TRI-X-NOISE
a new book and an on line print store, soon
hey pueblo,
i'm about to totally re-do this site with the help of the amazing Max Fenton.
the new site will have a gallery where you can buy my photos from the punk, freight, graff, and other situations. there will also be an archive of almost every art show i've thrown since 1981. hell, it might even start with a clipping from my first zine, a memeographed bmx magazine from 1974.
so check back soon.
and a new book is in the works, called TRI-X-NOISE, which will be a photobook designed to fit in your bike bag and keep you company on long trips in case the scenery is dull.
and, a catalog is in the works to accompany my photo show Ground Score, which opens in Atlanta at Get This! Gallery on Sept 18 in conjunction with ACP. the catalog has an essay by portland's Chas Bowie and is designed by Ian Lynam. Ground Score is going to Sweden in the fall. if you would like to host an exhibition in your town lemme know.
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this already happened:
...hitting the road in June for a few screenings and a couple of art shows...
my buddy Shaun Slifer will be doing a presentation of his coyote track project at these shows in june:
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June 26, Bozo Texino screening
Cranky Yellow St. Louis MO
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June 5, Bozo Texino screening
Black Bear Bakery, St. Louis MO
Anna is (not) setting up some music
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June 11, 12, Bozo Texino screening TWO NIGHTS
plus art show "Chaulk Legends"" with Colossus of Roads, aka buZ blurr,
and bands TBA
ACAC, Little Rock AR
photos from the event:
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June 13, Bozo Texino screening 7pm $5
Firebrand Infoshop at the Little Hamilton Collective, Nashville TN
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June 20, Sunset Scavenger/Sailvan show, with
Ryder Cooley's Animalia performance at
House of Yes Sky Box, 342 Maujer St. Brooklyn, NY.
doors 8:30, show 9pm. $10.
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May 20, Oberlin College, Ohio:
Sunset Scavenger, outdoor sailvan screening.
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May 21, Bozo Texino screening, Oberlin, Ohio, TBA
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May 22, Skylab, Columbus, Ohio:
Bozo Texino screening,
and a one-night photoshow of The Great Depression
with: Bedlam Theater.
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The Great Depression
March 3-25, Space 1026, Philly
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Another version of my Great Depression show was up at 1026:
Filmmaker, photographer, and artist, Bill Daniel presents "The Great
Depression" opening April 3rd from 6:00pm to 11:00pm at Space 1026.
Culminated from over twenty-years of work and cross-country travels,
"The Great Depression" is a mixed media gallery show that has evolved
from the on-going Sunset Scavenger project. The gallery will be jammed
with a mix of Bill's photography - from murals to snapshots, a mash-up
wall of found things + friends' work, a video projected onto signal
flags, and some stuff that he's been dragging around from state to
state, waiting for a place to stick it up.
On on SATURDAY April 4th 7:00pm @ Space 1026 join Bill for a
special screening of his epic and beautiful documentary, "Who Is Bozo
Texino?" The black and white film shot in 16mm and Super8mm over
16-years chronicles the search for the source of a ubiquitous and
mythic rail graffiti-- a simple sketch of a character with an
infinity-shaped hat and the scrawled moniker, "Bozo Texino"-- a drawing
seen on railcars for over 80 years. Daniel's gritty film uncovers a
secret society and it's underground universe of hobo and railworker
graffiti, and includes interviews with legendary boxcar artists.
FRIDAY April 3rd: "THE GREAT DEPRESSION" works by Bill Daniel opening reception 6:00pm to 11:00pm at Space 1026
SATURDAY April 4th: screening of "Who is Bozo Texino?" 7:00pm $5.00 at
Space 1026 w/ performances by the Extraordinaires and Sweatheart.
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a review of the Pittsburgh Filmmakers installation of The Great Depression by Ally Reeves
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FRIENDS Show, Domy Books in Austin, opens Thurs April 23. featuring: Bill Daniel, Cynthia Connolly, Tim Kerr, Rich Jacobs and Michael Seiben.
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Bozo Texino on the road, screenings:
April 17th, Spazzatoruim, Greenville NC (plus photoshow)
April 18th, Internationalist Books, Chapel Hill, NC
I'll have a few photos in a music-sound concept visual show called "listen with your ears & eyes wide open, this time" that Rich Jacobs is putting together for Park Life in San Francisco. Opens March 13th.
