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75 hours in the exurbs of Atlanta… The Monkey Power Trio’s 22nd day/year as a band

By Mark | October 24, 2016

This past weekend marked the 22nd meeting of my one-day-a-year pseudo-band, the Monkey Power Trio. For those of you who might not be familiar with our origin story, it all began back in 1995 with a promise between old friends one hot, summer afternoon in Brooklyn. On the spur of the moment, we’d decided to […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Monkey Power Trio, Observations, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, aging, barbecue, Black Mirror, Brooklyn, bulldoze the suburbs, Carrol Gardens, celebrity sighting, Cherokee, community watch, conservatives, creative process, Dan Richardson, Dave Miller, dead birds, depressing stuff, Donald Trump, exurban, Forsyth County, Foxy, fringe suburbs, Georgia, golf carts, Hillary Clinton, Jim Cherewick, Kellie, Left Behind, Linette Lao, litany of ailments, Mark Maynard, marriage, Matt Krizowsky, McMansions, Mike Bell, Monkey Power Trio, neighborhood watch, old friends, Pelican Cove, Phil Hendrie, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, psychic abilities, Pussy Grabber, Queen Latifah, racism, suburbs, Summing, The First Hour, tradition, Trail of Tears, weddings | 11 Comments

U-M undergrads to launch Makeathon with A2Awesome grant

By Mark | January 8, 2014

A few days ago, the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation awarded $1,000 in cash to University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering undergraduate Beverly Chou (seen below accepting the award from A2 Awesome founder Lisa Dengiz) to help fund the launch of an event that she and fellow students are calling Makeathon. After our meeting, I took the […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Awesome Foundation, entrepreneurism, Uncategorized | Also tagged 3D printing, A2Awesome, art & design, Awesome Foundation, Beverly Chou, College of Creative Studies, competitions, Detroit, entrepreneurship, Facebook, Google, hackathons, Hardware Hacks, IDEO, interdisciplinary, kids today, Lisa Dengiz, Makeathon, makers, making stuff, mechanical engineering, micro-philanthropy, MIT, MPowered, produce design, students, Sydney Bigelow, TechShop Detroit, University of Michigan | 5 Comments

The Untold History of Zines…. Gregory Hischak on Farm Pulp

By Mark | January 2, 2014

In an attempt to better document the American underground press, or at least the sharp tiny sliver of it that I find most interesting, I’ve given myself the task of reaching out to all of those former and current zine publishers that I know, and asking them about their motivations and experiences. Today’s interview is […]

Posted in Crimewave USA, Special Projects | Also tagged 1990, Agatha Cristie, Atomic Books, aviation, Bertolt Brecht, Big Geology Cabaret, Big Squirrel Lick National Park, Birthplace of Aviation, Cape Cod, Cape Cod Writers Center, Cincinnati, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Dada, David Mamet, Dayton, Edward Gorey, Edward Lear, Elliot Bay Books, Etch-A-Sketch, Eugene Baskerville, experimental theater, Factsheet Five, fake tourist attractions, famous people who published zines, Farm Hussy, Farm Pulp, fluxus, folding paper, fonts, found objects, Gang of Four, Golden Girls, graphic design, Greg Hischak, Gregory Hischak, Humana Festival, insecurity, James Thurber, John Cage, Left Bank Books, Lewis Carroll, Mad magazine, Max Ernst, Michael J. Rosen, Mirth of a Nation, National Geographic, Ohio, Petticoat Junction, playwrights, Portland Stage Company, Powell's, publishing, pulp, punk, Reading Frenzy, red dresses, Rene Magritte, Samuel Beckett, Seattle, Seattle Fringe Festival, See Hear, sexless, sibling rivalry, slam poets, small press, stamps, surrealism, The New Yorker, The Untold History of Zines, theater, This American Life, Thomas S. Hischak, toasters, underground press, Woody Allen, wooing girls, Wright Brothers, Xena, Yarmouth, Yoko Ono, young thugs, zines | 18 Comments

The Untold History of Zines…. Steve Hughes on Stupor

By Mark | December 27, 2013

Over the years I’ve mentioned my friend Steve Hughes and his zine Stupor several times on this site. I’ve shared videos of him reading at the Shadow Art Fair, and interviewed him about his various projects in Hamtramck, where he makes his home and runs an art space called Public Pool. To my knowledge, though, […]

Posted in Detroit, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bill Rohde, blood, Christianity, Clinton Snider, DIY, Dorota Coy, eastern mich, EMU, Factsheet Five, Hamtramck, Hope College, horrifically sad stories, Hygienic Dress League, interviews, Janet Kauffman, Jessica Frelinghuysen, Kickstarter, Kresge Foundation, Linette, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Matthew Barney, Michael Jackman, mud, New Orleans, oral history, poison, Public Pool, rust, seedy, self-publishing, sex, Shadow Art Fair, Steve Coy, Stupor, The Untold History of Zines, toilet, true stories, truth, truthiness, University of New Orleans, zines, Zug Island | 14 Comments

Jessica Meissner on assisting non-venture capital backed companies, and expanding the role of co-ops in Michigan

By Mark | May 5, 2013

Among the people in the audience at Thursday night’s “Doing Business in Ypsilanti” panel, was a woman who has been tasked by Washtenaw County to study the needs of non-venture capital funded entrepreneurs, and make suggestions as to how we might better support them. Her name is Jessica Meissner, and what follows is our email […]

Posted in Economics, Michigan, Ypsilanti | Also tagged access to capital, Alternative Energy, BALLE, BEC, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, co-ops, cooperation, cooperatives, corporatocracy, Costa Rica, Dug Song, economic anthropology, Jessica Meissner, local procurement, Maker Works, Organic Valley, Paul Saginaw, purchasing, sharing assets, Small and Mighty, small business, sustainably, The Shed, Tom Root, triple bottom line, underemployment, unemployment, University of Michigan, venture capital, Washtenaw County, Wisconsin, workforce development | 9 Comments

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75 hours in the exurbs of Atlanta… The Monkey Power Trio’s 22nd day/year as a band

U-M undergrads to launch Makeathon with A2Awesome grant

The Untold History of Zines…. Gregory Hischak on Farm Pulp

The Untold History of Zines…. Steve Hughes on Stupor

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