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Here and I'm here with Hobart Brown world famous kinetic sculpture inventor and racer and it looks like he's got a flat tire. You do a little bit of oil you know after 30 years you know that type of thing happens and you could tell we need help after 30 years I can't do it myself anymore so. Thank you my this thing stuck. That's job is. Sold my better for having OK. Tell us a little bit about your sculpture here. This is as humble as it is this is the actual thing it started the race all over the world now we have 18 races to go if they stretch from Perth Australia which is there all the way to Baltimore too and we have one coming up in Japan we've had one in Poland and it was just after I built this weird looking thing you know which doesn't look like much now but after I built his I saw his great meeting people to see things that weren't necessarily perfect and weren't necessarily Detroit. They're actually for the 99 percent of us who are losers. We have to have qualifying loser chef you know like there's certain areas of leisure that's OK and if you're trying hard you're a
loser my hat's off to you so you're a leech you're trying and so that's what this is about and I think that's what people want to see. Like in Poland that one problem we had I didn't have garages. So we had a horrible time if they build it in their living room so there's this unbelievable need to do this sort of thing live this kind of life to have fun with this life and that's what it's about. And we pull the cork on that bottle. This was this is your first sculpture run in Ferndale when it was just one street one town. Yes it was one street one artist took an hour to go down the street and it broke down. Right now it's in good repair but missing a few parts but they're all at home so we can put those back on anyway. This is the one and this is the Penta cycle. It's absolutely fabulous you know the wonderful job where it was I should have been doing real sculptures you know that's what I do for a living. But I got this urge to fix his tries to buy for my son and that's a seat right here for him which I don't think he'd fit there anymore. Thirty three maybe. Sure yeah.
Anyway these this train was something I would be able to operate anymore but nevertheless it has all the whatever it was in the magic it's in this piece right here is the reason that we're changing the world it will not change the world make it a better place for everybody so we can all succeed we can all have fun so we want to live this type of adults having fun so kids will want to get older. I'd just like to say right now that I want to thank you very much for this opportunity to be with you and to. Share your life and spend most valuable time with you. To be able to write this book or. To do or do thank you Mike he only said that because I'm buying him breakfast. But you're doing well. OK good series no matter. What else can we say. After that. You know I'd like to say this to any inventors out there. We were trying to set
up a world where we can discover your genius We're going to bring cameras from all over the world to see what you're doing. And when you roll your machine out here to Roger your dreams or your ideas we want to get that on camera even if it doesn't work we want to get that we want to share your failures with thousands of people have fun with everything that's what we're about. So our job if we have one is to make sure that we get you covered what you want to be we want to give you attention to get here and help us out. And give you a lot of outtakes. This is the bike that started all this says this is what started it all one lonely night with nothing to do and a desire to do something different and weird when I should have been working on another sculpture I decided to do this. This is what changed the world in a still changing the world in a way we know in the way we know it and in a way that. In the way the world knows it we're here to help the world and have a good time and thus we're both trying to do what we all think the only three that have that were here first half I know get
out and confusing us the byproduct or all these other things. We're here to have a good time. To having fun does help the world. I don't get it you know that thing. I get validation for that everywhere. And also if you watch the news in the US you can see a lot of crime there being as it really tends to get attention. So we need that if we got together and gave each other attention so we don't have to do that sort of thing when it's easy. It's great. To do it. Have. I said. Oh ok ok i. Get it. For. The sort of. Little bit more about the first phrase how. Well that run and work out what actually happened there in town will be the first thing that happened was I built this machine and I wrote down a sidewalk and so other artists that they'd like to do it to especially my friend Jack Mays So we said Anna-Rose some rules so we took the rules we got a plan for the street we're going to go one block long so Jack and I were going to it just as a lark. We found
five others five total. Three others who want to do it also starving artist want to have fun. So they showed up for the night lucky Jagger said Jack what are all these people doing in Ferndale a stager years erased I said what if this was the series they did actually lined up for the freeway there were 10000 people. The newspaper said I'm going to show up in a town of 700 to see this silly race and so you could see where I was in that because you could see where there was such a need such a hunger. For selling it wasn't polished it wasn't perfect. Like this interview we're not sure. We get a little out of hand here Nigel but you're doing a wonderful job. Going to have. That movie Field of Dreams already streamed in. To watch the baseball game to get a connection with the past or something different that's real. That's it you got it. I don't think I'm good is that sort of thing I don't know white except it sounds like it is the fact that it's a demonstration of total faith.
