Elliot Lessing

• Age: 45
• Gender: Male
• Astrological Sign: Gemini
• Zodiac Year: Dragon
• Industry: Arts
• Occupation: Executive Director
• Location: San Francisco : CA : United States

About Me

Elliot Lessing, is Executive Director for COCA Center for Outdoor Contemporary Art. He is artistic, warm, personal, funny, interested, civic. He enjoys Contemporary Art, culture, film, books, media, music, and new ideas.

Interests

• Contemporary Art
• Interdisciplinary Projects & Philosophy
• Paper-based Printed Materials & Ephemera
• Paul Rand Design
• Push Pin Studios Design
• Baking
• Film
• Fiction (The Novel)
• Creative Civic Action
• Community-building
• Oddball Collections
• MAD Magazine
• Visionary Architecture
• Los Angeles
• New York
• Public Art
• Nature
• Cities
• Experiencing Art in de-insitutionalized settings
• Bigfoot
• UFOs
• Documentary Film
• Photography
• New Yorker Magazine
• Old Classic TV
• The New York Times
• Wacky Packs
• Claymation
• Art Clokey
• eating
• dining with friends
• listening to a rare bootleg CD
• mailing postcards
• alternative art spaces
• museums
• galleries
• libraries
• Nature
• Don Rickles
• Ernie Kovacs
• Phyllis Diller
• Garage Sales
• Swap Meets

Favorite Movies

• Le Trou
• All About Lily Chou Chou
• Los Olvidados
• The Wizard of Oz
• My Man Godfrey
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
• My Best Fiend
• Rope
• Dial M for Murder
• North by Northwest
• Strangers on a Train
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Dr. Strangelove
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Lord of the Flies
• The Exorcist
• Christine
• Assault on Precinct 13
• all Laurel & Hardy Films
• Stranger than Paradise
• Down by Law
• The River
• Kiss Me Deadly
• Film Noir
• French New Wave
• The Tenant
• Rosmary's Baby
• Citizen Kane
• Bride of Frankenstein
• King Kong
• Fantasia 1 & 2
• The Eel
• Vengeance is Mine
• In Cold Blood
• Warner Brothers Cartoons
• Disney Animation
• Warhol and New York documentaries by Ric Burns
• Salesman
• Nick Broomfield documentaries
• Herzog Documentaries
• Shirley Temple Films
• Marx Brothers Films
• Breathless
• Weekend
• Pedro Amaldovar Films
• Winged Migration
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Escape from Alcatraz
• The Fog
• Young Frankenstein
• Blazing Saddles
• South Park: The Movie
• Escape from New York
• Nature Documentaries (any)
• Charlie Chaplin Films
• Magnum Force
• The Cable Guy
• Night of the Living Dead
• Jerry Lewis Films
• Boy! Did I Get The Wrong Number?!
• Man with the X-Ray Eyes
• Sunset Boulevard
• A Hard Day's Night
• Film Noir
• The Wild Bunch
• Two-Lane Blacktop
• Warren Oates anything

Favorite Music

• Miles Davis
• The Beatles
• The Posies
• The Zombies
• Al Green
• Sly and the Family Stone
• Jellyfish
• John Coltrane
• Soft Machine
• Roland Kirk
• David Bowie
• Blondie
• Nina Simone
• Screamin' Jay Hawkins
• ELO
• The Descendents
• Saccharine Trust
• Meat Puppets
• Black Flag
• Jazzanova
• Koop
• Gilles Peterson
• James Brown
• D'Angelo
• The Damned
• The Stranglers
• The Buzzcocks
• The Knack
• Zumpano
• From Bubblegum to Sky
• Supergrass
• Erykah Badu
• Supergrass
• Rachel Sweet
• Nick Lowe
• The Knack
• Big Star
• Todd Rundgren
• CRASS
• The Smiths
• The Jam
• Prince
• Madness
• The Specials
• Matthew Sweet
• Sloan
• Elliott Smith
• Badly Drawn Boy
• Tiny Tim
• Marisa Monte
• Can
• Nicola Conte
• The Beach Boys (Pet Sounds
• Wild Honey)
• Veruca Salt
• Carl Craig
• Elton John (70's)
• Blur
• Talking Heads
• Brian Eno
• The Clash
• Minutemen. Dinosaur Jr
• Steely Dan
• Silver Sun
• The 88
• Current Favorite Artists/Bands: Matthew Herbert
• Miles Davis
• Jill Scott
• Dee-lite
• Jamie Lidell
• Gilles Peterson Live BBC Sessions
• CD Mixes (Soul)
• Joss Stone
• Roisin Murphy

Favorite Books

• The Information and London Fields by Martin Amis
• Cosmopolis and Underworld by Don Delillo
• Great Apes by Will Self
• Glam-o-Rama
• America Psycho
• and Lunar Park by Brett Easton Ellis
• Trainspotting and Filth by Irvine Welsh
• my old worn hardback Webster's Dictionary
• my coverless tattered book by Edward Lear from my childhood
• pop-up books

My Blogs	Team Members
I am the Anti-Crisis
Parkopolis
Magic Lantern
Silver Sun
COCA Now
Shangri La