This morning I woke up and I realized I had not seen a flyer for this show I was recently added on with Burning Hotels and Memoryhouse. I decided I wanted a flyer to exist. I made this at 6:45 AM in a few minutes and I have to say I’m okay with that.
I recently came across a live album which I failed to release. It was just sitting on my hard drive and I completely forgot about it. I think it was because I honestly didn’t like it at the time. A lot of the songs I had released and so I wasn’t interested in putting it out. However, a year later after hearing it I loved it more then I ever did. I was doing live vocal looping at this performance and I haven’t done it since because I thought it went terribly… looking back on it now it added so much to these songs that I might reconsider.
This was recorded April 16th, 2011 at the Ft Worth Modern Museum of Art for the event Modern Til Midnight. To get the free album all you have to do is go “like” my Facebook page and you will immediately get a link.
This Sunday, April 22nd, I will be performing at Earth Day Dallas from 3:30 - 4:00PM at Fair Park in the Band Shell. Admission is free. Let’s jam out for the Mother Earth. Duh.
Wiz Khalifa “Say Yeah” remix. I thought the beat on this song was a travesty. The hook and flow is actually really awesome, so I gutted it and did my best on it. The drums and bass were from a previous song I recorded that never got released. My friend Tauvy had the idea to slow them down like 10 steps so we did it and it sounded awesome.
“ Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”
This is my remix of Beyonce’s End Of Time. I had fun doing this and I really wonder why they didn’t make the chorus some of these layered back up vocals. Juno 106 for the bass, guitars and Polysix for the textures.
Me freestyling “Get Over” on my Akai MPD26. All of this is being played and freestyled on the fly. No other controllers are being used in this instance. Talk about lots of fun. This might be all I am going to use live from now on.
This is my entry for the Gorilla Vs Bear X Toro Y Moi remix competition! I actually ended up doing 3 different remixes of this. The first two I really disliked and eventually I ended up developing this idea the most.
Synths Used: Korg Polysix, Juno
006 - Sunsect
“Last of he will be able to see the sun, and not mere reflections of him in the water, but he will see him in his own proper place, and not in another; and he will contemplate him as he is.” - Plato
005 - Oceanic Cube
The great cube arises from the ocean and is here to bestow knowledge upon us. Its grid form gives shape to a personality that only exists in data and preciseness.
004 - Rainbow Mouth
Today I stumbled across a huge stockpile of images to use for my daily pieces of work. I created this from what I had found and am very pleased with it. Rainbow Mouth is so pretty and when she speaks she vomits patterns and vivid colors.
003 - Utopia
I admit this piece turned out a lot like Mark Weaver’s work. In my defense, we both gravitate towards the same subject matter, colors, layout and imagery so the second I get a glance of his work it feels familiar and my mind gravitates towards it. I still enjoyed making this and am enthralled with the results. My goal is to get better at composition and collage so this is a step in the right direction.
002 - Tape Symbols
This piece was inspired by old reel to reel tape packaging. I’ve been playing with layer masks a lot recently. I love layering so many different patterns and colors. This piece was very minimal but came out nicer then I expected.
001 - Mammal Tusk
My new website has finally launched at datahowler.com so I thought this blog would become something different. I have recently wanted to start regularly making pieces of art. I want to explore new design ideas and push my design skills further. I’m hoping I can do 5 pieces of week. Either way. Here is the first one.
Slowdrifter has been an ongoing project for a few weeks now, but as of recently the art was finalized and it seemed to project new life into the project. I wanted to create something that was more typographic based then anything. I have never done a large piece of art using more then 1-2 typefaces at a given time and I thought the combination would create a nice effect. The colors chosen for this project are reminiscent of old tin robot boxes from the 1950s.
