Well, WELCOME! just moved our blog here from wallpusher.blogspot.com and we’re so excited to be on our own URL! Looked online and found 325 ways to say WELCOME http://users.elite.net/runner/jennifers/welcome.htm That’s a lot of ways. We’re so happy that you’ve come to visit us, and keep coming back as we update!
A picture is worth a thousand words, but these photos are priceless!
Wonderful shots by a phenomenal photographer, Shyla, these were from Our first brainstorming session about how to capture the guitars on film….and Look what wonderful images emerged—thank you Shyla!! If you love guitars, wood, music, art, recycled or “upcycled” creations, and gorgeous photos, you’ll love the Wallpusher Guitar Slideshow by Shyla check out Shyla’s blog, which also details her amazing talent behind the lens.
She did a great job of capturing part of the process….and making these beauties stand out. The photo below also illustrates our adjustable strap really illustrate the adjustable strap’s potential for players…they can be seen online at our Wallpusher Etsy Shop. As always, below is part of the team brainstorming…if you’d like to brainstorm with us, or join the team, check out our upcoming events…we LOVE to share ideas and talk shop!We’re also looking for a space where we can host a music night, let us know if you have a space or know of one! Wallpusher guitar innovations: made by musicians for musicians. Handmade basses and guitars of recycled wood by musicians and artists, craftsmen and woodworkers, your Wallpusher is designed to offer more options on stage, more playability off, and helps music making be more fun, more organic, more yours. Wallpusher adjustable straps, guitars, basses and more can be found at www.wallpusher.com, wallpusher.blogspot.com, and http://www.etsy.com/shop/wallpusher Special thanks to our amazing photographer, Shyla, find her work at www.shylaphotography.com she has amazing talent with images and people, and is a talented photography artist we would recommend to everyone! Thank you Shyla for your wonderful work! Thank YOU bloggers (and all who watch this slideshow) keep posted as we update our sites, and keep an eye on new innovations, events, photos, art, music and projects as Wallpusher updates our innovations to the world. REMEMBER: With Wallpusher you can save time, headache, money, AND become the musician, the artist you want to be. With Wallpusher: More playing, more music. http://www.shylaphotography.com/slideshows/wallpusher/
We don’t really care what you call it, Wallblogger, or Blogpusher, or that Cool Striped Bass blog…the old cliche is true: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”….and it would be sweet if you share our blog with friends…get the word out about this project, and keep an eye out as we post more events, pictures, projects and adventures that you will definitely want to take [art in. As always, thanks guys for reading!
Now without further ado…
It’s official! We’ve entered a new decade, and Wallpusher has many hopes for the musical innovations we’ve been working on since the LAST decade, and intends to share them this year in 2010.
I guess you could call that a resolution, right? To share our innovations with as many as possible, online and in person? There are just too many people out there who have been facing the same frustrations we’ve been facing when it comes to playing the electric bass and the electric guitar; let’s all get together and do something about it!!
Have you ever been on stage, or even just playing alone in your room and realize that your instrument is holding you back? That its shape is not right for what you’re trying to do? Of course! There is a certain point for every musician where you just hit a wall because your hands are doing the right things, and tripping over the controls, or the shape of the body, or the neck. Even worse, there isn’t any guitar or bass YOU CAN BUY that will solve your problem. It just doesn’t exist.
When we got to this point, we said, That’s enough, we played and tinkered and invented and dreamed and built and tested and perfected, and FINALLY found solutions to our problems, and we’ve been making basses and guitars ever since. We are resolving for 2010 to get these solutions out there, because we all need solutions, we all need community and an open forum where we can find the tools to help us play the best we can.
What are your music resolutions for 2010? Are they technical playing goals or general networking and performing goals? We’d love to hear about them, here on the blog or emailed to info@wallpusher.com
We’re developing a video post that will detail the steps that we take to make our handmade guitars from recycled wood.
Here is one critical step: designing the laminates before we glue them together so that hard and soft woods will be integrated together to produce the durability and sound quality that you need in a real quality bass.
Offering prototype tables for everyday use, storage and teaching options. Event better than art to hangs on the wall is an art surface that can be used daily—a great way to maximize your space efficiency and give your house, studio, classroom character.
