Sonoma State University (SSU) shall be host to a vivacious exhibition featuring HAND-BUILT CONTRAPTIONS of competitive glory, large and not-so-large-scale ART works, plus actual festival PROPS and, of course, a jaunty array of well-attired lads and lasses we’ve come to adore at our fair festival known as The Great Handcar Regatta.
Special thanks to Spring Maxfield for curation and exhibition idea. Michael Schwager for additional curation and exhibition management. Also, our own invaluable maven of Regatta volunteers, Carla Stone, in addition to the staff of the SSU art department at large.
Gallery Views
** NOTE: A parking permit fee is required on other weekdays and nights on the campus. The closest lot LOT A is “reserved” and costs $5 per motor carriage. Nearby non-reserved lots cost $2.50. See the following MAP (PDF) for parking locations. Weekend parking is free in most areas.
The fanciful mechanical concoctions to be witnessed this year will amaze, astound, and, with Lady Luck’s serendipitous caress, inspire too The People in attendance! Huzzah!
Engineers’ Arcade Gallery
The Engineers’ Arcade also has updated photographic depictions, featuring:
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
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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…
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.
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.
The bully race team known as Whiskey Drunk Cycles is having a fundraiser party to benefit the hallowed cause of building a new rail-rod for the 2009 Handcar Regatta.
Plus more, not to mention music and general debauchery with one of our favorite crews!
Come down to support your local craftsmen, artisans, and makers alike. We’re sure you wouldn’t miss it.
Psst: Word on the thoroughfare is the latest creation in progress is code-named “Then Again Bomber” with a cheeky wink and a nod to Krank-Boom-Clank’s“Hennepin Crawler”. I do detect some friendly competition developing among the builders!
Hearty congratulations and huzzahs goes to our own calamity contraptionists known as Krank-Boom-Clank of Hennepin Crawler repute.
Our favorite magazine of doers called Make dispatched a local colleague and DIY enthusiast named Dave Sims to interview the crack K-B-C team about their Hennepin Crawler. The theme for this volume 17 is “Rediscover Lost Knowledge”.
Well done, lads! We look forward to many more invigorating kinetic conveyances of whimsy in the near future from Krank-Boom-Clank!
ITEM! The word on the thoroughfare has it that K-B-C will be in attendance at the following illustrious events:
Sonoma State University (SSU) shall be host to a vivacious exhibition featuring HAND-BUILT CONTRAPTIONS of competitive glory, large and not-so-large-scale ART works, plus actual festival PROPS and, of course, a jaunty array of well-attired lads and lasses we’ve come to adore at our fair festival known as The Great Handcar Regatta.
ITEM! MISSING PURSE ALERT!
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