events and photos

dia de los muertos 2006

10-6-05...3rd annual day of the dead art show, 13th anniversary of the north water street gallery! check out my journal for pics of all these cool events!

10-30-04...my 2nd annual day of the dead show at the water st gallery, whoo~hoo! very cool submissions from a cool crop of artists. check out photos of their work in my journal and my new paintings puppets and masks scattered in the site here. not only in the water street gallery but fantastic new submissions out in the missing of ohio memorial graveyard and a fantabulo muerte alter in stained studios where we had one way rider play.

Kent Ohio Bicentennial Parade Workshop
-directed by Vince Packard

Kent Ohio Bicentennial Parade September 9th, 2006

1rst prize trophy!!! Clik here to see more pics! Clik to here to see video of the parade!

We remind Kent of the vibrant natural world in Ohio 200 years ago. Adopt a missing animal to honor its spirit and remind us why the environment is important. Also represented are Kent historical luminaries John Brown and Shawnee leader Tecumseh.
More info and video of the parade at the Missing Animals page...

in honor of selling the madtea dollhouse, i resurrect these photos from our teaparty. clik pic to check em out.

	5-15-06...my new gif page
6-13-06...clik the pic and watch my new video!

4-23-06...if you'd like to hear some current fave music of mine~

4-10-06...gearing up for an anti-war art show for May 4th in Kent featuring art of Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO.

5-3-06...clik the pic and watch my updated Diablo of Maya flash .

2-1-06... video of our annual patriot tv smashing of george bush's drivel. SMASH THE STATE of the UNION! cheney, condi and delay maggots are forced to watch as we resort to group therapy in these dire times. when he started talking about alito we had enough!
i hope you find it as theraputic as i did. clik the pic to watch!

this year we had to move our 4th annual earth day to april fools day. a good line-up including lori field, sheridan leigh of anchorage and stepfanie garisto!

1-13-06...friday the 13th and a big ol moon in the sky! got this recently~ cannibol does beijing mag gzoby! 24 pages of me! art and interview in english and chinese! other great articles on gary baseman and todd schorr. thanks kokomoo! clik the pic to see screenshots! download the flash version of gzoby here, a very interesting format that lets you turn the pages with your mouse.

12-22-05...got the (rough)website up for active muse and i'm fishin around for artists to do an anti-war art show in kent may 4th. we hope to have all kinds of activities and may have some big name bands! anti-war artists, even if you can't make it, i want to do an online collection so feel free to email me submissions!

3-6-06...shows! march 10th at the lime spider i'm sharing a katrina benefit with mark mothersbaugh!
	bringin in the new year with my long awaited dvd compilation that includes the dresden doll perfect fit piece with all the stop motion and etc! this is no big production and i may shuffle some videos before i'm happy. e-mail me to order, $15 postage paid.

11-15-05...this was a doozy on short notice, a fundraiser calendar for standing rock cultural arts. to celebrate kent's bicentenniel we did this calendar full of local history and retro graphics. it was great to get cooperation doing fun spoof photos from the mayor, high school principal and many other prominent kentites (the mayor crossing the frozen cuyahoga as george washington, etc). clik the pic to see some details or go to standing rock's website to get a great $12 xmas gift.

11-02-05... dias de los muerte opening party was awesome! see pics here! new stuff up in a buncha galleries. masks, puppets, and paintings comes to mind

10-25-05... get your free print! the poster for the day-o-dead show is proving to be popular. you can download the flyer version here. i have the poster version for $12 if you e-mail me. lotsa new and old artists include amy csonka, briar rantilla, larry mcfarland, annette padilla, lynn dewart, j edwards gemind, j-rome bragg, and cris pelrine. special guests include bob denver(gilligan), bush, cheney, rice, and delay. i asked rosa parks but i don't know if she'll make it on short notice.

