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WOooooot…Victor Wooten plays a bass solo live
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Happy New Year, All!
WHAT IS YOUR TOP TEN LIST for 2010?
We’ve been working on many innovations that we’re excited about, everything from very specific product innovations for guitars and basses, to implementing an intern program, to social networking, to visual innovations, and finally uploading a ton of great images we’ve been holding onto.
What are your innovations and aspirations this year? We’d love to hear about them! email us at info@wallpusher.com or just tweet wallpusher.
OUR TOP 10 INNOVATIONS FOR 2010….We are siked to bring you the top 10 innovations for 2010 we’re hoping to bring about at wallpusher this year:
10. A fresh new slideshow of our shop (CHECK!! check out www.shylaphotography.com/slideshows/wallpusher)
9. A NEW easy to find blog (CHECK!! we moved from the old site wallpusher.blogspot.com to our new site with more photos and links at www.wallpusher.com/blog just this week!)
8. Super fun pics of guitar products, kitchen products, AND more at wallpusher.etsy.com piloted just this year…check out our whimsical cutting boards in piggy, kitty and electric guitar, spatulas, rolling pins and more!
7. Created a network to connect “Creatives” (artists AND musicians) to each other and to gigs. “We must hang together, or assuredly, we will hange seperately.” (Ben Franklin) Find more info at http://creativegigs.ning.com/ and creativegigs.wordpress.com
6. Kicked off a new year of interns, with manky skills to learn and job references to get, we are hosting leatherworking, woodworking, and videography interns in 2010… find more info at interntolearn.wordpress.com
5. A big personal landmark: Matthew Rogers, owner of Wallpusher is recovering from shoulder surgery to repair damage from being rearended in 2007, also mending is Margot Garrity, Carving and Marketing Intern at Wallpusher whose congenital wrist problem was operated on for the second time in 2009, so here’s to a healthy 2010!
4. COMING SOON: a music night for all who love to make music or just listen and be in community!
3. COMING SOON: easy payment buttons on the website for our products!
2. COMING SOON: festival calendar for 2010
1. COMING SOON: updated pictures of 72 guitars made this summer
Thank you so much for following us into the new decade, we’re so excited to release tons of new innovations in 2010!
One personal innovation I’ve been working on is cards!
Every month i’ve been drawing up something that helps me to remember and appreciate the time that passes so quickly.
Any memories or ideas of what springs to mind (no pun intended) for the months to come, I’d love to hear your input! Here’s my really quick brainstorm (remember, the Boston area has a crazy weather system, hence my weather related ideas, i’m open to others!!) but i’m embarassed at the cliche aspects:
JANUARY biiig snowflakes
FEBRUARY well, the groundhog of course
MARCH shamrocks are so overdone…what about kites?
APRIL rain, umbrellas, boots
MAY definitely daffodils. Maybe a crocus or two
JUNE That’s a tough one…grasshoppers are underrepresented, right?
JULY patriotic USA stuff
AUGUST whales? Starfish….sandcastles?
SEPTEMBER school bus
OCTOBER pumpkins
NOVEMBER turkeys
DECEMBER reindeer
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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!
Also in Wallpusher news, we have a new slideshow of our shop from a wonderful photographer: www.shylaphotography.com/slideshows/wallpusher
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/
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We love to support and give a shout out to local (and not local– just awesome) creative folks: musicians, artists, artisans, etc. IF YOU or your friends are interested in doing a podcast with us or having us write an article linking to your site, just send us an email and we’d love to help you out.
This week we’re getting the word out for a great swing band: VOTE for our friends “Beantown Swing” if you get the chance…they are a great band that plays locally in the Boston area but has also been featured in film, and played all over. Their progress can be monitored on the Facebook Beantown Swing Page, they need our votes, and deserve them too! Good luck guys!
Now without further ado…
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Wallpusher Photoshoot is Online!!
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.
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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
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This video sets up a very unique and wonderful model of business– the model that accepts that each person is different, that everyone has their own personal likes, dislikes and preferences, and that the products available for us to use, buy, eat, play, have or keep, should reflect that diversity. Wallpusher guitars were first conceived with the aesthetic desires of one player, and then applied to many many different players who wanted instruments that would be unique to them. Just like clothes don’t fit us perfectly unless custom made, so our instruments– our tools for music, should fit us.
Enjoy this great video of Malcolm Gladwell On Spagetti Sauce, found at http://www.ted.com/talks
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Wallpusher wishes everyone happy holidays!
In the next few days we’ll be offering
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New Guitars in the works!!!
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. 
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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 int
o any color scheme. These tables are going fast, and the price will not be low for long! Please contact us at info@wallpusher.com
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Many new basses coming out soon! We’ve been busy the last few month cranking out instruments, tables, spatula prototypes and more. Photos are coming!
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We
had
a great
time at
the
Ipswich
picnic
for the 375th
anniv
ersary.
We met
some
really
cool
people.
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Wallpusher guitars, basses, tee shirts, guitar straps, bags, hangers, necklaces and more are available now from wallpusher.com!!
We’ll be showing at a lot of local craft stores, hurry before they’re gone!!
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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!
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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.
Thanks Soulfest, and we can’t wait
for 2010!
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http://media.townonline.com/gloucester/slideshows/CX_bassmaker_ptw/
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Wallpusher invites you to Soulfest 2009!
We will be showing original handmade Wallpusher guitars and bass guitars, adjustable leather straps, and other guitar accessories.
If you can’t make it to the festival, we are selling products online at several distributors, and direct from wallpusher.com
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