One of the good things about being among the handful of people behind the Shadow Art Fair is that I don’t have to apply. In exchange for the work that I do, I get a table automatically, and I have right up until the morning of the event to decide what it is that I […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Shadow Art Fair, Uncategorized | Also tagged Be Interviewed by a Painfully Awkward Middle-Aged Man with OCD, building things from cardboard, cardboard, confessionals, Corner brewery, face eating, Girls Gone Wild, interviews, interviews with Mark, last minute art projects, Mark's big ideas, regret, robots, Whitney Biennial |
By Mark | January 21, 2012
A few days ago, when I let it slip on this site that my dapper young companion, the accomplished local puppeteer Patrick Elkins, was himself in fact an automaton, which I’d created from a found beard, a magical top hat, and the rusted-out shell of my former mentor’s daughter Vicki, I received an email from […]
By Mark | January 4, 2012
Last night, as we set out to relocate this site at its new home in the upper atmosphere, I told you that you could take 48 hours off. I had been told, by our technical team, that the migration would likely take that long, and, during that time, the site would be completely dead. As […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Other, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020 Task Force, Andre, animatronic alcoholics, Anton LaVey, cloud computing, dark mark, fruit trees, grafting, guerilla grafting, Horatio Alger, Lisa Bashert, Lord Voldemort, Manhole, MarkMaynard.com, Nancy Grace, Neighborhood Fruit, nipples, Patrick Elkins, robots, site maintenance, Small Wonder, Ted Lawson, the future of this site, You Gotta Have Hope |
By Mark | February 10, 2011
AnnArbor.com has a piece by Tom Perkins today on Sandee, Bill and Andy French and their plans to franchise the popular Depot Town restaurant Aubree’s. I’d known that they had aspirations in this direction for a while now, but I had no idea how serious they were about it. According to the article, they even […]
Posted in Food, Mark's Life, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Andy French, animatronics, Aubree's, Bill French, Cheers, Cliff, franchises, George Wendt, iFranchise, John Ratzenberger, Norm, Old Detroiter, robots, Sandee French, Tom Perkins |