Guitarded

OK, this is my friend Abe. That's me in the background. This is the day he and my friend Paola introduced me to Guitar Hero, a brain numbing version of Dance Dance Revolution for those of us who either can't dance or don't like the music. I'm a bad guitarist and I suck at this too but the music is better and you can "ROCK OUT" with a little plastic guitar with no strings.

- Charlie

Post No Bills

Art Center/South Florida, 800 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FL

A show of rock posters from poster artists around the country.

October 21 - November 19

Artists include
Charlie Calderin (Doink-Miami)
Chloe Lum & Yannick Desranleau (Seripop-Montreal)
Dan Grzeca (Chicago)
Dan Macadam (Crosshair-Chicago)
Dan McCarthy (Jamaica Plain, Mass)
Diana Sudyka (Chicago)
Dirk Fowler (F2 Design-Lubbock, TX)
Jay Ryan (The Bird Machine-Chicago)
Jeff Matz (Lure Design-Orlando)
Jeff Kleinsmith ( Patent Pending Industries-Seattle)
John Solomine (Spike Press-Chicago)
Kristen Thiele (Postergirl Press-Miami)
Leia Bell (Salt Lake City)
Mat Daly (The Bird Machine-Chicago)
Nick Butcher (Programmable press-Chicago)
Steve Walters (Screwball Press-Chicago)
Tara McPherson (New York)
Thomas Scott (Eye Noise-Orlando)

French Lick

We wanted to put up Ira (The Man) Newman's film online so that everyone or just me could watch it. It is interesting. He did it about 150 years ago. It is funny seeing ira as a young hippie. I emailed Ira letting him know I wanted to post the movie and thought he could provide a little bit of insight into the movie.

Interview via email with Ira Newman about his movie French Lick

Doink: We are going to put a link to your movie French Lick on our blog so it can be viewed online. Do you want to write something about it? Or maybe say something about the movie?

Ira: Student work, B-, Visit French Lick.

Doink: Is that it? Do you want to add anymore insight or say more about it?

Ira: Take a hike.

Doink: Was it shot in the French Lick Springs resort?

Ira: Duh

I grabbed some info about French Lick from Wikipedia since Ira was being so helpful

French Lick was originally a French trading post. The town was founded in 1811. The sulfur springs were commercially exploited for medical benefits starting in 1840. By the later half of the 19th century, French Lick was famous in the United States as a spa town. In the early 20th century it also featured casinos attracting celebrities like boxer Joe Louis, composer Irving Berlin and gangster Al Capone. Pluto Water, a best selling laxative of the first half of the 20th century, was bottled here. Franklin Roosevelt won his nomination for his run for president inside the French Lick Springs Hotel. Tomato Juice was first invented and bottled in French Lick. Today, the town is perhaps most famous for being the hometown of NBA great Larry Bird.

Ira later called back and asked for us to wait on uploading the film. I was running into problems converting to movie to a smaller size. I kept loosing the audio. So, we decided to wait till the end of September to try an convert the file from an older version. The 2 people who read this blog (Me being one of them) will have to wait. I would like to apologize to myself and the other person. I hope there is another person.