Technology complicates simplicity...

Dye Dye Dye my Darling

2012-01-12T23:53:00.000-07:00

I have been living in Lawrence KS since Aug 2010. but it want until 2011 that I started school at the University of Kansas. After finishing a BFA in Photography/ Digital media and opening the Copper Palate Press with fellow print students, Cameron Bentley & John Andrews during our senior year and co-running the Felt Space on Main Street with Travis Nikolai. I hopped in a uhaul i called a tornado and came to the midwest. I spent a week in Salina, doing performance art with Ernesto Pujol, Carla Duarte, Kate and Paul Lindholm, and other kansas based artists. In the last semester of school i have been experimenting with hand dyeing, and also with printing yardage, which is a different process for me. i am used to doing mulitples in N number amounts but not in the x & y directions.

2012 is coming

2011-12-31T07:58:00.002-07:00

2011 seems to have flown by, not unnoticed though, and 2012 is steadily on its way. the ball drops tonight, it has already dropped in Australia, and i dont know if i am ready for it, but the show must go on.

2012 already has a lot going for it. I will be in my second semester at the University of Kansas studying Textile Design for my second BFA. This is a clear departure from my BFA in Photography / Digital Media. but in a way their is no difference, because I am a Printmaker at heart, and both degrees will always over lap with that.

Tonight for NYE the Copper Palate Press will be ringing in the new year and displaying my last semester of work. I am honored to always be welcome back into the studio with such amazing utah artist and friends.

we really do have an amazing community here in Salt Lake City.

Happy New Year, ya filthy animals

Biking the Midwest

2011-07-07T23:30:00.007-06:00

Since I moved to Lawrence KS I have biked to many of the other cities surrounding this college town.
usually I like to use an app on my phone called Cyclemeter but it isnt really meant for long rides because it drains my battery faster than just listening to music does.

Sept 2
i biked to Olathe, just so i could get to a Wells Fargo bank, there isnt one in my town and i didnt have a bank account in town yet. also i really needed the money in that account.
32.5 miles in 2.5 hrs. I was riding a Fixed Peugeot down mostly dirt paths. it was fucking intense. at one point i got going 36 mph. legs spinning out of control. matt picked me up because i my bike was falling apart 5 miles into the ride home.

mostly farm land

Sept 12

ten days later i decided to KCMO to hang out with some friends. 36 miles in 3.5 hrs. i got a pinch flat so it took a lot longer than i had hoped. i also missed a road so i had to get picked up way off course. we had a good time in KCMO and they brought me home the next day.

i didnt go in to Volker but it made me think of Lucy.

as fall and winter approached i didnt ride too far out side of the city, there is a great single track on the north side of the river, and there is a lot of exploring i have done via bike just so i could get to know the place a bit better.

spring has been great i have been riding a lot but never too far because of the possibility of a major storm / all the tornado warnings kept me from going to far. and the rain is insane sometimes.

but now that the summer is here i have been out, getting buff getting tan, my legs could probably kick down a reinforced wall right now, or strangle the Anaconda from Anaconda. earlier this week i woke up and felt the need to get vertical! I need to Boulder or have some kind of raise in elevation. So i set out on a bike trip, not preparing too well. but, it was nice so i didnt care.

July 5th

the path ended but later came back

after an hour of riding i checked the map and i was close to Topeka, so i kept riding. called my buddy James, and we hung out and talked for about 2 hrs and then i rode home. this was the longest ride i have done yet, but it has inspired me to do more long rides and maybe next year ride in the Tour of Lawrence. my buddy adam came to pick me up not to far out of town because there was a storm developing. he shaved off my last hour of riding and we beat the storm.

I mapped it out later that night, I rode 50 miles. it took about 2 hrs to get to topeka. which isnt bad at all. so i will probably do it again.

next week i am going back to Utah for 5 weeks. I cant wait to be back in my native biking community, I am stoked for Alley cats and Sprints. hope everyone at SaltCycle has big biking plans for the next 6 weeks.

The Dark Side of the Black Flag

2011-06-25T19:56:00.006-06:00

I have been using illustrator lately. this is what i have been thinking about:

Flags, States, Bands, RGB & CMYK

UTAH

United States of America

KANSAS

WYOMING

CMYK

RGB

K Flag

CMYK side of the moon

RGB side of the moon

Dark Side

If I Had A Gallery...

2011-04-01T17:15:00.003-06:00

Colin Roe Ledbetter
Prof. Paul Paret
ART H. 3400
May 2010/2011

Where would art be today if it wasn’t for the art made in the past? Over time there has been an expansion on what “Art” is, how it should be seen, who can see it and where art can bee seen. Everyday art is questioned on its significance, relevance, and necessity to the world of today.

We have been asked to write about a hypothetical chance to curate a show with any work we deem worthy in our selection process. Curation is one of my favorite parts about art, even more so than creating art, there is a sheer pleasure I get from selecting and organizing art to be hung and shown.

With the use of the Internet, I can curate to my hearts desire, and I do on a daily basis through blogging. The Blog becomes the gallery, which is open and free to anyone to access, it becomes a forum for discussion and deliberation about what art is and how it should be viewed. So in combination to turning in this paper to you I will also publish it to my blog along with the images by artists I have selected for the hypothetical gallery.

Having a hypothetical vast amount of space is very similar to having a website on the Internet, you can set the dimensions and create your own gallery in which to view the work. Some of our modern Museums are using Second Life, a virtual gallery in which you can walk your virtual self around, even Google has started using their Google street view ability inside of museums with the Google Art Project, allowing those who have never been able to travel to these galleries to see art they might have never had the chance to see.

Most of the works I will mention, I’ll get to it I promise, I have never experienced in real life. So if the chance to have a real experience with these work I would likely have an Artattack or an Artgasm or both. This is what makes writing this paper so hard, not having had a visual experience and only having a book learned vocabulary, and I why would rather write about work I have scene or experienced. So after a year of thinking about it, I am going to let loose and start typing.

I enjoy the later Suprematism work of Kazimir Malevich, geometric forms on planes of white, more so than the Futurism and Cubism work he had been doing previously. Black Cross, Black Square, & Black Circle, 1915, these non-objective abstract paintings are some of my favorite. Each shape floats on the white plane. These paintings are plane and simple, but very different, from his prior work. I would also include Suprematist Composition: White Square on White, 1918, another geometric non-objective painting of an off-centered tilted square on off-white. The monochromatic painting was a step in a new direction for abstract painting during this time in the 1900s and is still relevant today.

Just like Malevich developed his own form of abstraction, Suprematism, El Lissitzky started what he called Prouns, compositions of two- and three-dimensional geometric shapes floating on a solid color plane. Proun 99, 1924-25, is a basic representation of a proun, multiple geometric shapes, and organic and inorganic lines, something 3 dimensional.

Lissitzky’s background in architectural engineering can be seen in his photographic collage, The Constructor, 1924, the elements of Prouns can also be seen in this portrait. Prounenraum, 1923, is the embodiment of the Proun, using geometric relief and painted shapes to activate the walls of the room.

Lissitzky’s Prounenraum and Malevich’s 0, 10 (Zero-Ten): The Last Futurist Exhibition, in which hung the black shapes mentioned earlier, are 2 installations which still influence different disciplines of installation artists and is still relevant today.

Paul Klee’s watercolor, pencil and ink drawings are some of my favorite creative process. These simple geometric color charts convey a complex state of visual experience, wither it is from the abstract geometric structure, or the color relation of analogous and complimentary colors. Double Tent, 1923, an asymmetrical vertical shift causes new relations in color layers, like different layers of earth when the plates shift. The same is true about Eros, 1923, the colors all relate like that of a color chart but the shift is no longer a vertical shift like in Double Tent, but a difference in the meaning of the arrows, which in physics could be vectors of force, the larger arrow is longer and wider like the rows of cool colors, similar even to wavelength, the smaller arrow coincides with the warmer and more frequently changing rows of color.

The theme of abstraction continues with work by Wassily Kandinsky, who’s work I didn’t really care for until I read “Concerning the Spiritual in Art” and then spent time looking at the images he created. Although the later work of Kandinsky, CompositionVIII, 1923, & Several Circles, 1926, would seem to fit in with the graphic, hard edged paintings mentioned previous, I feel that his earlier painting, Exotic Birds, 1915, with the use of watercolor is more freeing and allows the transparency of the paint and looseness of the brush control the image unlike the other work I have mentioned. The looseness is freeing, and is something that I feel is necessary in work that is to come. To free ones self from representation and allow abstraction to guide ones practice to new levels.