Of course we use ours for surfaces from rendering art materials, to installing electronics in our guitars, to sewing guitar straps! The best products are really those that someone decided to make because they didn’t exist…and these tables are exactly that! If you don’t have any space on the wall, or move a lot, these light, beautiful tables are really just what you need to be more efficient and productive.
We have been making furniture, guitars and other artwork for 18 years. Don’t spend any more time wishing your house, classroom, or other spaces were more space efficient, order an AFFORDABLE table from us! Made intentionally with attention to ergonomics and space efficiency. We have designed several tables with different artistic sensibilities, and can create one customized to a design you give us. Or we can make them to fit into any color scheme. These tables are going fast, and the price will not be low for long! Please contact us at info@wallpusher.com
Wallpusher JUST got invited to show guitars, basses and other products at the 375th Anniversary for the town of Ipswich.
Sunday August 9 at 2pm, Wallpusher will be downtown with the re-enactment parade of Ipswichites to show their innovations in instruments, guitar straps, bags, jewelry, sculpture and more.
Please feel free to join us at the Ipswich Celebration, we’re looking forward to seeing you there!
We had a great time at Soulfest 2009. Thanks to all the amazing people that made the festival possible, and invited us to me there. We were so pleased to experience the creativity of many artists, and loved sharing our basses and guitars with people at the festival and we’re looking forward to seeing many of you again at the upcoming music nights hosted by Wallpusher.
Wallpusher has been in the news, the radio, online…and is now coming to a music festival near you for summertime music playing and creating.
Look for Wallpusher at the summer festivals in your area, including Soulfest in Gilford, New Hampshire July 28-31, the Eco-Festival in Ipswich, and others. We’ll be giving out free tips for DIYers on making your instrument help you play better, straps that keep you comfy on stage or off, with easily adjustable heights for soloing, and the dependability of leather and metal.
Wallpusher also hosts music nights for people to try out our guitars, share music, and just enjoy creating together in a free and safe space.
We’d love to see you at some of our events, please check out our calendar at http://www.wallpusher.com/ click on the “events” tab, and please email us if you have any questions at info@wallpusher.com. Thanks and enjoy!
An audio slideshow narrated by Matthew Rogers, owner and designer of Wallpusher Guitars.
Wallpusher was so glad to have the opportunity to integrate music, dialogue and pictures into this audio slideshow of Wallpusher guitars featured in the Cape Ann Beacon.
WALLPUSHER INTERVIEW: Matthew Rogers and Jacky Ankeles
Wallpusher is dedicated to freeing guitars from their conventions. Listen to Matthew’s description of his journey as a musician, an artist, a woodworker, and a luthier, leading to his creation of Wallpusher.
Long awaited…the wallpusher blog. What is wallpusher?
Wallpusher is an independent business focusing on the intersection of the aesthetic and functional, with the purpose to make things that should exist; things that are not only beautiful, but also things that are asking good questions and trying to make new solutions. That whole process is design, is architecture, is art — they’re all integrated. The design and production that happens at Wallpusher is about breaking preconceived notions, and offering new ways of thinking in tangible products that honor the intersection of the aesthetic and the practical in products that can provide that which we’re all thinking of when we go to find that one special solution.
Local Artist Matthew Rogers and owner of Wallpusher holds The Diploma of Fine Arts from the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston, and 15 years of experience creating art professionally. While Rogers has 15 years experience building custom furniture, bookbinding and gilding, he specializes in guitar design and fabrication. Original handmade electric bass guitars and guitars. Great quality sound, prototype neck with better reverberation, custom hand grips for easier playing, higher quality and aesthetic pleasure than anything you can find in stores. Wallpusher is located in Ipswich, MA. Please call 978 500 0495 with questions, or to make an appointment to visit the shop. Wallpusher was recently featured in the Cape Ann Beacon and the radio show North Shore Now 104.9. You can see a slideshow of the fabrication process or hear an interview with Matthew Rogers if you follow the links below: http://www.wickedlocal.com/gloucester/fun/entertainment/arts/x1001334438 Check out our ideas and work at www.wallpusher.com
This blog could be a great place for dialogue about music, art, or any big questions at all. To be continued…
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