OP3_raw fun

all fun, rawdiggity-getdown&jiggity type o music. from instrumental tracks to whack raps to red hot jazz cats.



enjoy with an open mind & bottle o beer, ya hear?.

SCREENSHOT

my cousin and his wife on their first date...at some high school dance back in 2001. 

BIG SHOT WHISKEY WAWA, OP#2

this playlist is for chris hislop, a mentor of music and a decent guitar player and a great music writer.

SEXY_VOID

these images are the SEXY part of a collage series im working on called VOID. built in photoshop, all the images derive from scans and i just use simple ps techniques to assemble the pieces.

the backgrounds are jumbled with old Rx prescription paper reading: VOID. the subjects come from a copyright-free clip art book.

business

a snapshot of my life via the business cards i have.

LOST & DISCOVERED

about two weeks ago i came across this filthy slide film as i was crossing the street..

     

so i took these two pictures with my droid and decided to take the slide home...

here's a scan of the front and back...

here's what i came up with...

WHY? why do this? 

well, curiosity. plus, there's something magically chaotic about the the aesthetic of damaged film--film thats been subject to the cruel world of weather, pavement, dirt, freezing temperatures and fingerprints. the process is actually the interesting part, not so much the content...even though the content has become interesting through the process of being trashed. 

so, yes, i've adopted this slide film with love, care and good intentions...think what you will.

ONGOING PLAYLISTS numero uno

gritty-synthy-pop-hop-rock

what i prefer to do...

these photos were taken in april 2008 with a $17 kodak disposable camera purchased at vail. mike took all the pictures, except the one he's in. i took that one. some time later, i decided to develop these strips.


can you believe that was closing weekend? vail had just been hit with 3 feet of snow. trudging through all that powder was tough work, but someone had to do it.

#7.....last of the series

LOSE IT!!

me acting a fool to mark ronson's amazing song, LOSE IT! believe it or not, this was completely unplanned. the mood struck me and i hit 'record'.

ASS .............. #6

seasons greetings from 1912, #5

ken butler, my local hero.

interview with brooklyn artist, who says he's a dada constructivist of sorts...i'd FAST for 24 hours to play one of his guitars!

he clearly talks 10 words/second and has a real sense of humor...READ IT!

open studio

100 years ago, #4

tight squeeze

as a car owner in the city, you never want to come back to see this...

#3

BITE ME!

screenshot

#2, in a time when neither address nor state were necessary

ole' postcard series, #1

ROADTRIP mix

made this mixtape for ross' cross country journey. brooklyn was his first stop & i wanted to send him off properly. especially since his cd player just broke. anyway, see if you can find some of these songs...especially 'caravan', the duke ellington version.

strangers. strips.

notebook. photocopy. scan.

speaking of collages...

here's another digitally assembled collage, to celebrate the belated 1 year anniversary of DOORED. it was posted nov. 25th of 2009.

family collage

last month we celebrated my filipino grandparents 55th anniversary. relatives flew from around the country to join in festivities that inevitably involved dancing, musical performances, lots of food and booze, plus several family collages.

this is the final collage that i created on photoshop using some original photos and some sampled photos from two of my father's old collages.

this is a process shot.

these are samples of the collages he created in the mid-90's.