25 May 2011

NEWEST NEWS:
well, one of the big projects i've hinted at lately involves my doing a documentary film with Jonah Smith, frontman for the band Plowboy. these guys are a phenomenal young band and i'm honored to be allowed to hang with them in order to capture a piece of Jonah's life as a young musician. we've already begun filming, will film some more next weekend, and then wrap filming in late summer. there is a dA connection to this project. my friend, mentor and  hero ~johndeand was found here by two brilliant artists, ~tensemonkey and ~brokenheartsbleeding, which led them to find me. they, in turn, through Dallas friends of theirs, connected with via dA and Facebook, turned me on to Plowboy in late 2009. i finally started the ball rolling by contacting the band in early 2011, and now we're on a path to making something good. if you're into core grunge and blistering rock, you might want to check them out. they're all 12 and 13 years old right now, but they're no kid band . . . period. you can search them under Plowboy on YouTube if you want or here's a couple of clips -- first is a video i made from the first film session we did with them a week and a half ago  [link] and here is a video from a performance at a Dallas Stars Hockey Game a month ago [link]


AUSTIN/SxSW devMeet, March 2011:
i still have a load of pictures to uplaod from this meet, just been terribly backlogged, been averaging a dozen-plus shoots a week


RECENT DEVIATION NEWS:
:thumb207096252: another new use of my tiger stock . . . thanks to !purple-skittles44!

a new use of my stock, with my rather popular Sumatran Tiger stock created by ~DarlingDesire for a contest

and yet another use of the tiger stock by ~SugarCoatedPhoto

in his very own fairy tale how this is him in his very own fairy tale
in all the grammatical persons

how what is isn't
how he drives someplace distant-not distant
how he never seems to get there
how he can't bear to leave where he doesn't get

how he knows someone there
how they planned it that way
how furtive it is
how bold
how anonymous
how it is they know each other anyway

how he plans to have a great time
how he fucks it all up
how he wouldn't trade it for anything
how he wishes he didn't let on

how he averts his eyes
so not to see
too much
of exactly what he came to see
for fear someone will see him seeing

how you see everything anyway

how h `Memnalar asked for contributions of poetry to feature and so i submitted this one, this is him in his very own fairy tale, written a while ago, but still evolving through a lot of tears and emptiness . . . [link]

i entered this piece in *signmeupscotty's contest here [link]

and finally i entered this piece in the Art of Dancing contest [link] it finished third . . .


EVEN OLDER NEWS:
  i've started a group for deviants who live/lived in Kerr County, Texas . . . with plans for some meetups and contests and who knows what else [we had our first ever meeting at the deviantArt 10th birthday shebang in Austin!, and are planning to get together again at the SxSW dA Sandbox event in March 2011] . . . if you live in Kerr County, you're invited . . . be sure to invite others you know who "fit" . . . it's called #kerrverts, stolen from the Quiet Valley Regs, but also nice ideaplay on "deviants" . . .  


IMPORTANT NEWS: i can't afford to lose any more people, please stay in my life . . .

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special thanks
to Adam Bouska, ~johndeand and *montroytana for my fantastic devIDs . . . you guys are so wonderful . . . more work from Adam Bouska coming up from the NOH8 Campaign shoot on Harvey Milk Day in Austin, 22 May 2011

also to *montroytana for creating that awesome avatar from a portrait by ~johndeand, and an avatar for jdd's and my collaborative account ~beadedPrayers

to ~johndeand, ~tensemonkey, ~brokenheartsbleeding, *montroytana, ~Solaces, *royalocean, ~MaxwellWatson, sam skeist & Plowboy for their words, music & art, which are constant inspiration . . .