schlugliminal

data jungle

Here's another little synth-y playtime jam, and another portal. I figured out a neat alpha masking trick with the shader nodes in Blender a couple of days ago--the parts of the portal that aren't orange and swirly are entirely transparent. And I think that's neat. I started over on the portal pictured because I couldn't figur...

Lipstick Bong Rip

Oh my, in all of my full-bore art-making this summer, I had forgotten to share the final video we made for our kickstarter/album promotion. I spent many long nights learning how to UV unwrap a skateboard and getting the legs of my model to stop clipping through the boots. It's been a long time since I have animated something ...

industrial new moon

Hello my friends. It's been such a crazy year, and I have barely taken time to stop and review and just bear witness to it all. I am crashing into nesting season now, just unpacking all of the overwhelm, and I hope everyone is having a sweet Fall.

I've got my desktop computer set up again, so the past couple of w...

Last track down~

We laid the last track for the album this week (it needed a re-do). Officially down to the straight up mixing stage, and the tracks are sounding really good. I can't wait to share them with y'all. We'll be running a kickstarter during the month of July in hopes to cover some of the costs of getting a CD & artbook/zine ins...

A little visual art

I've been plugging along pretty steadily on all of my projects this month. Yesterday I did this little digital painting of Ester Dome for a social media graphic I committed myself to making for a solstice show we're doing up there in June. It made me miss real paint, but I am slowly getting the hang of the digital st...

hot of the press summer bop (the kids album)

I was supposed to track some guitar yesterday, but one thing led to another and Sara ended up coming by and we worked on this new song instead. The working title has been "The Kid's Album."

This is the first rough take. It's hard to hear the lyrics, but they are:

Hey- we’ll talk after the show

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diminishing returns (lilac) may practice recording

just one more song to go to rework and tinker on to find that album version

This is our last practice recording of lilac. If you've been following the genesis of this song, you'll notice it's changed a lot. The last big move we made was changing the chords for the verse, and I wrote a solo that is kicking my as...

Wizard Bitch (Metric covers) - All Comes Crashing

Don't mind me, just eating a fried egg and dumping some shakey cell cam vids of some of the songs (1 of 3) we played at the Cover Up at the end of March (thx maddy) :) :) :)

This was the maiden voyage of Sara's new drum pad midi trigger thingy.

edit: this upload got gruk'd(is word?) so my 123 and fri...

Wizard Bitch (Metric covers) - Gold Guns Girls

It is 6am on Saturday May 10th, and I have finally trained the Pinterest algorithm to offer me "doom dada"

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for timestamping how f'ing long it takes to upload and quote-unquote-process these videos

).

3/<3

Songs not pictured are ones we've played before. Glass Ceiling and...

Wizard Bitch (Metric covers) - Black Sheep

The banger we didn't intend to play but hey why fight it (2/3)

Egg update: very good yes yummy yummy made a second one to go with my gummy vitamins

APRIL arttimes

It's been such a whirlwind of artmaking all month. I've been juggling a lot of projects one day at a time, and progressing steadily towards..something?? Definitely not profit lmao. Here are some pictures from the adventure. Sara and I played a short set at our friend Drew's birthday party. I brought some paint, with permissio...

the burden of transparency

It started in 2022. After the forced closures of public spaces during the pandemic had been lifted, when it still felt a little naughty to return to them, but the social void had made so many of us hungry for the presence of others that the risks were worth weighing. I had started conceptualizing an essay in response to conve...

An update for march

March has been wicked splendid. She usually is, but this year I feel as though I’ve made it to the other side of a gauntlet of grief with some wisdom and clarity. I rang in 33 on 3/3, and that feels significant, somehow. The next weekend, I got a phonecall from my friend Adam as I was drifting off to dreamspace and found ou...

balance & sacred spaces // 02-05-2025

Well, January was absolutely wild. From starting out the New Year with two mass death events in the US, to LA-on-fire & snowstorms in the southeast, to the inauguration and the confirmation hearings, where masks are continuing to fly right off, to the sweeping presidential pardons and executive actions, to Indonesia joini...

