I have this odd hobby. I "work with" rock bands. I'm not a manager. I don't handle PR. I'm not sure what to call it but I've been doing it since about 1980. I make little novelty items, wearable pins, weird promotional stuff (sometimes with ideas or creative energy stolen from Fluxus). It also fits with some of my work in advertising (developing and managing "brands"). So I've been working with this interesting band of mothers (not to be confused with a band of brothers), Candy Band, who turn nursery rhymes and kid songs into hard rockers. I've been doing their website for them since they started ( www.candyband.com ) and also have started managing some of their backdrops and stage "settings" (I have mentioned this on fluxlist before). Mostly I have tried, through the medium of their daily blog and little email manifestoes to get them to think of themselves as being more than just a rock band, but a larger project about EVERYDAY LIFE. So far so good. Today they were featured on a 10-minute segment on NBC's Today Show (big morning time news/events program here in US). You might find it amusing. Your humble servant also appears in this clip for about .35-seconds, in front of a stage backdrop that the kids had just spray painted (I'm the tall kid with a big blue dot on the back of his black t-shirt). While the mom's were unpacking and setting up their equipment, I got their kids (aged 3 - 9) to grab a bunch of spray paint cans and graffiti up the backdrop. Came out pretty cool, but was definitely dicey letting kids that young operate spray paint cans.
See a replay of the clip at: http://msnvideo.msn.com/video/default.aspx?replace=f14e2317-198c-491f-8344-4d973486fa2e,3247c7da-917d-409b-8371-bc317d7451a2,20c24e9e-6649-4d4a-8b5b-463b103b0e13,13889bca-fd17-4446-aef2-5538bc44b722,c3470e58-31cb-4ea7-b8fc-da411c396397,5809f72c-1752-4b4c-a2e0-311bfb2e63fa,ac1b0127-6c9c-4e43-96ad-dc96642f9cf1,cdf06c0f-2586-47be-bcf0-3694d1f2ecb9&autoStart=0 NBC is all in cahoots with Microsoft ("MSNBC") so it requires you to use a MS Intrernet Explorer browser to view.
