OCTOPUSSY!!!

Soooo I've been a little lax this summer about blogging. What can I say, things have been happening...alot of busy things. Nicole and I are currently shifting our work schedules (for the better!) and I just got a new job as a school bus driver, which I am extremely excited about.

As fall is settling in, Im beginning to rewrite and underscore my creative list and should have more time to work on upcoming projects while both kids are in school all day.

Here are the two major things on my list this fall:

1. Finish recording, mastering, and pressing CD's for the music Nicole and I have been working on (which, by the way, we decided to name Red on Red!)
and
2. Work on a series of "branded" paintings with acrylic and found wood. For example......

I just finished this one today for a show at the BenjaminBenjamin gallery here in Portland (details here: benjaminbenjamin.com/page/2).



The artists reception is this thursday, October 7th, from 5-8pm. Come say hi....

Naked breakfast.

I've been fascinated with the consumer "branding" process lately. The sleek mixed with seedy mixed with consumption mixed with personal identities--all make an interesting petri dish to examine ourselves, culture, and the nature of human thought.

Sooo, I've started to catalog my own consumption of goods and products. I dont know what results Im looking for, but its pretty fascinating.

Most interesting to me is the after shower ritual I go through. I step in the shower as bare and free as the day my momma birthed me and step out already branded. What a juxtaposition!

Here is the list of pre and post shower brands I use:


1. Shampoo

2. body wash


3. Conditioner


4. facial wash (which I use in leu of shaving cream)


5. Toothpaste


6. Baking Soda (this is my deodorant)


7. Ugghhh, so embarrassing.


8. Those who use it KNOW its' addictive qualities.--sometimes a man just needs to strut!

9. Yes, yes, I know, leave me alone....


10. Only on special occasion (like today I noticed that my shirt was pitting out but I still wanted to wear it so I sprayed some of this in the armpits--my baking soda deodorant has no fragrance).


++++Just a side note, I tried to pick the purest pictures of products I could find, but when I came accross this one I had to post it. Its SO disturbing....like this guy is a zombie about to eat a corpse or something.