brian hefele's untidy space

With a final goodbye, The Silver Spring Penguin is now defunct. A big 'thank you' to Jennifer for the work she's done in providing us with this amazing resource. Hopefully the community will pull together to bring something new to fill the gap. Silver Spring will miss you!

A few days ago, four to be precise, a fellow by the name of Eric San came to the Gallery Lounge in Silver Spring, MD. We all referred to him as Kid Koala, however. His thing is taking a handful of record playing machines, and using them as instruments instead of simply playing records like a normal person. He takes this to pretty extreme limits, often having a handful of other DJs with their own turntables playing as his backup band - turntable bass, turntable drums, etc.

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This shot of Wayne Ave. should be for an editorial cartoon, but I'm unsure if the idea is really there yet… Regardless, here's a little peek at the drawing of Wayne that I'm working on.

Also, I think I'd like to make a nice 4x6" papercut of that bus shelter, perhaps with a patron in it…