And it’s in the deep mud, in the transcendental meditation of mud, mud. Mud.

Guy Clark said we was just sloggin through it, life and death just dancin round in the mud.

This sad sad neglected site was just the earth. The broken fins of the fish, and no call lists and all the times we never heard from you, we’re all just the torrents which soak the dirt.
But you aint’ got mud till you stir it. Stir it and get it between yer fingers and in tiny spots along your nose.

I’m sorry you fast little crawfish, you google image search, it’s time to bake the bricks. A broken limb, a bee sting, waits.
After all, the dirt is better when blowing off the ruffles of a skirt, and science likes his water higher than the wind and closer to the moon.

What goes on above is the last and greatest thing to happen right before you red this.

In the meditation of mud, mud. The Slip and the Mud.

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I took time away from here to do some big projects in real life, ie: day job. Here’s whats happening with us, for those of you who think I’m just sitting around playing banjo all day:

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I’ve been thinking about that song I wrote “Orion on the wrong Side” thinking about redo-ing the vocals cause I recorded them at about 1 am and was whispering, so as not to wake up my family. But something better happened, Steve covered it!

Not only did he save me from work that I shouldn’t even have been doing, but he did a great job with it too! Guitar sounds great, way to test it out!

(For those who haven’t heard it, my version can be found on this page )

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Posted a new song, a cover of Radiohead’s “Lucky”. Earlier in the week I thought I had a nice acoustic version of it, but after listening a few times, I realized it was crap. So being not contented, I resolved to redo the thing. To help me accomplish this mission and get on with my freaking life, the Gods sent to me an old police broadcasting mic. Like a real “Calling all cars” type deal where you gotta hold down the button to talk. It’s perfect for recording vocals. Also you can hear my daughter Mae testing the mic throughout the whole thing.

You can hear this song and many other over on my Virb page.

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Happy labor day!

Read chapter 9 of Mark Teppo’s fantastic story here!

And I’ll be laboring for a whle today, if I can manage to stay connected to the city-internet you can watch!

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New song. Pilate’s dream, made for a lark. (can anyone Kargyraa?)
And why didn’t anyone tell me Two Pillars of Salt apparently uploaded wrong and only plays for about 15 seconds? I’m seriously beginning to doubt whether you people click on these colored-word-things (beginning to doubt?)

I love you all anyway, though. Seriously, like universal and graceful love. (And Two Pillars has been fixed and ready to hear at the above link, thanks for asking)

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New five words sketch:

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I’ve been enjoying a larger version of this thing as a desktop.

I thought you might too, so here you go.

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If the embedding above didn’t work you can click here to see an incredibly low in budget and quality video of our most recent project here. Make sure to turn up the speakers as the music really gives it that much needed 70’s science class documentary feel. I swear that tickles me…

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Here’s another piece that started as a test of this perspective with rulers tutorial and blossomed into another portion of the five words:

And I’ll be working on the big project later today, which means I’ll try and put the stickam on. Stop in and say Happy Saturday!

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So, to my surprise last night the auto-update came up with a new version of ArtRage. 2.5 came out yesterday, and included a new collection of pretty cool tools, and some real fixes to other areas of the program that had previously left something to be desired (the new layer functionality is fantastic, even if it is just finally up to snuff with PS) I took some time to mess around with it, with one of the words from my five words request:

You can see copious use of their french curves templates, but one of the neat things is that you can make a stencil out of any image you have. That banjo? It’s was done with a picture of mine.

All in all, ArtRage has stepped up nicely.

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Intermittently. I’m in a bad spot for the public wifi…But if you wanna try and see what we’re working on, you can check it out here.

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The eighth installment of The Oneiromantic Mosaic of Harry Potemkin is up at Farrago’s Wainscot, and is accompanied by this:

Also, I bet you thought I forgot about this, eh? (Yesterday, you were right.)

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I wasn’t happy with the vocals on my previous effort so I redid em and added a touch of bass, which may very well have pushed it over the edge.

You can decide for yourself by going here and clicking the one called “Two Pillars of Salt”

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Nich and I have been having a sort of musical conversation after that little dirty thing I wrote a while back.

My latest contribution is called Two Pillars of Salt and it’s on my virb page. Also, a piece of his side of the conversation can be heard on his virb.

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New Harry Potemkin at Farrago’s. I’m kinda pleased with this month’s illo, the last few haven’t been my personal favorites and I was a bit scared I had run out of steam.

And thank goodness for those Larkin Charts, It’s kind of amazing how well they work in some of these images.
Plus, any time you get to draw hats is a good art day.

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I think I’ve found a gallery management solution that I like. Here’s a test page, let me know if it doesn’t work or you have any trouble. I know the windows are currently cutting off a bit of the image at the bottom, and I have an email in to their support to get that resolved.

(Also egads, I need to clean that portfolio out!)

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First panel of a new thing, a re-telling of a South American creation/love story found in Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galeano.

I’m doing the final piece in Infinite Canvas, most likely. And since this book is so chock full of amazing myths and creation stories I’m thinking of adapting a few and making a bigger non linear piece out of it all.

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New song, “I was Born 10,000 Years Ago”, a traditional deal which has collected WAY too many lyrics and variations over the years. I cut quite a few out and it still topped off at 5 minutes, so if you can handle my sloppy playing and voice for that long, you can go here to hear it.

I think my favorite line that I cut was “and for Pharoah’s little kiddies, I built all the pyramiddies”. Thats just good stuff… The whole thing is actually giving me quite a tickle right now, especially as things fall apart at the end. I’m sure I’ll be mortified tomorrow (in five minutes).

I should really get back to drawing.

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