tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38673068162867532832024-03-13T06:15:51.234-07:00SecretAwesomeFear No Weirdness!Zachary Arthur Kirwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04178547460537812355noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3867306816286753283.post-38300149407937815092016-02-20T07:44:00.001-08:002016-02-20T07:44:15.003-08:00Grumpy's Show Thursday 2/25/16<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00692053974443121342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3867306816286753283.post-13246343964986381092016-01-26T16:33:00.001-08:002016-01-26T16:33:22.103-08:00New Ugly D Album Out Now!<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">We're very excited to be releasing the new Ugly D album "Person to Nosrep" on Secret Aweome. Produced by DJ Hi Yella, Ugly D brings Cape Cod hip hop out of the woodwork. Featuring artists like G Free and Justin Sawyer. Ugly D may not ever cross the Bourne Bridge, but his music is out of this world! Check it out on the Secret Awesome <a href="https://secretawesomerecords.bandcamp.com/album/person-to-nosrep">bandcamp</a>, or pick up a CD copy from the <a href="http://secretawesome.bigcartel.com/product/ugly-d-person-to-nosrep-cd-album">store!</a></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00692053974443121342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3867306816286753283.post-54936611372886070652016-01-04T14:15:00.000-08:002016-01-04T14:15:18.390-08:00André Beriau Interview<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Ya winter is here, but that's no reason to stay home. André Beriau talked to us about his new zine, Analogue Companion, which chronicles all kinds of adventures in surfing, skateboarding, and checking out new places! So sharpen up your adventure sticks and get a copy of Analogue Companion <a href="http://layofftheiodine.com/analogcompanion" target="_blank">here!</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My name is André Rober Beriau. I am an Eighth Grade English Teacher south of Boston, MA. I live on </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">the South Shore, which is a good jumping off point for surfing around New England, getting to Boston </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">or Providence, RI to skate or see a show, or going north to snowboard. Originally, I’m from a little town </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">in Central Massachusetts named Fiskdale - it’s a tiny area inside of Sturbridge. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I grew up on a dirt road out there building ramps in the driveway with my brother, Jacques, skating in </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">the basement, or snowboarding in the woods in the winter. Outside of teaching I spend most of my </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">time figuring out where the surf might be good. Depending on the season, and if there isn’t a run of </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">swell, I either go skate a local park, or head up to the mountains to snowboard, hike, and camp. When </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">the weather turns foul, I spend most of that time reading or working on little writing and art projects at </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">home. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You recently started a surfing/travel/adventure zine called Analogue Companion, tell us how </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">that came about? Where does the name come from?</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The zine was an idea a few friends and I had been throwing around for the past few years over </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">campfires. We’d go back and forth on it, but it never came together. Some of those guys moved out </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">west, and the idea disappeared. Last summer (2015) I got a promo offer for a free photobook through </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Shutterfly, one of those “make-your-own-photobook” companies. I had to pay the shipping, but I got </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">twenty-pages for free. I put together a collection of photos and stories. When I got it in the mail it was </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">rad to see my photographs in print and laid out with the text next to them. I don’t know, for lack of a </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">better explanation, it felt cool. Granted it was myself putting it out, and not someone of any esteem, but </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">there was a different effect than just posting them digitally, which made me want to do more with the </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">travel stories I was writing. When I saw the little book, it reminded me of the zine I’d wanted to start </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and the zines I read growing up in the Boston punk/hardcore scene in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There were a handful of local zines like “Our Time” and then larger zines like “Suburban Voice” and </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">“The Journal” going around. Reading those zines got me stoked to go push around or check out a new </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">band. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Up to that point I had been putting together stories and photographs on a blog and Instagram, but I felt </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">like there was something missing. There is so much content that gets put out instantaneously today, </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and that is cool, too, in its own way, but I wanted to be able to put something out there that took time to </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">produce and to read, rather than just scrolling through a feed and clicking off at an image. I set to work </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">looking at zines from my hardcore days, and newer zines, and picking over what I thought was kind of </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">bold and straightforward. I researched some templates to figure how to put one together. Those bold, </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">black and white fonts and pages of the zines I grew up with really stood out to me in contrast to the </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">polished world of digital content. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Coming up with the name was difficult. I had this idea and concept of what I wanted it to be about, but I </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">didn’t know what to call it. I knew I wanted it to be presented as this simple reading material that could </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">be carried along in someone’s back pocket or ditched somewhere for someone else to read. I thought </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">about what I wanted people who didn’t know what a zine was to think when they saw it, so that it </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">wouldn’t be this weird, unapproachable thing, but that they would grab it. I shoot mostly film, and the </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">words, though typed, are also presented in an analog form, so I thought I had to include that somehow. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Analog Companion kind of just came out when going through a mental list. It seemed like this nice fit </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">between a simple, straightforward piece of physical media, and something a person would want to take </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">along with him or her. We can’t always travel with friends, but we can always travel with books. When </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">that name popped into my brain, it made sense. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There's a lot of different focuses in Analogue Companion, from surfing, to skateboarding, to </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">just wandering about. What is the thread, or threads that tie it all together? </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Skateboarding is what ties it all together for me. Growing up in Massachusetts, and New England, my </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">brother and our friends were always leaving our safe little town to go somewhere to skateboard. Those </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">trips, listening to new and old albums in my brother’s truck, stopping at gas stations and hot dog joints </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">to grab food, meeting other skateboarders, those are what motivated me to see something other than </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">my town, to meet new people, and visit other places. Without skateboarding, I wouldn’t have found </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">snowboarding or surfing, or the friends I have, and so that brings it all back together for me. