Saturday, December 3, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
Tattoos and Christina Lake
I have decided that I'm going to begin the next segment in portraits as exploration with being tattooed. In the 21st century being tattooed is very much a right of passage and I couldn't rightfully explore adulthood without it. Janelle Jackson was kind enough to volunteer for the first session. If you love your tattoos and would like to be photographed contact me.
Last weekend Keely and I went to Christina Lake, BC, a wonderful and fabulously beautiful place. There we took a walk, a drive, and had a bit of beach fun.
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If you’re an artist (visual, performance, literary, etc) and you’re interested in being a part of our project please feel free to contact one of us at tcadez@gmail.com and/or keelyhoney@gmail.com.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Free Art and Beans
Do you love free stuff? How about free art? Here's your chance. Keely and I are starting a drawing, if you sign up for Clymer Gallery's mailing list and or like our Facebook page you will be entered into a drawing to win a Blaine Mueller C-print. On September 1st we'll will be drawing the names of 5 people and each will receive a print of "America Soldiers On" pictured below.
Join the mailing list here.
Like Clymer Gallery on Facebook here.
And on a personal note, it looks like I'm going to have about a billion beans and some corn come this fall.
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If you’re an artist and you’re interested in helping us grow our project and want to sell your art please feel free to contact one of us at tcadez@gmail.com and/or keelyhoney@gmail.com.
Join the mailing list here.
Like Clymer Gallery on Facebook here.
And on a personal note, it looks like I'm going to have about a billion beans and some corn come this fall.
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If you’re an artist and you’re interested in helping us grow our project and want to sell your art please feel free to contact one of us at tcadez@gmail.com and/or keelyhoney@gmail.com.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Adding Artist Blaine Mueller, New Prints
Artist/designer Blaine Mueller is the second person to join our roster here at Clymer Gallery. His first prints with us are part of a set of sci-fi propaganda posters. We think they're pretty cool, so check them out!
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Long Summer Nights
So, I'm (we're) taking a bit of a break from the artist series to concentrate efforts on gardening and the new foray into being a business owner and will return with a vengeance in early August. The gallery is slowly growing like our beans and you can follow all the new goodness at www.clymergallery.com.
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If you’re an artist (visual, performance, literary, etc) and you’re interested in being a part of our project please feel free to contact one of us at tcadez@gmail.com and/or keelyhoney@gmail.com.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Adding Artist Ryan Desmond, New Prints
We're glad to announce that we're now selling prints by Ryan Desmond! He's been working on a series of meat paintings that have got him some attention and we will start out with five of those works that can be bought as prints.
We've launched the shop with his prints today, and there's more artists to come.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Thuy-Dzuong Nguyen the Novelist.
Thuy-Dzuong Nguyen is an author of a multimedia novel, The Truth Lenders, about news and how we ingest it. Much of the book was written at the Rocket Market, so that’s where we met with Thuy.
K: Why don’t you tell me your background a little in writing? How did you get started?
Thuy: It’s just something I’ve always done. I’m a journalism major from Gonzaga. I graduated in ‘07 and went to work for the Spokesman for two and half years.
K: So was the book after working at the Spokesman?
Thuy: Yes, and it was mostly because I had this time to get this done.
K: Was there something in particular that sparked the idea for a multimedia novel?
Thuy: I don’t remember the exact moment. You know, it was probably because of Kevin Long. I’d been recording Kevin Long’s shows for a few years now, and this one [in the book] was recorded in 2009 from a show in February. I started incorporating people I knew as characters in hopes that I could just approach them and say “Why don’t I use this clip?” It already exists, we can just make a CD, put some material on it and stick it in the back. It was just a silly idea, but it become a longer production. I’m glad we did it. So I talked to Kevin and he was cool with it. Then I started commissioning things from people. I went to Ross Robinette, who’s a electronica musician and a DJ, and commissioned some very specific things that match scenes. For a while it was just finding a reason to incorporate things that already existed, but eventually we started customizing it. For instance I went to Dane Ueland, who is a very talented singer-songwriter, and I asked him to write a song about genetically modified seafood.
The book just kind of happened. It wasn’t a conversation that we all sat and had. This wasn’t a group of people that said we’re going to make a multimedia novel together. It happened by accident.
K: About how many people were involved throughout?
Thuy: At least twenty.
K: Were you writing and approaching people at the same time?
Thuy: It all happened at once. It was all very organic. Jacob Butcher, the editor, and I actually came here and sat down half a day every other day to do the editing, revise, and write more stuff. [...] So that was going on the same that these sounds were being commissioned.
K: Was there anything you wanted to record but couldn’t?
