Krank-Boom-Clank, those darling dudes of kinetic assault, have expressed a hearty thank you to all who attended their benefit fundraiser on such a sweltering day! They’re well on their way to building more contraptions to debut at the Handcar Regatta and beyond!
ITEM! MISSING PURSE ALERT!
Theresa, our very own maven of Regatta design and fabrication, who was smartly swathed in a cute striped “cigarette girl” outfit and graciously peddling her own home-baked cookies to help K-B-C, completed her generous task only to notice her purse was missing!
In other words, her purse disappeared from the seat upon which it was stowed at the Toad in the Hole Pub.
CONTACT
Please pop over to the Correspondence page to divulge any valuable news on the whereabouts of the purse.
PURSE DESCRIPTION
The purse is composed of black leather, with short handles, and adorned upon the face with the following label: “Ellington”. Contained within were a wallet and keys among other essentials for which young ladies are known to tote such as lipstick, etc.
AHEM!
Now, we are CERTAIN that no person within our upstanding precinct would willingly nab a fetching young gal’s handbag whilst she gave of her time and energy to help a worthy cause. NO, indeed!
We sincerely hope to think that a wine-soaked mistake of the memory on some innocent’s part is the cause and that said purse shall be returned as soon as steady sobriety and prudence are resumed.
With utmost sincerity and concern,
Dr. Erasmus P. Kitty
BENEFIT
Those local charmers and wunderkinds of the backyard tool, Krank-Boom-Clank, are set to tear up The Toad and RAISE FUNDS with BIG WHEEL shenanigans and raffle prizes of WORTH!
Grab your Velocipede and make haste to Railroad Square and help K-B-C help YOU revel in the imminent delights of pedal-powered-gizmos for The People!
~ SMASHING! ~
So, dear reader and lover of dashing artistes and calamitous contraptions, sally forth with shattered piggy banks in hand to support your lively neighborhood builders and their many projects of kinetic conveyances of whimsy!
Huzzah!
~ CAN’T MAKE IT? ~ Please consider donating at the K-B-C Web site. Their projects require much time, energy, and resources. These works are a labor of love for the fun of kinetic art and for enjoyment by all. Your help is appreciated AND necessary to bring their wheels to life.
K-B-C WINE! Indeed, you heard correctly. Special bottles of the most prized Zin grapes in all of California have been carefully fermented as a venue for K-B-C’s own label: “Krank-Boom-Clank — Drunk on Big Wheels since 2008“
2 BOTTLES in a basket of goodies from Tin Roof Cellars, graciously donated by our very own maven of 2009 Regatta Tin Roof Saloon, Lisa Hutchinson
2 BOTTLES of Burning Hawk Wine, graciously donated by local philanthropic paragon, Nick Papadopoulos
2 CANS of splendid Taylor Maid Farms Coffee, PLUS 2 TINS of civilized and fragrant Tea
“SWEET RIDE” WITH K-B-C including a stirring package of four (4!) titillating musical mixes on CD, amorously produced by each of the boys for your willing indulgence. WARNING: Some shocking surprises may result.
FRESH HOME BAKED GOODIES from our own Mistress of the Thread and Regatta Set Designer, Theresa Hughes
Large FRONT ROW seats at a Huge concert!
And the most talked-about prize of all: IMPRUDENT RIDES upon the famed Hennepin Crawler!
Local minstrels of note and 1st annual Regatta players, Baby Seal Club, will be making a splash once more in Railroad Square with artistic and musical stylings heretofore unsurpassed.
Saturday, June 6th, 7pm ~ Artday Birth Opening!
Wizzbang’s Collages and Paintings at Daredevils & Queens 122 4th St # B, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
(707) 575-5123
ITEM!Krank-Boom-Clank and their Hennepin Crawler shall be in attendance as well.
From the Press Release:
After many years of cutting himself and ruining his clothing with glue, Wizzbang is having an Artday Birth Opening! He’ll be displaying his collage portraits at Daredevils & Queens in Santa Rosa, along with some oil paintings and a retrospective of work he has yet to complete.
The opening is June 6th @ 7 pm – champagne first to make the art better, followed by the obligatory milling, lurking, backstabbing and other gaggle-about art opening exercises. His birthday is actually June 1st but let’s not tell anyone, alright?
And then, once we’re all nice and lubricated, it will be time to stagger one block over to the Toad in the Hole for some live seal-on-seal action! Wizzbang will be stripping off the callous artist expression of disdain in exchange for a bass player’s sneer to perform with Baby Seal Club! The low flash point Kerosene Kondors will be opening things up with a bang. If we’re lucky, there may even be some drunken Borat look-alikes leftover from a prior event.
