From 1992 to 1994, I was the editor of this fine, lo-fi school-funded anthology at Massachusetts College of Art (MassArt). It was nightmarish and sort of fun. The name FORTY-3 apparently lived on for at least a short while after I left... maybe the incoming freshmen didn't realize that I'd made up the name and thought it was some thing "official", I dunno. The five issues I put out included contributions from Mister Reusch, Paul Alix, Jack Purcell, Matt Smith, and lots of dudes submitting under assumed names. As for my personal contributions to the issues, I had a recurring storyline comic called Bughouse (later renamed to BUGHAUS after some dude put out a "real" comic called BugHouse). - Tom (The Artist Formerly Known as Goat) FORTY-3 is out-of print and rabidly sought after by indy comic fans around the world.

Labels: 1992, 1993, 1994, Comic Projects, Massachusetts, MassArt, Matt Smith, Mister Reusch, Published In

A music video project I made back in '93 or so for a class at Mass Art. The song is my old band TALLER THAN gOD, and the video is sort of boring (but sort of neat looking too) footage of Josh, re-videotaped off of a screwed up TV set. Some nice video feedback, too. The audio sync is all crazy and wrong.

Labels: 1993, MassArt, Music, TALLER THAN gOD, Video

TALLER THAN gOD's first real show. Manchester, New Hampshire. January 2nd, 1993. The Empire Theater, which seemed like a condemned building with a PA setup. Straight, terrible video footage cut together in After Effects because I was bored this afternoon. The sound quality is surprisingly good, considering. I mistyped "Shawn" in the credits. My apologies!

Labels: 1993, Music, TALLER THAN gOD, Video