Blog #13: Crayon Purse Report

Right well.....  So I think I've worked this little bastard out. After a good half hour walk to the nearest known thrift store I managed to find exactly what I was looking for: Two little coin purses with them little snappy metal clamps. With some nervous wielding of a very sharp knife I was able to liberate the cloth/plastic sack from the metal on one of them. From that I had a basic pattern...

My Dad's New New Mixtape

My dad is always writing down playlists and new songs in his notebook. Then when he has about 100 or so compiled he will usually narrow them down to fit on one mix. Then he puts them on his ipod and it becomes the soundtrack to his life for a while. This is the latest playlist, and this time he...

The Rub & Smalltown Djs Tour Video & Mix

Last month we went across the country with Ayres & Cosmo Baker. It was so epic and we had the best time ever on the road with these guys. It was all great music, great shows & great friends consistently along the way. We compiled a bunch of good footage out there - as well as a live mix...

Artist 7/20: Louis Comfort Tiffany

As I may have mentioned before, my favorite period in art history is from about 1840 - 1920. This is when we saw the Pre-Raphaelite movement, the Impressionistic movement as well as the short lived Art Nouveau. While Alphonse Mucha is among the people who exemplified the painting of this period, the...

Blog #12: About MEEeee!

So rather than do an entry about an artist I'm gonna do a bit about me. Me, me me me me. A bit of an artistic bio if you will.Like oh so many artists, I apparently was making stuff as soon as I could pick up my own poop. My mother tells me I was a nightmare in the bathroom. Those white rooms were my...

Blog #11: Project #2 Progress Report

So I've decided to use crayons as my found material. What I have in mind is that I want to transform the crayons into coins. I plan to carefully remove their paper wrappers, melt the wax down, and pour them into coin molds I'll try to make from modeling clay. Most likely they'll have to be a tad thicker...

Rock, Break & Boogie (Smalltown Djs Edit)

This tune was produced in 1985 by awesome Italo Disco pioneer Salvatore Cusato. It's a great combination of Moroder style disco and early 80s rap music. He also did this amazing and hilarious tune Robin Cook's Comanchero. This edit makes it a little more dj friendly for the clurb: LET'S ROCK, BREAK & BOOGIE (SMALLTOWN DJS EDIT) - SAVOIR FAIRE & UPTOWN EXPRESSEnjoy. createSummaryAndTh...

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Blog #10: My Disney Princess Lineup

So this is a side project that I've been working on for over a year now and have taken it up again during my free time at college. People have asked why I'm working on a picture of the Disney Princesses and that's a complicated question. For one, I'm a Disney fan. All things disney but the Disney Princess...

Blog #9: 2 Lists

CrayonList 1: cylindrical, varying color, surrounded by paper, paper describes color, meltible, pointed, smooth/waxy, fragile, distinct smell, curvilenear, solidList 2: used for coloring, symbol of status among children, expression of art, rarely used by adults, color name often describes another object...

Artist 6/20: Christian Faur

True ColorsSo I did have this brilliant idea to use crayons in the form of a mosaic but this bastard Christian Faur beat me to the punch. It's brilliant no?! In leiu of the latest assignment to find ready-made object to transform I figured crayons might be appropriated due to their abundance and neglect...

Blog #8: 5 Transformation artists

Rolling Across the Bay#5) Scott Weaver. Now working with toothpicks is nothing new to the artworld and although he isn't a renowned artist so-to-speak, I figure Scott Weaver is worth mentioning. His best known piece, Rolling Over the Bay, made entirely out of toothpicks...

Artist 5/20: John William Waterhouse

One of my current top 3 artists epidomized what I enjoy most about the gift of art; the ability to recreate or capture nature. While many artists had done this for centuries, rules were formulated that dictated the composition of paintings and therefor didn't capture nature in its rawest form....

Malente

Malente has started a new record label called NO BRAINER. He is our favorite German of all time. (we like him even more than Katarina Witt) Can't say enough good things about this guy - but more specifically his production is next level. To celebrate the launch of the label he's done a new dj mix....