Gibberings
Dad told me never to use XTREE when he wasn’t in the room.
November 21, 2008 ~ 11:52:50 AM * -08:00ST
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Log # 496
Consult the Flowchart
[Elizarr] I have just stumbled on a pretty incredible harmonic mix.
[Elizarr] “I don’t Know How to Love Him” from Jesus Christ Superstar, plus “Twilight and Shadow” from Lord of the Rings.
[Elizarr] Both tracks now on the ftp.
[Elizarr] So you can hear what I’m talking about, at least.
[mathiasx] Well if you get Justice’s D.A.N.C.E. to work with the Northern Exposure themesong, let me know.
[mathiasx] Now, I sleep.
*** mathiasx [~mathiasx@dsl093-197-076.mke1.dsl.speakeasy.net] has quit [Quit: leaving]
[Elizarr] I think I just got told.
[maicro] Let’s consult the flowchart
[maicro] http://www.flickr.com/photos/vjornaxx/294168009/
[maicro] Though I suppose the flowchart assumes you’re on the telling side
[Elizarr] Yeah.
[Elizarr] I think what you need to determine, as an impartial audience, is if you need to let loose with an Oh Snap or not.
[maicro] I’m not quite impartial, though
[Elizarr] You like matt better. I understand. :(
[maicro] You’re one of the leaders of The Cult
[Elizarr] Oh.
[Elizarr] Disregard that. I suck cocks.
[Elizarr] I still feel that an Oh Snap is in order.
[Elizarr] I’d appreciate it if we got this over with.
[Elizarr] So I can move on with my life.
[ch3sh] I think that’s the first time I have ever seen you use an emoticon.
[maicro] I’m not quite certain even what you’re refering to, 3liza
[Elizarr] I was being IRONIC. Couldn’t you tell by the way my hair is combed to the side?
[maicro] But very well, I shall grant your request
[maicro] Oh SNAP!
[Elizarr] Thanks, I needed that.
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Eliza Gauger on September 20th, 2008 ~ 09:39:01 PM
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Log # 487
The Vacuum Traffic Controller
Finally final, the largest work so far, the Vacuum Traffic Controller showed well at the Anachrotechnofetishism show.
About a year ago, I called my father and told him I had started a gigantic painting. I described it briefly, sent him sketches, and called it the Vacuum Traffic Controller, an obvious play on “air traffic controller”, and meant to convey his status as the departure/arrival coordinator for a large space station. My father did not see space in the piece, and assumed instead I was referring to the vacuum-tube trains that ran briefly in the 1800s.
“A TUBE, A CAR, A REVOLVING FAN!”
1866— 1868
Atmospheric railways in EnglandThe idea of pneumatic tubes and railways can be traced back to the English inventor George Medhurst. He proposed using pneumatic tubes to carry letters and packages in a pamphlet published in 1810, and two years later he proposed details of larger railway tubes to carry passengers and freight. In the mid 1820s another English inventor, John Vallance, built a tube on his property at Brighton, 8 feet in diameter and 150 feet long, in which a passenger car ran at two miles per hour. Medhurst had realized as early as 1812 that passengers might not want to ride inside a tube. The darkness and the exposure to tube pressure would make a journey unpleasant. In a last pamphlet in 1827 he proposed what would become known as the atmospheric railway. In this system a small pneumatic tube was built along an ordinary railway track, and a piston inside the tube would pull an attached train running on the rails.1 The ultimately successful alternative of pulling trains behind steam locomotives was under development during the same years by many inventors, culminating in George Stephenson’s engine Rocket, which proved its worth at the Rainhill Trials in 1829, two years after Medhurst proposed the atmospheric railway.
Fearing to roll it, I lashed the piece to the roof of my car, just prior to the eight hundred northerly miles to Seattle. About twenty miles out, there were horrible noises above me. I pulled over and found a crumpled horror: the stretcher bars had splintered and collapsed, leaving the canvas rumpled, and a horrible pain in my innards. I stuffed the painting into my trunk, out of time and options, and grimaced the whole way to Seattle.
The decision was of course made before the abandonment of atmospheric working on the London and Croydon. The South Devon was the last and longest atmospheric railway built, intended to run 52 miles from Exeter to Plymouth, and completed and operated for about fifteen miles. The railway used much larger tubes than the London and Croydon, fifteen inches, requiring more powerful pumping engines, which however managed to convey trains at similar speeds over 60 miles per hour. The tubes were once again the principal problem. The salt air hardened the leather flaps, and the tallow applied to soften the leather only attracted rats to gnaw on it. Altogether the atmospheric system proved to be more than twice as expensive to operate as steam locomotives.3
The day of the show, I ripped up the stretchers and stained them with Asphaltum oil paint, using them as makeshift hangers. They went up wet on the eggshell gallery walls.
The Controller himself displays characteristics of friends, all science-minded jades, who can, and have, worn similar outfits, with similar expressions, in similar states of vague, sepia washes from wistful industrial mistscapes. The artist sees these faces skimming under the tortured surfaces of the piece, and wonders what she’s trying to tell herself.
But it’s a gigantic goddamned painting. And that’s really the most important thing.
The Vacuum-Traffic Controller is currently available for purchase at the Suite 100 Gallery.
Beach Pneumatic [Columbia]
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Eliza Gauger on September 17th, 2008 ~ 04:16:17 PM
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Log # 485
ARTBOTS Logo to Appear on Shirts Galaxy-Wide
The much-delayed ArtBots festival logo revealed publicly, at long last.
