Bon Iver, David Ramirez, Penny & Sparrow, Nico Stai and Seryn.
A little Bon Iver in the studio, David Ramirez in a confessional, Seryn in black and white and some other artists for your eyes and ears!
I wanted to share some music and video of a few artists who are inspiring my work in the last few months. A few are friends, all are peers and some I hope to interview or meet down the road for my Hypervocal column "Engaging Culture". I have watched each of these videos multiple times in the last few weeks throughout my day of creating all sorts of random things. So, I hope that you enjoy them in your visual modus operandi. If you are in Austin for SXSW on March 9th, I would like to invite you out to our show. The poster is below and Seryn, the last video on this short list is headlining. Hope you will visit our little town and have a pint on me! Bon Iver at AIR Studios.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Tp5fl18Ho]
David Ramirez: Stick Around
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV0Vi658byo]
Penny and Sparrow: Creature
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-xT9ekWgk4]
Nico Stai: The Skies Over Your Head
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpRRJ9pfJxU]
Seryn [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/29339458 w=620&h=348]
Impatient raging.
So, there are specific days that jump out at me every now and then where emotions seem uncontrolable. Days where the only refuge is found in a blank canvas, paint and brushes. Well, today is one of those days and escaping to my place of solice is just out of reach. I have returned to Austin, TX (home) after being on the road for an extended time and I won't have a space for 3 more weeks. I could feel everything building from the moment my eyes opened and my head lifted from my pillow, I tried to fight it and distance myself from the impatient rage building inside. After 36 years I should realize that I can't hide from who I am or how I was created. So I went to find a quiet place to write, listen and be. At least until I can calm down, relax and exit a few tears and thoughts.
Here is the music that is filling or drowning out every other sound around me into oblivion:
Active Child: You Are All I See, Curtis Lane
James Vincent McMorrow: Early In The Morning
Nathaniel Ratliff: In Memory of Loss
Wise Children: Absince & Reunion
Ugly Casanova: 180 South Soundtrack
Timber Timbre: Creep on Creepin' On
City and Colour: Little Hell
Sbtrkt: SBTRKT
The Jezabels: Dark Storm, She's So Hard, The Man Is Dead
Video- painting- video- painting
The piece is a reproduction of one of my favorite Michael Halsband photographs of Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat for my own personal collection.
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/24630559]This is a short video of me working on one of my last pieces.
The spoken word piece I wrote, recorded, edited and produced in 2007.
To visit Michael Halsbands work click here: michaelhalsband.com/ To visit my personal website click here: samo4prez.com
New Video
Another little video project.
Here is a video I recently created for my Fashion Company. All of the footage was filmed on a Canon 5D on our 2010 Road Tour, this year I will be touring the country for 8 months with my Art and Fashion line, so I hope to see you on the road. The footage was edited in Final Cut.[vimeo http://vimeo.com/19882083]