matthew dear / school of seven bells

last night i went to see Matthew Dear's Big Hands Band. i took a few pictures and it was a great show. i haven't been to any show in so long, i almost forgot the feeling. overblown sonic waves vibrating thru your body as the bassline oscillates your core. i had much fun and it's great to see someone perform that i really dig... here are a few pictures.

oh and this opening band was awesome as well...School of Seven Bells. "School of Seven Bells, from Brooklyn, is a drone-loving band formed by the guitarist Benjamin Curtis, formerly of Secret Machines. It gets booming beats from laptops, echoing chords from the guitar and lilting harmony vocals from the sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza, for a promising blend of the psychedelic and the futuristic."-New York Times. really good band.

fela kuti in concert

no need to say much about this, just put it on and listen to it while you work, thats what i'm doing. alls i can say is i wish i was there, then, i like the dancing and the moog. i think i was just born when this was going on.

Gary Newman - Complex

i want to make music like this. gary newman is an under-rated freak. granted he has some bowie qualities, but is that a bad thing? this song is nice... i will let it speak for itself. more cowbell? nah more electro-violin! yeah!

jetman! U rule!

finally someone you can look up to in this world. this guy rocks. Yves Rossy became the first person in history to fly the English Channel/La Manche all the way with a jet pack. He traced the same route as French aviator Lousi Bleriot who flew it first 99 years ago. He jumped out of a plane and fired up his jet propelled pack and flew like a bird. I think this is awesome and i want a jet pack NOW.

sixteen by iggy and particle smash

i have a habit of moving back and forth every few years between a fascination with bowie to one with iggy. this is a great clip. sixteen by iggy pop. and if you listen close... more cowbell! and he's all cut up again. of course u get a little bowie in this one, if you have the album. why oh why can't tv be like this anymore? i can't even turn it on for 3 minutes without shutting it off and muttering a curse word. thank you internet god for blessing me with instant information in the form of ones and zeros!

oh and it looks like the particle collider in switzerland was a "smashing" success. and yes i did wake up this morning expecting to be sucked into the center of the earth. instead i found i was really needing ample amounts of coffee. and hey! today is beautiful in nyc!!!

smashing atoms i.e. adios amigos

so hey, guess what, scientists are going to create a black hole deep underground this week! yehaw!!!

"The multibillion-dollar Large Hadron Collider will explore the tiniest particles and come ever closer to re-enacting the big bang, the theory that a colossal explosion created the universe. The machine at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, promises scientists a closer look at the makeup of matter, filling in gaps in knowledge or possibly reshaping theories.
CERN dismisses the risk of micro black holes, subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars. But the skeptics have filed suit in U.S. District Court in Hawaii and in the European Court of Human Rights to stop the project.""-AP

pleeeease tell me- is this really necessary? can't we do without knowing what happens when you try to recreate a black hole? who the *$)#% cares. science always act like these experiments will help all of mankind. well where is the cure for cancer? where is the cure for aids? where is the cure for war? until all the scientific energies figure out those few of the many problems we face on earth i could really care less about black holes. don't get me wrong i love science fiction but this is for real and i think it is kinda scary. like a cronenburg movie -only not filmed in canada.
lets just hope they know what they are doing!

bowie - sorrow

pancakes and ufos (conclusion)

so i am making all of these illustrations for this new website, i hope they like it, meanwhile i really am getting off on these squiggly microscopic organisms, they kinda look like they would taste good, if you were into eating ameoba, which for the record i'm not. ( i think i ate a tadpole once when i was a kid on a dare. actually i've eaten a lot of weird things, i am the son of taxidermists, we always had something interesting for dinner, opps, i digress)

oh and i found out what i was dreaming about, there was a man in the 60s who was visited by a big ufo in his backyard. a couple of nice space people approached him and handed him pancakes.. his name was joe simonton. they actually cooked him a shortstack, its such a weird story its gotta be true... u can read about it here.
i had this dream that i was given pancakes by these long armed awkward looking guys. they spoke latin or backwards, i don't know. the pancakes were all sticky and gluey and i couldn't get them down. it was strange all i know is that meltonin makes me dream real funny. (thats joe below)

pancakes and ufos

DSCF0193, originally uploaded by Trouble Tease.

