Welcome Sun

art in the yard. 2/7 =come play and work with me, materials and earth.

Zine-y bean

Yes! I love crossing things off the list.

This is a special sneaky peek (note: best set list ever, center) at what has gone into the production of the latest Night Viking & Friends album, Side Sauce.  Inside a tidy vinyl sleeve, you get a b+w version of this “map”, with a collaborative crazy collage on the back, PLUS full-color front+back covers, and 31 TRACKS of awesome/inane sonic boom.  I said BOOM.

Aww, look how slick they are!

Oh right! and back to that subject that I mentioned in the title, Ziney-zines.  This project gave me a good vision and a process that I can use to accomplish my goals for The Lost Art (of)’s recordings.

[At some point a while back, I decided to make a February/Valentines' mix this year, both to honor the Chi-do tradition* that has been dormant for some years, and to have a "gift" available for my audience at SVT on 2-14. Then-- I added on to that ambition a desire to create xerox-copied booklets as accompaniment to the Recordings -- to house extra stories, to indulge my urges to explain, to save honorable intentions from un-crossed off lists, and, of course, to design.  Lovefully...]

Cutting and pasting is fun!  Email me to order Side Sauce or to pre-order the February Mix.

*It’s a long story…

Shelf Stages

Remnants/Memories from “…Time”

Ahh, how Time does gallop, and the wind does blow…

There were a lot of little details.

And different contributors.

And, hey, these apples are still for sale!

(2008, L_M_N_L)

Everything = ____________

Interests include:

writing, earthworks, spacial arrangements, installation art, performance, music, costumes, masks, wigs, accessories made from trash, “recycling”/upcycling, crafting, materials, tools, teaching+learning, alternative education, alternative medicine, alternative economies, social change, community, locally-grown food, neighborhood projects, video projects, documentary, stop-motion, puppets, dioramas, music videos, recording, sounds.

30 things in the list = ~30 days in a month

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Beautiful Weather Observations

look how green and faded the film has gotten!

Good weather for doing projects outside– come on down, the price is right.

Moon

Okay, y’all!

Check out the “Biggest/Bestest” Page under GALLERIES – - I finally put together what I consider to be a portfolio.

In other news, we’ve got SIDE SAUCE coming out next week, which is really a good album, and a total companion to ITALIAN FOOD WILDCAT CARAVAN.  We (Night Viking) MIGHT be playing at Chaindrive on Wednesday the 13th with some CDS on hand and some new songs slipping in here and there…

And then there’s this:

I was once in High School

More from the slide-sorting process…

Still Life

I found these images that I made in high school — not ones that I think about much, but interesting to reflect back on, as they represent some of my variety…

The one with the binary code and heart diagram– I remember having an inspiration and then following up on it.  I think I was listening to too much Nine Inch Nails and writing pretttty tortured poetry at that time.  I like the weaving technique and “symbol-rich graphic design”.

Next up we have an Art 2 assignment from Mr. (Gary) Borreman’s class.  He was a really cool teacher: treated his students like real people, worthy of trust and responsibility.

I took his class as a freshman, although he unfortunately got fired in the middle of the year for something.  I can’t quite remember, but it was basically fearful parent backlash against his liberal teaching style or a view he may have expressed.  Our second assignment in his class that year was to think about what happens when/after we die, and to make a piece about it.  Having experienced the death of my father already at age 9, I had already found a metaphor I was comfortable with, which came from the Baha’i Faith, and which is illustrated here:

This last one is a little random.  I didn’t spend much time on it, either in planning or in executing, and I painted from a photograph of Isadora Duncan.

But I do like her little smile; and I do believe that I had a painting breakthrough while making this.  Plus, one of my mother’s friends from when I was a child used to say that I was Isadora reincarnated.  So it could be a past-life portrait– who knows.