In April, I gathered as many of my sketchbooks from pre-2026 as I could find and scanned the most interesting pieces from their pages, which ended up becoming an interesting process...
with each scan that takes 15 seconds, you relive the moment and context of a scribble, it becomes a journey through your past that you weren't asking for. I was drunk that night on the accumulation of many sleepless hours lit by LED lamps, the times spent in class daydreaming in margins, the friends looking over my shoulder when we were out and about, drawing nestled on a scratched up couch with music playing and people laughing in the background, the buses and trains and cars where I chose the page, times at work where I felt the need, bedrooms I intended to fill the walls of, times spent waiting in lines in the stark heat, and many, many more quiet moments of refuge where the inner and outer worlds merged into the ink-lines of release... even if all it looked like to other people was a distracted guy scrawling on a page.
Anyways, it is my intention to leave behind this era of my drawing, be free and open for what is to come. At least they are digitally stored right? Digital is forever! (linkrot, dead internet, digital dark age •_•)
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Here's a large work, trying to see how my art style works outside of tiny sketchbooks...
"Still Processing," Permanent ink and fineliner, three medjool dates and espresso :3
Been a while! I was literally IP banned from using all of my old accounts for 5 months because of a glitch (hence @orb_dreams being a thing.) I'll be glad to post more often here again :)
STAY HYDRATED
When I originally put this album on streaming in August, I told a few friends and some family... I guess this is me telling everyone else now (^_^)
It is called “Pop Amoeba.” The name I am using for this release is @oddrove .
Links are in the bio. I also have 50 or so CD’s I will be giving to people. DM me if you want one.
I have infinite thanks to give, firstly to @jjganeshmusic for the mentorship, mixing and support... without you I would have been stumbling around with a bunch of songs on my computer.
Blair Wells did much to master this record once Joe and I finished the mixes.
And the only other people on the record are @avalederman and @msdandme doing background vocals on Aurora!
I wrote, arranged, performed, sung, recorded and co-mixed everything else. All original art by me, even for the CD’s.
I have infinitely more thanks to give beyond that. To my family, to my friends, to everyone who has touched my life and made the context from which this was sprung, to those who might’ve heard this music before anyone else and believed in it, and to those who will hear it in the future. Thank you.
A good part of this was made during the better part of the pandemic, fueled by a world that was in limbo. My production and songwriting have evolved since then, making this a time capsule into a current I haven’t captured since... I wanted to shelve Pop Amoeba, thinking it doesn’t reflect who I am today. But sometimes the best way to grow is to acknowledge and own those past versions of who you were, for they will always be woven into the fabric of your story. So, the best way to kick off my “discography” is to get these off my chest. They’ve been there for too long. Hopefully you enjoy them too.
Will be releasing much more in the coming months and years...
(Photos of me with the bass are by @discomonkie )
Designed this flyer for @itsstarband !!! I'll also be playing bass for them, so you all can see me there if you pull up :)
Also playing drums for Justin Toto! @justintotomusic
Dm me or the band @itsstarband if you have any questions about details
Through a canyon is my name,
Azure, the sky,
through a canyon in the crystal depth
Azure, my eye,
I wasn't there last time when the moonstone rang.
I was there another time, I was there
when the raft bobbed playfully
on waters uncharted,
when I felt someone's fingertips tracing
the contours of my scalp,
drafting a map through the rivers
that didn't necessarily meet the sea,
I was there when the echo could be heard,
I was there
𓆝 𓆟 𓆞
@ideosophia@twidlydink@blank_outlines
Through means beyond our mortal coil, we have resurrected the long ancient art of pescatarian augury, once described in Meoffrey of Gonmouth's 1327 "Historae Fauxsimil" as "the caerful and exacting arte practicised by fishe divineers on the shorelanes of Gaul in Caesare's tyme." Not that we knew that was what we were doing, but you can clearly see the result if you scrub the dust off your eyes and rinse like you've never seen water before.
Assorted sketches from late-2024 to mid- 2025?
First one: d0g
Second: inspired by a stare I got on a plane in Orlando
Third: soccer? I don't watch sports
Fourth: s̸̠̖͈̗͇̜̔̏͋̾̃̆͆̂̈́̊̉͝ǒ̴̧̢̡͉̟̝͎̺͔̬̖͇̣̘͊̏ṳ̸̢͔̠̮̖̺͔̲͔̖̊͗͐̀̕͝v̶̮̩̠̮̼̫̝̖͙͙͕̰͍̄̍̂̀͐̑̇l̵̳͈̝̍̆̇̌͑à̴̺̝̣̦̤̮͒͜k̵̪̘̼̝̿͌ỉ̷̢̞͉̟͈̘̘̮̫̭̪͕̮̰͛̂͂͐͗̈́̀͛̽͘
Fifth: fifth
Sixth: BIRD!
Seventh: if any of you drew this in my sketchbook lmk. It is cute, wonderful, an image that'll live on in my dreams. I'd believe it was you, Gabi. I also would believe if it was Ella or someone else entirely, but as of currently, the whereabouts of this vandal is unknown. I have tapped Alex Karp of Palantir for his database, and currently florida is on alert7. We will find you if you don't come forward, the gears of the state are chugging
"emerging"
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-reminder when your wet hair
is greeted by billows of sky, framed in
the smoothness of a rain-swept cavern
and the vine crawling-
-fresh breath that surges past
damp stone and tangled roots, into
your lungs, the unspoken feeling
that you’ll sing, sing fruitful-
-reminder when the portal of sun
unveils terror in the rock you swam above,
that the spell won’t last, you’ll be held
gushing in the unspoken-
-fresh breath, truth hovering
over the fray and under the clouds.
Your eyes in sun, your heart in water-
