Fecal Face Dot Gallery : Mike Shine - 8 Tracks and Wallbangers.

Comment by AB: According to Mike Shine's calling card, he makes "creepy driftwood art." According to me, he's pretty damn good at it. Plus he does up the gallery walls shanty-style. Plus there's this gigantic pitcher of Harvey Wallbangers lookin' for mouths to empty itself into (and more where that one came from). And we're all gonna live happily ever after-- tonight anyway. Down the hatch! The majority of art priced in the $400 range.

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Mollusk Surf Shop : The Ron Stoner Show.

Comment by AB: Curator Serena Miller tells me Ron Stoner is generally considered to be the premiere surfer photographer of the mid- to late 1960's, particularly with respect to his use of color, with much of his work originally appearing in Surfer Magazine. He mysteriously vanished at the height of his career and has not been seen or heard from since. And so the legend lives on. Images are available in limited editions and range $350-$1000.

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Lower Haters : Ferris Plock - Slay the Giant.

Comment by AB: Giant robots are trashing the joint; see the consequences of that incredible and entertaining devastation here. Another satisfying show for Ferris Plock.

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Gallery 94124, 3900B 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94124: The Sixth Annual Altered Barbie Show.

Comment by AB: Barbie gets sliced, diced, wigged, de-wigged, socially relevant, politicized, sex-changed, converted, consecrated, reconfigured, reincarnated, caged, canonized, crated, casketized, and much much more. This quintessential only-in-San-Francisco flip-out also features revelry, sworn devotees, cake, awards, eccentrics, testimonials, characters, historians, scholars, diatribes, toot, zoink, phlurb, a reporter from Reuters trying to make sense of it all, video, fashion plates, and Lord only knows what else.

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