I read Stephen King’s The Mist on a lengthy train ride from Media, Pennsylvania (where I had delivered a trivial lecture on my latest book of poems Arsenic n’ Art,) to my lair in the city of brotherly love: Philadelphia. In short, The Mist really frightened me, as it had first-rate scares galore. It nudged, pinched, and stung my insecurities so that I had night sweats n’ nightmares for hours, days, and weeks to come. This was just a short story, dear fellow foes, you understand? Yet it held me in the grip of trepidation and woe. When it was then announced some 25 years later that award-winning film director Frank Darabont (The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption) was giving it a go, well, I booked my seat well in advance. I was pleased I did so.

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Barbara Hashimoto: Junk Mail Exhibition. “A landscape of mountain ridges is visible through the wide windows of this storefront space in the Chicago Arts District — or maybe it’s a hay barn as envisioned by office workers.”  – Karsten Lund, Flavor Pill

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The Kreep is a forlorn Gothic poet that reviews horror and Sci-Fi films in chilling kreepy verse. Created, written, and voiced by actor/writer R. O’Donnell and published by Static Multimedia, The Kreep is offered in several formats:

a syndicated feature on 100percentofnothing.com and linked to a free downloadable podcast on iTunes.

A new Kreepy poem is available every Wednesday at midnight.  This week, The Kreep explores Stephen King’s The Mist, available now on DVD, and last week Kreeped us out with Tim Burton’s A Nightmare Before Christmas on a 2-Disc fully-loaded Collector’s Edition DVD available the 26th of August. Read and listen if you dare.

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by Brazillia R. Kreep

Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas is an animated musical Gothic delicacy for the entire brood. A delightfully dazzling way t’bridge the long holiday gap between hallow’en n’ Christmas, this Disney kiddy opera crepe into theatres the Fall of ‘93, and has been spooking and amusing audiences like no other animated holiday cheer ever since. Thanks t’director Henery Selick and composer Danny Elfman, this dark romantic romp-a-thump is a sure pure classic for the creep in everyone.

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Artist Barbara Hashimoto and Director R. O’Donnell tape junk mail confessions 

BARBARA HASHIMOTO: Junk Mail  will hold a special reception on Friday, September 12 from 6 to 10 PM at 2003 South Halsted Street, Chicago.  The event is held in conjunction with the Chicago Arts District’s 2nd Friday Gallery Walk. Throughout the evening, exhibition visitors will be invited to share their junk mail experiences, rants, and confessions. Their stories will be videotaped for presentation at the exhibition in November.

A new series of installations incorporating the Hashimoto’s year-long collection of junk mail will be on view along with the premiere her “Red Sea of Credit” an installation built from junk mail credit card solicitations.  Michael Kozien’s suite of video and sound junk mail explorations will also be presented.

For an entire year artist Barbara Hashimoto collected and hand-shredded the junk mail that came to her studio address. At year’s end she had 3,000 cubic feet of shredded material.  Her labor-intensive yet intimate process has inspired a series of sculptures, installations, performances, and collaborations presented in Los Angeles and Chicago.  Now under the sponsorship of the Chicago Arts District and Podmarjersky, Inc., Barbara Hashimoto: Junk Mail presents an evolving schedule of shredded junk mail installations, associated works, visiting guest artists, and special events. The exhibition continues until December 31, 2008 and is open every Saturday from 12 noon to 4 PM, with receptions every 2nd Friday. The exhibition is installed and lit for public viewing through the 45-foot floor-to-ceiling storefront windows.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Barbara Hashimoto’s sculpture, installation, and performance work has been presented throughout the United States, Japan, Europe, and the Middle East.  It is in more than 250 public and private collections including The Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American Art, The Museum of Arts and Design, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, and The Art Institute of Chicago (Joan Flasch Collection). Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, Art on Paper, Sculpture Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and more. Previously based in Tokyo and Los Angeles, Hashimoto relocated to Chicago in 2006 where she is artist-in-residence at BauerLatoza Studio, a multi-disciplinary architectural design firm. Educated at Yale, she was also apprentice to Junko Yamada (Saitama, Japan), and artist-in-residence under “Intangible Cultural Asset”, Minoru Fujimori (Shikoku, Japan) and at Umdang Ceramics (Dan Kwain, Thailand). Her most recent exhibitions include a seventeen years retrospective at Dubhe Carreño Gallery (Chicago), and Reverse Trash Streams: The Junk Mail Project at LA Contemporary (Los Angeles). Currently her work is on view at the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Itami, Japan in Your Documents Please, an exhibition which will later travel to Yokohama, Berlin, Budapest, Bratislava, and Guadalajara.  

Richard O’Donnell is a playwright, producer, actor, and stand-up. He has worked and lived in New York and Chicago where he has written and performed for the stage and television. O’Donnell wrote the award-winning Off-Broadway show One & One, Radio City Music Hall’s A Manhattan Showboat, and co-founded the New Age Vaudeville theatre company, the New Variety cabaret, and the Fox TV show, R. Rated. O’Donnell is the Director of Junk Mail Confessions, which will be presented at the exhibition, BARBARA HASHIMOTO: Junk Mail in November 2008.

Michael Kozien is an interdisciplinary artist who merges video, sound, photography and animation to create ethereal installations that spotlight the misrepresentation of human value as filtered through contemporary media sources.  His work has been included in numerous exhibitions at venues internationally, including Le Musee di-visioniste, Cologne, Germany, Thread-Waxing Space, NYC, and R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA.  Michael holds a BFA in painting from Southern Illinois University and an MFA in digital media from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The San Diego Union-Tribune, and The Chicago Tribune, and more.

> Barbara Hashimoto Website

> Richard O’Donnell Wikipedia

> photos: Archie FlorCruz, Whateverland.com

Static Networx, the Chicago-based publishing force behind Static Multimedia, announced today the launch of their Lifestyle, Art, and Culture Ezine 100 Percent of Nothing. 

100percentofnothing.com provides a wide variety of pop content for Gen X, Millennium, and professional browsers. 100% of Nothing will cover clothing, design, and the latest fashions. It’s a hip slice of the alternative being offered in short, crisp, easy to digest entrees. “You’re in, you’re out, at work or at home,” Art Director Dull1 says, “It’s going to be iPod compatible for sure.  I know what it is to break your thumbs looking for content. 100% of Nothing knows that too.” 

Upcoming features will include controversial shredded junk mail exhibition *Barbara Hashimoto: Junk Mail & White Trash*, an interview with Circue De Soleil insider Tim Robinson, and a serious chat with the only exhibition for historic architectural renderings in the country David Jameson’s ArchiTech Gallery.

Static Multimedia’s original program podcasting of R. Production’s *The Kreep* (available on iTunes) will move it’s weekly piece to 100percentofnothing.com and begin a bigger monthly horro-fied feature in October.

Static Multimedia will also launch a regular quarterly PDF publication. The first issue will be available September and will preview upcoming fall blockbusters including Guy Ritchie’s highly anticipated *RockNRolla*.

The new publication will be available for complete download on various large file networks, as well as an interactive PDF flash flipbook. Partnership and promotional opportunities are open.

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