I feel like most my peers like the work of Dali when it comes to surrealism, but my favorite is Rene Magritte whose work is clever and ironic. The Treachery of Images, 1928, a play on words and image. The painting knows it is a painting and it undermines that the object represented in paint. The Human Condition, 1933, a self-referential painting of a painting of a landscape. The painting within is a may be a realist painting of the landscape outside, but from this angle it creates a surreal landscape which might not even exist. Both of these visual plays are still used widely in art today.

Max Ernst’s Europe After the Rain, 1940-42, is a textual and visual mess that I could get lost in for hours. A post war bombed cityscape melting under a cloudy sky on a sunny day is an example of beauty and destruction side by side. “Decalcomania” is a destructive and reductive and additive technique; it destroys the paint original placement, it reduces the amount of paint on the painting, and adds a texture that cannot be painted.

The work that has been mentioned up to this point was created before many of the next artists were ever born, but their work is very similar and just as inventive.

Robert Rauschenberg just thinks differently and because of that he made a lot of different art. Almost nothing in Rauschenberg’s path couldn’t be made in to art when he started doing his “combines”: blankets, pillow, goats, tires and coke bottles just to name a few of his raw “ready made” materials. These are strange forms, Coca Cola Plan, 1958, use Pop culture, pun intended, everyday material and paint to create his paintings. Mixing three-dimensional and two-dimensional material in combines is a lot like that of the Prounenraum.

Jasper Johns’ White Flag, 1955, has roots in the minimal aspects of Kazimir’s White on White and the surrealist concepts of Magritte’s paintings. Johns made a unique object from what is a common ready-made pop culture slice of Americana. I like Johns work because he wasn’t afraid of making something that had been made before, and making it over and over again. But even more so because Johns destroyed all his previous work worked for 30 years on a similar idea and then just stopped. The only thing I have seen him do recently is a voice appearance on the Simpsons.

Although I started liking Robert Smithson’s earthworks as a child in the vicinity of the Spiral Jetty, his non-site works Maps of Broken Glass, Atlantis, 1969 creates a jagged blue-green landscape like that of broken ice from a winter oceanic landscape. I like the juxtaposition of mineral material in Rocks & Mirror Square II, 1971, the inorganic material and the manufactured forms of the mirrors. These reflective surfaces create new forms and allow the sculpture to change form as you walk around it.

Gerhardt Richter also uses glass and reflections in his work 7 Standing Panes, 2002, as the viewer looks through the panes, each reflection builds up and degrades the clarity of the first reflection, and involves the viewer in the work itself.

Other work by Richter and Rauschenberg were about destroying the original. Richter’s overpainted photographs, 12.4.92 & 5.1.91, uses the same technique that Ernst uses in Europe After the Rain, creating a new abstract landscape. Rauschenberg took someone elses work and erased it down to the original piece of paper with a few traces of the marks the de Kooning made in Erased de Kooning Drawing, 1953, which when framed looks similar to Malevich’s White on White.

Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991, has the clean minimalistic aspects of Malevich’s work and the straightforward surreal aspects Magritte’s The Human Condition. This work is not really about the shark but about the museum and the viewer. The quality of the work is like a display in a Natural History Museum and the way the view interacts with the work makes them as much of a piece of the art as the shark.

In contrast to Hirst’s sculpture, I would like to have John Baldessari’s salon style panel collages. The Fallen Easel, 1988, Beach Scene Nuns Nurses (with Choices), 1991, and Hope (Blue) Supported by a Bed of Oranges (Life): Amid a Context of Allusions, 1991. These collages have elements from Rauschenberg’s “combines”, play on words of Magritte’s Treachery of Images and the deep theories about color similar to Kandinsky’s Concerning the Spirituality of Art held.

I know that if all of this work was in a gallery there would be a lot of open floor space, that is why if I could have this work in any real gallery I would hold it in the Guggenheim New York. Using the Guggenheim would eliminate much of the floor space in which would normally be empty since there wasn’t enough sculptural work in this paper. I assume that since I have never been inside and have only seen it in photos.

My main goal now that school is finished (since this has been my only worry all year) would be to see all of the work mentioned in person so that I can have something real to say about the work and not just what I have read and seen in the book.

CMYK

2011-03-08T15:57:00.000-07:00

on my mind

Seaching: My Life & Future

2011-02-21T18:59:00.004-07:00

Since I graduated in May 2010 I have had one question on my mind "What Should I Do With My Life?". This was a strange point in my life I had just finished 18 years of education, start to finish, summers off for the first 13 years, I am now a well educated college graduate with a BFA in Photography under my belt. I have made it. I was done. it is time to relax.

in 2005 I up rooted and moved to Salt lake City, Utah. Five years later, I felt the need to go somewhere else, I needed a bigger pot to live in, and I moved to Lawrence, Kansas. You might not say it is a bigger pot but it will give me a good place to root myself for a while get a bit of sun and grow more. I was a Bee in the Beehive State and now I am a Bee in the Sunflower State, we were made for each other. There are a lot of similarities to my home town Tooele, UT and Lawrence, KS but it is the differences that make this town more enjoyable.

Now that i have moved the question comes up again. "What Should I Do With My Life?" this question comes with a drop down menu that includes other questions. Should i continue being educated by the University systems? Should i just stop going to school and just explore the Midwest? Canada? Europe? The depths of consciousness? Should I keep working shitty jobs? Should I go into my field? Should I change my field? should i go work in a field?

The two i seem to click on the most: Go into your field and advance in it, Stop going to school and explore.
these two options are intertwined choosing one will fulfill both in the end but one furthers education faster and the other furthers life experience. Which of these would i rather influence my art work?

For now I am going to sit on the fence of this issue, choosing both, doing both. because i cant just choose, but i cant just do nothing.

Google you have solved so many of my problems, my prayers, my wishes. This query can not be answered by your algorithms. it can only be answered by time.

Argument - to Publish / to Submit

2010-09-29T00:16:00.001-06:00

The Internet- a vast amount of data

Blog- a place where organized information is seen in context

Tumblr - image/ info hoarding/ archiving/ curating

Follow – to subscribe to information you feel interests you or subject

Posting - Self Publishing

Submitting – applying for publication

Reblog – to support, with out submission

All websites were created equal in the eyes of Google. Information is gathered, blogged and reblogged, liked and archived. When you create your own blog, or sanctuary of information, you call yourself a publisher and publish for the sake of getting information out to the Internet. When you submit, you are saying that your blog is not worthy and you bow to the other blogger/blog. If your content is good there is no need for submission, because you can submit through yourself.

It is hard to curate the Internet. In a physical gallery there is time and space and presentation. There can be many or few but there isn’t an eternal amount of scrolling. You can’t get space from the Internet. You have to be there. When you submit to the Internet, it is only valid if something physical happens: a book is published or an exhibition features submitted work. If it is online someone will find it, with out submitting to other blogs.

to blog or to be blogged

- Colin Roe Ledbetter

MixTape 2010

2010-06-19T19:31:00.005-06:00

I listen to most music in album form. start to finish. but i made this mixtape playlist.
click the image above to see the full list clearly

I Was Playing Drums - Efterklang -Magic Chairs
June Gloom - The Like -Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?
I Can Change - LCD Soundsystem -This Is Happening
Take Control - Weezer -Maladroit
Stylo - Gorillaz -Plastic Beach
Aquarius Sabotage - The Flaming Lips -Embryonic
July Flame - Laura Veirs -July Flame
Rill Rill - Sleigh Bells -Treats
Tokyo Underground - Blue Sky Black Death -Slow Burning Lights
Scissor (remix) - Liars -Sisterworld
Glass Conversation - The Ponys -Celebration Castle
Tighten Up - The Black Keys -Brothers
Red Lights - Holy Fuck -Latin
Glitter Freeze - Gorillaz -Plastic Beach
When I Grow Up - Fever Ray -Fever Ray
I Say Fever - Ramona Falls -Intuit
Space Mountain - Fuck Buttons -Tarot Sport
Airplanes - Local Natives -Gorilla Manor
Revenge - Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse -Dark Night Of The Soul
Creeper - Islands -Arm's Way
Into The Mirror - Minus the Bear -OMNI
Animal Backwards - Minus the Bear -OMNI
Empire Ants - Gorillaz -Plastic Beach
La La - The Polyphonic Spree -The Beginning Stages Of...
Stress - Justice -Cross
Goodbye Sky Harbor - Jimmy Eat World -Clarity
We Laugh Indoors - Death Cab For Cutie -Photo Album
Seven Years - David Byrne and Fatboy Slim -Here Lies Love
Graveyard Girl - M83 -Saturdays = Youth
Little Girl - Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse -Dark Night Of The Soul

most of these songs are my top listens of this year, so far.

