chemistry lab, remaining pickles, a couple other things

1) The Partnership for a Drug Free America filmed a commercial next door this morning, which makes the main topic of this post even more delightful.

2) Sunday afternoon (August 1st) from 3-6 at Machine Project there will be a series of home chemistry labs, covering the manufacturing of ice cream, smoke bombs and extracting DXM from Robitussin. These will be presented by David Burns and Matias Viegener. More information on Three Labs.

David, Matias and Austin Young recently did a great piece on mapping all the publicly available fruit trees in Los Angeles for the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest.

3) There are still two large jars of pickles left. They're waiting for you here

love,

Mark

prompt/Select

Brian Crabtree has organzied an evening of electronic music and fresh juice at Machine Friday night at 8pm. The fact that they will be operating an industrial juicer in front of the gallery matches the fantasy of California I had when I was stuck growing up in Vermont. So I'm really happy to be part of that.

Here is Brian's Description of the events >

"a nonlinear presentation of diverse artists employing a huge mound of adorable noise objects (including but not limited to custom hardware and software, fashionable computers, gameboy, contact mics, drums, projection, and random junk we got on ebay)."

More information about prompt/select can be found here

Video Gong Show in Houston

If anyone is going to be in Houston this weekend (July 22-24), I'll be there as well. Let's hang out. I'm doing a couple shows at our dear friend the Aurora Picture Show. Friday night is a piece called Video Gong Show, and Saturday is a screening I curated called "remade, re-remade, and re-re-remade" starring Martin Arnold, Eric Fensler, Kelly Sears and Eddo Stern.

I put up a webpage on Video Gong Show. it's going to rock, and by rock I mean possibly stop working half way through

a web page on the Video Gong Show

Untitled War

Is there a medieval battle at Machine this Saturday night? Yes. Do you have to bring your own beer? Yes. Will there be men and women dressed in full plate armour hitting each other with pieces of metal? Yes. Can you safely watch the action projected next door at the film center? Yes. Is this the best idea ever? Yes. Will there also be monguls, vikings, and centurians? Maybe. Will I wear my chain mail suit? Unclear.

More information about Brody Condon's Untitled War can be found at the Machine Project website

mirror helmet

Made for Jody Hughes in 2001, borrowed by Isabelle Spengler in 2002, dropped off at the gallery this week, now looking for a new home. Contact Mark Allen if you'd like to adopt. Battery powered and user activated by a thumb switch. Tooth rattling 2300 rpm max speed. Modeled by Emily Joyce.

more images of the mirror helmet