11/15/05 • Cold wind blowin in. Hey all. We've got the cold Chicago days! Whew. Head down, walk quickly. All kinds of new projects are abound. • Mick has finished a second gallery of objects rendered from Rhino 3d. His final project- crafted in paper from his 3d object- is "finished, but not photographed." • Brian is stiiilll changing over the servers! In between calls to various support companies, he was heard to remark "wow... who thought networking code , web authoring and search engine optimization would be difficult? you know? Heh" • Herc T-shirts have just arrived, but in limited quantities! Do you like it awkward? • Doug continues every Tuesday night at Superstatus now celebrating 1 year at Bettys Blue Star Lounge. He has a new track called "SQZ" in the swagon music section and on DubSoundSystem • And oh yeah the wednesday night Jeffs snapped off another ditty, bound for late night marketing. behold.
11/1/05 • What happened to 2005, Glen? Changing of the servers, pt2. Brian rolls out the swagon server for a better faster three-point-oh. Mick is currently enrolled in a 3D modeling class in which his final projects are built from paper. Mike Finch is cleaning up another short film reprising Tiff, the arrogant party boy.
10/02/05 • HERC defies death! Accordion rock duo HErc, celebrated another variety show. with J+J+J and the real Bohus Blahut. With all that, their new website is up too! check the awkward fun: here . The variety show has some suprise guest appearances.
9/20/05 • StationWagon also pondering a Macy's buyout! September ends, fall rolls in. HERC had a variety show over the weekend in support of the DeusEx Machina festival- Brian will be suppplying some clips soon. Check the funny: http://www.pattonoswalt.com
7/20/05 • OMIGOD its almost Back to School 2005. What that means is its almost August and what have we been doing? Well, 1. Our friend Mick O'Dwyer just got married at the end of June. Congratualtions to Mick and Annie! Woot to Oak Park! 2. Due to the perils of Chicago heat, we've been hiding and updating the movie pages from a bunker 3 miles beneath Steven Speilberg's ego. Plus Mike's new shorts are all up in web form.
4/23/05 • SALON Miniscule has Mike Finch new shorts! Of the previously mentioned onslaught of new shorts Mike has been finishing, he has managed to edit a feature for those dudes at Dangerous Time Productions in his off time. And he is busy updatin and creating a compilation of his movies.
4/12/05• “2005 is about results, Glenn" And as we cap off the first quarter of Aught 5, a stunning new StationWagon DVD is in the stages of compilation. Mike has a slew of new shorts currently readying for web preview. (and his own comp DVD to boot!)
1/17/05 • “2004 is blue printed, closed down, wrapped up, and thrown away.” A few of the gentlemen have weighed in on lists of 2004 here. Doug has finished 2 new music videos for Lusine. You can see the web previews here and email dug for a DVD version...
| Lusine's “Still Frame” | hi | lo | pc |
| Lusine's “Autopilot” | hi | lo | pc |
6/2/04 • "Sure its legit." Weighing in heavily for our broadband peeps...Here we have another StationWagon web premiere! Mike Finch and Mick O'Dwyer have posted their new short! Check it out here!
5/22/04 • Revving up the Market Mike and Mick finalized their new "International Winners Market" and its set to Premiere in a web browser near you in a couple of weeks -- (we're thinking June 1) Also, friend of the Wagon, Paul Velat prepares a summer tour of his Lord of the Yum Yum and with him he's touting a new DVD of live performances and compositions, co produced by Brian and Doug. You've seen the footage here, now you can get it all in Full Broadcast quality! Wahoo. with extra DVD goodness as always (extra jar of mustard not included)
4/21/04 • Holy Françis Bacon! Brian has posted a sampling from Paul Velat's recent music recital- an interactive piece, entitled
4/19/04 • Loop-able. here is more abstract from the Circuit Breaker himself. A short segment for our Bohoosh premiere, Doug compiled some blendable beats with images.
4/8/04 • Lost and Found. Brian uncovered a long lost disc of samples he worked on with Doug for an unnamed company (who still uses our work and calls it their own- grrrr) It was a longform piece for Cuervo alcohol that played around the US and eventually won us the ambiguous "Best Longform Industrial" at the Chicago International Film Fest in 1999. (yes, its that old) Too bad Mick's original voice over work isn't included. Brian on graphics, Doug on cuts: check it.
