Fever TK the first book
same as the others, scanned in, lookin good
Blindness
scanned in… cover, each page, til the end
The Bulldozer
that one, scanned in, cover, then 2 page spreads…? til the end.
The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas
Let’s Go For A Ride!
Davy explains:
I’ve always drifted around the country a lot, and perhaps what I love most about this kind of travel are the brief, fleeting moments of crossing paths with strangers—a truck-stop waitress, kids at a basketball court, a guy who’s broken down on the side of the road and needs a jump. These little exchanges, I think of them as found moments; just like the notes from FOUND Magazine, you get a little glimpse into someone else’s life, enough to make you wonder about the rest of their story. I’m real big into writing stories, and a lot of the time it’s a found note or one of these tiny moments—a stranger I’ve blundered across for an instant—that sparks an idea for what I want to write about. (more…)
21 Balloons presents FOUND Magazine!
Perhaps 21 Balloons Productions’ most notorious project is the magazine FOUND, published annually by Davy Rothbart and Jason Bitner.
So, what’s this all about?
We collect found stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids’ homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, doodles– anything that gives a glimpse into someone else’s life. Anything goes.
We certainly didn’t invent the idea of found stuff being cool. Every time we visit our friends in other towns, they’ve always got some kind of unbelievable found note or photo hanging up on their fridge. We decided to make FOUND Magazine and a bunch of related projects so that everyone can check out all the strange, hilarious and heartbreaking things people have picked up and passed our way.
And how’d this all start?
One snowy winter night in Chicago a few years back, Davy went out to his car and found a note on his windshield — a note meant for someone else, a guy named Mario:
We loved this note — its amazing mixture of anger and hopefulness — and so we shared it with as many folks as we could. Each friend we showed the Mario and Amber note to seemed to have a few finds to show us in return; clearly we weren’t alone in our fascination with FOUND stuff! As a way for everyone to join forces and share their finds with everyone else, we decided to start a magazine called FOUND, a showcase for all the strange, hilarious and heartbreaking things people’ve picked up.
We spent a year spreading word about the project and collecting great finds, then with scissors and tape we slapped together the first issue of FOUND in June of 2001. Each year since, with help from our friends and finders all around the world, we’ve put out a new issue of the magazine. We hope you’ll enjoy checking out the FOUND website and the magazine and FOUND books, and that you’ll join in and send in your own finds!
FOUND Magazine
3455 Charing Cross Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48108-1911
U.S.A.
Buy a signed copy of FOUND book I or II here, and we’ll add a personal inscription!
Pick up FOUND Magazines and other cool stuff at the official FOUND store.
Check out thousands of finds and other FOUND madness at the official FOUND Magazine website.
Take a peek at this clip of Davy sharing some favorite finds on The Late Show with David Letterman.
Hit FOUND up on myspace.
Meet FOUND Magazine’s sketchy cousin — Dirty FOUND.
Poem Adept
petey is a big dummy
TK - to be filled in shortly
general intro and info
blurbs
link to buy it
link to poem adept sites
media kit - pics, info…
etc.
Ride the Ride
Ride the Ride is a Southeast Michigan hip-hop collective featuring MC Davy (Davy Rothbart), Bam Bam (Rommell Wallace), and brothers Nigel and Terrence Dang.
(image here - bus and aata logo)
Ride the Ride’s collaboration with The Sweatpants, a song called “Ain’t Banned on Transom” received some airplay after its release on the public radio website transom.org in 2002. (link)
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| By The Sweatpants featuring Ride the Ride’s MC Davy | ||||||||
| Transom Editors Letter - March 4, 2002: | ||||||||
| “Ain’t Banned on Transom” is a musical gift from people we’ve never met. It’s a little raunchy, but you have to understand: we couldn’t refuse it. This is Transom’s first birthday and MC Davy Rothbart and The Sweatpants found themselves compelled to send us this CD. We are pretty sure we’re grateful. No, we are. We’re grateful. Thanks, Davy, and thanks, Sweatpants, whoever you are. You ain’t banned on Transom.” –Jay Allison, transom.org | ||||||||
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The Sweatpants are:
DJ Monkey Button-Pusher….Hunter Blair Diamond D. …………….Aaron Dennis Popcorn Pete …………..Peter Rothbart
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Anvil
“Bound to release a virus on retrophiles of all sorts…” –XLR8R
“Dreamy, nostalgiac, giddy… Anvil’s New Music feels snatched from both the past and the future…” –San Francisco Bay Guardian
New Music for Virtuosos sounds like a meeting between Duran Duran and DJ Krush. To put it simply, a one-man ’80’s band.