An artist has ideas in their head that won't work but they're willing to try it in front of a lot of people can encourage other people to try their ideas it won't work and I got to be really honest with you I really look forward to them rolling over in the back. And I look forward to the breakdowns because I can relate to that you know because that way my life goes. I spend a lot of time because I have arthritis now picking things up that I've dropped and I'm glad to see other people have the same problems it's comforting. Yeah. Yeah I drop a few things I drop I drop my insurance. Anyway the first race was 1 block long which lasted a little over an hour and. One machine made it and that was Bob Brown who driving a 10 foot turtle with pink polka dots gave a mating call blew smoke out his nose and laid an egg. He personified what the race would be about from now on so we had this same thing happening a show a demonstration as souvenirs for the kids. That was the egg so he really laid down the script for us so each racer I met
on that fateful day the five racers there all added their contribution to what this place would really be like not knowing that there are people who don't speak the same language would understand what we're doing. So that's that's the magic part that just reaches everybody. I love this. I'll tell you what I'd like to see I really plan to break right in there and just write. Well that's a lie just overwhelmed us and Kate went over our head we did I don't know what happened really I just know that I'm here and I know that I will to the death. Fight the philosophy is that it stays the same that I protect this gift whatever it is or this this challenge or whatever it is I'm going to protect you there because long as I'm alive and then then hopefully it'll be picked up by somebody who wants to keep the same philosophy going because this is what life's about we gotta live this life we gotta have fun with it that doesn't mean just be a success and that means in fact don't even think about money put money aside go direct to happiness so people can go to money to get there first but there's other ways go to happiness. I agree.
That he's on his knees but if I get the kind I can't get well it's nearly people like me physically challenge and I say if I was physically challenged when I was 14 and perfectly healthy. But I like to be called crippled hurt you know what for credit. If it's true you know I've learned you know I'm a person who would normally do everything myself I'd say oh don't worry about I can do it don't worry about I'll do that. Well there was a time when I did that sort of thing but now it's a case of where I've got to ask help. I've got to take 15 minutes to get in the car it says I think so actually I have a whole other life now that's so wonderful and I'd have missed it had I not got arthritis I completely missed that I woulda missed the fact that some people enjoy helping you you know and it's really nice if you can help those people help you. And it's just it's been wonderful the discoveries I've made since I got crippled. I was a guy around the one time I ran two months I ran 9 1/2 miles every day. Surely I was a macho could do anything. Go
to sleep five hours work whatever's left. And what that's all gone now now I get to think about it you know it's not a very important part of my life the biggest important part of my life is what's going on right now. And that's where people are helping me and then also another magic thing happened. In Australia the race's been a roaring success because they but they had a thing there that if you're a hero they tend to want to stop you. Well I'm no threat to anybody and I'm incapable of date rape. I mean I'm not dangerous to anyone except myself maybe but other than that it gave me a chance to get their attention in a way that's acceptable because your country has philosophical challenges that are going on there. Francis but we don't want Americans to come in there and change their world and we don't want to but they love us and we love them so it's been really quite wonderful. That I had this. Problem which actually made it possible for me to be in the parliament and work with the rotary clubs in Australia and to help them work on their problem. We gave you a lot of tape generally.
