can bring a few ( or a lot of ) things to add to your own sash.
Buttons, stickers, badges, patches, small pictures (duplicates or ones you are OK with gluing on to your sash), or nearly any other small momento you can think of. From keys of current or former apartments, rings from lovers, keys from old lovers flats, ticket stubs from the Paris metro or maybe SF muni, pieces of unburnt xmas trees, playa dust, to you name it.

But this is not just a sash of what you have experienced. It is a sash of what you hope to do an experience in the next 40 years. So add a toy plane if you want to earn to fly someday, or maybe a bit of paint cause you want to paint your place someday, or a headline from an exotic newspaper cause you want to read it in its native language in its far away home ( which is a twofer learn a foreign language and travel) .

I'll have half a dozen glue guns ( if you got one, do bring it) and lots of glue sticks. Plus pins, sharpies, paper, safety pins, bailing wire, twine, etc to attach whatever you bring. I'll even have needle and thread for those so motivated.

I'll have pre-made sashes of various colors and sizes with blank badges already on them. And a lot of sharpies.
The sharpies are so you can fill in the blanks.
I'll have 10+ blank badges on each sash. Which you can ink in you name, a number, location, name, person, or whatever.
Everyone gets a sash and i just hope everyone will wear one and fill theirs in a bit or a lot.
You could even make up your own sash in advance.

So the 10 plus badge categories are (and I'll update this at my blog at :)
people.tribe.net/jacktrade...085a09e873

None of them are strict all of them are silly and I hope you will add more categories and email them to me, or make it on the fly at the party.

How many schools you enrolled in ( its not degrees, and even school of life gets you a mark) Personally I've been at 2 elementary schools, one jr high school, two high schools, 4 community colleges, and one university. That makes 10 to mark on the badge! But I could count driving school, seminars, school of life, ranger training, and many other things.

How many places you have lived. Ok so the DMV has one count, and I know I will fail to properly count for myself all the places I have lived. So I figure any place you have stayed more then a month, but its up to you.

What group or solo art projects you have contributed to by attending or hands on creating? To me even attending really does count, since showing up is half the work. Write the name of the project, or maybe a number. Make a ton of badges here. For this you would have a badge for Burning Man, bicycling at critical mass, or maybe brought a tree to a Xmas Tree burn or took a picture there, and so on.
For me this could be a lot of badges since art has been pretty hard core to my life experience to date.

Burning Man and Black Rock trips. How many times have you been out to that place that has taken up 14 of my years in one way or another.

How many states you have been to. Or maybe even flown over.

How many countries have you been to?

How many loves have you had? Who raised you counts too!

How many vehicles have you owned? Cars, bicycles, skateboard all count. I can't wait to see the count from some of my Cyclecide buddies.

How much stuff is in your pocket? Money or items. Empty that pocket or purse and lets everyone know how many objects you are carrying with you.

Camping and or road trips ? How many or name some of your favorite ones.

Music. How many concerts and /or favorite ones.

Songs you can sing >? Name a song you can sing most of the way through.

Instruments you can play. This is not a professional qualification. Drums count as one. BTW whatever you do, don't don't bring drums to this party. Not that I can think of anyone that would. Exception will be made for any Extra Action performer.

Whats your favorite art to make?

Whats your favorite artist?

How many business cards have you had? Self made or printed for you.

More dets:


So bring a bottle to celebrate with, or drink from the cheap bar.


It is late notice I know.

Horribly late notice and I'm super sorry about that. Many locations have not come through and frankly I've been swamped with care taking of my Dad lately and freelancing new clients. Taking care of myself last is typical of me.

So heres the plan.

Friday night I'm having craft party someplace in SF ( to be defined, if I can pull it off) from 5 to 9 PM to make the badges and sashes . It is still a little uncertain if I can pull this detail off. Will send out an email on it later today or ring me at 415 640 3569

Agape for all!
-kevin mathieu
kevin@infoflow.com
415.640.3569
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