" Johnny, do you play baseball?"

Some updates:

1. We are back from south west Florida! I took 3 rolls of film from our pinhole camera and am excited to get them developed. Tried to experiment a little more with exposure timing and double exposure, (after using one roll, I then flipped it over and took another whole set of pictures on top of the first).........Hopefully they come out.

2. Im going to use money from selling the branded paintings to put the ep. (Little czar and the psalmist) up online and in itunes....all of which should be ready around the first of February.

3. By the end of February---or the first of March, I/we will be painting a giant (at least giant by my standards) mural on an outside wall of a Pizzicato pizza located in SE Portland (Ladds addition).
Have to keep you posted through the whole process....they have given me complete freedom and Im excited about what I've schemed up.

4. Finally, Ive become totally obsessed with Public Service Announcements (PSA's) and am determined to make some of my own..........
here are a few of my favorites
CHEERS!






I HEART Laurie Anderson!


my favorite parody ever--the entire 10 minutes of them:

small beginnings for future music videos

Yesterday during my lunch break I found a piece of tracing paper in my bag and spent some time making notes on it and brainstorming about a couple of music videos I want to make.

I hope to release an e.p. this fall and have been thinking about making videos for a couple of the songs and putting them up online at the same time as we release the record. Since the theme of the album is based on certain telecast events that shaped my childhood and young adult life, creating videos for some of the songs seems very appropriate. I will continually keep the blog updated as to the progress of the ep. and accompanying videos.

As the ideas for the videos begin to consolidate and actualize on paper, I realize how much I enjoy this seedling stage of the creative process. Everything seems to begin somewhere deep down in the recesses and dark matter of your brain, where you softly hear the quite whisper of an idea(s), sparking life and vision into your thoughts. Whether complex, impractical, or beautifully simple, the idea begins to develop a beating heart and take shape somewhere behind your temple until it swells to an uncomfortable size for just your thoughts and comes spilling out in some actualized artistic form. In these beginning stages of creation, the vision for the work is on the move through the corporeal world. The creation has become incarnate and you can map it's progress through time and space. It has a beginning and an end, and you've become the surrogate for its voice and vision.