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Archive for September, 2008

OK TO GO by Claire Evans

Posted 03 September 2008 | By | Categories: Claire Evans, Media, Universe, Video, Watt Wilby Wilby | No Comments

OK TO GO from universe on Vimeo. Chain of Hyper Space scenes from films. Collaboration with Mike Merrill. Part of the thing which is so appealing about Hyper Space scenes in films is the idea that something fantastic and unknown lies at the end of them. In fact, here are the primary uses of Warp […]

Eric N’s Dating on Demand Video

Posted 03 September 2008 | By | Categories: Dating on Demand, Eric N., Media, Video | No Comments

Eric is a nice guy from Minnesota with a lot of heart.  He’s married. So, if you’ve got a lot of heart and you want to get a lot of action, send in a Dating on Demand video too.

Tree Table Fable by Zac Shaw

Posted 03 September 2008 | By | Categories: Furniture, Media, Zac Shaw | No Comments

I’ve always thought that furniture was great. Now, I know it is. Zac Shaw is making some kick ass furniture at the Rhode Island School of Design because he wannas: “I’ve attached pictures of one of the tables I made this summer so that you have an idea of what I’ve been up to. I’ll […]

Blog 12: Be True to Your Blog (The story of how mike got glared at by Brian Wilson)

Posted 03 September 2008 | By | Categories: Blog, Reality™ Products, Text | 2 Comments

So, I was just blogging the blog-o-sphere yesterday when, all of a sudden, insane celebrity Brian Wilson went to Amoeba records for one of his scheduled “social interactions”.  My friend Ben F. Nyberg sent me a text message saying “hey! mike! you’re great. brian wilson’s at amoeba. *some text missing*”.  So, wouldn’t you know, *some […]

Do you know Michael, the one we call Mike? by Tim H. W. Anderson

Posted 03 September 2008 | By | Categories: Media, Poems by People Michael™ Knows, Tim H. W. Anderson | No Comments

Do you know Michael, the one we call Mike? Now there was a fellow that no one could like! How he’d toss and he’d turn, every night in his bed (Of course I didn’t see it, but that’s what everyone said) And when he awoke, he’d yawn and he’d stretch Just thinking about it, oh […]

The tower without error

Posted 02 September 2008 | By | Categories: Media, Stories by mike! | No Comments

The tower(s) climbed higher than ever before and were fortified of blocks of semi-solid Styrofoam, fully degradable by the upper classes who consider them less than worthy of the praise of higher authorities. A man with a beard about the size of forty had seen his fair share of weather; fairly often he shared accounts […]