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Al Ridenour (AKA \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Reverend Al\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) is the director of The Art of Bleeding a multi-media performance troupe providing darkly comic faux-educational programs in first-aid and safety at clubs, galleries, and art events. <\/span>Staging shows from an actual ambulance, The Art of Bleeding creates a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153paramedical funhouse\u00e2\u20ac\u009d wherein puppets and Saturday morning-flavored costumed characters mingle with decidedly less wholesome elements. The group\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ambulance also functions as a mobile recording studio for their Gory Details Project, in which true-life tales of medical trauma are gathered from passersby and shared online, often interwoven with original audio and video.<\/p>\n From 1991-1999, Al served as the Los Angeles \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Grand Instigator\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the Cacophony Society, a national network of provocateurs serving as prototype for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Project Mayhem\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Chuck Palahniuk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Fight Club<\/em>. <\/span>Under the banner of Cacophony, he orchestrated hundreds of darkly absurdist culture-jamming spectacles ranging from the detonation of a pyro-charged 80-foot replica of Disney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <\/span>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Small World <\/em>ride to a Christmas face-off between a two-hundred-strong mob of Santas and a riot squad. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In a more placid moments he has worked as a journalist, writing on culture for periodicals both snooty and moronic, and is the author of Offbeat Food: Adventures in an Omnivorous World<\/em>, arts contributor to <\/span>Underground Guide to Los Angeles, <\/em>and the inspirational coloring book, <\/span>Crayons for Jesus!<\/em>. <\/span>He also worked as computer animator for 10 years, contributing work on Academy-award winning sequences, and continues to work as writer, director, editor, and grunt on independent videos, occasionally collaborating with his wife, comedian Margaret Cho.<\/span><\/p>\n He is not afraid of ghosts, but he wishes he were.<\/p><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}