Category: guitar
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12 Ways of Looking at It
I’m excited to have this design made available by demand for printing on clothing by a company called Design By Humans. I’m calling the soundscape “Opticentric” in keeping with the theme. It and the drawing were finished at about the same time. Shout out to Alphonso Dunn, whose eye ink studies have been a great…
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Drawing Parted Clouds with Watercolor Pencils in my Sketchbook
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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwAAVIW2HoI&w=560&h=315]
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Drawing an Earthly Growth in Watercolor Pencils + a Guitar Tune
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxVp2E-qQrk&w=560&h=315] Here’s a two minute time lapse of a 2.75 hour drawing paired with a two minute guitar tune. The tune comes from a loop I recorded, then did three takes for the lead part and ended up leaving all three takes. Added some swells and percussive elements in post.
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*New Track for Upcoming Album*
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/362829743″ params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] This is an experiment in sampling with what I could find in my immediate surroundings. Sound hunting has long been a favorite activity. Last year we were married, and a friend gifted us a bamboo encased chime with metal tongs inside which are struck by a glass bead. …
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Do We Only See What We Know? | Road Trip 10
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaCQRMWWvjQ&w=560&h=315]
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Girl Draws the Badlands, Boy Writes a Tune | Road Trip 5
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZUaymqauOc&w=560&h=315] After being educated in the geology of the Badlands, the traveler is tasked with something peculiar: to make what one sees match what one knows. The various sedimentary layers are color coded for when they were formed. White indicates about 30 million years ago; red indicates about 32 million years ago; grey and…
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Calligraphy and Doodling with Alan Watts
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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fsq50TXyVo&w=853&h=480]
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Barnett Newman on the Aesthetic Roots of Humanity
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“Man’s hand traced the stick through the mud to make a line before he learned to throw the stick as a javelin.” “Undoubtedly the first man was an artist,” begins a remarkable little speculative essay written in 1947 by Barnett Newman. It proposes that the aesthetic act of wonder precedes the social and utilitarian acts…
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Trusting the Ground of Learning
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/75106381″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] In order to access that “world in a grain of sand” which William Blake wrote about, physically, nothing more is required than to walk the beach, sit and comb the sand. In the end, physically, there is probably nothing required. What he meant was a psychological alignment. Only…