Jun
19
Well Sean, here is where I am at so far…expect more later. The image jumps to the Reddit thread and the initial sketch/doodle in Pentel brush and pencil that started this whole thing. It has since had some additional pencil work, and been scanned into an Inkscape-workable .svg.
Jun
16
Was at MWG last Friday to meet up with Mssrs. Fleming and Kucharo, later joined by the esteemed colleague Mr. Moran. and capped off by running into a few other friends and confidants along the way (hi, Mary, Moira and Joey). I scribbled and doodled passively throughout the evening…
Jun
15
When I first saw the sign at Cafe Stritch tonight, I thought it would be some wanky Bad Brains hardcore punk knockoff, but instead it was a pretty whipsharp duo doing 80s new wave infuenced pop-rock.
They looked and sounded kind of like this.
Jun
12
A rework of the bottom 2/3rds of the Outlandos d’Amour record from The Police. It still needs something, but I haven’t sorted what that is.
Jun
11
Out Friday night with Mr. Copasetic himself…
Made a half dozen of these with one of the pens I bought at Muji last month…obviously I made some digital tweaks for it’s own sake.
Jun
6
It’s a great track that combines proggy bits from the 70s Genesis prog era with the more recent Mars Volta era. It’s muscular and lyrical and noisy at times in the right way. It also features some great bass work by Nick Beggs (so far removed from where he started his career in the 80s, with Kajagoogoo). Wilson himself does some great guitar work.
It sounds great live.
Jun
4
One of the better new talents from the Lusophonic world (Angola).
Jun
3
…just feeling like some Scandanavian electronic-pop.
May
20
This is basically by-product from an attempt to resurrect one of the original items from the first wave of Vinyl Remix series output a decade ago (King Crimson‘s Three of a Perfect Pair) . My initial stop for this one was in 2002, and unlike the other King Crimson cover I did (for Beat which turned out so well the biographer of King Crimson mentioned it on the band’s blog…something I consider a career highlight frankly) this one was a trainwreck.
I now have a better idea of what need needs to be done, but oddly in the process of doing the actual vinyl remix itself, I took some of the scanned source bits and started colliding them into something else.
Sometimes it just takes patience and a spark of an idea to make things start coming together.
Acrylic paint, acrylic ink, spraypaint, texturizers on 12″ vinyl sleeve; graphite stick, digital torquing.
May
20
…I struggle to respond correctly, like an autistic person who has been taught to recognize human emotions from flash cards. In short, I am the worst.
-(Bossypants, 2011) Tina Fey
The above is somewhat taken out of a specific context, because the general statement is more applicable to me often enough.
I was and am at core a very introverted soul. That said, I have an empathetic tendency with certain people that I engage with, yet am by default driven by rather cold, calculated kind of objective logic. When you couple that with a very theatrical extroverted layer I’ve crafted over the years in a manner very much out of the quote above, it has resulted in exactly what you might expect from people:
That dude cray.
People that meet me in public social events rarely if ever guess there is any introversion to me (some folks who have known me for years are still not convinced any actually exists, but is something I claim to confuse them), and people who meet me under scenarios where my introversion and disconnect are in play are usually totally blinkered when I go full-on energy-tornado.
I’m still trying to figure out how to best calibrate the two sides. Sometimes that is fun. Sometimes its damage control. Either way it usually makes for a good story.
May
19
This series so far is proving both natural compositionally, but difficult in execution. Bear with me folks, I’m piloting while building the plane in mid-flight.
Acrylic paint, acrylic ink, watercolor on bristol, salt bits, texturizer, etc..then some Photoshop to stitch it all together and muck about with colors and such.