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Even if a trip isn’t about skateboarding, at the core, skateboarding is the original reason I ever set out </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">to see something different, and that sparked a curiosity to see other things besides a skatepark, a </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">ledge, or a piece of tranny. There are articles in Analog Companion that don’t have to do with </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">skateboarding, like Kevin Bicknell’s feature, Fire on Formosa, an article about Taiwan. Skateboarding </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">was what brought Kevin there, though. His experience in that article was a sliver taken from a 14 </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">month trip supported by a research grant he used to explore how skateboarding may be a universal </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">language. In that way, skateboarding is the thread that ties it all together.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Before I was ever interested in writing, I was interested in reading. I fell in love with books in </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">elementary school through these little Penguin Classics my mom bought us from a pharmacy/book </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">store. Most of them were abridged versions or adaptations of books for children. I was introduced to all </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">these characters that did the same things my friends and I did. I read about Huck Finn and Tom </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Sawyer who spent their days like I did, fishing in the woods, pulling pranks on the neighbors, and riding </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">bikes. Those characters were my friends, and I thought it was cool that books could do that, that </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">they could transport a person to another place with different adventures, and teach a lesson. When I </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">read those stories, I could picture my buddies and I doing those same things. Stories like Treasure </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Island and Lord of the Flies made me want to uncover every inch of my neighborhood. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As I got older and moved into Middle/High School, I took the same route I think a lot of social introverts </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">did. I started reading poetry, and trying to write it. They were silly poems, and never really anything </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">overtly emotional, they were mostly focused on the natural world. Reading Robert Frost’s work and </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Walt Whitman, Donald Hall, each of those poets took my backyard and turned it into these beautiful </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">pieces of contemplation and reflection hidden under leaves and branches. That type of writing stood </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">out to me and made an impact because they captured what I experienced as a kid on the lake or in the </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">woods. Through college and into my early twenties I was drawn to the travel writing of Bruce Chatwin, </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">American Fiction like Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck, and international authors like José </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Saramago, Haruki Marukami, and Gabriel García Márquez. Each of those genres brought different </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">worlds to me that I couldn’t afford to visit. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It wasn’t until college that I really plied away at trying to convey anything through writing. Before that I </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">would write travel logs from snowboard contests out of state. The guys at Eastern Boarder Worcester </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">were encouraging, and would put it up on their site. Otherwise, I didn’t write much. I wanted to be an </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">artist. I wanted to paint and draw and make graphics, but after multiple failed attempts to get into art </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">school, I found out – last one to find out – I suck at art. I sought out writing. Most of my friends went off </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">to art school, and through them I met other friends at MassArt. Their work always motivated me to </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">write. I’d visit them and they would have something visually stimulating they worked on and could be </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">proud of. I took those trips down to visit them as motivation to write, and to have something I could call </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">my own. I’d go back up to my tiny university in the White Mountains and get to work on something – a </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">story based on a memory, something pulled from a line in a Craigslist singles ad, anything that I </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">thought I should try and dig into and wrap some words around. I eventually got involved with the </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">university newspaper and it gave me a new sense of written structure and helped propel my curiosity </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">in a way that I hadn’t experienced before. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I think photography helps fill in the spaces that words cannot always reach. A photograph can give </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">context to a piece of writing, and writing gives context to a photograph. Most of the photographs I take </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">are quick snapshots of a minute, day, or week, and the context of what is happening is lost to anything </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">that happens outside of the 1/125th of a second in which the picture was taken. When I get film back </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">from the developer or when I process it at home and scan it in, the pictures help me recall when they </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">were taken and the mood I was in, or the things I was thinking about. We have so many thoughts </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">happening all the time, and I know mine flip around in an instant. One second I’m thinking about who </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">lives in that miniature town at the bottom of the hill, then I’m thinking about eating a hamburger, and </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">then I’m thinking about what that bird thinks when it flies over the townspeople.</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I try to employ the photographs and words in a way that tells a story. Sometimes I’m in there, or my </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">friends and I are in there. Sometimes, depending on the image or images, there is no pronoun related </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">context, and I attempt to tell a narrative that follows a line of thought as to what is or was happening </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">inside and outside of the frame. Many of the stories are reflections of what I was thinking about when </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">taking the photograph. In that way, I try to use the writing to give the image context to help the viewer </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">see what isn’t necessarily inferred from looking at it, and also, for the viewer to have the picture to </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">reference when the words don’t provide enough detail or imagery. The pictures are really a way for me </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">to trick people into reading. If I can try to take a photograph that is stimulating enough to make a </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">person contemplate what is happening, and then there are words that accompany it, my hope is that </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">they’ll make their own inferences and conclusions about the image, then move into the written portion </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">to give it a narrative context for them to think about and compare with their own ideas. Whether people </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">do that or not, I don’t know, but I hope they do. Reading is cool. