under the influence: aubrey beardsley

Aubrey Beardsley

isn't he dreamy?

i love aubrey. i would catch for him. intensely prolific though dying very young (25 from tuberculosis.) this cutie was as emo/fashionable as it gets and considering this was over 100 years before hot topic, thats a pretty neat achievement... and since he kept company with the likes of oscar wilde he is a definite proto-hipster to boot. his black and whites are meticulous, kinky and dark as all heck. this is as close as the art nouveau movement ever got to being "black metal".

so: intricate black and white art, hung out with the coolest people of the time, possibly a gay, died young of a disease that makes you cough up blood? yeah this cat is wayyyy cooler than any of us. thats ok though. the hero myth is what keeps us reaching for the unobtainable. words like "unobtainable" are etched in glass for the soul purpose of being shattered by the brash and courageous. thanks for reading and i love you!

under the influence: ernest haeckel

HOLY CRAP. just look at this guys illustrations! wow!

and look at this hipster's beard! what a babe!

ernest influenced how i think about living things and organic symmetry. click on the images to see the hi res. do it... but be warned you might implode from sheer radness. this guy was amazing... could you believe he came up with the word ecology? who does that? he did, because ernst was the boss. i mean, he has 2 freakin' mountians named after him!.. AND AN ASTEROID! insanity! 

garden time!

hey it's my garden! the garlic is up and looking amazing!

thats a tiny shovel huh

tilling the soil for potatoes

i love digging around in the dirt

monday music madness!

don't look at the cover art too long or you'll see the devil.

 i have a really soft spot for stoner rock. and the band that exemplifies the genre best in my mind is Sleep. this release, holy mountain pretty much blew me away when it came out, and soon everyone was talking about orange amplifiers and how cool it would be to ride a dragon. anyways, i found a copy online if you'd like it and if you dig it i'd say go get the vinyl, because that is the only way to really get the warmth of this bands sound. if thats to pricy (it is for me) you could buy the tape cassette for ten bucks.. and that my friends, is rad. hey i love you!

FBC!

HEY IT'S ABOUT THAT TIME!

the f*&$ing bike club full moon fiasco is tonight! we meet at the swamp @ 7

yup thats me looking right at the camera.. what a goof!

i hope to see you there!

so much for anonymity

Gabriel Vrooman, a photo by Čadež

so i hooked up with this kid travis the other day. prety cool cat, rides bikes, has sweet tattoos and takes a hella good picture. whats not to like? he recently posted on his blog about me, which is awesome, and the photos he captured are like, the best pictures anyone has ever taken of me. wow. kudos.
check out his site and see the goods he possesses in abundance. 
but i guess this does leave me a little red handed :( ha ha.

bike ride!

yesterday i spent the whole day with my friend trent in cheney and we rode bikes. here i am on the fish lake trail. it was sooooo perfect i wish you could have been there.

here's me practicing my through the frame track stand

mural revisited/ 100th blog post! woo!

so the mural i said that needed some work got it, and thanks to andrew (i love you) i have a few good pictures of it's current state. looks like it got a touch up, putting it mildly. i'm still not sure if i like it.

also: IT'S MY 100TH POST! uh.. i've seen quite a few blogs that do something special to commemorate this number so honestly i felt a bit pressured to do like-wise, but.....
i think i'm going to save the celebration for a better number. so it'll be extra special. just for you, my friends.
love you and enjoy the pictures!

and here's one of me in the frame for scale

under the influence: alphonse mucha

this is a my new segment dedicated to artists and art styles, classic to contemporary, that have influenced me, and i'll be posting it every wednesday.
art nouveau has always been one of my main influences, the fluid, organic design, the emphasis on line.. powerful stuff. here goes nothin'.

Alphonse Mucha
when the phrase "art nouveau" gets thrown into a conversation, 9 out of 10 times the images that come to mind for most are that of this powerhouse, alphonse mucha, who pretty much is responsible for the movement by way of a poster he lithographed for a play in 1895. it's advertisement that influenced art and visa versa i suppose. awesome stuff. but the beginning of the end in a way. hmmm.


yeah. 

BLU big bang big boom MOCA 2001: AMAZING.

so uh wow. you know how i said i liked JR? yeah blu just recently made my brain melt. blu's work has always been the best around, but only now have i seen that the merit of his work transcends the craft and skill he possesses in abundance. i liked JR not because he is a good photographer (that's debatable in truth) but that he transcended the art itself and spoke to people of all types, in ways bringing people together who were otherwise "enemys", or showing the faces of neighborhood women and patriarchs on the streets of places where violence against women is prolific. blu's street animation tackles an amazingly complex score of issues, from environmentalism, to war, to evolution, and in such a mesmerizing fashion that you'd hardly realized until several minutes in that you've been learning something. amazing work sir. i'd like to shake your hand.

“Art in the Streets” Exhibit @ MOCA in 2011

BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
thanks to http://banksystreetart.tumblr.com for the tip off

she's crafty

dude, those are some cool thumbtacks!

so, i like art. but i also like crafts. sometimes i get a little engrossed in artsy things, and i forget how much i like crafts. also i think i get mad at crafts sometimes because i fail at them.
anyways, there’s this girl in spokane, i know her fairly well, her name is lexi. she lives in browne's addition and doesnt care for much but crafts and she likes sharing stuff on her blog and maybe some midnight adventures to walmart… she’s really, really great.
so if you like art, odds are you enjoy crafts as well. go take a peek at her blog and become a slave to her craftwork solid fan and she’ll love you forever.. forever

bike rides and hunchbacks

i think this mural could use some work

some friends and i took a ride today, and on our way to antilano's we went through glass alley. took a few pic's of some of the wall art. woo! i cannot recommend antilano's more, and they're open till 3 am! the only downside is cops have discovered how tasty they are recently :(

spotted: not alone annendum

this was too nice of a picture not to post. thanks andrew you are the man/cycle.

april art show: plague-erism

magnets. instantly removable street art. no harm no foul!

so yeah hey! i got's me an art show at far west billiards and courtesy of my friend andrew i now have picture! woo! the night was decent, got to meet a few interesting folks, and there was a sort of, idk, electricity in the air. for me at least. dj likes girls played a great low-key set and achieved perfect sonic ambiance. all the art is up for bids with 30% of the proceeds going to feed the artist, a little thing PK from platform booking thought up. it'd be awesome of you, if you are in the area, to go check it out, and maybe even make a bid. who knows, you might score some awesome art for obscenely cheep! :)  love you and thanks for reading!

oh hey it's my crappy bike