PODCAST ONE

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PODCAST ONE

so this podcast's theme is just drone that i layered. i recorded it live using a modest little mixer with a cassette player, a turntable, and my computer plugged in. most of the music comes from some of my favorite little labels like not not fun and arbor. also, part of the layered sound is this sweet spoken album called Play It Safe! Vol. 4 that i discovered a long time ago via WFMU's blog. it is this album of really banal//dated//staged conversation between a husband and wife. what you do, apparently, is put this album on your record play on repeat and turn up the volume LOUD when you leave the house. that way, if any hamburglers come to rob your house, they will hear this record playing and think that people are home. get it? an ingenious defense system.

so, here is the playlist, in rough order, of what you are hearing when you listen to this:

growing - firmament
changeling - solitude without saying
family underground - vengeance valley
jacob kirkegaard - auditorium
play it safe volume 4
quilts - ping hotel
pocahaunted + robedoor - hunted gathering
sunn 0))) - sin nanna
siren - feather crown
zs - mimesis
sunn 0))) - vlad tepes
warmth - death as a young child
ghosting - catch waves
bob bruno - white lovers
wolf eyes - track 2
sunn0))) - orthodox caveman
body vehicle - deep strobbing
ghq - cosmopology of eye
isao tomita - claire de lune
bring star core - the universe is designed to break your heart
ghosting - live/oakland
totally ripped - tropics

also: my voice doesn't normally sound this nasal-y. maybe its because i am using a pair of headphones as a microphone and i wedged my face pretty deep into one of the phones. ???

Selflessness. Responsibility.

I wore these new boat shoes this weekend
but they gave me blisters, so i tried to wear them with socksbut this happened.
so today I stayed in the studio making paintings!!!

Actually this one I made a couple weeks ago, but the rest are more brand spanking than the violent parent of a naughty logo
these ones are all on their sides, resting. Tilt your head 90 degrees to the left for optimum viewing.


my friend Francis

my other friend Francis

a birthday card for my lama!

his present!
when I went into my studio room to clean up in the evening Cesco was there dressed like a something something.

wow!

rescued voicemails

for a long long time, i've been accumulating really sweet voicemails. i just recently got this ill digital sound recorder that will be used for our future podcasts, but for right now i used it to record all these rad voicemails i've been saving for super long and delete them off my phone. unfortunately, at various points in time i've had to delete messages that would otherwise be posted right here in order to clear out my mailbox a little. but anyway, here are some of the choicier ones.



i have only very vague ideas about what this is. i'm pretty sure my voice is in the background somewhere. ??

i have this friend named jake who is a really great guy.





ever since i got my phone i've receieved abnormally high amounts of wrong numbers. things have toned down considerably to the point where i get only maybe 1-8 wrong numbers a week, but there was a point when it was 5+ a day. a lot of times it was just fax machine beeps and modem clicks calling me over and over, but every once in a while there is something great like this:




or this:




or this:

Dinkins?

Nick emailed me these photos. Looks like a Gordo is really getting into some stuff up in Harlem, some stuff which is either art or politics or insanity, not that the above are mutually exclusive of course. I find myself intrigued and offended... which is ill.
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... in the studio

This is my "studio." Sometimes things get made in here, like these photos. Click on them and you can see them considerably larger. Don't click on the one of Elise though or I will get jealous when I am drunk later on in the week.

Here is my paint and solvents, on what used to be some wooden bookshelves. Inevitably fire will ravage the entire building, and it will be my fault.

Here is the aformentioned one of my gf holding her boobs. As you can see she has become an integral part of the ambiance of the place.
Here is a wall covered in black construction paper and a ladder.
Here is a Cesco shadow emerging from the paper. How cute is this guy right?
Here is a painting that I worked on for a while, it didn't turn out so great.
Here is a painting that I sort of whipped up. It is better than the other one. I know, crazy! I like in both photos how it isn't entirely clear where the painting stops and the wall starts. It feels like the paintings could be just bits of the space that are removable and recontextualizable(it's late).
Here are some more pieces of construction paper. I skeeted on them and made this pattern. Initially it seemed like a pretty crummy endeavor, but I am still at it (wink wink) and the nift factor is rising I think.

Here is a little cherub I am painting. Since this photo was taken I have accidentally turned him into somewhat of a tranny. I will be sure to include the inspiring photos next time.

also, just a thing. it's just a poem or two that live in the world, an homage to claes, created by lenardo esplanade.



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PTC001 - PICTURES//THINGS

PTC001 - PICTURES//WORDS is officially done and available to buy! It's our first thing. So, you can get it online (there will be a paypal button soon) and it will soon be available at fine booksellers and distributors both in NYC and online. get it? keep checking for updates. more things are coming soon.

IN THE MEAN TIME, here are some pictures of us binding the books by hand! Also, there is a third helper/champion of small printed things named holly who is missing from all the photos (because she took them, dummy!)

Arts and Farts

Here it is, the Ping Ting Thing, the veritable Clean Plate Club of 2007. Since the Blog is just up and running I thought I might post some photos of my work from my senior show. So, with some further and a bit of ado...

My homie Baby Bry Bry calls this one "Seb as a Sexy Chick" with an inappropriate amount of luster.

More naked fellas... I know right?

This is a pen drawing, not type it took me much longer than it was worth, since nobody really noticed it. I put it in a group show at Secret Project Robot in June, and it has been floating around lower Manhattan with Cobra ever since.

one of my rooms

These are some pretty crappy photos that I snapped right before the show came down so sorry for the quality, or lack thereof. My ill part rabbi, part handy(wo)man, part photographer, all lesbian, aunt Devon took some much nicer photos, but I lost the cd they were on.

Also it is worth mentioning that there was this other kid who painted these dope sexy demon dragon ladies that I would have posted, but every camera that photographed them blew up in my hands. Here is something I found online to give you an idea.It was in a similar vein, only much less technically accomplished.