9-13-06... hurricane katrina benefit set, looking to have zydeco, firebreathers and like entertainment, maybe a pot of jambalaya. i'm getting some cool art from survivors, they will get proceeds from their sales. love to get any more art donations. (update)clik the flyer for pics of the party! download the printable flyer here started my halloween/muerte workshop sunday. we are going to do some giant cloth mache puppets. we need more peopl, the group we have is enthusiastic. it's supposed to be $10 per session but if we can get enough to cover the space rental i would be happy. call to register at 330-673-4970.
	9-6-05...my trailer for a faux vintage movie shot in an abandoned factory near here. fantasy sequences of carousel centaur girl and vine teaparty. clik the pic to watch it~~~
8-25-05...new anti bush flash animation! i made it to be turned into a quicktime video but for some reason i can't encode it. instead i went back through it and simplified the graphics a bit. i noticed on some slow computers the 2nd part loses it's sound, sorry. not enough activist nerds around here. on most machines it looks awesome, hit f11 and fullscreen it. or watch it here at my youtube account my video piece is up on danial diaz's site, a link (faded images) right on the home page! really one of the coolest artists around, really gorgeous work!
7-29-05...new clip for danial martin diaz faded images and a coney island memories piece on windows media players or go to the video page for more choices. 7-12-05...posted a dubya meets veruka salt video at youtube . 7--05... download a calender for your desktop by right clicking/save as here. a buncha fun flash effects in the video and flash gallery also new vintage girl paintings.

	6-13-05...parade the circle '05, baby! and this time i have a float, woohoo!!! me and jay who did a great day-o-dead skelly costume and the giant sleepwalker for the dresden dolls brigade have buillt a boat modeled after my muerte ship painting for the cleveland parade. clik the pic to see the ship and lots of shots~
6-1-05...the contortion girls are up in the girls gallery. 4-15-05...music video from the dresden dolls house of blues cleveland show april 10th. first ever recording of kaledrina. new music video for chittlin' and also a song from one way rider's kent stage show in march, rainbow of love and new flash clips all on my video and animation page. 3-2-05...after eric posted my miss muffet on bushflash.com i was inspired to make negroponte/mayan diablo. both are on my video and animation page. 2-26-05...dresden dolls put my video up on their website! they are coming to play april 10th at the house of blues in clevo. we have a gang coming together to do some performance and will screen the video there. they just hitched up with nine inch nails US tour. 1-23-05...whooped it up in DC to welcome the prez, took some pics... 1-13-05...put up a new intro to the website, have some ouija alice tea before you peruse the website.

8-25-04...the perfect fit dresden dolls video i made is finally out, yay! we are screening it for our crew tomorrow on the big screen of the ECC 252 n.water st. you can view a real player version here. i have svcd's available and hope to have dvd's soon. visit pignpepper for all the artists credits(and our cool pignpepper flash site)
	6-15-04...my 2nd parade in the circle in cleveland. absolutely awesome! you'd expect this sort of artistic off-the-wall wierdness from deep eastern europe or something. took lotsa pics again!
4-25-04...here's our beautiful pig and pepper website to hype up our international artist collective. virgin of guadelupe pooper lid in the gallery. 4-19-04... closing teaparty planned for saturday may 1st. mayday. maybe we'll get a maypole up. ceramic teapot and madhatter teacups ready to go in the sculpture gallery! check em out! visit my live journal for photos of the teaparty and etc! alice pig and pepper painting up in the gallery 3-19-04... the teaparty idea is hopping up nicely, submissions are rolling in! amazing the response i've gotten on such short notice. set for easter eve (april 10th) the venue is stained studios 257 north water street (where the mantis used to be next to the north water st gallery). be sure and check out the pig and pepper page to see all the great artists and hit the flash button if you want to see bela kollar from hungary of lunaris made this pig n pepper flash site. it is awesome! i was featured here in the burr magazine! winter fuzzy me pics and all! new watercolor and caged faery.. pics of the hensel girls are here.	3-7-04...hints of spring are in the air, and as little girls lying in the grass are accosted by march hares with watches this can only mean time for one thing... a tea party! what the heck, i have a cool teapot and a crazy 2 headed alice quilt, and a fun collection of vintage psychedelia accumulating let's do it! everyone loves the idea, i have alice props from a kids play and the lovely japanese gothic lolita girls need an excuse to show off their spring wear! this is a great excuse to show off the dresden doll video props including a toybox and a little girl bed/tea table/ouija board. and all the dollies will be there in their finest!
2-9-04...i was a little dubious, but they sounded cool, the dollhaus gallery in New York City wanted work for their Terror Toy show they were doing at CBGB's gallery with barely a week notice. so i made them antler girl and sent it off. with a couple bucks in my pocket i went up sweating i might be wasting time and money. it was funtastic! awesome cool artists and stop motion animators. see my photos here.
and here's s'more pics of my dresden dolls~	1-21-04...see the one way rider video of their song ready here. it's a big file so it takes a minute but is so cool. besides being a great bluegrass song by my good friends and chittlin' the singer is saturated with attitude, it is all flmed two blocks down the river from me. you can see the train that blasts right by my place(it's really not so quiet as in the video) and some good shots of my river the infamous cuyahoga. the video is shot by good friend joel jacobson who is building our media center across the street and is helping with filming and editing our dresden dolls video. 1-6-04...okay! the curtain finally comes off this project! i'm making dolls and puppets for a video of the dresden dolls! this has been exciting the great talent that is coming together for this! well, you've heard me hinting about the project. i fell in love with these guys immediately upon hearing them...i was attracted by their image, turn o century cabaret without feeling gimmicky, and was amazed at the beauty and poetry of them !ok, so now brian and amanda are dressed, still some detailing to do. brian is a marionette and amanda is a ball joint doll. i'll stick the rest of the pics on my website soon. the song is a perfect fit.