Here on Earth. Before this go crazy I want to be an artist so desperately that I would do anything give my work away I've had it stolen I've had everything happen to it. But I really wanted to be an artist I came out of Oklahoma. I was raised in Oklahoma born local raised part way there is go to nostalgia and came up here. But I found that I wanted to have this big desire need to be an artist now not real conducive to art you know it's there's not a lot going on there in fact the comedian said one time that if you you can't run away from home in Oklahoma because it takes more two days to get out of sight so you know if you don't create it ain't there. So I learned a long time when I would to a preacher I don't even know his name but let's give him credit for this. He went to a Halloween party one time and I was there and he was a preacher a Baptist preacher hardcore Baptist guy really neat guy but he showed up with one shoe painted painted gold and it means so much to me to see that adults make a fool out of himself so much so now. I have carried his message to making thousands of people feel
like. I'm after. Anyway so then after that I finally got to be an artist in the race came along is something else to basically have three careers. I had a career of a building and it's been restored which gets its attention in a gallery. I have my career as an artist now so I have a sculpture a so those three things rule my life right now and that's what I'm here for I tried being married I'm not good at it. I would blame them but they outnumber me. So I had to go. I'm not good marriage material but I'm still looking. Anyway I can imagine a marriage of somebody who's passionately involved in something could be very difficult you know unless they were as passionately involved too. So. Anyway so now my life is absolutely one of I'm 65 years old. I born in 1034 a Pisces in the year of the dog. And I really I am everything that that sign says if you read it. I was born at 2 a.m. for us that means that a rising
sign is that a terrorist Sagittarius and Leo Moon in Pisces together you wind up with a weirdo. You got it. He's here in front of you. Are you talking about me again. Yeah Michael you know I was there today we have the curse of having talent. And what happens is that means that we see all the versions the way things could be done or they may not be acceptable all of them so sometimes we get in trouble and sometimes we do great things. So I hope the public out there forgive me in fact if anybody knew in the 60s I want to ask their apology I want to apologize. I'm really sorry presented things I didn't said. They forgave me thank God judge watts then who is a wonderful person who helped us so much and oh just so many people that were involved in helping it had the foresight to know that this area was starving. We don't have anything going we don't cut trees you know we don't catch fish in the morning. I mean we do a little bit but we don't do much and so things have changed. The one thing we do have to offer is we're
a town and a community is having one hell of a good time and we want to share it with the world on the summer. And the winter hours. So don't show up in the winter. No that's not sure if you are the weird you know I think that's the time when it was fun going doors and have a Halloween party and have a Thanksgiving dinners and and you know up here in the trees in the rain and everything is so beautiful so wonderful. Yeah yeah when the road closes and the boats can't get in the airport's closed I mean you know we're here in the northwoods the wild North Woods I want to take a picture of yourself in there BE OK I'm going to go into our. Oh I wrote two letters. This is fate. I wrote two letters I wrote one letter to my dad and whether one letter to my cousin. And I said I'm out of L.A. I don't care where but I'm getting out of L.A. Is there anything there for me in Oklahoma. Is anything there for me in Northern California. And so my dad really backs it want to come up and help me with my
CDL Actually it was his name. Kelley was my chandelier store and I told myself I would not be the towns that I learned like aircraft mechanic wallpaper hanger service station attendants auto mechanic. I learned all these trades and the idea that I would do it I'm going to be an artist so I can't you know I was a decorator in the chandelier place and I said that's good for me I'll be here and he helped me and so that was it was two letters otherwise I wouldn't enter a share. So it's kind of I love the irony. That has put us all together in fact his whole interview right now is because of an accident and I think it's so wonderful we got it when we got a problem it's a chance to be a hero or so when you see a problem coming too that's a chance when you can really do something wonderful. Well you can learn something but if your problems are what we had this lie for so you your problems are really blessings and purpose goes right along with that is the cure of all diseases. OK now look like you're really going fast. That's what you're going to be doing. A couple more you know than you know a girl who had it so we
did double duty here. OK thank you. Anyway that this is good interview thank you is wonderful. Those are good questions too by the way because a lot of people don't know that I've never said that before about how the two letters have anything. This. Year. Yeah. Yeah I'd like to say this I'm very insecure and the first time I went on television or radio I was scared stiff. But I knew I had to do it. So I took singing lessons. One on one singing lessons and it didn't help me as a singer. You don't hear me saying that but it helped me feel confident Also I was on a fill in a film called Salem's Lot and I was James Mason stand in. And so I learned how to work with a camera right in your face or wherever and I got very comparable with it where I could go on talking about what I want to talk about. And so that those things have been really helpful to me now each one of those could be considered a problem. Like for instance being afraid to go before a microphone or something you
just enjoy getting over it you get through the PA because on the other side something wonderful. So when you've got problems you've got blessings there writhing Oh my goodness is one of the new problems I got pain I ran down I'm going to do it. And you don't say I gotta go get the money you say how can I do something to get the money or how can I get the rent paid. That's the main thing sometimes a trade will do it. Sometimes. Back rebel do it. You know. Who knows what it takes but consider all the other options and consider cash is the last one. Yeah. We all do and that's another world that's not our world our world is a con contribute as much as we can to make the world a better place to see the visions we see to be comparable to be one to take care of people in fact if you check all the good guy operations they'll all be spun out of some creative thinker and takes regular people are two types of your all important that count is extremely important but they also are in their own place
and we all have to be in our place and we have to learn it communicate with each other. And incidentally the race in Ferndale there were farmers there and there were artists there. Now that's a span pretty big span. But the Sculpture Race is kind of like racing farm equipment. So we had a bridge there all of a sudden the farmers were involved in our race and I think it was in an art of it. You know they thought existed and then but nevertheless that was that was one of the things that came out of this the by products unbelievable the things that come out that the kids that come up who have no life and nobody's noticed their eyes just get bright when they think they were going to look at a witness to a camera what they've done we're going to they put two wheels together we'll film it and we don't care where they go to not we want to film it. And so I think that's where we're going to really do a lot in making the world a better place. Responsible gives it makes us responsible. And. As you know creativity without responsibility can be get pretty gross. We have examples at all to the art world.
