Finished up a new flyer design for the mad skilled musicians Lynx and Janover from the SF Bay Area/ Colorado. Their 2010 spring tour includes shows all up and down the west coast of the US and Canada, plus shows in Japan and Indonesia. Expect more visual mix for the upcoming album soon. Check out their beautiful sounds and tour info online at lynxandjanover.com.. niceness.
This one goes to my homey Shwa.
I recently submitted a few photos from the Built-In Obsolete Mid-Forms Festival installation to Skewed Online Art Magazine. Below is some info about the show, which took place around this time last year at the Mid-Forms Festival 09.
Built-in Obsolete
Showcase installation for the Mid-Forms Festival 09
(Great Northern Way Campus, Vancouver)
Medium: immersive assemblage/ trash sculpture
Built-In Obsolete was a refuge created some time ago, an obsolete sanctuary to protect us from an imminent disaster that never arrived. Whenever it was thrown together, it was outfitted in all the latest cutting edge gadgets- dusty treasure and weathered wood, rusted-out contraptions and outdated inventions- a curious assemblage of technological oddities long forgotten, operating in ways they were never meant to be.
This installation juxtaposes the contemporary and antiquated, evoking a metaphysical fiction wherein the ordinary tools of today- the technology that we take for granted – may be considered in an extraordinary light.
A collab piece with Meta V of thatsnotmypenguin.com. thats her cat, qBUNK, staring down some really big crows.
I’ll be posting a few pages from my most recent sketchbook. Here’s a start. This one’s for Valparaiso, Chile, where the cerros make the landscape look like little mountains of crooked fingers.
Today the Pine Beetles installation was featured on crackforyoureyes.com.Big ups to Arden and the CFYE peeps for some awesome coverage of street work worldwide. Some photos from the exhibit and, below that, the exhibition statement:
The Mountain Pine Beetle, indigenous to western North America, has taken a grip on the forests of British Columbia. In the past, the cold Canadian winter has acted to regulate beetle populations, but with global warming driving up winter temperatures, this equilibrium has been breached. Surveys show the beetles, in just the last few years, have grown to overtake 21 million acres and killed 410 million cubic feet of trees in B.C. Studies consistently verify a direct correlation between warmer winter climate change and the spread of the beetle infestation. The Canadian Forest Service calls it “the largest known insect infestation in North American history.”
From the vantage point of the metropolitan city, these developments can seem deceptively intangible. The daily monotony of routine city life- the same monotony which stifles our imagination and saps dry our creative passions- also provides a convenient façade of stability, progress, and normalcy in which we may continue to carry out atrocities on the natural world. The consequences are simply swept under the proverbial rug, and the apocalypse is postponed to a date more convenient, someday in the future. This process of habitual detachment and alienation impacts not only our relationship to the environment, but the relationships we have with others and likewise, with ourselves.
If anything, THE PINE BEETLES ARE COMING is simply an exploration of these issues, in the form of a site-specific installation. Perhaps also, it functions to critique the prevailing economic and social customs which make possible the aforementioned perversions. Probably more likely, it could just briefly bring you out of your daily rut and cause you to reconsider what is actually possible given an old room, some garbage, and an impending sense of doom.
Insect biologists and other discerning attendees may notice that the beetle image used in the show is not very anatomically correct. Indeed, it is not a pine beetle at all, but a scarab, or dung beetle. This discrepancy might be completely overlooked by unfamiliar city dwellers, which in itself would be a telling statement of disjuncture between cause and effect. However, the conceptual link between the dung beetle and installation materials (all found thrown out or abandoned in dumpsters and back alleys) is conscious, and meant to reflect on our notions of what is sacred, and what is waste- what belongs in a gallery, and what belongs in the trash.
Note: No pine beetles were harmed in the making of this production.
This here is a new version of the undertheweather mix #5, made especially for the Carded! art card show in Vancouver.
CARDED! Trading Card Art Show
Saturday Feb 27, doors @ 8pm sharp (come early to avoid disappointment)
Jacana Gallery – 2435 Granville St (@ Broadway)
Randomly selected mixed packs of 5 cards will be available for $5, if you get a card you don’t want, trade with the people around you!
I will have extra’s of my card to trade or give to friendlies, if you do make it out!
note: there’s lots of places to lock up your bike, it’s around the corner from the 99 B-Line and other buses and there’s parking in the back.
For more event details:
Threw this together in a coupla hours tonight while having a skype meeting with the Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret kids. I think i see their influence in all them pretty colours. The greens are from a photo of slashed tires in santiago chile; the orange and blues are of puddles of bronze powder and ink.
This one’s a little overdue..
In september 2009, Symbiosis Gathering took place at Camp Mather, Yosemite National Park, California. Was quite possibly the best festival i’ve ever attended.
At any rate, i spent the month leading up to the event working at the American Steel Building in Oakland with the Symbiosis Events crew designing and building the decorative facade of the main (field) stage for the festival.
The resulting work was a collaboration with a few fine artists- big ups to Bosque, Adam, Ross, Zari, and so many others.. Here are a couple choice photos of the stage:
This one’s a classic from a few years ago. still got some pull.
