Tag Archives: interviews with Mark

Ypsilanti exit interview: Vinnie Massimino

By Mark | August 6, 2012

As three of the last four posts on this site have been about the upcoming Ypsilanti Democratic primary, I though that it was time for something a little different. Here, with that in mind, is an exit interview with local video artist Vinnie Massimino. If he looks familiar, it might be because, until about a [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Shadow Art Fair, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 8 Ball, Bathroom Reviews, Bee Roll, Beezy's, being bored, Belleville, Ben Miller, Berlin, Byron Mosley, comedy, Detroit, Diana Ross, EMU, film making, Flint, Joshua Light Show, Joshua White, Lou Reed, Matt Posky, Mike Eller, MOCAD, New Order, NYU, Otter Lake, risk taking, settling, Sons of Dads, Spies Like Us, Stairclimbing, The Cure, the plight of baristas, Thieves Like Us, Vinnie Massimino, VOSKY, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews | 10 Comments

What I might be doing at this summer’s Shadow Art Fair

By Mark | June 26, 2012

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, beer drinking robots, building things from cardboard, cardboard, confessionals, Corner brewery, face eating, Girls Gone Wild, interviews, last minute art projects, Mark's big ideas, regret, robots, Whitney Biennial | 17 Comments

Stanford student radio interviews the Monkey Power Trio

By Mark | May 10, 2012

A few nights ago, four out of five members of the band, The Monkey Power Trio, were interviewed by a fellow named Diego Aguilar on Stanford University’s student radio station, KZSU. The interview is, by all accounts, unremarkable. I have heard, however, that some young people on the Stanford campus have turned it into a [...]

Posted in Art and Culture, Monkey Power Trio | Also tagged Chiasmus, Dick Panthers, Diego Aguilar, Don't Excarnate Your Kids, drinking games, KZSU, Tom Waits | 5 Comments

Manhole member Stevo “Doc” Doccerson demands to be interviewed, have mangy, glistening pelt of chest hair acknowledged

By Mark | May 1, 2012

Remember that band, Manhole, that got run out of Ypsi after they illegally appropriated my face for an ill-fated line of leisurewear? Well, all the guys came back to town this last weekend, in hopes of acquiring stacks of free pancakes and selling poorly photocopied trading cards of themselves at Totally Awesome Fest 8. I [...]

Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged chest hair, Daniel Peron, Hob the Troll, Hollis, Hollis Knight Coats, interviews, Manhole, Stevo Doccerson, Totally Awesome Fest, trading cards | 7 Comments

The totally confrontational Totally Awesome Fest press conference

By Mark | April 25, 2012

Ypsilanti’s more densely bearded, somewhat less murderous, and considerably less black version of Don King, Patrick Elkins, called a press conference yesterday to announce the lineup of the 8th annual Totally Awesome Fest, which begins this Friday evening at 5:00, in the field behind VG Kids. I suppose, in retrospect, that it should have been [...]