DEEP LEAP REMINDS
brrrros! brrrrritos!
we received the LC002 baz/bres joint zeen and love it. beautiful work, dudes. keeping in the spirit of beautiful work, let's all not forget to get involved in either of the DEEP LEAP group thangs: the zine or the dvd mix. in fact, as a celebration of how much i want them both to rule, i made these little promo videos for the dvd:
DEEP LEAP DVD PROMO from jeff&jesses on Vimeo.
DEEP LEAP PROMO 2 from jeff&jesses on Vimeo.
DEEP LEAP PROMO 3 from jeff&jesses on Vimeo.
other things: going well. that's it. what's up with setting off like a thousand rounds of firecrackers when it's still light out? you should all check out this documentary about arthur russell that showed at the roxie, where i work, and that rules. thatses. and make sure you and your friends who make videos and films and moving media submit and make sure you and your friends that make page-based things also submit.
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we received the LC002 baz/bres joint zeen and love it. beautiful work, dudes. keeping in the spirit of beautiful work, let's all not forget to get involved in either of the DEEP LEAP group thangs: the zine or the dvd mix. in fact, as a celebration of how much i want them both to rule, i made these little promo videos for the dvd:
DEEP LEAP DVD PROMO from jeff&jesses on Vimeo.
DEEP LEAP PROMO 2 from jeff&jesses on Vimeo.
DEEP LEAP PROMO 3 from jeff&jesses on Vimeo.
other things: going well. that's it. what's up with setting off like a thousand rounds of firecrackers when it's still light out? you should all check out this documentary about arthur russell that showed at the roxie, where i work, and that rules. thatses. and make sure you and your friends who make videos and films and moving media submit and make sure you and your friends that make page-based things also submit.
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DEEP LEAP
YAW RAW DAW-
few new projects to get you excited:
a CHAP-ZINEAL // (you email to receive a prompt.)
MIX-DVD comp! send experimental/////shorts to 631 Peralta Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110! tell your friends! make this the best dvd of emerging makers' shorts ever!
my own DVD-R summer fun self-release of shorts!
please, please, please submit and urge others to too.
all soon, all fun, all summer all the time!
few new projects to get you excited:
a CHAP-ZINEAL // (you email to receive a prompt.)
MIX-DVD comp! send experimental/////shorts to 631 Peralta Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110! tell your friends! make this the best dvd of emerging makers' shorts ever!
my own DVD-R summer fun self-release of shorts!
please, please, please submit and urge others to too.
all soon, all fun, all summer all the time!
MORE NEW THING!
i'm a little hazy on the details, but basically there's this human kite project and the first draft went down last night out at ocean beach. and our buds nick nauman (NN), andrew flint (AF) and maybe ben fash (BF) and maybe some other bros made this thing and then a bunch of kids tried to make it work. so i took some video on my little goofy digital camera, which makes images without sound. then today i was making a little video of the littler videos and then LASERCAVE friend mike rae (MR) debuts his new project (BPK) which is him covering our homie noah devore (K)'s mainstay proj keyboard, so i (JM) made it into a music video for that. and then this is it. hopefully it has an improvisatory feel to it. enjoy! tell me what you think!
LOVE IS LIKE (draft) from jeff&jesses on Vimeo.
also if you click on the JM you can hear two "new" "songs" i made (and have sort of videos for too, but they are mostly just head-fuck versions of the jeff one that would lose all their [albeit limited] power in a vimeo sort of context) that are what they are.
LOVE IS LIKE (draft) from jeff&jesses on Vimeo.
also if you click on the JM you can hear two "new" "songs" i made (and have sort of videos for too, but they are mostly just head-fuck versions of the jeff one that would lose all their [albeit limited] power in a vimeo sort of context) that are what they are.
JEBR//JEMA MUSIC VID
here is a demonstrative/demolishicious/demonade MUSIC VIDEO for lasercavester JEFFREY JERUSALEM by JERSI MARMBLATT.
i hope that you like it. i made it a few weeks ago and then was going to do more to it but lost steam. if you think it needs more steam, please tell me what kinds of steam you like. the quality is not super ideal, so some of the more deep head drift spots get lost, but i think you get the idea. let it load.
MY HEART IS MISSING YOU (draft) from jeff&jesses on Vimeo.
HEXXA!
i hope that you like it. i made it a few weeks ago and then was going to do more to it but lost steam. if you think it needs more steam, please tell me what kinds of steam you like. the quality is not super ideal, so some of the more deep head drift spots get lost, but i think you get the idea. let it load.
MY HEART IS MISSING YOU (draft) from jeff&jesses on Vimeo.
HEXXA!
SHANKAR BONKQAR
(welcoming back: )
WELCOME BACK! from teiam on Vimeo.
(now:)
i have been working some (more) recently on the things that mean things to me: video art makings, picture drawings, writing writings. this is positive. i'm still not up to where i want to be productivity-wise, but am on my way i think. i am still trying to figure out ways to get things out there, in whatever form, for feedback and community and to generate more talk more art etc.
here are some recent video stills from a few projects i'm working on.