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A new version of the Sunset Scavenger video will be projected (in the gallery-- it's not a sailvan show) at the Cheekwood Museum in Nashville, as part of the Lens with a Conscience exhibition. Opens March 12th.
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solo photography show: Get This! Gallery in Atlanta, in Sept. This will be all silver-based and experimentally-toned photography--- some new images from Galveston, and a range of landscape-based work. I'm building a new darkroom and studio, so expect some new tricks. Working title: HOLOCENE POSTCARD
Details soon....
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Jan 10th: The closing event of the The Great Depression installation: In the theater at the Melwood theater at PGH Filmmakers Centipede Eest will preform live accompaniment to films and video on my favorite theme, the American folk expressions of collapse culture.
Dec 6th, there will be a projector/sound performance at Pittsburgh Filmmakers in the gallery: local musicians Jim Lingo, Josh Tanzer and Jarret Fate will sonically interact with the audio track from a projected reel of 16mm oddities. Doors 7:00, Performance at 8:00. I'll have some beer and cokes for you.
Jan 17th: Photographer Santiago Mostyn and I are putting up a show at Needles and Pens in San Fran. Santiago will have prints of his documentation of the Miss Rockaway raft project, and other work, I will have a mess of stuff up including some 90's SF graf.
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Oct 08: Too bad I'm so bad at keeping this site updated. I could have written about an epic west coast trip in Sept in the new veg-oil van, which kept breaking down, leaving me stranded in Missoula and Butte, MT, and in South Dakota in a little town on the Missouri River. And a wild time last weekend in Brooklyn with the Transformazium crew that included a sailvan screening at the Grand St Park... too many tales to tell... Well, so much for the past.
Here's what's up:
##### a gallery show at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, called The Great Depression, opens Fri Oct 24th.
##### a photo from my New Orleans series is in the ABC NO RIO benefit, Oct 22. If you are in NY, go support No Rio!
##### I'll be doing some shows with Bright Black in Texas and Louisiana in November, opening for their set with a screening of Who is Bozo Texino.
##### a screening of Bozo Texino, a book event, and a hit and run photo show at Young Blood Gallery in Atlanta, Monday Nov 10th.
#### Bozo Texino opens for Craig Baldwin's new film, the mind-blowing Mock up on MU, at the Three Rivers FF in PGH, Nov 21st.
##### 2009--- wanna do a show? drop me a line, let's chat it up.
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The new sailvan (diesel) is getting a SVO veg oil conversion installed at Fossil Free Fuel in Braddock. They build the best-designed vegtable oil fuel systems around. Next time you see me ask to smell the exhaust.
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a new book! Mostly True
www.microcosmpublishing.com
Looky! a review of Mostly True in the Texas Observer
And one of my NOLA photos at a show at the New Museum called After Nature.
I'm building a new Sailvan, this one is a 1984 Ford XLT CLub Wagon---
a diesel that is presently getting a veggie oil conversion. It's first show will be at the Interactive Screen event at Banff, Canada in late August.
I'm looking for venues to present the Sunset Scavenger show this fall. Drop a line if you would like to get the Sailvan to come to your school, art space, secret clubhouse...
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some spring 2008 shows: (Bozo Texino screening and Mostly True book signing)
Mon June 2 / OK City, OK / okc infoshop / 7:00
Fri May 30 / Waxahachie TX / Webb Gallery / 7:30
Wed May 28 / Ft Worth TX / Modern Museum of Art / 7:30
Fri May 23 / Austin TX / OK Mountain / 9:00
Sun May 18 / Houston TX / Domy Books /
Sat May 17 / Beaumont TX / Boomtown FF / 3:00
Fri May 16 / Baton Rogue LA / Spanish Moon /
Thurs May 15 / Biloxi MS / Sweets Lounge
Mon May 12 / Greensboro NC / The Elsewhere /
Sun May 11 / Durham NC / Bull City HQ
Sat May 10 / Roanoke VA / O. Winston Link Museum
Tues May 6 / NYC NY / Maysles Studio / 7:30
Sun April 27 / Providence RI / AS 220
Thurs April 24 / Brunswick ME / Bowdin College
Wed April 23 / Turners Falls MA / The Brickhouse / 7:30
Tues April 22 / Bennington VT / Bennington College / 9:00
Mon April 21 / Keene NH / Keene College
Thurs April 17 / NYC NY / Hunter College / 2:00
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Adventure in the Industrial Heartland:
There is a House (documentation pix here)
Post-Katrina photography and video by
Patrick Bresnan
Bill Daniel
Courtney Egan (w/ Helen Hill)
Chris Sullivan
In Braddock, PA,
in an abandoned house
with stolen windows and no electricity,
an art show from New Orleans.
