For the past 3 days I have been fiddling around with this and taking some takes and this take is the last take and it's a good take. I'm doing some lite editing on it with audacity now, but I am just so excited to have something to share with y'all I'm spitting it right out at ya. Before-and-after perspective on the edit will be neat, I think. Vocals are hard panned left & guitar hard right, fair warning (edit: the patreon upload is actually way more balanced for some reason ¯\_(ツ)_/¯...
2021-11-17 04:57:21 +0000 UTC
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Everybody on the schlugmail-ing list should have gotten prints of “sporangia” and “show us what you’re made of” in the mail last month! If you haven’t received yours, (or if you only got one of them—I got excited to send them out and a couple of people got the short stick), leave a comment or send me a message & I’ll get ya the goods. I’m going to list the prints for sale in the coming weeks, and I will definitely levy a deep discount for y’all. I’ve got some ideas f...
2021-11-02 17:45:01 +0000 UTC
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I've been quarantined all week awaiting covid test results after a breakout at work. I'm a little stir crazy, but the good news is pretty much everybody's test results came back negative. The other good news is, I've been able to do so much writing and painting. I have a long-winded reflection on one of the theater books I recently finished in the works, and I've been practicing my narrative fiction skills. One of the excellent things about water color is that you have to wait for it to dry, ...
2021-10-01 22:08:01 +0000 UTC
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Yesterday's watercolor. I added a little bit of gold acrylic, for fun. I think I understand more than I did before, but I can't quite articulate what it is yet. Needs more layers.
I recently finished the 6-episode HBO series Painting With John, and he does some wild stuff with watercolor. Do take a minute to look at his art @ https://www.johnlurieart.com. Trying watercolor again was largely inspired by seein...
2021-09-20 18:17:59 +0000 UTC
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Playing with watercolor today. It's a strange medium. You really have to let go of all pretense of control, and work layer upon layer in the realm of suggestion, until eventually the suggestions take on form. Maybe that's just a signal of my tenuous comfort with it. I remember loving watercolor as a child--I would often watercolor my coloring books over using pencils or crayons. My mom outfitted me with a box of fresh tubes, sponges, books, and some nice toothy paper a few years ago when I di...
2021-09-19 23:43:28 +0000 UTC
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Oop, wrote another song. Recorded in my living room today while making soup. This one is maybe not quite finished, but this is version 2.2. I'm thinking of calling it Maggots, but open to suggestions.
maggots
now we’re preying on the insides
like a graveyard full of rot flies:
maggots
may gets cold still--
don’t you have a coat, girl?
you’re gonna catch a fever in that dress
do I have to call your parents?
2021-09-18 03:17:04 +0000 UTC
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I like to eat with my hands.
It is a discreet unit.
Can be split into iterative discreet units.
Easy to save for later.
Creation involves focused craftsmanship.
Flexible process and ingredients.
Can be used as a tool to consume wet foods, like soups and sauces.
Minimal waste.
Clean.
2021-09-13 20:28:21 +0000 UTC
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Some photos from my last camping trip. Clear skies, no rain, just sleeping in a bag on the beach by the fire. It was pretty marvelous. I got to know the constellations Hercules and Corona Borealis.
It's been a long time since I've been in the habit of taking and editing pictures. Learning how to use a camera again is a puzzle of sorts--I'm surprised and glad for how much knowledge of aperture, shutter speed, and iso I've retained. Shot with a Nikon D5000, bought at a pawn sho...
2021-09-08 00:55:17 +0000 UTC
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At this point in my life, bullshit gives me immediate physical pain, you know? Like digging at a days old blister. Don’t rupture my puss-fat boundaries. I will ooze seamonkey gelatin, and I will have to start all over with the hurting part, which I am no longer amused by. We won’t speak of this transgression if you promise to read my mind, forever. Dedicate your studies to the intricacies of my complexion. But don’t look at me. Ever. Again.
We won’t speak of this transgression i...
