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David Menestres
@abstracttruth.bsky.social
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Destroy the original. Fax the images to Newark.

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3 frames of 250D from back in September.
A scan of 3 frames of 35mm film. From the left: 1) Two cars in a driveway. The closest car is yellow similar to the part of the garage we see. The car behind it is green. There is someone sitting in the yellow car's driver's seat. 2) Parts of two houses, the closest yellow and furthest green. Behind a bush there's a slightly blurry person walking almost out of frame. 3) A dark shadow in a dark kitchen seen through a white screen door surrounded by a small part of the yellow house. The image is rotated such that the top of the door is to the right.
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
screen grab from video of the incident. Dude dressed up like Max Headroom wearing sunglass is laughing.
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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12/12 at @shadowbox-studio.bsky.social

@thecaribbeandc.bsky.social
Day for Night (Danny Finney, David Dominique, me)
@lalitree.bsky.social

$10 at the door
8pm

2200-D Dominion St
Durham NC
Show flyer, all text in post. Image is a detail from a 35mm photo of an open door in an old abandoned building on belle isle in the James River, RVA.
November 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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This t-shirt also a highlight.
White tshirt hanging in the window. Black text reads "Acid Jazz Saved My Marriage."
November 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Triptych of that dip shit GWB getting a shoe thrown at him.
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Nicole Mitchell & JoVia Armstrong celebrating the 60 years of the AACM last night.
November 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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True words
Underneath a bridge, way up high on a concrete support, it says "the cake is a lie"
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Early Went Blind
Drew Davis (Crazy Doberman etc)
November 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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My Subvert "certificate of membership"
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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And yes, Marty is playing an iMac G3 running Digital Performer 3.11 as some kind of live interface. For the nerds in the back with tape on their glasses who care about such things.
October 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Weston Olencki
October 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Jordan Perry
@gorgonparis.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Birds in the Meadow
Marty McCavitt, Pippin Barnett, Johnny Hott
October 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Good morning from this painting of me that hangs in my house and which was started by the artist years before we met.
Painting by Emily Vaughn Brown. It's some kind of being in space? surrounded by and composed of abstract shapes.
October 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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One week from tonight.

Fish Tank Improvised Sounds series

Matt Dixon
Cloud M
David Menestres

Studio Two Three (Southside RVA)
Monday 10/27
8pm
$10 notaflof
Show flyer. Text reads: Fish Tank Improvised Sounds Matt Dixon Cloud M David Menestres Studio Two Three Monday 10/27 8pm Monday $10 suggested donation NOTAFLOF
October 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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I'm gonna be rich one day.
Screenshot of an email notification. Text reads: You've got money from Bandcamp David Menestres, here are the details. Hello, David Menestres Bandcamp Ventures LLC sent you $0.73 USD
October 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Pleased to once again be a citizen of Europe. Very open to opportunities over there if anyone has any leads.
A European passport
October 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Attempts at digging out the invasive privet in the front yard are going well.
It's a shovel that's been snapped in half.
October 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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15 November
Circle Thrift RVA
8pm $10 notaflof

Jack Wright & David Menestres
Enchantress of Bioluminosity
Birds in the Meadow (Marty McCavitt etc)
Show flyer, all text in post. It is an abstract geometric image with a red overlay and multiple black bars/lines/shadows. The text is presented in a teletype type stream, as if it repeated endlessly, three lines at the top with venue etc information, three at the bottom with performer names.
October 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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28 October
Test Run 11

Weston Olencki
Day For Night (Danny Finney, David Dominique, me)
Jordan Perry @gorgonparis.bsky.social
Birds in the Meadow (Marty McCavitt, Pippin Barnett, Johnny Hott)

Southside RVA DM for address
$10 cash/venmo at the door
Show flyer, all text in post. Image is something that looks like a cyanotype of a window (it's not).
October 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Dude in the parking lot last night sent me this clip of me & Tatsuya Nakatani from 9/28/24 at The Warehouse RVA. One of the few gigs in the last 12 years I don't have a proper recording of.
October 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Glenn Johns
October 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Will Mullany & @jasonmccray.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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A small clip of a five channel work called NOW from 2015, which I saw at the Jewish Museum in NYC in May 2018.
October 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM