423 red: an abstract

423 RED hap­pened three weeks ago. And af­ter, I was so tired I bought a new mat­tress to re­cu­per­ate. Slept twelve hours straight.

And Steve Mehal­lo — who or­ga­nized all this — is very much like An­tho­ny Bour­dain – one of of the FLOMM mus­es. Tony died the day be­fore our event, and this was some­thing dif­fi­cult to ig­nore.

Bro­ken peo­ple make things tru­ly splen­did for a short time, and even af­ter they leave us, we’re al­tered.

I loved Tony’s take on sec­ond chances in the kitchen. That the peo­ple serv­ing and prepar­ing food in 5 star restau­rants had the hum­blest be­gin­nings. Cre­ativ­i­ty is egal­i­tar­i­an. A pau­per can cook bet­ter than any no­ble. An or­phan can be­come a mas­ter. I as­pire to love my craft as much as any mas­ter loves theirs.

The Flom­mists in Paris were there, live at night (a small chunk of the live feed, above) – and they kept mov­ing our Se­cret Lo­ca­tion through­out the day. To con­fuse the en­e­my, Dick Ch­eney, or who­ev­er it is who hates us for our free­doms this month.

Josephine Bak­er Danse Sauvage-themed club. So cool!

Back in Sacra­men­to, we filled the CLARA with some art shows, red lights, in­ter­ac­tive pro­ject­ed new wave, 80s mu­sic and noise.

Live noise per­for­mances! Hear chunks of Instagon’s per­for­mance here, here, here, here, and here. We also have some full length video we’re edit­ing.

There was this mo­ment that per­fect­ly summed up 423 RED for me.

Cars were loaded. Clean-up was done. Hands were cov­ered in ink.

I was ex­haust­ed, so was Steve.

But there we were‑a small group of Flom­mists stand­ing in the CLARA park­ing lot dis­cussing Post Post Mod­ernism and David Fos­ter Wal­lace:

Milk was lit­er­al­ly stand­ing on a soap box.

Blu and I high-fived af­ter we made the same point about Marx and de­con­struc­tion­ists.

Bwargh added a so­ciopo­lit­i­cal ob­ser­va­tion on Cal­i­for­nia real es­tate.

And Mehal­lo made a joke that tied all our points to­geth­er (I don’t know how he does that).

It was the per­fect con­ver­sa­tion and I didn’t want to leave it.

I read their Der Tung ar­ti­cles. I’ve gone to class­es and col­lab­o­rat­ed with them on projects.

And de­spite all that I’d still just stand in a park­ing lot with them and talk for hours.

Lou Reed could­n’t write a more per­fect day.

AND we have even MOR event pho­tos post­ed on the FLOMM Tum­blr arte blog.
 

JE VOUS RE­MER­CIE FLom­mists Dar­cy Tot­ten, Jasper James of Ac­tivism Ar­tic­u­lat­ed, Jer­amy Ian, Megan Wygant and Al­i­jah at CLARA, which with­out them none of this would have ever hap­pened; Re­nee Thomp­son, for on­go­ing sup­port and our cus­tom-paint­ed RED ice buck­et! Jay Vigon, Nicole laRue, Jes­si­ca Wab­bit, Gabe San­ford, Ta­tiana Cher­ni­avs­ka, Marko Davi­dovic, Stephanie Al­men­dariz, Raina Dayne, Lau­ren Richard­son and Dolls Kill, Louis Warfield, Lily Top­pen­berg, Milk Sur­face, Bryan Mendez, Bill Mead, Thomas Fritschi, William Burg, Lob In­sta­gon, Denise Che­li­ni and the en­tire team of Nor­Cal Noise­fest; DJ Lar­ry Rodriquez/Flower Vato, Lee Canas, Pe­ter Gomez, Matt Rop­er, Aman­da Mau­r­er, Shane Kerr, Kylie Jack­son, Aey­lyeaelle Ell­he De El­len­deh, Rob­bie Ed­monds, Sam Costanil­la, Ste­fan Hat­ten­bach, Rone, Blu, Jes, Don Reid, Cas­si­die Wages, Ja­son Malm­berg, Am­ber Witzke, Dutch Fal­coni, Ju­lia Al­le­gret­ti, Randee Tavarez, Mar­cel Duchamp, the Flom­mists in Paris – in­clud­ing So­phie Tra­verse; of course, Steve and Jeanne Mehal­lo, and every­one who made it out to play in our world.

423 BLUE is slat­ed for this fall. An­oth­er place, an­oth­er call­ing.

 

—louis her­nan­dez

Flom­mist Louis Her­dan­dez is ob­sessed with go­ing Bauhaus and be­com­ing The Ma­chine. Prefer­ably a drill press. Copy­right © 2018 Louis Her­nan­dez. Pho­tos by Mehal­lo, Dar­cy, Jasper, and Bwargh.

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