Hand to god, while my buddy and I were out riding bikes around my Mom’s neighborhood, we found this projector kicking it on the lawn of this seedy apartment complex. It’s a Bell & Howell 357B from the 70’s (I’m guessing..?). I don’t have any Super-8 film to test it out, but the bulb still lights up, and the motor still runs.. it’s only noticeable fault is that it’s missing it’s cover and reel (which apparently it was supposed to have). Here are some pictures I jacked from some dude on e-bay..

and here is an auction for the same projector, listing info about the volts and other important crap. It is EXACTLY the same as both of those, just minus the cover and reel, as previously mentioned. Oh, and the serial number on mine is 1344085.

Cutting to the chase: I am offering this baby up for sale, as I have no real use for it (aside from gigantic paper weight or “cool looking thing to set drinks and books on”). So email me (punxishippys@gmail.com) with your best offer, or comment and leave your email address, and I’ll send you info on payment and pick-up and everything.

Oh, and unless you are willing to send an extra $25, you will have to come pick it up (or have someone pick it up and send it to you).. because $25 is how much shipping this 23lb beast will cost, and at the moment I don’t have any extra money. I’m really sorry about that, I REALLY wish I could ship this but I’m really broke at the moment.. I mean, shit, if I had the money, I would send it to fucking Istanbul or Mongolia or Uganda for whoever wanted to buy it (however, if I had the money, I probably wouldn’t be selling it in the first place).

So I’ve been gettin more and more back into music over the past couple of years (and I’m sure this might confuse some of you) but I’ve been trying to marry my art and music making processes, and I think I’ve finally begun to get onto a decent middle ground. Here are some more steps that I am taking in that direction:

Creating “fake” bands via documentation (screenprints, t-shirts, demo tapes, bootleg live video, etc.)

Buying a modular synthesizer in 120 dollar increments from synthesizers.com (affordability and flexibility rule) so does this pic

I’ve also been pretty into freeware and “consumer” approaches to music, Here are some cool programs that I’ve come across

intua’s beatmaker for the iphone/ipod touch

this one is my personal favorite, and I’ve been using it a lot cuz its fun and easy to use

its kind of modelled after an akai mpc, there are velocity/touch sensitive pads, an onboard sequencer that makes it super easy to program
beats in time, real time record and the update I got a couple of weeks has a slew of other cool shtuff

its 20 bux but worth it (so not so freeware)

then theres a series of freeware by halcyon that’s pretty easy to use but fun and good for a laugh

check out their easy to use arpeggiator

or the drumatix modelled after the famous roland tr 808 drum machine that all those rappers love so much

there’s also gleetchlab which I haven’t used in a while, but it was built in max/msp/jitter and is a pretty easy to use sample player/editor, it doesn’t have sequencing capabilities, but its pretty fun to make noises on

until next time kiddies, peace love and a happy new year’d

for all you new media nuts

i found this on art source, i’m gonna submit a speaker sculpture that i’m gonna finish when i get back to boston

its called: the right way to pray

: Mayor’s Office of Arts, Tourism & Special Events

Art today is more dynamic than ever. New techniques and ideas in multimedia art such as digital photography, interactive sculpture, video installation, graphic design, animation, and projections are at the cutting edge of contemporary art. The NEW MEDIA exhibition will use the interior of Boston City Hall as a showcase for a new generation of art and artists in Boston. The exhibition will be displayed from June - August 2009. Although some equipment is available, artists will be asked to provide their own computers, video players, projection equipment and monitors for the duration of the exhibition.

DEADLINE: February 28, 2009

Please submit the following:
· 5 jpegs (72 dpi), or photographs, of work.

· 1-5 minutes of video work in either vhs, dvd format or a link to your website.

· Brief description sheet of the work you are proposing.

· Resume or brief description of your art experiences.

· A suitable self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) if you would like your proposal/support materials returned to you.