So find it and dance your ass off.

Local Natives

2010-02-17T00:12:00.005-07:00

Back in December, Local Natives played Velour.
These guys are now hitting it huge with the music world with the release of Gorilla Manor.

I am glad to know they passed by and that we could chat and play fetch with Veronica's dog Moxie.
Good luck guys.

Art Building Abstracts

2010-02-17T00:06:00.002-07:00

name those locations (where's Waldo?)

There's A Story In Here

2010-02-17T00:00:00.005-07:00

I got a phone call, asking me to come document a happening. this happening was stream of conscious on the J.W. Marriott Library's little glass cubicles. s.Christopher Vincent & Lindsay Griffin wrote on the glass using dry erase markers.

here are a few images from that happening. this documentation was used to get the grade. we shot stills, video, and a live recorded reading.

Recent Cell Phone Photos

2010-02-16T23:12:00.008-07:00

Still exploring the world of digital photography through the mini world of cellphone cameras. this one being the advanced camera in the iPhone 3GS. the camera has a selectable white balance and select focus by touching the screen in the place where desired.

here are a few of the images i have done as of late

TUMBLR

2009-12-27T00:44:00.002-07:00

So for those of you who read this the right column is for posts on the fly from Tumblr and Twitter. I am either throwing thoughts out there, things overheard or just plain random ridiculousness.

The world is just a barrage of images every day and i try to capture that. so if there is an image i would like to have kept in memory i am posting it to tumblr. These images are things i like or things i see or things that i should be working on. half the time i am blown away by the synchronicity of people out there my age (+/- 10yrs) and how we are all thinging and looking at the same images. this is also something that blows my mind we are all over the world! everything is the same except your lat/long and living condition.

The World is just one giant barrage of images

2009-12-27T00:34:00.002-07:00

The world of TUMBLR is really getting into my mind. I look at images everyday and i try to filter what stimulates my mind the most. hinges that i would like to be doing, or things

hex to my love

2009-12-17T01:32:00.002-07:00

Just finished updating the website layout. I am really liking html more than i have ever had the chance. and also i just got colorslide for the iPhone and it has a good combination of color swatches to try together, its like what lookbook is trying to do on top of fashion. color palate.

<-left side. blogging.
right side-> twitter, tumblr, links, archive

i love the way you C++

2009-12-15T00:44:00.002-07:00

So every once in a while I try to get to know someone i have been seeing around campus but we only every make eye contact but never talk.
this only ever ends up making me like something i cant have, but i am completely fine with just being friends.

sometimes people find out i have hidden interests in things that make me look like a nerd. but really i just need some human contact.

so if i seem overly needy, want to hang out. i just need to not think about school and get my life reset.

GIF it to me

2009-12-06T04:00:00.003-07:00

In Shark's Territory

2009-11-26T20:58:00.002-07:00

How did this happen?

2009-11-23T12:02:00.003-07:00

I have never been so busy in my life. Winter break is calling my name. adventure is calling my name

View Larger Map

12.21.09 17:47 meet up.

Under the Bright Light

2009-11-21T00:38:00.001-07:00

image by Colin Roe Ledbetter
Feat. s.Christopher Vincent

Command+F

2009-11-21T00:32:00.001-07:00

it's not as easy as that. There are no keystrokes in life. No command+Z

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To be continued....

2009-11-14T11:24:00.001-07:00

Can he survive his last year at college, working a part time job living on his own going full time with three extracurricular groups? who knows? Staytuned...

84,000,000 seconds

2009-11-10T23:17:00.004-07:00

500 days of Summer. so when i went to see this i had no idea what it was about. as the movie opened i started to realize what was going on it wasn't a summer oasis movie like The Endless Summer.

I gazed into the big screen wondering what the movie was saying. .... nothing really, but it made me feel strange.

So there is a part in every ones life where you can recount the good and bad days of a time with someone. 500days is nothing a year and then some. every moment you spend with that person is what is forever. seconds can extend into days depending on what is going on. 500dx24hx60mx60s=42,000,000 seconds. balls to the walls. that is a ton of time.

for me it has been twice that long. In that time i have finished most of my college career, worked at 5+ different jobs, moved twice, a new brother was born. things have defiantly changed. I have changed. everyone around me has changed. Obama: Change. my favorite CD of the last few months The Dismemberment Plan ::: Change

there is always a point of ups/downs and time and change are the only way we are able to look back and realize what we did right and what went wrong, and what never went at all and stayed the same.

somethings never change. just keep moving, creating, enjoy life everyday.

just don't forget what you have learned and i will always be here. counting the seconds. there is always a hidden message in what we create, which was left for someone to find if they could how to view the source...

Why would I want to read your blog when i could have a computer read it to me?

2009-10-29T12:11:00.002-06:00

so last year Jessica Gilmore reminded me that i could have the Macs at school speak for me. i just had to set it up. so when i had to read a digital text i would just select and listen while i got other hands on visual work done at the computer. I have now found iSpeak IT which will make a mp3 of a file, blog, weather, directions, and then i can have audio and the text on my ipod and read and listen if need be. also i have found it useful in finding grammar or spelling errors when my eyes have skipped it, my ears have a hard time skipping it....

so look at it and start listening to the stuff you have a hard time reading,... like fine print.

Geocities.com/ratpain

2009-10-26T00:20:00.003-06:00

this will be a post of a website that will never be destroyed now that geocities is closing up its windows.... austin never did update it after we started,.... we never had a digital camera or the internet reallly. we were always too busy playing half-life and deus ex or ff7 & Microsoft madness

Home Of The Rat!
Austin's Website:Music..Friends..and Everything Holy..

Here is my website. It's not much. You can get news on whats going on around here. Descriptions of me and my friends. There are going to be some pics of us and other assorted people and things (if i ever get ahold of a digital camera). Bands we like and LOCAL BANDS...Hooray!!! Got some other things mixed in there. Not to mention links to the sites we enjoy. Plus more.

Let me give you a little bit of background. Me and the rest of the crew are pretty much lazy ass bums. We generaly do nothing but hang out and listen to music. We live in Tooele, Utah. A shitty little town stuffed in the middle of nowhere.
Lata,
Austin Stokes.