Aprill 11-13
location: 2nd and Talbot, Braddock, 15104 (close to the river, just east of the Rankin Bridge)
open, Thurs-Sun, Noon 'til dark
this is part of the Points of Interest project.
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Mar 28-April 8
a Sunset Scavenger photophow was up at Get This Gallery in Atlanta.
intereview in Creative Loafing
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Andrew and Breezy of Needles and Pens
took a bunch of work to 96 Gillespie
for a show called Hope Springs Eternal.
Here they are assemblying the book for the show:
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the show at Union Arts in Brooklyn was a major hoot. here's some flix: http://flickr.com/photos/uniondocs
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I've got a couple of old shots in the new Hamburger Eyes book.
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Dec 2007:
i'm stoked to have one of my New Orleans
photomurals in this fantastic show:
Luggage Store Gallery
20 year anniversary
IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME
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i'm now booking shows for 2008 for
Who is Bozo Texino and
the Sunset Scavenger sailvan installation.
give a holla if you got a place to show.
orangevan<at>billdaniel<dot>net
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Hi y'all. I really did move to Braddock. First thing to do is start booking some shows here. Dig this:
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PUNK PRINTS hey i've got a mini-portfolio of prints for sale at needles and pens on-line store.
misfits, black flag, big boys, dead kennedys, some skating...
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just did some shows on the way to braddock: in atlanta i finally discovered some groovy folks there and the happenin cultural underbelly of an otherwise dallas-like city. i hope to do a show down there soon. in athens oh, i pulled the greatest george jones moment of my career. drove 9 hours white-knuckled pulling a zig-zagging boat trailer at the orange van's top speed to try to make the screening... and missed the end of the screening by 5 minutes. the story is actually crazier than that, but you'll have to buy me a beer to get me to tell it. did a sunset scavenger sailvan (creative capital supported project, hell yeah) show in nashville-- a parking lot show at watkins college of art and design with these super-fine canadians who are following the monarch butterflies to mexico in their art gallery/boxvan that they project video onto the side of. a two-video-van show!
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i'm looking for shows east of the mississippi. if you want to host a bozo texino screening, a sailvan show, a hippie houseboat multi-screen film party, a lecture/demo, a punk photo show, or a workshop on converting skiboats into sailboats... drop me a line. (contact at the bottom of this page)
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the Sunset Scavenger mural print show has come and gone at Rakyo,
Juxtapoz has flix of the opening
Matt Petty's video blog is a funny video from the darkroom before the show.
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we all keep talking about moving out of our yuppie/hipster overrun neighborhoods, but move where?
how about braddock, pa? i'm gonna move there in oct and see what happens. come visit!
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i'm doing a gallery show in sewannee tennessee. here's the deally:
LIFE RAFT
September 7- October 10, 2007
University of the South,
Sewanee, Tennessee
James Edward Carlos Gallery, Nabit Art Building
Opening reception Friday September 7, 5-7 PM
Artist's talk Friday September 7, 4 PM
Itinerant documentarian Bill Daniel constructs an installation addressing troubled times--in myth and in the present, and produces a model for a metaphorical escape vehicle. The show features an inhabitable houseboat made from abandoned materials, a 2-channel video essay, and a large-format photo exhibit.
Inspired by the tale of Noah's Ark, hippie houseboat builders, and punk river rafters, Daniel optimistically imagines an improvised survival strategy to cope with the specter of economic and ecological catastrophe. The boat serves not just as shelter for the artist, but as a mobile projection apparatus--- a video program is projected on to its sails. The 2-channel, 50-minute video is a collage of contemporary and vintage documentary material that muses on contemporary issues of the peak oil crash, global warming, and the ethics of resource consumption. It explores examples of self-reliance and even contains a primer on celestial navigation, a handy skill when all the GPS satellites fail.
Also incorporated in the installation are a dozen or so 3'x4' photo mural prints from two contrasting landscapes--the hippie house boat culture in Sausalito, California and the wreckage of post-Katrina Louisiana. The juxtaposition of these scenes and the dynamic between the journalistic and fantasy aspects of the material plays with many of the same themes, formal and contextual, as the video piece.
LIFE RAFT is part of Daniel's on-going work, Sunset Scavenger, a Creative
Capital supported project.
