Check out the ziggy stardust ipad with the extendable, um, dongle thingie.
Close Encounters
I saw the movie “Close Encounters” tonight. I think I must have seen it before, maybe when I was a kid. It has some things in common with the idea I’m working on. It’s something to think about.
Hipsterssss iiiiiin Spaaaaace!
More daft, less punk.
Space Age Pop a Go-Go
I’m working on a play. It is inspired by this kind of silly “space age pop”, so I’m collecting examples of it. If you have any of this kinda stuff, I’d love to see it.
Heh. Look at that guy.
In this photo, the guy on the left seems to have an opinion about the guy on the right, but look who’s talkin’!
Strange Loops
This just in from the notorious Lord North…
Well met, my friends. My latest solo painting show is in the hallways of my workplace, Disney Feature Animation! So if you happen by Burbank, California, gimme a ring and I’ll get you in there to see them! Since that may be inconvenient for you, I’ve thrown them up online at www.lord-north.com
Follow the links to “Strange Loops.”
Comments are appreciated.
Love to you and yours
Lord North is so notorious, to me, because I know him from my adolescence in West Virginia, when he and other like minded art students founded an organization called the Epicenter. It was an old barn turned artist space, and for a few years, it was a lot of fun.
Lord North was also the guest editor of my zine, once.
This is the cover of the issue he made, entitled “The Dam Age”. I’ve also unearthed the zine itself, which I’ll try to put online soon.
Check out his paintings. They’re delicious.
A Wooden Indian
A wooden statue
Originally uploaded by dylan_k.
I have always had an affinity for the wooden indians that you see at bars and in tobacco stores.
I took the picture of this one in front of a trading post in Maine.
Spoken Word & Live Music
This is the flyer for my next reading, in Shepherdstown at Reynolds Hall on Saturday, 9 PM. The performance will also be broadcast on 89.7 WSHC FM.
my set of poems for the event
I would like to help everyone who helped me pick them out. It wasn’t easy. For some reason, I’ve been nervous about this.
The Poets
Ethan Fischer edits Antietam Review and teaches English at Shepherd University. His book of poetry,Beached in the Hourglass, was recently published by Bunny & Crocodile Press. Ethan’s poems have been published in many literary journals, including Pembroke Magazine, Potomac Review, Tuscarora Review, Dickinsonian, and Mountain Pathways. His work was honored by inclusion in Wild Sweet Note: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry.
Todd Young is currently an adjunct professor of English at Shepherd University. Todd has performed his poetry in various venues around the Shepherdstown area and has most recently appeared onstage as Falstaff in the latest production by the Rude Mechanicals Medieval and Renaissance Players. Performing poetry with musicians is something that Todd enjoys, having been involved in several local experimental music projects such as Vox Populi, A Thousand Names, and Veritas.
Dylan Kinnett has been an active writer, poet & performer in the Shepherdstown community for a decade. Dylan spent the late nineties producing the local zine,Apocalypse Playground. He has written a stage play about a street preacher, several published short stories, and the occasional dirty limerick on a bathroom wall. Dylan is currently writing a novella in hypertext, To Win, Simply Play which began as an undergraduate writing thesis.
paradigm9 is a group of sound designers and recording artists who, for the last 6 years has produced music for films, plays, eclectic art installations, and the occasional good old fashioned live rock n’ roll show. Dani Seiss, Jim Pilato and Curt Seiss started the Shepherdstown-based experimental music label, Magnanimous Records in 1999 and have since grown to include a modest roster of both local, national and international recording artists. Recently paradigm9 composed a score to local film-maker Lars Wigren’s “Animus” and have just completed their fifth original score for the (not-so) traditional Rude Mechanical Medieval and Renaissance Players, directed by Shepherd University’s Dr. Betty Ellzey.
Robin Fink
I don’ t know anything about Robin Fink, but my friend Trent likes him. Apparently, he is the lead guitarist for Nine Inch Nails, live. Anyway, what I liked about that website for the man was this picture.
Sunset Drive
Here’s another image from the stack of old disks in the shoebox. I made this on an old mac, when I was maybe ten years old. If you know me the way you might, you’ll look at this and think, “gee, this is surprisingly colorful” But you know well enough to keep that kind of a comment to yourself, don’t you? (after all, most of my readers keep all their comments to themselves).
Vertigo
I created this image, digitally, when I was in high school. It later became the cover of the first issue of “Apocalypse Playground.” I thought I had lost the file years ago, but it turned up while I was digging for the script I mentioned in my previous post.
Minstrels and Yahtzee
Last night, being a saturday on a college campus, confronted me with the same dilema I’ve seen during every weekend since my freshman year. Do I want a hangover in the morning or do I want to be bored all night? It seems, there is little to do, otherwise. I opted for going to bed early, since the decisdion proved much too much for my addled brain. (It had been a long, frustrating week )
I put my head on the pillow.
Then, suddenly, this pair of fools pounded down my door, and took to terrible singing with guitar and bongo drums in hand, laughing madly… “Its time to get up! Its time to have fun!” I gave in to their demands. Several of my compatriates and I played Yahtzee all night. It was fun.