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As a teenager I didn’t have a lot of access to photography books or magazines, it wasn’t like today </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">where a person can search “famous, wildlife extraterrestrial photographers” and have fifteen </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">photographers to choose from in under thirty seconds. I suppose I could have taken out books from my </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">local library, but I was busy trying to go fishing, or skateboard, or build a tree house, so it never </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">occurred to me to do that. My Pepe (grandfather) is my earliest influence, though. He had a darkroom </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">in the attic of the triple-decker apartment in Worcester, MA where my father grew up. My first memory </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">of being exposed to photography was through him in that darkroom. He brought us up to the darkroom </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">once to show us how to process film. I had to have been about eight years old. The attic was this place </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">that always haunted and entertained my brother and I, the only room we knew we couldn’t go in was </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">his darkroom. I don’t remember him pulling the film, and that part of the process, but I vividly </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">remember him setting up a slide on the enlarger, setting the focus, preparing the paper, exposing the </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">image, and then dropping it in the chemicals. He flipped on this red light, and I remember watching the </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">image of this goose slowly bleed out from the center of the paper. That was like watching magic </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">happen. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The photographers in National Geographic always had an influence on me, too. I would flip through </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">literal hundreds of my Pepe’s NatGeo magazines on the sun porch of that house. The images always </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">transported me somewhere I never heard of nor could I pronounce the name, but the landscapes and </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">portraits were incredibly compelling. I never bothered to read their names, or the articles, but I loved </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">the pictures. About fifteen years later I was living in Sierra Leone, West Africa as a Peace Corps </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Volunteer, and the local library had the same span of NatGeos from the 1980s – 2000 that I looked at </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">on my Meme and Pepe’s porch as a kid. I read through every article, some twice, and photographers </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">like Joel Sartore, William Albert Allard, and Steve McCurry made those articles come to life. The way </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">those photographers capture emotions, movements, and landscapes offer an element to the writing </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">that cannot be fully described in words, and so looking at their work really influences me to be more </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">descriptive in my writing, and to also be conscious of what I’m taking a picture of, or why I’m taking the </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">picture. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The ebb and flow of getting out there and exploring comes up a few times, the excitement of </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">beginning a trip, and the melancholy of ending one. Talk about that a bit if you don't mind.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As people we put so much time into thinking about a trip or planning a trip, any kind of trip. Whether it’s </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">a trip someone has worked all year for, saved every penny, nickel, and dime, or a weekend with some </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">friends in a cabin in the woods, the size and expense doesn’t matter. No matter what the budget there </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">are the same anxieties and excitements that come with the anticipation of a trip. Just as there are </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">those feelings of melancholy at the end. For me, I want to see and do as much as possible, with as </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">little funding or resources as required. I get excited about a new trip, or a place that I’ve been before, </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">thinking about all the variables, the inconveniences, the random left turns, the surprises, all of those </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">unknowns both good and bad are stimulating to me. I know I’m not going to be able to do everything </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">wherever it is I am going, and I also know I don’t want a checklist. I leave a lot up to the trip to </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">determine what we do, and that is what makes me want to get out there and explore.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Last January </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">(2015) my good friend Evan and I went up to Montreal. He wanted to go somewhere to snowboard, so </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I figured we’d drive up to Canada and find some snow as we’d been having a slow winter at that point. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">When he asked, “Why Montreal?” I said, “Well, I haven’t been to Canada in a while, I want to see if </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">there is anything I’m missing out on.” Exploring like that, with little to no agenda, having at least a </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">comfortable place to sleep, and someone to share the trip with, is part of that excitement for getting out </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">somewhere. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ending it is always tough, especially when I’m with a good handful of friends, or even solo. Those few </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">days or weeks are liberating. When people plan out vacations a year in advance or have a checklist of </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">to-do items that must be exhausting. I hear people at work talk about coming back from vacation and </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">needing another one. I understand what they mean, but I’ve never experienced it. Without an agenda, </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">or at the minimum, having a few places or things I want to do, I can be open to the whole reason I left, </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">which is to get away, to take some time to reflect, to think about things from a different perspective, to </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">learn about myself, or other people in the world. That is what puts a melancholy filter on the ends of </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">trips for me. I scrimped and saved, planned out a few minor details, allowed the trip to shape itself, </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">owed nothing to nobody for however long I was away, and now, now I have to return back to structure </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and social expectations, and pleasantries. The freedom that comes with even the shortest of trips is </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">incredibly rewarding, and it’s this mixed emotion of being ready to return to that scheduled life and </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">apply those new ideas, yet always wanting to keep going, to see what else might happen – to see if </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">there is anything I’m missing out on. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Issue one of AC is all you ya? But in issue two you've started to include contributions from </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">other writers, how do you see this developing?