Search results for: “h.o.p. art”
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Have you ever seen a UFO? Interview #6
“Yes, definitely!” The interview concerns a pair of sightings in Detroit, Michigan in the mid 1990s. “It was very low and it had lights that were spinning around the perimeter of it.” IDYLLOPUS PRESS: OK, the first question is always “Have you ever seen a UFO?” DAMIEN: Yes, definitely. IDYLLOPUS PRESS: You have! OK! Tell…
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"Have you ever seen a UFO?" #5
“I have NOT seen a UFO.” Niki was my second interviewee. But that interview was lost. We arranged to speak the next day and she brought along Gretchen, her roommate. To keep an element of surprise for Gretchen, I interviewed her first, making her my fourth interviewee, then interviewed Niki again next. Because this became…
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"Have you ever seen a UFO?" #4
“My sister says that she did. When we were very young and living in Lebanon, Ohio” I’d done Interview 2 with Niki but it hadn’t made it into the recorder, so we had planned to do the interview again the next evening. Niki showed up with her roommate, Gretchen, who was just as game, and…
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"Have you ever seen a UFO?" #3
Ben was loading a dresser into his truck. I asked him if he’d like to do an interview. He asked what it would be about. This was only my third interview and no one had asked me what it would be about before and I wondered how best to answer that question without ruining the…
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"Have you ever seen a UFO?" #2
“Maybe tomorrow is better,” I said. “I’ve not figured out the recorder yet and H.o.p.’s camera isn’t charged.” I knew an arrangement where I’d be using H.o.p.’s digital camera to capture interviews for transcription wasn’t going to work out as he is using his camera all the time and I never know when it’s going…
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"Have you ever seen a UFO?" #1
No. “You asked the wrong person!” George has the honor of being my very first interviewee. I saw him outside the window and decided I might as well start now and we could use H.o.p.’s little digital camera to record a movie from which I could make a transcription. Knowing the battery in H.o.p.’s camera…
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Maybe a new little side project
The other day this came to my mind, something which I thought could be an interesting project to pursue on a long term basis, something which would be perfect for blogging, which could be possibly entertaining while offering a tiny, unassuming window on a narrow spectrum of experience that is infrequently talked about and often…
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Scratching the sacred itch of secular mysteries
We’re big appreciators of Tom Waits around here. H.o.p. as well. He’s been an avid listener since he was little. When he was two or three he listened to “Bone Machine” non stop for a year. Back in 2004 when he was, what, 6, he did the below picture as a tribute to Waits’ “What’s…
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The Recording Cabinet of…
I was reading about Elfo Recording Studio. Well, not exactly reading about it but saw the above-the-fold pic of the exterior at Dezeen in my Googlefeed and liked it, a raucous but curiously comforting jumble, like several 1960s elementary school kindergartens cut up and reboxed. Comforting in the way that public school was comforting when…