the 770 show • kelli yon

in the adobe books stacks, kelli yon found the book, "alien contact: the first fifty years" by jenny randles. on page 30 is a vivid image of a disc-shaped object over san francisco taken on october 10, 1956. this picture sparked an endeavor for kelli-she began training immediately to become a san francisco ufo field investigator for mufon (mutual ufo network). in early january 2011, a sighting was reported (mufon case # 27230) in san francisco's hayes valley neighborhood and as part of her research, kelli visited the location in hopes of encountering the unusual.

image 1: CA: UFO Alert 3, 2011, newsprint takeaway
image 2: page 30 from "alien contact: the first fifty years" (ufo over san francisco, 1956)

guest blogger • arden sherman • the 770 show

from san francisco's sunny mission district, this week's posts are from curator arden sherman's current project, the 770 show, where seven artists were invited to spend time in an iconic bookshop's stacks, discovering the wealth of ideas that present themselves when organization does not follow tradition. from the huge quantity of subject matter on hand, the artists mined the bookstore for images and responded to the found pictures through photography. taking up the complicated idea of order and organization through the simple act of selection and interpretation, the site acted as an integral part of staging the exhibition. throughout the week, arden will be posting the artists' work and projects from the 770 show in this online installment.