HappyFeet Travels

December 26, 2005December 26, 2005

Late Dec. Dream Fragments

Streets teem with violence as protesters clash with police. The country is in full revolt against the government and our cluster has worked out an efficient force of disobedience. Large, full-back-sized men rush the police line as scrawny men pull up pavement stones with small metal pry bars.

I crouch down close to the street, pulling up stones with my tool. I quickly hand the stones to the large men who hurl them at the police. The hurlers seem invincible to the concussion grenades, tear gass, and rubber bullets. All the pullers jump around, dodging the police ordnance, and keep pulling up ammo for the hurlers. I feel exhausted but am using the adrenaline to keep fighting.

Continue reading “ dreams Late Dec. Dream Fragments”

December 12, 2005August 29, 2019

Make a Shoebox Crankie

Step 1: Gather Shoeboxes

paint
Once you have an idea to create as a crankie/cranky (you’re on your own for that), go to your local shoe store, ask for thrown-away shoeboxes, take home, and decorate them. I spray painted these Sketchers boxes and then covered them with stencils.

Continue reading “Make a Shoebox Crankie”

December 12, 2005August 30, 2019

Embarka Records Debuts

MC RAI :RAIVOLUTION:

ARABIC ELECTRONICA debut from from Embarka Records

Raivolution-The debut album from singer MC RAI. A hard hitting collection of tracks that brings the underground alternative music world to the doorstep of the Sahara. The disk spans the range of styles with Arabesque bumping grooves, Raggaton, Indy Rock, Hip Hop and straight up Rock Anthems. Although the vocals are in Arabic, the emotion that comes off the music is universal and heartfelt.

Continue reading “ sound Embarka Records Debuts”

December 12, 2005

ECR/Podp Berlin Annex Update

dearest radical + exotic Organisms,

Warm and plant-like INVITE to Podp’s FIRST 2xX cd Releases Party !!

Podp mixes radical world, global electronica, and recombined bits from the mass media wash cycles into “Pan Optic Radio” Soundscapes for Indymedia and radio worldwide, and occasionally as LiVe performance in special locations conducive to Art and Politics and bridging Theater of Cruelty with resistance. A movement which exists at least since John Heartfield, J.J. Grandville, or Bosch. Today it’s called Culture Jamming.*

In the last few years, Pan Optic has also become an Ost Bloc musika magnetâ€¦which is to say: the cruelty reaches a danceable phase, like a war cry at full moon, or lovers in their womb fleeing from the world.

Continue reading “ sound ECR/Podp Berlin Annex Update”

December 2, 2005August 29, 2019

Save Al’s Comics

Donate to Save Al’s Comics (or offer a store to rent)

When I moved to San Francisco in 1997, one of the top priorities of my transition was to find a local comic store to patronize. This may humor those of you who do not collect or read graphic novels (comics), but I liken it to the drinker who finds a local bar to call home. I have read, collected, and bought comics for most of my life, and at the time read several titles that had 10 to 30 year story lines (Cerebus and Bone). Finding a local store, setting up a subscription bag, and bugging the owner provides me with quality living through culture and community.

Continue reading “Save Al’s Comics”

November 15, 2005

Plate of Cheese

A friend is having a party and Deborah is there. While I leisurely paint on a piece of art, Deborah runs about setting up food dishes. I only want to eat cheese and continue painting. As people start to arrive, Deborah gets angry at me and insists that I help her help our mutual friend. I say no, I just want cheese, and then accidentally drip paint on the painting.

Continue reading “ dreams Plate of Cheese”

November 14, 2005September 7, 2012

A History of the Crankie

Before the invention of the modern cranky, the Japanese used scroll paintings that were influenced by Chinese scroll paintings. There was also an older form called a cantastorie. This device had images painted on fabric, telling stories in sequential order much like graphic novels of today.

The SF Weekly describes a cranky as a “primitive, miniature theater in a box: a roll of paper painted with pictures that tell a story, cranked by hand past an open frame. (The person doing the cranking often narrates and provides sound effects too…).” Though the parts can change, canvas instead of paper for example, this is an apt description.

Continue reading “A History of the Crankie”

November 10, 2005August 29, 2019

CRANKYfest this Sunday

HappyFeetTravels.org and CounterPULSE present

Crankyfest

SFWeekly Features CRANKYfest
flavorpill SF features CRANKYfest

Sunday, Nov. 13, 2005
8pm-10pm; $10-$15 (NOTA)

@ CounterPULSE
1310 Mission St. (near 9th)
SF, CA 94103
415-626-2060
info@counterPULSE.org

More Info

BigTadooCranky
Big Tadoo Puppet Crew works a cranky

November 5, 2005

New Years, Death, and Fall

Fall has always been my favorite season. As a child, turning leaves meant that the brutal heat and thunderstorms of summer were going away. Cooler weather and shorter days meant interesting views through naked trees and muted tones of reds, yellows, and browns. Since moving to San Francisco, I discovered that fall time is the Witches New Years (Samhain, pronounced sow-wan) and is also Yom Kippur for the tribes of Israel. Both of these holidays deal with aspects of death and rebirth.
Continue reading “New Years, Death, and Fall”

October 29, 2005November 5, 2005