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voices from the inner whom

4/8/2019

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Hello hello! 

It has been a while since I tapped words or shared goodies hereabouts. Apologies for the absence: time seems to have gotten away from me while getting my bearings following our transcontinental move last summer... not that it's been bewildering so as to stifle creative juices; the juices simply flow differently when one no longer lives and produces in relation to landscape, seasonal & temperature change, and so forth. Yup, SoCal kinda scrambles things when one is used to living in New England. And so, I've hatched a few new ears while adjusting to the beguiling lack of snow this winter. One particular outlet has been my new podcast, A Buford Whoso. It's still in the primordial-goo / loosey-goose format... freeform collage and sonic snippets caught here and there, plopped into the centrifuge, spun backwards a few times, and, voila! Have a listen.
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​Being out in here in these dusty lands has also reawakened my love for smushing annoying soundtracks on top of idiotic cinematic actions (or lack thereof). Results: here's a shorty, to be released later this year on VHS (which will be a shared split with Spreaders). In keeping with the spirit of the medium, I filmed with an ancient Quasar brand pre-camcorder-video camera for majority of the shots - that, or used it to rescan iPhone off the TV set to give it that grimy pixel-glorp. The entire process had me grinning like a cheeky twenty year old art student again. I love that these seemingly outdated technologies can still nudge their way into our digital boxes. Heh. Anyway...
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Lastly, Alien Buddha Press is going to be publishing a book coming featuring collaborations with my pal, Marcel Herms. We're wrapping up the manuscript right now... hopefully we'll be able to share some links once the ink dries! Here's a peek.

Until then...
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penny
4/20/2019 01:11:03

Hello Professor Sturgeon.

wow!! u are always an incredible creative soul. btw, your contact mic i purchased from you is going to good use.thanks u for all your art that u share. your videos on you-tube are wicked rad. i was wondering on the video u shared on this post what did u use for video editing and effects. i am looking forward to the book. congrats!!!

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Crank link
4/23/2019 11:47:01

Hi Penny!

Thanks for the kindest of words!! Let’s see... for video FX, I didn’t use anything fancy, although my video camera might be something of a rarity (it’s a pre-VHS Quasar “home video” type cam). Basically I plugged the Quasar into my laptop with an analog to digital converter and filmed at a crazy-low resolution to help get that gooey effect. I also shot with an iPhone and then rescanned its video using the Quasar. All the editing was done in iMovie on the MacBook. Super goo!!

Best,
Crank

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    I've attached springs to my feet & attempted to play the trombone (naked), amplified sharpie markers & countless yards of packing tape, fingerprinted several hundred middle fingers, turned google search headings into short stories, instructed folks to help me carry paper bags full of water, and once tried to sell a cardboard condominium (but the police showed up).

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