Wrapped In Plastic Live at Melt! December 15th 2011

Live @ Melt, San Francisco, 12-15-11 by Brandon Jackson We did it again, now with poet Tom Comitta.

Live @ Melt! December 9th 2011

Live @ Melt, San Francisco, 12-8-11 by Brandon Jackson 3

More work with jazz band Wrapped In Plastic. This time, I'm reading some translations of Esther Tellermann's book, Terre exaccte.

Live @ Melt, San Francisco, 11-17-11

Live @ Melt, San Francisco, 11-17-11
Live @ Melt, San Francisco, 11-17-11 by Brandon Jackson 3 Karen Hannah and I collaborated with the jazz band Wrapped In Plastic on November 17th. Trumpet player Brandon Jackson made the recording.

ASHES by Alex de Campi and Jimmy Broxton on Kickstarter

The wonderful and talented Alex de Campi has a new graphic novel project, titled Ashes, in collaboration with the equally talented illustrator Jimmy Broxton. It's currently seeking funding through Kickstarter. It's the sequel to her previous graphic novel Smoke with Igor Kordey (which came out through IDW and was nominated for the Eisner only to lose to Grant Morrison's (et al.) Seven Soldiers. Yes, it's really hard to compete with Grant Morrison). Here's Alex presenting her project:

And here are a couple of pages (uncolored) of Ashes:

Now click here to help Alex and Jimmy finish this. You know you want to. Otherwise, all you deserve is crappy super hero comics and Jim Behrle's cartoons.

Oh, and John Cassaday, Kieron Gillen, Colleen Doran, Dave Gibbons (yes, of Watchmen), Marcella Puppini (of the Puppini Sisters), Rich Johnston are already supporting the project.

Okay, click here now.

New video by Alex de Campi

Whom you might know for her digital comic Valentine (which I translated into French), her graphic novel Smoke (with Igor Kordey), and other work, including a music video for the Puppini Sisters and other bands.

"Tear Us Apart" -- Stop Motion Short Film by Alex de Campi from alex de campi on Vimeo.

And a quote, which I found on Bleeding Cool:

Glen Duncan wrote a book and called it The Last Werewolf. Stephen Coates/The Real Tuesday Weld wrote a soundtrack to that book. Then Stephen gave one of the songs to Alex de Campi to inspire a new film. And this is it.

This video pretty much represents the limits of what one person can do in her mom’s garage with no money. A solitary month building sets; four days filming (in 103 degree heat) with the invaluable assistance of cinematographer Nolan Maloney, 1st AC John Hubbard and grips Dan Politz and Katy Cecchetti. Then another month in post. And now it appears, to be a momentary distraction on the internet before it is instantly buried in an avalanche of newer things.

Puppets created by Liesje Kraai; without her, we are nothing.

New Broadside by a.rawlings

Zumbar Press, Karen Hannah's letterpress project, has released its first broadside, "Tree Hymn" by a.rawlings.

Karen hasn't set up a website yet, so send me a message for order information.

UPDATE: You can contact Karen directly to order. A website will be created soon.

New Issue of New American Writing

ISSUE #29 of New American Writing, our 25th anniversary issue, and our 40th year of publishing OINK! (until 1985) and New American Writing since 1986. Orderr through CCNOW or by sending a check for $15 (this issue) or $36 (three issues) to NAW, 369 Molino Avenue, Mill Valley CA 94941.




In this issue, cover by Anna Gaskell, (untitled #2, wonder):

Swenson, Joron, Revell, Ramke, Shurin, Tardos, Eshleman, Equi, Waldrep, Mullen, Lease, de la Perriere, Schultz, Olson, Turcot, Gagnon, S. Savage, LaFleur, Avasilichioaei, Neveu, Lussier, A. Carr, Farah, Canty, Ruiz, Garthe, Wilkinson, K. Wagner, Turcotte, Carr, Mutschlecner, Kelsey, Hogue, Potts, Latta, Irwin, McKinney, Coulton, Loden, Kocot, Bendall, Platt, J. Wagner, Pethybridge, Lewis,. Ducharme, Clements, Wickswo, Norton, Caspers, Schultz, McSweeney, Miller, Tomash, Molinary, Bellflower, Martinez, Heide, Frym, Dailey, Kostelanetz, Tu, Steward, Maxwell, Winter, Laidlaw, Rebele, Terris, Dentz, Bentley. Translations by Luong and Moorhead. 198 pages.

Methane Combustion

I just saw a commercial for a gas company promoting natural gas as a clean energy source. Not posting a video link, but, really? Natural gas?

Let's take the example of methane (the most common natural gas):

CH₄ + 2 O₂ → CO₂ + 2 H₂O

This is the simplified balanced equation for the combustion of methane, skipping all the intermediary steps. What's this CO₂ business on the right? Oh, Carbon Dioxide. And water! Both of which are considered greenhouse gases (the latter in vaporized form).

Oups, gas company.

Some Links about Friends

Photographer friend Tricia Lawless Murray is interviewed in the online photography magazine Rotating Gallery. She discusses her interest in pornography (way to be reductive), and two of her current projects, "Some Men" and her "quasi-contemporary reinterpretation" of Marguerite Duras's novel L'amant, both of which I have seen. Her work is also featured in Fraction, another photography magazine.


Artist Alicia Escott's love letter project is featured in the Examiner. Some other work is featured in grist.com. She also interviewed in Eco Salon and on KUSF.


Leah Rosenberg is featured in In The Make.


Issue #2 of Telephone was recently released, with the appropriate release readings in New York City, Montréal (at the Port de tête!), and Amherst. This issue features the work of Renée Gagnon & Steve Savage, translated by: Oana Avasilichioaei | | Mark Bibbins| | Daniel Canty Angela Carr| | Geoffrey Cruickshank | | Dorothea Lasky Guy Leblanc & Étienne Lenoir | | David Lehman François Luong & Karen Hannah | | Erin Moure | | Emily Pettit & Michelle Taransky | | Matthew Rohrer Cole Swensen Joe Wenderoth | | Dara Wier & Luke Bloomfield | | Joshua Marie Wilkinson


My favorite French-Canadian publisher, La Peuplade, celebrates its 5th birthday. La Peuplade has published among other people, François Turcot, Chantal Neveu, and Alexis Lussier, whose work will appear in English in the next issue of New American Writing, in a feature on poetry from Québec. Congratulations, Simon-Philippe.

Recall Momentum! (Green Bay)