Since I started interviewing musicians about their favorite vacations, there’s been quite a bit of pressure on me to somehow incorporate visual artists. Well, after thinking about it for the past several months, I came up what I hope is a fruitful new series. It’s called “Art, Food, Sex and Trauma: Mark Maynard shoots the […]
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Art, Food, Sex and Trauma: Mark Maynard shoots the shit with the most important artists of our day… Episode 1: John Maggie
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Food, OCD, sex, Uncategorized Also tagged Allison Schulnik, anal sex, Andre Butzer, art, artists, Batman, butt sex, Catholicism, creative process, dandruff, Death, decay, depression, Desert Island Books, disease, Edgar Allan Poe, editing, fear, flip books, glitter, ground beef drifting at the bottom of a pool, guilt, Hamtramck, Heather Benjamin, Hieronymus Bosch, In Print, interviews, Johnny Apricot, Johnny Fairydust, Johnny FairydustJohn Maggie, Jonathan Rajewski, Jonny Deeper, Kanye West, Keanu Reeves, Keith Richards, Klinger Street Studios, marriage, Matthias Grünewald, Melissa Dettloff, nightmares, Pink Maggie, pizza, poop, pooping, pooping wizard, pooping wizards, Printed Matter, Publican Quality Meats, R. Kelly, shame, snorting the dead, Vault of Midnight, Vinnie Massimino, violent imagery, wastefulness, Work Gallery 7 Comments
Donald Harrison to launch FUSE: Mobile Microcinema series with A2Awesome grant
A few days ago, the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation handed over $1,000 in cash to local filmmaker Donald Harrison, who had applied for a grant in order to launch a new local film series. After our meeting, I took the opportunity to ask ask Donald a few questions about the local film scene, and his […]
Posted in A2Awesome, Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, entrepreneurism, Uncategorized Also tagged Ann Arbor Film Festival, art film, Awesome Foundation, business models, Donald Harrison, experimental film, Film, film making, Forest Juziuk, FUSE: Mobile Microcinema, George Manupelli, HOTT LAVA, independent film, John Roos, Leslie Raymond, microcinema, Roos Roast, Shadow Art Fair, Shadowbox Cinema, underground film 23 Comments
Introducing “Stupor”… the book
Two of my best friends are releasing books this week, and, in spite of the all-consuming jealousy that’s overtaken me, I’ve decided to help them promote their works here. The first book that I’d like to tell you about is by my blog-hijacking friend Steve Hughes, the publisher of the often recalled zine Stupor. Here’s […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Detroit, Dreamland Tonight, Shadow Art Fair, Uncategorized Also tagged A Hole for Brains and Candy, animal cruelty, animal torture, Art X, bed shitting, Book Beat, creative writing, Dances with Wolves, DIA, disappointment, do it yourself, drunkenness, dumb luck, flopping dicks, free beer, friends who do cooler stuff that I do, friends with books, Hamtramck, I'm a Spy, infidelity, jealousy, Jeff Kay, Jeff Kelly, Kresge Foundation, Kresge literary arts fellowship, Leopold's Books, Linette, Lynn Crawford, Mark's favorite authors, Microcosm, pant shitting, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Printed Matter, Public Pool, Quimby's, references to Mark's fat ass, self-publishing, Simply Separate People Two, Steve Hughes, Stupor, Temp Slave, Thomson Shore, West Virginia Surf Report, zine friends, zines 4 Comments