Our C.E.L interviewed with the fine http://www.northwestxposure.com/ crew. If you want to read some backstory here you go! They specialize in spotlighting bleeding edge local artists so
be sure to check them out.

The time of the float upon the Duwamish is approaching. We will, for reasons best left alone, set upon the Duwamish in small craft and float it’s industrial shoreline at night.
This activity is organized for our army of awesome, hardworking and mostly shaven volunteers who make it all happen for everyone all the time.
Date is tbd but hopefully will happen before the big desert dirtrave in late august.

Our C.E.L. is currently collaborating with a few friends on a work that will ROAST SEAR AND CHAR an unsuspecting piece of meat. It is deliberately elaborate and overbuilt. With a little luck it will also produce a nice little flame tornado when not engaged in the central activity, notable the aforementioned ROAST SEAR CHAR.

Also Volis is going back on the table in short order, stay tuned.

The show this year was among our very best. We produced some of the best electromechanical stunts ever and concluded the show by launching a worm drive skill saw into low orbit.

Our Sources at NASA indicate orbit will begin decay in 47 hours and the race-tool will plunge into the Indian Ocean. We are not planning recovery efforts at this time.

We enjoyed enthusiastic participation, many people came out to race this year, almost 30% more than last year and we witnessed fine examples of folk sculpture, inspired depravity and a few non-classifiable items which help further the argument for socialized mental health-care.

Our brief post-show analysis has pointed the way toward even more highly refined forms of hs/jc/omfg! and given us serious food for thought. We are contemplating an expansion into a two day format and hope to provide an equipped pit-area.

Feedback is sincerely welcome, especially if it is cogent and erudite and it is best accomplished by emailing rusty at hazardfactory dot org   or posting at HAZARDFACTORY    facebook page. Please note this fb addy carefully, all caps all one word. There is a similar adress which has been abandoned.

It is absolutlely impossible to do a show of this size and type without assistance. it has been a pleasure and an honor to direct the attentions and efforts of so many talented motivated and intelligent persons. and to have the generous support of our local businesses.

We relied on over thirty volunteers this year and maintained an excellent fun to grunt ratio as a result.

I would like to make a point of thanking the especially hardcore in our group:

Paul Thibault: Excessive fabrication, heavy lifting.

Susan Barth: Cat herding.

Mattress Thibault: Annunciationa-thon

Colleen: Bringing the pre-natal volunteers! A First!

Miriam: Volunteering while in a leg cast. HARDCORE!

Cris Train and Misty: Thanks for the LOUD!

I would also like to note the assistance of several of our close Allies.

Hardware: For sharing the heaviest part of the grunt with us, and having the foresight to put extra barricade up behind our backstop, Fanfuckingtastic.

Titanium Sporkestra: For tough gritty extra difficult work related stress disorder removal.

The Georgetown Merchants Assosciation: You know who you are.

Sara McChristainsen: Refer to Bjork’s title: army of Me.

IT IS WITH DEEP REGRET THAT I THANK CRIS AND ZACH WHOM ARE MOVING AWAY TO THE LAND OF BEER AND BRATS WHERE ENGINEERS GROW ON TREES. We have come to rely upon your humor, friendship and blisteringly bright technical savvy and it has been a real pleasure creating and destroying new works of art with you. We cannot overstate your contribution and probably will have a hard time flying to Germany to visit. please ask Germany to fly us over.  If you two were any more Awesome, Bill Gates would buy you so that he didn’t have to bother making microsoft competative. If we don’t basically crumble, then we will miss you and regard the period of time you spent with HAZARDFACTORY as the Zenith.

                                                            On the behalf of Hazardfactory,   Thank you.

 I am working to set up a post-show party for volunteers and fanatics. I hope to retain the Central cinema for a six year retrospective. Otherwise a guerilla show will be staged elsewhere in the city.  Watch this page and facebook for updates.

Rusty

The Races will begin at TWO p.m.  June eleventh 2011 at the corner of 12th ave S and S Harney  across from Fantagraphics and All City Coffee in Georgetown.

Please show up a bit early and sign up. We ask racers for a 20$ donation, we ask everyone for donations, constantly.

We have had the pleasure and privilege of presenting this show to interested engaged and enthusiatic crowds with lightning fast reflexes for almost half a decade.

Please bear in mind that even as a member of the audience you have certain standards to which you can and should aspire. Feel free to be megawatt awesome, be the party, exude a sticky but undeniable charisma, otherwise I heard there is this great movie at the mall or something…..else…to do..

If you are at all willing to help please contact Rusty Oliver rusty(at)hazardfactory (dot ) org.

Many hands make light work and our day-of event workload has gotten steadily lighter every year thanks to the enthusiastic efforts of our friends and community at large.

HAZARDFACTORY will be hosting a few build and test days.  For example, this friday  the 27th and and tuesday the 31rst from five pm on.

Watch this space for dates, show up, make something, weld something, improve your racer, test it in a track, or just mock the competition and opine authoritatively.

Race technical data, rules-ish and so forth are HERE: http://www.hazardfactory.org/?page_id=185

We cannot do this without support, so if you love the races, this is who you really love.. and as long as they consent, well, that’s at least okay. Hopefully a bit better than just that.

Sara, benign dictator of Georgetown, Owner Calamity Janes

Larry, Fantagraphics Comics, a returning PTDR champion.

Scott, Nine Pound Hammer Lorrettas Northwesterner.

Erica, Duchess of Full Throttle Bottle

A Dogs Dream

Sandbox Sports Seattle

Georgetown Liqour  Company

Georgetown Merchants Assosciation

Secret Service Houscleaning. http://www.secretservicehousekeeping.com/

This Friday May thirteenth 2011 Hazardfactory is alarmed to present:

                Honkfest After Party AKA Susan Barths’ Birthday Bash!

