Zow Gow: Works By Tim Buchanan

Opening Reception: First Saturday Art Crawl: February 7, 2015; 6-9pm Blend Studio will be hosting a multi media exhibition by Tim Buchanan aka Spun Counterguy for the month of February. The artist will be available on the opening night of the First Saturday Art Crawl. Artist Statement Zow Gow all started when my niece asked me to join her in playing with some Play Doh. We made a bunch of stuff but after inspection, I felt our new friends missed just one thing: headphones. In time I thought about how it’d be cool and unique to create an imaginary world that centered around DJs, I being a sub-par DJ myself. I began jotting down story ideas based on my own experiences and those of other DJs I knew, with a little otherworldly outrageousness thrown in and then started making some short films. I took the name ‘Zow Gow’, which is a Chinese phrase that one says when one is frustrated or maybe akin to a little kid curse. Like ‘Dang it!’ Literally it means ‘rotten cakes’, which I think my little DJs and their fans look like sometimes.