As mentioned here recently, Pete Von Petrin just did a little West Coast Tour with his noise making springs and such. To close things off he made an appearance on Portland’s KPSU with fellow local sound meister Horaflora. For the facebook enabled, Mr. Von Petrin has posted his tour notes and thanks. [...]
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My colleague Richard Pell is profiled on We Make Money Not Art this week and you should go read that. Not convinced? It starts like this: “If you want to see a penguin, you go to the zoo. If you’re curious about dinosaurs and dodos, any natural history museum will enlighten you. But where do [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | April 21st, 2011 |  Leave a comment
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Categories: Video, Why We Do This, Wow Cool I’m writing this right after getting home from the second show on Pete Von Petrin’s West Coast Spring Tour, where I joined him for a special fognozzle reunion. Thank you so much to the super enthusiastic (and freaking huge) West Oakland crew! As one guest told me, “the room is expanding to fit all the [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | April 16th, 2011 | One comment
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Get down to your local comic book emporium today, Wednesday, April 13 to pick up the third and last installment of the Siege of Paris story in Brian Wood’s Northlanders with art by Simon Gane. Pictured above is a character sketch of Mads from the book, as posted on Simon’s Blog along with many other [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | April 13th, 2011 | Leave a comment
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It’s Last Gasp’s 41st birthday, and to celebrate four decades of publishing the art of the underground, 111 Minna Gallery will host the 2nd annual Last-Gasp-curated art show. It’s the perfect after-party for the first day of Wondercon. Last Gasp is one of the largest and oldest publishers and purveyors of underground comic books in [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | March 28th, 2011 | Leave a comment
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Get down to your local comic book shop today to get the latest issue of Brian Wood’s Northlanders. It is part 2 of The Siege of Paris, illustrated by Simon Gane. Cover art by Massimo Carnevale. “The Siege Of Paris” continues as foot soldier Mads documents the brutality of the siege and winter threatens to do [...] [...] 
Oakland, California-based Swarm Gallery welcomes Ohio-based sound artist and former Brown Cuts Neighbors bassist, Seth Cluett, for his installation in their project space, on view from March 5 – April 10, 2011. This installation is part three of the year-long sound program “Building Steam,” curated by Jeff Eisenberg, Svea Lin Soll, and Aaron Ximm. Seth Cluett’s [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | March 4th, 2011 | Leave a comment
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Categories: music, Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool Returning for a fourth installment is the Instrument A Day all during February on MoonMilk.com. This years installment features some of the most and least (but to good effect) ambitious projects yet. Moonmilk comes to us from sound artist (and Brooklyn neighbor) Ranjit Bhatnagar. The project is also viewable as a flickr set of photos [...] [...] You are invited to view DREAMSCAPE: New Paintings by Lacey Bryant Opening reception: February 25th 7-10pm Art, food & music! The Usuals 1020 The Alameda, San Jose, CA 95126 USA Lacey was, of course, one of the star artists of the Psycho Nurse! 2011 Calendar from Wow Cool. [...] By Marc Arsenault | February 24th, 2011 | Leave a comment
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There used to be a great feature in the magazine The Comics Journal called the swipe file, where a classic piece of comic art was held up next to a more recent piece that usually resembled it a bit too much to be mere coincidence. The best know modern version is, of course, the You [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | February 21st, 2011 | One comment
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Some vital recent cultural moments you may have missed. The multi-talented Mark Sunshine (singer of Monster Magnet splinter faction Riot God and an artist most awesome) has updated his site again. Minimal, bold, and links to greatness. Sam McPheeters of Vermiform/Born Against/etc. fame has released a collection of his early 1990s Hardcore Punk Zine Dear Jesus, as [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | February 17th, 2011 | Leave a comment
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Saturday February 5th concluded the performances for this trip to the Northwest, with a live broadcast on the What’s This Called show on KPSU 1450am in Portland, Oregon, available for download HERE – February 5, 2011 show. (See Ricardo Wang’s digital photos of the performance HERE:::) The good news is that we were on [...] [...] 
Joshua Baker is taking the Offset Needle Radius on the road in the Pacific Northwest starting tomorrow, Tuesday, February 1, with an appearance on Olympia’s Radio KAOS FM. The eighth installment of the Sun Worship series has also been announced for March 19 at the Buoy Gallery in Kittery Maine. Offset Needle Radius 2011 Dates Event Venue City Date Time Notes Map Offset [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | January 31st, 2011 | Leave a comment
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Categories: music, Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool Yes, Daniel Johnston is walking the cow straight to a spinner rack near you with a full length comic book and accompanying set of songs, and he is financing it with Kickstarter. As of this writing it has already passed its’ funding goal of $10,000 by nearly $7,000 more, and there is over a month [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | January 27th, 2011 | Leave a comment
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Comic story in overlapping panels. SVA Jam from 1987 featuring the usual suspects Contributions by: Paul Komoda, Tom Hart, the late Burt Schlatter, Susan Cotter, Sam Henderson, Amantha Tsaros, Ben Jackson, Seth W. Rosenfeld, ion, Mikko Meronen, Edward Gorey (rubber stamp) and myself, Marc Arsenault. This was not completed in one place but passed around for [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | January 26th, 2011 | Leave a comment
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Straight from 23rd Street from over 20 years ago, we present the first in an irregular series of vintage School of Visual Arts cartoon art jams. These will mainly be from the late-80′s crew of people that were affiliated with the popular off-campus publications of the time, Funny Garbage (who, many years later, designed the [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | January 25th, 2011 | Leave a comment
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Joshua Baker has released a Bonus track from the upcoming Offset Needle Radius release Fiona’s Week (2011, Offset Sounds Vs. Wow Cool). Give a listen below. More info on the ONR Blog. Whatever T.W.T.D by OffsetSound FIONAS WEEK TRACK LISTING 1. Fionas Week 2. Floor Puzzles 3. The Point of Light 4. Steam Power 5. Window Eyes 6. Compressor 7. Gigapus Offset Needle Radius is [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | January 11th, 2011 | Leave a comment
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I seem to be a big deal. Hello to all those on the Apple Campus wondering who this smiling fellow is. Yes, the newest issue of Cupertino California’s The C – Cupertino Magazine, features yours truly, Marc Arsenault on the cover. It can be picked up at various locations around town. The magazine is advertising [...] [...] 2010 really is the year sound art broke. I predict that Susan Philipsz will be the ‘next Susan Boyle’; and her sales of Scottish folksong CDs will make that £25,000 Turner prize money look like small change. Currently her recordings are only available to listen to in the environments they were created for. There are [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | December 8th, 2010 | Leave a comment
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Here we are with another out-take from the Psycho Nurse! 2011 Calendar. This is one that landed on the cutting room floor. It’s based on Roy Lichtenstein’s 1964 painting “Nurse” . Couldn’t quite get it to work for the printed calendar. [...] By Marc Arsenault | November 9th, 2010 | Leave a comment
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