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"The truly evolutionary art must be concerned more with living than creating and must realize that the despair of our culture and civilization can only be defeated by acts of total honesty and a faith in the true condition of all men – perfection and the state of Godhead. "

- Zbigniew Karkowski

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"We always try to do a show which has the character of a realistic horror scenario."

- Klaus Hilger

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Repair. Wenonah, NJ. June 2014.

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Now booking swimsuit shoots for summer 2015.

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"My gender is my own business My sexuality is my own business My body parts are my own business And my romance is my own business”

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ADVANCE: Disinterest is debuting their first properly recorded material in form of a split 7” with another Philadelphia band Skin Graft.

The release is being handled by Inorganic Records, and it’s due out on April 28th. For now, stream a new track “Identity Will Ruin You” courtesy of AbsolutePunk.

http://absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=3717554

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Hey mom look, AbsolutePunk. And I made this nice design, too. Next stop Warped Tour 2k15. :-)

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Individual, but thematically interrelated flyer designs for both days of Blistering Ephemera Fest.

Disinterest is performing on day 1, and Ventriloquist on day 2.

Since I have been asked, the art for day 1 depicts a French police officer guarding a mosque in Paris following the Charlie Hebdo killings. It features Christian symbolism to reflect strength and confidence in Christian belief. The art for day 2 depicts the same police officer outside of the same mosque, but this time in not as guarded a position. The look on his face is one of uncertainty, perhaps with his own position in the matter and perhaps in the implications of his own beliefs. It features Islamic symbolism as a nod to the acceptance of those who practice Islam.

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My friend Nick has worked to put together a fest with acts that he wants to see, and I'm fortunate to be playing on both days. These are flyers that I designed for the shows.

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RE: 2015

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Ventriloquist @ Kung Fu Necktie

10 December 2014

New 3" CD-R "Stimulus/Response" coming soon on Strange Motivations.

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"There is a way of listening to every sound and making music out of it."

- Eliane Radigue

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Photos by John Iannuzzi from the Punch show that I'm just finding out about now. You are guaranteed special faces in every shot when you decide to photograph us.

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450

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Crashed a Temple Party once and we'll do it again soon.

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My mother works in human resources for Aetna. She is currently in Nashville, Tennessee, giving a presentation on transgender acceptance in the corporate workplace. Bear in mind that Tennessee is a state with laws that prohibit changing the gender on your birth certificate, even after reassignment surgery, and make necessary the use of bathrooms corresponding to birth gender. For taking the stand she's taking among a population that's so largely opposed to wanting to hear anything about it, I have never been more proud of her.

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"Most of the time when we make music or art of films or whatever, we think about what we need to add, in order it to make it a worthwhile piece of art. I prefer to see things in terms of what I need to take from the work in order to make it worthwhile. It’s comparable to, for example, the Dogme movement in films – you’re creating your own obstructions. So that’s what I mean when I use the term asceticist."

-William Bennett

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One time I pretended to be a coldwave/synthpop DJ for a showing of Mary's art.

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10/17 @ Lava Space - Magrudergrind, Noisem, Backslider, Bandit, Bleach Bath, Soul Glo

A small number of 11x17” poster prints will be available at the show.

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Flyer I designed for Bleach Bath's upcoming show with Magrudergrind.

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“A lot of artists fall into the trap of justification and rationalisation, for the simple reason that they are quite uneasy with what they’re doing, they’re not entirely comfortable with where they’re going with things, and therefore it needs to be explained, it needs to be justified. It’s similar to children’s relationship with authority – as far as I’m concerned, there is no authority to whom I have to explain myself. We grow up feeling the need to explain ourselves to teachers, to the police, to parents, and I don’t believe in that system.

If you take this position of never justifying yourself, it’s very difficult. Because people will come to their own conclusions about what you’re doing, and a lot of them will be completely at odds with what you feel your reasons are for doing it. You need to be fairly brave to allow people to think what they like about what you’re doing. I take personal responsibility for people not liking things that I do, so if they don’t like it, or they say terrible things about me, then I take responsibility for that, I’m not going to blame them for it. If I don’t rationalise things and then people respond badly to it, I’m really not going to blame them. I have to accept that people can respond in all kinds of ways. I have to expect it.”

-William Bennett