Texas Longest Hammer Choir
I was lucky to get to be one of the choir this past weekend when artist Andy Rihn saw his vision of hundreds of Texan’s dressed in denim create magical music with hammers. Alexandra Valenti shot this great photo of some hammered individuals below and here is a link to read up more on Texas Longest Hammer Choir. I’m super pumped up to see the final video and sounds that we created at the showing upcoming the near future.
Here are a couple shots I took:
Shed time
I had been bitching about not having a studio with real concrete floors, but then I realized how lucky I am to have my old shed out back. I went out there this weekend and started cleaning up so I could get creative in these cooler temperatures. I’ve already got a couple new works in the works.
Drawn and drawn
Enjoying making some one-off books these days, just free styling, and gluing and taping things together and then stapling them into books. I’ve done this for a while, sometimes with different kinds of papers, newspapers, brown bags and other things. Really liked how this spread came out.
Why, yes
But, today just going to Fun Fun Fun Fest to do some painting. It’s about a mile down the road.
Hallow’s Ween
Happy Halloween to you. Too busy to get any of this action on the blog, but here’s a pic of me and Jessica from the fun last night at the Domy Monster Show 6. More pictures to come in the next couple weeks. I promise I’ll get it together and tell you some of the fun action that’s been keeping us busy.
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Monster Show 666
Just dropped off these two works for the Domy Monster Show 6.
This is one of my favorite shows because of the wide range of art and artists displayed and because you get to wear a costume to the art opening. Also, another cool thing is that if you live in Houston, you can go snag one of these works at the show for dirt cheap since there is an opening the same night there. Looking forward to it and seeing what everyone else came up with and thanks again Russell and Travis at Domy for putting this rad show together. Now to get to work on that costume.
Sketchbook section
Most of the work I do is in the form of sketches and doodles. To me, sketching is the most fun. I can open up my head and allow the pen to do the work. That is why I am starting to document the past few years of sketch books. It is kind of private thing, these sketchbooks, but I’m ready to open them up and allow them to serve as a basis for the work that I do, since this is where the ideas begin.
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I simplified a few things on the site. Felt there were some redundant pages.
Here is what was on the old news page for historical purposes.
Good Press is holding their first of a long line of shows in Glasgow. Here’s wishing them great luck!
Designers Journal did a little feature on my work. THANKS DJ!
Museums Press Anthology is still available. Cover art by Morgan Blair
Crummy House finished off a zine with Paul Windle. Click here to view the zine
Crummy Activity
Very proud of our recent publication with Jay Geurink over at Crummy House. Want to learn more and interact on the internet with us? Like Crummy House on Facebook
Older
I turned 30 this last weekend and had some friends and family really treat me to a good time. Thank you to everyone for all the gifts and fun times. I’ve been behind on making art lately, but I’ve got a few updates over on the Flickr page. Go over there and look at some of the new works. Other than that:
Crummy House is working on a new book that should be out this next week.
Archive Section
I’ve put together a page where I’m going to add images and pictures from real life and the things and people that inspire me. You can go here and check out some fun images from life here in Texas over the past five years or so.
A mixture of things
In the middle of a few things with work and projects right now. Starting to plan out the fall and get ready for some real studio time once the weather breaks from 100 degree weather and finish off some cool things that I’ll announce in the next couple weeks.
Old becoming new
Working on setting up a section here where I can add an archive with images from the past six years of living here in Austin. It’s pretty awesome to look back on how long it has been and how much has happened since then. I’ll have all this wrapped up in the next couple weeks, most likely ready to launch by September 24th, my 30th birthday.
Nostalgia
I was working on a project that I’ve been pretty pumped up for the past few weeks and found this image in an old school book my sister gave me as I was tearing through the pages looking for source material. As you can see a group of kids have kindly been given Salvador Dali mustaches and one kid is rocking some Andy Warhol style tinted glasses. This reminded me of what I got the biggest kick out of when I was a young artist. Adding a sweet mustache or funny nose to a character in your textbook was just something I just couldn’t resist as a kid.
Abstract letters
Sketch I made a couple weeks ago. At first, I didn’t like it, but now I’m thinking there’s something in there.
