Friends

These are some of Ballistic Helmet's friends on the web. The links are arranged by the geography of their owner, but should be of interest to bh readers regardless of your meat coordinates.

In no way should the links below be considered an endorsement of these websites or their owners by Ballistic Helmet, which is not affiliated with any of these parties and has not asked for permission to link to any of these websites.

• Boston

Although only a couple heads are located in the greater Boston area, they're always up to something.

David Van Horn (Scientist)

http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~dvanhorn/

• Chicago

Chicago is host to a number of bh heads, most of them migrating West from Vermont. You can find almost all of them living within about a mile of each other near Logan Square.

punch drunk & mersy (Media Services)

http://pdm-media.com/
Copy, editorial, and layout, for paper and screen. pd_m provides creative services for small business, non-profit organizations, rock & roll bands, and independent artists.

J. Metzner (Artist)

http://jaredmetzner.com/
Painting and illustration by our friend Jared.

Rachel Ries (Band)

http://rachelries.com/,
http://www.myspace.com/rachelries
Prairie swing for city folk. Rachel often plays with bh head Ariel Bolles.

Bakelite 78 (Band)

http://www.bakelite78.com/,
http://www.myspace.com/bakelite78
Old timey country and blues, sung through a megaphone. Features bh head Ari.

Recursive Instruments (Artists)

http://recursiveinstruments.com/progress/
Ink printing in the primitive metaverse, brought to you by bh head Simon Spartalian.

• Eindhoven

Our lone head in Holland.

rainsmeier & floyd (Designers)

www.ransmeier-floyd.com/
Our friend Gwen's design company.

• Houston

The Southern contingent of bh.

Nick Cooper (Musician, Documentarian, Artist)

http://www.nickcooper.com/
Nick plays with the Free Radicals and volunteers with Houston Indymedia, Food Not Bombs, and Big Brothers / Big Sisters. He recently produced the documentary Soma: an anarchist therapy.

The Free Radicals (Band)

http://www.enjoymusic.com/freeradicals/
Free Radicals is a jazz, funk, hip-hop, avant-garde, ska, reggae, African music, Indian music, punk, klesmer, polka and latin-jazz group committed to non-commercial original innovative music, political action and incessant rehearsing.

• Portland

Heads in the Pacific Northwest

Military Counseling Project (GI Counseling)

http://www.lclark.edu/org/nlg/girights.html
Oregon based counseling service operated as a student-collective and a subset of the student chapter of the National Lawyers' Guild. The project aims to (1) counter-recruit the military's effort to swindle, coerce, and deceive the youth of America into entering military service (see below); and (2) provide direct counseling and information to GI's attempting to withdraw from military service.
The Military counseling project is run in part by bh head Jessica Kampfe.

• Santa Barbara

The West coast heads.

The Beat Oracle (Internet Radio)

http://beatoracle.net/
Our friend Michael's excellent radio program. Michael is frequently joined on the air by bh head Jon Sullivan.

• Vermont

Where it all started.

Aaron Hawley (Educational Technologist)

http://www.uvm.edu/~ashawley/


Ann Lipsitt (Special Educator)

http://www.sover.net/~alipsitt/


Burlington Community Land Trust (Affordable Housing)

http://www.bclt.net/
Burlington Community Land Trust provides a wide range of affordable housing opportunities including homeownership, rental apartments, and co-op housing. Today, BCLT is the largest community land trust in the U.S., with over 2,500 members.

Justin Henry (Educational Technologist)

http://www.uvm.edu/~jhenry/
Justin has been a contributor to bh from the beginning. Without his tech-savy help, bh would not be.

Will Miller (Philosopher)

http://www.uvm.edu/~wmiller/
http://willmiller.org/
Will Miller (1940-2005) taught philosophy at the University of Vermont and was an outspoken advocate for peace. He has had a tremendous influence on many of the people who make up ballistic helmet.