A couple month ago a few friends and I went to a couple of art openings in down town ATL. The friends that went with us were all very talented artists in their own right. Spanning many disciplines.
In short, we were inspired. The art was great, but none of it blew me away. We thought, why aren't we making more art... No, I mean Art, with a capital A, that hangs on a wall, or doesn't hang, because that's how radical it is.

well we have been making art.

I'd like to invite all of you to the first ever Oakhurstian One-Off Art Show.
February 5th, 2005
from 7:00pm - 10:00pm
It's being held at my friend Matt's house, which we will now call our "Salon."
located in beautiful Oakhurst a small suburb of Decatur.
114 Lenore Street
Decatur, GA 30030

and if nobody shows up...
we can drown our artistic sorrows in booze, like real artists.
join us, won't you.

check out the official webpage here.

There will be a live DJ (DJ Rene), some sweet eatables, and art to look at and/or buy, everything is cheap!

If you know someone who would like to come, or just want your very own version of our flyer, please download the .pdf here, it's a small download for such a pretty flyer. :)

I hope to see you, yes.. you!

Ok, this is a short follow-up to yesterday's post. This has become less about Religion, and more about what a raving lunatic Dr. Kent Hovind is.

Dr. Dino.com is the website of Dr. Kent Hovind, and is the official Creation Science Evangelism resource center. With links to such exciting events like The Creation Boot Camp.

Here is a funny bit, the website kent-hovind.com is not a website run by Kent Hovind, but is instead a website analyzing the good "Dr." They look at where Kent Hovind got his PhD from:

"Hovind acquired a religious based PhD in "Christian Education" from Patriot University. "Christian Education" is an evangelism course. Patriot University is an unaccredited correspondence school (note '.com' not '.edu'). "

Also, Kent Hovind runs a Creation Science dinosaur theme park called Dinosaur Adventure Land. Here is a guy who visited that place, and here is a snippet of what he had to say about it:

"Young-earth creationist Kent Hovind has built a dinosaur-filled theme park in the Florida panhandle and claims to prove that evolution is bunk. A visit there shows that it is definitely a fantasy land."

There is also a section called Quacky Qoutes, there are some gems in there, like this one:

"The Smithsonian Institute [sic] has 33,000 sets of human remains in their basement right now as you are reading this.  Many of them were taken while the people were still alive.  They were so desperate to find missing links, so desperate to prove their theory that they murdered people to prove it."

and finally, Ken Hovind on Ali G. (no video, just a discussion about the show)

alright I hope we all got that out of our system, and now back to your regularly scheduled clunkyrobot.com

Some of my co-workers have been border line obsessed with The Creation Science Museum in Stone Mountain Georgia. (the Museum used to have a website, but it's down, here is a google cache to prove it actually did exist at one time. The reasons for it's mysterious disappearing web presence are open to interpretation) While I shouldn't speculate on why they find the museum so interesting. I know why I do, because of the Creation Scientist's interesting explanation and justification of the Dinosaurs.

This is not a post about religion. People should be free to believe whatever they want.. I think that's fair. I just think it's dangerous when personal belief flies in the face of science and common sense. To that point, here is the cover to Creation Science Evangelism, The Creation Seminar Series Part 1: The Age of the Earth:

Now, I held this tape in my hands. I looked at it, I said something to the effect of "Man, Creation Science.... weird stuff." It was only when I walked all the way back to my desk and sat down did it finally strike me....

THOSE PEOPLE ARE FEEDING A DINOSAUR!

seriously. Can we please get our shit together, as a race of humans.

ok, to be fair, you should watch the video yourself, and you can. I've found it online, all 6 parts, including the provocative 7th Question and Answer portion. I give you Dr. Kent Hovind's Creation Science Seminar Online in Realvideo. Watch it, and find the answers to such questions as:
"How old is the Earth?"
"What Happened to the Mammoths?"
and
"What about Cave Men?"

