#simplemachines

[irisfieldhouse]

We are excited to have Iris Film Collective member AMANDA THOMSON featured in this month’s edition of FILM FRIENDS, presented by Echo Park Film Centre. The series brings together established and emerging filmmakers together online for informal discussions on everything analog cinema.

Season Two’s theme is SIMPLE MACHINES.

The Zoom is on JULY 9th at 10AM PST, and Amanda will be discussing pinhole cinema and contact printing in a Bolex.

Free event! All Welcome! More info and sign up at

www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/events/film-friends-series-continues-july-9-with-amanda-thomson/

Amanda also has some prints for sale in the SOLIDARITY PRINT SALE, a photography fundraiser with proceeds donated to Ukrainian organizations working on the ground in Ukraine including Voices of Children, Come Back Alive, and Vostok SOS. The sale goes live Friday July 8th and runs until July 17th. All prints will be 12X18” open edition, unsigned and sold at $125 CAD to remain inclusive to all.

www.solidarityprintsale.com

[irisfilmcollective]

We are excited to have Iris Film Collective member AMANDA THOMSON featured in this month’s edition of FILM FRIENDS, presented by Echo Park Film Centre. The series brings together established and emerging filmmakers together online for informal discussions on everything analog cinema.

Season Two’s theme is SIMPLE MACHINES.

The Zoom is on JULY 9th at 10AM PST, and Amanda will be discussing pinhole cinema and contact printing in a Bolex.

Free event! All Welcome! More info and sign up at

www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/events/film-friends-series-continues-july-9-with-amanda-thomson/

Amanda also has some prints for sale in the SOLIDARITY PRINT SALE, a photography fundraiser with proceeds donated to Ukrainian organizations working on the ground in Ukraine including Voices of Children, Come Back Alive, and Vostok SOS. The sale goes live Friday July 8th and runs until July 17th. All prints will be 12X18” open edition, unsigned and sold at $125 CAD to remain inclusive to all.

www.solidarityprintsale.com

[shoresdevelopment]

Types of Simple Machines https://shores.rocks/blog/simple-machines/types-of-simple-machines/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ReviveOldPost

[bodhietologie]

➦ Basis Tarif ssD ab 20,- Euro/Monat

➦ https://bodhie.eu/box/index.php/topic,99.0.html

✛ Free Installatión https://simplemachines.org/

[sciencefor]

Word of the Week

Lever: a simple machine made of a rigid beam or rod that pivots around a fixed point, or fulcrum.

#lever #sciencewords #wordoftheweek #simplemachines

[indieephemera]

Postcard confirming my membership in the Working Holiday singles series from Arlington, VA-based label Simple Machines, postmarked October 22, 1992.

I wrote a little bit about subscribing to the Working Holiday series in my last week’s post about a Simple Machines mailer, and here is the confirmation postcard. Apparently I was “Drone #306″ to sign up in October 1992. According to the Discogs page for the box set collecting all 12 7″ singles, there were “approximately 650 subscribers of the series.” So I was a real middle-of-the-pack adopter.

Unlike the monthly singles issued by Calvin Johnson’s band The Go Team (no exclamation point, thank you) on his K Records label in 1989, this 1993 multi-band series from Simple Machines made it past September. In fact, they did in fact release twelve records total, once for each month. Though I do recall many of those releases arriving quite beyond their corresponding months, as is often the case with such endeavors.

However, one teaser here they weren’t quite able to deliver on was regarding a couple of the advertised participants. While Lois Maffeo (”of Courtney Love”) did indeed contribute to the July single, neither Kathleen Hanna nor the aforementioned Calvin Johnson ended up providing any songs to the series. But hey, you probably have more than a few records by those two in your collection anyway, right?

[ashleywelchts]

💟🧘🏽‍♀️☸️ Everything is going well. #costarastrology costar #well #manifestos #packinglists #simplemachines #mantras #affirmations #gratefulness #grateful #chakras #crystals #healing #funfacts #education #learning #meditation #positivity #wellness #healing #journey #tastefullysimple #contactme #consultantID0147921 #0147921 #AshleyWelchTS https://www.instagram.com/p/CObLyBaHQhc/?igshid=1sr1x3n26ru3c

[kieljohnsondrawings]

Shed relocation complete. (Actually might go another 15 ft tomorrow🤔) Worked like a charm. Jack and roll #simplemachines #compoundpriorities (at Shandon, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEna-wsFGRV/?igshid=1art16y5h9qg9

[funtasticstem-blog]

Simple Machines with Legos

Simple Machines with Legos

Today we decided to build simple machines with Legos. The idea came up when we were making a construction site. My son said it must be really difficult for the construction people to carry the bricks up & down all the time! That made think of teaching him about the pulley system. And since we are learning about Pulley why not just get introduced to all the simple machines!

