Cindy Crabb has just sent us a communique to announce that she is funding part of the printing on the latest collection of her popular Doris zine with a Kickstarter project. Her first collection Doris: An Anthology 1991-2001 is still available. The Encyclopedia of Doris is due the end of July...
Read moreYDLMIER V – Tape Release Show – Flandrew Floft – Boston, MA – 05/13/11
Offset Needle Radius Release Show Friday
Who YDLMIER V – Tape Release Show When Friday, May 13, 2011 8:00pm – All Ages Where Flandrew Floft (map) email for directions – Zerfallt [at] gmail [dot] com Boston, MA, USA Other Info Release show for new cassettes on the Ydlmier label. The new 47 minute “Spoke...
Read moreComing Soon: Nelson
This is the one graphic novel you will want to grab this coming holiday season. A truly unique project, that features the cream of the crop of current UK comic artists. Included are Wow Cool’s house anarchist Simon Gane, serious big favorite here, Mr. John Allison (Bad Machinery) and good...
Read moreNew From Wow Cool: Psycho Donuts Postcards
Brand new from Wow Cool and available exclusively at Psycho Donuts is this set of four colorful postcards (They look infinitely better than the crappy phone photo above) They are a mere 75 cents each (or three for two dollars). So, get on down to either PD location in Campbell or San Jose...
Read moreJason Martin\’s UFO EVIDENCE film – Microscope Gallery – Brooklyn, NY – 05/01/11
Power Animals – Transmodern Festival – Baltimore, MD – 04/28/11
Enjoy The Fireworks
Hello. WowCool.com is undergoing a massive, and quite public and live, stripdown and rebuild over the next few days. Things will be looking a bit different as they are ripped apart and pasted back up in different order. Most of the content – the posts and pages – will remain...
Read morePete Von Petrin Live on KPSU April 23, 2011
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/14202928″] 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...
Read moreThe Beauty of Urban Decay 2
As documented earlier, we continue to build with either no real purpose to the buildings themselves or no realistic plan to sustainably maintain these buildings. There is much glorious decay that remains to be explored by the intrepid and the foolish. Infiltration zine has done a great deal to...
Read moreThe Center for PostNatural History on We Make Money Not Art
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...
Read moreI’ll Miss You Sarah Jane Smith – Doctor Who Actress Elisabeth Sladen Dead at 63
I’ve been watching Lis Sladen play Sarah Jane Smith on TV since Doctor Who first debuted on PBS in the US, beginning with Tom Baker’s first story ‘Robot’ some 30 or more years ago. I didn’t even know she was sick. She will be much missed. The image above is a screen...
Read more(Un) Pleasant Over Drones at Resound Falmouth 2011
Resound Falmouth 2011 was a three day festival of sound art, contemporary audio performance and installations that happened in Falmouth/Penryn in Cornwall UK March 25-27, 2011. The event was centered around the local community radio station Source FM. The event included presentations, talks and...
Read morePete Von Petrin West Coast Tour
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...
Read moreRATSKIN EXPLSTICAL #17 – lewcid joosebox – Oakland, CA – 04/15/11
See fognozzle Reunited in Oakland Friday
Mid-1990s noise project fognozzle – a collaboration between Pete Von Petrin and Marc Arsenault (me) – is getting back together for a show on Friday night in our old home base of Oakland, California. fognozzle never really got out of the warehouse, but did appear on the Mandibles in...
Read moreOut Today: Northlanders 39 by Brian Wood & Simon Gane
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...
Read moreSofortbild: Control your Camera with your Mac
I don’t write much about my photographer’s life here, apart from the occasional mention of the latest big martial arts or fashion thing… Anyway, today I found myself in a serious crunch. My DSLR is having some sort of major hemorrhage or something. Compact Flash Card Reader...
Read moreOffset Needle Radius Filtered Through The Holga
It’s rare that we get handed a gem like this. Flickr user Dead Air has posted an astounding series of double exposure Holga photos of Joshua Baker‘s Offset Needle Radius performance on KPSU’s What’s This Called program on February 5th. Check these awesome shots out.
Read moreSteven Cerio art on Comedy Central’s Workaholics
Tune in to Comedy Central tonight at 10:30 (9:30 Central) to catch the debut episode of the new 10-part series Workaholics. Word has it that several of Steven Cerio‘s prints and/or posters adorn the wall of the cubicle and/or bedroom of one of the characters. We will investigate further...
Read moreParallel Strokes Tote Bag Offer
Hello! We’ve just been alerted that Wordshape – publishers of Ian Lynam’s book Parallel Strokes – is all sold out of the book, and it seems that we are the last known outpost to stock this fine tome. So, by way of a super-random special offer, Wow Cool will be giving the...
Read moreEvidence present Losperus – Convocation Hall – University of Alberta – Edmonton, Alberta – 04/02/11
Mary Anne Hobbs Returns to Radio and Tours US
It has been announced quite recently that Mary Anne Hobbs is going to host a primetime Saturday night slot on Xfm starting this summer on Saturdays from July 9th 2011. Mary Anne had been on BBC Radio One for many years, and was very much the soundtrack to the Wow Cool office until she retired...
Read moreLast Gasp Celebrates 41 Years at 111 Minna Gallery SF
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...
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