Andrew Cohn (A.K.A. Anvil) was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Cohn’s grandfather was a traveling jazz musician, and his mother exposed him to a wide range of music.
“I don’t remember childhood birthday parties,” says Cohn, “but I remember going to Prince and Michael Jackson concerts before I’d even started grade school.”
With little formal training, Cohn began collecting music equipment and recording at a young age. By his sophomore year at Eastern Michigan University, he had been spinning for several years under the name DJ PotatoHead, making mixtapes, playing house parties and hosting local radio shows. In 1998, he dropped out of school, bought an MPC, and concentrated solely on music production. In the years that followed, he mastered his craft, sometimes working ten to fifteen hours a day on the MPC. His sound was developing into a world of dark, abstract hip-hop influenced by beat-makers like the RZA, Dan the Automator, and DJ Krush. Cohn’s first album, a collaboration with fellow producer Iggy Ignotius entitled the Cold War EP was released by the internet-label Demux Digital (www.demuxdigital.com) in 2002.
After graduating from E.M.U. in 2003, Cohn continued to DJ, working on beats and playing local shows. For his solo debut album, Cohn says, “I didn’t want to release just a collection of material, but rather a concept album with a specific sound.”
Cohn began constructing beats using synthesized melodies and hard drums to create a new sound. Fueled by frenzied trips to the Alley Bar and repeat viewings of The Karate Kid, Cohn, under the alias Anvil, created perhaps the world’s first ’80’s instrumental/ hip-hop album. “The album was a dedication to every musician who thinks he’s the greatest musician of all time,” says Cohn.
Media inquiries: info@21balloons.com
Contact Anvil: moodgadget@gmail.com
Anvil’s MySpace page: www.myspace.com/beatsbyanvil
21 Balloons is thrilled to announce the release of Anvil’s striking solo debut New Music for Virtuosos on November 7, 2006.
Buy the album here.TK
Listen to sample tracks here.TK
**** (Four stars/highest rating)
“Instrumental downtempo and hip-hop composed of trance-like laptop beats and ’80s pop synthesizers? Don’t try to imagine it, just go out and buy it.” –Real Detroit Weekly
“Reagan, the Challenger explosion, your first kiss… it’s the ’80s as viewed from 2029.” –The Miami Herald
Nibble, Lick, Suck, and Feast
I won’t lie, being on Letterman is always pretty cool. The Channel 13 morning show in Lubbock, Texas? Not as glamorous. During FOUND Magazine’s Slapdance Across America tour in 2004, I appeared on dozens of local morning TV shows. Here’s my story of the hilarious, absurd, and surreal shit that went down.
“Bad Morning America” first aired on This American Life on January 13, 2006 as part of a show called Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time.
LISTEN HERE.
A few crucial words were bleeped out when this piece aired on This American Life. Here’s another recording of the same piece from October, 2005, at Pulaski Auditorium in Minneapolis.
LISTEN HERE.
Read the piece here as it appeared in The Believer #27.
Lost in America
In May, 2003, I grabbed a bunch of my favorite notes from FOUND Magazine and hit the road for a five-city tour of live This American Life shows with Ira Glass, Sarah Vowell, Jonathan Goldstein, and David Sedaris.
“I Found Your Letter” first aired on This American Life on June 6, 2003, as part of a show called Lost in America.
LISTEN HERE.
For more info on FOUND, check out the 21 Balloons FOUND page or visit the FOUND site. (with links)
