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8
May 10

Hearthrob (The End) Video + 5 Questions with Red Foxx

Hearthrob was a dance night that took place every other Tuesday at the Middlesex Lounge in Cambridge, MA. It was an electro powerhouse set in a small dark room in an unsuspecting city.

After 4 years it ended last week, partly because of resident DJ Red Foxx’s move to NYC. One of the driving forces behind the night, after the cut he answers DPM’s 5 Questions—Talking about the end, a new beginning, and the stuff that happened along the way.

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1) How did Hearthrob begin?
Me, Baltimoroder and Morgan Louis didn’t really know each other, but we all knew Greg Fournier. Greg had a hunch that we’d be a killer DJ team together, and he was right. We made a weird animated .gif flyer, Greg came up with the “Hearthrob” name, we had a Tuesday at Middlesex and somehow it all just worked.

I started making video for the night and Youtube promos, and then things started to really blow up… Later Bloodsugar came on doing visuals, and more recently Morgan Louis retired and Dev/Null joined us as a resident.


View more photos from the last Hearthrob at Zanazazzi.

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29
Apr 10

5 Questions with Pat Falco

Illustrator and artist Pat Falco recently posted his series of “Craigslist Portraits” online for the world to see. Crawling through endless ads, Pat took the best phrases and memorialized them with imagery. The series shows us the strange, funny, sad (mostly funny) things people are willing to write with anonymity of the internet.

Mr. Falco took the time to talk to DPM and answer 5 questions about his series.

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1) Where did the idea for this series come from?
I was just browsing around Craigslist one day, and reading all the personal ads. I was really intrigued by the combination of funny, sad, and disgusting things people would say. It got me thinking about who was saying these things, and it kind of took off from there.

2) What was the process in picking out which posts to elaborate on?
I made a large document of quotes and ads that stood out to me—It ended up being like 15 pages. I narrowed it down to the quotes that stood out to me the most, and the people I thought would be the most interesting to draw.

3) How did you decide what the now non-anonymous faces would look like?
Once I had the quotes I just drew what I thought the person saying them would look like.

4) Have you ever posted a Craigslist personal ad?
I have never posted a Craigslist personal ad, and after reading most of them I think I’m okay with just meeting people in real life.

5) Any plans for another series of portraits?
Nothing planned. I’ve been doing some stuff with dictators, but I think I’ll be coming back to Craigslist soon.

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Check out some of our favorite’s from Pat’s Craigslist series after the jump. You can view the whole series at his blog, and view more of his work at his website.

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