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I used to look up to the thre stooges as a kid, they were ultimate. Now I look up to someone more mediocre like my sister or a dude that wrote a book. "The newgeneration for whom art functions to intensify and exploit the imagination and it's connection to everyday life." It's a quote I could agree with if it wasn't written to sell artwork, cause now it sounds like an academic fart. From one panhandler to another, "Energy sells". Prison used to be heroic. A photocopied book is not about compromise, its about making the best thing possible without the intrusions of ego and thoughts of selling/salesmanship... or a mother's love. Cognition and dating are processes of invention and a test of my patience.
calabrese in venice at honors. wardell, and emin bootlegs
new work new ideas. joel mesler's painting at nada, WJEN YA HERD(see above) just as epic. wolff (courtesy dan hug) and homies in hawaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
birdman angstrom shot, untitled couples, pops, gifts and party shots from mr jones.
fryk beat power meeting on the way to cool santa monica music industry hi profile mixer
Henry Taylor is so big in miami
some great vc inspired little kid drawing circa 87, the artwork from my 3rd grade boy band, and silk screenage by jen wood
homemade paper circa 89
annie shot these before leaving, the top right and bottom feature some of the most amazing people
HOLLAND COTTER's piece in the NY Times about "Bring the War Home" aug. 16
Not that the show comes up blank on this score. There are some attractive small paintings (Pop by Adam McEwen; Op by John Armleder and Philippe Decrauzat; a series of brushy collaborative pictures by a cohort named Trudi), as well as a few funky, free-standing sculptures (a magazine stand by Alice Könitz; Michael Phelan’s beer-bottle-balancing carved wood bear).
Bruce Hainley in the NY Times oct. 1
Any thinking person would have to count David Kordansky’s and Daniel Hug’s galleries as well as Solo Projects and Sister, helmed, respectively, by Tom Solomon and Katie Brennan, as serious players. There is also Trudi, a brazen, vitrinelike alternative to the Wrong Gallery; the innovative nonprofit Outpost for Contemporary Art; and the inaugural sessions of the Sundown Schoolhouse, spearheaded by the indefatigable architect and catalyst, Fritz Haeg.
writing from the rambler followed by lots of old junk
old shit, some really old
georgia. a movie. a boy with a goat. photos by home tapes or big pizza
new zine/book "simple story of swimsuit model" next to "busyness for the self/others"(dedicated uncle boatshoes) and e*rock's
These came from Eric Butler's Louisville output, postcard public
bara and professor winkler play in berlin
second in a series of trudi pieces in berlin. thomas zipp and dan hug collaborations
new drawings. there are a bunch in the series but these will be sent of to RI. they're big
newish shirts that are all gone. Kancho pancho tour shirts. Bobby Birdman heads. Chris Lipomi(CL crest on the front and hands on the back).
dennis hollingsworth photos of the rental show
the article is an old miami article about birdman/yacht/lucky dragons
2 colors of the shirt for marriage. either get it on tour or if there are any left I imagine you can get it from them off the web. the herzog/danzig shirt will be worn on benicio del toro's chest. and unfolded pages of goodtimes are over zine
rejected drawings for the marriage records shirt
etching by sean cassidy
contact audio dregs for mixtape availabilities
trudi put on this Bushes, Bobby Birdman, E*Rock show in chinatown. fucking hot specialness
serious special times
a new zine/book. 100+ pages. 5 bucks. work from chase chivers, raver dave, e *rock, and jonathan thomas.
all the new shirts. they all come packaged with a zine(right corner) and have an embroidered "trudi" tag that my mom made. gg allin, naked rollerblader(by e*rock, hose, and naked nerds( also by e*rock) each 20 dollars limited to 20 each. also check with states rights records for the subscription deal between states rights steve and trudi. it will be fantastic.
i look at this photo and i think damn that kid was spoiled, a clubhouse, miniramp, and a trampoline but it didn't seem so at the time. my parents put together this belly dancing party for the pastor of their church and he's the one being seduced.
the halfpipe cake was a joke on my parents behalf, reffering to my wish for a ramp and also on the snowboard cake i got on my previous birthday(which actually had a skier on it. the cake tasted like orange crush)
artificial intelligence was my hot skapunk band in right around the time i learned to drive.
new etchings and monoprints
cinefile and prestige shirts. a new 100+ page zine/novella please send 5 dollars to the address below. december shirts available soon.
juan scalipo. paul from prestige sent the hasselfhof photo, he said it was on crailtap too. my favorite painting was auctioned off and was right next to rick walters piece
there was a little bit that i thought street art wasn't lame. greg with a unicorn
rob took this while on the tour with yacht and 1999. man les blank's film a life well spent is fucking awesome.
all these books that aren't mine greet me every morning to remind me that i'm ignorant
it was hard for me to realize or accept that so much of who i am came from this boy and where he is now is even harder for me to accept. man i think that erock note is awesome, i wou;ld feel the same way even if it wasn't addresed to me.
these are the november shirts. sold out
ajdb took the photo of rainy lights in virginia. an etching
so this is a new little book i made, 112 pages. if you send me a couple of dollars i will send you one plus other stuff(address at bottom). also after much debate i have begun to make tees again. the will be made in runs of 20 per design. i will put the designs/samples up soon. ftw.
face, as shown below is all over germany and in some arty art magazines
see what i mean. I have really been enjoying mike leigh's films in the last few days. and world, adam forkner and honey
they just had their big solo show
Jonathan thomas on the phone in south carolina the umbrella was in that lot in azabu-juban for three days and then I took it when it rained.
