Harvey Sid Fisher!

Holy Moly, Harvey Sid Fisher is going to give a suprise performance at the gallery tonight (January 31st) at 7pm.

Journal extravaganza at Machine this weekend

There are several delightful events at my gallery this weekend, and I'd be so pleased if you'd come. It's a three day extravaganza organized by the The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest to celebrate the release of their second issue.

Thursday night Elizabeth Hansen and Ben Ehrenreich are going to read at the gallery at 8pm. Normally I like to read silently to myself, but I've seen Liz and Ben read before and they're really great. I believe Liz will be reading this story about getting back in touch with a stalker friend from 6th grade in Egypt from the latest issue of the journal. Ben refuses to tell anyone what's he's reading but the last time I saw him read it involved a lovesick octopus, which was as fantastic as you're now imagining.

Friday there will be films at the Echo Park Film Center.

Saturday there will be an art raffle to raise money for the next issue. Tickets are $10, but of course you can come hang out for free. The raffle starts at 7pm. My very dear soon to be ex-roomate Adam will be MCing and providing musical accompaniment. Some of my favorite artists, including myself, are donating stuff. The art will be up at the gallery all weekend, so you can come pick out your favorites ahead of time. The gallery will be open all day Friday and Saturday. And by all day, I mean sometime after I wake up and change out of my pajamas. How about noon? Ok? Ok!

For a less casual version of this, as well as the shockingly awesome list of artists donating art, find the official press release here >

http://www.machineproject.com/journal/index.php

More information about the Journal here >

http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org

Chucky 6

Ok, the title of the Chucky movie I'm working on isn't "Seed of Chucky", which Andy figured out was indeed Chucky 5, and currently in post production. I'm not high enough in the information loop to know the title of Chucky 6 yet, but if anyone hears of a tragic accident on the set involving a malfunctioning animatronic control system, you'll know who is to blame.

Seed of Chucky

I'm going to do some animatronic work on Chucky 6, "Seed of Chucky". I'm really confused because I can't find any references to Chucky 5 anywhere. The last Chucky movie at IMDB is "Bride of Chucky", which (as every film connoisseur knows) is Chucky 4.

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I've finished reading the Count of Monte Cristo, and smuggled smoked eel filets and unpasturized cheese into California from Europe. The feeling of accomplishment is total.

America's Army

Back in LA for 24 hours before heading to Rotterdam. Waco Resurrection looks great at Yerba Buena. We got to meet the guys who made painstation , which was cool, I like their project a lot, we had fun trading notes about using electric shock on audiences. The show itself was weird - America's Army had the lions share of the floor space, including a giant castle that Sky told me was the same set up they had a E3, minus the heliocopter.

Waco Resurrection

Waco Resurrection is in a show at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts called "Bang the Machine" that opens on Friday. We're also showing it in the Rotterdam Film Festival the following week.

Like the other gaming projects (tekken torture tournament, cockfight arena ) that I've worked on with people from C-level, I think it functions best as a hybrid form of theater. There is something undeniably creepy about walking into a room with four people wearing identical, expressionless masks of David Koresh giving total focus to a computer. (thanks Tom Moody for the waco images)

I've been soldering non-stop for days getting ready for the shows, the reward for the relentless procrastination of the last couple months...

please don't buy my magnets

Fritz Haeg and I designed Machine, a space that I'm running in Echo Park. Part of the design uses this really beautiful ploycarbonite material called Polygal for the interior walls. This material is highly unreactive - nothing will stick to it. Because the surface of it is so nice, we were opposed to drilling or bolting it. So we came up with the idea of using these really intense magnets. In the end, we couldn't get the magnets to stick to the polygal either. So I put them up for sale on my website, thinking it would be a joke between me and Fritz and the one or two random friends who occasionally visit markallen.com.

Imagine my surprise when I checked my email this morning and saw that I'd sold 40 magnets. Oops. It was posted to boing boing, which is of course terribly flattering, but since I only have 12 magnets, and I'm selling them basically for what I bought them, and I'm not charging for shipping, I end up losing money.

So, if you're here looking for magnets, you can buy them from All Electronics for $4.75 (plus shipping)