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- April NewsletterClick here to read It on Mailchimp!
- Esta Noche selected for International Poetry Film Festival
I am thrilled that my experimental video has been selected for screening at The International Poetry Film Festival at Beyond Baroque on April 25th, 2026! The poem narrated by the director is about being young in San Francisco. Moving your body, finding your way and your people in one of the most beautiful cities… - March Newsletter
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- Happy Valentine’s Day! Love for the People
- Bandcamp Friday!
- Sound Interlude
- Now on View
- February NewsletterClick here for February news! Below is an excerpt. During the fires and after, now, I am holding such tenderness towards my town. I remembered this piece xerox/text from a long time ago. I see it now clearly as a love letter. The furtive kind you write at the beginning, when you are bowled over…
- December NewsletterClick here for December news! Below is an excerpt. Progress this month was slow as molasses with Irrevocable Flux, which is kind of apropos as there is a very amber tone throughout the pieces. I cut myself grace for the wild weeks of November and my own struggles, and have set my eye and studio as…
- November NewsletterClick here for November news!
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- Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines featured in the New Yorker.
The Brooklyn Museum’s Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, was written about by Hua Hsu in the New Yorker, American Counterculture, Glimpsed Through Zines. - Work included in the Brooklyn Museum’s Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines on view NOW
My zine thorn and video Motor Baby, Roar Roar are included in the Brooklyn Museum’s Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, organized by Branden W. Joseph and Drew Sawyer. It is on view from November 17th, 2023 – March 31st, 2024. - Video Esta Noche featured in ScreeningEsta Noche screened as part of this program Skorts, A Women’s Video Art Festival, curated by artist Sylvie Lake on March 31st, 2023.
- Echo Mountain has a new recording!
- I was featured in the CBA Bluegrass Newsletter!Link to the full article here.
- 2.22.22 Chapbook release – Grief and a COVID StonePromo video for Grief and a COVID Stone Watch this promo video for my self-published chapbook Grief and a COVID Stone, a collection of poems and images created in 2021 as I mourned the passing of my father. Turn on sound for a little ‘lectric guitar improv accompaniment! Message me to get you a copy –…
- Erin and Kelly new album release – Trials, TribulationsErin and I met each other some years back at the monthly old-time jam at Liz Fischbach’s 1642 Bar in Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles. Finding affinity over all things Swedish (Erin studied Swedish folk music in Northern Sweden and I am a half-Swede) and sharing artistic ties across the city, we became fast friends….
- Erin and Kelly have released single, Trials, Troubles, TribulationsMy folk duo Erin and Kelly made a record! We present to you a preview with a cover of Trials, Troubles, Tribulations by E.C. and Orna Ball. Stay tuned for the whole album! erinandkelly.bandcamp.com
- Fifteen Year Anniversary Screening of Faustus’s ChildrenDon’t miss this camp classic supernatural thriller about a group of rich kids who kill one of their own made by David Jones (Jonesy), Michele O’Marah, and Tim Jackson. Jonesy and I made the original sound track for the film. The screening of the film is accompanied by a reading from Ian pictured in…
- Check out this music video!
- Summer SabbaticalI am about two months in to a three month sabbatical I gifted myself to “recenter my life around my creative practices”. Three weeks ago, I made some overhauls to this website and just a few days ago, in an attempt to share the site with a friend, simply got a pageok on a white space…
- Solo Album Release – The Last Kind WordMy very first solo record The Last Kind Word is mixed, mastered and ready for pressing! It will be released on May 23rd, 2017 and celebrated with a release party at 1642 Bar on Friday, May 26th!
- Song Premiere on The Bluegrass Situationphotograph by Jessie Gentry I’m excited to announce that The Bluegrass Situation is premiering song “Your Rockin’ Bow Don’t Roll No More” from my upcoming solo album, The Last Kind Word. Check it out here! The album releases on Tuesday, May 23rd. You can pre-order a copy on bandcamp. Album release party at…
- Pre-order my solo album here!
- One Four FiveAn addendum to “In The Service of the Song” by way of an advertisement that I have printed another run, and edition of 50. Hit me up if you’re interested.
- New PhotographsI had a great studio visit with my dear friend, Michele O’Marah on Sunday. Took it back old school–she showed me her work and I showed her mine. In the process you forget how valuable it is to exchange ideas and thoughts about the works before you. By yourself you can get bogged down…
- In The Service of the SongHere’s a quick little video preview of In the Service of the Song. This hand bound zine was completed on the occasion of Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair in the last weekend of January. It’s a rumination of a decade long love affair with old time music. It’s got original writing, graphics, a…
- Linocut Prints are Here!I’ve been working on a project for a long time called “In the Service of the Song” or ITSOTS when I’m journaling about it. It’s a printed matter work about my ten year love affair with Old Time. One of the central kickoffs for it is a series of typeset prints of my favorite…
- Been Awhile, but This
- Paddy’s Electric Mothers DayPaddy’s Electric Mother’s Day a video shot while on a long walk with my mother through the hills of san francisco by the bay with a soundtrack from a dusted off gibson les paul,pedal and music man amp. ‘Lectrified on St. Patrick’s Day!
- Saturday Night Square Dance Inspirationsure, it’s last minute. but that’s how inspiration comes and i’ll take it!
- Happy Lucky 13!
