cavern club

-making pictures about thinking about posters and paintings
-everybody thinks i'm rich because of the new levi's campaign's art direction but i didn't have anything to do with it. thanks, though.
-going to california on sunday
-got a bruno munari book for the plane
-thinking about julius having a cat party while i'm gone

first/last

friday august 7th
cat lauigan & nathaniel russell
oakland

more info to come

golden tymes pt. 2

back in the van!
off to the olde country to pitch a tent next to a pond
stop it don't stop it
a band, a baby, a butt
chris said he saw a bear but all i saw was evidence of massive chilling
we made fast friends
conspiracies abounded. these two were the reason for the season. linda (on who's land i slept) and juliette (on who's land we raged)
then i started to feel like a hippie in a good way
jump in the fire!
hot pink
morning slugs in the shoes.
linda's tree house steps, in the flesh!
just some dudes, no big deal
then we drove home and i fell in love with a dolphin
and i got heckled by some teenage creeps for taking a picture of a rainbow. all in all: awesome times, awesome folks, and awesome feelings all at once.

golden tymes pt. 1

went to ohio to pick up ole chris.
we were heading out on long weekend of listening to old metallica tapes and driving to the woods.
pack it up, pack it in: let (us) begin.

but first: some rest stop pilates

side trip to braddock, pa to visit the other man in the van and all around talented and inspirational go-getter: bill daniel
ended up walking down by the tracks on our way to an old abandoned hydro-electric power plant

slip through the cracks

the power of PA

just climbing around on giant propellors: no big whoop

it appears we are not the first to have been brought here by mr. daniel

investigations into the underbelly

shop talk

don't forget your good ideas

manager's office.
braddock is a place to go right now. maybe a mini-detroit in the sense that there's hardly anybody left and there's lots of empty buildings to get into and make good.

i'm a big fan of bill's houseboat pictures. i bought one as big as my couch. no joke.

bill showed us big pictures of piles and carnage.

then we saw the real deal.

piles of styles

moments of magic
after the pink pile and a bowl of beans we scooted.
more to come in part two.

celestial person

life and tymes

i'm off for the weekend for brain relaxation and old-tyme bro-tyme.
i'll leave you with another look at the mural sign thing over at juice in the mission.
photos by andrew paynter.
this is up for another week or two, then it will go to a school, a bro's storage space, or maybe you want to buy it for a million dollars.
life gets better!

nonkiller

julius made an unwilling friend and then let him escape. it's the friendly laws of nature.

dreamz

anyone who goes to deitch in new york and gets me one of these posters and mails it to me, i will send you back a drawing that you will like. i love penguin/pelican paperbacks. i love scary art installations. i love posters. i saw this installation in marfa and it was really upsetting in an interesting and unsettling way. or a version of it. or maybe it was just some shack i stumbled into. anyway: let's make a deal.

blues for a bracelet

white drips


fancy edges

mono mega

a peck in the pulp


smooth listening

everybody is stoked everywhere

alberto is the reason for the season

black hole

just saying

here's the book

post hand

hand-coloring a handful of prints for this. more silkscreens, more butts.

buds

read the story and go to this in san francisco if you're there and you like awesome people and good vibes. and books! opens tonight.

tiger's blood

long live everybody

this makes me so happy for so many reasons.


it was my grandmother's 90th birthday. we took her to the park with the indian mounds and earthworks that are 2000 years old for a picnic. i guess the ancients had snake runs.


TRAGEDY!


not really, grandma is still a prankster and up for shenanigans at 90. how awesome is this?


flower power

sparkles/circles

book/show/bro

Buddy System

a project of Little Paper Planes

Aline Cautis, Caitlin Gallupe, Claire Grill, Matt Momchilov, Bridget Moser, Nathaniel Russell, David Wilson, and Jess Wheaton.

Buddy System consists in equal parts of the physical work within it, and the artists' multifarious social landscape that trails out the gallery door. Once four artists were selected to participate in Buddy System, curatorial control was rescinded. Each artist was then asked to invite another artist he or she knows and admires to join the fold, in the interest of honoring real-life influences over thematic idealism. This expanded relationship between the work and the world brings together 8 artists from both coasts of the US and Canada. Their pieces now hang collectively as one many-faceted entity, rendering Buddy System both a group show, and a room in which the ties of real-life friendship and respect rehearse and enhance themselves.

In conjunction with the show, Little Paper Planes has debuted a series of publications featuring the work of each artist.



i'm in a show with some amazing people and they made books for each one of us. included, and the reason i am in the show, is tight bud David Wilson of ribbons fame. how do you spell epic: Y.E.S.

hold it close, spin it around

every night is prom night

office party

i'm trying to make a bunch of stuff for a show coming up in august. i can't stop thinking about posters and letters and words. darkness and big washes and empty space. but feeling the fire and ignoring paying jobs. why is coffee so good? why is there so much great stuff in the world? it's daunting, man, daunting! i'll never get those drums set up.

we need summer jams

this is mine today

day in/out

reverse benjamin button

i want to be an old man sized old man.

sketchbook nsfw

slowww hymns and personal beatles

i've heard of slow food. that's where you eat what's around you: local natural foods that aren't run through the processing plants. it's when you treat food with respect and love and make the preparation and eating experiences an art. i am all for it, even if it's a little hard sometimes and not entirely convenient. or cheap. but that's not the point right now. what about SLOW MUSIC? what about sitting down and enjoying the creativity of those around you: your friends and neighbors. and precisely because it is so close to you it's even better. we all breathe the same air and eat at the same weird burrito place and catch the same bus. there were many times in the past years where i've though to myself, "why aren't my friends famous? can't the world see that they are the best band in the world? is there no justice in the world?" well, when it comes down to the worlds of art and music commerce, no actually, there is no justice. but then why does one think that creative power deserves a cash equivalent? hmmmm. maybe that's a discussion for another time. the whole jist is this: it's nice to have a personal beatles. or a private thin lizzy. my friends The Impossible Shapes played their final show because everybody is moving away. they've played together for 10 years, basically since high school. and when they were on, dude, i felt like was 15. their performance last night brought back a lot of memories and sweaty hugs. there's bands and musicians all over the place that are just like this. they'll never be on MTV and they'll be amazing and be the most important art in somebody's life for a while. and that's enough. that is so enough.

advance notice

more on this to come

magic words

twitch it

if i was still in california, i would go to this show. connections run deep with all three performing acts as previously written about all over this thing. go in my place and try to project it back to me on the cosmic highway all the way back here to indianapolis. it's next week. shenanigans ensured.

also:
ocean and beach opens up at needles and pens tonight:
Featuring works from the likes of:
CHARLIE CALLAHAN, JEFF CANHAM, MISHA CAPECCHI,
ALBERTO CUADROS, AMY JO DIAZ, KYLE FIELD, CHRISTOPHER GENTILE, RACHEL
KAYE, JEFFREY MANSON, AARON MASON, JOHN MCCAMBRIDGE, SERENA
MITNIK-MILLER, DAVE MULLER, JAY NELSON, LANA PORCELLO, NATHANIEL
RUSSELL, ORION SHEPHERD, MASON ST. PETER,
AUGUSTUS THOMPSON, ISABELL WEBERBAUER.

telepathy soundzzz

sketchbookin part 8

late night sketchbooking. too weird to finish.

summer eves

another evening of shabby ramp construction and acting like children with actual children. father andy would later make his son drop in with the big wheel. it was amazing.


part 4 of the crooked arm mentor program.