· The Mayor’s Office of Art’s, Tourism and Special Events is not responsible for loss of/or damage to support materials that are not accompanied by suitable SASE)
Submissions sent by email are encouraged
DELIVER, MAIL OR EMAIL COMPLETED APPLICATIONS TO:

John Crowley, Exhibitions Director
Mayor’s Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events
Boston City Hall, Room 802
Boston, Massachusetts 02201
Phone: 617/635-2368 Fax: 617/635-2397
john.crowley@cityofboston.gov

HUH?

Today marks the first day of a new weekly segment on the HOQ blog which I will be posting every tuesday. It will include an essay that I would some day like to write, followed by a Youtube video. Each week’s Youtube video will be a response to the video from the previous week.

One day, I will write:
Wikipedia and the General Will:
Truth in a Post-Encyclopedia State

Now, here is a video of a Scottish Fold, possibly the cutest kind of cat, ever.

a little late for halloween, but spooky still.

I hate being sick, it makes you think shit like this is a great idea.

and then you have to lay down because you exerted all your energy on photoshop.

:(

OKAY GUYS

Here’s the deal:

we are going to make something here. this blog is about ideas and the internet and performance and physical spaces and technological places.

We can do this.

let’s get some cool shit goin at the physical HOQ in Jamaica Plain, Massachusettes.

Glance asks artists to examine what it is to be a member of a predominantly visual culture which experiences all reaches of the globe simultaniously, albeit through a lens or a fiber optic connection. The show would like to present to the struggle of existing in a personal space and also existing a digitally dispersed citizen of the globe. Where are the borders of privacy in the information age? Do you need or want them any more? What surverilance tools do you employ in order to experience any corner of the earth? What is a legitimate experience? The technology that most of us take for granted allows for any twinge of curiosity to be indulged fully, Glance would like to examine some of the pleasures that these new tools allow us.

We are asking for video, performance, sound, installation, photo, sculpture and 2-D work for submissions.
Digital work may be e-mailed for submission, physical work must be viewed, studio visits can be arranged.
Submissions will be accepted until July 7th

This show will be juried

Glance will be presented at the Butcher Shoppe @ 24 Armington St in beautiful Allston MA

Here is a review of Joey and Russ’ performances as told by InterTran website translation from the original swedish:

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woops.

got fucked again.


since i missed my outgoing flight, they canceled my return flight and refused to refund it.

I think I should start making pieces about what my assumed next possible worst thing that could happen to me will be.

I’ve been back for 2 days.
home of these FABULOUS attributes.

Did anyone know there was INTERNET LOTTERY??? WHAAAT?

FLAGELS. (better in nj than anywhere else… (Its the water)

aaaannnnnndddddddd

while browsing around i stumbled upon this…

yeah. Check out their page I took it off of. It looks like the layout for a powerpoint presentation.

EXXON MOBIL CORP (FORM: 8-K, 3/13/07) Just looking at all of the graphs was rather upsetting.

Barges: NJ to Baltimore

Wow. Gas/Oil Rant.

somebody should own this

I’m lookin’ at you, Coco…

Some of you might remember Tom Green, Canadian comedian, from The Tom Green Show, The Bum Bum Song, and battling testicular cancer.

Well, it turns out, he was part of a killer hip hop group in the early 90’s called Organized Rhyme.

He is the one in the red sweatshirt.

So, i figure all you dudes who are way psyched on theory would get a kick out of this because it’s pretty hilarious.

Postmodernism Essay Generator

So last night, after a discussion about the pope’s re-designation of St. Patricks day to this last saturday (3-15) because he didn’t want people to be drunk during holy week, it was discovered that the Vatican has a website.

fairly papal graphic design

American Varietal (US Population, by County, 1790-2000

A really beautiful and interesting way of looking at population explosion. These photo studies will eventually be made into a 3-D sculpture.

ACTION PAINTING

haha

if there was ever a reason to make video art…

DUNKIN DONUTS is doing a contest, in which coffee lovers all over america are invited to submit their work to what is essentially a juried video show online in which the winner receives (instead of a grant and an award named after some person) a years supply of coffee!

here, watch the video

Seriously guys, anybody who makes video should submit to this…
youtube.com/dunkindonuts