Jon Rubin is an American artist living and working in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He's also a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. His work "feeds people with waffles."
Located in Pittsburgh, The Waffle Shop: A Reality Show is open weekend nights serving waffles and allows local residents to host their own live talk show in the restaurant. The talk shows stream live and are archived on the Waffle Shop website. The building also has a billboard with customizable messages. The project was located on 124 South Highland Ave. in the East Liberty Neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The ISA was a free and experimental art school that operated for two years in San Francisco, California. It offered no accreditation nor did it have a physical location. The school operated using a barter system (students traded labor hours for school) and remained nomadic until its conclusion. The ISA group realized several events and exhibition as a group including The Black Market Auction, The Show and Tell, and others.
bold, bright in the lights/flashes by caught your eye/saved you a spot in line/anxiously waiting
outside/oh, man, that’s my jam/two-dollar cover get your hand stamped/through the door hit the
floor/dance, dance, party/radio, radio/makes you lonely/broken records spinning/looking for a new
routine/get in where you fit in/20-somethings magazine/drift away on dreams for few/cut your teeth on
the moon/you’re coming down soon/hi, full of surprise/like i just left watkins memorial high/spare
change, enough to survive/on a full-time gig, loving life/when that gets old, we’ll soon follow/still stuck
inside the club/toy guns in strip mall pubs/wishing we were more adventurous/big city baby thirty is
twenty/move to the beat like you’re in a hurry/mid-life crisis happens early/everything that you want to
know/a little rebellion’s better than settling/sex, drugs and self-control/act like you belong/people to
meet places to go/all together harmonious arrangement/everybody gets lost in the mix/navigating