Name: Ben Aqua
Website: http://benaqua.org
Email: ben@benaqua.org
Bio: I love to take photographs, lift weights, flirt with dudes, and cry a lot.
The Austin Electronic Music Grid is showcasing “ANTI-LAPTOP LECTRO HAXOR PUNK” hero Destroyed For Comfort at Plush (7th & Red River, Austin, TX) on October 2nd. It will be an early show, starting at 9PM. This one’s gonna be an intimate one, with the curent core lineup of Ralf23, Dack (previously from Sleep Now Yes), Foetus Envy and Chad Cheshire.
Douglas Ferguson
Vacuum tubes glowing hot to the max, layers of sound undulating forwards, back, down, up…. more reverb? That and more this Friday at the Scoot Inn as ST37, Followed By Static, Douglas Ferguson and Shawn David McMillen take “stage” for a free for all of experimental good times, psych and noise rock. Fresh off tour Doug Ferguson brings the landscapes he’s recently explored to soundscapes he’s never quit foraging. Followed By Static - the duo comprising of members of iKiLLCaRS and The Koreans - soak their punk and rock roots til they fall apart into drip drops of minimal play that swells into a sea of driving noise. ST37, Austin’s perennial psych band, dust off their saddles and ride the eve into oblivion. Or at least to last call.
10 – Shawn David McMillen
11 – Douglas Ferguson
12 – Followed By Static
1 – ST37
$5.00
Friday, September 19, 2008
@ Scoot Inn, 1308 E 4th St, Austin, TX
Really digging Andy Campbell’s review of Bruce LaBruce’s new film Otto; or, Up with Dead People from The Austin Chronicle’s fabulous Gay Place Blog. The film was recently shown as part of the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival.
Excerpt:
Unlike any other Zombie flick, LaBruce exploits the revolutionary potential of the un-dead: Zombies are nature’s way of getting back at a world driven to destruction by late capitalism, and homosexuality becomes part and parcel of this outlaw status. Honestly, in LaBruce’s hands, it makes a strange sort of sense that zombies would be gay. It’s a final and horrific middle finger to the living status quo.
Harvest, a group exhibition featuring new work by Austin-based artists Ryan Lauderdale, Dylan Reece, Corkey Sinks, and Anthony Romero, opened last night at MASS Gallery. The show highlighted the group’s overlapping interests in the aesthetics of the supernatural, found objects, and re-appropriated/re-contextualized visions of pop culture and nostalgia.
(More photos and textual goodies after the jump)
Tonight at Co-Lab (613 Allen. St., Austin, TX):
True Three-Dimensional Projection : Stephen Bornstein
Showcase: Sunday, August 31, 8-11 PM
Stephen Bornstein, conceptual Artist and professional Industrial Designer, has created real 3-D images that actually occupy volumetric space and time. This is a “virtual” recreation of realty. This is not real. It is projected light, fleeting, temporal and illusionary.
This installation invites interactivity by encouraging the viewer to bring their own iPod. Before their eyes, they can watch their favorite music morph in 3-D.
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