Kia Ora! →
Sunday mornings are the best time for reading articles and posts, so perhaps you should mosey over to the TOKY blog and read a piece I wrote about some of my travel experience from last summer.
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(I)f I came here as a tourist, I wouldn’t really have an excuse to talk to people. I get an impression from every city by talking to people. At a show, people have just seen you do your most personal presentation. They’ve been singing along with songs that came from somewhere deep in your imagination. In some way it’s a kind of intimate experience with people who would otherwise be total strangers. I feel very lucky to be going on tour and to meet people in this way. Even after only talking to someone for two seconds we know that we have something in common. I was able to talk to many people tonight and I got the same impression from many people. The impression I got was that St. Louis is very supportive of the arts and supportive of people who are trying to do artistic things. There’s that rare feeling that people that live here feel that this place is good for them. This makes it easy for them to do their music or do their art. That to me is very exciting, and you don’t hear that everywhere you go.
— Greg Sauiner (of Deerhoof)
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Good news on this dreary Monday morning, as I’m finally allowed to announce this: good friend/killer illustrator (killustrator?) Noah MacMillan and I have been selected to collaborate on a print from the upcoming 2011 St. Louis edition of Artcrank. Among the other 29 contributors are numerous friends and role models: Dan Zettwoch, Amy Thompson of Paper Boat, former CDes-er Sam Washburn, Alexn Inhen of NextSTL, and of course, fellow TOKYs and friends Jamie Banks-George, Katy Fischer, and Kirsten O’Loughlin. What?! That’s not even half of the lineup.
The show runs May 12th–14th at Atomic Cowboy, and supports the exceedingly wonderful St. Louis BicycleWORKS. You can bet you’ll hear from me again on this.
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Somewhere between a home-video mixtape and a postmodern travelogue, “oops”—a ten-minute art video composed entirely of appropriated YouTube videos, seamlessly stitched together via a motif of camera drops—serves both as transportative adventure and metaphorical elucidation of YouTube itself (i.e. endless related videos), exemplifying the Internet’s infinite repository of “throwaway” social documentation.
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Blu is back.
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My homage to (read: “rip-off of”) Mark Weaver.
