I haven’t been feeling to write about jack. I was in Oregon for two months messing around up there. a few paintings. a few commissions and what not. I’m back in LA…. and I don’t feel like writing about anything…. maybe I’ll write about deals gone bad and people who talk too much.

I got some respect for you business man…. because you’ll be anything you need to be at the moment.

I caught wreck in NY this month and these are pics of the work in progress. Filming is near completion and finished photos will be taken once new lighting is installed in the area. Total wall space was 41′x8′ which mandated Two weeks worth of real furious painting. The door on the left of me in the first two pics belongs to Alicia Keys. Would you like to see this mural? Unless your delivering food… This mural is accessible only if you have the proper connections and bank roll. The After Midnight Soul series is def in effect with those official Sunset colors for the dead of winter.

Photog: Cody Wheeler

I returned from NY on Tuesday. I needed a day of rest and another to get my place cleaned up again. I have some pics of the mural.. I’ll get them together later this weekend. In the mean time check out this awesome video for the album Rome. The title speaks to me… and the animation is quite descriptive.

in September 2010 I released the most recent video for the After Midnight Soul series, Alicia Keys. Since that time, I have been in touch with her and her sound engineer Ann Mincielli for the past year. We have gone back and forth with illustrations as they were putting the final touches to their respective music labs, Jungle City Studio and Oven Studio. I will be leaving next week to NYC and produce The largest After Midnight project as part of the ambiance. The theme will undoubtedly revolve around musicians. Most importantly, it will focus on people who have made New York timeless. The mural will roughly cover an area of 41′x10′ wall space and I’ve got some heavy artillery to unleash. I’m excited to set the mood when both ladies walk into their state-of-the-art laboratories. Here’s a short documentary on Ann’s Jungle Studio. Don’t know much about what she talks about in here lol.. but this engineer is no joke when it comes to sound waves.

As each Christmas holiday pasts it becomes harder for me to not recognize the blatant materialism. I love my parents and siblings. I love to sit at the table and laugh with them during these times. That experience is more valuable to me than a gift from Best Buy (btw, their ad campaigns of the ‘attitude’ mom versus Santa IS the most constipated-materialistic dribble I’ve ever witnessed on TV…besides TMZ celebrities). Now that it’s over lets see how many of us can get out of credit card debt… the Federal Reserves gift to us. Am I a scrooge for thinking this? I wish many people good fortune and truth… However I would like to see those (marketers and advertisers) that commodify our lives end up in a very hot place.

Found some writing by an australian man who goes only by Evan.

There is usually an issue at the core of our lives. Sometimes we don’t know what it is. Sometimes we do. In my case I didn’t.

I had spent my life trying to be good at stuff. I had investigated a couple of areas I loved and learned stuff about them. I was an OK student – far from brilliant but OK. I had usually been happy with this way of living. The drawback had been that I tended to be at one remove from most things I did. I tended to want to do well at what I was doing; so tended to observe while doing rather than doing what I was doing fully. I did have moments of spontaneity and these were sometimes moments of exhilaration.
What hadn’t occurred to me that my concern to be good at things was a way to get something. And what I wanted to get was acceptance. The impact of this on me was quite deep. Fortunately after the session where I realised this I was travelling and on my own and then at home and could be quiet. I said almost nothing for three days as this realisation sunk in. What I’m suggesting is that, if you have an ongoing issue that you keep coming back to,there may be a deeper issue.
How could you know?

1. Ask yourself, “How will I feel when I am free of this issue, or when I am successful?”

2. Think what it would mean to a child. If a child had the same issue as you – how would you advise them? (Pretend the child is primary school to start with so they can understand words.)

This stuff goes over my head but Josh Nimoy is one geeked cat that is at the futures cusp for media arts. Think 40 years into the future… but he’s doing it right now. Read his thoughts on the UI’s he created for Tron.

Last nights party comes with a price of being thoroughly exhausted. My body is starting to feel the wear of this lifestyle. For the first time I got an acute pain on the outside of my left elbow, commonly referred to is a tennis elbow. the messed up part is that I already have a golfers elbow (that would be the inside bony part). I’ll be seeing my acupuncturist this week to remedy it. Roxy is her name and she does an awesome job of sticking needles in me. The easier part of the project has been done. The most difficult part is the editing. I like to test myself and find new ways to do an edit. Dj Drez is on the scene and we’ll be figuring out the best way to remix the track for the video. I’m stoked that some of you have written in trying to guess who it is… but most of you will have to wait. I enjoy the video being experience. In the mean time here are some cell phone shots of the business. You don’t think I would snap shots with lyrics or any other hints now, would you?