</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yes, and I felt totally lame about doing that for Issue One, but I didn’t know how else to get this idea off </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">the ground. I wanted to be able to share my stories and photographs, and get others motivated to go </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">out and find their own adventures, but I also felt like this egocentric guy trying to put out a zine and </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">saying, “Hey, man, read my stories.” That is lame, and it’s not who I am or what I want the zine to be </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">about at all. Which is why in Issue Two I wanted to get in touch with some friends who also write and </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">travel, and have their stories be shared. Ty Beck and his wife Camille Ives as well as Kevin Bicknell </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">write in two different styles, and I wanted to have their stories featured so that readers who might not </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">necessarily like the way I write would be able to connect with Ty, Camille, or Kevin, and the stories </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">they tell. Each of them is sharp, funny, talented people with great stories that should be read. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As the zine develops and progresses I’m hoping that Ty, Camille, and Kevin will be generous enough </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">to contribute more articles to the zine, and also other people. There are an incredible amount of </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">talented humans within the community of friends we have, and their friends, yet it is difficult to get </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">writing or photographs published with the saturation of digital media today. For me, Analog Companion </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">is a way to promote the stories and photographs of people whose work does not typically fit into the </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">confines of mainstream physical or digital media. I hope to be able to develop it in a way that pulls in </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">friends or friends of friends who are involved in the arts and music as well, as there has always been a </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">strong connection to travel in both of those worlds. I’m hoping that more people will be willing to share </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">their stories, photographs, and adventures so that the zine has a diverse background of contributors. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Right now Camille’s article is the only one that features a female writer, and I was really stoked when </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ty and Camille coauthored that piece. I’d love to have more women involved and sharing their writing </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and photography as well. I want to be careful of what goes out, too, though. I want to make sure that </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">the issues are worth reading, and that someone will walk away feeling like they learned something </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">from one of the articles, or that they are motivated to go out and explore, or keep exploring, and then </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">write about it, or take photographs and share them with their friends or contribute them to the zine. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ha! Man, I don’t want to offend any cultures or people, but I do not like acheke. It’s a dish served in </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">West Africa and is a combination of pasta, ketchup, mayonnaise, Maggie (bouillon cubes), salt, </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">pepper, lettuce, and usually fish or fish balls mixed into tomato paste. Without the fish it’s bearable </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">when completely famished. Considering it is one of the few alternatives to rice and beans two meals a </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">day, seven days a week, it could be worse, ha-ha. The flavor isn’t even what makes it difficult for me to </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">eat, it’s the texture. The ingredients are almost all warm, including the lettuce, which becomes kind of </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">rubbery in the humidity, and the ketchup and mayo combination does not really offer the best flavor </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">profile. I have skipped meals, gone to bed hungry countless times, and sat in transportation for hours </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">on an empty stomach until I could find something else. Mayo and a baguette, though, that is a good </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">standby. Or an egg sandwich. Even a warm egg sandwich is better. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Issue Three will be coming out in February of 2016. I asked a few friends if they had anything they </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">might want to contribute and I’m really stoked on the features that will be in this issue. There is an </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">article from Tanner Pendleton who works as a snowboard videographer and photographer and Reid </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Casner who has had his hands in the snowboard and surf industry for almost a decade, often traveling </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">to places like Australia, Fiji, and Mexico for work. Both Tanner and Reid are incredibly skilled at what </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">they do, and have amazing stories of their own to share for the surf and snow side of the zine. Tanner </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and Reid are from New England, which will be great to have another set of contributors who grew up </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">on the East Coast writing stories about somewhere else. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My brother and I are traveling up to Nova Scotia to hopefully catch a little bump of swell that is coming </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">in, so there will be a piece on that as well. Who knows what will happen, if we’ll score or get skunked, </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">either way there will be an article on whatever comes from that trip. I’m bringing along a super 8 </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">camera and a Nikonos V that I recently picked up. I’ve never shot super 8 film before, but as long as it </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">captures and process correctly, readers will be able to hop online and check out a little analog film that </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">documents our trip. There will be a mystery section as well, maybe some leftover images that didn’t fit </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">into the formatting of the stories, a short story, or a spread of photos submitted/collected from other </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">trips, too. Otherwise, readers can anticipate another set of stories to hopefully stoke them out and get </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">motivated to explore in their own way.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Kevin Bicknell, Ty Beck, and Camille Ives for sending in articles and helping the zine grow. Bub at </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Eastern Boarder, Dan at Levitate Surf + Skate, Mark at Nor’Easter Surf Shop, and Spike at Fritz’s Bike </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Shop for passing issues of the Zine on. Luke Butler and Al Pechillis on the North Shore of Mass for </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">spreading AC around. My brother, Jacques, for taking me on those first few skate trips and shaping me </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">surfboards (Sealovesurfboards.com). Tanner Pendleton and Reid Casner, looking forward to their </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">contributions. Evan Sommer, Charles Larson, Kyle Couture, Dylan Shippee, and Michael Serafinowicz, </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">thanks for traveling along. Dana Osterling, exploring confidant. You, Zak Kirwin, for asking me these </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">questions. Anyone who has picked up a copy, read it, and passed it along or who found an issue </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">under his or her windshield wiper and at least read the cover before throwing it out! Thank you for </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">reading!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>Zachary Arthur Kirwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04178547460537812355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3867306816286753283.post-72212973587064613052015-11-09T16:37:00.002-08:002015-11-09T16:37:37.626-08:00Noises by Bell<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">New EP by a New Secret Awesome Recording Artist, Noises by Bell, is up for free download!</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00692053974443121342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3867306816286753283.post-51641468546585270762015-10-29T11:25:00.000-07:002015-10-29T11:25:30.593-07:00Maegan LeMay Interview<div style="background-color: white;">
