NOTEBOOK doodles {2007&8}

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cart art

THERE YOU ARE!! a degenerate journal

this degenerate journal has been a long-time in the making.

back in 2008, i wrote and sent a call-for-entries to my friends & cohorts asking them to contribute travel stories & doodles & anything creative that could be printed. responses slowly trickled in and then i sort of lost motivation.

anyway, here we are in 2011...on the fourth of july...and i want to free this journal from my shackles and unveil this project to the public {or at least to "friends of friends"}

keep in mind...this journal is compiled of entries from folks in their mid-20's...thus acting as a kind of literary time capsule for our generation and specifically for my friends...I know I will look back longingly at these years when i revisit this journal in decades to come.

LINKS:

• viewing pdf
• printing pdf
• playlists:
•  there you are!
•  a degenerate mixtape

INSTRUCTIONS:

• download/look at the viewing pdf on your PC
• print the printing pdf
• ideally, print at copy center and give instructions to "pay attention to bleed and crop marks"
• IMPORTANT: print double sided color

anyway, that said ENJOY!

boston skater

iTUNES fireworks

scribbles from 2008

i didn't lift the pen from the pad until i was done.

+ - DEGENERATE MIXTAPE - +

FINALLY!!! my longest-running project has come to ripe fruition. on wednesday, i digitally published a journal that is composed of words and art BY & FOR my fellow compatriots & cohorts. its 122 pages.

public release is pending...

ANYHOW, this is the official mixtape of the degenerate journal. 

WARNING: the following music may cause random jerking movements in your arms & legs

RYAN MCGINNESS, like woah.

so you can download this background here on my site or if you want more options from the artist, click ryan mcginness downloads

VOID, part II

CRACK! a screenshot

TAKE ME HOME kinda mood

tomato vine

SIDE A of ross' ROADTRIP MIX: the youtube translation

a few months ago i made this mixtape for ross' cross country journey. i'm glad it saw him safely through his travels, but to be honest, i wish i could still listen to the gift that i sent him off with...

so i'm doing my best to recreate the mixtape with corresponding videos. some of them are official videos, while others are homemade videos. some are just the album cover and song.

and i even had to resort to yahoo mp3 streaming for the last track. apparently, fuzzy mountain string band didn't leave much in the way of video archives.. 

YAAAHHOOOOO!

                  

POOR JOHNNIE has gone to war: an mp3 b/c there was no video to be found

COLLEGE COLLAGESCANS

TRIBUTE TO MY COLLEGE YEARS...these are scans of scattered photos that mostly live in a box on my shelf...now with this cyber resurrection each of those pictures takes on a new context, part of a bigger picture.

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!