11-2-03... couldn't resist sneaking up on shiva playing with my "new" victrola!

10-27-03...what an awesome party if i do say so!!! one way rider jammed my faves, frida and johnnycash were in all there glory! isaac coblentz brought a nice combination of wire work, lithographs on handmade paper, etc. our work blended gracefully and with seasonal ambience. good munchies, spirits, friends and family. and a fun, rowdy, sexy audience displaying their halloween fantasies! my kind of night! thanx all! check out my pics!

10-18-03... oh yes, i've confirmed that "one way rider" are playing my opening on October 25th! the coolest talent to sweep north east ohio, they were already my favorite when they told me they were practising extra hard for their gospel show doing alot of a'capella at the first christian church. i didn't want to miss it even tho i was worried about getting hit by lightning walking into a church. their show was mind blowing and way fun! the interplay of the family voices was awesome, as johnny cash says, "there is nothing like blood on blood". and so much personality and playfulness with ma n pa, son bassboy's hilarious banter, youthful chittlin's angelic harmony, and amanda lynn rounding it out. their rowdy guise of the kentucky mafia debuted the outpost bar the day after june carter died, and played again the day after johnny cash died. coincidence? i tend to believe a celestial occurance is going on. anyway, i'm super proud to have 'em play my show, the perfect cap to my favorite religious festival, dias de la meurte!

10-17-03 ...one shoe production of Frankula,...opened tonight and TOTALLY ROCKED! the audience was in stitches the cast and crew was impecable! amazing to watch this youth production written and directed by teens come together with such a complicated structure and it never quite falls in place til opening night. i knew thew jokes were funny but it takes a rythm and timing that was a bit loose until this, the big night and they were great! laced with original live music and dance, thank you guys for having me on board to help out with props, costumes, and the poster, photos and program. lemme know when you are ready to go again!

10-1-03 ...i'm going to make an annual tradition of having an art show every halloween. isaac coblentz is sharing this show, opening on october 25th with wire art, anti-war stuff and a film. i scored a fresh copy of lee lanier's skeletal animated "day off the dead" and kate urich inspired me to finally make marionettes. so we'll have our special guests johnny cash and frida kahlo! the big kent halloween party is happening here downtown and my mask class will have our wild rumpus. of course we will decorate the missing animals of ohio graveyard and have it lit up with candles and flowers.

10-28-03...
WKSU did a great feature on Frankula, and gave me a great plug and link. you can hear the show streaming here.

getting into gear with the art direction on one shoe production of Frankula, the original play. we watched mel brook's young frankenstein on the big screen at the gallery but had to break the hot night with a skinny dip at the quarry so we didn't watch dusk til dawn. we're going to do isis a really cool mask and costume, and a cool mask for the monster, and it would be cool to transform bass boy's banjo. we hope to sell the poster and t-shirts as we don't have ohio arts council funding on this play. any artist want to help out on the sets or costumes please let me know!

i had been to chippewa lake amusement park as a kid way back when so i was excited to hear it is still there with trees growing up through the rollercoster and good psycho clown ghosts in the air. these photos demonstrate a four star recommended way to kick off the summer.

