Hype

I had a chance to chat with author Dave Wellington. You might recognize Wellington from his “Monster Island” and other web serials. Dave has tons of cool stuff going on and was a contributor to Omnibucket’s own “Brainchild…A Collection of Artifacts” in 2005.




Interview by David Senecal

You know what you should do right now?

Go check out the latest interview with Omnibucket Founder Scott Lambridis.

It’s right here———> http://www.storyglossia.com/blog/2009/11/an-interview-with-scott-lambrid… and you can also check out the story that kicked it all off,

“The Hum of Broken Things” ,right here: http://www.storyglossia.com/36/sl_hum.html
And dude! It even has pictures by the most supernarley Tyler Landry.
What the heck? What are ya still doing here? Go now!

Rod Lott at Bookgasm had some wonderful things to say about our dear book.

"The art — interspersed throughout the entries — is hypnotic and bizarre, at once seemingly mundane and oddly disturbing. (...) and once again, they’ve done a hell of a job in presentation, for a work that’s simultaneously an experimental art project and a piece of meta fiction."

Read the full review here.

Justin Shady at The Blarg had these lovely things to say about our book.

In case you’ve been in a hole and are not privy to the new sh*t, The Book of CLAV has been officially released. Here’s a quick shot from the release party at Cricket Engine in Oakland, California. More links to follow.

More photos from the release party

Local PEI newspaper coverage

Eric Myers and I will be hosting a four-day workshop in September at 826 Valencia.

Conversations With The World

Taught by Scott Lambridis and Eric Myers
Limited to 12 students, ages 11–14
September 4, 11, 18, & 25
Tuesdays, 6:00–8:00 PM

The Cerrito Speakeasy contacted me about 8 months ago to be their August Artist-of-the-Month, based on the God’s Acre artwork (which features 3 artists and a musician). Twas a challenging hang, but with a few bits of fishing line and some big fat nuts to hang at the end, it came out pretty damn cool.

Click the image for more:

Just a quick entry this time to let our readers know about a new book out by Omnibucket’s own contributor and regular Ology columnist, Rebecca Brock. Here’s my official take:

Brock’s latest work, ‘Abominations’ is near 250 pages of deftly crafted horror fiction
with a central theme of living (or not) in a world populated by the relentless and hungry undead.

Shouting Fire radio invited yours truly to co-host a radio show hosted by Eric Myers. We played some tunes, and talked about all things Omnibucket and publishing and multimedia, and of course, the upcoming Book of CLAV. The show aired Friday 4/4 at 10am PST, 2PM PST, and 6PM PST.

Hey everybody!

We’ve been working like a colony of bees lately.
The productive kind, not the angry, “follow you up to 3 times the normal distance and sting you 8 to 10 more times than their regular Americanized cousins” type of colony, I should say.

In part, what that means is,

Independent distributor Enemi Entertainment now has 2nd editions of Brainchild and God’s Acre available through their catalog.

God’s Acre’s second edition is the same as the first, though it is not a limited edition (copies of the first edition are still available here).

Brainchild’s second edition on the other hand has a few surprises. We removed the three advertisement pages and replaced them with three new artworks. The edition isn’t limited, but it’s improved!

In October, fellow wordsmythe and creative maestro Eric Myers and I began a monthly creative salon. We just had our second one on Friday November 9th at Eric’s place in the Lower Haight. Marisa Egerstrom joined us, though our fourth current participant Nora Sawyer had to bail last minute. After only two meetings it has already branched out from simply a writing salon towards the multimedia where we evaluated a video piece and a vocal performance, not to mention Angie’s cooking. Pretty damn sweet I must say.

The pieces reviewed:

“Life of the Gallows” short story by Scott Lambridis

Hey e’rybody. Just a note to promote: Music for Humans can now be found on iTunes and many other online retailers. Search me, baby.

Love,
Banjo

We just don’t have time to list them all, so here is one of the most recent responses from a fellow named Lee.

Lee lives in the UK.
Having seen “Brainchild…a collection of artifacts” in the collection of a friend, he was very interested in knowing how he might obtain a copy. Unfortunately, Brainchild has been sold out for quite some time now.

Nevertheless, Omnibucket scoured the ends of the earth until eventually, we were able to locate and buy back a copy for Lee from a small bookstore in Middle America. The book was sent and here is what Lee had to say:

Dara Naraghi, co-creator of our very own God’s Acre just wrote me with some exciting news.

Dara says:

Aside from the usual daily life and work stuff, I’ve been
quite busy the last few years working on a big project that’s finally paying
off: my first graphic novel is being published this December and will be
available in all bookstores!

LIFELIKE has been in the works for about 2 years now. It started out as a
free weekly webcomic, which you can still read online. It’s a series of