Doors open at 10:30, this is a fundraiser benefiting Honkfest and Hazardfactory. $10 at the door.

Address 7800 seventh ave s. cross st Chicago. please use a gps or ask google. elaborate directions are waaaay down this page.

There will be marching Bands, something involving either fire or high voltage or both probably, food, beverages, maybe cake even, if you are pleasant, or if you know Susan, both……

There will be authentic handcrafted industrial grime and no-place to sit, and if you care it’s only because you are not dancing, which, basically, is a problem.

No Minors,  miners may be okay, but no minor miners and no major miners either, coal sucks.

The party never stops, we just go home to rest once in a while.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuJhsQsm2QQ&feature=player_embedded#at=129

I wanted to Thank everyone for making this happen.  It is never easy to stage an art show of this kind, particularly with limited time.

Bill Pease of ECOSS worked with the City to obtain permitting.  Jen Nye helped co-ordinate with the rest of the festival.

Paul Ramsey, our newest HF crewmember, helped get the show ready by reviewing  all the gear and making the final hour propane run.

Tyler and Frank  rallied the percussion talent  at the last minute, and Sara Johnson of (HF) and  Spinergy brought in her Fire Performance troupe.

Marsh, Cris, Willow, James, and  Sylvie  helped set and strike the gear. Many hands make light work, I hope everyone enjoyed themselves and I expect we will be asked to so something

similar again soon…..

As in tomorrow night Friday at 10:30 for the 13th at Hazardfactory for the Honkfest after-party…….. 

Which means that prep has already been underway for some time and that tonight and tomorrow will involve a lot of  eventmaking work. 

Which means metaphorically shout Geronimo and again  leap into the cool embrace of hurtling air.

R.

It is that time again.

Although they seem to have forgotten the first two times we set races in Olympia,  the more or less unincarcerated folk of Olympia are now willing vectors of the Power-tool-Drag Racing fever!

HAZARDFACTORY is free to show up to the race and turn their asses into little easter bonnets and hand them back to our gracious-esque hosts. Will all the effort we won’t have to expend setting track and sweating, we can instead dedicate to building racers and reverse-sweating.

We will be hosting many many build times for the races here at Hazardfactory.llc  But thursday April  the fourteenth from six p.m. till oh god no, and Thursday April the twenty first (6pm-?) are scheduled and  confirmed. Watch this space for addtional times likely to pop up on saturday afternoon after welding classes, so, four ish.

The Olympians have this to say:

The races are scheduled for Arts Walk.

Saturday, April 23rd at Noon at the Olympia Federal Savings building.

Entry fee is $20.

For info or to pre-register, email: olympiapowertool@gmail.com

BE SURE TO ASK IF THEY HAVE YOUR TROPHY READY!

In the last two weeks, I have set up and installed a five by nine plasma table and begun working at cad and cam. So far so good.  There is no more small flat sheet in the shop to speak of, I’ve cut a dozen signs. Most of which turned out.. o.k.      ish……….. It’s  alearning curve, but reallly fun as hell.

Directions:
7800 7th Ave S. 98108 Seattle Wa in the Olympic Steel Door building. IF YOU MAPQUEST, BE SURE TO INCLUDE THE BUILDING. This address is in the South Park neighborhood on the West side of the Duwamish, near the intersection where 99 south becomes 509 roughly a mile west and two miles South of the Nine Pound Hammer in Georgetown; or a five minute drive from the intersection of Michigan and East Marginal Way South.

Directions from 99 South of Spokane St:

* Proceed South on 99. We are located near the intersection where 99 south becomes 509.
* Just south of Michigan St., you will drive onto the Drawbridge on 99
* Keep right to take the first exit on your right, bearing right onto W. Marginal Way South.
* You will now describe a long circle to the right that takes you back underneath the bridge you just crossed.
* Keep right, proceed forward about a 1/4 mile. You are now at a lighted intersection that bears to the right taking you under the bride you were just on. Do not stray from this course. If you get lost mutant toxic waterfowl will accost you and only the grace of smith and wesson will allow you to survive….
* Continue to bear to the right and cross underneath the bridge, the road will now have brought you around a full 360° so that you are headed south again.
* Once you have passed underneath the bridge get into the left lane. You are now headed toward S. Holden st, parallel to the bridge and just East of it. Proceed about two hundred meters.
* At the lighted intersection ahead, turn left onto S Holden. Look carefully for the sign it is comparatively small.
* Proceed two blocks East to 5th ave s.. Pretzel Logic Deli is on your right, The Gear Works is across the street.
* Proceed two more blocks to 7th ave south. Turn right onto 7th.
* Proceed two blocks. At the intersection of 7th & Chicago, the road will become an unpaved pothole obstacle course.
* The Olympic Steel Door Building is the baby blue steel building ahead on your left. All Metal Arts is located in the easternmost (furthest) bay. It is an unmarked location as theft is prevalent around here. There will be a black limo and a blue toyota pickup truck out front of the large, tan-esque colored roll-up door.
* If you are here after business hours or on the weekend, park anywhere in front of my bay or in the Washington lift gate truck lot across the street.

Note: There was formerly another drawbridge south of me, just off east marginal way south. Do not be deceived. This is not the bridge you require. It will end badly. At no time should you actually see Boeing field or boeing anything given the directions above. The geese will get you.

This area is not straightforward but not difficult once you have navigated it successfully. Please review these directions prior.

Rusty
206-200-9496