Malcu

Forty-six & 2

2007-06-28T20:56:00.000-07:00

My shadow's
shedding skin and
I've been picking
Scabs again.
I'm down
Digging through
My old muscles
Looking for a clue.

I've been crawling on my belly
Clearing out what could've been.
I've been wallowing in my own confused
And insecure delusions
For a piece to cross me over
Or a word to guide me in.
I wanna feel the changes coming down.
I wanna know what I've been hiding in

My shadow.
Change is coming through my shadow.
My shadow's shedding skin
I've been picking
My scabs again.

I've been crawling on my belly
Clearing out what could've been.
I've been wallowing in my own chaotic
And insecure delusions.

I wanna feel the change consume me,
Feel the outside turning in.
I wanna feel the metamorphosis and
Cleansing I've endured within

My shadow
Change is coming.
Now is my time.
Listen to my muscle memory.
Contemplate what I've been clinging to.
Forty-six and two ahead of me.

I choose to live and to
Grow, take and give and to
Move, learn and love and to
Cry, kill and die and to
Be paranoid and to
Lie, hate and fear and to
Do what it takes to move through.

I choose to live and to
Lie, kill and give and to
Die, learn and love and to
Do what it takes to step through.

See my shadow changing,
Stretching up and over me.
Soften this old armor.
Hoping I can clear the way
By stepping through my shadow,
Coming out the other side.
Step into the shadow.
Forty six and two are just ahead of me.

Maynard
forty-six & 2

2007-01-21T20:26:00.001-08:00

"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."

-Gustave Flaubert

2006-12-13T22:28:00.000-08:00

Its not daily increase, but daily decrease. Hack away the unessential

Bruce Lee

Pottery Class is about to begin

2006-11-30T21:22:00.000-08:00

Soooo the winter session for pottery class is soon to begin January 8th to be exact, and i am already jazzed.
Im so looking forward to this session i have so many ideas im going to be working on.
For the past 5 yrs i have been working in glass and love the medium but i am finding more and more to be drawn to pottery.
Its a very hands on medium through and through, not that glass isnt but i have always been a person who works on many different mediums to achieve the final concept, i use whatever materials to achieve the idea. Im looking forward to meeting Beth Cavener Sticher as well who is doing a residency at the school. Here is some picts of her work

Right in 2

2006-11-27T22:18:00.000-08:00

Angels on the sideline,
Puzzled and amused.
Why did Father give these humans free will?
Now they're all confused.

Don't these talking monkeys know that Eden has enough to go around?
Plenty in this holy garden, silly monkeys
Where there's one you're bound to divide it
Right in two

Angels on the sideline,
Baffled and confused.
Father blessed them all with reason,
And this is what they choose?

Monkey killing monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground.
Silly monkeys give them thumbs they forge a blade
And where there's one they're bound to divide it
Right in two

Monkey killing monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground.
Silly monkeys give them thumbs they make a club,
And beat their brother down.
How they survive so misguided is a mystery.
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability,
To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here.

Cutting it all right in two
Cut it all right in two
Cutting our love right in two

Fight over the clouds, over wind, over sky
Fight over your lie, over blood, over anything
Fight over love, over sun, over nothing
Fight till they die,
over what? for their ending

Angels on the sideline again,
Benched along with patience and reason.
Angels on the sideline again,
Wondering where this tug of war will end.

Tool
Maynard
Rightn2

Time well spent

2006-01-30T21:04:00.000-08:00

I was browsing Uwajimaya for some delicious items when i ran into David Huchthausen. To bring everyone up to date, the reason i moved to Seattle some time ago was because the posititon that i was offered by him in regards to his studio. I was offered a position to run his studio, which i accepted and 5yrs later here i am in seattle, but to make a long story short, his Studio is where i learned every facet to Cold Working glass, to this day the time and experience i attained at the studio was priceless. I have moved on since then but still cherish the time spent.
Anyhow he asked if i had any free time to which i informed him that i had only weekends due to fulltime work during the week and my studio in the evenings. He accepted and said he would love for me to put some time in on the weekends. So i started spending some time in the studio on the weekends. It hit me when i walked in that i had a connections with his pieces because i had made almost 3 years worth of gallery work for him. I would begin them and see them all the way through.
The pieces take roughly 3-4 months per piece to make because of the nature of his pieces. Upon entering the studio it was like seeing lost children, I hadnt seen some the pieces and the newer pieces for some time in the stages of being fabricated, they all look like diamonds in the rough waiting to be touched, worked, machined and designed and polished.

