HEAVY HUMANS

HEAVY HUMANS 4

2010-08-20T12:17:00.000-07:00

$4. a book of drawings, photos and ideas by me. stitched binding.

24hr WAVE

2010-06-09T11:29:00.000-07:00

deep into what this company is all about

SOLITARY ARTS

AROUND YOUR NECK

2010-06-02T22:52:00.000-07:00

so i began to make some extra necklaces to sale. they will be cheap. like the price of supplies plus a few extra dollars. let me know if you want anything like this for yourself.

STAY INSPIRED

2010-06-02T01:18:00.000-07:00

growing hair long

get in the ocean
from remember be here now

FINALLY

2010-05-19T12:15:00.000-07:00

its been a while. a trip to sf loosened up some internal gunk and this is what came of it.

inspired by handmade houses the sun's power.

MANTRA

2010-05-03T09:32:00.000-07:00

may this be my inspiration (aside from the line about afro sheen cuz i ain't got one).

Don't need no ivory liquid. Don't want no afro sheen.
Don't need the latest fashions. Don't want my hair to smell clean.

I've got my automotion,
I've got that superpotion.
And if you think I'm going crazy,
Then pretty baby it might be true babe.

We don't need no first class. Don't need no second class.
All of the best-of, all that can kiss my ass.

I've got my claim to fame,
I've got that positive flame.
And if you think I'm going crazy,
Then pretty baby it might be you babe

BAD BRAINS

trying to live/stay positive... always.

MUSIC PROJECT

2010-03-03T13:38:00.000-08:00

find more about my music project.
OAKROT

THANKS BRUCE

2010-02-12T12:41:00.001-08:00

a logo for my music project made by my friend bruce who also does nice work as fortress letterpress.

TRUTH

2010-02-10T17:12:00.000-08:00

a drawing based on an old photo

MUSIC SHOW

2010-02-09T21:28:00.000-08:00

i am playing solo under the name OAKROT. please come portland friends!

DOWN AND OUT

2010-02-07T18:36:00.000-08:00

george orwell

MT. HOOD

2010-01-24T12:34:00.001-08:00

UNITY Y'ALL

2010-01-14T17:01:00.001-08:00

i made this tapestry with blake hoover referencing the confederate flags with hank jr.'s image emblazoned upon them. anyone who grew up in alabama will know what i'm talkin' 'bout. it is on display at the albina press on hawthorne and se 50th ave. along with a lot of other stuff by others and me. you can see it before january is over if you're a portlander.

i must share this family portrait done my my friend and colleague, tim root. thanks tim!

i made this drawing of my friend, lindsay schief for tom tom magazine, a magazine about female drummers.

listening to this grouper split with roy montgomery in the mellow times.

and this wolves in the throneroom on the dry, cold and grey days. a great skating around town soundtrack.

ICELAND/FRANCE/30 YEARS OLD

2009-12-13T10:37:00.000-08:00

clea and i went to reykjavik, iceland and paris, france for my 30th birthday.

FALL

2009-11-02T15:27:00.000-08:00

when it is sunny this is what i will do!

in other exciting news, i am going to iceland and france to celebrate 30 years of life on earth!

SOCIAL MIXER

2009-10-12T21:01:00.001-07:00

i drew features of different friends' faces from different pictures and got these love children.

RISING TO NEW LEVELS

2009-10-11T22:46:00.001-07:00

photo by c maclean. fall is here. pumpkins have been chosen and ready for carving.

these are the end result of games from our recent drawing party.

NEXT PHASE

2009-09-29T20:52:00.000-07:00

"Most people lie and let life play upon them like the tepid discharges of a douche-bag."- Lawrence Durrell from Justine (may this not be me!).

summer is ending. i have had some awesome times and i am ready for the next phase of the year. i am impregnated with hopes of creative production in the months to come. may the rain fall and hold me indoors. i will be happy there with the things and the ones i love.

MAJOR TRIP

2009-08-27T17:50:00.000-07:00

a trip to big sur via the redwoods, california coast and san francisco.

it proved to be amazing.