Home of Goatopolis. Leader and sole inhabitant of Goatopolis is Goatopolis.

confused?
Visit the place, and meet the man. His name is sometimes Troy, and he's been by here before. He was one of the first to whole heartedly take on the Hand Crafted Revolution as his own. Which, let's be honest, is the point. It's not much of a revolution if it's just me making t-shirts in my basement. He made a sweet round of Duct Tape Wallets, now they are complete with Goatopolis branding.

His blog has just begun, and like this, is a sort of store-house for projects and interests. Here is an intersting one, an audioblog series he's calling, "Messeges from the Future."

From the director of Napolean Dynamite, Jared Hess, comes the new video for The Postal Service. (via mack)

We Will Become Silhouettes

*falls in love, dies*

I'm not sure who made this, or what it is. But it is great. The site, who didn't apparently have anything to do with it's creation, says it won't be up for long, so this link may die at any time.

Muppets Overtime (via metafilter)

It's not what you think it'll be, and an explination would not do it justice.

"For thirty-six weeks, a sketchbook was sent in random order between four artists: two in Brooklyn, two in Bellfast." (via metafilter)

This is the kind of legacy an artist really dreams about. This is even more impressive to me than having a painting hanging in a gallery. This is a living artistic history of these 4 people.

You can view each page, and even listen to the artists commentary about that page and what went into making it, what it's made from, and why.

Craig Robinson runs a website called flipflopflyin, he made himself famous by creating a thing called minipops. Minipops are tiny pixelized version of pop culture figures, like The A Team, John Kerry, most of the Planet of The Apes characters, and many more. The minipops got so popular that Craig published a book full of them.

He's got a new project just finished. It's called What If? And it details various ways his life could have been different, or could possibly turn out in the future. It's awesome, and optimistic, and pessimistic and depressing and hopeful all at the same time. His little pixel drawings are simple but still full of detail. (via metafilter)

Co-worker and HC Revolution Agent Mack has cut himself a stencil. With ink he used the stencil to make a t-shirt. It's a pretty detailed stencil taken from a comic book illustration.

On the issue of stencils and how to cut them.
Here is a good tutorial from Stencil Revolution on how to create a stencil.
Here is another tutorial from them about how to use a stencil to make a t-shirt.

I've just begun making screen printed t-shirts, and let me tell you, IT IS DIFFICULT. (well it's difficult to print at a consistant level of quality) And yet, it seems worth it, because the screen gives you more versatility when creating an image. Using a stencil, however, to make a t-shirt is relatively simple and fast. I highly recommend reading those tutorials and cutting and printing your own. You'll be amazed by the simplicity, and be inspired by the near infinite catch phrases and kitchy imagery you can them wear upon your chest... or back... or arms for that matter, depending on where you print it.

Propagation.

I got a letter from Troy this morning. He has whole heartedly stepped in line with the Revolution. He had this to say:

"...why buy some high priced product when you can make a
comparable product (whatever it is) and sit back and say, "Damn I made
that".  The satisfaction of your end product means a lot.  "The Man" better
take note,  the Revolution has begun..."

You might remember Troy from his entry into the Great Duct Tape Trade-away. He offered the Mix-n-Match Grab Bag, including an old school Mac +. Troy didn't get the wallet, so he made his own!

That's bad ass. It also embodies the very essence of this revolution. He went and made his own wallet. Now when people ask him where he got it, he can say, "I made this." And that's what this is all about.

Maybe we need to make up some Hand Crafted Revolution Denim-style Jackets. We could get big patches made for the back, and we could walk around like a gang. A gang who does arts and crafts, we'd be unstoppable.

Ok...
I went to art school. A great one, here in Atlanta. However, in art school they ingrained in my head a vital distinction. A distinction that lead to a terrible bias, and a terrible bias that lead to me missing out on something great.

