The Wow Cool Garden has taken a lot of bloody work. Four 4′x8′ raised beds. Redwood. 128 Square Feet. 9 cubic yards of soil. Over a ton of rock for the path (scored those babies on freecycle). Man, my back hurts. Lots going on. Stay tuned. [...]
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Categories: Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool Yes. The Wow Cool shop has finally re-opened. I guess you could call this a beta stage. Some products are not on there yet. Some art is either fuzzy or squashed. But, otherwise, everything should work just fine. Currently shipping is strictly via USPS Priority Mail. Feedback is appreciated. [...] NEWAVE Minicomix brick gets rave review from The Onion’s AV Club Strotter Inst. and Offset Needle Radius Vs. birdorgan will be playing next Friday, April 2 at 119 Gallery in Lowell, MA Steve Goodman’s (AKA Kode9) Sonic Warfare book, which was written about here previously, now has a blog. Simon Gane has posted an excessively lovely illo to [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | March 28th, 2010 |
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Categories: Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool, music Bahman Ghobadi, the director of the movie “No One Knows About Persian Cats” says why every one can watch his movie without paying for it, while his movies are banned in Iran. He asks people to support anyone working for underground music like the children in the movie. If it’s not playing near you, I’m [...] [...] fognozzle, the noise act I was part of in the mid-90s with Mister Pete Von Petrin, that was relaunched solo a couple years ago by Pete has announced it’s retirement. Following is the statement released today on facebook: Crawling back into my hole. Attached is a link to a free download the final fognozzle track (at [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | March 22nd, 2010 |
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Categories: Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool, music 1 weekend, 1 thrift store toy, 1 Arduino, and 1 obsessed geek. Scott is one half of Evidence, Brown Cuts Neighbors’ former steel pan player and the original drummer/co-conspirator in nickname: Rebel. [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | February 23rd, 2010 |
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Categories: Funny Books, Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool, music .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } ArtofZines11, originally uploaded by Marc Arsenault – Wow Cool. The Art of Zines show opened at Anno Domini Gallery in Downtown San Jose this past Friday. Stacked on shelves along the walls are dozens of [...] [...] During at least the last two February’s, Ranjit Bhatnagar has built and blogged an instrument a day for the whole month. Ranjit works with interactive and sound installations, with scanner photography, and with internet-based collaborative art; and, he has been maintaining his personal web site moonmilk.com in one form or another since 1993. The moonmilk [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | February 4th, 2010 |
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Categories: Why We Do This, Wow Cool, music In case you missed Fluke on tour recently with Andrew Jackson Jihad, you can pick up the latest issue from me at Anno Domini’s Art of Zines show in San Jose this Friday. Published in Tucson, Arizona, 2010. 68 pages, half size, offset print, $2.00 by hand, $4.00 by mail. interviews with Christ on Parade, [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | February 2nd, 2010 |
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Categories: Andy's Chair, Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool, music There is a nice little writeup of the NEWAVE! Minicomics book by the esteemed Mark Frauenfelder on today’s edition of BoingBoing. Go read that thang. NEWAVE! is now in stock and ready to ship from Amazon. UPDATE: Some photos from the release party at the Fantagraphics Bookstore/Gallery. [...] By Marc Arsenault | February 1st, 2010 |
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Categories: Funny Books, Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool Get on down to the glorious DTSJ (that’s Down Town San Jose, folks) for the South First Friday art walk this coming February 5th; and, do not fail to stop in at Anno Domini for their Art of Zines show. Wow Cool will be at a table there hawking our wares, too. All the details [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | January 26th, 2010 |
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Categories: Funny Books, Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool It’s Official! Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery in Seattle, Washington will be hosting a release party for this massive brick of a book on January 30, 2010. The event marks the debut of their new Spectacular Saturday series. The show will feature original art and graphics by underground mini comix pioneers Jaimie Alder, Jim Blanchard, Wayne [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | January 19th, 2010 |
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Categories: Funny Books, Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool More previews and info on Fantagraphics site. Pre-order yours today! Newave!: The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s on Amazon. [...] By Marc Arsenault | January 12th, 2010 |
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Categories: Funny Books, Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool Plan to go see Wow Cool’s and about about a bazillion other publisher’s zines at Anno Domini’s 2009 Art of Zines exhibit. It opens on Friday, February 5, 2010. Reception begins at 8pm. There will be live music and Marc Arsenault (me) will be there in the stinkin’ flesh. Thanks to Cherri from AD for [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | January 9th, 2010 |
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Categories: Funny Books, Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool That’s pretty self-explanatory. Details follow. For those that don’t know, Anno Domini is the best gallery in San Jose. They’ve been written about here before. We at Anno Domini are resurrecting our Art of Zines exhibition (a former annual event) and we are contacting you because we are still in need of great zines. We believe zines [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | January 6th, 2010 |
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Categories: Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool I was invited to be a special guest on Don Campau’s excellent No Pigeonholes show at KKUP 91.5 FM’s new studios in San Jose on Sunday, December 13th, 2009. We breezed through 20 years of the Wow Cool label in two hours; and, featured at least a dozen tracks: from the first Wow Cool cassette [...] [...] SHARE SJ Jam October 28, 2009 from Marc Arsenault on Vimeo. Villa Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA SHARE San Jose open jam. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into a common system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. Participants at this meeting included Tim Thompson with his Loopy Cam, Fred Lakin with matchbooks [...] [...] Gold Bear Lego Bricks, by Marc Arsenault on flickr. An entire brand new bag of Haribo Gold-Bears was left in the car. They melted into a nasty gummy blob. I plopped it on top of a Lego silicone ice brick mold under glass out in the sun. It melted back down into bricks. Leave to cool, [...] [...] nickname: Rebel’s song ‘August’ opens the new film from John Culhane: Radio Free Blissville. See it at a film festival near you in 2010. We will update the events page here with screenings as they are confirmed. Trailer, photos and more information on GlassCapsule.com. The year is 2013. There has recently been a huge satellite war [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | October 6th, 2009 |
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