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800 page monster collection of 80's minicomix. Art by Marc Arsenault, Ion, Sam Henderson, Wayno and scores of others.
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I keep watching this again and again and again… By Marc Arsenault | July 3rd, 2009 |
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Tiena has been the premier events list for the New York State Capital District for over a decade. It’s members come from a wide range of artistic disciplines, interests, hobbies, activities and pathologies. This new tiena SoundCloud group was created to preserve an audio record of the activities by those involved. In other news… Anyone out there who takes photos and is a fan of Neil Gaiman’s book American Gods is invited to join a group I started on flickr called (wait for it…) American Gods House. I guarantee that the group description is very entertaining.
Alphabet will open at the Domy Books Austin at the HOW Conference this Wednesday. Ian Lynam - who visited the South Bay from Japan recently as part of Installation Five at Anno Domini - is one of the included designers and his curated collaborative font International Blackletter (which contains contributions by David D’Andrea, David Choe, myself and several others) is included in the show.
I’m getting revved up for this Saturday’s Sun Worship show at B789. I just confirmed that Asa Irons will be participating as well as birdorgan, Zeroking, and the Offset Needle Sounds. Show starts at 9pm. Cover is $7-10. B789 is a great new performance space in the lower mill building on One Government St in Rollinsford, NH. Entrance around back. Come join us for an evening of unique sound from four very diverse creators.
Jason Martin Live at Bowery Poetry Club, April 11, 2009 Jason will be doing a rare solo performance at Zebulon in Brooklyn on July 6, 2009. Event details | Event page on Facebook. This is a little experiment using a flash container for QuickTime. Please report any issues to marc {at] wowcool [dot} com. Click on the image if controller does not work. More information is on Google Code. Video was sucked out of Facebook using the great little Greasemonkey plugin for Firefox.
The place to be on the planet this Friday is San Jose California. The most insane First Friday event ever. I am totally serious. Here’s just some of the lineup that jumps out at me:
The Sub Zero Festival A diy, artistically bent, hi/lo-techno-mashup where street meets geek presented by ZER01 and South First Fridays. From dusk ‘til midnight between San Carlos and Reed Street, you’ll find two stages of entertainment plus 100 artists, performers, and musicians celebrating the indie creative spirit. Test-drive a custom low-rider bike, try your hands at stop motion, bear witness to urban yarn-bombing, travel back to the future for a nineties-look at cyber fashion, watch a little subversive TV and listen up for spontaneous acts of percussion. Follow SubZero Tweets Installation Five at Anno Domini And the big event… at The Blank Club it’s… Goldenchyld did an insane dubstep heavy mix at the monthly Machine Gun Funk night in SJ (see above), and I’m hoping for more like that. Have managed to miss FlyLo too many times (like the show w/ Kode 9 at NYC’s Museum of Natural History!) There are tons of other great artists and musicians involved in this collection of events, sorry I only got to the ones I know, but that’s how these things work I guess.
nickname: Rebel recorded an exclusive five-track session for Mark Whitby’s show on internet radio station Dandelion Radio, and you can hear it all during June, 2009. That’s nearly a half hour of new stuff made by Marc Arsenault, Tom Burre, Michael Keegan and Nick Carpenter. Recorded at Wow Cool in Cupertino, California. Dandelion Radio plays a 23-hour rotation of shows continuously, so you could listen to the show every single day, just one hour earlier each time. Check their schedule page for more details. Mark Whitby’s description of the show:‘An absolute clinker’, Richie Benaud might say, as the English cricket season hovers into view and the long summer evenings are filled with sounds of So Shush and Noise Annoys Simon and a very welcome EP reissue from 4our5ive6ix. And he might just be referring to the debut Dandelion Radio session of Nickname: Rebel, who deliver five tracks of such stunning ferocity, you might want to don a safety helmet. Dandelion Radio is an internet radio station founded in June 2006 with the aim of pursuing the musical legacy of the popular and influential BBC Radio 1 disk jockey John Peel. The station takes its name from the record label Dandelion Records founded and run by Peel between 1969 and 1972.
