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Tribute To Duchamp
by Jacob Berendes
acoustic/kinetic sculpture
$15,000

you better believe it! fans: send in pictures of the ML stickerface that YOU put together! what, you didn’t get a sticker set yet? step to it, partner! or as roy shildt says, “don’t chumpatize yourself”. MLMLMLMLMLMLMLMLML

love this guy!

more photos from ashleigh russell’s collection of found items after the jump:

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art opening this wednesday (tomorrow, september 3) from 7 - 9pm at HBML

ashleigh russell presents the best items forgotten in books of curious lore

ashleigh had a lousy job, hiding in a book depository like john wilkes booth, or that other guy, riffling through pages to remove foreign objects before they sold on the internet. well like i said the job sucked, she quit, and now the cream of the crop of foreign objects will be on display at HBML diabolical/angelical junk shoppe, for three weeks, starting tomorrow at 7pm, with cookies and perhaps tea available.

items include photos, notes, profanity, sublimity, stuff like that. what might be titled “memorabilia”, if the thing they had in common was that they were remembered, but in fact the opposite is true.

wednesday night come out and hang and mingle. i’ve been reading a scholarly treatise on profane folklore entitled “the rationale of the dirty joke”. watch me fight tooth and nail with my own id to refrain from starting sentences with “as an englishman was heard to remark on his wedding night…” or similar constructions.

i will also be displaying a new line of semi-durable plastic toys, which will be for sale.

interested in volunteering? let’s talk!

da press release:

hey!
this saturday HBML radical junk shoppe / fake gallery / noise universe will be hosting one of it’s acclaimed silk screening events WHEREIN you, a participant, bring in a garment, flag, or burial shroud, and we apply directly and permanently an image of our predetermined choice WHILE U WAIT. this saturday from 2 to 5, the image is going to be a massive drawing of an owl.

viewed as an emblem of knowledge and erudition, also a harbinger of death, the owl is the mascot of grey-eyed athena, warrior goddess of philosophy, strategy, and metal work, and inventor of the olive. i have no idea why, but people ask all the time whether we sell anything with owls on it, outshining by orders of magnitude the next most
popular requests, which are in order: jesus, popeye, tweety bird. there’s a thoreau quote on the popularity of owls… let’s see… “Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight woods which no day illustrates, suggesting a vast and underdeveloped nature which [humanity] has not recognized”. i guess that goes for jesus, popeye, and tweety bird as well.

anyway, it’s this saturday (the 30th) from 2 to 5, it costs $5 per print. if you don’t want the owl screened on a clothing item, we can screen a massive sticker for you, big enough to really piss someone off. we’re also having a massive clothing sale, most items $1 minimum donation. there will also be free coffee.

HBML is at 420 pleasant st worcester ma 01609

famous painter and interior decorator gary panter raves “[HBML] sounds neat!”
acclaimed 21st century novelist dave eggers says “[HBML] [is] OK.”

directions can be given from the shop to the super-delicious verycheap bootleg vegan chinese underground (shadow economy) restaurant DUCK YAO.

if you’ve been meaning to come to the shoppe, now’s a great time, as we totally don’t have any money, or anyway not enough for next month’s rent, not nearly. please, tell your pals!

also, in re: the cosby show idea, we have put filming on hold until october, when it’s do or die and we have to finish for sure, before november’s scheduled “JFK days”.

not a lie from my mouth

jacob
hbml
hbml.org

ps- saturday’s design will also feature jesus, popeye, and tweety bird, but really tiny.

oh yah, and we’re doing two screens- one with black ink, one with white ink, so bring whatever the hell color damn shirt you f-word want!

yes!!!! some new one-of-a-kind toys are now for sale on the HBML online catalog. these mods of existing toys come to us from our toy-designing arm, “Li’l Champ”. much more coming soon!

for right now though, there are ten toys to choose from, and the nice price of $10 postpaid (with signed certificate of autenticity) won’t last neither.

i made some new flyers the other day because i was going to a big punk show and cold ran out of the old flyers. flyers are the best because when you want to talk to someone who looks awesome you just walk up and say “do you want a flyer for my weird junk store?”. it always works out, and sometimes people say no thanks, which is fine– i’m not fishing for cowards!

OH SSNAP.

UP DA PUNGKS!

filming of our now-epic “cosby show idea” continues tomorrow (friday) and saturday, and probably next week too. in case you haven’t heard, this post has more information. so far we are a third of the way done with filming, and it’s really going really really good. like, surpassing goofy and going all the way to profound. i know that people out there are timid about being in a video, no one wants this to be another “superbowl shuffle”. well gang, this is some straight-up “we are the world”. come on down- be bruce for once!

me and mike were working on this the other night, i’m really psyched on how it came out (although this picture kind of sucks):

the face on the right is 10 inches high, from hair blood to chin bumps!

each set comes with two huge sheets of face parts and four blank faces, printed in purple ink on white vinyl. $10 postpaid from the new HBML catalog (which is loaded with items right now).

how’s this new design working out? everything look nice? any links that go nowhere? does the catalog look good / make sense? bark up if you see a weirdness / have a idea.