Thuy: There was actually one thing that I regret not recording, and that’s the voice of one of the characters, who is now deceased. She was an eighty-two year old woman who was very adorable. She’s Lady McGee in the book. I sat down with her and had tea parties with her every Friday. She would listen to me talk about this when it was still a draft. Right after I got to the ending she passed away.
K: Are you working on anything right now?
Thuy: I’m working on something but I don’t know what it is. It’s just a bunch of scenes, short stories, there’s a lot of poetry in there, fictional research. I don’t know how it’s going to come together, but with Truth Lenders I didn’t know how it was going to come together either.
K: What is your favorite part about writing?
Thuy: It’s like I’m jumping in and I’m taking notes in this universe. It’s not really my story, I’m just a vessel or something. I jump in and I take notes, and if I don’t know then I have to go ask my characters. I don’t know what the next scene is going to be. I have to jump in and look around. I think that’s what I like about it. The fact that it seems like they already exist and I’m just going in and retrieving what already exists.
K: Sort of being the news reporter.
Thuy: Yeah, I guess so!
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Our thanks to Thuy for letting us take the photos and doing the interview. And thanks so much for my own copy of The Truth Lenders.
You can visit the site for the book here: http://truthlenders.com/
There’s also a Facebook page for the book here: http://facebook.com/
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If you’re an artist (visual, performance, literary, etc) and you’re interested in being a part of our project please feel free to contact one of us at tcadez@gmail.com and/or keelyhoney@gmail.com.
K: Why don’t you tell me your background a little in writing? How did you get started?
Thuy: It’s just something I’ve always done. I’m a journalism major from Gonzaga. I graduated in ‘07 and went to work for the Spokesman for two and half years.
K: So was the book after working at the Spokesman?
Thuy: Yes, and it was mostly because I had this time to get this done.
K: Was there something in particular that sparked the idea for a multimedia novel?
Thuy: I don’t remember the exact moment. You know, it was probably because of Kevin Long. I’d been recording Kevin Long’s shows for a few years now, and this one [in the book] was recorded in 2009 from a show in February. I started incorporating people I knew as characters in hopes that I could just approach them and say “Why don’t I use this clip?” It already exists, we can just make a CD, put some material on it and stick it in the back. It was just a silly idea, but it become a longer production. I’m glad we did it. So I talked to Kevin and he was cool with it. Then I started commissioning things from people. I went to Ross Robinette, who’s a electronica musician and a DJ, and commissioned some very specific things that match scenes. For a while it was just finding a reason to incorporate things that already existed, but eventually we started customizing it. For instance I went to Dane Ueland, who is a very talented singer-songwriter, and I asked him to write a song about genetically modified seafood.
The book just kind of happened. It wasn’t a conversation that we all sat and had. This wasn’t a group of people that said we’re going to make a multimedia novel together. It happened by accident.
K: About how many people were involved throughout?
Thuy: At least twenty.
K: Were you writing and approaching people at the same time?
Thuy: It all happened at once. It was all very organic. Jacob Butcher, the editor, and I actually came here and sat down half a day every other day to do the editing, revise, and write more stuff. [...] So that was going on the same that these sounds were being commissioned.
K: Was there anything you wanted to record but couldn’t?
Thuy: There was actually one thing that I regret not recording, and that’s the voice of one of the characters, who is now deceased. She was an eighty-two year old woman who was very adorable. She’s Lady McGee in the book. I sat down with her and had tea parties with her every Friday. She would listen to me talk about this when it was still a draft. Right after I got to the ending she passed away.
K: Are you working on anything right now?
Thuy: I’m working on something but I don’t know what it is. It’s just a bunch of scenes, short stories, there’s a lot of poetry in there, fictional research. I don’t know how it’s going to come together, but with Truth Lenders I didn’t know how it was going to come together either.
K: What is your favorite part about writing?
Thuy: It’s like I’m jumping in and I’m taking notes in this universe. It’s not really my story, I’m just a vessel or something. I jump in and I take notes, and if I don’t know then I have to go ask my characters. I don’t know what the next scene is going to be. I have to jump in and look around. I think that’s what I like about it. The fact that it seems like they already exist and I’m just going in and retrieving what already exists.
K: Sort of being the news reporter.
Thuy: Yeah, I guess so!
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Our thanks to Thuy for letting us take the photos and doing the interview. And thanks so much for my own copy of The Truth Lenders.
You can visit the site for the book here: http://truthlenders.com/
There’s also a Facebook page for the book here: http://facebook.com/
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If you’re an artist (visual, performance, literary, etc) and you’re interested in being a part of our project please feel free to contact one of us at tcadez@gmail.com and/or keelyhoney@gmail.com.
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