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">With Halloween nearly upon us, we present to you an interview with the epic and macabre illustrator and tattoo artist, Maegan LeMay! Check her work out <a href="http://maeganlemayart.com/home.html">here!</a> Or follow her on instagram <a href="https://instagram.com/irontit666/">@irontit666</a></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">My name is Maegan LeMay, and I was born and raised here on Cape Cod. Been here all my life. I'm a tattoo artist at Spilt Milk Tattoo in Hyannis, and I have been working as a full time tattooer for about three years. In the time spent away from tattooing, I do freelance illustration. I like to dabble in other crafty avenues from time to time as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">I absolutely take it seriously! It's something I've been occupied by since childhood. So, it's always been something important to me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b>I'm sure most tattooers feel similarly about this, but you get a little of both. There's always a struggle with finding the balance between giving people what they want and being able to really use your own vision and artistic style. Some clients are more open than others. It's about finding a way of taking that Red Sox tattoo, for example, and putting a spin on it that makes it something you're interested in doing. Obviously I'd love to tattoo skeletons and evil shit on everyone, but it's a specialized genre! I'm still young in my career, and being able to do the stuff you like is something you work for. I'll gladly tattoo a variety of things, religious imagery, sports, frilly girly stuff, and I'll give it full focus and effort. However, when someone comes in with an idea suited to my taste, that's when I really feel like I have an opportunity to shine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b>I grew up on heavy metal and horror, so it has become the thing that inspires me. That sounds kind of pretentious, but it's true. My Dad is a huge horror fan and I just remember watching movies like Creepshow and Hellraiser with him as a kid. He introduced me to Bathory! I like reflecting these interests in my art, and it's sort of grown into a response to how sensitive and easily offended the general population is. That's my biggest pet peeve, so I channel that. So, yeah, I draw a lot of dead people. Personally, i don't really even find my work all that extreme. There's much more dark disturbing stuff out there!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b>Album art of course. I'm largely influenced by artists like Chris Moyen or Necrolord. I like fantasy art, such as Frazetta or Boris Vallejo. Lately, I like to reference the inking styles in older issues of Eerie, Creepy, or Conan comics. There are some fantastic artists on Instagram that I follow, and my fellow <a href="http://nightwatchstudios.bigcartel.com/">Nightwatch</a> zine contributors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b>Always. I listen to LPs mostly when I'm at home. As a music fan and artist how can someone not appreciate a record!? The graphic design, the bigger cover art, it's a much better presentation. I like the experience of listening to an album from start to finish while I work. Other than that, I have my trusty old Zune MP3 player for when I draw between tattoos at the shop. Mostly metal, a lot of older Black Death Thrash Speed NWOBHM. Tormentor, Deathhammer, Stormwitch, Vulcano, Candlemass, Riot, are a few of the kicks I'm currently on. Dio always.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b> I worked at a bead store for like eight years before becoming a tattooer. Oddly enough, it was a result of crafting chain maille that led me to making jewelry. That was my first job right out of high school, and aside from the typical retail job annoyances, I did enjoy working there. I haven't had much time lately for any beadwork, as my other artistic avenues have taken the forefront. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Friends, family, Spilt Milk family, Nightwatch, Patac records, and my dude Drew. Thanks for the opportunities and the motivation. Hail and kill!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">I thought the whole aesthetic they had was amazing, I really liked how</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">his work was inspired by Jazz album art, and I really related to that because</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">of how loose, and scribbly everything looked. In addition to that I always liked</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Ed Templeton's work too, I think I saw a segment on his art in either a 411 or an </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">ON video, where he was doing an art show in paris. And he just had this massive</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">the walls of the gallery, he made it look so easy and beautiful. After that I really wanted</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">I think I've always leaned toward trying to make my art humorous. I think it all stems</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">from being in high school, where my friend Alex was a master doodler. He was the king</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">of drawing really weird funny images. We had a similar sense of humor, so I always</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">wanted to try to draw weird funny things to show him, basically just to make him laugh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">So when Alex or my other friend Jesse would get a good laugh out of something I drew</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">I felt like it was a good piece of art. So I feel like I'm basically doing the same thing now,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">My first couple boards were those really horrible "fake" skateboards you'd get from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">K-Mart, or a toy store, with plastic trucks and wheels. My first real deck was a Birdhouse</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">cool seeing it, I definitely had a rush of memories come to me just seeing that graphic.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">What are your artistic influences?</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">I've had so many artistic influences over the years that its hard to narrow down. Other than the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">guys I mentioned earlier, I'd say Graham Roumieu made a huge impact on me as an illustrator. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">He is a master of humorous illustration, I remember getting one of his big foot books</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">when I was 19 and laughing so hard at every page, I'd never seen anything like it before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Other than that I'd say my circle of friends are all really incredibly talented artists, and I'm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">As for skating my biggest inspiration is my friends. It's always been kind of a social thing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">for me so I hate skating alone. Growing up I was lucky to have a solid crew of guys to skate </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">When I'm painting or drawing my go to is usually Marc Maron's podcast WTF. I kind</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">of like being entertained when I work, so if I'm not listening to a podcast I usually go for stand-up comedy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Lately I've been listening to a lot of Todd Barry, Eugene Mirman, and Wyatt Cenac. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">As for music, as of right now I've been into Titus Andronicus, Pile, the Clash, and Velvet Underground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">The Market Skatepark was a pretty far out idea that actual came to be something. It's a pretty long story</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">but I'll try to keep it short. There had been a vacant grocery store in downtown Beverly for about 6 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">My good friend Jake "Bo Vice" White and his brother Nick "Bro Vice" White both had expressed interest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">,owner of North of Boston Studios, came at Bo Vice with the idea of maybe getting some ramps into the abandoned</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">of the grocery store, and surprisingly he was really open to the idea. Under a few conditions (insurance, utilities, cheap rent)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">and a couple months later we finally got the keys to the building. The whole experience was trippy because we needed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">$5,000 to get started so we made a go fund me page, and we raised the money in less than a week. In addition</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">to support from the community Converse wanted to help us out too, which really helped us take the park to the next level.