Wow Cool at Art of Zines Show in San Jose

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 [...] [...]

Call for ZINES- Art of Zines exhibit at Anno Domini

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 [...] [...]

No Pigeonholes Wow Cool Special

Don Campau and John Hayden at KKUP 91.5 FM

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 San Jose jam video

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

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 song in film Radio Free Blissville

Radio Free Blisssville

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 [...] [...]

Target.com Quietly Drops Thousands of Indie & Small Press Products from Online Store

This page and many more like it no longer exists on Target.com

For many small and independent authors, publishers, musicians and filmmakers, Amazon Advantage has been a terrific program to get your product out to a national audience and offer it for sale. For the last few years Advantage members have had the bonus of having their products available through Target.com as well. It seems that that [...] [...]

Why We Do This 4: Tim Yohannan

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Tim Yohannan and late-80′s Gilman Street crew, originally uploaded by acrofish. He was the general contractor on that which we did that was secret. He was a good friend and inspiration and is still greatly missed. [...] [...]

New Scientific Maps Album – Free Download

hold on whoever you art

Former nickname: Rebel champion all-’rounder Aaron Smith has been busy. He spent most of February writing and recording an entire album titled ‘hold on whoever you are’. Almost thirty minutes of brand new songs. It was all for the RPM Challenge , where you’re meant to record an album in 28 days. nickaname: Rebel and [...] [...]

nickname: Rebel Listen To Me 2008 finalist on Dandelion Radio

Genius DJ Mark Whitby has placed my band nickname: Rebel in the list of the final 10 nominees in his “Listen To Me 2008“. Tune in to his show on Dandelion Radio to hear who came out on top. Be sure to also check out the nine other excellent bands. In case you are not [...] [...]

Alternative Distribution Methods

Three Pack Bonanza

If you’ve ever self-published… from the old xerox and staple to things like Blurb and Lulu… then there’s a chance that you’ve done the classic method of non-standard distribution of your product: The old ‘reverse-shoplift’ yourself onto the shelf of a local store that otherwise wouldn’t deal with you (I think I only ever did [...] [...]

Cupertino Heirloom Tomato Salsa

guac

I’d gotten it in my head I was going to make some salsa fresca with a variety of heirloom tomatoes. This was something I hadn’t really delved into much due to the limited availability of such in my old digs. But, a few months ago I got some crazy heirloom tomatoes as part of a [...] [...]

I’m a Mowin’, Roastin’, Compostin’ Fool

Beef Brisket

So, yeah, we just moved. Still getting settled in, but some new systems are starting to slide into place… Here’s a few from today. First time out with the new manual mower. Will pay for itself in about 6 weeks. We don’t really have much grass. There will be less soon. Food Not Lawns! I figured I [...] [...]

Heroes Con is One Week Away

Heroes Con - Charlotte

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Announcement Thingy

OK. I’ve finally had a [minor] breakthrough on setting up the new Wow Cool online shop [7 months in the making!] So I feel a little more confident to do this announcement thing. Wow Cool is moving back to California and regular operation after nearly a decade of slagging off in New York and Tennessee. [...] [...]

nickname: Rebel – R is for Riot album is done – RPM Challenge Success

R is for Riot

OK. I just spent the month of February taking the RPM Challenge-record an album of at least 10 songs or 35 minutes in 29 days. Easy, right? Except I’m down in Knoxville and the band (Brown Cuts Neighbors, nickname: Rebel, anyone!) is now scattered to the four corners. I was talked into this mad venture [...] [...]

Working on the new record

I’ll post every few entries on my RPM Blog here as they build up during this long desperate month of recording… Just 17 days left. Obscure Functions of the RPM Challenge I pretty quickly realized that this would be where I finally cut my teeth on Logic Studio 8. I know fuck-all about it now, but expect [...] [...]

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