25 Aug

Mechanical, Artistic, & Sideshow Curiosities, 2009

As proclaimed by Erasmus P. Kitty circa August 25, 2009 in Art, Engineering, Sideshow.

The Golden Mean

BEHOLD!
The roster of Mechanical, Artistic, & Sideshow Curiosities to be witnessed at The Great Handcar Regatta 2009 is available for your perusal.

Mechanical and Artistic highlights include:

  • Jon & Kyrsten Sarriugarte — The Golden Mean
  • Scotty C — various contraptions
  • Cupcake Cars — Yummy electrified personal transport with sprinkles!
  • Tony Speirs & Art Farm Motel — large-scale collaborative work
  • Michael McGinnis — Giant Superplexus
  • Yet more wonders…

Sideshows & Curiosities highlights include:

  • David Farish — 3D kinetic sculpture
  • Arthur “Art” Moura — 3D sculptures & conspiracies
  • Gene McClelland — Finely crafted marionettes (with fangs)
  • Muir Houghton — Amplified gothic confessional booth
  • SSU Biology Department — Live & preserved biological specimens
  • Yet more curiosities…

24 Sep

Felt Moustaches For All!

As proclaimed by Erasmus P. Kitty circa September 24, 2008 in Sideshow.

The news of strange and stimulating activities are flying in as The Great Handcar Regatta approaches!

Craft Zine, associated with the esteemed Make magazine, is set to offer a booth for the hand-made creations of felt moustaches to all Regatta attendees who so wish to partake!

I trust there will be more than a few racy aviatrix’s donning their “soup strainers” for the menfolk to fawn over. Huzzah!

31 Jul

The Latest in Artistic Wonders and Sideshow Curiosities

As proclaimed by Erasmus P. Kitty circa July 31, 2008 in Sideshow.

Attention All! The Great Handcar Regatta has added a multitude of astounding artworks and curious sideshow attractions to the Exposition.

See here:

In addition to these Spectacular Spectaculars mentioned hitherto:

* funded in whole or part by Burning Man

  • Baby Seal Club — Roots Rock with a Dye Job and Lots of Product
  • Mister December — Folk stomp ragtime beatbox on two voices, ukulele and standup bass!
  • The Hubbub Club marching band of whimsicality
  • Dr. Solar — A Unique Family-Friendly Entertainment Experience Based Upon the Traditional Traveling Medicine Shows from the early 1900’s
  • Monty Monty — A cross mix of exploratory electro-eco-blues meets sci-fi sound tracks that engage the senses
  • Eliot Fintushel — Theramin master
  • Gene McClelland – Finely crafted marionettes (with fangs)
  • The Folly of Man project featuring apocalyptic artworks by Jack Haye and Judson Smith
  • Roshambus — Roshambo Winery’s finer things party art bus

Huzzah!

9 Jun

Extra! Extra! Neverwas Haul Destined For Handcar Regatta

As proclaimed by Erasmus P. Kitty circa June 9, 2008 in Kindred Hackers, Sideshow.

Neverwas Haul circa 1888As the wonders of the industrial age never cease, The Great Hand Regatta is about to set stage for the inestimable artifact that is:

NEVERWAS HAUL

This September 28th, 2008, “The Haul” shall find yet another home of plenitude and promise in sunny Santa Rosa, CA, at The Great Handcar Regatta!

To date, Neverwas Haul and her delightful crew of crack engineers and brazen lasses, this fairer sex often seen shamelessly taking to hand a wrench or two themselves, have been the toast of fabled towns such as the illustrious Black Rock City, NV, Oakland and San Jose, CA, and, of course, New Amsterdam, London, and mighty Shangri-La beyond the frozen seas, among others townships too numerous to recount here.

“What will they think of next!?” shall be the wide-eyed shouts of giddy disbelief from honored guests at The Great Handcar Regatta!

Three Cheers and Huzzah!

 

There is yet much more to learn, good reader!

  • Read the Neverwas Haul Times for these and other largely historical facts:

    Neverwas Haul , a self-propelled 3-story Victorian House, made from 75% recycled equipment and materials, returns with new interiors, operating system, and collections from its travels around the world (i.e., oddities of the Jules Verne era including a Camera Obscura, described below). The Haul measures 24 feet long by 24 feet high and 12 feet wide and is built on the base of a 5 th wheel travel trailer.

  • A brief interview with Major Catastrophe (a.k.a. Shannon O’Hare) is recounted at the Aether Emporium Wiki.
  • Current news and information found at the Neverwas Haul Tribe.
  • Extensive electro-luminescent renderings of said Haul are available via Flickr.
  • ITEM! Be the first to nab your very own Neverwas Haul handmade googles!

    UPDATE! One fetching reader, Choklit Chanteuse, informs us of Neverwas Etsy Shop. Word has it that said goggles will be AWARDED as PRIZES to adoring Regatta attendees!

  • Watch amazing moving pictures of Kristies Flyer, their winsome little steam-carriage

  • And this movie of Neverwas Haul (ITEM! lower your loud speaker volume first!).