NEVER AGAIN

2009-07-28T23:35:00.000-07:00

i doubt i will be able to ever say this again. today i made coffee for lee ranaldo and poured some ice tea for kim gordan. this is a moment that if you told 12 year old niles was in his future he would have died.

SKATEABLE COAST

2009-07-25T19:17:00.000-07:00

i went on a trip down the coast with some friends and hit the following skateparks along the way:

astoria

seaside

cannon beach

waldport

lincoln city

bay city

toledo

florence

newport

then headed inland and went to bethel in eugene, or. finished it off with gabriel park in portland. three nights of camping. first time camping on the sands of the beach. woke up to misty rain and sand fleas. i saw some cutty kids at almost every park and had the best time. this summer is already amazing me.

MOM

2009-07-14T16:29:00.000-07:00

today i get a call from my mom telling me that our conversation on her recent trip out here has led her to decide to retire!

congratulations mom! time to do some stuff for yourself. you've worked hard for too long!

LIFE OUTSIDE

2009-06-29T17:59:00.000-07:00

within a week...

mt. st. helens

eagle creek

there will be more of this kind of thing as the summer progresses.

in the planning stages, a trip to big sur via hwy 101 and hwy 1. camping along the way.

ST HELENS

2009-06-21T22:58:00.000-07:00

mount saint helens erupted on march 20, 1980. i saw it closely for the first time via a spontaneous plan concocted with friends at a late breakfast outing. today it looked like this at the base.

HUGH HOLLAND

2009-06-13T21:47:00.001-07:00

look at this kid. he does not give a fuck! upon a search for skateboarding photos from a time before i was even born i ran across photos like the one above by hugh holland. more than looking through a new issue of thrasher, transworld, slap or any other skateboarding magazine today, these photos get me excited about skateboarding; the carelessness of long hair, bare feet and no shirt. the epitome of youth. and the beautiful backdrop of sunny southern california. few things seem more carefree. now i am hungry to while away the days this summer skating with friends and soaking in the sun.

FREEDAYS

2009-06-12T16:24:00.000-07:00

yesterday proved to be rather perfect. i did get a cavity filled which was no fun, but it happened quickly and i appreciated that. enjoyed some hang out time in north portland with friends and eventually made it over to my friends' house to skate their halfpipe. super fun session and i emerged with a few new pains in my body that were well worth it. then on to a burrito and some coffee and the drawing party at the same friends' gallery, together.

here is a drawing i did thinking of the film i saw the previous night, sin nombre. yet the guy here loves jordan. didn't we all? the other drawing is a bizarro dave wein that i drew looking across the room without dave noticing. looks like a cross between him and an ol' chap named baney.

and here is mark. drawn without his knowledge at the time. i was drawing everyone.

... and just in case you're looking for the perfect summer record, look no further. it is here.

HEAVY HUMANS III

2009-06-06T21:11:00.001-07:00

i made a new book. here is the cover. this time there are drawings, photos and texts inside. 24 pages. photocopied. bound with string. hand drawn triangles on cover. send me $3 if you want one or let's trade something! run of 50-100 (haven't decided yet). thanks for looking!

FOREST SKATING

2009-06-03T21:27:00.000-07:00

i went to the skateboard park in hood river today, the tree-friendliest skatepark i have yet to see.

here i am doing a frontside ollie on the bank at the park.

here's old rubberboard pete popping over the gap.

iz on a fakie rock up the steep wall.

luke on some 50/50 shit.

all of these photos thanks to chris flanagan's iphone

we finished our time in hood river with a burrito and some coffee. i came home with a headache from all of the fun, took a shower and passed the fuck out.

DESERT CAMPING

2009-05-28T21:06:00.001-07:00

i finally started using this awesome sketchbook that ryan made for me on my birthday.

this is what i woke up to today at smith rock state park, oregon.

a drawing of the view

i saw this face in the rock.

this was an amazing and beautiful place.

