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At Artopia in Georgetown! Power Tool Drag Racing! Register at our front desk moments before the races begin at two p.m. o-clock sharp! We are generously accepting donations of any size and kind from any person at any time. We will be at 1204 S Vale street in Georgetown. We will also have merch you can buy. Any funds we gather will be used to ship hazardfactory crew to an Ice Festival at an undisclosed and unknown location to engage in artistically valid but otherwise dubious activity. Support your local Injurtainers!

Its that time of year again. June 27th at two p.m. corner 1205 south Vale st. at Artopia in Georgetown, we’ll bring the mayhem, you bring the glassy eyed lunatic fringe and a triple tall non-fat mocha with a splash of “Holy shit what the hell were these guys thinking?”. Or, just bring it! Metaphorically and literally. We will have corrupt Judges, bawdy sponsors, BEAutiful 200 pound trophies of which YOU ARE NOT WORTHY!

Literally, you could bring a power tool equipped to fit a foot wide track bordered with upright two by fours, and race for Glory, Fleeting fame, or our seriously unbelievable trophies of which we believe you to be FIRMLY UNWORTHY!

So prove me wrong. Show off your heretofore unacknowledged industrial art improvisationaI assemblage. I dare you to try.

See you on the track!

About a year ago, I helped a small local production with special effects for a day. i went out to Port Gamble and set Pyro effects for the film. It was very quick and dirty. I set up a volkwagon bug to detonate, rigged a friend of mine to catch on fire (without undue harm) and set another car and a few random objects with effects.

I went to the premier last night. I never would have guessed that Zombie film fans were so erudite, well spoken and generally showered. I caught up with the director Kevin Hamadani and his producer John, the same man that produced Iraq in fragments.

I recommend catching the film. It’s a comedy and completely over the top. It is an energentic send-up of living as an ethnic or gender minority, in the paranoid post 9_11 world. I would have liked to see a stronger intellectual effort, maybe an attempt to look at why Americans tend to isolate and persecute our minorities, but, it was a bit beyond the scope of a bloodspatter send-up.

I spent a little more time with the cast before the show and hopefully will pull some more independant f/x work in Seattle this year. Welll paid f/x work.

Rusty

http://venusarms.com/content/index.php?topic=94.msg176#msg176.

It’s been pretty busy since may eleventh. We screened the three Pilot episodes of weaponizers at central cinema, to friends and family, for free of course. It was a great thing to be able to put out there. Really pretty amazing. Explosions always look best on a big screen and at high volume.

The link up above is to a recent interview with venusarms, a local online art magazine, whom interviewed me last week. Thanks Niz and Dex!

From now till June 27th we are guns a blazing getting ready for the Power Tool Drag racing in Georgetown, and the first freaking ever Sex-toy-drag racing on the 28th on Capital Hill at the Wild Rose.

There is a lot of work to get done prior. A lot. Really. It would be a bit less work if we just phone it in, the problem being that we intend to get weirder, funnier and explosive-er.

If you want to get in touch to volunteer, please do. We will need help setting up and striking the event and encourage one and all to build power tool racers, build sex toy racers and  we will see you there!

In a week or two, I hope to find out whether weaponizers is picked up for a series. I’d love to get out there and boom some more stuffs for you. If you liked it let the discovery channel know!

On May eleventh the Discovery Channel finished editing and released “WEAPONIZERS” a three episode Pilot.

I was one of the four hosts of the Pilot and sveral members of hazardfactory, namely Jeremy, Paul, Aaron, Josh and Divide, worked on set for several weeks to make this thing happen.

It was by no means easy, but we made it happen. By now, you have either seen it, or missed out and will have to find it online or maybe rent it from Blockbuster. I am waiting to hear what happens next. We could go to series, in which case I dissappear for a while. Or it does not, in which case I will spend as much time as possible in the pursuit of artsanity. Either way, “things will burn, things will explode, things will happen”

And we will be making them happen your you, dear cyberpeople and peers, and for the adrenaline.

But there is little time and much to be done.

The Powertool Drag Race and Derby will be this JUNE 27th and by god, this time you will be there. You will finally have made that beltsAnder 36gritmissile that you’ve been bragging about since 06.  This time its for real!

Not only that, the Sextoy Races, a global first! Will be premiering THE NEXT DAY! Holy k-y Batman! June 28th in front of the Wild Rose, 32 linear feet of PORNFURY! It is to much, it’s too big, it’s too fast you’re not ready and you’re not worthy!

Hhaahhahahaha!

The Medieval episode came out and we had a great (free) show. My friends were of course, really supportive, and it was pretty amazing to host a screening. Especially because four out of the hazardfactory crew were working on th eproduction as well. We were able to present slides and talk about the show from our individual perspectives, whihc helped to give the audience a really comprehensive view of what went on.

We are screening the next two episodes on the 21rst.

The show itself exceeded my expectations. Our production team did a fantastic job and for those of you that are curious, it took about thirty people working well over full time to put this in effect. It was an amazing crew, without exception.

I have no way of knowing what happens next. I hope we go to series and if so, I am packed with new ideas to try out. I’ve been doing some research.

Of course, we are presenting the fourth annual Power tool Drag race and Derby at the Georgetown artopia event on June 27th. AND presenting the first ever sex toy drag race on the 28th so it will be a very busy couple of weeks.

hmmm.

