get up stand up

"I ain’t humanizing myself. It ain’t about me humanizing myself. At what point did I become unhuman?"

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:26:43 -0400

““I ain’t humanizing myself. It ain’t about me humanizing myself. At what point did I become unhuman?””

- Kanye

Last week I gave the commencement address at the McNally-Smith...

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:49:37 -0400

Last week I gave the commencement address at the McNally-Smith School of Music in St. Paul, Minnesota. It starts at the 45 minute mark.

flamgirlant: Makeout Videotape - “Island Groovies” (via:...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:30:08 -0400

flamgirlant:

Makeout Videotape - “Island Groovies”

(via: indieandyy)

This is a very Yancey song.

Summer Camp, “I Only Have Eyes for You”

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 10:58:00 -0500

Summer Camp, “I Only Have Eyes for You”

"The desire to make art has always been inherently social, not economic, and now, even in a society..."

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:29:21 -0500

“The desire to make art has always been inherently social, not economic, and now, even in a society defined by the free market, the means to produce art can come from an inherently social mechanism as well.”

- New York Times

Audio

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:32:13 -0500

Kickstarter, always watching…

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:17:19 -0500

Kickstarter, always watching…

At the Park Avenue Armory

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:41:17 -0500

At the Park Avenue Armory

Painting class, week five.

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:00:28 -0400

Painting class, week five.

A progress update on my painting for the 3rd Ward intro to oil...

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:54:07 -0400

A progress update on my painting for the 3rd Ward intro to oil painting class I am currently taking. Two more weeks to go!

Photo

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:44:00 -0400

I’m two weeks into the Painting 1: Introduction to...

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:38:49 -0400

I’m two weeks into the Painting 1: Introduction to Traditional Oil Technique class at 3rd Ward in Brooklyn. The class assignment is to paint Velazquez’s “Portrait of a Man,” which hangs in the Met (seen at the far right). I was very nervous but it’s been very fun. My progress so far.

Utah

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:05:48 -0400

Utah

Appaloosa, “The Day We Fell in Love.” Always loved...

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:05:40 -0400

Appaloosa, “The Day We Fell in Love.” Always loved this song.

Vieques, Puerto Rico

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:59:04 -0400

Vieques, Puerto Rico

A Kickstarter cartoon on page 66 of this week’s New Yorker

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:18:41 -0400

A Kickstarter cartoon on page 66 of this week’s New Yorker

"How has it been possible for banks to grow from less than 4 per cent of the global economy to more..."

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:34:22 -0400

“How has it been possible for banks to grow from less than 4 per cent of the global economy to more than 12 per cent of the global economy without impoverishing others? How has it been possible for profits in the financial sector to be consistently higher than profits from other human endeavors with more tangible products or impacts on our daily lives - such as agriculture, transport, health care or utilities?”

- Lies, Damn Lies, and Libor

"If attempts to manipulate LIBOR were successful—and the regulators think that Barclays did manage..."

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:55:59 -0400

“If attempts to manipulate LIBOR were successful—and the regulators think that Barclays did manage it, on occasion—then this would be the biggest securities fraud in history”

- The LIBOR Affair, The Economist

"This place is crazy. Like the stuff of dreams, and then so much more. At the moment I’m snugged in..."

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:02:45 -0400

“This place is crazy. Like the stuff of dreams, and then so much more. At the moment I’m snugged in here inside the boat as an early evening thunderstorm is passing by outside….which, given that it’s a Saturday evening here, is, like, the greatest gift ever. Because rain means that the ol drunkards won’t fight the elements to congregate at the “resort”/shitty watering-hole next door to beat the living daylights out of each other. It means there will be no punches thrown, no retreats behind my slumbering boat, no exchange of large boulders that will or will not knock dear friends of mine out cold. It means there will be no homemade bombs hurled over the fence, no burning of homes in retaliation, no sunrise wakeups to find buggy-eyed boys milling around with axes and other such homemade murdering tools. So, yes, rain - it’s a good thing.”

- Emily Richmond has been in Papau New Guinea for the past three months. Stay safe Emily! We miss you!

"As creative people, we have always been trained (and with good reason) to view money like an..."

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:31:12 -0400

“As creative people, we have always been trained (and with good reason) to view money like an illegitimate child — don’t ever ever talk about it; if you have it, don’t admit it; and if you find yourself without, definitely don’t ever openly desire to have some.”

- Something I wrote while inviting Amanda Palmer to use Kickstarter way back in June 2009.