What's New
About Us
Photo Album
Favorite Links
Music
Paint Balling
Theories
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What's New
Well...here's the news. (cause it's been a VERY long time since my last update...too bad there's not much to say) School fuckin sucks. At least it's almost over. Haven't been paintballing nearly as much as we should be. And of course...as I always say in this damn news section, Pretty much just been sitting around, listening to music, watching T.V., being a bum, the usual. We're the lamest kids in the world...it's pathetic. It's all just the routine and the repetition. There have been a few concerts here and there. They're the reason why I get up and make it through week after week. Now stoopid Utah is changing the liquor laws so you have to be over 18 to enter an establishment that serves alcohol...I.E.-Clubs. So that pisses me off. I hate this state.
The Cain Conspiracy has been practicing...for more info on the band or shows or stuff like that...head on over to the music page and go to the local bands.
Well anyway...
I'll update again sometime. (hopefully not like 9 months later again)
Lata,
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About Us
Austin
Austin C. Stokes: AKA: Ratboy, and Stokely. I'm an emo kid, and a Realist. Music is one of the greatest things that has ever happened to me. I love God...my friends...music...and computers. I take alot of risks that some people would call crazy; I call it fun. Yeah...I'm a freaking psycho. I enjoy getting hit by cars. I like looking for adventure. I love playing the hero. Even if it means being a tragic hero. I would do anything for my friends. Paintballing is my favorite sport (I'm not into sports). I am a pretty laid back guy but can get uptight pretty easily... I especially enjoy being lazy and watching T.V.
I'm pretty useless. I'm not a skater, or a blader. I despise scooters . I'm a pyromaniac. I can't get enough of that wholesome goodness of flame. I like explosives. I like destruction. I like playing with phsycology. I try to help people through this fucked up world as much as possible. The world is shit so i do my best. Remember life is pain. All in all, I'm a pretty decent guy.
Mike
Michael J. Wallace: I am a BUM. I don't do anything useful, and I'm proud of it. I like punk, hardcore, and straight-edge music. I'm am sXe (POISON FREE FOR LIFE). I do two sports, paint-balling and wrestling, the only sports I'm good at. I don't know what else to say, except I'm not Jewish. Some people say I'm funny, I say I'm an ediot. Anyway I'm sick of typing, late.
Steve
Steven S. Taylor: AKA: Stevo. I'm a wierd fucked up guy that hangs with punks, and sXe and hardcore people, I'm laid back unless you piss me off, then im an ass. or if your just stupid then ill just be an ass anyway, im known as the ass man, and clinicly insane, people are afraid of me, but im not really a scary guy. im also moody with out my pills. im also in a band and i play the bass, i love and live with my bass, unlees im with my goat "Obadiah"
my favortie band is boy hits car, followed by system of a down, then AFI.
Wetzel
Daniel Wetzel:
hello, Im daniel wetzel, Ive lived in the same place for 16 years. I like BBQ chicken and buffalo wings. i am a good child Thanx for choosing Charmin. if you care anything about life or just want to know more about me then e-mail me other wise im not spending time writing about me
e-mail fanboy69@hotmail.com
Colin
Hi , I'm Colin
I'm an all around punk
(Back-to-basics Rock, Old School Punk, New School Punk, Street Punk, Ska, Hardcore, Old School Hip-Hop)
I hate Big business and Most Pop-culture(mostly fashion ...it's crap)
punk, hardcore and all other things holy.. have become main-stream......
..I WILL BE HEARD!!!! THE WORLD OF POP-CULTURE &MTV should DIE!!!!!, ALL RIGHT.....
All you mainstreamer are going to change in years to come an LOOK BACK AND LAUGH...... because revolution is the only solution & all things come to pass.... it all will be right if your ever bored email me - punx_1986@hotmail.com - i check my mail weekly
Jon
Jon d. vigil: hey there my name as you must have guessed by now is jon my friends on an occasion call me vigil, but most of the time i am known as joe's little bitch (i mean brother) . i like punk because it kinda makes me want to get out and do something (which is rare for a full time bum) and i like to skate because it is an addrenaline rush and a way to get away from things. me and the crew live in bitchville utah and i love anarchy so if you are ever in the area look us up and we will kick your ass.....
well this concludes my bio so see ya around.
Hozer
ose Cordova: AKA: Hozer, Hose. I'm a hopless romantic. I enjoy girls, computers, girls, stealing cars (just a mexican joke), girls, good old fashioned wholesome fun...(like parties). And doing things like...girls. Paintballing is great. I listen to pretty much anything until it annoys me, i listen mostly to things with bass. If you think Austin's a pyro stear clear of me. All in all i'm pretty easy to get along with. My favorite quotes are "Uh Hose", and "HOZER!!!"
Actually my favorite quote is "Sex is evil. Evil is sin. Sin is forgiven, so let's begin".
Email me at....adidasmillenium@icqmail.com
By the way....girls are evil.
L8er,
Hozer.

Nate (enter your text here)
Joey (brokenlink)
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Photos
first off...i apologize for the lack of pics. hopefully i will be getting more.

I love this part. Here are the pictures that will keep you entertained for a couple of minutes. I'll be adding new ones when I get them.
The Negative Page
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Just Click On A Link To View The Site.
http://www.epitaph.com
http://www.fatwreck.com
http://www.nitrorecords.com
http://www.paintballgear.com
http://www.paintball.com
http://www.hotmail.com
http://www.ubgear.com
http://www.victoryrecords.com
http://www.indecisionrecords.com
http://www.interpunk.com
http://www.shockwave.com
http://www.joecartoon.com
http://www.smurf.com
http://www.pulpphantom.com
http://www.songmeanings.net
http://www.angelfire.com/ut2/hozer/home.html

The great links. Links on everything from Punk Rock, to Anarchy, to clothing shops, even simple email providers.
(If the links dont work as they should, plz contact me.)
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PUNK!
The Local Bands!!!
Upcoming Concerts
Click here to view our short list of good bands...
18 Visions
Adamantium
Adyingdaydream
AFI
All Out War
American Nightmare
Anti-Flag
Aquabats
Arma Angelus
Army of One
As Friends Rust
As the Sun Sets
At The Gates
Ataris
Atom and His Package
Atreyu
Avenged Sevenfold
Bad Religion
Black Flag
Bleeding Through
Blood For Blood
Bludge
Blue Skies Burning
Botch
Bouncing souls
Boy Hits Car
Boy Sets Fire
Boys Night Out
Broken Standard
Buired Alive
Cataract
Catharsis
Cave-in
Converge
Course of Action
Curl Up and Die
Darkest Hour
Dashboard Confessional
Dead Fucking Last
Deadguy
Death By Stereo
Diesel Boy
Dillenger Escape Plan
Down By Law
Downset
Dropkick Murphys
Drowningman
Earth Crises
Enforsaken
Ensign
Eso-Charis
Esoteric, The
Evergreen Terrace
Face Down
Flogging Molly
Fury Of 5
From Autumn To Ashes
Glasseater
Glassjaw
God Forbid
Good Riddance
Grade
Guttermouth
Hatebreed
Hope Conspiracy
Hopesfall
Integrity
It Dies Today
Juniper Complex
Lagwagon
Lamb Of God
Less Than Jake
Me First and The Gimmie Gimmies
Millencolin
Minor Threat
Misfists
Mustard Plug
New Day Rising
New End Original
No Innocent Victim
No Use For A Name
NoFX
One Breath
Oskar
Out Of Order
Out To Win
Over My Dead Body
Pennywise
Perfect Circle
Poison The Well
Portraits of Past
Prevent Falls
Propagandhi
Ramones
Rancid
Recover
Red Roses For A Blue Lady
Remembering Never
Rise Against
Saves The Day
Screeching Weasel
Season of Fire
Sex Pistols
Shadows Fall
Shai Hulud
Shutdown
Skycamefalling
Spark Lights The Friction
Snapcase
Straght Faced
Stretch Arm Strong
Strife
Suicide Note
System Of a Down
Ten Foot Pole
This Day Forward
Thrice
Throwdown
Thumb
Thursday
TSOL
Unbroken
Unearth
Unseen
Unsung Zeros
Unwritten Law
Used, The
Vandals
Violent Femms
Vodo Glow Skulls
Welcome To Your Life
Will Haven
Zao
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Paint Ball
You run to the next tree and scan the surrounding shrubbery. No one. You slowly move forward towards a clearing. You sit at the edge and peer in. Still no one. "Where is everyone?" you think to yourself. You cautiously enter the clearing. You catch a glimpse of movement to your left. As you turn your head, time seems to slow to a crawl. As if in slow motion you see someone stand up and point his gun at you.
You know that your doomed and try to run. Your body wont move faster than a snail. You suddenly here a small pop and watch as the small projectile hurls towards you. Helpless. Completely helpless. Welcome to the world of paint ball.
A great adrenaline rush. This sport mixes aim, tactics, and speed. Unlike it's watered down version, laser tag, when your hit....it hurts.....like hell. There are many scenarios and ways to play, but it's basically the same. Use tactics and talent to shoot your enemy before he shoots you. This is the greatest game. The idea of having an actual battle arena where people kill each other is said to be the ultimate, but paint balling is close enough.

Paintball is expanding in our general area. If you enjoy paintball or would like to pick up on it...we'd be happy to help you out and give you someone to play with. We are always looking for players. If you would like to come play with us sometime. Talk to one of the players listed below or you can even call me. My number is 435-882-3292.
Theories
Our Main Players:
Austin Stokes-
Mike Wallace-
Nate Labruzza-
Joey Nix-
Stevo Taylor-
Andrew Stagg-
Keith Vonneiderhousen-
Josh Erickson-
Anatoliy Balan-

*we play with many different players in the surrounding area...these are the people that I play with frequently...
Scheduled Games:
Month : Day : Day of Week : Time
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November : 9th : Saturday : Noon
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Theories
Here are several of the theories that we have come up with. There will probably be more on it as I get the ambition to actually write them down. I understand that some of these will make me seem crazy as hell....but oh well.