2021-08-18 05:37:25 +0000 UTC
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I went over to my friend Soren's house this week with a Zoom recorder and my mom's guitar to ask a bunch of questions about recording techniques and composition. We set my field recorder up proper and recorded this song in his studio. He even cleaned up the room noise and did some lite mixing and mastering afterward. Many thanks for the lessons & gifts.
This is my newest song, Home. It's pretty transparently about grief. Lyrics follow.
home
2021-08-14 18:01:00 +0000 UTC
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In a mood. Wrote a song. Said I'd share. Have a look.
I will post a cleaner audio take with lyrics for the whole dirty public later this week. This one is just for you. *kiss*
May contain content not suitable for BABIES.
2021-08-11 07:09:45 +0000 UTC
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I need a haircut, emotionally, & I just realized I have grown into somewhat of a square-shaped face, just like in the animes. Gonna do it myself, just looking for input. I have buzzers and scissors and 18 years of experience cutting my own hair (that's right, I gave myself a mohawk in 6th grade because my mom forbade me and never looked back). I will share before and after pictures.
2021-08-10 01:53:03 +0000 UTC
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It has been quite a journey working on this mask, starting with making a plaster cast of my face back in February, and cooking on the concept for several months before that. The Wheel of Fortune is the third mask I've made in a series that I hope will eventually encompass every archetype of the major arcana of the tarot.
10 - The Wheel of Fortune
As far as my research has gone, The Wheel of Fortune has been the archetype with the most conflicting/nebulous description. I...
2021-08-09 17:45:00 +0000 UTC
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I cleaned my studio space, which means there's room to collage in it again. Here's the first snack.
2021-08-07 03:36:47 +0000 UTC
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July has been a wild month full of friendship and adventure. In the past two and a half weeks, I drove almost 1000 miles, wandered barefoot through a waterfall, dug gravel out of my knee after crashing my bike, played board games, drank beers with buds, gave a pit stop trail haircut with craft scissors, and burnt my thighs napping on my kayak in the sun. I finished my mask and carried it 12 miles strapped to my backpack to perform juggling tricks in the night. I dropped so many balls, and I c...
2021-07-27 01:17:02 +0000 UTC
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Teeny photo dump of a few projects I’m *in the midst* of (plus a selfie portrait). And, my new juggling balls came in the mail a couple of days ago. They are a huge upgrade from the hackey sacks; they feel so good to throw. I’m starting to try tricks where my hands cross. More on that later~~
Happy solstice, friends.
2021-06-21 07:23:27 +0000 UTC
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Here's about 3 and a half minutes of me practicing playing with a delay pedal. It's a lot harder than people make it look/sound. This is a progression I noodled my way into to help me learn how to play with and listen to my little stomp-button robots. The poetry is.. nascent. Still unfolding. Not a component of this recording;
Anyhow. I have been loving the sound of a little *detune* on just about everything I mess around with lately.
Pedals from left to right are behri...
2021-06-18 17:16:01 +0000 UTC
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Buying stickers on Etsy is my most precious vice, and it got me thinking, making my own stickers is probably pretty achievable. A lot of artist-merchants use a cutting machine like a cricut or a silhouette, but I was able to track down some diy advice on YouTube that led me to buying some sticker paper and “self-adhesive sheets” (like single side laminate that doesn’t need a laminator). I think they turned out pretty good. I’m sending these out with the letters this month. If you have...
2021-06-16 04:14:48 +0000 UTC
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I had my wisdom teeth surgically removed yesterday, and today I spent my day off napping and sketching this hoop juggler from a black and white photo I found on pinterest. I am still learning how to use all of the different filter layers. I did the shading on the juggler with a multiply layer, and on the hoops I made an alpha locked copy of the hoop color and used color picking with the airbrush.
2021-06-02 02:33:57 +0000 UTC
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I call them: derek.
2021-05-31 17:31:00 +0000 UTC
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Here's a little checkpoint on the digital drawing I've been working on. This is Newt, a character I'm playing in a Scum and Villainy campaign. She's a smuggler, a dancer, and a scoundrel. It's been a trip digging into the world of digital artmaking. The tools are myriad, and the ability to mock something up, lower the opacity, and draw over it in a new layer is freeing. I have been spending a lot of time working objects and architecture into the background, realizing my knowledge of perspecti...
