Ahhh KC sunset...

Brandon Hitting the sloppy joes...hard.


Brandon Branded ahahahah

Madness...

Austin Breaking it down...


Me. Post Lets Paint TV.

There were 22,000 young Christians at the Sprint Centre down the road from were lets paint TV was going down. This is some of them on the other side of the road...i think they were avoiding us "arts kids" in case they got infected or something...But later on some more came past us and Lydia asked them what they were doing while i pretended to be a reporter and taped the conversation on my little mini cassette recorder. I should find that tape....

Some Random Stuff...Lets Paint TV!

This man was painting, running on a treadmill, hosting a live TV show on the Net and making sloppy Joes all at the same time....it was in an art gallery...it was pretty dam mad. He is apparently famous and its called "lets Paint TV' There was also alive band jamming and a small child running around in a jumpsuit hitting things occasionally...

People eating the aforementioned sloppy joes made by the man on the treadmill....

I have no idea of the relevance of her but she was scary as fuck! and dam gross come to think of it...

Photo of me. No relevance to Lets paint TV hahah

Image for the Day

Its late at night and i felt like posting something

These images are from a show i went to at the Riot Room here about a month ago. Bands name was 'Girl in a Coma' - all female. They were freaking rad and a lot of fun to watch!

Project Projects Projects

Ok, so SITE is done, well my work is but things havnt really stopped over here yet! WE are right now in the final few days before Thanksgiving and then as soon as we get back from that its *BAM* right into end of semester critiques. So right now i have a few things on the go that i wanna share...

Over the last few weeks Me, Dusty Colyer and Donald Pelton have been working on a project titled Two Twenty Four. The name comes from the highway in Missouri that we found ourselves on after driving in a random direction one day with the intent to take photos wherever we ended up. We stayed off all interstates and major roads. We ended up ( in terrible weather) in the small town of Wellington (irony anyone>?) and so we have based the project between Wellington, MO and Lexington, MO. The images i shot on this first trip are these three. Two fridays ago we went back to Lexington and spent another full 14 hour day shooting in and around this now familar strip of highway. These are the results:











I have 9 images in the book, Dusty 7 and Donny has 10.The focus was how we all work in a way that looks at and deals with the idea of space and of place and it was a very interesting vehicle with which to explore these ideas in an area that none of us were familiar with. We had a very interesting couple of days.
Right now these images are being turned into a book which is being published by the online firm "My Publisher". Our goal for this project had been a book and so we have a 11.5x15 inch book coming but we also wanted to have an exhibition. Dusty owns and runs The Omni which is an American school bus he has painstakingly converted into a mobile gallery. see below:


Bus Inside

Bus Outside

Our plan is to have a show of our Two Twenty Four project in this gallery on the next First Friday which is December 4th. For everyone back home, First Friday is like a massive opening night where all the galleries in the large Crossroads Art District have openings on the same evening. It is massive. Its like an opening at the Blue Oyster multiplied by 1000. There are street performers and bands, live shows and dozens of galleries all with brand new work up. Epic.

Other Projects. I dont know if i can put much of this up yet cos it is still in very early phases but there is a bit of a group coming together over here of artists within the Photo dept. The idea was put forward the other day to orgainise a group show combining KCAI artists ( or graduates as well depending on time frame) with Art School grad's and holding a group show somewhere in New Zealand.
OK epic post but thats kinda whats going on right now. Oh and i am also trying to jack up a solo show for Feb here....

Thank You'

To: Angela Edgar, Patrick Clancy, Rachel Gillies, Max Oettli, Emily Hlavac, Mishca Rhys Hill, Lydia Katharine Boehr, Nick McKenna, Nik Smith, Dusty Colyer, Pat @ Gallup Map and Framing, Cory Hinesley, Colin J. Burke, Steven Lewis, Katy Osterwald and of everyone else that helped in some way...

Important Areas...

Good idea Em. You win.

Monday May 4th, 2009 - "The Perseus Project"
Wednesday May 6th, 2009 - "Trying to Think"
Tuesday May 19th, 2009 - "...photorealism..."
Monday May 25th, 2009 - "Yves Medam"
Thursday May 28th, 2009 - "Aaron Hobson - Cinemascapes"
Monday July 20th, 2009 - "Waaaay overdue"
Wednesday August 5th, 2009 - "Wow Lack of Posting"
Sunday August 30th, 2009 - "Current Work"

These are some of the older posts fomr first semester that are relevant, the majority of second semester work is accessible through my tag cloud and the heading current work. Thanks!

Some people came to my show!

I cannot resist a good pun...

Food and Drink! and some tunes.

Exhibition! Woo

"I'm just so happy to be here...i'd like to thank the academy for making this possible...god..small children...the pope...."


Silly photos. but some more to come. stay tuned.