Theory Of Time/Distance Interaction
Imagine, if you will, time as a line. A solid material line. Then imagine distance as a line as well. Time and distance exist one right next to the other. You cannot bend time without bending distance as well. In order to change time you must simultaneously change distance. This explains how we are able to have time change. The Earth revolves around the sun. The Earth is changing distance, therefore it changes time as well. Think of time as a cloud. Think of the Earth as an airplane. now imagine the airplane flying through a cloud. The same principle is applied to time. Earth is like a plane flying through time which is represented as the cloud. Every part of the cloud is it’s own part. Every part of the bubble that we call time, is it’s own time. Distance is matched with the time so that you move into a different spot which is it’s own time.
mike & austin

Theory of Time...(Time Travel and Stoping Time)
Time may theoretically be stopped if distance is no longer changed. Due to the interaction of time and distance, in order to change time you must change distance. So if you no longer change distance, you will no longer change to a different time. On a side theory, ghosts can be explained as people who have the ability to stop time. If they stop distance, they then stop time. Once time has stopped you are free to do anything. Say you stop time, walk into somebody's house, knock over a lamp, then resume time once you are outside again. Time will continue and the lamp will then fall. It would seem that the lamp had not been touched for you would have never been seen.
mike & austin

Theory of Heaven and Hell
The locations known to us as heaven and hell have an explanation of how they exist. In these places you are there for eternity, there is no time. Therefore Heaven and Hell may just be locations outside of time itself. If you think of time as an atmosphere, a bubble, then there must be boundaries to the amount of space it consumes. Heaven and Hell are simply outside of this bubble allowing for an everlasting eternity.
mike & austin

Theory of Blackholes and Opposite Magnetic Pull
Black Holes may be such as a reverse magnet. An "Anti-matter". If a black hole is matter with a reverse pull, it will act like two opposite poles of a magnet and suck the opposite pole, matter, into it. You can not fall through an object because you have the same magnetic pole. When you get close enough the magnetic field repels us away from the object. Black holes are patches of matter wiath a different pole so it attracts us (Matter with our pole). Once it passes through however it is once again unable to be gone through because like the other side of a magnet, it will repel. Therefore black holes may be one sided wormholes. You can travel great distances at an unimaginable speed. Once through you cannot use the same portal to return.
Created by Austin.

Theory on Cats
Theory On Cats...
All cats are really dead...

Theory on Pop
I'll write this when I get enough ambition to do so...
-Theory by Mitch Anderson
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and that was really it....

did you get the memo?

2009-10-25T15:55:00.002-06:00

A lot of times people are riding a music wave, which keeps swelling with and additional push with a wave of other bands, genres, themes, record labels, etcetera. etc. now in the case of Lauren Cooper's recent music blog (but not meant for just her) i say get used to it. remember when bands like the Byrd's or the monkeys or the beetles or the mommas and the papas.

remember when pop music just names off the person who sings and not the band that backs them? or that the rolling stones are inanimate objects or ac dc is just electric current? The Who? oh the Who! wait there was a band that is just a mistype THE THE. nope they are a band. the cure, cure nothing. they are depressing. i guess they cure happiness.

it is not about the name of the band it is about the music. it is not about the people that listen to it. it is about listening or not listening. its about how the music makes you feel not how the names make you mad.

and over everything.... it isn't about you it is about them. bands don't name them self for your pleasure. they name them selves based on whatever they want. sometimes it reflects art life music secrets jokes etc.

casiotone for the painfully alone is for everybody not just those in pain. Nine inch nails use a casiotone... it is an instrument.
animal collective and the sound of animals fighting are people trying to anonymous in a world where someone always get pushed as the head or front man....

AFI doesnt care if you think their image has changed.. because it has. the music changed too. but so has the times....

and the times they are a changing..... and you will change too.

POTTERS @ COPPER PALATE PRESS

2009-10-14T15:54:00.001-06:00

Stuck in the folds of time

2009-10-09T00:02:00.002-06:00

it is strange how fast time flies. for me time has past by in folds. every night at work i fold paper to slip under the door of a guest. bills. every morning i fold paper to put a car inside. envelope. around mid day i fold paper for binding books and making art. signature. I fold my clothes, my sheets, socks, money.

◯
my mind
◯

meeting after meeting i feel like no solution has been reached. the $$$$ is important. but my time is money. i found a way to optimized my cash. work at night when you are awake. its like money is coming to you in your dreams.

the empty halls and streets and windows and ☐'s

✓
✓✓
✓✓✓
✓✓✓✓
✓✓✓✓✓
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✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
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and now the ticks are done i am also done talking.

After 15 Months...

2009-09-15T11:23:00.002-06:00

Before s. Christopher Vincent left for Europe we made a pact that once he returned (in February) we were going to travel out to San Fran to get Jennifer Long to cut our hair. While in Europe Chris decided to extent his stay from nine months to 15 months. but we still made the trip to San Fran, and met with Jennifer in Golden Gate park. Chris went back fro the last six months and stayed in Utah to withstand the hot summer in Utah with shoulder length hair. Now that he has returned we have cut our hair. It all came off.

here are a set of GIFs i made of the difference between 15 months and 15 mins

The Disclaimer by Ron Carlson : Cut-up after w.s.Burroughs/b.Gynsin

2009-09-03T03:41:00.002-06:00

though I've tried the text absolutely verbatim
all the lights on late at night
I suppose I knew I was going to be alone
under the most beautiful tree on the Interstate
if I was driving back late from her house
quietly and inextricably
the airport
eighth south
I wrecked from all the waiting
time
I also should add
I wanted to
but it is
is
easier to give up
get caught
imagine
I stood so many nights whispering this
beautiful bold
repeated pattern
golden secrets
a blizzard
I stood so many midnights under
the fluorescent lights
the sky
a mile in every direction, some kind of perfect setting
some nights that time time itself dissolved
those intoxicating nights
nights under bright lights
the chilly fall nights
I put that in the book
where
reading this
every word
wanting to say the words
what am i going to do,
Nothing-
coincidental or otherwise-
so lost
-no resemblance
a girl you once knew, some woman
her body
modern love, disappeared
and you know
but do not study or understand
to look in a book
now exit
start again
see again
see for the first time
CUT-UP by
Colin Roe Ledbetter

Arrows part B

2009-08-31T18:27:00.001-06:00

this image was part of a project by MIN HEE CHANG i found the shirt took a picture and sent it back to her. this is what she did with it and sent it back to me. i approve. it is so me.

Sleeping Dog Days

2009-07-21T01:27:00.004-06:00

Man it seems like years ago that i had a free summer, and two of my main men seem to be out of commission. s.Chris Vincent is in Germany, and Colby Seegmiller is heard to be somewhere in the salt lake valley. I haven't seen him, in almost a year, when i snuck him his birthday present.

and once again like the night we sent s.C into the wild world of Europe i will be spending my summer at my fathers house. sitting, thinking, drinking, and throwing ball to my best friend Maurice.

much is to be said of my fathers house and the time i have spent there. the things i have expericanced and the time i have had away from the real world an island in the middle of a salty sea.

this may be the year where the most things have changed and over the least amount of time.

this is my fifth summer sitting in the house. it may be my seventh or eight time in four years.

dear colby, come spend some nights bbqing in the back yard, you should be 21 by this point for god sake, and i miss you dearly. your wife is also missed by me and should let go of your balls a little so you both could come out on dates with angie and I. happy birthquake

and s.Chris, Angela is getting very fed up with this long hair and wants to chop it off in my sleep, she has come close. but i have just started being more of an insomniac and i hid the scissors.

but in all seriousness the fall and spring of this year should be above and beyond what any school year has been since we all started college and rightfully so

Taylor, Stokes, Nix, and Wilxore with out you guys much of my sanity would be out the door.
Ian, Davey our short time together keeps getting better and better.

the Copper Palette press kids are some of the best people to work with and i am glad i am part.

time to get working.

the Copper Palate Press

2009-06-14T09:21:00.003-06:00

So some print students and myself are opening up a space behind the old Guthrie's building. it will have space for most kinds of print making and photo printing.
here is a picture of bryan drilling... more pictures when i have more time.

2009-06-05T09:33:00.003-06:00

The man in 210.
Why is it that from noon til 8 you leave your door wide open. While you cook, watch television, take naps, possibly masterbate etc.
Is it to create air flow, because you only have one window? Because that would be true in a house but you need to at least open the hall window.
You should reconsider. It weirds me out. I already feel like we live in the building in quarantine. Word life

2009-06-04T10:17:00.003-06:00

The summer is not just begining and and I feel like I haven't done anything but work; moving various people around the valley, working at the hardware store, working on the studio, etc...

Being that this is my first summer with out school, my schedule is out of wack. I have nowhere to be in the morning so I sleep more. Maybe once the studio is finished I will have somewhere to go.