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"> It was surreal, we couldn't believe how psyched, and supportive the community was for the project. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">and renovated this really run down building, while Jake Cassavoy handled pretty much everything having to do with money, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">insurance, public relations and so on. I think it was early February when we finally opened, and the park</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">was absolutely packed. It lasted until the end of April when our lease ended, but during those 2 months </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">we had so many cool people visit from all over New England, we had a really cool flea market called "odd farm",</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">and we hosted Converse's CONS project, where Paul Shcmidt and Todd Francis, flew out here to teach and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">a really hard time. Surprisingly not everyone in the area wants a skatepark on their property, and it seems like </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">on this project, I feel super lucky and appreciative to be involved in the whole experience. I also want to mention</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">for painting the coolest mural ever on our wall, Amy Moore for working the counter when the rest of us wanted to skate,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">When I decided to try to make a zine I thought it would make the most sense to just call it <a href="http://www.deadandugly.bigcartel.com/product/dead-and-ugly-volume-1">Dead and Ugly</a>, and when I wanted </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">down the road when I get a little more money, and I really want to make another zine before the end of the year. I guess if I had</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Liz Talley sat her Dad down and listened to tracks from Pitchfork Media's top ten albums of 2014 and got his opinion on them. Drawings of her dad as well as his verdicts on popular new songs makes for a superb and funny zine! "I'm looking for a window to jump out of but I'm only on the first floor". They are for sale at the <a href="http://secretawesome.bigcartel.com/product/produced-to-hell-and-back-a-review-of-pitchfork-s-2014-album-review-by-liz-talley" target="_blank">store!</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> --Hello! I post stuff on instagram under the name thisisasandwich, more people probably know me by that than my given name: Ryan Kelley if anyone cares to get formal. I'm basically just another anonymous avatar with a nonsense name attached floating around <a href="https://instagram.com/thisisasandwich/" target="_blank">instagarble</a> posting my drivel and liking posts of people I've never met. I'm a self taught artist in the sense that I've had no formal training. I've managed to surround myself with a group of creatively diverse friends throughout my life that have opened my eyes to a lot of stuff art wise that I may have otherwise overlooked. They are my defacto teachers. So yeah, I mostly just draw and paint and have sort of been a hermit and haven't taken part in many shows or anything like that. In the future though I would really like to do more shows, attend more shows, etc.. more face to face stuff you know, the "networking" artists are supposed to do? I've been really bad at that thus far. I actually just</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> did a flea market last weekend. It was the first event like that I ever took part in and one of the best experiences I've ever had. I have always really slacked when it comes to "marketing" myself or my art. I hate even using that term. The flea market vibe was so unpretentious and layed back though, I really dug it. My stuff is generally that way too. Its not super polished high minded fine art, at least I don't think of it that way. Its just kind of folky and jokey and dumb but fun. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I mean, I want whatever I'm doing to make a strong impression visually, whether its a painting commission or a panel comic, and I surely take pride in my work, but at the end of the day most of my stuff is pretty light hearted and just kind of goofy.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b>How did you get into skateboarding, and how has it affected your drawing style, your creative outlook? </b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> --Well, I got my first board when I was 14 ('93/94). It was a barely used Schmitt Stix handed down from an older relative. I had no frame of reference as to what the thing was and wasnt presented with any example of how to use it though. I didnt have friends who skated or anything, so I got tired of kicking around my driveway on it pretty quickly. I was more into graffiti back then anyway, so I just wrote all over the thing and threw it in the basement. (kind of a funny aside: the relative i got it from asked for it back years later when boards of that same era started going for hundreds and thousands of dollars on the internet. I was like "sure you can have it back.." and gave it back to him just covered nose to tail with the ugliest, blackest marker tags. Needless to say he was bummed on me.) </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">I didnt really think about skating again </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">for a few </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">years, until I was about 17 and met some friends of a friend a few towns over who skated. I watched them skating around in front of a friends house one day, couple weeks later they showed me Mouse, something sort of clicked and I saw how much fun you can have on a board. I was so dumb and scared to ask where to get a board so I ended up just stealing one when I saw it on the rack at Dick's sporting goods. Total kook move on many levels. Thing had a wack shape, fuckin plastic wheels, ABEC pea gravel bearings. Just a barely rolling piece of garbage, but thats what i tried to learn on until I finally asked somebody and went to a legit skateshop and bought an actual board: a Rudy Johnson Girl. That was 1997. I was really into painting graffiti then though, that was like my full time thing and I didn't really devote much time or pay much attention to skateboarding until 98 or 99 when I met some other local kids and would skate around downtown and cause </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">trouble with them. It was wierd though, I was like an older kook who was terrible at skating and always writing on stuff and putting up stickers at spots. I sort of had a little rep though, like they knew who I was because of graffiti so I kind of got a pass I guess? I wouldn't have rolled with me if I was them haha. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">As far as skateboarding influencing my drawing style, I wouldn't say it did until about '99 when I saw the "life is joy, life is pain" graphic that Todd Bratrud did for Consolidated Skateboards. To this day thats still my favorite board graphic. Something about it, the mix of sentiment, the comic/cartoony style, and the boldness of the image really appealed to me in a way that graphics hadn't before. Plus coming from graffiti, I was familiar with the work Todd had done for LifeSucksDie magazine which gave it the layer of context I guess I needed in order to give it more than just a passing glance on the wall at the skate shop. That </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">particular image had a little back story to it. Seeing that was really influential for me to start drawing different things other than just drawing letters all the time. I guess I was a late bloomer, I say that as if I've bloomed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I would say it always starts with an idea, or at least a fragment of an idea that I think I could build a visual narrative around. I don't often just sit and doodle random shapes or anything. I never found that to help me loosen me up, or get me out of a creative slump. Most of what I do is trying to either express an idea I have or add on to a previous idea, or build a tangent off of someone else's idea. If I think an idea for a drawing or piece has legs and is interesting enough, then I'll source reference material and plan out a composition, sometimes sketch out a couple versions, think about a color palette, just try to have it be as cohesive as I can. Other times I simply overhear someone say something dumb or whatever.. "I always think outside the box" for example, I overheard someone say that recently and pictured a huge box falling out of the sky on them.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> So theres a possible idea for a drawing, a guy walking down the street saying to his friend how he always thinks outside the box. Meanwhile, little does he know, in the frame theres an angry box falling from the sky and then it covers him and hes trapped and the box just says something like "not today". Thats a not very funny example, but as far as the process goes, its that simple sometimes. Hear something, or have a random thought, try to draw it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Well, in the abstract- artistically and generally, I just want to keep growing and try to stay open to new ideas and change. Be a good dad and husband. Eventually get around to doing another book, maybe one thats a little more cohesive somehow, like with a theme? Maybe a children's book? I dont know. More drawings and paintings for sure. I want to make more zines, write more words, take on fun commissions, try to skate when I can. Smell flowers, breathe, create, just stay humble and thankful for the opportunities I get. I'm going to continue to think big but feel small.</span></span><br />