But there is that there are good ways to get attention like this. First. They were they are more akin to this race than really the artist in a way. Because when a farmer breaks down he doesn't go to the store to buy the part. Especially if you know home because the store is too far away. So you figure out a way to fix it that might require bailing wire it might require a box it might require cardboard you know who knows what it might be a need a jar but you're looking to see what you've got and how you can fix it and you'll come up with something has never been done before. So I can't go to a junk yard just drive to a junkyard I mean it's painful because I can see all the possibilities of all the things that are there. And so I know we see that in a toy store. Yeah it's a toy store and it's like everything to be turned into something that a friend of mine once went to a hardware store he said something I hope I get to a place where I come in the hardware store to buy the part I need instead of something he has going to do something else. The part was designed for something else.
There's a lot of alcohol in me. In fact my formal outfit is overalls white tie and tails and a top hat. Come a well-dressed okie. I like being called a well-dressed okie. Terrabyte we were rich we came in with two mattresses on our car. Actually I came and lived in the palisades of all things so here's this little oak you not grammar schools that have my name. I'm from has Oklahoma. I learned all about prejudice. What does that mean. I'm part owner I'm assuming like this. Art critic. Yeah. There was a guy just drove by with a racing stripe on the hood in that truck there so and he Kaakha Kaakha. So we assume that he's something nice. You know I got to tell you this some people because we having fun some people are very threatened by that.
They think we're drunk or on drugs they don't know that having fun is something in itself. And what we say then we say don't stand up thing judges haven't joined us. And she has and you contribute I know you have to contribute. When and leave it does will be the surgeon to remove it from. Here the mast right or we will pull it out of you to show. You. Actually it was a it was a kind of a most as I would come at fourth grade Oddly I was coming here part time there part time so I went to two schools I was in Los Angeles schools which are much easier than Oklahoma schools. And then there were times where when and when I finally got to about the I believe was the sixth grade. I moved out here permanently and I would go back there on visits only. My dad was up here he was living in Los Angeles at the beginning and then he moved to San Francisco and got a divorce from my mother and he moved. He met his new wife there as he will in live death here so that's how we got to humble County. So he opened it he was an
electrician very good when he became electrical contractor cost media electric heating your Eureka so he had a store that sold light fixtures and he was also an electrician. So it really were. Good. Right. Yeah. Well. That's neat What do you think of it. Yeah but it sure did a lot to make a lot of people have fun or else people have Oh that's neat. Good for you good for you thank you for helping. Thank you yeah yeah I'd like to I'd like know later how to get ahold of you or something if you're in on the first one. Where you got race. When did you get the race or were you spectating. Yeah. Yeah I too had a railing on the race. Oh. Yeah that was it that was it.
You're as rare in that rare it happens at your age. Yeah see there's somebody who saw it and now he's a he's a communicator I mean he's a ham operator he's ad his talent to this race. That's a perfect example of how this works where our arms are open to whatever you do. If we don't have a job we'll create one but if you have some town or something like right now I'm looking for interpreters and you Japanese interpreter Spanish interpreter a German interpreter in a Polish interpreter. And these are the people who we expect people from. And we want to have them wear the flag so that people that come here will be a conference and can get any information that might be technical they could get it down. It's another way of noticing the artists that are here. In their own language. I mean we sound like we're really good guys we are having a good time. This is totally self-serving you know. But it just happens to be one of those days where your self-serving it benefits others and thank God is that way instead of somebody who does it the other way. Like some of the great leaders who attend their self-serving hurts other people and say I want to slam some of the corporations the corporations you think the bottom line is that that's wrong.
