city lights

acrylic ink, varnish on panel, 10x8

Did a series from this image, will post more soon. Working through photos I took in prep for my lecture the other day, and for open studios. Soon. Soon.

btw dudes

i just looked through the old posts on this blog and found that we decided to make this a collaboblog 2 years ago on october 28 - so happy two year dibbly dibbly fun times. thanks friends and families who have kept on posting whenever they can.

more

smokey swirly

42"x42", ink and pencil on paper

so much paper!

What type are you?

I'm going away on a road trip soon, so that means a month of no posts and i want to help accomplish this 100 post goal.. so heres another!

http://www.pentagram.com/what-type-are-you/

100 post challenge

All right peoples, we've had a good summer off here at dibbly. It's been super slow on the posts, no pointing fingers cause we're all guilty. However now that things have picked up I am proposing a challenge, throwing down the gauntlet if you will.
100 posts by the end of the year.
I don't think it's impossible, we did it last year, we're just running a little behind....
But with some hopefully busy months ahead I think we can do it.
To commemorate this event I've decided another Kid Creole and the Coconuts post is in order, this a live one with a whole sassy gay innuendo breakdown in the middle and everything.
Enjoy and keep posting!



Kid Creole & The Coconuts. I'm A Wonderful Thing Baby
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dappled

It turns out I did actually get decent images of these two, which are the latest things I've done. They are both 16x12, acrylic, sumi, and watercolor monotype on panel.

nono

found this via Frank's, and had to post it.

The story of Doc Ellis' no hitter in 1970, Pittsburgh Pirates vs. San Diego Padres. Audio from NPR, animation from James Blagden of No Mas.

Somebody get Zach Duke some LSD.

wooooo!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/dec/07/turner-prize-winner-richard-wright

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.

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

The I.D.E.S. of April

DJSethMabbott (of the above pattern) sent out a mix for the season recently and his work on the ones and twos inspired my last post so I figured he should get some love here.

Here's a link to the mix and several others streaming from his site:
http://sethmabbott.com/songs/5

And here's a direct link to an mp3 for DL: http://sethmabbott.com/audios/5/original/mix_2.mp3


Peep the goodness!

The rest of his site is worth checking as well for all you fly skimmies.

alligator

this is a monoprint I did a little while ago and recently rediscovered (while "cleaning" my room). 9x12, acrylic on newsprint, mounted on panel.

WOW!

Another music post, this one being the hot hot track WOW from the Johnson & Jonson album from last year.


Wait not that one.....

YEAH here we go..
Johnson and Jonson are BLU spittin it from LA and Mainframe whose been getting shouted out by Common since he had Sense...
A luscious stab of a loop with a rambling riding flow. Dillalicious! (no dilla included but he'd get down with it)
Grab WOW and then snag the whole album at eMusic.
(((If you join emusic mention my email address when you do and I get free mp3s.....)))
I promised you more posts didn't I?