art and artists I appreciate

Woody Guthrie Resolutions and Wedding Blessing

December 31, 2011

Today is New Year’s eve 2011 and I found these resolutions of Woody’s last week. I love New Year’s resolutions and Woody, and as always he puts it perfectly, plain and simple. 1. Work more and better 2. Work by a schedule 3. Wash teeth if any 4. Shave 5. Take bath 6. Eat good [...]

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More Custom Covers

November 22, 2011

Check out all the rad covers Chrysy made! Hers are the spray-paint, mine are the sharpie. And checkout the animated gif that P made!

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Goldman Sachs Rules The World

September 28, 2011

When I saw this video the other day I was amazed, as were the BBC news folks, at the candor of this ‘trader’: “Governments don’t rule the world, Goldman Sachs rules the world.” Wow. We know it, but who ever says it on TV?! Huffpost speculates that Alessio Rastani is none other than Yes Men Founder Andy [...]

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FaullynSkautch.com

July 14, 2011

I’m very pleased that my cousin Matt and I were able to get a nice website for him started during his three day visit to Austin. He’s a fantastic artist and now he’s got a place to showcase his work online. His pseudonym is Faullyn Skautch. Check out FaullynSkautch.com.  

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Vera Smiles

August 6, 2010

Maile knows a wonderful Russian woman named Vera who studied drama and taught it to kids. So when we were looking for someone to speak Russian for a kid’s album I’m working on, Vera immediately came to mind. Tonight she came over, preformed and translated this poem. Smile.mp3 Smile.aif Улыбка От улыбки хмурый день светлей! От [...]

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