2021-05-31 00:56:13 +0000 UTC
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I may have jumped the gun a little on the completion date of ol’ fortune here. They are close. I took a bit of a break to transition from the long molding process, cleaned up my studio, and made a stage to paint. I have perhaps held myself up in the minutiae of options. The paralysis of the blank page.
Here are some process pics from the past few weeks. I will follow up with some pics of my procrastination projects. ;) Up next is a sketch of my scum and villainy character, ...
2021-05-11 01:54:28 +0000 UTC
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Demons is the first song I wrote for mandolin. It's kind of a creepy one. I was in Nome, and the mandolin was a bit of an impulse buy, as I didn't have the foresight to bring any instruments with me to my summer internship. I was 20, so that puts the genesis of this song around midsummer 2012. I still have that mandolin, and it still holds a tune if you're willing to squint your ears a little. Feat. Josh Vann on cello, Adam Hall on drums, and Luke Soren Nielsen on melodica and trumpet. Lyrics...
2021-05-04 17:45:59 +0000 UTC
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This recording is of a rehearsal with Heather Warren on drums for the last Babefest ever, at Cloudberry Castle. Stasia Butler choreographed and performed an aerial silks piece to my songs November and Breathe for that performance. This is actually the *last* song I wrote and performed, with lyrics. It was finished (in this form) only a couple of weeks before this practice record was taken on November 23rd, 2018. Lyrics follow.
Eulogy
seven sisters
2021-05-03 17:45:59 +0000 UTC
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This is a song I wrote while pulling a late night in the drafting loft in college, finishing a hand drawn plot for Stagecraft. Must have been nearing winter 2014 or so. I got a very expensive parking ticket that night, sometime between the hours of midnight and 3am. Stress and overwhelm can have a funny way of pulling art out of you.
The recording was taken at a rehearsal on November 10th, 2016 with Josh Vann on cello, Adam Hall on drums, and Luke Soren Nielsen on Trumpet. We performed ...
2021-05-02 17:45:00 +0000 UTC
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I'd like to share some of my music as I've recorded it in bedrooms and basements over the past several years, collated here, in this curated digital space. These files are rehearsals, early iterative pieces of songs, and live performances in intimate spaces recorded using the voice memo app on my old iPhone. They are unfiltered, single take experiences.
This first song I wrote for mandolin in 2014. It is called What Happens Now. Lyrics follow.
What Happens Now
2021-05-01 17:46:00 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all. I added another *tier* since so many of you have been so generous with your patronage.
I would like to send you cards and stickers and maybe some other fun things in the mail every month at the $5 threshold as an ongoing thank you. I have some of your addresses already, but if you'd like to switch over to schlugernaut status and enter your mailing address I can add you to the *did I do that thing yet* tracker tool that patreon provides.
To edit you...
2021-04-17 02:14:32 +0000 UTC
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Things I learned this week:
- The juggling lexicon is vast.
- I can do half shower and tennis now, enough to practice making them more consistent.
- I am getting more comfortable juggling two balls in one hand, bilaterally (site swap here I come).
- I've been dipping into microjuggling/claymotion (that's the part that doesn't look like "juggling").
- What a 2021-04-13 18:00:04 +0000 UTC
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In regards to musings on juggling and sculpting facial features.
There’s something beautiful and strange about the range of balance and symmetry that exists in a face, or in a pattern of balls thrown from hand to hand. Each side is not an exact copy, but it is close. Images that are mirrored & exact, something feels off about them. Disturbing. Postmodern. Digital.
There is a kind of art that hides in that range of likeness, the dimension of motion that gives the brain room t...
2021-04-13 00:30:20 +0000 UTC
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I’ve found myself drawn to blacklight embroidery doodling lately. This is the second doodle patch I made. A friend had some rips in his jacket in the perfect spot for a decorative arm band, so this funny little guy was made with that in mind. We joked about having a circus psychedelia gang with really obscure branding.
2021-04-07 17:30:01 +0000 UTC
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