Posts Tagged ‘League of Troubled Souls’

Help The Vikings Make the Acid Tongue and Get an Awesome Shirt

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

The Acid Tongue

Last week I put up a post about the Acid Tongue that myself and Viking Jason are building for the Lakes of Fire event at the end of June. We’re making awesome progress on it and I honestly thing it’s going to far exceed our fairly high expectations.

But this project isn’t cheap. We’ve already spent over $1500.00 on solenoids, sheet metal, angle iron, hardware, propane, plumbing for the propane etc. We foresee at least that much left to spend. So we need to come up with a way to help cover some of our costs.

In service of that Jason has designed a bad ass t-shirt design that you can get your greedy little mitts on. The design is, obviously I assume, the image posted at the top of this post.

For a minimum donation of $25 to the Acid Tongue project you will receive a t-shirt. You can use the donation button below if you want to use PayPal. If you want to make other arrangements of cash or check you can email brian at hunterthompsonfilms dot com and we can work something out.

We really appreciate and really need your support. Thanks for considering!!

OH! Please specify adult size(s) for the the shirt(s) you want!!


The Acid Tongue

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

devil-front

One of the reasons we have been a bit remiss on our show recording is because Jason and I have been knee deep in developing the most recent project for The League of Troubled Souls, our metal art venture.

We’ve received a Grant from BURN, the art arm of the Chicago Burning Man community, to build our most recent monster, The Acid Tongue. The short hand description of the Acid Tongue is this: a user puts a mask on their head. The mask is wired with a microphone. The user screams acerbic insults into said microphone. The input from the microphone runs through a computer running MAX/MSP which registers decibel thresholds and, when certain thresholds are met, sends a signal out of the USB port into Eric Singers MIDITron which then opens solenoids in sync with their amplified insults. The solenoids, if you haven’t figured it out yet, dump plumes of propane across pilot flames causing big ass pillars of fire to pour out of the mouth and eyes of a 15′ metal devil head.

devil-side

Over the next few weeks leading up to Lakes of Fire I’ll make my best attempts to keep you updated on our progress. We’re shooting plenty of video and will be posting that and, eventually, have a full cover of the inception to realization of this nasty little beast. Right now I’ve posted the sketches Jason made conceptualizing it. By early next week I’ll have some photos and video to tease you out as well.

If you’re anywhere near the middlewest I highly recommend you get your ass out to Lakes of Fire. This will indeed be the shit.