new trips on the site:
sk8/graff/punk/fr8, a print gallery.
Moniker Portfolio
a new edition of prints from the freight graffiti archives.
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some of y'all may know that I moved to Braddock, PA a couple years ago, and my friends who have noticed that I relocate a lot, and usually move to and from places that blow up (the Mission, Portland, Deep Ellum, Downtown Austin) will be cracking up to hear that the bombed-out street I live on in Braddock now has an art gallery! There's only about 4 houses still standing on Maple Way, and only a couple of them have roofs. One structure, an abandoned garage with a collapsed roof was rebuilt by me and my buddy Derk Wolmuth, the salty sailor from False Creek, VBC, and he has turned the crumbling garage into a gallery. Sort of. Braddock is a fascinating place due to it's utter post-industrial and economic collapse, and it's current status as a weird kind of art tourism destination. (something that I'm complicit in, no doubt) Derk's gallery is beautiful, and he's got a line up of shows. Maybe we are gentrifiers, but I believe Maple Way is very very safe from a Starbucks invasion.
Here's derk's site:maplewaybraddock.com
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the Ground Score show from Get This Gallery reviewed in Artlies.
And a blown-up version of Ground Score is slated for an exhibition at Space Gallery in Portland Maine this summer.
I'll be curating a show-within-a-show for this. I'll have a list of participating artists up here soon.
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i'm working down in louisiana this winter, building... a giant camera...
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2010:
bozo texino is screening in la a couple times soon:
at aaron rose's projections at Roberts & Tilton Gallery on jan 27,
and at the new prism gallery in conjunction with barry mcgee and phil frost's show,
mind the gap. jan 22
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oct 7th:
SHIT! i just got back from sweden!
put up a photo show and screened bozo texino at a place called fargfabriken. some pix of the opening. it was a blast and the folks were the nicest on earth. a great time messing around in stockholm, checking out the shore where the funky old marinas were getting turned into floating condo developments. reminded me of dear old sausalito...
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oct 16-19, bozo and a photo show are hopping in the orange van and headed to
the hot springs doc fest, which is now run by road-wise film exhibitor dan anderson, formerly of the bearded child film fest. which means the hot springs doc fest just got a lot cooler. proof: this year includes bill brown and sabine gruffat, harrod blank, ron english, and buz blurr. you gonna go? be a lot cooler if you did.
oct 24, the sailvan (the ford diesel) is gonna do an outdoor sunset scavenger show at the bureau for open culture in columbus ohio.
this winter: prolly gonna roll around doing various shows wherever the weather suits my clothes. if you live below the mason dixon line and want to throw a screening, a photo show, or need an av guy, gimme a holla and let's make a plan.
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if you're in Dusseldorf tonight (8/21) stop by.
Bozo Texino is screening with some bands...
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summertime, 09:
...another crazed sailvan story...
overheated diesel and cooled-down secret pool party:
in august i loaded the sailvan to head out to brooklyn to do a screening at jocko weyland's incredible dumpster pools.
after pulling the requisite allnighter prepping and loading the video and sail rigging, i got the van onto the interstate pointed toward nyc, and !!!blammo!!!--- on the first uphill the motor starts blowing coolant and quickly overheats. luckily there was a couple of jugs of water onboard and i was able to nurse the van back home at 30 mph. there's no way i'd be able to fix the leak and make it to the show in time--- brooklyn is 8 hours away... of course, with the 84 ford club wagon broken, there are still two other vans in the driveway. unfortunately the 87 toyota won't start. the 65 chevy will start but hasn't been on the road in over a year. but the non-starting toyota is blocking in the cobweb covered chevy, and the toyota has a flat so i can't push it by myself... luckily the neighbor shows up with help and we push the toyota onto the sidewalk and i fire the chevy up. it's leaking engine oil and transmission oil, the wipers don't work, the plates are expired, the fuel filter keeps clogging due to rust in the tank, but she seems like she wants to run. I love this van--- I've had her since 1992, we done more miles than Dave Dudley, and she's never broke down in a way that can't be repaired on the side of the road. so off we go, there's a good tail wind, which helps this van a lot, and we somehow make it to ny, through the holland tunnel, and almost to the pools, when the cops at the battery tunnel wave me over. "what is this?" the van looks pretty weird--- covered in silver graffiti, a big metal box on the roof, an extra radiator mounted on the front bumper. the cops look the van over and tell me they won't let me through the tunnel on account of the oil leaks! but they change their mind and I make it to the pools for the show. another no-show jones narrowly missed.
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Hamburger Eyes 13 out now! I've got shots in it.
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Blathering:
Here's an interview I recently did in the Independent, talking about the marketing of "Who is Bozo Texino? via a networking device called "living in a van down by the river."
http://www.independent-magazine.org/magazine/07/2009/marketingyourfilm
And here's a vimeo by Sam Gould of Red76 of me guest lecturing from an 8-story roof in beautiful Braddock PA:
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GROUND SCORE
a gallery show at Get This! Gallery in Atlanta Sept 18th.
this show resulted in a nifty catalog with a stunning essay by Chas Bowie. (extremely limited edition xerox)
Ground Scores also gets put up at Fargfabriken Norr in Ostersund Sweden. Oct 3rd. See y'all there!
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July 31st 2009:
The Friends show (me, Tim Kerr, Rich Jacobs, Cynthia Connolly, and Michael Sieben) at the
Domy Books in Houston.
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...hitting the road in June (2009) 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:
June 26:
Bozo Texino screening
Cranky Yellow St. Louis MO
June 5, Bozo Texino screening
Black Bear Bakery, St. Louis MO
Anna is (not) setting up some music
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:
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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just found out on the internets: this shot of the Chevy Sailvan from a show in Braddock last year.
this was the Chevy's last Sunset Scavenger show. the sails have since been cannibalized for parts to make the new sail rig for the Ford.
it was an awesome evening in smoky Braddock.
Dark Dark Dark and Fall Harbor played. a really fine time...
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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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
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DEC 3, 2006 ######### so we finally made it back to snug harbor, shreveport, louisiana, after a 45-city clockwise circumnavigation of the usa. killer shows in all kinds of unlikely spots. now doing lotsa repair work on the vans. first thing going on this winter is a short expedition to the gulf coast to shoot some landscape photos with the old 8x10 camera. it's a beautiful wooden camera from the ealy '20's or teens. while down there gonna do some screenings of Bozo Texino: Dec 12, New Orleans, The Big Top, on Clio st. doors 7:00, films at 8:00. $6 Dec 16 and 17, Houston, Aurora Picture Show in jan the sailvan--- SUNSET SCAVENGER--- will be trecking across the arizona desert back to san francisco. will probably be doing some impromptu screenings, projecting on the sails on the van parked out in the vast rv campgrounds around quartsite. i'll post the details soon as they get figured out. SPRING: touring with "Who is Bozo Texino?" again. booking shows right now, so please drop me a line if you'd like to help set up a screening. FALL 2007: will be touring the whole dang country with the sailvan. also, looking for shows, so gimme a shout if you have ideas for venues for an outdoor video installation all about the so-called long emergency.
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photoblog from fall '06 loop
new chairs at the Madison WS venue
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me and the Sandman tearing up the american southwest on the ROAD DOG TOUR, jan. '06
Chris Sand