Says Warren:
We had Eliza Gauger design a logo image for the Artbots “robot talent show” that opens in Dublin next week. I believe the plan is to also get this on to a t-shirt.
Warren Ellis » Eliza Gauger For ARTBOTS.
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Eliza Gauger on September 14th, 2008 ~ 08:44:13 PM
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Log # 478
Thickets + Bloodhag + The Keeper @ The Funhouse - Saturday the 13th in Seattle
Host:
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets Fanclub
Type:
Music/Arts - Concert
Time and PlaceStart Time:
Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 10:00pm
End Time:
Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 1:00am
Location:
The Funhouse
Street:
206 5th Ave N
City/Town:
Seattle, WA
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Description
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets perform with BLOODHAG: “Our mission is to spread the gospel of Edu-Core. Bang The Head That Does Not Read. Everyone Smarter Than Everyone Else. Use Heavy Metal music to promote literacy and vice versa. General Info: BloodHag play really short Heavy Metal songs about Science Fiction authors.”
THE KEEPER “D&Dish wizard rock. Our EP is called Twenty Sided DIE! for example”
$8 cover charge - CHEAP!
(Toren and possibly Mario from the band The Thickets can offer spots on the guest list and gas money for anyone willing to take them and their costumes down for the show and back! Email thickets@uniserve.com or call Toren at 6047374283)
We’ll be hitting this after my Lighthouse Roasters solo show on the 13th.
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Eliza Gauger on September 8th, 2008 ~ 03:32:45 PM
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Log # 472
Bitches Don’t Know Bout My Art Shows
Friends, Countrymen;
In a few days I will be retracing the path of thousands of ancient conastogas, puttering up Shasta and down Grant’s, charring and grimacing under the Oregon blaze, just to get to you.
It’s very rare that I show my art publicly. After last time, when an angry mob showed up early with torches and pitchforks and ate all the cubical cheese, I had really lost hope in the Seattle art scene. I tried showing down here in the Bay Area, where I now reside, but had to take down early due to hippies protesting a yeti that had climbed one of the campus trees.
It is for this reason that I would be terribly obliged if only you’d find some way to drop in at either one of the art shows I’m launching this weekend.
Anachrotechnofetishism - artifacts by pioneers of american steampunk
Long before the age of the internet, and well before the cold efficiency of the assembly line, existed fantastic and terrible machines, run on hope, sweat, and steam. It was a time in which form and function lived in sin, and everyman was a revolutionary.
These are 13 American artists united by broad geography and narrow aesthetic.
Marrying narrative and nostalgia to design and technology, they imagine the triumphs of the past overriding the failures of the present to create from the ruins and detritus a dazzling future-perfect.
Starring me and twelve other retropostapocalypticians, including Molly Porkshanks and Jake von Slatt, this show will feature insane amounts of designer teas and chocolates, a full set of my fine art prints, and a half-dozen original oil paintings that I have never shown in public, including Shine, Rustbutton Brass, the City, Afterglow, Twilight in the Roachfields (What I Did On My Summer Vacation), and most ridiculous of all, the Vacuum Traffic Controller: a 40 x 66″ collossus that I hope will dominate the room with his deep, slightly furrowed gaze.
2222 2nd Ave
Seattle, WA
September 12th thru October 3rd
Opening reception September, 12th, 6:00PM - 10:00PM
Featuring Datamancer, David S. Dowling, Eliza Gauger, Jake von Slatt, Libby Bulloff, Magpie Killjoy, missmonster, Molly “Porkshanks” Friedrich, Molly Mitchell, Quentin Ziplash, Rachel “Ratchet” Olson, Steven Archer, Suzanne Rachel Forbes
…and the Lonely Bastard
The second show is a solo venture, and will launch on Saturday the 13th. This is a much more low-key affair, and I’m hoping my friends can show up and say hello before I have to tear ass back down to the Yay. The flagship painting, an original oil on a 24 x 24″ circular board, is the Cardiographer: dark, slick, and glowing, a portrait of a ghost-muse spinning a pulse out from ectoplasm. Co-stars include brand new (as of yesterday) 12 x 12″ Flee, a silvered landscape with robot on the lam; the ever-popular Bat Smax, an extremely adorable collaboration with my partner in rape-and-pillage, Jhonen Vasquez; the complete set of original sketches for the Bee Commission (monsters, demons, and vespid whores); and a full host of fine art prints, including many that won’t be shown at the steampunk show because they simply are not steampunk. And of course, refreshments will be served. Which is really the only reason to show up to an art opening in the first place.
400 North 43rd Street
Seattle, WA 98103
4pm - 7pm
No need to RSVP, I’ll just be happy to see you. And did I forget to mention? Free stickers for everyone, pirated directly from the US Post Office!
PS: if any Seattle folk have some rusty chain lying around, I’d like to borrow it.
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Eliza Gauger on September 7th, 2008 ~ 11:52:38 PM
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Log # 471
2008-09-06: Coagulated Twittering
- I accidentally a whole dubstep concert. Is that bad? #
- @JhnenVEE called it “pile of dirty maternity laundry”: http://zip.4chan.org/fa/res/359081.html #
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Eliza Gauger on September 6th, 2008 ~ 11:59:59 PM
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Log # 467
Flee
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Flee
I believe it is complete.
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Eliza Gauger on September 6th, 2008 ~ 10:27:19 AM
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Log # 464
Untitled
We’re not done here, gentlemen. I’d estimate current completion at around 80%. I foolishly did this while I was waiting for a corrective layer to dry on the Cardiographer.
I will put this in my upcoming solo art show at Lighthouse Roasters, Seattle.
12 x 12″
oil/copal on board
