Announcing HACKED ORGANIC 2.0!

I'm honored to be participating in an upcoming collaborative show on April 26 in San Francisco: HACKED ORGANIC 2.0, featuring over a dozen talented artists and several live music performances. Come check out my work in person!

RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1403369459935195/

Hacked Organic (2.0!)
April 26th 
6p-1a
9 Langton St, SF
$15-20 sliding scale, at the door

Join us for the second annual investigation of art and music dedicated to the melding of traditional instruments and materials and new means of utilizing them. We've gathered musicians, makers and artists who've built their tools to best suit their needs, developed their own unique processes, and/or pushed their mediums to the greatest extent and we'd like to present them to you!

Langton Labs will be transformed into a fantastic art gallery, tea house, and musical venue for just one night. Prints and original works available for purchase. 

Bar by Mobile Libations
Tea House by the Sound Cave Roadshow

Artists:
TempoMachi (www.TempoMachi.com)
Sean Stevens and Ashley Newton (www.sustainablemagic.org)
Jamie Emerick (www.jamieemerick.com)
Heather Marie Scholl (www.heathermareischoll.com)
Calli Beck (www.callibeckdesign.com)
Erik Walker (ewalk.500px.com)
Deborah Yoon (www.deborahyoon.com)
Elena Kulikova (www.elenakulikova.com)
Shawn Feeney (www.shawnfeeney.com)
Alex Ember (www.alexember.com)
Jade 7.0 (www.jade-esc.com)
The Invisible Underground (www.theinvisibleunderground.com)
Michael Garlington (www.michaelgarlington.com)
Moldover's MicroMasher (www.moldover.com)

Music:
Spoken Bird (www.soundcloud.com/spokenbird)
Daniel Berkman (www.danielberkman.com)
Light and the Black (www.lightandtheblack.com)
Shovelman (www.shovelman.com)
Emperor Norton (too new to have a website)
Nikki Borodi (www.nikkiborodi.com)
Cello Joe (www.cellojoe.com)

Breaking Stuff for Making Stuff

Last night I broke stuff on purpose, and it was really fun. New art parts! 

Antique typewriter, with keys manually removed.

I love the cyclical process of destruction and creation that is critical to my work. It also gives me a lot of insight into how things are made. To tear open the TV, all i needed was a phillips head screwdriver. By contrast, to take apart the antique typewriter, i tried 4 different screwdrivers, and in the end i just had to bend the metal by hand until it broke to get the keys off. Had it not been rusty already, i don't even think that would have worked.

They sure don't make things like they used to!

This is what the guts of a television look like.

Little Drawers Project : Part 1

I found an old set of wooden drawers at a thrift store that seemed ripe for refinishing.

I decided to cover the surface of the frame with old newspaper... And by old, i really mean antique. These are actual issues of Scientific American from 1915! Some of the incredible images in the articles include early zeppelin flights and photos of the New York Subway System as it was being constructed. It might seem like i'm ruining these pieces of history by using them in a collage, but i prefer to think of it as immortalizing them.

They're going to need a bit of sanding first.

Featuring a story of the "Strategic Movements of the War" -- World War I.

Top Side : With incredible images of the construction of the New York Subway System.

Second side: "Our First Naval Dirigible"

Surface layers complete! Now to work on those drawers...

Surface layers complete! Now to work on those drawers...