In September 2011 The Flaming Lips’ design and film visual artist George Salisbury went on the road with The Flaming Lips and DeLo Creative, his Oklahoma City “visual generalist” collective. The Lips played seven shows between September 13th and 21st – with stops along the way to unveil the band’s newest music and device, The Strobo Trip Toy at Portland’s Jackpot Records and Seattle’s Sonic Boom Records. George and his DeLo crew filmed it all.
Although little has been revealed about the new mini-documentary, here’s what is known:
- it’s called Roadie Reality
- it has its own twitter account @RoadieReality
- George describes it as “this project we want to bring to life and we’re looking for an agent to help us. Give me a call if you’re interested”
- a preview trailer was edited for DELO #00651 and uploaded at youtube/delocreative on October 12th….
Follow the latest updates at twitter/FutureHeartDay, facebook/TheFutureHeart and futureheart.tumblr.com. Below is a tweet-by-tweet sequence of how the Road Reality project unfolded, including the Portland Strobo sale:
http://twitter.com/#!/DavidBizzaro/status/114107642569428992
https://twitter.com/#!/irreversibility/status/114108365713584128
http://twitter.com/#!/DavidBizzaro/status/114151517812035584
https://twitter.com/#!/RoadieReality/status/114441721827426304
https://twitter.com/#!/irreversibility/status/114441472828379136
http://twitter.com/#!/patrickfchicago/status/115199146226483200
https://twitter.com/#!/irreversibility/status/116160746420830208
http://twitter.com/#!/DavidBizzaro/status/116195690211840000
http://twitter.com/#!/DavidBizzaro/status/116239632265519104
http://twitter.com/#!/DavidBizzaro/status/116244344188575744
https://twitter.com/#!/irreversibility/status/116286462651146241
https://twitter.com/#!/jackpotrecords/status/116193340353024000
https://twitter.com/#!/Crunktacular/status/116268379303706624
https://twitter.com/#!/Crunktacular/status/116340764627312640
https://twitter.com/#!/Crunktacular/status/116341988776869888
https://twitter.com/#!/Crunktacular/status/116298649511804929
https://twitter.com/#!/Crunktacular/status/116342907195244544
https://twitter.com/#!/Crunktacular/status/116301136792797185
https://twitter.com/#!/Crunktacular/status/116342536292941824
https://twitter.com/#!/Crunktacular/status/116304241215287296
https://twitter.com/#!/Crunktacular/status/116343535141261312
https://twitter.com/#!/Crunktacular/status/116304525744283648
https://twitter.com/#!/Crunktacular/status/116343216437080064
https://twitter.com/#!/waynecoyne/status/116336697708527616
https://twitter.com/#!/Crunktacular/status/116344249821315073
https://twitter.com/#!/Crunktacular/status/116344644484341760
https://twitter.com/#!/Crunktacular/status/116332440372523008
https://twitter.com/#!/waynecoyne/status/116344887485546496
http://twitter.com/#!/DavidBizzaro/status/116578986074714112
https://twitter.com/#!/RoadieReality/status/116658456089460736
https://twitter.com/#!/RoadieReality/status/116927840318001152
http://twitter.com/#!/DavidBizzaro/status/119119321678094336
http://twitter.com/#!/irreversibility/status/119422456355233792
http://twitter.com/#!/DeloCreative/status/124259288087658496
The Future Heart 