Winter screen-printing // cro-chet-e // board gamin' // sunsets & grief

Hey y'all, it's been a minute since I've stepped into this space. I've been plugging along on projects, just been a bit quiet. I've been processing through a lot of grief this winter and most of my writing has been a bit scattered and personal. For outies, not for innies, so-to-say.

I want to share a few things I've bee...

Lilac. Massive rewrites. Long restin'. Yeah that's fine.

Hey y'all. The storm came. My power was out for 52 hours. Since then, the tire fell off of the rim of my Subaru, somebody smashed in the window of my Jeep while I was at a theater fundraiser masquerade (which I got comp'd in to, and left with 4 lbs of beeeeef, thank you FST), and I've made 2 hats and about 70% of a sweater. 2024-11-05 18:39:14 +0000 UTC View Post

An artful day before the storm

The art studio is finally back in force. Psychic Spychick had our first band practice of the season this week, deep digging for good tones and rewriting structures and solos and doing good creative play toward making some songs we feel good about recording in a few months. I was describing hammer-ons and pull-offs, and gettin...

yikes // another semi-regular offgassing of wtf-are-we-doing // 10-19-2024

Zionism is white supremacy. Israel is a white supremacist military state. It is a colonial project dropped onto a piece of land that nobody asked anybody else’s permission to use or collaborate on. They just showed up and said this is ours now, law says we can have it, get out or submit—with broad support from the war-pla...

New board, who dis?

I was gifted a new, much larger, pedal board this summer, and I finally had a little time to re-velcro all of my pedals and get them all lined out and wired up. I've only played with it for about 15 minutes since I got it all set up, but I got some good tone from a super shifter/shimmer delay/sonar reverb/silver dragon distor...

MEGAzine cover mockup

This here is a draft of just the cover of the megazine. Everything is mutable. Very likely to change as the rest of the pages come together. The image is a picture I took of a santa novelty candle melting in front of an inspirational magnet~

Art: A Manifesto

I wrote this manifesto for a poli-sci class in college. It is one of the pieces going into the upcoming MEGAZINE.

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Art alters you.

While the artifacts are impermanent, there is an emotional force in art that lingers. A force that contains an experience that transcends rationality....

slow lore music room progress // almost halfway blankee

As part of the art studio renovations this year, I've decided to upholster the "sound-reinforcement-system." It looks a lot better than just..nailing trash to the wall and putting a curtain in front of it, which was the previous move. This stuff was packaging for a big grow-light upgrade at the weed farm a couple of years ago...

artsCOOL2024 ++ big ol' harvest moon

Hey all-

Here’s a little video of the art show we did at the end of artscool this summer. Getting back into the swing of things here as winter slowly rolls in. I’m at the art studio almost every day for at least an hour setting up shelves and cleaning and organizing and getting everything ready for making...

smol update from the coast 07.20.2024

I've been in Ketchikan for almost a month now. Next week is the last week of ArtsCool, a 4 week summer arts camp I've been teaching "art" class at. The camp has been largely centered around the production of a musical for many years now, with any visual art time being focused around creating the set or costumes or props for t...

lake pigments

I've had some, eh, camera issues lately. My life is a little too disorganized to have my DSLR and SD card reader handy at the moment, and my cell phone camera lens is busted up. But, I am still able to use the camera on the screen side of my phone. Some gymnastics involved, but it gets the job done.

I mentioned a few w...

fugue, exhaustion, and creativity 06.14.2024

I've been in a sort of prolongued fugue state for a lot of this year. Between the long hours at work, the labor of seeking solutions to seeing the art studio through the next year on our way to creating a vibrant collaborative art space (big news in August if all goes well), the letting go of believing that the people closest...

last psychic spychick set for a while

We played at the Fairbanks Ladies of Wrestling Break-up Beat-down this Saturday. Hit a couple of milestones: biggest crowd yet, professional sound reinforcement, and a full set of original music all in one. I got a good recording from the board on my field recorder that I'm going to trawl for a good song to upload to some...