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">We are all about the same age, and all started skating in the early 2000's, so we have a love for anything that was happening during that period, and know way too much about it. I think besides random slap threads you don't get much talk on that era, and there's not really another site that focuses on it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">I think we just want to do what feels right and let it grow organically. When we started SMLTalk we said that we'd never do something just to get likes or clicks, it's gotta be something that we find funny or interesting. Once the content loses it's genuine nature, the site's lost it's purpose. </span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">With that said, there are two main things we keep in mind - nostalgia and the Boston community, or a mix if we're lucky. If something comes up that falls outside of that scope, it has to be really funny or interesting. Chris (our friend/editor) wrote about the new Plan B video, and it was great. We aren't against talking skate pop culture. Wow I hate myself for just saying skate pop culture.</span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Hahaha. Aw man, yeah, that’s the stuff that we love. All the obscure shit that you notice growing up watching videos, lurking the internet, reading interviews, reading mags, etc. etc. It’s the stuff you talk about when a video is playing at a skateshop, trying to out-nerd one another. We’re the guys that say “who skated to this?” when a skate video song comes on. Even if it’s at a party where 99% of the people don’t skate. The best part of having the blog with these guys is that every day it’s constant talk about things we noticed while watching a video. Like Evan, “hey, what ever happened to pop shove its”. Then that’s an article, simple as that. </span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">In the Kyle Berard <a href="http://smltalk.com/2014/10/24/smltalk-with-kyle-berard/" target="_blank">interview</a> I asked him if he knew what was in Pat’s pockets haha. Those guys are best friends, so I had to ask. Unfortunately all he could confirm was a smashed up pack of american spirits. Haha. </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Heyyy! We asked Joel Clark some questions, and he answered! Joel is a Joel of all trades. He has written and cowritten a number of screenplays, helped design a Moby Dick card game, and is currently directing and acting in a film he wrote called XMAS IN JULY. No robot cats were harmed in the course of this interview. Enjoy!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">I grew up in an extremely rural part of New Hampshire--my nearest friend lived 10 miles away. So I spent a lot of time alone. I also had very little access to relevant music and culture until I went to college and was mercilessly attacked for having a tiny collection of CDs and 'still' being into Weezer. (I was lucky enough to have my older sister dub a tape of Weezer on one side and Rush on the other when I was 13. With Rush I was like whaaa? and with Weezer I was like yesssss.) Growing up rural certainly forced me to 'make something out of nothing' from day one. When I hit the world I was thrilled, and began consuming shit like Jabba the Hut, and when I started writing and creating things, they kind of spewed out my brain filter in a very weird way, ie any of my early things are kind of a mash up of outdated cultural references and incomprehensible babbling. In college I made sketch comedy with my friends in a group called Olde English (<a href="http://oldeenglish.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">oldeenglish.org</a>). I like to date myself by saying that this was before youtube, and it's crazy to watch the oldest of those videos, since the 'internet video' form didn't really have a lingo yet. A lot of those early videos are unwatchable in relation to standard format video sketches that are made today. God, I sound like a grandpa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">It's funny how the ubiquitous advice of 'do one thing well' is totally true but I continue to refuse to prescribe to it. I think I'll be 'just a writer' sometime in the future, but what scares me is when people are hemmed in by this idea not in terms of form but in terms of content--it's like, oh, you made a screwball comedy about hackers and people love it, now you can ONLY MAKE SCREWBALL COMEDIES ABOUT HACKERS. But that's maybe a personal perspective trap that I can't get out of, and it may fuck me over in the end, because I'll refuse to write the sequel to whatever and blah blah blah. Suffice it to say I'm wary of trajectories--I'm not a spaceship I'm just a dude.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Your work is all over the map in the most excellent kind of way, lets start with some earlier projects. You worked on a recent hit card game <i>Moby Dick, or The Card Game. </i>How did the idea for this project come up, and what was your role in bringing it to life?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">My good friend and long-time collaborator Tavit Geudelekian called me up and asked if I was interested in doing some writing for a video game. This was around the time of Red Dead Redemption etc, so I was excited to learn about that form of writing. He asked me to bring some ideas for the kind of game I'd like to make. I told him something about sailing tall ships would be great and why not do Moby-Dick. He gave me a funny look because he had been thinking the same thing. We dreamed of a 20 million dollar 40-hour retelling of the story on xbox and ps3 with an open-world online multiplayer game-plus mode ending with the scuttling of the American whaling fleet at the start of the Civil War. Then we realized that would have been the greatest game of all time that no one ever bought or even attempted to play. Our friend, game designer Andy Kopas, joined up and brought the idea of making it a tabletop game. As it turns out, the Kickstarter platform was kind of quietly creating a tabletop game renaissance, and board games were getting superfunded left and right. Besides, there's something really classic about card games, a very sailor-like pastime. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Overall it took about 3 years to make. We were joined by producer Mark Perloff and art director John Kauderer, whose work on the game is utterly terrific. My label was creative director, which meant a lot of different things. I worked very closely with John, sourcing about 100 images for him from weird archives and databases of photographs, daguerreotypes (finally learned to spell that one), and ambrotypes. My other big task was to make sure the game experience was directly related to the experience of reading the book. I'd been obsessed with the novel for a long time already, but this process took it to a whole new level. I spoke with some really amazing scholars about the various implications, inferences, internal allegories and whatever else that's inside that book. I wrote entries for each card on the game's website, detailing how the card was created and integrated into the system, and how each card is significant to the deeper thematic underpinnings of the book itself. I have my collaborators at King Post to thank for how well the game turned out. It's a beautiful object in itself, and the experience of playing it is I think as close to reading the book as we could have come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Ishmael is so prone to reverie and philosophical/emotional expostulation, it really seems that all the members of the crew are extensions of his own mind. Except maybe for Ahab. I don't know. I guess I'd like to think I'm Stubb, laughing all the way to the grave, but I'm probably more of a Starbuck--cautious, only courageous when I'm certain of a positive outcome. In my more neurotic moments I worry that I'm Bulkington--someone people are drawn to, who just suddenly disappears from the world. IDK BRO ITS PROBABLY A SPECTRUM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">I've been lucky enough to collaborate with Dave Boyle on four feature films that he's directed, Man From Reno being the latest. Before this, we've done comedies (<a href="http://surrogatevalentine.