FEATURING ARTWORK BY: Rupa Dhillon, Nick Lally, Lindsay Kelley, Miki Yamada Foster and Elizabeth Travelslight. OPENING RECEPTION: July 3rd, 2009, 6-9pm. Rock Paper Scissors Gallery :: 2278 Telegraph Ave, Oakland

I designed this mural for Miki Foster’s MFA exhibition, which opens tomorrow at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. Thanks to Elizabeth for her immense help painting, which allowed us to put it all together in four days.

I’m putting together this show and it’s going to be amazing! Brian of Dragging an Ox is one of my favorite musicians and he puts on a great show. I’ll be putting together a reactive video piece for the show as part of the DANM exhibition.  

DRAGGING AN OX THROUGH WATER

Born in Twin Falls, ID, Brian Mumford grew up moving between different areas of Oklahoma, Montana, and Colorado. His landscape and surroundings dictated an early love of the virtuosic warblings of classic am country before he slowly developed a taste for the distorted recordings and uneven confrontationalism of punk and industrial music as a teenager. Dragging an Ox through Water marries the lyrical twang of country and folk to the the broken textures of feedback, drones, tape hiss, and the howl of homemade oscillators both longingly primal and gratingly dystopian. A strong value on the contrast between chance and intention makes both performances and recordings a constantly evolving process. These songs are hymns, lovesongs, hot dance tracks, atheist prayers, political harangues, and notes-to-self.

For music samples see: http://dragginganox.blogspot.com/

CHRIS MOLLA

•Culture worker and consummate late bloomer.
•Born and raised in Redlands, in the fabled Inland Empire of Southern California.
•Founding member of erstwhile college radio darlings Camper Van Beethoven.
•Earns his keep as an early-childhood music specialist
•Writing, Image-making, Music-making, Teaching, Multi-media, in an ever-shifting order.
•Plays the accordion.

http://www.chrismolla.net/

EDDIE LOVES DEBBIE

Santa Cruz’s very own: http://www.eddielovesdebbie.com/

VIDEOS BY STUDENTS IN THE DIGITAL ARTS AND NEW MEDIA PROGRAM AT UCSC

http://danm.ucsc.edu/

only $4 for the first twenty people, $8 after that. the show is all ages and they have a great bar!

http://thecrepeplace.com/

I just finished up the new logos for the Popped! Music Festival.

And a new animation encouraging people to vote. See how many Phillies references you can count! Click here to view. 

THUNDERwhip Design Collective

Happy Leap Day! I’m proud to announce the launching of the THUNDERwhip Design Collective, a collaboration with the super talented illustrator Emily Glaubinger and  brilliant filmmaker Ted Passon.

“We are THUNDERwhip. As a collective of freelance artists, designers and programmers, our mission is to bring you design services with a collaborative and communicative pulse.”

Check us out.