3/29/04 • Working out the kinks. website rehaul in progress. Music section is still under construction. The site is now improved with ClickableImageMaps (sniffle and push glasses up nose)-- some of the pics to the right reveal bonus movies! Click away; and drop us a line if your interested in a DVD.
3/19/04 • Awesome Music Stuff!!! Local gents Brian and Dug are helping to produce video portions of Paul Velat's upcoming music recital of new and ongoing compositions. Come, let’s use our ears together...
3/18/04 • Mike is headed back to New Mexico to continue shooting a feature entitled "Ironwood" with director Francis Kmiecik and his production company down there - DangerousTime. Mike said the film is a kind of roadtrip comedy. In addition to co-producing, Mike's character "Tan" looks ultra classy in a turtleneck and 1988 cell phone. More info about the movie, Check their website
3/1/04 • A new Dawn of Microtechnology After a generous gift from our local benefactor - Dr. M J O'Dwyer, Esq. - we all have some fancy new digital cameras. So if you see us catching your attention without having anything to say, listen for the beep and say "eat it chussy". Check the raw page here.
2/29/04 IWM and more YumYum Mick and Mike are putting the final touches on a short entitled "International Winners Market". Doug and Brian taped another Lord of the Yum Yum show a few chilly weekends past at Lincoln Lodge's Friday night variety show. A preliminary edit:
1/26/04 • SuperStupid Shakedown After a sweltering eleven months of service, Doug is sad to announce that SuperStatus is pulling out of the spot at 1056. Management's asking us to fake the funk, and we just can't do that, folks. So...January 29th (Thursday) shall be our last function on the weekly tip until further notice. Come and get wasted with us, it's fun! I can promise lots of cheesed out 80s tunes for this night only! As well as a healthy dose of dub, funk, and hip hop. Also, mark yer calendars for Friday, March 5th. SuperStatus and Phonograph Scientists at Cafe Lura (Belmont and Elston). B-boybusiness to the utmost, seen?-dug
1/19/04 • 2004 is about strategic use of hard drive space.. Current projects are beginning to roll. Mike and Mick are currently searching for a location to their next short, "preferably something that doesn't have a Chicago feel." Doug and Brian are working with Paul Velat and his Lord of the YumYum project on a visual piece for his school recital in late march. Brian is also busy trying to get every little thing StationWagon has contributed to or created in the last few years, up on the web. Doug has moved his Lord Dubious and SuperStatus night of dub, funk, and hiphop to Thursdays at 1056 N. Damen (just south of Division) with his holme-roasts Chuck Love and The Graduate.
12/26/03 • On the 2003 out tip. We'd like to wish everyone who helped support the Wagon a hearty thanks. (we don't shake hands during flu season, sorry)
9/22/03 • There it was. Wow. Thanks for the support! The "Hardly Ever" premiere party at Heaven turned out great. We showed a program of our newest shorts- including those by Eric Fensler and Doug Lussenhop- to a packed house. Reactions ranged from, "I really liked it, great job!" to "I have had a boss like that, some of those scenes hit a little too close to home." to "...completely new characters, those acting lessons really paid off." and finally, "you guys are the greatest ever - here's a ton of money for you guys so you can do this full time and not have to worry about day jobs because they can sap your energy and StationWagon is awsome and..." - or at least I think I overheard someone say something like that. Thanks to Mike for design and printing of the inserts for the DVDs, and to Brian for the long hours put into making them. (ending with him waking up at work, at 6:30am, disoriented, sweaty back, and disc ejected from tray) - Mick
9/20/03 • All the DVDs are gone! We dropped all of about 40 DVDs on Saturday night. But we're still making more. So, if you have the time and requisite funds, Request here for a 3-disc set with a lovely, sturdy outer casing, custom-prepared artwork, and linear notes in one language! You get:
thats $20 for all 3. or pay-per-disc at $8.We're only trying to finance dinners and equipment on the independent film tip. truth.
