For those of you who can stomach it, there’ll be a live, outdoor projection of the State of the Union speech tomorrow (Tuesday) at Market and Sanchez. It starts at 6. Press release below:

VIDEO ARTIST TO PROJECT STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS

Experiment in distorted projection of George W. Bush speech at Market and
Sanchez

SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area video artist Bijan Yashar will project in
real-time George W. Bush’s 2006 State of the Union address onto a wall
adjacent to a defunct Shell gas station at the Corner of Market and
Sanchez. He will filter the live speech through a camera utilizing extreme
and shifting angles to underscore point of view and bias in political
posturing.

Yashar performed similar experiments for the 2003 and 2005 State of the
Union speeches. The events took place in San Francisco at the corner of
Market and Sanchez (2003) and the corner of Market and Duboce (2005). In
2003 he distorted and projected the televised image of the speech in
real-time from a Shell gas station onto an adjacent building. About 170
people gathered to watch the projection. The event was covered on Channel
5 Eyewitness News, KRON 4 News, and CNN News. In 2005 the speech was
projected above a Union 76 gas station directly across the San Francisco
Mint Facility, and was covered in the San Francisco Chronicle.

For more information and images from the 2003 and 2005 projects, please
visit http://web.mac.com/byashar/iWeb.

This just might make listening to the speech tolerable. Maybe.