Jonathan Meese

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/art-talk/jonathan-meese

in honor of st. patty's

this is a set from the irish band I used to be in, back in the day, in high school. I think its from 2000, a show at the Calliope concert series in Pittsburgh, we were opening for a band called the Freight Hoppers. The O'Connell Street Buskers, featuring Robbie Whelan, Eric Hounshell, Lila Schantz, and myself. Link: Mediafire.

Harrison Ford

I have been doing some youtube research to find videos for a film project that I am embarking upon. This is not going to be part of the project.. However, I think it is amazing. I've been getting pretty Sontag on it.

paper trail

This is - well, I suppose I'd call it a collaborative rotating installation piece between me and my roommate Emilie - but the "artful photo" credit would have to be all mine.

Catering to this crowd, I'm pretty sure you can all tell what it is.

blakroc

Some of yinz probably know about this already, but this looks like a really sweet project between the Black Keys and a couple handfuls of hip-hop luminaries. Check it out!

Blakroc Project from Myrhax on Vimeo.

Found

I found this several years ago when I was working for my Dad and we were demo-ing a kitchen. Upon taking out a countertop and the cabinets underneath it, this was left over, lying on the floor. I was speechless for about an hour, I think.

playlist

So I recently got a new computer and, with the sudden preponderance of space available, I realized I could return to my obsessive/illegal pursuit of new music - and by new I mean new to me. What follows is a short playlist. I decided to put it together when I heard the first song, "Miss Ferris" by John Hartford, a great song about steam boats. One of the characters in the song is a boat captain named Buck. Seeing as my great uncle Joseph "Buck" Davis was a steam boat captain, it only seemed reasonable that I should post up this song. The other tracks that follow are fairly recent acquisitions and other things that accompany that song well.



The image above is a lithograph depicting a steam boat race on the Ohio and Monongahela Rivers in 1949 - the boat on the left is my Uncle Buck's. (Parts of Hartford's song take place in 1947 as he notes, so the steam boats he is talking about could look a lot like these.) Buck's boat was the Wm. Larimer Jones, and as it notes in the bottom right corner "Ran course of 1.6 miles in 9 minutes with 4 light barges." Unfortunately that wasn't fast enough, as he lost to the opposing ship, The Homestead, by one second! The race was so close that this lithograph was made to commemorate it. Below is a somewhat blurry detail shot of the info about Uncle Buck's boat.



Ok, enough family history. Here are the tunes.

Tracklist:

Miss Ferris - John Hartford
Trouble Weighs a Ton - Dan Auerbach
Deep Blue Sea - Grizzly Bear
Bull Black Nova - Wilco
The Engines are Idle - Jay Bennett
Tightrope - Yeasayer
Frankie's Gun! - The Felice Brothers
Caroline - Old Crow Medicine Show
John Henry - Lesley Riddle
Rough and Rocky Road - The Stars of Harmony
Rise Above - The Dirty Projectors
From the Bottom of a Well - Mike Doughty
Swimming Song - Loudon Wainwright III
Instant Street - Deus
The Black Keys - I Got Mine

soto titoli

8x10, ink (and ink, and more ink) and acrylic on panel (not such a great photo there)

Also, this is piece I did in December that never made it on here:



8x10, acrylic on panel

thank you bill

untitled *****UPDATED UPDATE***** ROWR ROWR LIKE A DUNGEON DRAGON*****

YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

*****BONUS UPDATE******

cause I love y'all and water skiing elephants the only thing that could possibly make this better would be some new RED 'N METH!
M-E-T-H-O-D....MAN
I can't believe we're actually going to get a BLACKOUT 2
Very excited for the new album, makes me wanna do this:

*****BONUS BONUS... ******
MY FAV VIDEO WITH REDMAN, OOH OOH OOH OOH

De La Soul Redman Oooh
Uploaded by mik2l

Thurmont short

This is a short video that a friend, Ben Hesse, made at the last Thurmont party, which coincided with Robbie's birthday, March 21st. Featuring excellent music and a sweet line from Mac on shrooms.

All you could ever need ....

Art and Rapping!!!!

I think this encapsulates the range of media we are covering here at dibbly...

interlethargy

Hello blog world. It's been a while. Been trying to just be in the studio. Have a new series I'm working on for an upcoming show. More details and previews about that are forthcoming. Here's some shots of the studio from when it was cleaned up recently to tide you over.


Matty has been hassling me for a shot of this painting.

And this guy keeps me working. He's my personal Ed Smith.


My website is almost done being rejigged btw.
Now over at danielcummings.com
That will have correct labels plus more and better pictures.

I promise more posts soon!