ALTERNATING CURRENT REVIEWS

A list of online reviews of our website, books, music, and all things indie that we produce at Alternating Current Arts Co-op. If you have a review or find one online that we don't have listed, send it to us, please and thank you.

[Reverse chronological, newest on top:]

Confessions of a White Hat by Ed Galing in Chiron Review, Small Press Review, and Free Verse [ours]
Confessions of a White Hat by Ed Galing in The Somerville News [ours]
Confessions of a White Hat by Ed Galing on EdGaling.blogspot.com [ours]
Alternating Current on 45 Nation [ours]
temperance in moderation by leah angstman on Nightwaves [ours]

LORI NIX: ARTIST OF THE WEEK

Lori Nix is an amazing artist of a strange degree. We like cool new twists on projects, and she is no exception. She makes tiny miniatures of natural disasters, her homestate of Kansas [really the entire state as one large disaster], collapsed cities, bizarre landscapes, and faraway imaginative places... and then, she photographs them with stunning photographic quality in a successful attempt to blur the lines between truth and illusion in photography. She is exquisite.

[Photo credit link]

PUBLIC EVENTS CALENDAR AND ACTIVITIES LISTINGS

WE WANT YOUR EVENTS:

The idea behind the public events calendar [see it] is that it is a directory of events for you, of you, by you. We want your artistic events, so let us know what is happening in your area, no matter how big or small.

Each listing on the calendar starts off with the closest largest city, if the event is not nationwide, so you can see at a glance if the event is applicable to you. The arrow in the upper right of the calendar screen gives you a dropdown key of calendar subjects by color, so you can narrow the calendar down to show only events that are important to you.

This calendar is a free, great, public place to list your artistic, social, political, or scientific event. Here's how:

Email us with:

• Closest big city to the event, if it is not national or Internet-based
• The who
• The what
• The where, as exact as possible
• The when, including time and time zone, and if the event repeats, etc.
• The why
• The how
• A copy of a flier or photo, if you have one, and photo credit name/link
• Any links/contact info where people can go to find more info
• Other necessary info: cost, 21+, sponsors, parking, etc.

Your event will show up as soon as we can upload it! We do reserve the right to refuse to list someone's event if it doesn't comply with our standards, ethics, or general overall good-for-the-peeps gut feeling, but if you're being cool, then we probably won't refuse it. Send in as many as you want (but please check to see if they are already listed, first! No repeats!)

ALTERNATING CURRENT IS NOW ON FEEDBURNER

We have a new profile/feed on Feedburner. Check it out, feed our blog to your hungry reader, and support independent art, thoughts, and issues.

Alternating Current on Feedburner.

NEW EVENTS CALENDAR

We have incorporated a new events calendar into our sidebar. It will feature all kinds of events, color-coded by subject [click on arrow in top right of calendar to see a dropdown list of all subjects]. You can subscribe to the calendar or individual subjects within the calendar, and it will be updated constantly. The calendar is accessible by clicking on the calendar in the sidebar, or by following the link below.

VIEW THE CALENDAR.

HELP US OUT BY DIGGING US

Love Alternating Current? Want to spread the infection like the virus that it is? Then Digg us. We have installed a new Digg button in our sidebar and on our individual posts. Here's how it works for the technologically-declined:

If you like our entire page, click the Digg "submit" button in the SIDEBAR.

If you like an individual blog post, click on the TITLE of that post, so the blog post is given its own page and url, and then click the individual Digg "submit" button within that post. This is important to do if you are just trying to Digg a certain post, so the individual url is what gets "dugg."

The more people who Digg us, the more people find out about us, so help a brutha out, huh?

NEW FEATURE: CHAT LIVE WITH ALTERNATING CURRENT STAFF

We have an awesome new feature on this blog, and soon on our website, as well: chat live with staff and co-op members of the Alternating Current Arts Co-op (aka [AC]^2) from this blog. Visit the section in the sidebar that says CHAT LIVE WITH [AC]^2 STAFF. Click on the name in the chat bubble [connected to our most active account] to speak to an Alternating Current staff member about any topic, question, concern, posting, etc. that interests you. You cannot choose with whom you speak; whomever is currently on the account will answer your comments.

NEW FEATURE: YOUR DAILY CRACK

This is the beginning of a new feature we are going to have on this blog. It is a listing of cool news, events, history-making stories, links, videos, and ideas that intrigue us each day. Sort of a Digg or Reddit-style list of our favorite articles and links containing some awesome information for each day. You can find this set of monthly constantly-updated links by visiting the search label YOUR DAILY CRACK in the label [WHAT'S YOUR DRUG OF CHOICE?] box in the sidebar or up at the top of the blog. There will only be ONE post daily, and we will update it with new links, added to the top of the list, in no particular order except reverse chronological of how we found them and posted them. It is going to be a sweet little mini-news feed [yeahyah! get your RSS feed on!] that will hopefully keep you coming back to the blog, clicking on YOUR DAILY CRACK in the sidebar to see what you've missed, and reading what we consider awesome and newsworthy but perhaps don't have enough time, research, knowledge, or overall interest to delve into further for a full-on blog post/article/story.