ive been making alot of new stuff lately and using alot of color, i hope to have some scanned by tomorrow. lots of weird plants and amoeba like organisms, kinda jellyfishish if that is a word. for now here is another little doodle from last month.

i keep having this dream about pancakes and ufos. its weird. i know i read about that combination someplace. i might have to do a little digging in some books about it and figure out how that got in my dream data bank. post something later...

kraftwerk - neon lights

panocci

we have been making some new stuff, trying to do something not so bugged out like trouble/tease. our new little line is called panocci, we are just starting to get some things together, i really like this one, its very nice. now we just need some girl models!

art by bob horner

this guy is named bob horner, his little cutouts are amazing, i like the ones that look like they are stacked. i don't really like to describe art, i am not a writer or critic, so you should check this stuff out at http://BobHornerArt.etsy.com. they are goofie, acidic and insanely quirky... he has a great vision, and i think i understand! check it out!



so i love looking thru etsy.com once a month or so, checking out all the great (and some questionably great) items that people have hand made all across the world. there is some awesome stuff out there. i used to own a small art gallery in chapel hill NC called Dr. Quang's Gallery of Miscellanea, it was a wonderful little place that had no money, but we threw these incredible art openings that would spill out on to the street. the artists i would show were all untrained artists, or artists who never had a show before, all with a slant towards the outsider art that i find most appealing. i miss throwing the shows but i don't miss running the business. i have always thought it would be great to have an online gallery - not to sell stuff but just to expose the artists i like. i think i will do that with microfantastic.com one day, for now i am going to use this weblog...

cut-ups from digitalis

i keep getting these random emails that are amazing. i don't know what they are, who they are from, what they mean. but they are my new inspiration. they are like quips sent out from the underworld from william burroughs or brion gysin trying to communicate in some weird obscure cut-up language. poems that mean nothing but encapsulate everything! i've been collecting these for a while, trying to decipher hidden meaning...

Earth Map Bible Butterfly Dress Salt, Milk Nail Bathtub Skeleton Carpet Army Cappuccino, Album Feather God Chocolates Highway Ring Kaleidoscope Shoes Restaurant Feather Table Staircase Chief Airport. Junk Arm Hammer Magnet Bathtub Foot Map Computer Diamond Crystal Onion Snail Perfume Rocket. Navy Data Base Child Pants Cappuccino Dress Bathroom. Signature Sword Signature Sports-car Pendulum Bed Plane, Bridge Compass Cappuccino Printer Surveyor Nail Cup. Gas Chocolates Electricity Arm Record Apple Book. Ice-cream Rainbow Garden Highway Tapestry Flower Bible: Navy Shoes Rope Plane Feather Book Spiral? Ring Planet Brain Bible Ice Data Base Film, Bed Saddle Kitchen Drink Spiral Eraser Sun. Arm Foot Game Sandpaper Sunglasses Liquid Church. Clock Bed Boy Ring Bed Swimming Pool Spectrum!

i notice "cappuccino" is repeated a couple of times... random words from a sleepy spam program...

dopey guy with big third eye

DSCF0190, originally uploaded by Trouble Tease.

decided to post alot of my new drawings. thats right same theme, multiple eyeballs, ufos, flowers... i just can't stop! its what i like! i know i know, it would be nice to have some political statement coming out of my work but i really am yearning for something much simpler... i like mutants, not the kind that fly around like superheros, but more subtle mutants, the ones that attract mini flying saucers. the kind of mutant whos hands bend and twist like branches on a tree. a mutant who seems dopey but probably sees more than u and i. long live the mutant eyeball, i say! may it see a thousand stars that twinkle.

