423 blue recap: made malevich, printed type, parked backwards

I’m sup­posed to talk about Male­vich, and these pic­tures of me and my hus­band play­ing with green screens, and the in­ter­est­ing­ly cool things that hap­pened at this year’s Flomm 423 Blue Day.

And while all things were tru­ly fun, I couldn’t help but re­late our per­fect frickin’ park­ing job to the per­fect an­gle of a rec­tan­gle block. To how Male­vich or­ches­trat­ed ba­sic shapes onto a canvas.

You see, every­one on the right hand side of the street was parked at an an­gle, their head­lights fac­ing the street. It was odd, and I felt old for not un­der­stand­ing how so many peo­ple had suc­cess­ful­ly pulled off a back­wards an­gle amidst the mid­town traf­fic. But more than one brave sol­dier had com­plet­ed the task, so we couldn’t not. 

Three min­utes.

It took three for­sak­en min­utes to get the an­gle just right, and fit be­tween the lines to where all in­di­vid­u­als in the car were sat­is­fied with the park­ing arrange­ment; all be­ing a hus­band and wife whose en­tire bane of their union was park­ing on busy streets. It was a tri­umphant task to park at an an­gle, backwards. 

And we ac­com­plished said task. 

Did you know that the Coun­ty of Sacra­men­to ALONE had 1,317,994 cars reg­is­tered in 2018? And the greater Sacra­men­to area had 2.4 mil­lion peo­ple as of the 2010 cen­sus. That’s just un­der half the peo­ple in the Sacra­men­to Area own­ing a car.

Also – google thinks I want to know about Aman­da Blake (Miss Kit­ty from Gun­smoke), be­cause if you are ask­ing about Sacra­men­to, you clear­ly have a pen­chant for old timey west­ern soap operas.

And then I won­dered – what would hap­pen if you could pull a John Malke­vich, with Kaz­imir Malevich?

And this is a how click-hole hap­pens, folks.

 

HUGE FLOMM thanks
to every­one who made this event hap­pen in­clud­ing LOUIS HER­NAN­DEZ and his BROTH­ER, PAT WOOD, DO­LORES WHITE and BRAD CARPS, EVERY­ONE in the ART OF­FICE at AMER­I­CAN RIV­ER COL­LEGE and the ART CLUB who helped us get their LET­TER­PRESS on SITE; 

MILK SUR­FACE, CHAD AN­DRÉ rep­re­sent­ing RA­DiO FLOMM; RICHARD DU­RA­ZO, EDDY and ROSE MON­TEZ with BWARGH VON MOD­NAR;

PE­TER GOMEZ and MATT ROP­ER mak­ing the art LIVE; 

AEY­LYEAELLE for STREAM­ING LIVE from ANTWERP, BLU in HOL­LY­WOOD; CRISSY KAY, her en­tourage and DAVID EN­RIQUE PHO­TOG­RA­PHY;

do­na­tions from JUSTIN at BLICK ART MA­TE­RI­ALS, LIZ at KEL­LY PA­PER, NA­TAL­IE ROB­BINS, LEAVE YOUR MARK and ECO THRIFT and JOSHUA FIELDS of FIX­AFILE, LEXY NICOLE (our first FLOMM pin­up!), BILL MEAD with The Pro­jec­tor and the al­ways amaz­ing HAL HAM­MOND;

stu­dents from STEVE MEHAL­LO’S Art New Me­dia 305 and 332 cours­es at Amer­i­can Riv­er Col­lege who helped with set­up and takedown;

and,
of course,
GER­RY McIN­TYRE who let us play in his stu­dio just be­fore a ma­jor shoot. We love his awe­some tile floor. Always.

Here’s a bunch of oth­er pho­tos we post­ed on that qui­et bar we used to fre­quent called Tumblr.

 

—jes

Flom­mist Jes ex­ists for mo­ments of fiery in­spi­ra­tion. See her in­spi­ra­tional byprod­ucts at jdeprez.com. Copy­right © 2019 JES DE­PREZ. Fo­tos by Mehallo.

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