HAZARDFACTORY

We are currently in the process of gearing up for the Power Tool Drag Races at Artopia in Georgetown on June 26th! 

This is the fifth year we have taken on this production and we rely entirely upon sponsorship to cover the expenses involved.

THANKS! TO:

Our Top Tier Sponsors:

The Georgetown Merchants Assosciation

Full Throttle Bottles

SeattleLumin.com

Bennet Properties

nothinglabs.com

Ninkasi Brewing Co.

Georgetown Brewing Co.

Nine Pound Hammer

Our Supporting sponsors:

Smarty Pants

Charter Construction

All City Coffee

Calamity Janes

They are the first businesses to step up to donate to the cause! This list will be updated as we proceed!

Join the hazardfanatics googlegroup page to get updates: http://groups.google.com/group/hazardfanatics 
 Or if you have trouble signing up there, ping hazardfactor@gmail.com and you will be invited.

                                          MMMMMMM. Beeeeeer!

TODAY IS IMPORTANT. TODAY IS THE DAY OUR SPONSORS EITHER COME FORWARD AND SUPPORT, OR not.

JUNE 26TH IS RACE DAY! sign up to the hazardfanatics list for info.

Most of the businesses in Georgetown have sponsored us in the past, and it is only the generosity of their sponsorship that has made it possible to do this year after year.

If you frequent bars in the Georgetown area, and you should, you will be pleased to know that they are staunch supporters of this show, as are many of the other businesses in the area. Tonight, after about nine, we will know who is prepared to step up, and they will be listed as an accomplice/sponsor HERE.

Over the next few weeks, as we gear up, we will need volunteers. Calls for volunteers will be posted to the hazardfanatics list, the only official communication channel for hf activities.

It is located here: http://groups.google.com/group/hazardfanatics?lnk=srg

you will need to have or create a google account to join.  Click on the "join group" link to proceed.

Thanks! R

You know as much as I do, I’d never even heard of them before today. I think they must be mostly Boeing engineers and tool repair-shop guys, but i had no idea that we were on thier Radar.

Apparently, they have already hear about the upcoming Power Tool Drag Race at Artopia on August 26th in Georgetown.

They came out of nowhere, they talked about lubrication and duty cycle and over-volting and proper bush maintainance and wear patterns and internal arcing. It made my head hurt, BADLY!

listening to them yammer on about things I’ve never heard of in their crisp white coveralls, with their snazzy aluminum clipboards.

I was alone at Hazardfactory, when I heard a polite knock at the door, I knew instantly something was wrong, but somehow, I let them in anyway. It must have been the hypnotic almost sophorific look in their cold dead boring eyes.

They locked on to me, droning in some wierd lecture hall chant. Clean, Lubricate, R.t.f.m.! over and over.

Finally, in desperation, I jammed a fully functioning 13 amp black and decker grinder under the cleaner (three phase chop saw) and threatened to cut it into tiny pieces.

They backed out the door, muttering somewhat impolite maintainace schedules and rolling thier eyes aggressivley.

Hands, still shaking. I need a drink…..

At the Hazardfactory.

You know a good litmus test for a person’s perserverance would be their ability to get burned, shocked, and set on fire within one hour  and basically take it in stride.

Our intern could kick your interns’ ASS.

Lets hear it for Naomi!

Bow or run, your choice.

It’s time to start gearing up in earnest for the Seattle Power Tool Drag Races, and as they say in the retirement home, we’ve done this enough to know exactly what we are doing, of course then they usually ask, “What was I doing again?”

The answer is of course, we are DOING IT AGAIN!

Expect to not know exactly what hit you or why your insurance company thinks that this is not covered under your policy.

The Trophies are ready and looking exceptionally massive this year. If you expect to win, a handtruck, or perhaps your own moving company might not be a bad idea.

Glory may be fleeting, but a hernia is forever.
Watch this space for upcoming build times!

and remember to get plenty of vitamin t (tetherball)

http://vimeo.com/9806043

Three marching bands, four or five hundred guests, Three kegs, two half barrels, two birthdays, two cakes, five quarts of white gas, fifty games of flaming-tetherball. (so freaking sore)

A good time had by all.

So? So what? It was just a party………………

I think of these kinds of events in a very specific way. It is situational.
Here we are in an unkind world, itself a flyspeck of consciousness in the howling void of the cosmos, mortality knocking on the door like a Jehovahs witness, ground like flour between the millstones of convention and capitalism, a cough or two away from abject poverty.

That’s the world. It is unbeautiful. Beauty is an artifice, a focused act of will, a meaningful or meaningless distraction, a cranefly, a gossamer fragility, counting it’s seconds on the wing. Beauty is a choice, a decision, and it enables joy. It’s a pre-requisite.

Joy and beauty, hilarity and the movement of many bodies in a room thrumming, booming echoing with the vigor of life.

This is the strangely fragrant sleeping bag that shelters us under the open sky and makes the grand unfolding of the stars a thing of wonder
instead of the raving terror of an endless void.

And so we put bodies together in a room and move them, and somehow this is beautiful, and somehow, for a while, everything else is too. That’s the point.

Thanks everyone for attending. When next we see you, it will be dangerous, and you won’t understand it. I promise.

R

Hey remember it’s Honkfest this weekend, so there is what you might call a pretty good chance that we will have some Honkers over for a party!

Saturday night perhaps?

If you saw the recent Artzone with Nancy Guppy you know all about the bike hacking class Rusty teaches. If you are interested in learning welding yourself, click here!

It’s raining but hopefully we can get a game or two in regardless.

Also, footage of the Coyote School kids hacking up bicycles will be airing tonight. If the sight of a little kid making lots of sparks makes you happy, don’t miss it.

Friday, 4/2/10 the “Art Zone” episode featuring the Coyote school kids doing bike hacking hits the air at 8:00 PM on Seattle Channel 21. The show will repeat later that evening, many times over the following week, (www.seattlechannel.org/schedule), and, of course, will stream online: www.seattlechannel.org/artzone

We also air on KCTS Channel 9 on Wednesday’s @ 7:00 PM. This episode will air on KCTS next Wednesday, 4/7 @ 7:00.

I’m sure you all remember Nancy Guppy from the interview she did at the power tool drag races in 2008.
She does great work and is very supportive of the Seattle Arts scene, she is also Sids’ favorite comidieane.
WOOt.

This Friday, April second eight p.m. This is not for the timid, not exactly public. Expect action, expect suspense, expect flaming objects to orbit your head and highlight the current condition of your adrenal glands.

Subscribing members and Core and invitees only. See them then!

We got a great start on the Trophies last Thursday and now only six days later, I am blogging about it.
Information moves at a high percentage of the speed of light, regrettably I am confined to the speed of metabolized caffeine.

This Thursday, another blistering and blinding session on objects that ultimately will be awarded to the thronging hordes.