THIS IS SUPER SUPER HEADY WHEN IT'S MOVING AND HUGE
THE HIGHEST YOU HAVE EVER BEEN (as a thing)
HEADY HOPE
WILDERNESSES
also: here is a video of me and adam dancing to a totally awesome keyboard song. keyboard will be coming to the west coast this summer to play his great songs and drink your beers and tell hilarious jokes. get stoked.
KEYBOARD FAN VID! from jeff&jesses on Vimeo.
WELCOME BACK! from teiam on Vimeo.
(now:)
i have been working some (more) recently on the things that mean things to me: video art makings, picture drawings, writing writings. this is positive. i'm still not up to where i want to be productivity-wise, but am on my way i think. i am still trying to figure out ways to get things out there, in whatever form, for feedback and community and to generate more talk more art etc.
here are some recent video stills from a few projects i'm working on.
THIS IS SUPER SUPER HEADY WHEN IT'S MOVING AND HUGE
THE HIGHEST YOU HAVE EVER BEEN (as a thing)
HEADY HOPE
WILDERNESSES
also: here is a video of me and adam dancing to a totally awesome keyboard song. keyboard will be coming to the west coast this summer to play his great songs and drink your beers and tell hilarious jokes. get stoked.
KEYBOARD FAN VID! from jeff&jesses on Vimeo.
san francisco, building a post-bard life
friends-
hello. mostly, this is an update from another coast and to say hello (which i just did) and to tell you how i am, which i hope bears an implicit "how are you?" now made explicit.
to begin: friends alex, adam, love raven and self moved to the bay area just over a month ago in search of the usual. after several weeks of sleeping on couches and eating burritos, we have found our own place in this hectic world, atop the lovely bernal hill in an old house moved from somewhere else and recently somewhat redone. the house is nice, in a slightly askew kind of way that puts half a wall in the middle of a room and has lots of funny spaces that need/don't need naming. a few steps from the house is a bus that takes you down the hill into the vibrant/rapidly gentrifying mission district, the place we've spent the bulk of our time since coming here. it's nice. it's really wonderful. great views and a space of our own, a garden once the time comes and a big kitchen in which to cook the million cheap and exotic fruits and vegetables available everywhere. come january some other friends will be moving in, though for now the experiment of people we didn't know who all have their own lives cohabiting the space is working well.
i have finally secured employment at the san francisco museum of modern art in a position that i feel pretty well fits a description of my qualifications and talents: basically, i talk to people and hopefully enrich their experience/get them more psyched to experience the really phenomenal olafur eliasson floors. i say, and mean, things like, "don't touch the ice, because then you'll have to stay in the freezer; otherwise, just go in there and have the most awesome experience you can imagine having, get on the tippity-tip-top of your tippy-toes and then lie on the ground and just see and feel everything you possibly can, without touching." the exhibit (as well as the other things up right now -- jeff wall, douglas gordon and joseph cornell) is truly phenomenal and well worth the trip to downtown (among the select few places befitting that distinction), especially since i can let in five friends a day for free. so, if you or anyone you know is really ripe for something awesome in your/their life/lives, please do drop me some form of communique.
other things: went to one night of the ATA (artists television access)'s experimental film/video fest and was mostly happy, went to the electrifying dia de los muertos parade in the mission, ventured into googleland for a free (to us) neil young, tom waits + kronos quartet, jerry lee lewis show (jll=1 million, ny = super-charmer, tw +kq surprisingly the best thing i've seen in a long time), looked at a billion houses we weren't deemed worthy of, ate a million burritos, got my very own bus pass and did/considered a million neat things to blog about and then, mostly recently, forgot what they were.
soon, this blog will be fully operational for the first time, with lots of pithy observations, digital pictures and general web 2.0 connectivity/nonstop integration. also, more imaginative links than thethingitself-dot-extension.
until then, many loveses
hello. mostly, this is an update from another coast and to say hello (which i just did) and to tell you how i am, which i hope bears an implicit "how are you?" now made explicit.
to begin: friends alex, adam, love raven and self moved to the bay area just over a month ago in search of the usual. after several weeks of sleeping on couches and eating burritos, we have found our own place in this hectic world, atop the lovely bernal hill in an old house moved from somewhere else and recently somewhat redone. the house is nice, in a slightly askew kind of way that puts half a wall in the middle of a room and has lots of funny spaces that need/don't need naming. a few steps from the house is a bus that takes you down the hill into the vibrant/rapidly gentrifying mission district, the place we've spent the bulk of our time since coming here. it's nice. it's really wonderful. great views and a space of our own, a garden once the time comes and a big kitchen in which to cook the million cheap and exotic fruits and vegetables available everywhere. come january some other friends will be moving in, though for now the experiment of people we didn't know who all have their own lives cohabiting the space is working well.
