buy my damn magnets

Seriously, I can't believe I can't unload these magnets. I'm reconsidering my new career as a magnet wholesaler. Who am I kidding anyway? I suck.

Anyway, I'm not going to rest until they're sold. I've put up a page so you can purchase them online.

this way to our luxurious magnet store

In other news, I think you all are very nice.

Looking for an Intern

I'm looking for an intern for the gallery. I hope this is a good idea.

www.m4ch1n3.com/intern.php

Whoever I find can't possibly be less organized than I am.

zombie

Dangerously strong magnets for sale or trade

I have 12 very strong magnets that I no longer need. Each magnet is about the size of a silver dollar and 1/4" thick. Very useful for pulling iron filling out of teeth, erasing hard drives, and I'm sure all kinds of other things.

These are neodymium rare earth magnets with a magnetic field strength in the 45MGOe range.

Will trade for a high quality paper shredder, $50, or best offer.

Tom Jennings Opening

The Tom Jennings Storyteller show opened this afternoon at Machine. In keeping with our new tradition of confusing people we had the opening in the afternoon instead of the classic 7-9 pm opening slot. This threw some people off, but those who made it seemed to enjoy the show. Except for Jeff Kwong, who can be seen here making an expression I've never seen before. I think the next opening is going to be at 2:30 am just to keep mixing it up.

The day starting with some last minute soldering, but everything was working by 12:30 so I wasn't too freaked out. I've been the artist frantically fixing right before the opening so many times that it's actually relaxing to have someone else have to worry about it.

Tom and Josh brought their dogs, a Xoloitzquintli and a Peruvian hairless. They hung out in the front window seat, which I actually think drew in half the crowd. Here's Molly guarding the papertape reader from errant gallery goers.

I'll post some proper installation photos later, but here are some lowish res images...
ASCI Alan Turing
Setting up
Installation

For more information of this piece I recommend going to Tom's site, which has an absurd amount of information. wps.com/products/Story-Teller/index.html

m4ch1n3

I'm having an opening at my new space this Saturday afternoon, 1pm to 4pm. Holy shit, is it not ready. The artist isn't installing until the morning of the show. The interior walls keep falling down. I keep taking a nap when I'm supposed to be getting stuff done. It's going to be glorious!

Unlike the last show, I'll let you in a little early, and you can hang out as long as you like. Find the so called "press release" below. Also, before I forget, huge shout out to master builder Beau Heggen and architect supreme Fritz Haeg.

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We've been looking for a place to show sculpture, installation and technology that doesn't entail any of the following;

art on the wall
net art
white cube
black cube
cube
a subconscious desire to emulate the apple store.

We didn't find it, so we're opening a space called Machine. The gallery opens this Saturday afternoon, December 6th from 1-4pm with "Story Teller" by Los Angeles artist Tom Jennings.

Story Teller is an experimental narrative about British mathematician/code breaker Alan Turing told using obsolete media -- perforated paper tape, teletype, phoneme-speech, glowing phosphors and ink-on-paper. The text is encoded 8 bytes per inch on a 700 foot roll of paper tape, which runs through a variety of cold war era technology on a daily eight hour journey from spool to floor.

Historian of cold war computing and archivist of obscure and extinct technologies, Mr Jennings is the founder of FidoNet, the largest amateur computer network in the world, as well as a recipient of Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award. We're very flattered to present his first one person show in Los Angeles.

Created to function as a research lab, project space and short term residency for visiting artists, Machine was designed as a collaboration between C-level co-founder Mark Allen and Los Angeles architect Fritz Haeg. Machine rejects the implied neutrality of the empty white cube - constructed of modular mobile units, the gallery transforms itself for each exhibit. Machine is located at 1200 D North Alvarado Street, just north of Sunset. For more information email m@m4ch1n3.com, or call 213-483-8761.

Tom Jennings: wps.com
Gallery: m4ch1n3.com
Architect: fritzhaeg.com
Director: markallen.com