9/13/03 • Internet Premiere! (whisper) Hey students, Doug chose the Swagon.com server to bring you his new music video. Circuit Breaker and Municiple composed the track while attending the Great Wall Conference in Bejing.
9-7-03 • Hardly Ever screening! Yep, its done. Heaven Gallery will help us host a series of new shorts with Hardly Ever in the lineup:
Saturday / September 20 / 2003
at Heaven Gallery
located in wicker park at 1550 North Milwaukee on the 2nd Floor.Chicago
We're hoping to have DVDs on sale too. Old and new stuff. Come out and help the cause for "of funny" and "of art." It starts around 9:30 and the suggested donation is $5.
8-14-03 • New track from Dubious 'n Municiple. Doug would like to take a moment to thank everyone for the kind feedback on the "juju" piece. Now, some freshness for that assss. "Leakeeport" is the next shit straight from Beijing with my main man Municiple. We worked out this track our bad selves on the other side. Here's the track. Video soon to come. The still should be over there on the side somewheres. Oh, and don't sleep on Super Status--Every Sunday 9pm-2am--1056 N.Damen--Dub Funk HipHop, brought to you by Lord Dubious, Chuck Love and the Graduate.
8-5-03 • Here comes the NEW. Well, for all those asking: "Hardly Ever" is finalized and in duplication. Mike and Mick are finalizing a short they whipped together one saturday morning a few weeks back, called "Day Seizer". And behind his machine, Brian is readying various forms of DVD to give out new and old material. Oh yeah...and we're planning a party. Stay tuned.
6/14/03 • more Yum Yum Brian and Doug caught Paul Velat's Lord of the Yum Yum performance that kicked off a big show on friday night at the Prodigal Son bar. "He ripped that shit up."
4/19/03 • brand new face. Okay, so this is the newest version of the revised and upcoming "Update Theater" here at Stationwagon. You need Quicktime™ 5 or better to view the movies in the window here at the right. By pressing the PC links, it will bring up (hopefully, but not yet extensively tested) a player for Windows Media™ files. email us, if you're having troubles (related to our site, anyway).
4/10/03 • Whats that a picture of anyway? Mick O'Dwyer has launched a new page this past weekend, called Mind of Mick, for his random thoughts, opinions, and general brain dump.
4/8/03 • Bang up job, everybody...Really, just...everybody. The weekend was chock full of somethin. Herc hosted another variety circus- this time at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. The Technophobia vs. Technotopia Version 3 fest went to town with laptop-madness™ in a huge theater at the heart of the MCA
Mike said "I was a rock star for about 6 days there. And we'd do it all again in a heartbeat."
3/15/2003 • Wow. Paul and Mike of Herc were asked to set up another variety show at the Museum of Contemporary Art for the Version 3 festival coming at the end of March. Stunned, but excited, Mikes reaction was "I think were doing the Mayor Daley victory party next." More details on the way.
Doug- aka Lord Dubious- with Chuck Love and The Graduate are doing a funk/ dub/ hiphop set weekly over at 1056 N. Damen, called SuperStatusSoundsystem, from 9-2 on Sundays. They just released a 2-disc comp called "Tasty Business" Check it for downloads and email 'em for a disc.
Word is that "Good" will be playing the Image Union circuit twice in April-- the 13th and 18th at 11:30PM.
Brian is refining the filmlook on "hardly ever" and getting ready to show some finals. "Im trying for end of March," then later added, "eek."
2/03/03 • Woohoo! The world television broadcast premiere of Doug Seay and Paul Gordon's "Good" is just a couple of weeks away. Set to air on February 16, 2003 on Chicago Channel-11, WTTW's "Image Union" at 11:30pm. Their selection was invited after its inclusion in the 2001 Chicago International Film Festival. Dug says "Hey talent is as talent does, now get off my case." Paul was unavailable for a response.
1/29/03 • The first Herc Variety Show went down just before Christmas 2002 at the back of the Prodigal Son Bar in Chicago. Brian and Dug captured what they could on DV.
Brians trashy camera work and clipping audio aside. For those of you who couldn't make it, his camera captured these moments:
(oh yeah, everythings in Quicktime. Let us know if you want bigger files, or WMV files for PC) here.