That's so wrong it isn't the bottom line is how you can service the highest orders how they can serve and so I would hear companies like big power companies and people like I want to start saying here we are this year we give you this gift we're going to lower it so that if you're on a fixed income we're going to give you power anyway. In other words green green is ugly. I don't care what they say it's ugly. And we just can't have it got to be able to. The companies have to come back to what they can do to make the world better not what they can do to make more money. Let's take that to the full If you take that to for example where would leaders get money. Let's say we all figured out we'd figure out ways we don't need trust anymore we don't need to think elsewhere we just get money. We all get our money now of the new IT. Are done they get money to. Do the creative people make and get money we get them get money well have money we walk around always with his money. And what we can we spend it on nothing. There won't be any ideas won't be thing done unless it has money in it. So it could be a pretty ugly world if it wins. So I want to warn us now. For God's
sakes don't be greedy. If you make 10 a man with 10 million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars so money is not going to make you happy. So if you if you've got a bottom line of you made thirty thousand dollars and get 30 to 15 at it back to somebody if you don't need it I can't go in a nonprofit organization where the leader made 2 million dollars a year. That hurts so bad. Why did that may I'd like to hear the second phrase that I gave a million of it back. But that hurts when people do that they think they're smart that is a smart that's dumb it's a waste of our time waste of their time and I hope they get what they want. Tons and tons of money but don't hurt anybody in the process. Anyway sorry about that. I wanted to say it now I'm in a place from not politically aligned to get her Green Acres. There's only one thing to me and that's my life and I'm not saying that's bad either. Take the big old map you know. But I'll play the game I want to play the game. Make as much money as necessary only
and then if I get the access I'll put in what I'm doing I'm a living example of what I do. The race in the past five years owes me twenty seven thousand dollars I'm not going to get it. But I don't care because what is out in numbers and I say $25000 while I do this that every house no it won't give us what we've already gotten this whole interview is about. I spend it wisely. And we're helping a lot of people had a lot of fun. We're making our partner live work so. The money makers need to be there but they need to be they need to be kind and generous. You know how you know what happens if you eat food you don't. Let it go through your. Kit constipated you collect money don't let it go through you're going to get constipated. Yeah yeah well you know at least you know helping things I guess is what it's about and we're not good at my us face it I mean as admit to that right now we're not good at money we're good at creating thought in creating illusions and fantasies that people live for and live
by where the world of a whole different thing altogether and so that we need to be supported for that because if we take the time to make the money will be just like them. And it would depend on some other country to show us entertainment. There was a story once that happened here there was a Russian boat goes out here off the harbor and a sailor jumped overboard on the Russian boat as well really American boat they say Why'd you do that you're always going to be killed or whatever some bad things are going to happen to you. And so he said I came here because YOUR MUSIC IS SO PRETTY looks like you're having fun. I thought wow that was an intern for example. So we win wars by and we want our war because we got a good way along. With Don't let's keep it going. The way it is. Anyway we're all together we're tripping. Specially the big companies where there's a lot of artists out there are really doing a lot of great work. In addition to Hobart. Everybody out there is kind of a full wallet. I mean you know what good does it do when you.
Need to open up a little bit and start participating buying Somerton for you know artists here in doing so you know we enhance the reputation of the art itself that you purchase which is going to bring more people into the area which is going to mean more money for you for open your wallet a little bit you know it or you can back your safety valve though there you know if you're a wealthy person you like something that's important you like it and if you support it you'll get more of what you like. It's a way to buying your opinion and if you will do whatever you want we'll try we'll try work cohesively I love I love to do commission work because I'm bigger than myself they ask you to study I mean I want to do it I get why do you want to do it and it works out really well so. Anyway that's the safety valve or the fact that maybe do it wisely because their eyes out there who are there are charlatans who would use art as a gimmick I'm going to ask them to be smart about that. Hopefully they will. It's the ones that really have altruistic leanings or
they help in everything else. You know it not a record you know but it does help. That's out west where funding comes from. Stations like this. We need your funding. If we didn't do we'd have the funding right now to pay that Cameron that woman who donate your time probably we wouldn't be able to put this on right now which might be enlightening to even you even you think that money is the answer to everything. I was a commercial when that really very much. Oh hello there. I hope you're an adult having fun so you want kids you want to get older. I don't want you to know I say you adults having fun so kids will want to get older. So getting older is fine I think. Too bad you can't be sure the race was in our way or we'll fix that. You know. It's strange is bizarre. Yeah. I'm.