In addition to his Creative capital fellowship Bill Daniel has received numerous awards including A Wattis Foundation Residency at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, a Texas Commission on the Arts film grant, and support from the R&B Feder Charitable Foundation for the Beaux Arts. His work has been exhibited throughout the US and internationally in both film houses and art museums. Recent venues include Dietch Projects in New York, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The PDX Film Festival, The Dallas Museum of Art, The Rev Tour in Australia, The Center for Documentary Studies in Durham North Carolina, The Film Forum in Los Angeles, and the Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco. Bill began his work by documenting the Texas punk scene in the early eighties www.texaspunkpioneers.com. He has collorated with and exhibited with artists such as Margaret Killgallen, Craig Baldwin, Vannessa Renwick, and William S Burroughs.
Gallery Hours: 8 AM – 5 PM Monday- Friday
12-5 PM Saturday and Sunday
Contact information:
Greg Pond
931.598.1870
gpond@sewanee.edu
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SOME SUMMER... (2007)
boxo texino screens at midnight in reno sat july 21st, part of erik burke's alley/gallery project: (con)temporary gallery
5th Annual Alley Take Over
sat july 21st 7pm in the alley at 1251 s. virginia st, reno, nv.
erik is a fab painter and adventurer and happens to have made a brilliant movie about buZ blurr called Road To Colossus. you must check erik burke out.
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Hi, happy third day of Summer. (2007)
the Sailvan made it back to port and got the gnar diff fixed. another 4000 mile, butt numbing, left arm sunburning, gasoline sucking tour is done. i'm holed up in san fran for the summer, where the air conditioning is free, free like the wind. got a few things going:
photo mural show at Rayko Photo Center, Wed Aug 1st, 7-9pm. photographs from sausalito and new orleans. this is part of my on-going Sunset Scavenger project with Creative Capital.
Working on a book project with Erick Lyle, his stories and my pix. no title yet…
check out the latest issue of Hamburger Eyes, the music issue, i got a few pix in it. let me just go on record here right now and say that Hamburger Eyes is giving Photography a healthy kick in the ass, a whuppin' it's needed for a long time.
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(the van is full of shirts)
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4/27/07 faithful readers of this thing might remember the story last year about the differential on the toyota van that on tour started making horrendous howling noises in denver but made it all the way to albany ny before totally cratering. well, we have a similar narrative unfolding here in alabama today, in which the differential in the 65 chevy van is beginning to howl. can i make it all the way to 16 more shows in the next 20 days over about 25oo miles on this crunchy differential that is very near death? should i cancel some shows in order to stop and try to get it fixed here in mobile? maybe i'll have the ring and pinion gear drop shipped to me somewhere in florida and get the parts installed in atlanta ot pittsburg....
5/3/07 the differential is holding together. the grinding noise it was making has settled into a ringing grinding sound that changes pitch slightly every couple of days, but it seems like it will keep running long enough to get back to texas. an awesome tour thru florida included a camp out at hobo beach in pensacola with a bunch of the miss rockaway folks who dove up from new orleans.
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Scavenger of Death is a song by Dallas punk Bobby Soxx.
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sorry the site is so neglected. if i was on top of this game there would be photos and reports for some amazing shows in the last three months--- including a massive take-over of valencia street in front of ata with the sailvan and photo murals from new orleans tied to giant pipes sitting in the street, a weirdo-only show of the sailvan in slab city, bozo texino screenings from portland (maine) (where someone stole my hand-painted sandwichboard sign) to chico, including some neat spots like the ak press warehouse in oakland and station 40 on 16th and mission. and a photoshow at needles and pens: http://www.needles-pens.com/texaepunxpixflyer.html.
but all of that is in the past. next is a jag from sf to baltimore and back, lotsa shows in the south east,
including a swell photoshow/bozo texino screening with photographer mike brodie in pensacola.
2007 schedule:
March 29--Chico / Pageant Theater / 9pm / Bozo Texino
March 30--Sacramento / Fools Foundation / 7pm / Bozo Texino
April 3--Las Vegas / UNLV / Bozo Texino
April 4--Flagstaff / The Applesauce Teahouse / Bozo Texino
April 5--Tucson / In front of Congress Hotel / Sunset Scavenger (the sailvan)
April 6--Tucson / Outdoor show, old train station downtown / Bozo Texino
April 7---Marfa / The Dome / Bozo Texino
April 19 -- Shreveport, LA / Soundstage / 7:30 / Bozo Texino outdoor show
April 25-- Fairhope, AL / Dr. Music / Last Free Ride
April 26--Mobile / Satori Sound / Last Free Ride
Last Free Ride + Selective Service System Story + the sailvan
Nomad filmmaker Bill Daniel presents two 60's films:
one lost treasure of hippie piracy,
and a short video about an infamous and graphic 60's protest film.
