Dance Gems

the jam gems are steadily being reported, thanks for sharing! continue the sharing!
joyce's pick:

adam's pick:

adam's pick:

myleen's pick:

troy's pick:

troy's pick:

my pick:

sam's pick:

ruth's pick:

we all feel the beat in our ways.

The Great Beach and Father Sky

The Great Beach and Father Sky opened last saturday, so you can go to Mollusk anytime between now and April 14 and have a look at my new batch of drawings. I'm very pleased.

here's a peek at the gallery:






Also...

I made a book!

It's called SHELLS: Vol.1
The "Shells" part refers to the fact that it's a catalogue of my collection of shell drawings of my collection of shells. I spent the Fall drawing hundreds and hundreds of shells from my archives with a sumi ink brush, the same ones over and over, and then I went back, looked at them all, and cut out the little drawings that I felt had the right touch. Before I framed these 31 shells (seen above), I made this book.

The "Vol. 1" part refers to the fact that I will forever continue to draw shells and plan on making more of these book catalogues.

If you would like a copy, there are still some left after the opening...they're hand sewn by Hannah Barr-DiChiara*, and printed on special papers

click below do get a copy for $15.

*so, hannah truly was my dream come true girl in this book project... I was in the thick of some framing madness with those little shell buds, and she took the reigns, sorting, folding, collating, poking holes, sewing, and finally, at 4:30am, right as I myself was pulling into the driveway from my late night mollusk installation sesh, pressing this batch of 60 book babies. labor and love.









AND AND AND, since we're sharing, here's the Dance Mix that I made as part of the Ribbons 'get pumped for dancing in 2010' campaign.

you can download the mix: http://www.mediafire.com/?mzydnuym5mz

TRACK LIST
1- 'swingtown' .............................Steve Miller Band
2-'jumpin jack flash'....................Ananda Shankar
3- 'nobody but me' ......................Human Beinz
4- 'take your time do it right' ......S.O.S. Band
5- 'i'm gonna get you'...................Delroy Wilson and Nappy Brown
6-'going to a go-go'.......................Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
7- 'get connected'..........................Stereo MCs
8-'we pop'......................................RZA
9- 'don't bring me down'..............Electric Light Orchestra
10- 'you're my best friend'............Queen
11- 'yer so bad'...............................Tom Petty
12- 'call me'....................................Blondie
13- 'when the going gets tough'.....Billy Ocean
14- 'holiday road'............................Lindsey Buckingham
15- 'whenever i call you friend'.......Kenny Loggins (with Stevie Nicks)
16- 'one'...........................................Yeasayer
17- 'tryouts for the human race'......Sparks
18- 'givers'.......................................Lucky Dragons
19- 'cecilia'.......................................Simon and Garfunkel
20- 'awal september'.......................Group Inerane
21- 'roots train number one'...........Junior Murvin
22- 'rubies remix'............................The Studio
23- 'young hearts run free'..............Candi Station
24- 'janine'.......................................Arthur Russell
25- 'camel'.......................................Flying Lotus
26-...........PERFECTION......................................

and, as we look forward with dance valor in our eyes, I ask that perhaps you share some of the songs that get you rightly riled so that when the next time comes to join in on the dance floor, everyone's where they need to be. email me your picks.

Ocean Again

i'm a framing machine right now getting ready for this opening on saturday....making 31 tiny frames for a collection of tiny shell drawings and 23 other frames too.  good gracious.

Fort Transmission

sir jay james just passed along this picture from the fort...so good, thanks jay.

i am mid muchness getting all the things done for this mollusk show and for ye ribbons newletter. If anyone is looking for me tonight, I'll be the crazy guy after hours at my elementary school doing things to the photocopy machine that maybe shouldn't be done...um actually that sounds totally creepy and weird, whoa. I'm just trying to send old faded papers and and things through the photocopier and sometimes it makes it jam, that's all. whoa.

if i don't have your mailing address, send it to me soon so i can mail you my mail.