Kal from the Seemen's Wild Ride

These vids from Kal Spelletich's personal collection comprise a mini press kit/ documentary of sorts on the San Francisco based founder of kinetic pyro performance pranksters The Seemen. Beginning with a clip shot in Austin TX from Richard Linklater's cult classic "Slacker", we enter Kal's offbeat artistic world. Enjoy some interviews and footage from the late 1990's of Kal's SRL inspired interactive fire spewing toys from "Machines for Removing Desires", with Dana King on "CBS Eye to Eye with Connie Chung", and an obscure Russian TV show. You get a glimpse of the man, his machines and bits of the philosophy behind his performances. Footage includes interviews from his Butchertown live/workspace and The Lab on 16th Street in San Francisco.

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Science & Technology

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• Kal
• Spelletich
• Seemen
• Slacker
• robotics
• SRL
• pyro
• fire
• ConnieChung
• gadget
• mechanics
• electronics
• burningman
• linklater
• TheLab
• violent
• interactive
• machine
• art
• kinetic
• sculpture