Hope you’ll join us – if you can’t, that’s alright, we’ll just hate you forever.
Please do stop by the spiffy and re-vamped Baby Seal Club Website – there’s a free download of one of our songs, with more to come.
The hale and hearty boys from Krank-Boom-Clank absconded for the Bay Area peninsular wilds, ensnaring some five Editor’s Choice ribbons for their toils!
Do relax with a momentary annotated ride about the faire grounds upon said Crawler…
URGENT NEWSFLASH!
Todd Barricklow, of the Steam Pedal renown in 2008, is hosting a fundraiser this Sunday for his latest masterpiece of cockeyed carriages on the rails:
Featuring: Such local eminent persons as Kelly “What-Won’t-I-Do” Cowan as master of ceremonies and the euphonious mélange of musicality called Earstu.
AND:
Raffles for Todd’s own artwork, some welded sculpture, Roshambo Wine, a cool bike bag by Lucie Goods, and more!
Did You Know?
The title of Mr. Barricklow’s Two Penny contraption refers to the large wheeled bicycles of yore known as “Penny Farthings”, “Bone-Shakers”, and occasionally just “High-Wheels.” Todd’s extravagant machine has upped the penny-ante by incorporating two wheels AND fabricating them by hand at a whopping 8 feet in diameter! Impressive indeed. One of the wheels will be on hand for proper inspection.
We, at The Great Handcar Regatta, tip our toppers in awe at Mr. Barricklow’s feats of the tool. Dear reader: please mount one’s own Penny Farthing or bicycle to attend the Toad for a rousing good time and to support your local makers of art and kinetic eccentricity.
The steadfast showboatin’ hucksters of kinetic whimsy known as Krank-Boom-Clank took Northern California by storm this past weekend of the 16th-17th of May, 2009.
We Regatteans are ever vigilant for all things kinetic around the globe. Recently, a group of delirious devisors have surfaced out of Philadelphia, PA, and are set to launch their latest unruly contraption known rather ominously as:
They crew have been diligently documenting their construction days and nights, displaying that certain crackpot craftsmanship we love in kinetic sculpture devotees.
Also true to maker form is their DIY approach to events, parties, and general rousing fun in creating their own community of like-minded participants. Witness:
And what looks to be a terribly exciting event: PEX Summer Festival “We will be uniting for three days and nights of amazing music, art, education, dance, participatory shared experience and conscious connection on 200 acres of private land, just one hour south of Philadelphia.”
Partake of the following moving picture electro-luminescent display of the derby:
We wish Team Sand Reckoner many excellent voyages plus the stellar events and parties among fearless doers who spin the wheels of an emerging maker culture! Huzzah!
The plucky fellows known as Uff-Das, who last year built the wondrous Welded Sykellen, are setting sail again this season upon their modified chassis.
This year their craft is called the Wonkatania and is being modeled after the famed boat in the motion picture, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
As Mr. Wonka claims, “Invention, my dear friends, is ninety-three percent perspiration, six percent electricity, four percent evaporation, and two percent butterscotch ripple.”
I only hope the boys can survive the fabled Curse of the Oompa-Loompas which has found many a Halloween costumer and stage production actor to suffer peculiar mishaps and curious bodily discharges usually involving profuse cacao beans as well as dreadful visitations from “Whangdoodles,” “Hornswogglers,” “Snozzwangers,” and “Vermicious Knids.” Good luck, chaps!
As part of the ongoing series on Kindred Hackers, an extensive interview with local metal-mistress, Rebecca Nase, has been conducted to further edify our growing community of Northbay builders, makers, and all those who appreciate them.
Rebecca Nase first became known to the Handcar Regatta for her astounding metal work on my very own special award known as the “Erasmus P. Kitty Honorary Award” that was aptly received by Krank-Boom-Clank and their stunning Hennepin Crawler (see following trophy image below).
Rebecca Nase: Mostly I work in steel but I try to incorporate found materials as well. I like to collect interesting objects ranging from gears to antlers, to glass insulators. When I have an idea I curve and weld pieces of steel around one (or more) of these found objects, adding elements until it feels complete to me.
EPK: How would you describe yourself and your style of work?
RN: I’m a pretty neat and organized person. Tasks that I have to accomplish, as well as art projects that I create, play this kind of Tetris game in my head; this comes first, then this fits in here when I do that, after, I can squeeze this one in.
My process is pretty rapid and rhythmic. I don’t exactly see the end result when I begin, I just want to show the beauty of the material I use.
ITEM! MISSING PURSE ALERT!
Astonish Us with YOUR Railbound Contraption of Glory & FUN!
Witty Repartee