@joonspoon, Sea Rocket, and Art Produce Gallery are teaming up to present a free outdoor movie in the community space behind the gallery. Meet up at Sea Rocket before the movie for dinner and get a free tapas appetizer. By the way, shark populations worldwide are not healthy, so you won't find it on our menu.

We'll be watching Jaws, the 1975 Spielberg thriller about an enormous shark eating people. Watch the trailer, then come enjoy the 70's special effects and iconic music.

Join us on Sunday, September 19th at 7:30pm. Bring a lawn chair... and some booze. Here's the flier.

To make your day complete, spend the afternoon drinking for the Pints for Prostrates fundraiser. Take the free bus between all the DrinkAbout craft beer bars and $1 from each beer you buy will got to the cause.

Sea Rocket is proud to present the artwork of our Ray Street neighbor, Katherine Brannock. Katherine is showing some incredible ink drawings, "Creatures", as well as a unique painting throughout the restaurant interior that will change over the coming weeks.

Brannock is a San Diego native and received her education in University of California Santa Cruz, and Watts Atelier in Encinitas. Her exhibition experience includes Mark Murphy's "The Know Show" at Art Basel, Miami. Her mastery of drawing and unique subject matter pull the viewer in to what seem to be elements of a reality or story we want her to complete for us. Brannock explains this has always been her goal: to tell stories. She is continuing in the essentially American tradition of pulp comics and taking the art form to a new level.

We're throwing a party to welcome Brannock on Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 5pm. Please join us to celebrate this collaboration and check out some really amazing work.

We're located in the center of a vibrant creative community and invite local artists to show their work in our space so we and our neighbors have a chance get to know them. 100% of art sales go to the artist.

I've been to a lot of weddings. We all have. But yesterday, I went to a wedding that changed the lens through which I'll experience all future weddings. Watch this video and you'll see what I mean...

You know you live in a cool neighborhood when you get invited to a wedding at a bike shop, especially one called Velo Cult. This video only captures about 2 hours of the entire weekend's worth of activity, starting with picnics in Bird Park with Miho Gastrotruck serving food, drinks at El Take it Easy, then what you see in this video (Velo Cult and The Station), and finishing with a party at Jay and Katie's house.

By the way, the music in the video is The Silent Comedy. Maybe you've seen them at the Casbah or the NPMT. If you haven't, do yourself a favor and see them live! They're doing a free acoustic set at the W this Thursday, August 26th at 7pm.

So I hope you're noticing now that the video is time lapse. Back in March, CNN published an article about time lapse photography and ever since I've been fascinated with it. Most cameras can be rigged to take photos on a regular basis, say every 60 seconds, but I ended up buying the Go Pro which has that feature built in. It has the advantages also of being super small and made for sports so you can knock it around all you want, or mount it to the top of your electric motorcycle helmet!

Creating the video is easy on a Mac with the software you already have.

The beauty of time lapse is that you can compress time and see things in a way that you wouldn't ordinarily be able to. This wedding time lapse helps you feel the 2 hour event overall without being distracted by every detail. Or a time lapse of the stars helps you see their path when it would normally happen too slow to perceive. Different ways of looking at life help us see things we never saw before, even if they seem obvious after the fact. We've all been guilty, at one time or another, of not seeing the reality right in front of our faces.

A lot of restaurants close their doors on Mondays. And it's natural that after a long weekend of enjoying the weather here in San Diego, you need to buckle down and re-focus on your work week. But we're open 7 nights a week at Sea Rocket and we miss seeing you on Mondays. We recognize that it's not practical to eat out every night of the week because things can add up when you're tempted by such great food and end up getting a starter, entree, dessert, and drinks! So, because we also like to eat out and get a great deal on great food, we'll be offering a Monday Night Prix Fixe Dinner option starting on Monday, September 13th (we're closed on Labor Day, Monday 9/6). This special will run for the rest of the year 2010!

Here's how it will work. For $25 total, you get:

***Choice of Draft Beer or House Wine (currently from Pear Valley)

***Cup of Soup or Starter Salad (currently Roasted Beet Salad or Summer Farm Salad)

***Choice of Entree, not to exceed a $16 menu value

***Choice of Cupcake (currently Red Velvet, Coconut, or Carrot)

Depending on what exact combination of things you order, you'll be saving up to $9 per person! Prix fixe deal is per person, not to be shared and not to be combined with any other offer, discount, coupon, or promotion. Available on Mondays only.