Piñata Sequence

Piñata Sequence, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

...from the Green Party

Piñata

Piñata, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

A paper mache piñata that I made for Al's birthday party. The image is taken from one of those paintings that Al claims isn't a self portrait.

Not a Self Portrait of (by) Al Green

Not a Self Portrait of (by) Al Green, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

This is the painting that I used for the face on the paper mache piñata that I made for Al's birthday party.

Slow narrative still #2

Slow narrative still #2, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

Another shot from the new video piece. I like to think of it as a video, or cinematic if you will version of the Closet Music of Erik Satie. As medienaesthetik (translated by babelfish) so fulsomely puts it--

Saties music is not colored. Their "white one" comes off by the absence of chromatisierter Harmonik. It is unwagnerisch. A church-clay-like music built up from preformed components must be even anti- tristianisch and unneurotisch, it is rather kloesterlich, sex-free.

Exactly what I was shooting for.

Slow narrative still #1

Slow narrative still #1, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

I'm working on a very boring video right now. It's footage that I shot earlier this month in Oregon, just some tripod shots of Fort Creek at dawn.

In which nearly nothing at all happens.

And I've slowed down the time 400%.

I find it very soothing to have on in the background, and I love the sound. Although it seems like I've always got to pee.

Telephone Pole

Telephone Pole, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

Texture

24th St at Noe, San Francisco.

Jack Face

Jack Face, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

...is happy to see you.

Trout

Trout, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

From the Confusing Commercial Utterances Dept.
How do ya like them apples?

Dollywood

Dollywood, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

...according to Mary
On 14th St near Broadway.

New Rug

New Rug, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

Mary & I went to Noe Valley today to pick out her new birthday rug.

Bahktiari
37 x 38"
Pakistan

Pearl, Plastic Wolverine, John

Pearl, Plastic Wolverine, John, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

John's visiting for the weekend. Pearl and 'Reenie are permenent fixtures

Pearl

Pearl, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

...wonders just exactly what you think you're looking at

Ray

Ray, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

...as a decorative element

Endless War

Endless War, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

You know those magnetic "Support Our Troops" ribbons that people stick on the back of their car? Well, I don't have a car, but whenever I rent one, I always feel like I oughta have a ribbon, too. If you take two of the ribbons and overlap them, they make an infinity sign. Hmmm.

This is version 2, with some tweaking of the image, notably incorporating Tom's suggestion of making the ribbon into a möbius strip.

FASTSIGNS Oakland will print these up for me on 4.75 x 29" stickybacked vinyl for $13.50 apiece if I order ten of them. Who wants to buy one? Who that reads this blog has a car?

Cloak of Anonymity

Cloak of Anonymity, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

Proposed prop for the TV show that a friend of mine wants to produce, "Anarchists Sit Around Talking". It's a big hollow over-the-head paper-mache mask in the form of an anarchist bomb, with a fuse and eyeholes.

Because some anarchists like to not be imaged too closely.