It was rainbowing for at least an hour on January 8th 2010. It was incredible. The camera could not capture the vivid intensity and brightness.

Photo: Ray Yzguerra

Dan Haney’s Natural Disaster film will premier at 12am at the Okie Doke 4 show this Sat. Come through!

Join us this Saturn day for night of bloody, sweaty and teary fun. Photo exhibition, spoken word, live performances, Deejays and more.  RSVP w/ Facebook here.

Photo exhibition:
Brendan Klein
Ray Yzguerra
Marie Posa
Allan Castro
Jason Alegre
Rene Castro
Aryo

Film (12pm):
“Natural Disaster” by Dan Haney

Spoken word:
Maria Krissy Sugatan

Live performances:
Tygerstrype
YUPNOWZ

DJays:
Manboy
Vidal 143
Mr. Hamburger
Skullo
The Cuberican

21+
NO COVER

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CHOCOLATE & ART is an event dedicated to celebrating local underground artists in the Los Angeles Area. Come and join us for a night of live music, art, photography, nude body painting chocolate fountains and more. Plus a Quarter Bloom pop up shop. $5 COVER / 21+ / 8PM-2AM.

Natural Disaster is an independent skateboard experimental film by Daniel Haney which will be premiered at the Okie Doke 4 “Blood, Sweat & Tears” show on July 10. Come through!

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We’re kicking off this summer with another special QB event.

Photo exhibition: Brendan Klein, Ray Yzguerra, Marie Posa, Allan Castro, Jason Alegre, Rene Castro & Aryo

Film: “Natural Disaster” by Dan Haney

Spoken word: Maria Krissy Sugatan

Live performances: Tygerstrype & YUPNOWZ

DJays: Manboy, Vidal 143, Mr. Hamburger, Skullo & The Cuberican

21+
NO COVER

Stay tuned for more info.

Film, Photo Exhibition, Live Performances, Spoken Word & DJays. More details coming soon.

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Here’s Betelgeuse. It’s a star. A really big, prominent one. If you go outside and take a look at the constellation Orion, it’s his right shoulder.

That might not look like much, but it is. There are only about a dozen stars in the universe that can be imaged as a disc, instead of a point, on even the largest telescopes. We can see sunspots on it. This star is staggeringly enormous, it’s about 1000 times the diameter of the sun. If you took Betelgeuse and overlaid it on the Sun, the outer edge of the star would be somewhere out by the orbit of Saturn. It is the ninth-largest star in the observable universe.

It’s also old. Not in absolute terms, it’s only about 8.5 million years old. But in terms of stellar lifetimes, it’s a doddering old fart. It’s a red supergiant and is way off the main sequence. That means that it’s already burned up its supply of hydrogen, and is currently burning helium and heavier elements, working its way up to iron. And when stars start accumulating iron in their cores, they’re not long for this universe; the fusion of iron is endothermic, so once iron starts building up there’s no more internal outward pressure to counter gravitational collapse, and when that happens we get a nice big Type II supernova, with a neutron star or black hole left over.

It’s been suspected for a while that Betelgeuse is an excellent candidate for a supernova at some time within the next few thousand years. Supergiants don’t last long, because they’re so huge. More gravitational pressure means the fusion reaction runs at a higher rate, so the most massive supergiants can burn through their hydrogen in under a million years. So 8.5 million years is pretty old for a supergiant. And Betelgeuse has been *shrinking*, which is a death throe. It’s been shrinking, in fact, since 1993; in June of last year, it was only 85% as big as it was back then. And the rate of shrink has been accelerating.

Well, now there’s a new rumor, supposedly from the Mauna Kea observatory, that the rate of shrinkage has gotten so fast that the star isn’t round anymore. Since a star spins, conservation of angular momentum means that when it undergoes gravitational collapse, it’ll happen faster along the polar axis than along an equatorial one. But it would have to be *very* fast for this to show up as a distinct oblateness.

If this rumor is true, then it’s likely that that time frame changes from “within the next few thousand years” to “within the next few months. Or weeks.” You could walk outside tonight and see a star in the very final stages of still being a star (well, if you’re in the right hemisphere). And if it blows, it will be spectacular; the best-observed supernova in history occurred back in 1054, and that one was visible, *in broad daylight*, for 23 days, and visible at night for about two years. And that star was 6300 light years away, and Betelgeuse is only 600. At the very outside, this could be twice as bright as a full moon.

Don’t worry, it’s too far away to hurt anything. But man, would that be incredible to witness.

-Phanatic

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Release party for Madlib Medicine Show #6: The Brain Wreck Show and Paul White & The Purple Brain at Palete Food+Wine, 993 S. Brand Blvd, Glendale CA, 4PM-9PM.  Free wine til 6 (or until we drink it all).  Egon & guests are DJing.

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