I am shooting a wedding in one month. I am applying for a grant in the fall. I am waiting for S. Chris Vincent to arrive back in the states so we can speak to each other in german. ... Word to your mother.

2009-06-03T18:17:00.003-06:00

Hero
Villain

Images from Becoming The Machine

2009-05-12T12:23:00.000-06:00

notes from the underground.

2009-05-07T07:31:00.001-06:00

http://community.kutv.com/blogs/games/archive/2009/05/07/4024093.aspx

Photography by numbers

2009-04-21T12:23:00.000-06:00

As a photographer and an artist I question what I am doing everyday. What is Photography? What is Art? Is Digital better than Analog? But my favorite question to ask is, “how can I talk about the digitalness of photography in a way that hasn’t been addressed as art yet?”
I look at a digital photograph as nothing but electrons. There is nothing real about a digital photo, except possibly the scene or moment in which it captured, but even those can be manipulated.
As a Photographer I have one thought that keeps running through my mind. Without lenses or light I would not be a photographer. I also look to the source of light for inspiration. So isn’t it awesome that I found the source for my idea in a book about the solar system? I think so!
While leafing through the book, a black and white image of the moon caught my eye. [Img1] Images of space are “processed by light sensors instead of conventional photographic methods.” These sensors break apart the images into a grid of pixels.[Img2]
These pixels, or picture elements, break apart the image in numerical averages of light in each cell of the grid. 255 represent pure whites; 0 represent pure blacks, and 123 represents middle grays. The grayscale, from 0-255, is a 256-step gradient of luminosity.[Img3]
When the satellite takes a picture of the moon it captures it as numbers and transmits them to an earthly computer, which converts the pixel information back to the familiar picture.
This idea intrigued me, and I set forth turning one digital image into a grid of numbers. I found an image that was similar to the image of the moon, having contrast between blacks grays and whites, to see if a similar aspect would occur.
While looking at the grid of numbers I could see the shape of the crater. But it had opposite values, like a film negative before the print is made. I noticed that the numerical information is like the density of silver in film. Where there is no silver the film is transparent, when printed it is black. Whites are the densest area on a negative like that of 255.
I now needed to convert the image into a numerical grid. My first thought was to call NASA and have them email me the program that they use to do the opposite. But I realized that if they had it would not be declassified to me. Using Photoshop I found a way to read each pixel and get its information. I would have to zoom into the image and use the eyedropper tool to get the amounts.[Img4, Img5]

The image I am using is an abstract figure with hexagonal tattoos. The hexagons contrast the light grays of the body and will likely be seen in the numerical grid, but as a negative.[Img6]

Negative information and Translated image

artist statement.

Photography by Numbers: Becoming the Machine

What is a photograph, but an image recorded by light and a light sensitive receiver?
In traditional photographic processes, light bounces off of objects and is captured through a lens on to a light sensitive film. After the film is chemically developed, the film holds a negative image. The negative is placed into an enlarger and light is projected through the film to produce a positive image on another light sensitive material. This then also has to be chemically developed for an image to appear.
A digital camera has a light sensitive receiver, which captures information in a negative numerical format. Light travels through a lens and is measured by a light sensor measuring luminosity on a scale from 0-255 (pure black – pure white). The image is divided into a grid of pixels, or picture elements. Each pixel holds a number for the luminance of that part of the image. These pixels can add to or detract from the quality of the image.
I have decided that there is no need for the computer to translate my digital image, unless you understand the language of luminosity. There are 256 characters that build this visual language. Zeros are black and as the number goes up to 255 it becomes white.
When you replace each pixel with the numerical information that it represents, you will get a negative. Similar to a film negative, the white values are dense with silver halide crystals and the black values are more transparent. The Pixel holding a zero, or black, had more white surrounding it. And the opposite is true with 255 having more black than white.

This is the language. You are the computer. Translate. This is a photograph.

Hey! Jude

2009-04-20T16:58:00.000-06:00

Arrows

2009-04-20T16:05:00.000-06:00

Modern Writing (sent from cell phone)

2009-04-16T07:55:00.001-06:00

I think that writing papers in modern times is a strange concept. If the class doesn't specify what kind of paper you are writing you could write a poem or dictate oral speech. And i could write a paper that through twitter or a blog space. A paper could be written by a phone. I think using technology will make us see hand writing, physically printed text, or handmade papers as fetished items.
Personally I have terrible handwritting for other people to read. I got lost in the 4th grade between cursive and print. We had almost gotten to the point where we just used a computer to do all papers or assignments.
How can i be graded on something that is almost dead as a kind of academic practice. No one grades me on my day to day conversations through the internet or sms. Where does it all fit in?

Simplifying Technology

2009-04-13T16:50:00.000-06:00

Ahem... Student Show 2009

2009-04-09T12:26:00.000-06:00

My platinum/ Palladium Nudes of Austin Stokes, Steve Taylor, Joey Nix, s.Christopher Vincent and myself are going to be a part of this show. come to the opening please

Sarah Martin's Yeti

2009-03-30T20:52:00.001-06:00

one of many to come.

Polaroids

2009-03-05T12:23:00.000-07:00

click to see

Polaroids

Man, If. (esto)

2009-03-04T10:36:00.000-07:00

International DADA Brownsuit

2009-03-03T21:10:00.000-07:00

Davey Davis
For a moment was Yves Klein

Davey "Yves Klein" Davis

and He jumped into the void.

His Post on DADA ROBOTNIK

Sun/star Bursts

2009-02-11T09:27:00.000-07:00

Analyse : Photographs

2008-12-10T09:26:00.000-07:00

Single print of images altered while listening to Analyse by Thom Yorke off The Eraser
See it in person

Color preview 1.0

2008-12-04T01:17:00.001-07:00

This rough thought played out in an odd way. shot 4 different times and projected on a kodak Audio/Viewer

landscapes with vegetables

Drafts of final projects... 1.0 Advanced

2008-11-21T09:08:00.000-07:00

Photographs not taken by my hand, but by a Photo booth.

Hey!

2008-11-04T15:49:00.000-07:00

UPAC

Up and Coming

2008-11-03T23:49:00.000-07:00

I have been spending a lot of nights in the studio. I wish i had my own. it would make working on my final project for color a lot easier than it is at the moment. also i have a new project using the photo booth. lets see what comes of that.
alternative has been educational and digital has been informative.

i am working on 8 or nine things at once and it is hard to keep the timing straight.

maybe i will post something in the future worth your intertime.

Utah Photographic Arts Council

2008-10-30T16:09:00.000-06:00

UPAC

Digital Imaging...

2008-10-23T08:59:00.001-06:00

This class is not my favorite place to be with my work but i do what i can even if i would rather not be doing digital work

Ink

2008-10-14T10:02:00.000-06:00

more permanent than this code of 1's & 0's

Pussy Cat

2008-10-04T17:49:00.000-06:00

Cell Photos

2008-08-21T15:00:00.000-06:00

I have been using my cell phone to take photographs of the city and other surrounding that i exist in everyday. I use the cell phone for its bad quality compared to a higher megapixel SLR camera. the Cellphoto has a painters stroke abstraction of what the real image should be. here are a few things of them.

In Love

2008-08-15T17:36:00.000-06:00

I have been working on a few things this summer. A series of pictures of the environment and myself interacting. maybe i will show this some day. here is an image. if you would like to see more email me.

Two Years and Counting.

2008-08-15T17:31:00.001-06:00

I made a screen print of you brother. ten layers of wonder. every one of those layers make up you and they are translated into a part of me. the ink which i shall implant in the skin of my chest. I will carry you with me for my life brother. May I never have to see the day the develop the ash site of you my brother. suburban motherfuckers. they desecrate my mother, earth, and i hope to your memory that i have swallowed more of your ash then they will ever touch with a shovel.

We all miss you.

Readoholics

2008-08-15T17:16:00.000-06:00

I haven't had so much free time in the last year than what i have had in the last three weeks. It was nice to have about twelve days off of work and nine from school but at the same time i haven't been so bored in my life. I decided that my flat was very large and unfilled and i like it that way and it might not change no matter how long i live there. the walls are not so bare now. and i have read a few books i have neglected for a while. the fridge has condiments and photo chemicals inside and the freezer has a very small ice tray. ice mostly for scotch. I sleep on a hammock on the deck overlooking a light-railway and a highly trafficked area because of the dangerous curves that present themselves as a auto-mans sexual lust for curves. I look upon the city and watch the lights dance. sitting in the light is the most relaxing thing i do now but it keeps me up, admiring the waves of light. I think i have no need for furniture because of the thought of Highway Furniture v. Pontiac Le Mans and the lack of care those people had for that low speed object on a high speedway.
stroll of your cares boys.

love lines...