All right. I don't know where. We had a few bumps. I got bruised a little bit. Of home are in your process unfortunately but I'm back I just the universe. Let me here you can call it God the universe. Anything that you want to hear and I knew that he needed my help and there isn't anybody else on this. Anybody else on this planet who deserves more help in home or Bruno thank you. We went through a weird spot but you know what. Right now because we have the races because of him. And another lady by the name of sherry there to step forward to help run the race things I can't do anymore. And if so there you go one time he might be so weird joining back in town the next thing you know he's running the most important event in Canada so we gotta look deep into everything can't just take it at face value.
Anyway it's it's wonderful I'm so glad we got to save you to care. And thank you guys Channel 13 it's been really nice to everybody a lot of the arts and put on a lot of programs that can't be put on any other way. Like we said before realize that everyone is self-serving first. That's OK. Providing it's the by product and the outcomes serve others as well. So there's a. Win win situation and I think you guys got a win win. And ST is a good friend and I we've been together forever. And he's just been a wonderful person so I can help in ways of donating sculptures and things like that which I can do not money but I can donate sculptures. And Michael is writing a book about us right now and it's his artwork and my story. Some of this will be on it and it's going to kind of tell the story about it's going to be a formula for living how to deal with hate how to deal anger how to deal with jealousy how to deal with some of these problems how to deal with success how to deal with being pretty I think good with how to deal with being famous. I'm really offended by that. Yeah
a lot of people I saw at the demonstration in England with the pop right here where they call it. Come on if you're famous you're going to have that. A few years ago she would beg for it then later on it was terrible. Anyway that's the way of people get to express anger and be careful with anger if you people lead you with anger that's what Hitler used. He got everybody angry at one phase so he became a leader of that group so your anger could cost us the whole country. Let's look to that anger is the one thing that he that is just really fear. There are states not succeeding. They're not living up to what your parents want to hear of all kinds of things who take care of those who he so if he joined us. Here at us he didn't join us. We're sitting here and we're talking with Mark Brown the famous Kinetic Sculpture Race in center and famous artist here and in Ferndale and Eureka I'm working on it. And we want to make sure that. If you want programs like this to continue you
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That's a chance that we've got here we're so lucky this was a depressed area 30 years ago I was the only art gallery in town. And I was just going to be a studio in my friend's case you know show my paint show my paintings in fact. I lay by the name of Viola McBride who was my mentor who helped me endlessly she wanted so much for the areas Time believe all the major of all she said what I show her nude paintings so they wouldn't show me where I was I said of course. But they would show you new paintings in the area because they thought it was progress. I said want to work mind going take a warm glass of wine and a lot of things were you going to turn it into that. Anyway I showed her work and became a real good friendship and she's helped us know and she's the reason I'm in Ferndale right now. So there's a lot of people and you know what I was going to have to leave their street in Eureka and I thought oh no I can't leave after that from now on it is the big city this is it. But then I realized in my horror my new problem I realized that I'm moving to a town it was a ghost town I had no idea it would go like it did. And they were playing basketball in the streets in
Ferndale with 27 empty stores and stores till closing. I didn't think enough of myself to go that my impact would allow others to come in and do what they did or you know just being having the faith so to speak and she had the faith and I got up in her face. So that's why we're in Ferndale now and it was now we think we think at first I thought Eureka and I thought Kabul County. Then I thought the state because we're one of the 18 important events in the state of California and then I started taking over the country not thinking world. It. Just has to start somewhere and it might well be Ferndale. Reading about it are you doing. It. Good thank you for doing this out he put in your archive don't they went away. Please feel free to mutilate if you were never write whatever you want to give you those sound bit about commercials with cunts. I mean on camera there because we can stay here. You know of no effect. You know.
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Hobart Brown Interview
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KEET
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KEET (Eureka, California)
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An unedited interview with artist Hobart Brown in Ferndale, California. Brown discusses his philosophy on life, art, and how he came to create the international Kinetic Sculpture Racing phenomenon.
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00:45:22
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Interviewee: Hobart Brown
Producing Organization: KEET
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Identifier: 1228.0 (KEET TV)
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Generation: Master
Duration: 01:00:00?
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Chicago: “Hobart Brown Interview,” KEET, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 30, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-426-14nk9bdk.
MLA: “Hobart Brown Interview.” KEET, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 30, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-426-14nk9bdk>.
APA: Hobart Brown Interview. Boston, MA: KEET, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-426-14nk9bdk