So what are Simple…

[dramzii]

Clase de bocetaje a mano alzada ... #bocetaje #manoalsada #noruler #perspectivedrawing #bocetajerápido #Sketch #shampoo #blender #womanshoes #vintage #handdrawn #art #drawing #quarantine #simplemachines #begginerartist #conceptart #scifi #sciencefiction #pencildrawing #pencilsketch #jtown #juaritoz #iada #mddp #ciudadjuarez #mexico #uacj https://www.instagram.com/p/B_5aOjqFWv0/?igshid=1b8i901a7wts5

[irisfieldhouse]

Iris Film Collective member ALEX MACKENZIE has been invited by ECHO PARK FILM CENTER to kick off their second season of FILM FRIENDS, a monthly series that brings established and emerging filmmakers together online for informal discussions on everything analog cinema. Season 2 features image-makers from around the world in conversation on the theme SIMPLE MACHINES! Zoom in on Saturday, September 11 at 10am Pacific Time as we chat with the guru of the hand-cranked projector, Alex MacKenzie. Free event! All welcome! Sing up here: tinyurl.com/filmfriends2 Support for Film Friends is provided by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. Alex MacKenzie is a Vancouver-based media artist working primarily with 16mm analog film equipment and hand processed imagery. He creates works of expanded cinema, light projection installation, and projector performance which he presents at festivals, underground spaces and galleries worldwide. Years back he ran the Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images, Blinding Light!! Cinema, and the Vancouver Underground Film Festival. He is a founding member of the Iris Film Collective, currently in residence at the Burrard View Fieldhouse in Vancouver.

[irisfilmcollective]

Iris Film Collective member ALEX MACKENZIE has been invited by ECHO PARK FILM CENTER to kick off their second season of FILM FRIENDS, a monthly series that brings established and emerging filmmakers together online for informal discussions on everything analog cinema.

Season 2 features image-makers from around the world in conversation on the theme SIMPLE MACHINES!

Zoom in on Saturday, September 11 at 10am Pacific Time as we chat with the guru of the hand-cranked projector, Alex MacKenzie.

Free event! All welcome! Sing up here: tinyurl.com/filmfriends2

Support for Film Friends is provided by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts.

Alex MacKenzie is a Vancouver-based media artist working primarily with 16mm analog film equipment and hand processed imagery. He creates works of expanded cinema, light projection installation, and projector performance which he presents at festivals, underground spaces and galleries worldwide. Years back he ran the Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images, Blinding Light!! Cinema, and the Vancouver Underground Film Festival. He is a founding member of the Iris Film Collective, currently in residence at the Burrard View Fieldhouse in Vancouver.

[shoresdevelopment]

Examples of Simple Machines https://shores.rocks/blog/simple-machines/examples-of-simple-machines/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ReviveOldPost

[rockholdkarate]

The #rockholdkaratekids class working on the #simplemachines concept of #punchingdrills with @centurymartialarts #bob! #physics #rockholdkarate #tangsoodo #karate #karatephysics #martialarts #karatekids #cedarpark #texas #sharpeningmindbodycharacter (at Rockhold Karate)

[indieephemera]

Mailer/catalog for Arlington, VA-based record label Simple Machines, summer 1993.

This is one of many flyers from Simple Machines in my paper goods collection, as I was a frequent mail-order customer. In fact, I was a subscriber to the “Working Holiday” series referenced here. Subscribers received a two-band, split 7″ single for each month in the year, plus a year-end wrap-up package with a poster, calendar and a nifty box in which to store all that vinyl.

Also listed in this flyer are tour details for Simple Machines house band Tsunami. They were real musical road warriors in their heyday, as every Simple Machines mailing seemed to contain a new batch of Tsunami tour dates.

Another item that caught my eye was the “Simple Machines Tool Set,” a series of affordable cassette releases featuring “music that is insanely great, but relatively obscure.” While I was an ardent collector of the label’s music on vinyl, I was less enthused about cassettes. So I think the only tape I ended up buying was the one by Geek (pre-Tsunami).

However, there is one cassette in this list that has vaulted from obscurity, at least for mega-fans of a certain Seattle grunge band:

no 3  pocket watch - late ten songs by drummer dave (ex-scream and now uh...nevermind, where he plays all the instruments.

Yes, that would be an early solo project by Dave Grohl of Nirvana, and later Foo Fighters fame. And of course this tape has gone from affordable ($3.50 at time of release) to collectible. It was last sold on Discogs a couple of months ago for a staggering 100 times more ($350.00).

[arcadia-tc-blog]

Pegasus Automaton: Turn a crank and this metal pterippus takes flight using simple mechanisms in what mechanical engineers call a closed kinematic chain. In his elegantly crafted automata, artist Keith Newstead uses a crank connected to linkages with multiple joints to translate rotational motion to choreographed linear and oscillatory motions. #exploratorium #kineticenergy #physics #oscillation #automata #pegasus #kinematicchain #pterippus #linkages #simplemachines #maker #physicstoy #kineticart #frequency #phase #periodic #cycles #science #scienceisawesome #techtrends #instatech #technews https://www.instagram.com/p/BwO2XjkoVEf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=co1iforxq9az