DO check it out. You WILL love it.

REVOLUTIONARY OF THE WEEK ARCHIVES

Jeremy of The Poets Encyclopedia [Featured 2.8.08]

Zana Briski of Kids With Cameras [Featured 2.15.08]

Take Back My TV [Featured 2.22.08]

Operation Phoenix Zine Archives [Featured 2.29.08]

Retrievr [Featured 3.14.08]

The Story of Stuff [Featured 3.21.08]

ARTIST OF THE WEEK ARCHIVES

Jon Strongbow [Featured 2.13.08]

Peter Callesen [Featured 2.20.08]

Mike Libby [Featured 2.27.08]

Chris Jordan [Featured 3.5.08]

Walter Martin & Paloma Munoz [Featured 3.12.08]

Various Artists of used tire art [Featured 3.19.08]

Lori Nix [Featured 3.26.08]

NEW ACTIVITIES FEATURE

In our efforts to keep this blog current, important, and a source of reliable and instant information, we are making a necessary and cool change to one of our sidebar navigation links. The link for "Activities," which used to list all activities - past, present, and future - that had been marked with that label, is now only going to feature fresh and current activities. Once an activity has happened, we will remove the label "Activities" from the post, and it will no longer show up under "Activities." This will enable everyone to check out what's happening right now, instead of being bogged down with events that have already happened and having to fork through the current and past ones. Each post will still come up under its other labels, so the post will definitely not disappear completely from navigation, but this change will enable the "Activities" link to become a more vital part of the underground events scene.

POSTS FOR SEATTLE, BOSTON, AND MICHIGAN

For those who don't know our history and are wondering why Seattle, Boston, and Michigan are getting all the posting love - and why they are the only ones with actual sidebar navigation links - here is the 411.

We started as little spuds in Michigan - Lansing and Detroit area - where we took over the scene with our company back in 1994. In 2004, we moved the whole bad ass machine to Seattle, where we made some of the most amazing connections on this lovely planet. This past September, 2008, we just moved the machine across the country again, this time to the Boston/Cambridge area, where we have set up shop, probably permanently, on the East Coast.

We have loved and supported many artistic movements throughout our time, but none moreso than our original and adopted hometowns. And we will continue to lend our voices and support to the art movements in those areas, seeing as a large majority of our own supporters come from those regions.

We do and will support people from everywhere, every walk of life, every art endeavor. But, going back to our roots and staying true to our past, Seattle, Boston, and Michigan will be the only places with their own sidebar navigation links on this blog.

End of story. Glad you asked.

NEW NETWORKING AND SUPPORTER LINKS IN THE SIDEBAR

FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK, WE SALUTE YOU!

We are all about networking and linking to our supporters. We have dedicated a new space in the sidebar called CHECK EM OUT, YO! that is dedicated to providing links to people who have helped us out or who have been involved in our projects. Please take a moment to browse through this supporter list every day to check out the newly added salutatorians.

If you think you should be added to this list, email us with your name, your project if you have one, a short blurb, and links to all your sites. We will not, however, just accept anybody to this list of links; it is reserved for supporters of Alternating Current and those who have engaged themselves in tremendously awesome projects.

WEEKLY BLOG SIDEBAR FEATURES

As part of wanting to keep you coming back each week to see what's new [new items may be posted daily], we have added two features to this blog that will be updated weekly: an art of the week feature and a profile revolutionary of the week spot along our information-laden side panel.

The art of the week spot will feature a different piece of art each week, the piece's title, the artist, and where to go to find out more information about the artist. This profile feature will change every Wednesday. To be considered for this space, email us one piece of art, the title, the artist's name, and any links that go along with that art or artist. Because we are not selling the artwork, you may submit work you admire by others, and it doesn't have to be your original work; it does, however, need to be works from the underground or contemporary probably-lesser-known art. We aren't going to feature Monet or Van Gogh or Renoir.

The profile revolutionary spot will feature a different personal profile each week of a person who is doing something artistic, social/political, or scientific to help better the world in an awesome way. The profile will feature a short blurb about the person and where to go to find out more information about the individual or the project. This profile feature will change every Friday. If you would like to be considered, or you know of someone who should be considered, email us with a short blurb, the person's name, the project's name, and any links that go along with that person or project. Think outside the box on this one: s/he doesn't have to be your run-of-the-mill typical artist to be considered.