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">surrogatevalentine.com</a>), but Man From Reno is a noir film, about a depressed Japanese writer and a small town sheriff who become embroiled in a sort of classic murder mystery. Dave and I wrote the film with our friend Michael Lerman, and it was a real challenge. When you write a comedy, its clear that some of the jokes won't land with an audience, but it's kind of okay, people leave the theater being like, it was pretty good. But at that crucial moment when the mystery of a noir thriller is revealed, you really put everything on the line. We've all seen a thriller with a bad reveal, and the knee-jerk reaction is 'this movie sucks' even if you liked the rest of it. Needless to say we went through many, many drafts, and agonized over how the information was being doled out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">I co-executive produced the film as well, and spent some time on set, which was a real thrill. Dave works with an incredibly talented crew, and the cast of the film is really top notch. It's amazing to see actors like Pepe Serna, who's been in over 100 movies, give a totally excellent take EVERY TIME. That guy is amazing. Ayako Fujitani, who's been acting since she was very young (she starred in the Gamera films as a girl), also never gave a bad take. I just thought that was crazy amazing. The film was shot by a genius dude named Rich Wong, and if/when you see the film, you'll notice that every shot is like, perfect. Dude is crazy good. We're up for an Independent Spirit Award in February, and the film will most likely be released in March.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">The robots have been terrific, great attitude, happy to be involved. But for real running a feature film production is insane. I've seen my friends and collaborators do it, but until you do it yourself, you really have no idea what kind of pressure is involved. Film is one of the most heavily collaborative forms--50+ people all looking to you to answer every question, and have a vision for a way forward. It's exhausting, terrifying, and really forces you to come to terms with your deepest insecurities. Don't get me wrong, there's lots of fun parts and I'm filled to the brim with appreciation for those 50+ people who said YES to the whole thing. Not to mention the kickstarter backers and private investors. It's amazing to have so many people prove, either with their time and effort or their $$$, that they believe in what you're doing. Of course, that makes you question what you're doing THAT MUCH MORE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">What's really crazy about production days, and I don't think I really conceptualized this before we started, is that every single take is pretty much as important as every other, and you have to maintain a level of focus and commitment through the fire of crazy circumstances and long hours. It's actually extremely difficult to stay focused through it all. We shot 18 days, 9 of them in a row--most of them 12+ hours. By the end, my apartment, my studio, my finances, and my relationships were all in shambles. But we walked through the fire and I think we captured a lot of really crazy stuff. My wife, Crichton was my co-star and she rocked every take like a BOSS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Crowdfunding is extremely difficult, and it can put a lot of pressure on your social relationships. I could certainly be accused of crowdfunding 'too much,' and people chafe at being asked so many times on social media, over email, in person, etc. On the opposite side of that coin, I always try to not force it. Crowdfunding is funny like that, because in order to have a campaign succeed you need a lot of visibility, but that visibility also has an adverse effect on the people you're trying to get involved. We've all felt it, and I'm one of the main perpetrators in my community. But the reason to do it is clear--there are so many structures in our culture that are built to obstruct the relationship between artist and audience, its actually fucking terrible. It means that artists have to pander to these structures (advertising, distribution, marketing etc) in order for anyone to even see what they do. But the thing about pandering to mass culture distribution methods means that you have to break your own legs and offer up content that literally has broken legs. This is not to say that there's no quality work in the mainstream, but it's crazy to think of all the stuff that doesn't quite fit just never seeing the light of day. The more I'm getting into the business side of things, however, I don't really know if there is a light of day on the other side of distribution. But now I'm rambling. The real point is to create a one-to-one relationship between artist and audience, and asking your community whether or not they want to see what you do, rather than asking some marketing dude if he thinks your project has legs. Broken enough legs. Also, now all I owe are Kickstarter rewards and the product itself, not percentage profit or blah blah market success. I have no one to answer to except the people who judged the project online and said, sure, I'll pay to see that happen. That allows me to have real, true artistic freedom to do what I want, and I'm supremely grateful for the support I've received.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">There's a lot more to accomplish on the XMAS film before I take on anything equally huge, but yeah there's always this and that happening. The next film with Dave Boyle is probably my top priority.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">No, but sometimes I can't shut the one off, so yeah, maybe. Also maybe in parallel universes I enact things that were only nascent germs of thoughts in this reality KNOW WHAT I MEAN??</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Look for it 2018. No, I don't think anything will happen with Spring Breakout, but I'm actually way into that script. It has a pretty fun first act, some tripped out occurrences in the second, and of course it ends with tits and explosions. We've done a few readings, its always been fun. It's right up there with RA RA EGYPT, a full length ancient Egypt action comedy I wrote way back in 2007.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Talking to Leland Taylor, cell phone blogger, skateboardist, outlaw tent wizard, and general good times machine, about his most excellent blog <a href="http://toolbag.tumblr.com/">http://toolbag.tumblr.com/</a> ! The Toolbag Tumblr is a treasure trove of almost daily photos of, well, life. Minutia to mayhem, Leland has an eye, what else can we say. Check out the interview, and check out the blog. Here it is again! <a href="http://toolbag.tumblr.com/">http://toolbag.tumblr.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Right now Im living in Seattle with an amazing girl. Packed up and moved east to west at the end of october for the sight of less snow. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">toolbag.tumblr started 2008/2009. My friend Tim got me set up. I remember we were in his kitchen and I wanted a website to post the photos I took on my "razor". I would snap the photo then text it to my email and then finally post it on to tumblr. I wrote a few pointless diary posts and some other things but it was mainly for cellphone photos. I deleted it all at some point and on 01/9/10 5:06pm did my first photo text straight to tumblr once I realized they supply you with an email to text. Thats what started this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Thats my god damn modus operandi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b>A good portion of your blog was really low res flip phone pictures. What about this medium did you like? Did you have any reservations switching to the higher quality photos of newer phones?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">It was so pixilated and beautiful. I would just point the damn thing out the window and he glare from the sun would be amazing. Switching to iphone really hurt the toolbag. I enjoy how sharp the photos are but its not the same as my samsung intensity. With the Iphone I find myself taking lots of photos still but only on the camera mode and never sending them. With the intensity it was more organic. I would hit the button on the side to open the camera then snap the pic and a screen came up "text this photo?", damn right, right on the spot. My own private twiter/instagram, without the data fee. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b>Do you ever wish Tumblr would let you auto play some music on your page, y'know like Myspace did? What song would you pick right now?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Dude its gotta be corny because its my life since 2010 till now, Marvin Gaye - got to give it up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b>You've made a few zines of material drawn from this blog, tell us about those.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Boredom. Wish I still had a cpoy of that one, "toolbag finepoint" I think. Sold a few on tumblr which paid for the paper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b>Any plans for a I'm a Tool Bag coffee table book? I'd love to see some old flip phone pictures blown up real big! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Man thats a great Idea, lets look into that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b>How many posts?</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">as of today 12/19/14 3:13pm, 8,404. 99.5% all cellphone photos</span><br />
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