just making stuff

2011-03-01T21:30:00.000-05:00

(image from Arno Minkkinen lecture via a friend)

New Beginning

2011-01-01T10:15:00.000-05:00

2010-12-24T09:37:00.002-05:00

A good reason to blog...

2010-12-22T22:04:00.000-05:00

Why I haven't lately is both irrelevant and more than a little boring. But i promise you this: if you'll stop whatever you're doing right now and read THIS it will make you happy.

My friend Stephanie Magpie is a very good writer and a most excellent person. And yes she is really like that. Read her blog(s). You could also listen to her music, which is all original and quite lovely.

Maybe have a cup of coffee, tea, or a glass of wine or whisky and of course your favorite cookies of choice and accept this as my Just Making Stuff Christmas gift to you. Really, it's pretty darn good.

Plan of Action

2010-12-10T08:43:00.000-05:00

"To dare every day to be irreverent and bold. To dare to preserve the randomness of mind which in children produces strange and wonderful new thoughts and forms. To continually scramble the familiar and bring the old into new juxtaposition."

—Gordon Webber, novelist

tgMCOCO

2010-12-05T20:13:00.001-05:00

watch?

tiny gallery Mobile Cabinet of Optimisms, Curiosities and Other Possibilities

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)

Just Say No

2010-11-24T17:10:00.000-05:00

for one day...come on, we can do it!

(i'd add friends into the mix: "choose family and friends over frenzy...")

Happy Buy Nothing Day!

via

Buy Nothing Day Nov 26

2010-11-22T08:30:00.000-05:00

Just say no to greed and over-consumption.

More here.

Internets good stuff...

2010-11-07T09:04:00.001-05:00

stumbled across this while researching sources for something else (ie: fell down the innerwebs rabbit hole...)

simply brilliant and reinforces my opinion that you can make great art with nothing but a sharpie...

Well, hullo there strangers...

2010-10-09T10:16:00.000-04:00

i suppose this would be the time where i give my litany of excuses for this rather spectacular lapse in posting. suffice it to say that after tiny gallery the summer spiraled down and out, the usual post-summer physical, mental and emotional wreckage occurred and was subsequently cleaned up and here we are.

we choose to look forward instead of dwelling on the past...

i made a couple of little road trips in the past month and have gotten in to town to see a couple of things and re-charge my batteries. i currently have a couple of projects just recently gone live which i'm pretty excited about: the first is the Other Possibilities blog which is a response to all the bad news we see and hear every day, the second is a placeholder website (coming soon-when i have some focused time- a swanky, colorful and vastly more animated replacement!) that will give you info about the Circus.

at the moment i'm writing the next Circus, the working title (which i think will be the real title) is:

Paradise Gardening: Food for Thought in 4 Acts

finally, i want to point you to my friend michael's blog and his latest project, which to me is art at it's best: simple, sweet, collaborative, engaging and accessible. i couldn't make it to the event but was there a few weeks before visiting him and kim, and we sat in said parking lot and watched the swifts as he described his vision for the event and that alone was a magical evening. the swirling birds in the dusk were beautiful and poignant and hopeful. his conception of presenting the evening as a gift was generous and kind, and i'm glad people came out. shared positive experiences, what could be better than that?

ok then, it's a beautiful indian summer day and i'm going outside to soak it in and work on the woodpile.

Serendipity

2010-08-02T20:31:00.003-04:00

this guy is making art like i want to make.

Dread Scott

capitalism.

every day, more reasons to question it...

tiny gallery walkaround

2010-07-09T22:46:00.001-04:00

watch?

more like a turn-around in one spot...

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

tiny "opening" event

2010-07-09T22:39:00.002-04:00

more tiny gallery install...

2010-07-07T16:28:00.000-04:00

tiny gallery: it's happening

2010-07-07T16:24:00.000-04:00

installation photos from this a.m. opening in an hour. 2nd annual celebration of MC's birthday.

tiny gallery people ROCK hard! links to come later...

MB, out...

Scenes from the Circus

2010-06-27T12:10:00.001-04:00

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june 20 world premier at the arbuckle road impromptu alternative theater

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

CELEBRATE!

2010-06-20T09:53:00.003-04:00

for tonight we CIRCUS!!!

HUZZAH!!!

It's Happening...

2010-06-17T00:21:00.004-04:00

(flyer design by Beth at the Ragamuffin Press)

Thanks to an awesome crew of co-conspirators we'll do a show on Sunday. Lot's of work over the past few months coming to fruition, a very good feeling indeed...

Call or email for details.

I took some pictures...

2010-06-06T09:02:00.001-04:00

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Valle Crucis and Boone on adventure Friday

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Something to blog about

2010-06-04T19:27:00.002-04:00

I REALLY like this picture:

(from todays adventuring...)

For the Record...

2010-06-03T07:37:00.003-04:00

Best. Book. Ever.

THANK YOU Beth Schaible!

Rooty Toot Toot!

2010-06-03T07:07:00.004-04:00

I've been making stuff. Not any of it bloggable yet but soon I hope. Been sorta lax on getting decent process pictures. Grand visions though, trust me. The inside of my head is not always a scary place...

In other news, our friend Margaret makes beautiful things. She's really nice and would never blow her own horn, but I will. If you want to see her beautiful things you could go to her spanking new website and spend yourself a pleasant little while meandering. That'd be www.margaretcouchcogswell.com It looks something like this:

It Begins

2010-05-25T21:55:00.002-04:00

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The Cacophony Circus, under construction

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Lifelong dream, being realized courtesy of the World Greatest Posse of Co-Conspirators. I have friends that are super talented and humor me beyond any reason. We're building the Cacophony Circus Ultra-Light Theater of Other Possibilities. It is happening and it's gonna be something, a spectacle of DIY art and fun that I can't begin to describe.

Socially and economically accessible, inclusive and socially relevant. A labor of love from us to the world.

I think this is the BEST kind of art/making.

Exploring other possibilities, it's what makes getting out of bed worthwhile...

Fern

2010-05-19T19:01:00.002-04:00

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Ferny's Big Adventure (collaboration with Beth Schaible)

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)

From the Outback

2010-05-13T08:01:00.003-04:00

the editor is currently involved in what appears like random displays of seemingly pointless activities. however, i am confident that they will all magically coalesce to a point where the grand scheme self organizes from chaos to comprehension.

or not. but he sure is making a lot of stuff...