Friday,  Lara and I spent most of the day working on two fire features intended to help keep people at the M4 party warm. These were derelict 100 lb propane containers which we cleaned and then perforated. Finally we built manifolds and installed these in the base of each piece.  They were capable of producing a 10″ column of fire from eight inches to four feet in height. They produced a lot of heat, ultimately looking like a cross between a japanese paper lantern and a Propane cannister.

Saturday, i spent the day instructing Katja, and Gabe in mig welding. This went very well. I have been getting excellent feedback from my welding instuction and intend to begin setting up large one-day programs for business clients. I will set up one-day intensives where I provide all the gear and material and set up on the customers site and teach welding for five to eight hours.

It would be a great team building excercise, and I expect it to take off.

The Party on friday night was excellent although I was dissapointed in that the Fire DEpt showed up and exerted a lot of authority that I do not believe they actually should have. They were, predictably, opposed to any open flame artwork. The fact that we had insurance, trained and sober professionals and fire suppresion gear on hand apparently meant nothing to them. Ultimately, they were just pissed that we did not procure the special permits they demand. This was solely owing to a time crunch precipitated by my being ill for a week. We normally pay them the 300 or so they demad for doing in effect, very, very little. They don’t really understand what we do, they simply do not understand flammable fuels the way that we do. I know the explosive and combustion thresholds of propane the way a vintner knows his grapes. Simply put, they don’t.

They know how to extinguish large fires. I know how to control open flame precisely. I tire of their complacent and boring sanctimony.

Think about the word safety for a moment.

Over the last decade virtually every undue exertion of power has been justified under the aegis of safety.

We are wiretapping you for the sake of public safety.

We beat and torture prisoners to keep you safe.

We have shredded the constitution to keep you safe.

We have to shut down your anti-war demonstration in order to preserve public safety.

We have to condemn this historic  building to make way for a characterless office high rise, and justify it by citing public safety.

We have to charge you for services that your taxes pay for already in order to ensure that you are safe.

Freedom and safety are obviously in a diametricly opposed relationship. Freedom is among other things, the ability to accept the risks of your behavior and pursue a course that has risks. Safety is an attempt to contrain circumstance even at the expense of experiance. I am not opposed to safety, but I recognize that it exists as at least a counterveiling tension and possibly as an enemy of Freedom.

I believe I know what Freedom is. I believe that most people would not know freedom if it jumped up and  gave them a lap dance in the Captains chair of a ship in a hurricane. They might recognize it later when they return to the leaden constraints of drab and entropic circumstance. This is a central and recurring theme in my art, the incidence of, and socialization of risk.

My safety is my problem and mine alone. I would rather be entirely free and responsible for my own safety than I would be safe and warm in Socially sanctioned safety-pen.

Was it Jefferson that said “Those who would trade Freedom for Security deserve neither”

The Weaponizers show I shot for the Discovery channel is out on the eleventh. I finally saw the preview and i am really excited. Rob and Simon did a great job editing. Really the crew I worked with was, without exception a fine group of human beings. Really remarkable people and very professional. I hope my contributions prove to be of the same caliber, pun intended. More on this later.

If what I just got over was not the swine flu, then it was the bac-o-bit fever. Gak, on the couch for about a week scouring netflicks for some hint of life, from me, or it…

Then I perked up a bit and just in time. The pilot I worked on has now gone public so I can mention it by name instead of calling it, that-which-may-not-be-named-for-fear-of-the-wrath-of-producer-and-contractual-blah-d-blah.

So, WEAPONIZErs, fun stuff, i can’t post much about the actual show details, but I feel free to drop some hints.

My friend forwarded me a link on which multiple parties are opining as to wheter Weaponizers will Rule or Suck. I am the least objective opinion available, but I believe it will RULEZ! I know this because I am, as are many of you Lcd minions, a boomjunkie. I likes me the hell out of some explosions. I’m also a bit fussy on this one as I have cultivated tastes in this regard. I’m not a boomslut, it’s not like any boom will do.

We have all pitched the occaisional bottle of propane on the fire, or set the odd half-gallon of gas on top of a stack of recently defenstrated televisions, or pitched a molotov or four. These are the junk food on the boom menu, these are not even appetizers, they reside on the impulse buy shelf in the boom supermarket in my opinion.

I want to see thing flipped up in the air, heavy heavy things, like cars flipped like a bird in the Bronx. Which is to say, quickly, repeatedly and decisively.

I want to see objects that no longer resemble themselves. Car hoods that look like Satans lacy doily. I like the kind of explosions that sever by viciously accelerating select areas of a mass leaving the remains standing and smouldering in place wondering what happened.

These are precise, planned high energy endeavors, and they are not particularly easy to set. A typical hollywood “explosion” is just a bag of gas and a remote. It uh isn’t all that, uh, hard.  A high energy detonation is another matter, and I have leared a lot about these recently (hint; this is a hint) although I am not going to say where. I will just infer it assertively and transparently.

I’m still working on several other projects, I am showing pyrosculptural work in a show tommorrow.

Hazardfactory is organizing the Seattle Power Tool Race and Derby. We spent the evining at the Wild Rose in Seattle last night promoting an upcoming event that I’ll discuss more later. It deserves its own seperate treatment.

So today i willl spend most of the day doing sculptural work, and working with fire. On with it!

Rusty

I got a good bit done on Volis this weekend. The next thing will be to finish of the fenders around the front wheels and then comes the fun part.

muahhahaha