Last Free Ride
by Saul Rouda and Roy Nolan
1974, 90 min, 16mm to digital video
The lost San Francisco hippie houseboat movie drifts into to town,
don't miss this one-night only screening, presented by touring
filmmaker Bill Daniel, who will be present for a Q&A.
"Here's a true gem of a cultural artifact---it's just unbelievable
that kids living in such wild-ass anarchy could pull off a feature
film. It's sincere, hokey, authentic-- unlike any sixties film you've
seen." -- Bill Daniel
Last Free Ride is an incredibly rare film that defies categorization
and provides a mind-blowing glimpse into a fantastic world where
industrious dropouts lived for free on homemade boats on San Francisco
Bay. As the Sixties wound down hippies and misfits began to move out of
Haight-Ashbury and onto an abandoned waterfront across the Golden Gate
Bridge. There they built a sprawling free-form floating community of
hand-made houseboats, beat-up sailboats and salvaged and converted
World War Two lifeboats. They lived rent and law-free on their floating
folk art houses, until the establishment--city officials backed by real
estate interests-- launched a war to evict them. Last Free Ride
captures this incredible story in a home-made film with all the naive
charm of a community theater presentation, with beautiful photography
and amazing reportage that could only be captured by the people who
were actually living the life.
The story line in Last Free Ride ostensibly, and rather clumsily,
follows the exploits of Joe Tate and his scrappy rock band, the Red
Legs, through their daily lives of boat-building, partying, and
ultimately battling the cops for their floating homes. But perhaps the
real value in this treasure of a film is the documented reality that it
incidentally depicts. This was one of those magic times and places
where a group of creative people was able to momentarily carve out a
place to live not just for free, but freely. It is a scene that in
today's security-obsessed, everything-is-for-sale society seems
impossible. But for a short while it was possible, and thankfully some
of those rebels put down the wine, guitars, joints and boat-building
tools, picked up cameras and recorders and make this unlikely
record of their incredible, inspired community.
While researching the history of the houseboat scene on San Francisco
Bay for a film on global warming, documentary maker Bill Daniel heard
rumors of "the hippie houseboat film", and eventually met
filmmaker Saul Rouda and star Joe Tate. Since then he has been
presenting Last Free Ride in conjunction with his Creative Capital
sponsored project, Sunset Scavenger, a work-in-progress essay on
climate change and the beginning of the post-oil era.
www.waldopoint.net
Also screening:
Selective Service System Story
a video by Bill Daniel about a film by Warren Haack and Dan Lovejoy
1999, 7 min, digital video
In 1970, a young film student at San
Francisco State College devised a scenario for a short documentary
film, Selective Service System that would simultaneously make a bold,
graphic statement against the Vietnam War and secure his own physical
deferment from the military draft. Three decades later, Bill Daniel
interviews director and subject Dan Lovejoy and cameraman Warren Haack
about the violence of those times and the violence manifested in their
uncompromisingly honest and brutal protest film.
the sailvan project: SUNSET SCAVENGER
Sunset
Scavenger is a mobile outdoor video installation in which Noah's Ark
meets Hubbert's Peak. This work-in-progress documentary-essay is a
collage of ideas floating around about the end of the age of oil,
climate change, social collapse and low-down punk-ass survival
strategies.
Sunset Scavenger is the name of a '65 Chevy
sailvan --a 2-masted gaff-rigged schooner that functions as tour
vehicle, projection screen and metaphorical emergency escape
craft. The video program is simultaneously projected onto the
sailvan's two sails and currently runs about 45 min. The non-linear
program stars hippie houseboaters, punk back-to-the-landers
anchor-outs, rubber tramps, off-the-gridders, and desert rats that are
today's true cultural vanguard, and features a bus-dwelling homeless
street preacher who relates Noah's story to our times.
i'm looking for venues to host the sailvan, so if you or someone you love has access to an arts budget gimme a call!
