Starting today (Thursday) UnBeige West will be blog-casting live from the Art Center Radical Craft conference, the only conference you might pay the money to go to, if it wasn't so damn expensive.

Thursday night we've got the New Yorker's Adam Gopnik (word craft) opening the event, with magic from Ricky Jay (witch craft). Wi-fi permitting, we'll be live blogging the keynote and whatever parties ensue. In the meantime, you can listen to a podcast with Chee Pearlman, program director, who speaks about the inspiration and execution of the conference.