kite makers

the other day i helped my friend Yuka and her crew of kite makers put together a giant kite in japantown. the group is called the IATA (International Association of Tako Age... tako age being 'kites' in japanese). they are building the traditional kites from the hamamatsu region of japan. they will be flying this giant kite at the berkeley kite festival in july, but i hope to plan an occasion where we can fly some kites sooner...

snake eyes storm shadow

my friend Sam just commissioned me to make a drawing his Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow figures.
he had seen the big drawing of g.i. joes that i'd made a few years back when i rediscovered my collection in my parent's attic. we totally were on the same page as to how these characters defined a part of our childhoods.

what could be more intense than the dark and light ninja rivals?

the collection

songs in the valley

my friend colter and i are making a song book....we want to make a compendium of campfire songs as sung and taught by some of our favorite song slinging buddies. got a song to share? lemme know, we'll add it to the collection.

here's a photo hannah took of us transcribing a song from daniela gesundheit when she visited recently (old best bud and snowblink bandmate...here's some photos from when we played at the fillmore awhile back ago). we'll let you know when the book is dropping and sing-alongs start popping.

get to work

lucas ford.

the timeless way of building.

thank you drew bennett for sharing this picture.

dune mirror

ocean beach dune, sf
first encounter beach dune, cape cod

mirroring dunes o' my life.
someone should write me that sea shanty.

new drawing, old photo

in order of appearance
............new sumi ink shell collection, post japan.
............me and hannah, invisible ocean festival 2009, photo by: laura flippen
............and bonus old photo, morning raga performance at ukiah, photo by joel stillman

over and out.

"We Think of You"

We Think of You from KC Bull on Vimeo.

K.C. Bull and Dave Wilson (Ribbons) spent several months visiting RCA beach in Bolinas, studying the space, and organizing a large collaborative stop motion event which took place on September 10th, 2011. Over 40 people contributed from sun up till sun down to make the stop motion film working under a 16ft tripod built by K.C. and Dave. Dave recently brought the film to Japan as part of a creative exchange. The field of radio towers above RCA beach was the site to receive the first trans-pacific radio transmission from Japan in 1913. The RCA event was a day to keep Japan's recent healings in mind and put forth a new transmission "We Think of You."

When I was in Japan, I was able to give copies of this little california transmission to all the people I connected with. It was also shown as part of the main event of the project I was working on there called "Open Harvest," you can read about and see about here.

and here's some photos by terri loewenthal of her experience partaking in the stop motion outing