I like walking through the park at night.
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Last Sunday my latest tattoo was finished. Bee of Tattoo Edge, a friend of mine since I was 3, has been tattooing in NYC long before it was leagalized. It was a 3 stage process. So on the last session I deceided that I would film it and make a little movie. Yes, it’s me holding the camera. I also decided that I would compose a soundtrack to cut it to. Taking a base loop from the late great Tito Puente, I added a little guitar riff to compliment it and recorded a bongo solo over it. Bee provided the buzzing sound of the tattoo gun. And also was an influence in my education of latin music when I learned to play the bongos.
Click Below for movie:
Tattoo Gun Rumba
Durration: 00:01:50
In the springtime, every year the Columbia University students that participate in the King’s Crown Shakespeare Troupe perform one of these shakespeareian classics. It’s quite nice because they perform it all around the Low Library Plaza which seems to be an ideal location for one of these thesbian events. However, college is college and durring such an event, one must always beware of the fraternity pledge streaker. This was tonights rehearsal.
Now that studioDK is up and running it’s time for me to get back on creating the content. And if you have taken a look through the studioDK galleries you will see that I have many different projects and work in multiple mediums. This can be very difficult because when ever I’m working on something, I tend to put my full attention and focus into that particular project. So when I’m finished with a project I find that my brain is scattered and I often experience a lull that can easily turn in to a rut. I lose momentum and I can start to feel depressed. This is a bad spot for me to be in. And what I’ve found to be a good remedy for me, is to engage myself into what I call a, ”brainless activity.”
What I mean by, “brainless activity,” is an activity that is free from the burden and weight of decision-making. When we make a decision there will be always some kind of result good or bad. And when I find my self in that place out of focus and sitting in indecision, which is usually a result of fear of a bad result, I need to do something that I know will have positive results. Activities like washing the dishes and working out are great cause there is very little or no decision making in the process and the result is always positive. As an artist drawing by copying from life, photos or drawings is great activity cause it exercises an artist’s skills with very little thinking and of course no decision making in what to draw. Copying from anatomy illustrations is a great way and you be surprise what you learn by osmosis. Even this blog can be an exercise in engaging in a “Brainless Activity”
I’m sitting here at one of my favorite spots on the Hudson. It’s a path that was constructed and opened by the NYC Parks Dept about five years ago. It runs between 102nd to 125th St. I like it cause the rocks take you right up to the waters edge. When go there it helps to refresh my perspective and recharge the creative batteries in which I depend on to motivate me into my next endeavor.
Here is a little movie I made from this latest visit:
Hudson River1
Duration: 45 sec.
This is the peanut butter & jelly sandwich I had today. I once again rediscovered this old snack. Not sure that it’s the best for those on a weight loss diet, but as long as you are not a glutten you can probably have one without weight gain. This nurishing bite has many nutritional benefits along with the ease and simplicity it is to make. It is also inexpensive and time efficient. I suggest that you use a whole grain bread for your sandwich.
It’s been raining. And now that I have the studiodk website basically done, I can start to go back to what it’s all about. Doing things to put on the website or in this blog. This is what I do. Experiment! About a year and a half ago I decided to learn the guitar. I haven’t taking any lessons just tips from friends and I came up with this riff.
Click this…. Blues
I live very close to Tom’s Diner which has now become the Seinfeld Diner. Tourists come all the time just to take pictures of themselves in front of it. Although I understand why they do it, I just can’t imagine traveling all the way to NYC with all that this city has to offer and having to make time to go to this diner. Oh yes! and this is the “Real Kramer.”
Last thursday I went to the Eye Jammie Fine Arts Gallery to see a show of skateboard art. It was a typical native New York trip. An old friend of mine Noah Mcdonough did one of the boards. That’s how I new about it.
The show was good. Hey, if I had the money I might get one. It was also a little bit of a blast from the past. Living in NYC all my life and growing up virtually in Harlem in the dawn of the Hip Hop/ Urban skate trends I saw the typical characters from my youth. Folks from high school, Man. Dante Ross, Abber, Harry Jumanji, MCA and of course Noah who’s been write’N since “chris 217″ and “Mac II” were bomb’N the IRT.
Chek…chek..chek it out!
well folks… I’m not sure. It will be an evolution. But I often find my self moving through life and experiencing all sorts of things that I’d like to share that don’t really fit into the format or have the level of aesthetic to be placed in the galleries of studiodk.org. Also the blog format is set up in a way that is much quicker to post. So I look forward to see where I take this. As with any log or journal, I find that I have to just type away before I get to the good “thangz.” So I’ll only email a post out if I feel that it’s something I think people might find interesting. I don’t want to bombard people with my daily or monthly rant. But I’ll try and archive things through the catagories best I can so that you may easily find thing you like.