hey, trouble/tease on emergingthoughts.com

hey so trouble/tease tshirts are now being sold at this wonderful place called emerging thoughts. if you have a chance check it out, there are some great designers on there including Postlapsaria, our new friends... its a great site, spread the word.

little pettie and the kid that got ran over

very distrubing week! i was going to feed this cute little dog named pettie who is about the best dog ever. he is the coolest. anyway long story short i am on my way to feed the dog... i am crossing the street when i hear this screetch and a hollow thud. i have heard this before, so i was reluctant to turn to look. but when i did i saw a little kid sprawled out on the street with a motorcycle trying to maintain from crashing into a parked car. seems this kid ran out - got smashed. motorcycle parts flying. kid screaming. meanwhile i look and here is all this traffic moving in. so i run out and start making all the traffic stop because this kid was little for sure and he wasn't getting up.
now to describe this scene would be gnarly at best. i ran over to the kid and was like "you're gonna be ok kid, hold on" and he turns around screaming "look at my leg I AM NOT GOING TO BE OK!" and i look at his leg and i tell you, i have seen some busted up limbs before, but this one, (insert uncontrolable body shiver here) this one was baaaad. his foot which should have been pointed to right was all the way over pointing the other way. his leg kinda bent around like limp strand of linguini. not to mention the blood, and bone. and man i tell you what, it was ruff. the motorcyclist was in panic. i just held the kid there till the cops came. he kept screaming that his gramma was in White Castle and to go get his gramma, it was a crazy mess. so i have been a little out of it since then. he is going to be alright, at least it wasn't a mac truck. moral of the story... look both ways before u cross the street.
the best part of this horrible story is pettie, this is a picture of him. he has this crazy eye that makes me really fall in love. he is like my little marty feldman. some dogs can just be content with funny stuffed animals and a place to poop. one day i am going to have a dog, and i will love him and squeeze him and pet him and love him...

avazava

finally making some new stuff. really glad to be back, digging in.
i haven't got a name for this yet. i think i am going to call it
avazava...

warning: creepy creature

this clip seems like its from a bollywood-xfiles-reality tv show. the music fits the mood deliciously. it looks like a little deformed travelocity elf, dragged out of the depths of some creepy old sea. i guess they are gonna eat it, they've put a nice plastic tablecloth down. tasty alien ocean inhabitant!

dingo, his dog, and a milion dead cds

DSCF0185, originally uploaded by Trouble Tease.

yesterday i went through about a thousand untitled cds i have stacked in boxes, they have jpgs, wav's, tiffs, mpg, mp3s god knows what else. one by one figuring out what was on them, when they were made, and what to do with them. . . old depeche mode to kompakt comps to d'tachi to pictures of my trip to hawaii... now all of that information is saved and burned on dvd, so i have 3 dvds in exchange for 300 cds.
its quite fun to downsize. micropress everything down further and further. one day those dvds will be burned on one little tiny chip, then a few years later that chip will be compressed into a little nanobot-musicplayer and injected into my eardrum... and finally, when i have background music all of the time... i'll sell my soundtrack on itunes. i will become obsessed with reading my itunes reviews. "why is this 70 year old man listening to techno, thats wierd!"... or "ew ethiopian 70's rock music? that sucks, this is the worst soundtrack ever"...
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i like this drawing- kinda feel like i looked like that when i was a kid.

hey i want an invisible suit!

so there was news today about new cloaking devices, wonderful sheaths of invisibility! oh how i want one this chrismas! the fun you could have! sneak around unnoticed, get into movies free... so i decided to find some information about exactly how these invisible cloaks werk. what exactly makes them tick? plasma mirrors? tiny microscopic lenses? my mind was buzzing with excitement. i read and i read but i soon got bogged down in the schematics of the whole thing. it became painfully obvious an average run-of-the-mill son of a taxidermist from middle alabama would never be able to understand todays fancy new cloaking devices, nor will i ever be able to have one... or will i? this guy has one...