state of the flomm

‘What is this FLOMM thing?’ —a ques­tion I get a lot
 

I usu­al­ly di­rect peo­ple to the FLOMM IS page, which was orig­i­nal­ly de­signed to pro­mote our art his­to­ry game. And it’s just con­fus­ing enough to still throw peo­ple. By de­sign, of course. FLOMM is an art project tied to oth­er (and all) forms of me­dia; and as with any art project, where it goes will re­veal it­self in time.

Or not. (that’s the beau­ty of art)

RIGHT NOW
The whole FLOMM thing has be­come a con­tem­po­rary art move­ment based on ed­u­ca­tion and art history –

This is the start­ing point for every­thing FLOMM and all our me­dia en­deav­ors go­ing for­ward. This in­cludes our game – which is be­ing up­dat­ed this year by the in­cred­i­ble Mar­co Vasquez to run on mul­ti­ple de­vices, not just iPhone 6.
 

The NEO FLOM­MISTS have stepped up – chal­leng­ing the idea that this is a faux move­ment, turn­ing it into some­thing real. All have some­thing to say, and in­cred­i­ble work to show.
 
 

OUR BLOGS (FLog­gs?)
Me­dia in the U.S. is on the de­fen­sive (see video above) and orig­i­nal­ly DER TUNG was where I was go­ing to write about the FLOMM game. 

But in­ter­est in do­ing some­thing MOR led us to what we’re do­ing right now. The con­stant flow of NEO FLOM­MIST writ­ings al­lows us to post nü con­tent (most­ly) daily.

In­vite a friend – and if you don’t like what we’re writ­ing, say some­thing. we have DIS­QUS at the bot­tom of each post for a rea­son. FLOMM re­spects the rights of in­di­vid­u­als to have opin­ions. SHOW IT, say some­thing. We ARE act­ing out – it does say ‘an­gry mod­ern artists’ all over our stuff.
 

Our tum­blr blogs are still going: 

PRO­TO AVANT AL­TRO (or­ga­nized by colour) show­cas­es nü and olde art from around the world – and FLOM­MIS­CHEN is mu­sic + MOR, with kabarett, jazz and sym­phon­ic works on the weekend – 

And our SPO­TI­FY playlists still go live EVERY MON­DAY – se­lect­ed by Kristin Valen­tine Buech­ler and myself.

 

AND
we have a few things in plan­ning for this year:
 

THE FLOMM PODCAST
Al­ley Schef­f­ki has been piec­ing this to­geth­er for a few months now – and it looks like with the help of MILK, the launch will be in late February. 

THE FLOMM­CAST will be host­ed by Al­ley once a week and cov­er top­ics that DER TUNG is only hint­ing at. And like every­thing we’ve been do­ing, the show will be un­cen­sored and noth­ing will be off lim­its.

AND Alley’s in Paris as I write this cause she ‘needs in­spi­ra­tion.’
 
 

4.23 CON­TIN­UED
Our grass­roots art/educational event – held last year on 4.23 in Stock­ton, Cal­i­for­nia – worked so well, we’re float­ing ideas for what’s next. 

We were in­spired by lo­cal event ART HO­TEL and their up­com­ing ART STREET (opens this Fri­day) – we’re go­ing to see what sort of vibe we can get go­ing again.
 
 

SHORT EX­PER­I­MEN­TAL FILM
FLOMM’s Chelsea Davis has some new mu­sic in the works and with in­spi­ra­tion from Grimes X HANA AC¡D Reign Chron­i­cles – SEV­EN videos shot in 2 weeks (and edit­ed on a Mac­in­tosh) – I am cur­rent­ly shoot­ing some­thing that is a vi­su­al nod to the work of Serge Di­aghilev and the Bal­lets Russ­es, the ex­per­i­men­tal film work of Man Ray, a bunch of the oth­er DADAists, and Han­nah Höch.

In­volved are flom­mists Fe­li­cia Ren Czwakiel, Kristin Valen­tine Buech­ler, Bet­ty Nelsen, Kylie Jack­son, Ja­son Spyres, Juan Sarmien­to, Nathan Schemel, Thomas Fritschi, Erin Dirschel, Crys­tal Dahm, Chrys­tal Shamp, and a few others.
 
 

KABARETT FLOMM: DIE FLOM­MUS REVUE
NOW is the per­fect time to res­ur­rect the ART FORM of Berlin in the 1920s: Kabarett. THIS doc­u­men­tary ex­plains what Kabarett was and how it was a pow­er­ful force for satire and ridicule of the pow­ers that be:

We’ve been talk­ing to a bunch of lo­cal per­for­mance groups: Sac­Cirque (which was co-formed by one of our first flom­mists), The Dar­ling Clemen­tines, Black­top Com­e­dy as well as get­ting ad­vice from the now-re­tired Dutch Fal­coni, Jane in NYC; plus, Bwargh, Kristin, Rik­ki, Jes, Al­ley, Court­ney, Chelsea, Jamie, Re­bec­ca, Brin – GODS, it’s a LONG LIST – which in­cludes plans for some Dark Cabaret surprises – 

A con­cert film of our Kabarett will be part of this – shot the way SNL op­er­ates by film­mak­er Cody Mar­tin –

Be­cause FLOMM is not go­ing out with­out a MAS­SIVE BANG be­fore we’re round up for the camps. Not even close.
 
 

AND
if you like what we’re do­ing, please drop a few bucks in our PA­TRE­ON ac­count. So far all of this is fi­nanced by what­ev­er we can get our hands on – a few bucks here and there will re­mind us what we’re do­ing is worth it.
 

SUB­SCRIBE and STAY TUNED
MOR FLOMM is on the way one way or another!
 

PLUS
here’s some shots from flom­mist Ja­son Malm­berg’s poster show, on­go­ing at Out­let Cowork­ing in Sacra­men­to through 18 Febuary 2017:

 
 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM!

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