they are one of the most globally active relief organizations in the world. They maintain the wherewithal to operate in multiple theatres and are always among the very first organizations on-site helping to mitigate human suffering whether it is the result of natural disaster, drought, famine, or war.

They consistently deliver relief with the absolute minimum of contributions consumed in non-aid activity like administration costs.

We had a nice comparatively mellow evening. Patrick improvised a barbeque out of some scrap and we roasted a tasty variety of things to eat. Hank shot some awesome photos, as he has mad mad mad skillz, check out this panoramic

You’ll need Flash 9 and Javascript.

http://seb.perez-duarte.net/panoviewer/?photo=4297492588

Ah yes and then the Flaming Tetherball. We played about twelve games. Thanks to the new scoring system we can actually answer the age old question, Who won?

Or, more to the point, we can offer Sarah proof that she did not in fact kick the ass to which I am attached. Ha ha! BRING ITZ!

There are few players that will represent themselves as being

competitive Flaming tetherballers, I am one of those few. Fewer still are the flaming teterhballers that will admit to full blown addiction and neglect far more important things to get that fix. I am perhaps the very first to admit to that addiction, but I am not yet beyond help, I just want to get one more game in before I check into the clinic…………..

So, who’s playing?

GAME ON!

This thursday at the Nine Pound Hammer we will be screening footage from Oly in 08 and maybe some other footage. Starting at seven, going till Scott kicks us out.

This Friday we are hosting Beerfriday at Hazardfactory (7800 seventh ave south, southpark). Email hazardfactor (at) gmail for directions. Location is roughly a mile south of Michigan street in Georgetown. This will be a low-key affair, bring your own beer, a

barbecue will be provided and a fridge. You might want to bring a chair if you like sitting and comfort and things like that. HF is not a safe environemt, for kids or anyone else really.

I would like to raise money for relief efforts in Haiti so i will be raffling off items of value and non-value for money to give to Doctors without Borders. We are likely to provide several fundraising gimmicks intended simply to help us all do something that makes being human a good thing.

Rusty

This is an open screening and informal. If you are really motivated and want to bring a cd of footage or photos of a Hazardfactory event feel free. We will be screening from seven p.m. on.

This is a free event, mostly about hanging out, see you then!

Rusty

OH and lookit! Preliminary footage of a new prototype! the un-nerfgun or Zombie Proximity Response System.

So I must admit, full disclosure, that Rusty and members of Hazardfactory (cough) Drago and (cough cough ) Ryan and (hack) Todd did pyro stunts for Zombies of Mass Destruction! hint, it’s a movie and it’s funny as hell with an overt humanist and egalitarian vibe that asserts that Arabs, and gays, are in fact just as American and alright as any other just plain alright citizen.

The movie is a bit ambiguous in it’s treatment of zombies. A good number of Port Gamble citizens were turned into Zombies for the purposes of this film. Many of these same Zombies were treated with a certain sort of cavalier ambivalence. They get shot, stabbed, maimed, and assaulted a little more frequently than the other characters in the film, but overall, blood, gore, gore, blood, and gore aside, the movie satirizes the American post 9-11 (god I hate to type that) pre-occupation with ethnicity and ongoing inability to normalize same-sex relationships successfully.

So, if you see the movie and it’s on fire, yeah that was us, and hooray for Arab Americans and gays you are as American as any of us, congrats and condolences are both in order and perhaps in that order.

Oh yeah, ZOMBIES. So the idea owes it’s origins to Haitian lore. You may remember Haiti, poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, one of the only colonies to organize a successful slave revolt against the neo-liberalists of the period. Haiti is generally speaking, the most damning indictment of the neo-liberals and the free trade policies of the west.

On top of everything else, they suffered an enormous earthquake, about which you may have heard. Please send them money. Please. You can do it from your phone. It’s useful. Please.

Haiti has suffered a major earthquake over 100,000 feared dead. You can donate. I know you’re broke, so am I, but you can always pay your phone company in a month. •Donate through Wyclef Jean’s foundation, Yele Haiti. Text “Yele” to 501501 and $5 will be charged to your phone bill and given to relief projects through the organization. 100% of your donation goes directly to relief immediately.

The show has been a sucess. The show has been a tremendous success in terms of what we have been able to provide our audiences.

We got articles in every local paper and had an interview with King five and an interview with KUOW that went on national radio.

here is the coverage we have recieved. My e-mail is hazardfactor (at) gmail (dot) com.

Smash putt Promo & links

King5

audio

seattle weekly

Seattle times linkage
Seattle Times and Seattle Times info on Smashputt

Capitol Hill Seattle
the stranger and the stranger slog

Stay tuned!

Literally, you could bring a power tool equipped to fit a foot wide track bordered with upright two by fours, and race for Glory, Fleeting fame, or our seriously unbelievable trophies of which we believe you to be FIRMLY UNWORTHY!

So prove me wrong. Show off your heretofore unacknowledged industrial art improvisationaI assemblage. I dare you to try.

See you on the track!

I went to the premier last night. I never would have guessed that Zombie film fans were so erudite, well spoken and generally showered. I caught up with the director Kevin Hamadani and his producer John, the same man that produced Iraq in fragments.

I recommend catching the film. It’s a comedy and completely over the top. It is an energentic send-up of living as an ethnic or gender minority, in the paranoid post 9_11 world. I would have liked to see a stronger intellectual effort, maybe an attempt to look at why Americans tend to isolate and persecute our minorities, but, it was a bit beyond the scope of a bloodspatter send-up.

I spent a little more time with the cast before the show and hopefully will pull some more independant f/x work in Seattle this year. Welll paid f/x work.

Rusty

It’s been pretty busy since may eleventh. We screened the three Pilot episodes of weaponizers at central cinema, to friends and family, for free of course. It was a great thing to be able to put out there. Really pretty amazing. Explosions always look best on a big screen and at high volume.

The link up above is to a recent interview with venusarms, a local online art magazine, whom interviewed me last week. Thanks Niz and Dex!

From now till June 27th we are guns a blazing getting ready for the Power Tool Drag racing in Georgetown, and the first freaking ever Sex-toy-drag racing on the 28th on Capital Hill at the Wild Rose.

There is a lot of work to get done prior. A lot. Really. It would be a bit less work if we just phone it in, the problem being that we intend to get weirder, funnier and explosive-er.

If you want to get in touch to volunteer, please do. We will need help setting up and striking the event and encourage one and all to build power tool racers, build sex toy racers and we will see you there!

In a week or two, I hope to find out whether weaponizers is picked up for a series. I’d love to get out there and boom some more stuffs for you. If you liked it let the discovery channel know!