SUNSET SCAVENGER is a supported project of Creative Capital http://channel.creative-capital.org/project_865.html
KATRINA DUST a photo project from NOLA:
http://www.atasite.org/zine/issue5/katrina.html
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the texas punk photobook project: yep, still working on it. looking for galleries and exhibition venues for a monsterous touring photoshow.
now dude, check out my looney and lenghty interview on Mike Plante's fab CINEMAD:
http://www.iblamesociety.com/cinemad/interviews/billdaniel.html
and how about an interview at Fall of Autumn:
http://www.fallofautumn.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=203&Itemid=66
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(backyard screening at jawbreaker in eugene, ore.)
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Freight rider and van tramp, Bill Daniel is back on tour screening his 16-years-in-the-making, documentary film, Who is Bozo Texino?, the secret history of hobo graffiti. This gritty black and white travelogue --shot entirely on film-- tells the mostly-factual account of the epic quest and unlikely discovery of railroading's most mysterious artist.
Contact: orangevan (at) billdaniel (dot) net
Who is Bozo Texino?
In 1987 Daniel and his trusty Bolex camera began hanging out in hobo jungles and riding freights across the West, looking for clues to the identity of a strange boxcar graffito. While gathering interviews and discovering clues to the identities of many of the most legendary boxcar artists, Daniel discovered a vast underground folkloric practice that has existed with little notice for over a century. Today these drawings live on as a new breed of hobos have taken to the rails and kept the tradition of moniker chalking alive. This artform provides unlikely common ground between mostly conservative railworkers and old school tramps and the kids whose approach includes spray cans and punk lifestyles.
Since completing the film in June, 2005 Bill Daniel and his film Who is Bozo Texino? have been on the road, wowing audiences of punks, geezers, folkies, foamers and graffiti toughs all over the nasty ol usa. The film has screened at festivals across Europe including Rotterdam, Vienna, and Slovenia.
On line reviews:
Who is Bozo Texino: a Search with Bill Daniel
Who Is Bozo Texino? is a great American movie, and its greatness is tied up very closely with its American-ness. With this brilliant experimental documentary, self-styled hobo film-maker Daniel places himself firmly in the bootprints of Jack London, Jack Kerouac, Walt Whitman, Woody Guthrie - a fine, long tradition of American artists who look for their inspiration to the marginal, the underclass, the vagabond and the outcast. Nominally a chronicle/survey/history of boxcar graffiti (a tradition as old as the railroad itself) and the men who create it, Who Is Bozo Texino? soon transcends its narrow subject-matter to become a gloriously rough-edged elegy for an America which is being swept away before our eyes.
Unlike the overwhelming majority of documentaries - even entertaining recent examples like Murderball, Dogtown and Z-Boys and Stoked - Daniel's film manages a near-perfect union of radical form and radical content, And it does so in consistently accessible style: at first you're intrigued by the stunning monochrome images captured by his self-effacing, sensitively-handled camera(s); by the startling kineticism of his fluent editing style; by the sheer range of voices, music and sound-effects we hear as he tracks down a series of grizzled hobos and wisdom-dispensing graffiti-'markers.'
Then you realize that, just as these men have always instinctively rejected authority and convention, Daniel has likewise embraced the unorthodox in his style of filmmaking - even down to his choice of title and running-time. Indeed, in less than an hour Daniel manages to say more about life, art, America and the simple joy of filmmaking than most directors manage in decades.
--- Neil Young, Neil Youngs Film Lounge
I am not going to hold back any enthusiasm
it is the best movie I have ever seen.
---Josh from Edmonton
Bill Daniel's homegrown epic is as kinetic and raggedly beautiful as the trains he hopped to make it. a film about freedom as literal passage across the land. Corporations brand things to say they own them, but there are ways in which humans have marked things to say they cant be owned.
---Jem Cohen
Seasoned DIYers like film and video artists Vanessa Renwick and Bill Daniel whose Lucky Bum Film Tour has crossed the old-fashioned road show with avant-garde film to become a national subculture phenomenon.
---Randy Gragg, The Oregonian
Daniel and Renwick makes some of the liveliest work on the microcinema circuit, wherein film, video art, and music collide with edgy, confrontational, unpredictable and often exuberant intensity.
--- Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
Also screening:
Britton, S. Dakota by Vanessa Renwick, 2004, 9 min. Depression-era children are hypnotized by the camera in this re-discovered imagery from 1938. Score by Johnne Eschleman. Portland-based filmmaker Vanessa Renwick is Director of Affairs of the Oregon Dept. of Kick Ass.