90-odd photos from this crazy DIY massive are up on flickr. See the whole set. Once upon a time in the magical land of Amsterdam, New York Jason and Colleen Martin - aged 6 and 4 respectively - started the band and television show Brown Cuts Neighbors. In between then and now things happened. Just recently they have completed some new videos. The first appears to be an homage to Lady, The Police Dog, star of the 1934 film “Fighting To Live” and 20-Minute Workout, but with wolves. The second is a tribute to the 1986 film “Heavy Metal Parking Lot“, but with Lady Gaga. Share and Enjoy. Four more, three more, two more…
Last week I attended the amazing 2009 SanFran MusicTech Summit hosted by the awesome Brian and Shoshana Zisk. Saw several great panels and got to meet many others in this strange world of the music business, including several who I had some pretty unlikely connections to. An interesting announcement I completely missed out on at the event was the proposal for the Music Data Exchange Format by BandMetrics. There was a great deal of talk about the expansion of meta data and the included content with the song being delivered expanding far beyond what we have now. I’m all for it. The MP3 and ID3 are, well, miserable. The future of sheet music and music publishing is also a hot topic. This recent post on Create Digital Music is worth a read. I’m still absorbing it all. There were many panels that actually became quite heated. Clearly all present want to bring the music industry into the future but there was not a universal vision for how that could come to pass. More blog posts on the event: View my photos of the event on flickr. UPDATE: More blog posts, photos and the New York Times: First singles plus a lovely B-Side from The forthcoming nickname: rebel LP New Rock Church of Fire. Recording engineered by Jason Martin in Troy, New York. Production and mix by Marc Arsenault. Share and Enjoy.
Opening Reception: First Friday, June 5, 2009 Exhibit on view thru June 20, 2009 A.D. Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design Gallery Hours: Frantasia Fest 2009: August Is Coming! Time To Plan…
Read the whole thing on the Offset Needle Radius blog. This is going to be a great show! Offset Needle Radius has added two shows to the Spring schedule. Details on the ONR blog or on the Wow Cool Events Page. Sorry to be so slack this week, dear reader. The last couple weeks were lucky to have a flood of upcoming events coming in. This week has been a complete crunch. I try not to do these bullet pointed, ellipsis heavy drill down type of posts, but that’s all you are gonna get this week. There really has been a lot going on. To get the daily Wow Cool fix, follow me at: http://twitter.com/gritboy. First up. nickname: Rebel has delivered it’s exclusive session tracks for Mark Whitby on Dandelion Radio. You can hear these all during the month of June on Mark’s show. For those who missed it and are all WTF? Old Troy, New York band nickname: Rebel has, in fact, reformed in the greater San Francisco bay area with the original members (minus certain drummers). Michael Keegan and Nick Carpenter (who you may know from Burnt Hills or Lincoln Money Shot… now CALMS), Tom Burre, and me, Marc Arsenault, are rocking the same familiar post-everything sounds just a scant 4 years after we last were together. Here’s a super non-representative out-take from the sessions. The totally falling apart track “Bring Down the Ride”. Some classic fake jazz.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. The real stuff is much better. That’s why this is an out take. Mysteriously it got mixed, so you get to hear it. The new Wow Cool shop is coming very soon. This business stuff takes time. Be patient. After what will be a literal flood of nickname: Rebel releases, the Brown Cuts Neighbors TV show will be getting the treatment it deserves. You will have something to fill that hole left in your life by the break between seasons of Lost, Dollhouse and Fringe. Stay tuned to this page for more news.
I am very pleased to relay that the publication of Michael Dower’s mammoth collection of minicomics has been announced by Fantagraphics Books, Inc. This thing is to be a serious 700+ page brick. It collects the very finest of old xeroxed mini comix, with the art printed at the originally published size. Featured artists include many names from the small press past of Wow Cool: Sam Henderson, Wayno, Roy Thompkins, Dennis Worden, Ion (aka Infinity) and me, Marc Arsenault. Some other artists included are: Fred Hembeck, The Pizz, Rick Geary, XNO, Bob X, J. R. Williams, Mack White, Daniel Clowes, and Doug Allen. Bug your local shop to order about a thousand of these or pre-order yours now from Amazon. Preview and description on Fantagraphics site. By Marc Arsenault | May 8th, 2009 |
Leave a commentCategories: Funny Books, Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool Paramilitary psychedelia in Coordinated Universal Time. In 1955, the caesium atomic clock was invented. This provided a form of timekeeping that was both more stable and more convenient than astronomical observations. In 1956, the U.S. National Bureau of Standards started to use atomic frequency standards in generating the WWV time signals, named for the shortwave radio station which broadcasts them. In a controversial decision, the frequency of the signals was initially set to match the rate of Universal Time, but then kept at the same frequency by the use of atomic clocks and deliberately allowed to drift away from UT. The Gregorian calendar is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius, and decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 by the papal bull Inter gravissimas. It is a reform of the Julian calendar. Gregory’s bull does not order any particular year numbering system, but uses the Anno Domini system which counts years from the traditional Incarnation of Jesus, and which spread throughout Europe during the middle ages. That is the same year numbering system that is the de facto international standard today.
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