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progressive progress report

2010-02-16T18:19:00.000-08:00

So I know I said I was going to update as much as often as possible and then proceeded to lay dormant...but I was actually busy and couldn't update!

I am in the process of shooting a music video for an awesome band called YAWN.

They hail from Chicago and I recently returned from the windy snowy coldy city after filming components of the video.

They are amazing and I am honored to be working with them. head over to their website to download their fantastic EP for FREE!!!

http://yawntheband.com/

here's a video of them performing 'Kind of Guy' the song the video is for:

here's some pictures:

back to the grind

a constellation

pin couch

a mike rios in it's natural habitat

i think we are floating

check out friend's with benefits for some shots of the actual shoot:

http://letsget.biz/2010/02/14/yawn-kind-of-guy-videoshoot-behind-the-scenes/

This is going to be very cool I will keep updating as the thing mutates.

phoenixed

2010-01-06T18:36:00.000-08:00

It was this very time one year ago that I began to construct the wool sculpture. Now the earth has traveled around the sun and the sun has traveled through the houses of the zodiac: I awake from my slumber.

I wasn't exactly sleeping. Over the summer I sculpted carcass. But it was a frantic procedure and there was no time to update on this process. Over the fall I took a long needed break that, as many would predict, resulted in little to no new work produced.

I did, however, don a lab coat and attempt to teach kindergartners science.

Now I am beginning the final stages of the Work and want to return to this forum to 1) Keep anyone interested updated, 2) Keep me on task.

So I will start out by providing everyone with something promised long ago: set photos!

After many attempts to upload the photos in their highest quality I failed. So I have uploaded all of them to facebook (over 200 photos. daunting) which you may peruse at your own will. Tag yourself if you feel like it. Finally you can show people what you were talking about when you told them of the set with the fish head penis thing. Reminisce of that month where we all hated each other. Do whatever. Just don't steal them and do weird unnatural things with them. Also if you want the full-res versions I have them, just ask and I can get them to you somehow.

gallery 1

gallery 2

As of this moment I do not have set photos for wool. They were stolen along with my old laptop. I hope whomever stole it enjoyed the meth they were rewarded with for their valiant efforts. I will track the photos down though...they have to be somewhere. If anyone has any leads PLEASE let me know! there were some awesome pictures in there.

Enjoy the pictures and come back here as I will be updating as regularly as I can.

Thank you everyone once again.

...and it begins again...

death and rebirth on stage 2

2009-01-26T07:34:00.001-08:00

all that is left is celluloid. more photographs soon

we are mountainous midwives

2009-01-19T10:06:00.000-08:00

out from that hole in our heads pours mountains

huge

some growths

deconstruction

we planted the seeds

jon is stuck

so...there we actually finished the whole hill, but the contraption with those photos in them remains elusive. stay tuned.

the first significant movement in the work is six days away.

an immaculate erection

2009-01-17T00:12:00.001-08:00

and we begin to manifest material into sturdy compounds

the ingredients

an empty canvas

coagulation

the perimeter

fuck that thing's tall

tomorrow we will fill it in. please come by

and it begins

2009-01-16T00:42:00.001-08:00

we start building the hill tomorrow

wish us luck

the will made matter

2009-01-12T00:51:00.000-08:00

and on the 275th day Yahweh said, "let there be quilts"

the bearer of seed

2009-01-11T21:16:00.000-08:00

on dec. 16, when this project was initiated, the moon was the closest to the earth than it had been in 15 years. tonight it is the closest it had been since that fateful day. this sign can not be ignored.

auspicious

every movement is sacred

treasure even the ones your bowels make

almost certainly a death will be involved

2009-01-11T16:04:00.000-08:00

more photo phun

the process continues

we all turn into vegetables

it leans

the calcination

a funeral

inspiration

2009-01-07T01:28:00.001-08:00

you should all check out my good friend greg's blog...his writing has been a constant inspiration for me and thusly aspects of this project.

edit: no that's not greg, that's mike. but yes that is lando.

Chapter 1: Wool :: the astronomer's story

2009-01-07T00:43:00.000-08:00

wool

begins pre-production

week 1 progress, a photo essay:

wool bought

wool cut

wool sewn

wool in place

molecules magnified

banjos strummed

mille hypotheses chymicae de svbterraneis

2009-01-03T23:47:00.000-08:00

And herein begins the beginning of the Artist's year long exploration of the great work.

The edict is as follows:

One Thousand Chemical Hypotheses Concerning the Subterranean Realms

A moving storybook of frothing fairy tale imagery culled from the primordial Prima Materia ebbing along the precipices of conscious perception. Faceless terrifying ecstasies, beyond the confines of identities. We the Artist, upon first shattering contact with that which is the infinite, cry out to the heavens at the loss of our name. Flailing against that very wind which bore our spore, that very earth which imbued our veins with rainbow dream-stuff, that very sun who we mimic in our polemic fury. Thusly:

as above so below

Without any other recourse we, the Artist, begin the trials of the Great Work. Transmutation of matter. Complete convergence with the throbbing Godhead. Anti-Transfiguration. Love.

And as the Artist we are, we begin our journey through careful manipulation of those subtle vibrations. An exploration of Our chaos in diplomatic fashion. In so that we can bask in the waves of light and sound and spur on that cosmic gnosis!

as above so below

Despite how still we try to stand, we will vibrate those fluids!