Posted: December 30th, 2008 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artists, Sketches, Thoughts | Tags: drawings, music, umfeld, winter break | No Comments »
This week has been an incredible one for music. My interest in music just keeps getting deeper and deeper. A friend of mine has showed me some amazing artists whose music I plan on acquiring once I get back to mke. Soundcloud is an amazing hub for quality music it seems. The songs are so fresh and contemporary. I’m starting to be able to recognize styles and musical trends that are occurring in modern electronica music. It is hard to fathom all the possibilities in creating music with computers.
Some artists, who as far as I’ve heard kick ass, (spelling may not be perfect) are Eryka Badu, Dert, Baduizm, Firewater, Sigward, Buset, and a slew of soundcloud and myspace dudes whose names I have to search for again. One of the most interesting things I’ve seen since yesterday was Umfeld. I would not suggest watching the whole thing through (even if you could) as you might go insane, but it is an interesting display of sound and visual manipulations. To me it is one of the most organic and lifelike displays of computer animation and digital manipulation of sounds.
Before this blog goes from visual art to music blog completely, I have been thinking about re-focusing my artistic energies on my digital art. Layering of drawings and hybridization of analog and digital mediums. I really enjoy using the computer, and some of my best ‘drawings’ have happened there. An art day is in store.
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Posted: December 28th, 2008 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Projects, Thoughts | Tags: art business, brady street, farmers market, madison, permit, selling art, summer | No Comments »
Astronomically speaking winter has only just begun. So, as an ode to summer and the longer days I thought I would post some pictures of a couple summer markets where I’ve sold my work. These shows were always stressful, not always lucrative, but I did have fun and am glad I made the effort. I should also mention thanks to my mother who let me use her car and who occasionally helped out with preparation and setup. For a full list of the places I’ve been go here.
The Brady Street Festival – 2007
The Madison Farmers Market (Capitol Square) – 2008
This was before I got a permit, just sold on the streetside (much more profitable)
After the permit, with a new display set up.
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Posted: December 25th, 2008 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artists, Thoughts | Tags: jamming, Library Donut, marty finkle, mr. Squirrel, music | 1 Comment »
Merry Christmas to everyone, or happy holidays, whichever you prefer. Today I gave my sister a Christmas gift, a drawing, of which I was not particularly proud. It was procrastinated upon, and despite my efforts proportions and value structure were slightly off giving the whole image a slightly off feel. She agreed saying it looked like she had just gotten through chemo in the picture and then she mentioned something about “baldilocks.” Now thats a vicious critique if I ever heard one 
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Currently I really feel like jamming. Here is a drawing I did a couple weeks ago of a guy named Marty Finkel playing drums at one of the first Library Donut shows. Kinda digging ink and pen drawings.. In other news my friend Mr. Squirrel’s EP is out and for sale (this guy works like crazy on his music, so if you like it, buy it)! If any of you have an interest in electronic music, check it out. He has most of his songs up for download available to celebrate the release of this EP so take advantage of it and rock out to some awesome digital music!
Time to make some music, peace!
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