PixelRoller

2006-01-27T18:41:00.000-08:00

The "PixelRoller" project is a collabortive investigation into a new creative tool between Stuart Wood MA (RCA) Interaction Design and Florian Ortkrass MA (RCA) Design Products.

PixelRoller is a paint roller that paints pixels, designed as a rapid response printing tool specifically to print digital information such as imagery or text onto a great range of surfaces. The content is applied in continuous strokes by the user. PixelRoller can be seen as a handheld “printer”, based around the ergonomics of a paintroller, that lets you create the images by your own hand.

http://random-international.squarespace.com/pixelroller-overview/

This is the Sea

2006-01-02T19:10:00.000-08:00

This is the Sea

These things you keep
you better throw them away
Turn your back
on your soulless days
Once you were tethered
now you are free
Once you were tethered
now you are free
That was the river
this is the sea

If you're feeling weary
maybe been alone too long
or else you've been suffering from
a few too many plans that have gone wrong
and you're trying to remember
how fine your life used to be
running around banging your drum
like it's nineteen-seventy-three
Well that was the river
this is the sea

You say you've got trouble
You say you've got pain
You say you've got nothin to hold on to
nothing to trust, nothing but chains
You've been scouring your conscience
and raking through your memory
scouring your conscience
and raking through your memory
But that was the river
this is the sea

I can see you wavering
as you try to decide
You've got a war in your head
and it's tearing you up inside
You're trying to make sense
of something that you just don't see
You're trying to make sense now
and you know you once held the key
But that was the river
this is the sea

Now I hear there's a train
It's coming down the line
It's yours if you hurry
you've got still enough time
and you don't need no ticket
and you don't pay no fee
You don't need a ticket
You don't pay a fee
That was the river
this is the sea

London 1984
Mike Scott
On "This Is The Sea" and "The Whole Of The Moon"

Rubber Johnny Moma

2005-12-26T17:41:00.000-08:00

This has been out 20th of June but i ran across it today while sorting all my media files forgot how much i loved it. So ill post it, to those who are unfamiliar with Chris Cunningham and Richard D. James aka "Aphex Twin" I will post some addys for you to read up on, both are equally warped as they are brilliant, which in my opionion are the makings of great artist.

http://www.director-file.com/cunningham/
http://www.director-file.com/cunningham/rubber.html

The actual Movie is a DVD with a book of 42 or so still images of the video.
Here is a cut version of the Film

http://www.wimp.com/rubberjohnny/

The quality doesn't do the Film justice but you get a taste.

Aphex Twin
http://www.drukqs.net/

Unpacking

2005-12-26T15:06:00.000-08:00

"For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very centre of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions." - Charles Baudelaire

Mobilizing PowerUnplugged – Mobilizing Power : body

2005-11-27T22:03:00.000-08:00

What do you get when you start to put designers and Scientist together

http://www.hertz-langberg.com

These guys have come up with a portable and flexible textile that converts sunlight into electricity and allows you to carry the energy with you in the shape of a jacket or a tent.
The solar cell was incorporated in a transparent organdi textile and can be manufactured using industrial techniques such as silkscreen printing. The textile is now printed in pieces of 30x45cm, but by putting the textile-modules together you can create the exact form you need. The designers have also invented a technique which allows the electrical connection simply by sewing the cloth together with a thin copper thread.

"Tony Takitani" - Murakami adapted to Film - Seattle 10/21

2005-10-20T23:00:00.000-07:00

http://www.tonytakitani.com

Yep! Its a Jun Ichikawa film that's an adaptation of the Haruki Murakami short story of the same name - that appeared in the New Yorker awhile back. With a soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto of his more classical piano-led work.

http://www.strandreleasing.com/In_Theaters_Details.asp_Q_id_E_181

Anyone up for it . .. .

My name has been Hijacked

2005-10-20T14:28:00.000-07:00

http://www.designmuseum.org/design/index.php?id=27

From Chaos to Calmness

2005-10-19T23:22:00.000-07:00

It seems the storm has passed, the wirlwind of the project that ive been working on for the past year has come to an end for me. Im thinking again rather than reacting. My first order of business is to refill my arsenal of knowledge once again that led me to this point. I fill stronger about the decisions ive made and more confidence on the asthectics but i know that i have so far to go. First is to take the step. Remember the love of what i do and why i do it. Its come to my attention that so many people take for granted the place that they have arrived at with ease when so many other people have to work with all they have to attain dreams they may have.

Taken from a lyric of Outkast "Hold on Be Strong"

Converting to Blogger

2005-07-07T22:32:00.000-07:00

Moving from Myspace to blogger thanks to Sarah.
More to come .. .. . .