this exhibition by franklin evans...

seems absolutely taser factory, and tops my recent list of action that i'd love to experience in person. 
however, seeing as how i will not be in new york anytime during the run of eyesontheedge, that won't be happenin'. 

oh well. but. this is exactly what i go crazy for in a gallery setting. overwhelming mixed media installations that present a full environment that combines process, past, present, and future with material in raw and refined forms...so much.


aside from the mass of work here, i really appreciate the organization with it's blocks, frames, and screens.

i have to plan carefully to take in such exhibitions. if something is off with me, the experience will make my head hurt really bad.


i would really like to go to this.


http://www.suescottgallery.com/exhibitions/view/Franklin-Evans_7

office to the walls...

decided to [add to] and [swap out] a little visual action in my office to help pass the sometimes numbing hours spent here....

untitled piece by chuuu. gifted by j. shelley harrison to me from berlin.

for me! from rob hessler. a parting gift.

mexico city...the postcard. from amy karr.

the original "vision board" by me.

a happy fu-ku card from leah yeppi.

some jiang-shi action from chloe ching. frightening. (r.i.p. aotd)†

an original man can fan from mark rice.

the "happy honda days" seasonal card from justin clifford rhody. hands down the best holiday card ever. 

TOTALL RECALL...

i'm gonna go ahead and call this one o' my fav recording of 2012. i don't give a fuck if it's only march (?)....
behold TOTALL RECALL an album by THIT...the bulging audio division of the forever-taser 
goatmother industrial.


i listened to it and it was fun, and i vow to never watch the film Total Recall again. i prefer to remember it this way, thru the words of the "recallers". plus, the movie was pretty gross.


words about from goatmother:

[TOTALL RECALL IS A COLLECTION OF
TWENTY-ONE RECOLLECTIONS
OF THE PLOT SYNOPSIS OF A MOVIE
THAT WAS RELEASED IN 1990
AND TAKES PLACE IN THE YEAR 2083.

THESE RECORDINGS WERE COLLECTED BETWEEN
DECEMBER 2010 AND JANUARY 2012
IN RHODE ISLAND, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, AND
SOUTH CAROLINA BY A HANDFUL OF
WILLING VOLUNTEERS.

“RECALLERS” WERE GIVEN ONLY A FEW MOMENTS
TO COLLECT THEIR THOUGHTS
BEFORE RECORDING THEIR INDIVIDUAL TRACKS.
ALL “RECALLERS”SHALL REMAIN ANONYMOUS.
THANKS TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED.]

credits

The 2011 Dow Flipbook

The 2011 DOW Flipbook.

This book was created as both a fun and interactive way to relive the rollercoaster ride that was the Dow Jones Industrial Average for the year of 2011, and as an object that reflects the increasing prominence that economics is gaining in the daily commentary of people throughout the world at this point in history. The 2011 DOW Flipbook allows the user to flip their way through the 252 daily closing prices of everybody’s favorite market index.

WHY: Many reasons... the combination of the taser factory coverage and insight provided by Marketplace (APM) + Freakonomics that sparked a hobbyistic obsession with economics and kicking my own ass for NOT attending Kelley School of Business in retrospect... an constant internal want to just quantify my personal time vs. $$$, a thrill for coming in under budget on a project, etc.


I realize I'm not alone. At this point in time, economic matters seem to be threaded deeper into the everyday dialogue of folks from all walks and age. It's a response to all that.

Big thanks to Jennifer from Phiffer Books for beautifully constructing the book. 
I sent a copy to America Public Media's Marketplace. Kai Ryssdal is the coolest.
More info: http://www.rebelhandspress.com/

the square drive revolution...

screws...phillips head, slotted, star drive, etc. 
fuck all those!
square drive is superior.

minimum slip.
maximum torque.
single-handed driving.
taste like no other (the only phrase i can say with a nearly convincing australian accent).

they're the only type of screw i'll use...or at least the only type i'll purchase.
square drive=easy life.


buy the screws. buy the bit. 
make something taser factory.


this place has much more to say on the subject:
http://www.mcfeelys.com/tech/faq.htm

josh beagle.

when i was a teenage skater in the 90's, i wanted to be josh beagle.



that's it.

what a tool...

tools. my life is full of them. this is my favorite:
a well worn Stanley 10-099 utility knife.

i got this one when i first started working on houses.
over the course of years i ended up with piles of utility knives, but i only used this one, even stopping work to find it if it wasn't there when i needed it.
U.S. Patent: 4586258 & 4621425
it is precious to me.

