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View from SF Art Book Fair (July 24)

One of San Francisco's best weekends

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

Discommunication, a fantastic book of street photography by Hiroshima, Japan–based artist Yoshi Yubai (right, white t-shirt), published by Landslide, a Sydney, Australia–based imprint run by Jake Wotherspoon (left), is part of the ongoing SF Art Book Far (sfartbookfair.com), which opened last night, Thursday, July 23, and runs through Sunday, July 26.

I wrote the book’s essay (which I’ll publish online in the near future), and I spent the second half of today, Friday, at the fair, where Landslide held its launch event (at booth D14, shown here), at 1150 25th Street in San Francisco, aka part of the Minnesota Street Project (minnesotastreetproject.com).

I’m going to try to make it back Sunday, July 26, in part to hang out some more at the Landslide booth, and also for the Santino “Tino” Gonzales (santinogonzales.com) performance for his Holy Dirt album release from Deep Time Press. And, you know, to buy some more books.

Event: SF Art Book Fair (July 24)

Introducing the book Discommunication (Landslide) by Yoshi Yubai

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

I am excited to report that I wrote the essay for a gorgeous new book, Discommunication, by Japanese street photographer Yoshi Yubai, released by the Australian publisher Landslide. There will be a signing for the book at the San Francisco Art Book Fair on Friday, July 24, from 4pm to 6pm at booth D14. I’ll be there. Come say hello.

Details at landslide.sydney + sfartbookfair.com + instagram.com/yoshi_yubai.

On Repeat: Roulette, Parish, Mün

Home/office playlist

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all.

▰ This is a cool coincidence. Last week I mentioned the great new album, Shards, by the trio of electronic musician BlankFor.ms, pianist Jason Moran, and drummer Marcus Gilmore, and I linked to an archival live video of a different artist from the excellent NYC venue Roulette — and now here’s a brand new video of that trio themselves at Roulette (bonus: multi-camera, so you can see what each person is up to). A great merger of jazz and electronic approaches. Interestingly, this show was billed with Moran and Gimore essentially supporting BlankFor.ms, which is not quite how the trio’s two albums have been billed. Not sure what’s up with that. Two other groups are mentioned in the YouTube description, but that’s because they played the same night. They’re not in this video. Recorded May 1, 2026. 

▰ Fresh live footage of Shane Parish performing one of his Autechre guitar arrangements.

Here’s the original, for comparison enjoyment’s sake:

▰ Olec Mün fills a brightly lit space with drones, and then fills the drones with bits of melody and, eventually, around two fifths of the way through, with pulsing beats, before cycling back around. (Olec Mün is the music-making moniker of Marcelo Schnock, who is originally from Argentina and lives in Barcelona.)