Wordpress is freaking the fuck out and much of the imagery I wanted to share today has been purged by way of errors. This is what I have for today:
Definately like the natural colors that came out of digital manipulating it slightly. Its a cropped version of the larger drawing/painting of the LD crew.
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!
It seems to me that every time Library Donut reunites for musical episodes its like a rebirth of joy in my head. The solstice show last night was a complete success. We actually had a crowd of people nodding heads and several of these: |..|,
My interest in music has also been spurred by my recent discovery of Nerdcore (thanks to Christa). I can relate to this music because one, I’m a white nerd, and two I like rap. This shit is awesome. Tonight I’m dedicating atleast an hour of my time to messing around with my rarely used MIDI keyboard. This post is specifically short of detail about both these subjects because I’ve got some music to make, some websites to refurb, and some christmas presents to make.
peace out world.
Stress levels returning to normal, workload transfer complete, engines cooling. As of tonight I no longer have class for what seems like a wonderfully long period of time (2 weeks). My busiest semester by far is over, my house is clean, my computer clean, I’ve got a meeting w/ Sovine about the Collegium Sorcerorium commission tomorrow, a show with Library Donut in madison this weekend, and I’m feeling pretty damn good. Had my final critiques today and turned in some ok projects (above and below). Definitely not as high caliber as I wanted, so next time I’ll start a little earlier…
One thing I’ve been meaning to write about is a recent sale with a user on Etsy. This person bought two drawings from me and when I was prepping to ship the works I noticed it was a gallery I was shipping to. The gallery is called the USpaceGallery based in Atlanta Georgia. I checked the site recently and they have the two drawings they bought priced six times higher than what I sold them for. I think it is a good idea, buying art on the cheap from artists online and reselling it. Its only I find it somewhat humorous that these are works done in about two hours at most and one is being sold for $120.00. Damn. If they actually sell one of those drawings… damn.
One can expect more blog posts since finals are over and I’ll probably be hibernating in front of my computer for the rest of break.
Recently I’ve witnessed something of a personal renaissance. My band Library Donut is having a show (it is rare that we’re all in the same city at the same time) in Madison this weekend, I’ve started playing Civ IV which is not good for my final projects, and many of the sketches I’ve been doing recently are hitting upon my old themes of fantasy war. I thoroughly enjoy these things. I know that I have lost a certain enjoyment in drawing that I used to have. When I was younger I would wake up with an image in my head and get a pencil and paper. Most of the time the drawings I made I did not like, but when I did I was ecstatic.
World view lens is being transformed by my art studies, a lot. I see things quite differently and almost daily find myself thinking “that would make an awesome painting” when on the bus or walking down a hallway. Also when looking at art I think about the sellability of each work. I hate this. Many times in the past I have had brainstorming sessions w/ myself about how I can make money with art. I don’t like feeling as if I must use my creativity to make money, but money runs this world so what can you do? With the social network coming along bit by bit I hope to use my creativity for something bigger than me and bigger than money. In today’s society it is harder and harder to make money off art (pirating) so new ways need be developed. I think its a shame though that we are forced (or are we?) to think about money. Its too bad in today’s society money is one of the ultimate tools for getting shit done. More and more new ways to get shit done are being done w/o money thanks to web 2.0. I leave it at that.
At work today I started thinking about Alice, which happens every so often. I was day dreaming about the time we lay in her bed late at night in Sache. We had just finished making love and she asked for a story, or I asked if she wanted to hear one (memories change just like everything else so I’m not sure). I told her a story and just as I began describing a brilliant light the room actually began to glow. Slightly at first but then enough light filled the room so that I could see her clearly. In the end it was just a car driving by, but I thought (and still think) it amazing that a car drove by at that exact moment, late at night, in the middle of the french countryside.
Sounds: Sounds is where I record sounds that could be potential recordings for electronic music.
Today, metal pot used for soaking chickpeas at Abu’s filled with a little bit of water. Hold near the top and hit the bottom with something metal. Very cool sound potential.
Speaking of electronic music I just got my MIDI keyboard in the mail today. Hells yes is all I have to say to that. I’m quite excited to begin playing. Remixing library donut is also another thing to do. Cuttin and pastin for LD and MIDI for whateverelse.
One last thing for tonight:
Infrastructure and maintenance. Throughout life if you treat your body and mind like an economy, growing slowly but steadily and adding in proper ingredients here and there you can begin to shape who you want to be. Meditate for 10min every day and your mind will steadily grow stronger and more compassionate. Exercise here and there and eat healthy and your body will repay you with outstanding performance. Practice whatever it is you want to learn consistently (whether it is an instrument or a way of life) and you will become that. Repetition is everything. Brainwash yourself.
Library Donut is now online. I love the internet.
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