Most of these are in japan. we started our poses as flexing, but after awhile they became thumbs up and peace and obvious hip hop thug poses.
ian said i should put together a book of polaroids of all the miami spots to show to the visiting pros. i didn't understand it. he saw it different than me. i just wanted to hand out with all these guys i looked up to, he wanted to shoot photos and make money. the polaroid of sven was during his tanning phase and as dan said "sven looks disgusting". i was mad at sven for several reasons and used the photo to make a card for his birthday(flyer below) their house parties would have been less awkward for me if i would have drank at them.
the eyes are the same. steff was going to give me a kitten on my birthday even though we hadn't spoke for a long time. and i don't really like or want a cat. mavis was here when the foto was taken and can testify as to how awkward it was.
fuck, it had to be done but i'm embarrassed to say the least. and i get mad when i see other kids just rushing to make crap. trevor's senior photo with his skateboard. when we filmed drop 2 i left him at a skate spot in nampa because he would try a trick. it was wrong of me. my mom sent me the cartoon. cardon(in the flyer) went on a mission and just got married. i didn't see that one coming.
these guys with a lady we stayed with in venice. chase, lenny and john sit on a bench together at my graduation jam. We skated the mini ramp. and there was lots of left over indian food fed to my dog kaysha. she had the runs for days after that. my mom fed me left overs for a week straight. now i hate indian food. my room in miami. kids in london, they gave eric and i slam city skates stickers. we slept in the train station that night.
paul pees on new years moments after seeing niya, this lady and i didn't get along she has stuff on her but and talks to a girl in my class who i had a crush on till she was really mean to me, the scrotum got on my roll by justyn stealing my camera and finishing the roll down his pants. my white bike which got stolen like a week later. dan said he saw a bum on it a couple of weeks ago.
this is a pretty good representation of my pops. they chose to live in the suburbs. sean lies on his bed while taking a break from playstation. the DC poster was mine and covers a huge hole he put in the wall.
this ski rack is in sun valley idaho. Murial hemmingway knocked her snowboard onto my dad at this exact spot and then acted like a bitch to him. I also got a concussion on new years eve their a couple of years earlier. dre relaxes at a party. chase and me with my vidal sasoon fashion cut relax in new york. I was all excited to see lauren till I learned she had left boston and i wouldn't see her till much later.
sven drinks a 40 he brought from georgia. lauren sent me this photo of herself in italy and i used it with my head inserted behind her as my photo , kinda as a sweet gesture toward lauren, but the weekly only used the close blurry part of my face.
jonathan holds the ramp, kyle took the foto, jonathan sent it to me entitled condor. christina was my girlfriend for a little bit. there was some lacks of communication.
the cop yelling at sven took my film out of my cheap camera right after he watched me load a new roll, i snapped at leanne once and then she didn't talk to me for along time, i think that's what happened.
lucky dragons was in this photo to but somehow got cropped out
niya is very quotable, "i'd rather be a smart-ass than a dumb-ass"
matt whitlock does the flamingo dance, back smith, contra now spins for MIA
my mom was real proud that she made the the church camp newspaper and sent it to me express mail.
sean is in the bottom right corner when he was still happy. above him in the cut tank topper is chetan. i took this picture from her car. in the very short time we spoke she taught me lots about lying.
my dad and grandma sleep in the same chair. the snowboard painting above it was a gift from dirk a german exchange student. my aunt isn't old but she has to bath on this platform cause she is all fucked up.
some of these kids in reno have gone different ways now. the street is in barcelona after switich rooms and getting in the hugest of fights between eric and myself. it was my fault but boy did it go far.
in less than a week the two seperate groups of friends in very oposite parts of the country reinterpretted some materials into quarterpipes. yacht what a dude right?
i don't think i should put this much stuff up on here. it s turning bloggy. this is stuff from this directing shoot. michael ingledew nick blasy and alona dadiani in the set them on the monitor and john posted up.
this birdman thing is from venus mag, and somewhere in the second paragraph they continue sounding like kinda pretentious dorks but he totally name dropped me for making the shirt he's wearing. i felt weird for sure. not as weird as thinking about going back to miami. kyle trowbridge slashes.
a buffalo is crossing the road in montana. i was here with this boy tyler and he fell in love with the dolly madison lady
this is all stuff from a show at objex with sven and reeve
i totally just realzed their is a huge possability that i'll freak out and take everything off of here.
the movies screened thus far salo, birth, man of marble, loves of a blonde, men with guns, beaver trilogy, fireworks, no end, brown bunny, giant, i am curious yellow, 21 grams, lolita, virgin spring, and some more I'm forgetting bobby birdman's drawing for his new record on notnotfun. i liked that movie a lot. my mom grew up in that house
luke and anabel.scot kisses a girl at a high school party.
yacht sticker, hope he's not bummed. prestige bag... josh fadem flyer. he's going to be famous he's funny . the boner drawing is from juan scalipo. he depanced this passed out guy once and as the guy was waking up he kept telling him "i'm the gay mummy... I'm gonna suck your dick and turn it to dust."
well this is done now
this is outside the druidism show almost 1 year ago paul leila greg and blake. blake's band played he's talented. greg and paul run prestige
this is part of a large screenprint poster dealy.
my sister
chase chivers
some zine drawings and a graphic i gave to newt and harolds for a board graphic, i guess they didn't like it but they never told me. so i used it for a cover of the zine i did with david.
i wish there was a bazillion more pictures of jona and khaela when you searched on the internet this is blow and yacht while performing in miami a while ago.
(below) these are all drawings i have done in the summer months. they have all been self published in different zines/books (jonathan thomas, david from giant robot, the big unamed one before japan, melodramantics..
trudi is and will be in existance until two years from today july 29 2005(the time that i have the domain registered till) then it urns into something different
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