2008-07-31T08:53:00.000-06:00

phone calls. open dialog with friends. trying to fix something that is broken. chosen one. no sense in not trying.

851#202

2008-07-26T03:43:00.000-06:00

Self Evicted. I am now a surfer of the couch. I have moved out. leaving bits and bobs on the ground, these pieces of me are just useless garbage. I filled your house with all my junk the stuff i felt was worth keeping. words, and papers that mean nothing now but once were the building blocks on which i stood.

Awake now for over twenty-four hours i may continue this another 48 if possible i might even just stay awake until Wednesday night when i go out and suck back a few cold Bs and chat with fellow colleges. and stumble home at 15mph on Sarah. well I really have no home. i have, for too long lived in the AAC and WFM and barely at the 851. and now the 202 is no more. it will not continue too long.

now all i need is a new place to live.
I just keep red lining and all i can see are red lines in my eyes and deep pockets that pointing at the E on the gauge of sleep. low on fuel. out of oil. but some how i keep burning and powering forward.
until my eyes fog over.
and i pass out.
erase
and start again.
lv1

Hey Brother

2008-07-22T11:44:00.000-06:00

Happy Birthday Colby Jon Seegmiller. You are one year closer to be able to drink at a bar with me. Love you Man.

Hot Snakes

2008-07-16T19:20:00.000-06:00

It's HOT as shit. The ONLY way to cool down is a nice cold beer and a fan. It is also more humid than its been all year. if it would have just rained a bit more and didnt sprinkle in the morning it would be a much cooler afternoon.

Tomorrow is going to be rad. Andrew Bird is playing. I might be getting my wisdom teeth yanked out of my skull and i have a work meeting that i might not be quite sober for.

God Damn the Summer.

Auto mo' bile.

2008-07-07T23:06:00.000-06:00

Auto mo' bile. The automobile has killed more of my friends than anything. Flip and Broil. Crash and Crush. Fuck... Car Sickness is not just because of the interior motion. When i see cars in motion i get sick.

Rash

2008-07-01T21:21:00.001-06:00

Road rash is a bitch. I am just happy i didn't get hit by the bus. one week later scabs are healed and shits is better

2008-07-01T10:55:00.000-06:00

i pushed my self down a fight of stairs just to see if it changed how i felt about them. it pains me to say nothing changed. (<--not a real situation yet...)

I have been working on a few art projects at once. the photos have two sides to them: there is a series of new discoveries with nowhere places and then there are the new experience by falling in nowhere places.

the photographs have nothing to say to you as a viewer but to me the image i retain of the environment while a photograph is taken is what the photos really about.

To Sarah Martin

2008-06-21T23:48:00.000-06:00

To My Dear Sarah Martin,
Happy Birthday. I will give you good fabricated money for these: Please?

062108

2008-06-21T23:34:00.000-06:00

Six Months later: Same house. different situation. Type setting. type typing. write writing. bike biking. drink drinking. print printing. shoot shoot shooting. Time to make a sandwich.

Power (off)

The Red Line

2008-06-16T08:27:00.000-06:00

Chris says i am redlining. the RPM's are at max and i cant push myself further or my engine will break. since i ride a bike that means me. i am going to be redlining until Thursday. does anyone want to be waiting at the finish line to see if i do finish?

Dream State (utah)

2008-06-13T16:52:00.000-06:00

My dreams are part of my state of consciousness.
What I really see is overlapped by what I interpret and my memory all going at one time.
I feel it is like when I read a book.
You see Text, but you see the story before your eyes and you or at least I, have the things I have been thinking of all day overlapping one another.
that is all.

DECtructionary

2008-06-10T01:15:00.000-06:00

December, the year’s climax,is the beginning of something beautiful. Its spent in the house I was never raised in, but call my own once a year. It is sunrise and sunset at the same time. The year goes down in flames and the rises anew from the ashes like a Phoenix. Two years ago, the death by Highway Furniture verses Pontiac Le Mans made us recreate ourselves. Last year shook more than just our baby it shook our souls. This year creation is the new destruction. The body eats at itself to live. The mind melts down causing the body to quiver and twitch, producing works unknown to the mind. I have thrown myself into the fire. I am fuel for man’s greatest creation. That which creates or is created can destroy or be destroyed. Tragedy incites the reevaluation of meaning.

Velocipedephile

2008-05-19T13:25:00.000-06:00

Movement gears education to help connect learning and progress with transportation, assembled into a well fit spinning whole. The essential climb, the ambrosial complex childish movement through nature on a cadence apparatus. The sprint rapidly thrusts for purpose, happiness, enjoyment and calenture. Community based on equilibrium, velocity and planetary homeostasis, etcetera.

$2,400 Is NOT Equal To Zero

2008-05-11T22:45:00.000-06:00

Ha, Balls. Some how i have failed to save money for summer semester and have to figure out a way to make some cash super fast by the 27th or resort to getting a loan/ credit card that i paid off before summer was over. Ah, living in a generation of debt and credit cards and no one has a savings account or thought of the future because every moment changes and is the future.

Fucking Whale!, sunk my Van.

Keep the Dream Alive.

Oh God Yes...

2008-05-07T16:39:00.000-06:00

Oh My God!, Russian Circles' new album Station is fucking bad ass and rocking. I do not have loud enough speakers to turn it up as far as it can without making my ears bleed.
Brian Cook on bass. I rode in a van from Copenhagen with Brian and these arms are snakes. he is also in Roy. musical genius.

I cant wait till they come back to SLC.

The Times They Are Changing...

2008-05-02T21:57:00.000-06:00

Everything is all i have to give you. I can only give so much though. because i don't have much. and daily the supply of what i have gets less and less. the only thing i can plan for myself at this moment is a nice drink and a book. I am not a writer but she thinks i am. i don't write. fuck. vampires. I just think or exist. we all think and some words are formed.
at this point i am unsure of myself. i could take any path. single and missing the point. i just need someone to spend time with because i value time because i barely have any time. if i give you time it is because you mean something. she will never understand. they never do. I don't just sit... if i am sitting it is because i am moving my legs and the bike is moving. so sit down and understand the times they are a changing and i have more time now than ever. why should i spend it alone?

Bread Experiment II

2008-05-01T12:32:00.000-06:00

Remember that bread project i did in the fall? well i do, but i only remember because i still had the flour and yeast to make more. It was really the only food i had in my house for the last month.

I decided i couldn't take it any more and baked 3 loafs of bread. when they were done i ate them. but they were super thick and it might have not had enough yeast or something.

i am not a baker for sure.

Spring Show 08

2008-04-11T21:41:00.000-06:00

Not A Dream

2008-04-10T07:12:00.000-06:00

I have been working out a 3D problem about "dreams" these last two weeks. it is very odd to think about how dreaming affects ones day. see. as i see it i do not dream in my sleep and i day dream constantly. even as i sit and type this thought there is something between me and the computer and even more so there is something in between that.
travel. destination. body part(in a sexy way not dismembered). colors. words. stories i have read.

because of this project it has been harder and harder to separate which is really happening and what is not. i also think that the amount of sleep helps destroy reality on top of that.

Spiral Jetty

2008-03-31T07:06:00.000-06:00

This Spring Break I went to Spiral Jetty, Utah Land Art, with a couple of friends. Last Year we (i say we as a general term, the people were different each time.) went to the Utah Tree

Universal Constant

2008-03-28T07:16:00.000-06:00

Constantly working, thinking, creating, consuming, excreting, listening, reading, philosophizing, fucking, sleeping, cleaning, destroying, F=G(m1m2/r^2), dying.

And somehow this all fits in my brain and in the time set by the universe.

Happy Two Years

2008-03-15T20:36:00.000-06:00

Even after two years i still think of that morning where your red hair hit the rising sun at just the perfect moment. your hair covering your face. the smell of a designer perfume and two weeks in heaven. Blue plate. spring has sprung once more and the snow decides to fall and not allow us to advance anymore. you and i are more intertwined than those last spring nights, we have more of a connection than the squid and the whale do. there was a reason for me to do what i did. and i think it has been beneficial to the both of us. you: almost connected to a ball and chain. I: changed for the better, E.M. has noticed something. she likes to point it out and try to figure out what could have happened to the hard me. There was and have been and always be a form of love between us.

the snow of spring is a truth that we cannot deny. I will always admit that it is there.

