new site

here's the site with some colors and a pattern i put in there. currently laying out in wordpress..css is a bitch.

new site layout

this is in the works. it's just the basic layout, i'm working on adding design elements now. what do you think?

Mini-Wrong Gallery

platform is a project at Laxart gallery in culver city. i love the idea of having a show in the smallest exhibition space on earth.

Facebook friends.

I started a new series called facebook friends. I asked friends on facebook to send me an image. The se are what I have so far. This is an ongoing project. 

Dali and Disney

Have you seen this yet?

Destino

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IDb1Pa4PRE&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdesignslices.com%2Fvideo%2Fmay-09%2Fdestino-salvador-dali-and-walt-disney&feature=player_embedded

EMPTY CAGE QUARTET + OAKWOOD NEUMS QUINTET @ JAZZ BAKERY TONIGHT!

May 25, 2009
8:00 and 9:30pm $25

Jason Mears - alto saxophone, clarinet
Kris Tiner - trumpet, flugelhorn
Ivan Johnson - contrabass
Paul Kikuchi - drums, percussion

The Empty Cage Quartet has consistently been praised as one of the most powerful and original new jazz groups to emerge from the American West Coast. For nearly seven years the group has explored imaginative new ways to integrate a diverse mix of musical influences ranging from shuffle swing to free jazz blowouts, minimalist percussion loops to complex modernist gestures, robotic grooves, odd-meter marches, heavy rock, and nearly everything in between. Performances of this music involve an elaborate system of on-stage cues to navigate the flow of improvisation in, around, and out of modular compositional structures designed to cycle, overlap, combine and recombine. The result is a continually evolving, multidimensional approach to jazz and new music performance, improvisational acuity, and compositional craft that Amazing Sounds Magazine has likened to an "urban folk music of the future." The Empty Cage Quartet has toured extensively in the Western United States and in Canada and Europe, and they have received support from the American Composers Forum, the International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM), and Chamber Music America’s French-American Jazz Exchange. To date they have released six CD recordings that have been featured on jazz radio stations around the world and reviewed favorably in publications including Signal to Noise, The Wire, All About Jazz, Cadence Magazine, Jazz Hot, Paris Transatlantic Magazine, LA Weekly, Tucson Weekly, and Stride Magazine. Stratostrophic, their most recent album, is out now on the Clean Feed record label.

www.emptycagequartet.com

OAKWOOD NUEMS QUINTET

The Nuems Quintet was formed in 2007 as a student ensemble at the Oakwood School in North Hollywood. Since then the group has premiered over 20 pieces written by composers from New York and Los Angeles. The group focuses on improvisation, while continuing to pursue new compositions that showcase their unique instrumentation and their ability to play in a very diverse range of styles.

My half-twin

Just finished this. I'm not sure what to call it. but the idea is based around the relationship between the whole bird and it's under-developed, dependent half. What i thought about when i did this piece was love and co-dependence. not necessarily positive.