Monday, July 23, 2007

 

Video Stills

I just got back from 1970. At least that what it has felt like for the last few months staring at the video I've been editing (while neglecting dear Abram the Safety Ape, my friends, and pretty much everything else). Anyway, here are some stills from the project. It's actually a trailer for a movie that's yet to be made if all comes together. Anyway, I hope it works out, since it's a story I wrote. Set in 1970, in Hollywood, the desert, thereabouts. And here are some pix from it...




























































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Saturday, May 19, 2007

 

New Tattoo. LONG LIVE THE KING!!!



I now bear the marks and seal of HIS MAJESTY, KING FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF MAKE-BELIEVE.

As Duly Acknowledged Knight of the Roundtable of King Friday the Thirteenth, Honored Servant of the Neighborhood of Make-believe and vassal to MY LORD and ruler of ALL MAKE-BELIEVE, including subject cities of Westwood, Southwood, Northwood, and region of Someplace Else, I am now consecrated to duty.

LONG LIVE THE KING!!
ALL HAIL THE KING!
LONG LIVE THE KING!!

Rex no potest peccar!

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Friday, April 6, 2007

 

Mexico City Photos

Photos of various curiosities and jabbering captions from my recent week in Mexico City.

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Sunday, November 5, 2006

 

New Art of Bleeding Video Online

Our friend Chuck Cirino of weirdamerica.com videoblogged Art of Bleeding's last show at Safari Sam's (augmented with a little old footage)

SEE: http://www.weirdamerica.com/tag/art-of-bleeding

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Friday, November 3, 2006

 

RE/Search Pranks Publication Party

SATURDAY: PUBLICATION PARTY/PANEL: "PRANKS 2" from RE/Search pubs

Thanks to my inglorious past running the Cacophony Society, I am the subject of a chapter of this book, and sitting on the panel of local pranksters for the socal publication party for...

PRANKS 2

Please come and pelt me with debris...

Press release below...
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PRANKSFEST celebrating RE/Search's new book, PRANKS 2
Sat, Nov 18, 2006 - 7:30 PM (doors open 6:30pm)
Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA 90291 tel 310-822-3006
$10 (includes $5 coupon towards purchase of an autographed PRANKS 2 book)

PARTY, Film Show, Panel/Q&A and Spectacle featuring:
() Rare & Inspiring Pranks Video Clips & Visual Presentations.
- PANEL/Q&A with:
() Reverend Al (L.A. Cacophony Society; Art of Bleeding)
() Frank Discussion (Feederz)
() JIHAD JERRY (formerly Jerry Casale of DEVO).
() Host: V. Vale, RE/Search founder.

The evening will encompass a Mad Celebration, Reunion, Party, Film Showing, Panel Discussion, and Q&A with these local Los Angeles artists who appear in RE/Search's newest book, PRANKS 2. Panelists will explain their "philosophy of Pranks" and answer questions from the audience. All interested in RE/Search's 30 year history, pranks, and cultural subversion in general are urged to attend. Hard-to-find RE/Search Publications will be available for sale, and can be autographed. Reverend Al, Frank Discussion and Gerald V. Casale will be present to autograph copies of PRANKS 2 and offer their rare CDs, videos, etc. Reverend Al has promised to bring his "Art of Bleeding" Ambulance.

"In today's current surreal political landscape, a well-executed prank can do much more than yelling theater in a crowded fire! In that spirit, RE/Search and [Beyond Baroque] present the Pranks Festival. This is a rare opportunity to engage with prankster pioneers, while supporting the counterculture RE/Search publishing team." -- Boing Boing

RE/Search's new "PRANKS 2" book is now available from www.researchpubs.com or call 415-362-1465 to order! Review copies are available; email info@researchpubs.com (8x10", 196pp, 200 photos, glossy paper, $19.99)

Thanks & Best,
V. Vale
founder of RE/Search/Search & Destroy in 1977, San Francisco - www.researchpubs.com
(Our thanks to Beyond Baroque [& our L.A. friends] for facilitating this event)
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RE/Search Publications
20 Romolo Suite B
San Francisco, CA 94133
(415) 362-1465
info@researchpubs.com
www.researchpubs.com

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Sunday, October 15, 2006

 

Review of Music from the Magic Ambulance

By V. Vale of RE/Search Publications

In the tradition of Jean Jacques Perrey and Bruce Haack, Reverend Al and his zany cohorts have created diabolically-compassionate sound collages which not only amuse but actually enlighten as well. There are eruptive moments of mirth scattered throughout these somewhat amazing "compositions," which are often unified by truly instructional omniscient male-voiced narratives straight out of the fifties. Here "avant-garde" gets disguised by satire. Incorporating the best of fifties high school driver's safety short films and first-aid training films, these compositions boast car crash sound effects, emergency phone calls, electronic swooshes and almost-melodic tonalities, sometimes punctuated by gorgeous female sounds and shrieks. Rarely has sex and violence been so compellingly distilled into such pleasurable sonic fables and parables for our schizophrenic millennium. Today, with Valley of the Dolls aids such as Prozac illuminating life's pathways, how can we falter? If we do, the reassuringly "scientific"-sounding narratives from our friends, the Art of Bleeding, will surely guide us back to the straight and narrow.

---- AVAILABLE ON ITUNES

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Thursday, October 5, 2006

 

Our Halloween Car Crash Installation



Thursday, October 26, 9pm

ART OF BLEEDING HALLOWEEN SHOW @ Steve Allen Theater

Featuring "Halloween Highway" Multi-vehicle Car Crash Installation
"Magic Ambulance Theater" w/ ABRAM THE SAFETY APE & Friends

Special Guest: MARGARET CHO

Performances by Danny Shorago, Satanica, Los Ninos de la Tierra
STEVE ALLEN THEATER, 4773 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, (323) 666-4268.
$10, more info: www.artofbleeding.com


Start your Halloween weekend on Thursday with ART OF BLEEDING, as they present "HALLOWEEN HIGHWAY, a Cautionary Tableau of Automotive Carnage for Your Inner Rubbernecking Ghoul," a smoldering multi-vehicle car-crash installation with living/dying actors, extensive FX makeup, and original sound and video in the parking lot of the STEVE ALLEN THEATER.

We'll also have vaudevillian safety lessons from comedian/burlesque diva MARGARET CHO, DANNY SHORAGO of America's favorite lounge-punk-comedy band THE FUXEDOS, the infernally talented stripteuse SATANICA, and the macabre puppeteers of LOS NINOS DE LA TIERRA.

As always, the evening's feature presentation will be Art of Bleeding's "MAGIC AMBULANCE THEATER" with ABRAM THE SAFETY APE, RT THE ROBOT TEACHER, and the recently enlarged and shamelessly salacious ART OF BLEEDING NURSING STAFF. With more viscerally repellent scenarios, cruel humor, and implausible excuses for nudity than ever before, this latest installment in Art of Bleeding's ongoing saga of psychotronic safety education, continues to provide those qualities our audiences have come to demand, namely the unique chance to enjoy gore, thinly disguised medical fetishism, the unseemly use of puppets, and the creative mangling of educational films from your 7th grade health class -- all under one roof.

More: http://artofbleeding.com/show-faq.html

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