MORE MUSIC

2009-05-24T23:43:00.000-07:00

a song i wrote a couple of years ago, but recorded the other night, can be found here.

new camping equipment acquisitions means a trip to central oregon this week. i want to see the high desert and some sage bushes.

WOOD

2009-05-13T17:03:00.001-07:00

i made some boxes and a shelf for plants on our front porch using wood found in the alleys of ladd's addition

PLANNS

2009-05-06T01:22:00.000-07:00

here is a somewhat symmetrical drawing i did at the coffee shop the other day.

i made a new planner for myself. this is the cover

and this is the inside. i could make one for you too if you want. 6 months for $6. email me if you want one. heavyhumans(at)gmail.com

SONG

2009-04-26T20:20:00.000-07:00

an idea i worked on last night here.

SADERING

2009-04-12T16:04:00.000-07:00

not really having ideas for drawing, i made this collage (which i rarely ever make) quickly today. i will go to my first sader this evening. having minimal ties to judaism in my life, i expect the event to prove to be educational. cricket is snoring behind me. i didn't know cats snored.

ALIVE!

2009-04-09T21:56:00.000-07:00

distasteful ex-corpse by clea and me. i have been putting my creative energy into projects at home like decoupage (sp?) on a table top (using gray's anatomy pages) and building little tables for the place. we joined the people's food coop today and that feels good.

TOUR

2009-04-02T16:28:00.000-07:00

this is home.

NEW DAYS

2009-03-28T22:10:00.001-07:00

here i am with one of my new living partners. she is really into this spot on the chair these days. this cat only likes one kind of cat food and is really fluffy (more than you can see in this picture). we got moved in and have been intensely setting the place up. so many plants. an interior jungle. i am loving it.

OLYMPICS

2009-03-25T14:32:00.000-07:00

just got back from a late birthday celebration for clea in olympia. had some good mellow times with her parents and bro. spent time with olympia friends, ate out a lot and walked around downtown. went to this place, SIZIZIS, for the first time. (i stole this picture)

it is a new 24 hour coffee/tea shop. i must say i was floored by the set up. amazing, simple and gothic in the way i like things to be. i wouldn't really come here on a sunny day, but at night, it is the best. i read they will be carrying my employers coffee (stumptown) in the near future and will be the first in olympia. it was reported the night we arrived that they were hosting an acoustic death metal show.

in his truck, on our way to olympia, "patient" patrick allowed us to stop at a yard sale right by clea's house and we picked up an old metal table will will use for the dining room and a giant old dark wood abacus will will use to divide bills and keep score during intense games of pictionary. no we will just look at it... pictures of the place to come. tomorrow is the big official moving day. moving the big stuff. then the fun of setting it up.

MISTAKES

2009-03-18T12:53:00.001-07:00

we all make them.

SUNSHINES

2009-03-18T12:29:00.000-07:00

so to my surprise and most of those around me, the sun is out and it feels like a nice spring day. still preparing to move. saw the movie milk the other night at the $3 theater and loved it. thanks to my friend tim, i discovered that it is josh brolin as dan white and not matt dillon. i thought it was matt dillon in no country for old men and the goonies too. now when i look at photos of the two, i don't know how i have been so oblivious.

RAINBLOBS

2009-03-14T18:03:00.000-07:00

today is a real portland winter day.

'92

2009-03-11T11:51:00.000-07:00

a distorted polaroid i took of my friend when i was 12

TIME MOVES ON

2009-03-11T00:45:00.000-07:00

so the surprise trip to long beach, wa in early celebration of clea's birthday was quite successful. the most elaborate situation i have ever organized. here are those in attendance for the weekend that was certainly an awesome time. sadly, heather and curtis left before this photo was taken.

so now on to the next step in my life. i need to begin packing for my move. between that and working more, i have not and don't forsee a lot of time and energy expended on creative works. that better change soon after.

CHANGE

2009-03-04T13:02:00.000-08:00

so i am not going to be putting any photos in a show afterall. you snooze, you lose. but clea and i got a new place to live. we will be moving between two weeks and a month from now. so stoked. new space. new inspiration. fireplace!

