The Art of Bleeding http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog Emergency Medicine for the Unconscious Mind Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:29:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Halloween Highway 2 Photos http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheArtOfBleeding/~3/Is6ianiPwTc/ http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3745#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:52:08 +0000 Abram http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3745 Catching up with some unpublished photos from October 2011 — from the car crash show with celebrity “Trauma Tales” and blood wrestling at the Steve Allen Theater (10/28,29,30).

Multiple sets with photos by Phil Glau, Jessica Verm, Jon Alloway, and Miles Actually.

Please enjoy responsibly.




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]]> http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=3745 0 http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3745 What We Did with our Nov-Jan Vacation http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheArtOfBleeding/~3/TGQPNw_DQng/ http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3685#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:41:51 +0000 Abram http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3685 ana-gutierrez

Maybe you’ve noticed: we tend to overextend ourselves.   Not only does this blog cruelly stimulate and occasionally sate your need for medical curiosities, but it does double duty promoting the tenuously related activities of The Art of Bleeding Magic Ambulance crew.  Squeezing in hours to actually produce those ambulance shows can itself be a distraction from blogging.  Anything beyond that, and something gives.

That’s when the blog goes black.   Immediately after our “Halloween Highway” gore spectacular, your humble blogmaster was summoned away by a past that just won’t quite stay buried.   You see, The Art of Bleeding’s absurd spectacles are genetically related to those of The Cacophony Society, a national cabal of pranksters and eccentrics, which is the subject of a recent museum exhibition, which I, as former wrangler of the Los Angeles lodge, was called away to help curate.

It was a mad rush, allowing no time for blogging over even organizing the Art of Bleeding appearance at the exhibition opening February 4.  Our ambulance performance this time round was of a highly ”improvisational” nature, but we’ll be back with something more… errr, organized, at the April 7 closing party.

In any case, we’re more or less back, and below are some pictures from AoB’s participation in the event. Photos below are courtesy Curious Josh, Lee Joseph Publicity, and The Orange County Register.

(Note: The giant fetus depicted below is from a Cacophony/Art of Bleeding collaboration, the “Prenatal Emergency” installation at Cacophony’s “Museum of Mental Decay.”  Here it is in situ.)

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]]> http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=3685 0 http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3685 Art of Bleeding Appearance at Museum Exhibition http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheArtOfBleeding/~3/e4EOQPZngUo/ http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3675#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:15:17 +0000 Abram http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3675 Cacophony Society Zone Show at GCAC

Art of Bleeding will be performing at this event which by its very nature has raised objections by the Department of Homeland Security.

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]]> http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=3675 0 http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3675 Association of Mouth & Foot Painting Artists http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheArtOfBleeding/~3/slE0zMveO-c/ http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3517#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:52:29 +0000 Abram http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3517 vdmfk

In our  latest Art of Bleeding show, Abram the Safety Ape makes  reference to the evangelical quadriplegic artist Joni popular in the media in the 1980s. Obscure?  Possibly, but not to the members of The Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists representing 726 artists in 74 countries. We had no idea!

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]]> http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=3517 0 http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3517 Publicity Shoot for Halloween Highway http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheArtOfBleeding/~3/E4heNeZLeQ8/ http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3630#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:59:13 +0000 Abram http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3630

In the whirl of prepping last weekend’s show, forgot to post these extra photos from our publicity shoot in The Art of Bleeding ambulance — before we broke out the blood. (PHOTOS BY PHIL GLAU.)

 

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]]> http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=3630 0 http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3630 Video from 2006 Car Crash Show http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheArtOfBleeding/~3/Tat1DLQJQgM/ http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3522#comments Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:42:07 +0000 Abram http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3522

This Halloween weekend Art of Bleeding will be returning to The Steve Allen Theater to present an enlarged (“inflamed”? “engorged”?) version of our 2006 Halloween car crash show.   This excerpted video, shot by Chuck Cirino of Weird TV, should give you a taste of what lies in store for guests of our 2011 extravaganza. The man with the mic is one of our returning perfomers Danny Shorago of The Fuxedos, America’s favorite apocalyptic comedy art-rock band. Music is “Gambled and Lost” from  The Art of Bleeding’s Music from the Magic Ambulance.

 

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]]> http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=3522 0 http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3522 A Bloody Rehearsal http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheArtOfBleeding/~3/mFPcx730GYo/ http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3633#comments Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:36:19 +0000 Abram http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3633  

Here are a few more photos from this weekend’s publicity shoot for our upcoming show.  After the bloodbath, that is. (PHOTOS BY PHIL GLAU.)

 

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]]> http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=3633 2 http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3633 Fantastic Voyage Trailer http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheArtOfBleeding/~3/B8-Ga1Rpcj8/ http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3434#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:32:01 +0000 Abram http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3434

It’s 1966 and three men “and a girl” (Raquel Welch in skintight wetsuit) explore a vaguely psychedelic soundstage representation of a macrocosmic human body.  Physiology can be fun!

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]]> http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=3434 0 http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3434 The Gory Details Audio Archive http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheArtOfBleeding/~3/hp63ijjaebo/ http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3530#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:25:52 +0000 Abram http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3530

This Halloween weekend as part of our event at The Steve Allen Theater, we’ve invited some of your favorite comedians, artists, and underground personalities to share macabre stories of their own grisly medical incidents. This is actually a continuation The Gory Details Project, our attempt to create an audio archive of true first-person stories of medical emergencies.We began collecting these stories in 2006 using a dedicated phone line and also occasionally parking our ambulance on public streets and using costumed nurses to corral passersby into our mobile recording studio. More recently, some of those stories became the basis for a series of videos.  (More on that later.)

The 100+ recordings can be streamed here. If you don’t like clicking on streaming links every 2 minutes, a selection of some of our favorites can be downloaded from iTunes.

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]]> http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=3530 1 http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3530 More Creepy Puppets on Child Safety http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheArtOfBleeding/~3/y0G9jImiIok/ http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3550#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:03:50 +0000 Abram http://www.artofbleeding.com/blog/?p=3550

Creepy puppets on creepy parents. Someone please tell Tim & Eric about this.

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