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N o v e m b e r   2 6,   2 0 0 7 7 Questions for Herbert Hoover on Unbeige click banner for interview.
	M a r c h   1 2,   2 0 0 7 Art-O-Mat on the Rachael Ray Show The community machine from Utrecht on 4th Ave and 11th Streen in NYC was hauled over to the Rachael Ray Show for a fun segment on vending machines. Rachael has a mild episode of vending rage. My cracker is on top, but has unfortunately fallen over so it's a bit hard to see.
	F e b r u a r y,  2 0 0 7 Impulse Buys section of Jane Magazine Crackers featured on the under $25 page! Get them on the Objects page.
	J a n u a r y, 2 0 0 7. Art-O-Mat limited-edition artist book released. The first in a series of Art-O-Mat artist books. Each page of the edition is original art created by a participating A.I.C. machine artist. Click here for the press release.
	J a n u a r y,  2 0 0 7 Art-O-Mat article in Winston-Salem Monthly (click for full story) 10 years of Art-O-Mat! Can you believe it? Check out the picture of Clark with Herb's cyanotype inside the machine. Herb created the faceplate specially for that Art‑O‑Mat machine.
	N o v e m b e r  /  D e c e m b e r  2 0 0 6 Art-O-Mat article in Arrive Magazine (click for article) Nice Piece on the Art-O-Mat.
	N o v e m b e r  1 5,  2 0 0 6 Art-O-Mat article in Detroit Metro Times (click for article) At the other side of the spectrum sits Herbert Hoover's Cracker series. Hoover may be a talented pewter caster — he made the new knobs this Art-o-mat sports, but here he shows the worst of what happens when artists create factory-imitating products. Each "Cracker" is exactly that — a saltine dipped in pewter. —Steven Darson They say all press is good press, but this guy really hated my work enough to suggest dipping real saltines into molten metal. Unfortunately, anyone who tries this at home in Detroit will get a face-full of exploding pewter lava and a trip to the facial reconstruction unit at the local burn center. Seriously folks, never put anything into molten metal except more metal! I'd also suggest preheating the cold metal before adding.
O c t o b e r  2 6,  2 0 0 6 Art-O-Mat Machine at SECCA (click for museum website) SECCA Art*O*Mat machine with lavender cyanotype by Herbert Hoover. The faceplate will be on exhibit inside the machine for three months. After that, it will be auctioned by SECCA to help fund the museum programs.
J u n e   2 3,  2 0 0 6 PBS story on the art*o*mat. (Quicktime) (Windows Media)
O c t o b e r  2 6,  2 0 0 5 Art-O-Mat article in The News Tribune (click for article) With my first $5 token, I get a brown box marked "Cracker" by an artist named Herbert Hoover of Harlem. Inside, folded in nifty silver bubble wrap, is an unmistakable Saltine cracker, cast in pewter, a neat-o bit of pop art to be served with Andy Warhol's soup cans. -Jen Graves, The News Tribune What is Art-O-Mat? Art*o*mats are retired cigarette vending machines that have been converted to vend art. There are about 76 active machines in various locations throughout the country. (click here to find an art*o*mat.)
O c t o b e r   2 0 0 5 Blue Man Group moves their show, including my zoetropes, from the Luxor Theater to The Venitian Theater in Las Vegas.
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