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…
Paddy’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!
sure, it’s last minute. but that’s how inspiration comes and i’ll take it!
Or 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…
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…
cuz 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…
…so I was inspired to make this for a post about this year’s Los Angeles Old Time Social Cakewalk!
Tonight, 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.