i have finally secured employment at the san francisco museum of modern art in a position that i feel pretty well fits a description of my qualifications and talents: basically, i talk to people and hopefully enrich their experience/get them more psyched to experience the really phenomenal olafur eliasson floors. i say, and mean, things like, "don't touch the ice, because then you'll have to stay in the freezer; otherwise, just go in there and have the most awesome experience you can imagine having, get on the tippity-tip-top of your tippy-toes and then lie on the ground and just see and feel everything you possibly can, without touching." the exhibit (as well as the other things up right now -- jeff wall, douglas gordon and joseph cornell) is truly phenomenal and well worth the trip to downtown (among the select few places befitting that distinction), especially since i can let in five friends a day for free. so, if you or anyone you know is really ripe for something awesome in your/their life/lives, please do drop me some form of communique.
other things: went to one night of the ATA (artists television access)'s experimental film/video fest and was mostly happy, went to the electrifying dia de los muertos parade in the mission, ventured into googleland for a free (to us) neil young, tom waits + kronos quartet, jerry lee lewis show (jll=1 million, ny = super-charmer, tw +kq surprisingly the best thing i've seen in a long time), looked at a billion houses we weren't deemed worthy of, ate a million burritos, got my very own bus pass and did/considered a million neat things to blog about and then, mostly recently, forgot what they were.
soon, this blog will be fully operational for the first time, with lots of pithy observations, digital pictures and general web 2.0 connectivity/nonstop integration. also, more imaginative links than thethingitself-dot-extension.
until then, many loveses
being landed
a few things i really liked in the last week (when i returned road-weary & chile-ready from distant coasts):
dan deaconshow at the warehouse21 temporary space, which is in this gigantic box of a blog with no real prescribed meanings or routines yet and as such seemingly fresh and as filled with possibility as it is empty of history. former nightclub spot for la luna which i think stopped existing at least five years ago, though really i bet it was more than that. don dougel, as he is also sometimes called, was opened up by my top dog keyboard who really just gets better and better every time i see him. the next night, as part of the fourth annual get awesome fest, at least three bands i really enjoyed played: japandi (instrumental post(er)rock from california), pictureplane & a reconstituted big boo. there was good dumpstered bread that was i think actually just yeast or something because it was so, so dense and i can still feel my tum expanding whenever i sunbathe. there was a parade also from the "punk rock" to that new space celebrating "youth culture." lots of noise, a mayor who just gave big dollars to the reconstruction process and a rootbeer float. i played "cat face yes shirt" in the passion play of domesticated "aminals."
i bought a little cassette player/recorder/rewinder at the st vincent de paul shop whose hott stylez and unfathomably cheap deals are the reason my room here could function as an addendum junk spot and i cant breathe. the cassette player has really come in handy though, since i can record parties and reposition myself afterwards to make sure i didnt miss anything super fun or libelous.
red chile everywhere and all the time.
eating holy dirt at the santuario de chimayo, which is a really super place if you can guide your eyes past the gravestone for all those innocent victims of abortion and just focus on the devotion so many feel towards something so abstract. the spot is interesting because it is a holy stones throw from the heroin capital of america but is renowned for its ability to heal all ails, as the dozens of displayed crutches whose forced obsolescence jesus and this spot seem to be behind.
on that same little daytrip we went to this hotspring in the box in the taos on the rio grande (literally) that was the most unpleasant experience of my entire life because of the (literally again) 5000 billion "sand fleas (?)" that populated every square unit of rock, sky and watersurface. i can still feel their foul little bodies vibrating on all of my sides (in and out).
so, those happening.
dan deaconshow at the warehouse21 temporary space, which is in this gigantic box of a blog with no real prescribed meanings or routines yet and as such seemingly fresh and as filled with possibility as it is empty of history. former nightclub spot for la luna which i think stopped existing at least five years ago, though really i bet it was more than that. don dougel, as he is also sometimes called, was opened up by my top dog keyboard who really just gets better and better every time i see him. the next night, as part of the fourth annual get awesome fest, at least three bands i really enjoyed played: japandi (instrumental post(er)rock from california), pictureplane & a reconstituted big boo. there was good dumpstered bread that was i think actually just yeast or something because it was so, so dense and i can still feel my tum expanding whenever i sunbathe. there was a parade also from the "punk rock" to that new space celebrating "youth culture." lots of noise, a mayor who just gave big dollars to the reconstruction process and a rootbeer float. i played "cat face yes shirt" in the passion play of domesticated "aminals."
i bought a little cassette player/recorder/rewinder at the st vincent de paul shop whose hott stylez and unfathomably cheap deals are the reason my room here could function as an addendum junk spot and i cant breathe. the cassette player has really come in handy though, since i can record parties and reposition myself afterwards to make sure i didnt miss anything super fun or libelous.
red chile everywhere and all the time.
eating holy dirt at the santuario de chimayo, which is a really super place if you can guide your eyes past the gravestone for all those innocent victims of abortion and just focus on the devotion so many feel towards something so abstract. the spot is interesting because it is a holy stones throw from the heroin capital of america but is renowned for its ability to heal all ails, as the dozens of displayed crutches whose forced obsolescence jesus and this spot seem to be behind.
on that same little daytrip we went to this hotspring in the box in the taos on the rio grande (literally) that was the most unpleasant experience of my entire life because of the (literally again) 5000 billion "sand fleas (?)" that populated every square unit of rock, sky and watersurface. i can still feel their foul little bodies vibrating on all of my sides (in and out).
so, those happening.