I Love Doing Collaborations with Artist Friends!
Ryan Graeff of Restitution Press invited me to do a quick collab with him this weekend for the CITYSCAPE show at LAVA Collective in London!
We only had a bit of time so we started with an old print of his, I washed in a tiny bit of purple, and sewed some bits of painted paper stuff into it, then he printed back on it, and I sewed into it some more, and he painted a bit more and here’s what we came up with (detail underneath):
The show opens Nov. 5th, 2009 and runs for two weeks. Be sure to check it out if you’re in London!
mapping.
TaarnaShreds took my tattoo giving virginity. She was a great first time. Thanks for the tiny heart club love. Come back to lala sooner rather than later please.
Biking for Obama gets patched!
OK – this photo is like a month old at this point, but the night before Ryan left on his “Biking for Obama” trip from LA to DC, he came over and I made him reflective patches for his bike panniers!
Check out his website at www.BikingForObama.com where you can follow his journey and listen to interviews and experiences from the road!!
River Moment.
The opening for the Printed show at Crewest Gallery was this past Sat night. The show looks great. Lots of awesome art and rare prints from many local artists on the walls and most of it is priced to sell. This has to do with the Hudson River why? Because at the opening, I ran into a certain Mr. Trees, who also had art in the show. It was great to see him and I got to tell him about this cool moment on the Hudson River (this past summer on Switchback).
All along the river, we would dock at various boat houses and yacht clubs to refuel, or meet people, or whatever. Also all along the river, there are train tracks that graffiti covered freight trains run on. The whole way down the river I found myself squinting any time I’d see a train, looking to see if I could recognize anyone I knew, or knew of, amongst the mashup of graffiti. Mostly I could never see it clear enough, but this one time we were docked at this little yacht club that actually had train tracks running between the docks and the boat house. It was weird because when a train passes through, you have to wait to get to either the boat house or your boat, and sometimes the trains are not short. Well, I got stuck waiting for this long train to pass, and as I was watching that train pass by, I saw a Mr. Trees tree, looking super fresh on the side of that train.
It was rad. Totally made my day – and then made my day again getting to tell him about it in person on Sat night 
“Even The Girls” film update!!
So I just got an email from Ayleen Crotty over at ‘Filmed by Bike’ (Portland, OR) that my film “Even the Girls” made it onto their Greatest Hits v.1 DVD!!!!
Here’s the press release from Filmed by Bike:
“Uh, we’re kind of jumping out of our saddles right now. We just finished our *Greatest Hits v.1 DVD*, in partnership with Stumptown Printers.
We crammed together crowd favorites from the last six years of Filmed by Bike all onto one DVD. Then we handed it over to the masters at Stumptown Printers. Stumptown has a new DVD package that’s made of all recycled materials and has no adhesives to hold it together. Fancy folding, that’s all it needs. So they designed up a very cool package for our new Greatest Hits DVD, and we love it. And along the way, CDForge masterfully replicated 1,000 copies of the DVD.
The DVD is covered in rich artwork and full of the best short independent bike movies like only Filmed by Bike can do. Buy yours today and support FBB!”
Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea.
There are seven sister boats of Switchback Sea.
Althea is the steam boat built by Kinetic Steam Works from the Bay Area. A crew of KSW people came out and will be with us throughout the journey. I can’t wait to learn about steam!!
Maria is next to Althea in the photo below. She is operated with a GASIFIER, and is supposed to run on stuff like coffee grinds and eggshells. Right now it still is powered by gasoline but that will be fixed soon! This is the boat that will host the majority of the performance, written by Lisa D’Amour. Alas I do not have a solo part but I will be singing my heart out in the group songs!
This is Alice. She is unbearably beautiful. I will grace you with photo’s of her insides soon! I’m tempted to travel on this boat but am weary because of the lack of shade. I have a feeling though, that I will get to crew all the boats…
Speaking of crew – that’s me. Deck hand. Today is filled with knot learning and water safety training and other important stuff. We even had a lecture on the history of the Hudson River. And amazingly – it is – mostly – safe to swim in these days!! (except after a rain storm or near sewage treatment plants of course)
New York, New York!
One of my housemates rode his motorcycle from LA to NY where we hung out together and ate free pizza with every drink at a bar in Brooklyn. Now he’s on his way motorcycling back to LA! and I’m running off to the Hudson River… with a sprained wrist… I fell last night and smashed my hand.. it is stiff and sore and painful and I’m hoping that it gets better within the next couple days… Arnica all the way baby.