NO...

so, seeing as how i managed to skip any "best of 2011" action a few weeks back, i thought i'd pull out one item that did cross my mind for such a run-down...


best cover art i've seen in a damn minute: 
NO - "Don't Worry, You'll Be Here Forever"

this is a more appropriate way of celebrating this particular taserness, since it's kind of a 2011/2012 type of deal. i got the online version last year, but the physical 12" is coming very soon. they're in pre-order mode right now, more info here:
http://origamivinyl.bigcartel.com/product/no-don-t-worry-you-ll-be-here-forever-pre-order


simple is best...kinda like the band name. 
behind the rad cover art, you can find a very taser band...can't wait to have it on the shelf. 
your radar should be beeping.

scoot scoot.

so, i'm not attempting to make taser factory 80's-ccentric or anything (see: simon & simon post below), but tubeway army and my new t'pau- "heart and soul" 12" have recently been getting a lot of play time in the studio, and things just...happen.


however, i've developed a fascination with 80's scooters. scooters of action. scooters of the future. space scooters (thinking tom selleck in "runaway", or robotech: saga 2)...


my research turned up some tasered up honda scooter commercial campaign featuring some true bad-asses: miles davis, devo...



and grace jones and adam ant...



as well as that "dog-faced obstructionist" lou reed...

fuck you, lou, i enjoy walking...i wonder if he rides this to band practice with metallica?


it didn't take long to fill up my desktop with taser factory imagery galore!

tf: do you want one?
jk: fuck yeah!
tf: would ride it around?
jk: fuck yeah!, no!? ...well maayyyybe.


there will definitely be a new scooter division at united eggroll.

simon & fuckin' simon...

hands down the best show ever. 
with the best theme song ever. we used to jam this right before doing something really stupid...check out the bad-ass truck and the part where rick busts out of a burning shack in a piece of construction equipment:





here's a taste-uh...features rick, a.j., short shorts, san diego, and "marathon" music:



this is what taser factory was born from/for. eat it.

new year, new project - rebel hands press.

today, instead of reflecting on 2011, which would undoubtedly be marred by negativity and dwight yoakam videos from youtube, i've opted for taking an initial glance at what 2012 has in store. 
the perfect fix for a new year is a new project. enter rebel hands press...


during the summer months of last year, jeff moerchen, david smith, and i put together a shiny little project revolving around the film Point Break, which culminated in a book titled "the Point Break is..."

the success and excitement from that project poured over into the founding of rebel hands press:
Rebel Hands Press is an independent publisher of books, and possibly other items, with a leaning towards art, photography, and great ideas. Established via phone, Rebel Hands exists in the roaming mind and pockets of Jeff Moerchen (Right Hand) and the cramped Los Angeles studio of Jeremy Kennedy (Right Hand). When the idea is right, we do something.


so this year we'll be moving comfortably forward with this venture. in the time leading up to now, we've been able to reinforce our catalog with 2 new books, along with the "the Point Break is..." project. a totally taser way to start things off. 


meet the new books:
Zephyr
photographs: Jeff Moerchen      Tyrone Toral :layout
Zephyr is an attempt at continuous photographic seeing, a document of memories. It is not cohesive, a timeline, or thematic but a document of what I see as a photographer. Similar to the blur of flipping through channels of a television these images are nonsequiturs that if strategically organized gain significance. Simply put these are pictures about taking pictures. 

thirty two page newspaper,  215 black and white images.
materials: newsprint, black ink
measure: ~17x22

cheerleaderisms
by: jeremy kennedy
a collection of selected comments from a former collegiate cheerleader concerning her personal views and recollections from high school and coming of age in the sports culture. set with xeroxed images.

sixteen pages, black and white.

materials: xerox on plastic core book-block.

measure: ~4x6

check out the site: rebelhandspress.com

and/or follow us on facebook or tumblr, as there will be updates for sure.