LADDER OF FIRE

2009-02-27T19:21:00.000-08:00

from big sur and the oranges of hieronymus bosch by henry miller

NEBULOUS

2009-02-24T13:11:00.000-08:00

making some plans. reading a little. making some coffee.

NO YESTERDAY AND NO TOMORROW

2009-02-22T17:42:00.001-08:00

over the past two days i have coincidentally entered into two conversations with friends discussing the importance of focusing on the moment you are in, allowing the past to be dead and the future to be unwritten.

SCATTERDAY

2009-02-21T14:03:00.001-08:00

coffee lunch then work tonight. i am going to put some photos in a show at breeze block that my friend mark is putting together. more on that later.

ROMESH SHARMA

2009-02-18T14:22:00.000-08:00

longest fingernail grown to 25.5 inches over 13 years. measured feb. 15th, 1979 (just missed the 30th anniversary).

as i spent a lot of time during my childhood perusing the book of world's records, this picture is very familiar to me.

TAXIDERMY CHURCH

2009-02-18T01:40:00.000-08:00

so valentine's day was fun. here we are.

yesterday, i went to an abbey at mt. angel, oregon. it has a museum on the grounds

i doubt you'll ever see these three in church together again.

there is a monk playing the organ up there. joel couldn't help but pray. he is confirmed afterall.

i bought a copy of the 1981 guiness book of world's records at the abbey's library.

BURIED EGG

2009-02-16T17:28:00.000-08:00

i once read in a book that much like burning sage to clear a space of negative energy, one can carry and egg around a room to absorb the bad vibrations. you must then take the egg outside and bury it.

RIDDING

2009-02-15T17:08:00.000-08:00

so we cleaned out a lot of stuff from the basement to make more room. a house with a lot of different people moving in and out over three years accumulates a lot of shit. like two extra tv's?

here's an old watercolor i mailed to a friend.

and i picked up this album, blood is clean, by valet at the library.

i hope tomorrow is as sunny as today.

DISCOVERY

2009-02-13T21:48:00.000-08:00

upon scanning this page from a crispin glover book i was able to more clearly see the people on the right page. i like it even more now.

GOING FORWARD

2009-02-13T21:47:00.001-08:00

VDAY

2009-02-13T18:37:00.000-08:00

an early happy valentine's day! such a bull shit holiday for a lot of reasons like the need to buy gifts. i made something for my particular valentine in that box up there. unfortunately for some it does seem we need a nationally recognized holiday to signify a day to be as loving to one another as we should be everyday. tomorrow: a heart on every coffee drink.

someone loves you dearly. it is true.

"everyday the 14th"- andre 3000

COOL DUDE

2009-02-12T11:12:00.001-08:00

i found this tape this summer of what looks like the middle eastern version of mc serch at the goodwill on grand. look closely...no red eye reduction here!

PLANE DOODLES

2009-02-11T16:43:00.000-08:00

exquisite corpse drawings done by clea and me on the plane ride home from maui.

slow start today. stayed up late on this new toy of mine. tonight i reconvene with my friend dan with who i played some smoothed out blue-eyed soul under the name gianculi.

NEW BEGINNINGS

2009-02-11T02:49:00.000-08:00

a tax return means a new computer which means an opportunity for regular postings on here.

i went to maui and got back last week. here are some highlights.

western sunrise

paia

seven sacred pools

swimming at black rock

sunrise at haleakala

hiking at haleakala

bamboo forest

old oceanside graveyards

western maui sunset

iao valley

and camping for a week with this lady.

i still have art up at nationale in portland. check out may's lovely store. luckily i dodged the upcoming layoffs at the company where i work. i saw many good bands this weekend: dragging an ox through water, valet, castanets, eternal tapestry, date palms, some weird sin, tara jane o'neil. what a goldmine of shows with all but date palms being local bands. portland is a magic place.

2008

2009-01-11T15:31:00.000-08:00

these are things i drew or painted.