For the past 3 days I have been fiddling around with this and taking some takes and this take is the last take and it's a good take. I'm doing some lite editing on it with audacity now, but I am just so excited to have something to share with y'all I'm spitting it right out at ya. Before-and-afte...
2021-11-17 04:57:21 +0000 UTC View PostEverybody on the schlugmail-ing list should have gotten prints of “sporangia” and “show us what you’re made of” in the mail last month! If you haven’t received yours, (or if you only got one of them—I got excited to send them out and a couple of people got the short stick), leave a ...
2021-11-02 17:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been quarantined all week awaiting covid test results after a breakout at work. I'm a little stir crazy, but the good news is pretty much everybody's test results came back negative. The other good news is, I've been able to do so much writing and painting. I have a long-winded reflection on...
2021-10-01 22:08:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday's watercolor. I added a little bit of gold acrylic, for fun. I think I understand more than I did before, but I can't quite articulate what it is yet. Needs more layers.
I recently finished the 6-episode HBO series Painting With John, and he does some wild stuff with wa...
2021-09-20 18:17:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Playing with watercolor today. It's a strange medium. You really have to let go of all pretense of control, and work layer upon layer in the realm of suggestion, until eventually the suggestions take on form. Maybe that's just a signal of my tenuous comfort with it. I remember loving watercolor a...
2021-09-19 23:43:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Oop, wrote another song. Recorded in my living room today while making soup. This one is maybe not quite finished, but this is version 2.2. I'm thinking of calling it Maggots, but open to suggestions.
maggots
now we’re preying on the insides
like a ...
2021-09-18 03:17:04 +0000 UTC View PostI like to eat with my hands.
It is a discreet unit.
Can be split into iterative discreet units.
Easy to save for later.
Creation involves focused craftsmanship.
Flexible process and ingredients.
Can be used as a tool to consume wet foods, like soups and sauces....
2021-09-13 20:28:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Some photos from my last camping trip. Clear skies, no rain, just sleeping in a bag on the beach by the fire. It was pretty marvelous. I got to know the constellations Hercules and Corona Borealis.
It's been a long time since I've been in the habit of taking and editing pictures....
2021-09-08 00:55:17 +0000 UTC View PostAt this point in my life, bullshit gives me immediate physical pain, you know? Like digging at a days old blister. Don’t rupture my puss-fat boundaries. I will ooze seamonkey gelatin, and I will have to start all over with the hurting part, which I am no longer amused by. We won’t speak of th...
2021-08-18 05:37:25 +0000 UTC View Post
I went over to my friend Soren's house this week with a Zoom recorder and my mom's guitar to ask a bunch of questions about recording techniques and composition. We set my field recorder up proper and recorded this song in his studio. He even cleaned up the room noise and did some lite mixing and...
2021-08-14 18:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In a mood. Wrote a song. Said I'd share. Have a look.
I will post a cleaner audio take with lyrics for the whole dirty public later this week. This one is just for you. *kiss*
May contain content not suitable for BABIES.
2021-08-11 07:09:45 +0000 UTC View PostI need a haircut, emotionally, & I just realized I have grown into somewhat of a square-shaped face, just like in the animes. Gonna do it myself, just looking for input. I have buzzers and scissors and 18 years of experience cutting my own hair (that's right, I gave myself a mohawk in 6th gra...
2021-08-10 01:53:03 +0000 UTC View Post
It has been quite a journey working on this mask, starting with making a plaster cast of my face back in February, and cooking on the concept for several months before that. The Wheel of Fortune is the third mask I've made in a series that I hope will eventually encompass every archetype of the m...
2021-08-09 17:45:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I cleaned my studio space, which means there's room to collage in it again. Here's the first snack.
2021-08-07 03:36:47 +0000 UTC View PostJuly has been a wild month full of friendship and adventure. In the past two and a half weeks, I drove almost 1000 miles, wandered barefoot through a waterfall, dug gravel out of my knee after crashing my bike, played board games, drank beers with buds, gave a pit stop trail haircut with craft sc...
2021-07-27 01:17:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Teeny photo dump of a few projects I’m *in the midst* of (plus a selfie portrait). And, my new juggling balls came in the mail a couple of days ago. They are a huge upgrade from the hackey sacks; they feel so good to throw. I’m starting to try tricks where my hands cross. More on that later~~...
2021-06-21 07:23:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's about 3 and a half minutes of me practicing playing with a delay pedal. It's a lot harder than people make it look/sound. This is a progression I noodled my way into to help me learn how to play with and listen to my little stomp-button robots. The poetry is.. nascent. Still unfolding. Not...
2021-06-18 17:16:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Buying stickers on Etsy is my most precious vice, and it got me thinking, making my own stickers is probably pretty achievable. A lot of artist-merchants use a cutting machine like a cricut or a silhouette, but I was able to track down some diy advice on YouTube that led me to buying some sticker...
2021-06-16 04:14:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I had my wisdom teeth surgically removed yesterday, and today I spent my day off napping and sketching this hoop juggler from a black and white photo I found on pinterest. I am still learning how to use all of the different filter layers. I did the shading on the juggler with a multiply layer, an...
2021-06-02 02:33:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a little checkpoint on the digital drawing I've been working on. This is Newt, a character I'm playing in a Scum and Villainy campaign. She's a smuggler, a dancer, and a scoundrel. It's been a trip digging into the world of digital artmaking. The tools are myriad, and the ability to mock s...
2021-05-31 00:56:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I may have jumped the gun a little on the completion date of ol’ fortune here. They are close. I took a bit of a break to transition from the long molding process, cleaned up my studio, and made a stage to paint. I have perhaps held myself up in the minutiae of options. The paralysis of the bla...
2021-05-11 01:54:28 +0000 UTC View PostDemons is the first song I wrote for mandolin. It's kind of a creepy one. I was in Nome, and the mandolin was a bit of an impulse buy, as I didn't have the foresight to bring any instruments with me to my summer internship. I was 20, so that puts the genesis of this song around midsummer 2012. I ...
2021-05-04 17:45:59 +0000 UTC View PostThis recording is of a rehearsal with Heather Warren on drums for the last Babefest ever, at Cloudberry Castle. Stasia Butler choreographed and performed an aerial silks piece to my songs November and Breathe for that performance. This is actually the *last* song I wrote and performed, with lyric...
2021-05-03 17:45:59 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a song I wrote while pulling a late night in the drafting loft in college, finishing a hand drawn plot for Stagecraft. Must have been nearing winter 2014 or so. I got a very expensive parking ticket that night, sometime between the hours of midnight and 3am. Stress and overwhelm can have ...
2021-05-02 17:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostI'd like to share some of my music as I've recorded it in bedrooms and basements over the past several years, collated here, in this curated digital space. These files are rehearsals, early iterative pieces of songs, and live performances in intimate spaces recorded using the voice memo app on my...
2021-05-01 17:46:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'all. I added another *tier* since so many of you have been so generous with your patronage.
I would like to send you cards and stickers and maybe some other fun things in the mail every month at the $5 threshold as an ongoing thank you. I have some of your addresses already...
2021-04-17 02:14:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Things I learned this week:
In regards to musings on juggling and sculpting facial features.
There’s something beautiful and strange about the range of balance and symmetry that exists in a face, or in a pattern of balls thrown from hand to hand. Each side is not an exact copy, but it is close. Images that are mirro...
2021-04-13 00:30:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve found myself drawn to blacklight embroidery doodling lately. This is the second doodle patch I made. A friend had some rips in his jacket in the perfect spot for a decorative arm band, so this funny little guy was made with that in mind. We joked about having a circus psychedelia gang with...
2021-04-07 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post