The Creation of Beauty is Art

2008-03-15T16:01:00.000-06:00

Enlightenment. It is a climb to reach enlightenment. In life there are many stages to reach the top out. I use many things to help me reach enlightenment: Knowledge, Nature and Reevaluation. I meditate with the Boulders in Little Cottonwood Canyon and in the book of great minds and i gaze into the mirror and through the lens to recompose what i see in life that creates beauty and flows well with the way i live.
That is all included into the sculpture i am making in my foundations 3D class.

Casino Blonde

2008-03-03T11:28:00.001-07:00

There it is. it is as tall as me and has me in it. but it is not me. it is something of a Pinocchio of me. wooden sculpture. fetish. totem. granite. books. nature. bastard. narcissistic. heavy. freestanding and full of power. it could kill me and almost has

Temporarily Out Of Stock

2008-02-24T22:03:00.000-07:00

Much of my time is spent in three places: Work, AAC, Bed. anywhere out of that is a pleasure. This weekend Angela and I went to look for places to shoot for a problem she has in class, followed by going shopping at trolley square and later going to the Hansen Planetarium to watch Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon laser light show. and also T, Th i spent my afternoons at nobrow coffee and tea. drinking coffee and tea. I finished Beat Hotel if I hadn't mentioned that already and was surprised to find out that Bill Burroughs was a Scientologist, or at least looked into it.
My time has been out of stock lately and the shipment is delayed because of a storm between the east and west coast, deep snows and floods of work and creation.
the customers are irate.

Pre-Death Bed

2008-02-17T06:23:00.000-07:00

I stare at my ceiling for hours studying the shadow depth created by wooden hanging structures and desk lamp that hanging on a vertical wall. The lungs want to collapse, the chest wants to explode, the eyes want to escape and the body just wants to die from aches and pains. The green mucus that projects itself into the hand, or if the hand isn't quick enough the sheets or wall or clothes, at every cough makes the body want to regurgitate. The coughs are painful. the breathing is raspy, parts of the body are rattling that shouldn't. The bodies internal thermometer is off or the thermostat is broken. the body will heat up until it is a sauna and the body removes layers of clothing just so that meltdown doesn't occur. once naked the body covered in sweat and burning up inside, suddenly the body jumps from equator to south pole. chills shoot up the spine and bumps of geese cover the body and the clothes have to go back on or the body shall freeze to death.

I stare at the ceiling. there is nothing i can do. i haven't been sick in almost a decade and i don't know how to care for myself. I just flood the body with water and lie in bed.

here are all the symptoms of Death in the Egyptian Book of Death: Blazing heat, freezing cold and then a feeling of exploding in all your parts.

hope i am alive to finish what i have started.

disappointment followed by comfort.

2008-02-10T08:46:00.000-07:00

Ikea Lack shelves didn't come with the mounting things i needed so i could only hang one of four.
Amazon.com split my purchases into two deliveries and the one i didn't need came first and the other one will not be here til Monday.

the best maple syrup is the one that makes me look like an alcoholic.
Northern Comfort
or NoCo if you will
it is best on vegan waffles

Bike

2008-02-10T08:32:00.000-07:00

In a conversation with Angela somethings appeared that i never thought of before.
+Ride a bike it saves time and money.
-but time is money, then if i ride more than i loose potentially earned money.
+but money is also time, time spent earning money, the more you save money the more you save time.
if you take the time to ride a bike you save money as well as time which are one in the same.

and while writing this another interesting thing came about.
when spending money on gasoline you are spending money & time but time^3. gasoline is also time and money. or Oil is anyway. and it is made up of time, money is time, and and filling up takes a lot of time...

i am done thinking...

Sewing The Seeds Of Love

2008-02-04T10:50:00.000-07:00

I work at the Wild Oats in downtown Salt Lake City. It is on two major roads and a major stop on the UTA Trax line. Trolley. because of these thing i get to meet a lot of interesting people every day. and some crazies and some dumbs.

the best are the crazies. those people who come in 4 or 5 times a day. think that they are gods of the world and think that they can treat you like a lower being because they shop so often and those people that are really just nuts. nuts i say.
ex. "Where is Cracker Land?" says a woman looking to find the crackers. "It is next to Cheese Island." i say because cheese has its own little circle of coolers around it and it doesn't touch any other department.

the dumbs. they are alright. but i know they have NO idea that they are in a health food store or a store that promotes and supports better products than those that are advertised for a million times a day. this happens near the beer cooler more than anywhere for me.
ex. "do you have domestic beer... say like Coors", "no, but we have Pabst (PBR)"Pabst isnt real beer."
ex."Do you have REGULAR potato chips?" "umm, yes, but you want Lays don't you." "Yes." well then no we do not have regular potato chips. but we have all these other kinds that are irregular"

damn people are dumb.

the other are the interesting people for me those are friends and people i can connect with because we chat about food or the store or whatever. this also includes the home less and insane. there is an old man that sits on the mezzanine and we chat about what is is produce and what is in grocery and how cats are the better than dogs because lions are cats but the dog doesn't have something like a lion. they are all the same size. other than great dane's. but great dane's couldn't fight a lion.

i also like the name of our store. Wild Oats. to me that promotes free love and sexual intercourse without boundaries.
sewin' Wild Oats

Things

2008-02-03T11:22:00.000-07:00

they are looking good.
maybe going right back to where they were before.
weekend love sessions at weirds hours.
4am
8am
usw.
it has been a year since we met

Remix

2008-01-30T23:36:00.000-07:00

The day consist of nothing
The snow falls when it pleases
The food comes off the shelf and in to the homes of the customers
I replace it or face it
I clock in and out
The sun rises and sets
nothing interesting happens
not in my dimension

Burning A Hole In Mind & Wallet

2008-01-30T07:37:00.001-07:00

The Spree continued today by spending $130 at Slowtrain and $100 at B-N
Cds:
The Deceberists - Her Majesty , Castaway and Cutouts
Jonah Matranga - And
Mirah - Joyride : Remixes
Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
Black Mountain - In The Future
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
Chris Walla - Field Manual
Books:
Jungle
Junky
Ham On Rye
Ask The Dust
Wait Until Spring, Bandini
Hot Water Music
Howl and Other Poems

Increase / Decrease

2008-01-25T20:58:00.000-07:00

I have gone on a recent spending spree, say almost a grand in 2 weeks not including food and art supplies. Zune, Timbuk2 XXL Pro Messenger Bag, $300+ of CDs, and a photo of my father.
The reason might be the intense cut down on alcohol consumption, and the large amount of free time since Ang and I have decided to take it a bit easy and look at a few other options on life.
One thing that has increased is the amount of time i put into art work and working at wild oats.
but things are looking up. with a new hair cut and a a work out regimen i feel better about almost everything. have to work out of the winter depression.
now all that needs to happen is to acquire more room for my living needs.

This is Shape.

2008-01-11T08:03:00.000-07:00

When one of my favorite local groups, When Frequencies Collapse, split I didn't know where they were going go from where they had already gone. WFC was traveling at a fast pace to the the height of a music renaissance. then like all bands that are doing something spectacular, i.e. At The Drive-In, their atoms split.

But now something else has formed from the primordial ooze of that big bang.
Shape.

and here is my early documentation of the heart and soul of Shape

Brandon Bailey

Christopher Vincent

Seconds til Midnight

2008-01-06T09:05:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow is the bottom of the third. the third year of school. By the looks of it i might not finish this game for at least another three innings. I am always up for bat. there are many of my friends playing the game but on a different field with a different team.
batters up.

Resolution

2008-01-02T22:24:00.000-07:00

I am going to be more fit, enjoy the outdoors, bike every day, climb every weekend, be professional in my school work, fast once a month for a week, show work in a gallery, get a fixed gear, get climbing gear, donate blood every 8 week until i get tattoos, buy a medium format camera, maybe a large format, spend time with my little brothers, and sister, spend time with all of my family: Taylor and Ledbetter, get a new wardrobe, paint the living room and my bedroom wall, shoot every chance i get, get a studio setup, fix my teeth, become fluent in German, Protest every chance i get, buy 100 Cd's, subscribe to all the magazines that i want, become a yogi, and never regret a moment in my life.

that's one long idea. give me a year lets see how it works.

Pen + Paper

2007-12-16T12:51:00.000-07:00

more archival, less publicized. It is better to use it during the cold time of year, and it helps me organize thoughts a bit more.

but paper trails... are easier to follow