That original distinction was:
Art vs. Craft

I was lead to believe that art is not craft, just as craft cannot be art. I now disagree. And so do many others. This had lead us into what I believe is a Hand-Crafted Revolution. So what exactly is this revolution? ok I'll try to explain.

It begins with the advent of easily accessible technology. The first was desktop publishing. With computers people began to understand how those magical graphical designs were created. It was de-mystified. Now more and more high end technology is available to us, and for cheap. In short:

We know how stuff works.

We've figured it out, and we're going to use that knowledge. Now we have magazines like ReadyMade. A sort of hipster's Martha Stewart, only legal. Each issue the magazine contains projects that combine art and craft. You can repurpose things like speaker cases to create a table with cup holders and a built in bowl. We've begun to reclaim materials and products around us and turn them into purely individual objects.

Why buy a messenger bag, when you can build one yourself? Why buy a PDA when you can approximate a cooler paper one? It's do it yourself, but with a spin, hand-crafted, personalized one-off projects. They define you, as well as your abilities. It's a revolution, and you can be a part of it, the cost is only time and the desire to make stuff.

I want to get to a point where most of the stuff I use and wear doesn't have anyone's logo on it but mine. I'm a long way from that, but I think it is attainable.

A lady named Claudia is selling on eBay a collection of personal letters written to her from one Philip K. Dick. (1928 - 1982) For those of you who may not know, Philip K. Dick is considered to be one of the most influencial Science Fiction authors of recent years. (Blade Runner is based on his novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
[-via boingboing]

Claudia says on her eBay auction page that she wanted to share the letters via the internet, but that this would be a copyright violation of some sort, all she can do is sell them. So in creating an auction she can show the letters for the first time legally.

from Claudia:
"We corresponded between 1974 and 1981. For sale are all the letters he wrote me between 1974 and 1975, when I was writing a U.S. master's thesis about books he'd published a decade earlier, at a time when only the French accorded him critical respect and his first language editions had lapsed out of print: Originals of over 60 individual letters, 186 pages"

Wow, most of the letters were typed by Dick, but often contain some hand written notes in the margins. This one has an erie note:

"P.S. What scares me most, Claudia, is that I can often recall the future."

The crew in The Life Aquatic all wear the Team Zissou Uniform, which includes a sweet pair of custom Adidas. They aren't available for sale, and were probably custom made just for the movie.

So this guy has created a how-to on building your very own!

All you need is a pair of Adidas ROM Classics (get em at the Adidas store) some blue paint, and yellow shoe laces!

I haven't had much time to post lately, my bad. I'm working on getting a page done about the t-shirts. Thanks for the interest, I will email everyone who has inquired when I get the page running. It should be cool and easy, and there will be shirts for everyone who wants one, it'll just be a matter of time.

in c-lab news:
The guys at Adultswim.com have built a new Sealab computer game. It's called Sweet Mayhem. It looks pretty cool. But I will never be able to play it, for it is PC only. Which is sort of ironic, because the entire show is made on Apple computers.

Our week of vacation is over. It was much appreciated, but now it's gone, and things must return to a relative state of normalcy. But even so, it is a new year, a brand new year. With it, this year brings for me a new role: I'm a printmaker. Not a really good one, but still, I am one.

I have proof:

This is an XL zip-up hooded sweatshirt with a 3 color design printed upon it's right breast. I have 3 more t-shirts with this same design printed upon their cottony surface. I'll be selling them for a small price. This price will cover shipping and the cost of materials. (ink and t-shirt) Meaning, I'll make little to no money from the sale of these shirts. But more on that later. Email me if you are interested.

There are only 3 of them, and this design will never be printed again. You know what that means? These shirts are super limited. Why will I never print this design again? It's a 3 color design, and printing it almost made me rip my eyeballs out of my skull. That means it's hard.

Check back soon for more t-shirt details. In the meantime, as per the spirit of this venture, here is a weblog about t-shirts.