i really enjoyed the 2003 parade in the circle in cleveland and took a bunch of photos! i'm hoping to get a group together to do a float or walk on stilts or something!

our new world children's theater production of shel silverstien's the giving tree went to the stage may 16th, 17, and 18th at the kent state university stageand whatta great show!. me and maryjayne stone did the art direction and the kids are doing much of the scenery, etc. themselves. the little rascal style comedy with a message had the audience rolling in the aisles! i got some great shots that i would like to offer to the cast, their families, friends, etc. so just lemme know.

may 4th anti-war demonstrations in kent were intense this year.the crowd was large (even though the streets were blocked off and no traffic was aloud to the university ) and the cops were there in riot gear with german shepard dogs. sixteen were arrested for no apparent reason. finally met jello biafra who knew me from old political art of mine. i took lots of photos , clik the pic to check em out.

we edited some video from roger hill and the chopper cops which is up on my video page.

i am sharing an environmental art show with kate pilacky, john katko and julia butterfly hill( yes,the california treesitter who stayed 2 years in the big redwood; she does some cool art) for earth day 03. it's called stand for the earth and we opened april 26th at the north water street gallery in kent ohio. we had some great music with tim wallace and amy lovinger doing baroque violin. another great opening party my only regrets being i didn't get more photos. i did however get a few good shots of the missing animals of ohio memorial, now installed next to the gallery all lit with candles. mucho thanx to the many volunteers who helped landscaping the yard and planting the flowers including jen and her crew from the nature conservancy. i did a big 4'x4' painting of the gulf war hotrod to be displayed at a rockin' peace art rally monday november 18th at the kent state rathskeller. this is a revival of a pen & ink piece i did during the 1rst gulf war. testosterone oil addiction and burning oil wells. view it in the gallery. t he tenth anniversary show at the water street gallery in kent on halloween was a gas. me and lindy's psycho art decked out the place and was a great setting for the lusty bloody vampires coming in from kent festivities! we called it eyepitaphs for our shared crazy eyes. *i finally got the photos on the website!!!* we had a eyepitaph closing party saturday, november 16th but i'm going to keep my stuff there til the 24th. good music, good friends, life is good! we had a screening at the water street gallery for my brothers movie reflections of evil. the turnout was great, everyone enjoyed the 3 hour movie laughing at the right parts and clapping heartily at the end. it's a kickass movie dealing with frustrations of LA in damon's awesome cinematographic humor . four stars and thumbs up!	've got pics up of the mardis gras wild rumpus and parade we put on with the mask workshop which was 3 weekends in february. what an awesome funtime! everybody looked luscious in their new creations! view my masks in the gallery.
i went up to toledo last fall and visited carmen feliciana's proposed gallery space. the timing was perfect; her mom does the hispanic cultural center right across the street and lo and behold, its the weekend of dia de los muertos; the mexican day of the dead (photos here)! my heart trembled at the beautiful catholic mayan alter displays and just in time for a bigger memory card for my camera. i clicked away at the colors and wonderful dancers. carmen has a big space in back of her gallery she's building a courtyard and wants me to do another ohio animal graveyard. if i can get that grant...	it's official now, i have my new studio in kent, ohio. i lived here a while, back in the 80's so it's a homecoming of sorts. my place is directly above the north water street gallery so it is convenient to share projects with jexo and the gang. i have some work in a group show called *silhouettes* which opened saturday, january 11th. my donated work is on the flyer for the miller house homeless shelter benefit which will be on display for a week starting saturday february 8th.
i now have a good batch of wildlife art up at the wild mercantile. the party was canceled when some yahoo broke out the window during homecoming testosterone revelry. jeez, joe has enough to worry about starting his new store. stuff looks great on the walls there on state street in athens.
i had a few cool pieces in lamborn's recyclabration benefit which opened wednesday, august 28th through september 6th. everything is made out of recycled and dumpstered stuff! saturday, september 14th i took the graveyard and wildlife art out to the pawpaw festival by albany. gotta love that local jamming and pawpaw beer! i got a nice cover and interview in the athens insider spring 2002. sorry i still haven't mailed one to mom. someone show her the article online. and the rave did a piece on the eclipse mining town 2002 halloween events with the missing animals graveyard.

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