- Death and Dying in My SocietyOr Why October Is A Shitty Month For Me In October of this year I put my cat Screeechy down for the last time. She was almost 21. She’d been in physical and mental decline for awhile. In retrospect looking hard at the fact that cats cannot speak English or any other human language…
- Small Wall Space :: Boll Weevil + Sugarbabe
I’ve been fooling around with typesetting my favorite banjo tunings. I love letters. I taste type. I finger fonts. These are two tests for what I am planning will grow into a cache of images to print on an old press. I’m titling each one after the tune I love to play in the… - Small Wall Spacecuz our money needs watchin! I picked up this postcard from Bettina Hubby’s Eagle Rock Rock and Eagle Shop. It’s a an art piece of hers that’s a collaboration, a curation, a collection; that’s a store, an inside joke, a vexation; that’s from an idea that two artists had long ago. Bettina is really…
- A Gloomy May Day needed some sun……so I was inspired to make this for a post about this year’s Los Angeles Old Time Social Cakewalk!
- Solo SetTonight, for the first time as an old time player and first time in many years since I’ve been making music. Nervous, excited, and most importantly, ready.
- Portfolio::Graphic DesignSince ending my position as Operations Facilitator of the Bicycle Kitchen in November, I have been focusing on honing my graphic design chops in other contexts like those represented here. I may post examples of the design work I did while opsfacking (as I affectionately call it) at La Bicicocina, too. I’m constantly being…
- Small Wall SpaceNo. 1 of 9, untitled lithographic print by Kelly Marie Martin The results of a 4-day printmaking workshop with the amazing artist, Daniel González. He taught us to linocut and to print using his press, Brutus. I used the workshop as a way to create a calaveras for a design project I am working…
- Small Wall Space
My cousin, Jonas sent this to me from Stockholm–a quote from Keats. I love that you can see more writing beneath, but what floats there to the top is this promise, his promise. I hang it as a reminder to myself from myself. - Triple Chicken Foot in the LA Timeswritten by Jenn Garbee
- On (digital) Photography
Streamers as shot by an iPhone I have been thinking a lot lately about photography for lots of different reasons. For one thing, talking about my generation what straddles analog and digital pretty squarely, our hands on our hips, one eye narrowed and forgive me, I don’t mean to sound “goldurnit,” because I know… - A small space, a rotating cast of inspiration.
I came to the conclusion, “If I was an artist and I was in the studio then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art. At this point art became more of an acitvitiy and less of a product.” Bruce Nauman I hereby dub this Small Wall Space. It’s a piece of… - A present in photographs and blogs.Get us to the Greek Wedding!
- Wishing us all the best for 2012
- Mama-San (read the WHOLE thing!)I ran into Young Chung at Speranza in Silverlake while dining for a friend’s birthday. Speranza is a spirited place because they allow you to bring your own wine and even though their specials never change you return for the spirits and the homemade noodles. I felt that Young gave me a look that…
- A Social ExperimentI first learned of Islands of LA when my bike buddy, Alex Kenefick sent an email about an event he was doing on one. I was very intrigued by my browse around on Ari Kletzky’s website and thought, “oh, another compatriot.” Another creative architect carving work out of the intersection (pun intended, naturally) of…
- new graphic
- yellow and greentwo sets of color twins within an hour on this hot summer day in sunshine prison.
- ¡SQUAREVOLUTION!
- Portfolio::Graphic DesignMy graphic design falls in two categories: Visual Research and Presentations for Commercial Directors Print/Web Media for events, private individuals, small business and nonprofits.
- BIKE IT! Available NOW at LULU!!
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/bike-it-portraits-of-my-bicipandilla/6959345 - Root Down Ride Around
In conjunction with Bike Summit, an all-day conference for bicycle advocacy, I wanted to organize a ride to re-visit some places that have helped make la a more bicycle-friendly town. what can i say, I’m sentimental. It occurred to me that it’s always a good thing to remind people about the roots of what’s… - Hollyhock A Capella
A photo to tide it over. Dave and I have been finalizing files for a limited run cd of the chorale performance. Thanks to Cottage Home for the stairwell and Bettina Hubby for the fantastic costume design. - High Desert Test SitesRocky Pallet produced for Rainbow’s End, the inaugural exhibition of Wonder Valley Institute for Contemporary Art during the High Desert Test Sites. I was thinkin’ about old-time fiddle tunes, an old blues standard, my old friend, the coyote, and an old box that I filled with desert rocks. This also held the sound and…
- Beautiful ReadersTuesday night I decided to throw my bike on the bus, I was so tired and I saw the most beautiful thing. I like to sit in the accordion section of the bus because I can tuck my pannier in between the seat and the high step of the bench seat. Then I can…
- The Alchemy of Ancestry
the city - Rejmyre Matters
The Alchemy of Ancestry It really did. I was invited to participate in this exchange/exhibition from my involvement with Civic Matters at LACE in 2006 by Veronica Wiman and Sissi Westerberg. Coincidentally, I had just booked a flight to Sweden and simply had to extend my trip by a week in order to participate. … - Hollyhock A CapellaA still from a test-run of Kelly and David’s upcoming performance for Bettina Hubby’s CoTour 2008. Shadow Dance
- “CONTRAPTION SPELL,” AVAILABLE NOW
Kelly and David have completed a book archiving our folk-rock opera, Contraption Spell. It’s available at lulu.com. We spent the fall/winter archiving the performance–mixing down our cast vocals with the music and designing a book from the live performance photos taken by the REDCAT, our photographs of the props and costumes and we even…