Some winter output, including dead heroes commemorated, museum gift shops remodeled, shirts and posters doodled, old climbing structures put up on stilts to make future grapevine igloos, fuggler houses built, greenhouses constructed, newspaper covers illustrated, newsletters designed/play dough portraits commissioned with kid help, icy farmlands flown over, big paintings sold to the kindest of people, arches made, walls graffitied and troops deployed (2025-26)
This Instagram account has become a bit of a ghost town over the past year, mostly due to shame for posting about this New Devonian album a bunch and some of you kind folks pre-ordering it, and then nothing arriving for a really long time. According to well-intentioned label @slyvinyl , “The initial issue was trying to use a new press plant that wasn’t forthcoming about closing operations and didn’t intend to complete projects that weren’t past a certain point in production, which resulted in pivoting back to a different manufacturer”.
If you ordered it back then, hopefully you’ve received it by now. If you haven’t ordered it and you would like to, the link now works in the bio. Who knew concept records about glaciers could move so slowly? Thank you for your support and patience.
In the meantime, the Gallagher Coal Plant on the banks of the mighty Ohio has been completely demolished as of last week. No, they didn’t use a Sledge-O-Matic (2023-2025)
See you tomorrow for the annual Art & Heritage Fair. Look up Harlan Hubbard if you can’t make it (2025).
Curated by @albiontyger
Hosted by @portlandmuseumky
Oahu was a nice place to grow up. Here’s a few memories:
- A kid in a boat
- A kid on the beach
- A kid opening 7th birthday presents (note: Japanese-inspired table for eating dinner sitting on the floor; original gun-shaped “Megatron” Transformer toy, which later got banned because a cop mistook it for a real gun and something horrible happened; a Leilehua Mules t-shirt. Leilehua was the local high school my sister went to, and that I was set to attend as well before we moved to Oregon instead. They had an annual thing there called Kill Haole Day that I wasn’t too stoked about. The school mascot was a mule.
This past August, Menomena played a couple reunion shows and my talented bandmate Brent (check out his new band @portvelvet ) mixed one of our live songs and put it on YouTube. You can listen to it in the link section above. It’s called “Oahu” (2024)
Dunbar’s Number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships, in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person. This number was first proposed in the 1990s by Robin Dunbar, a British anthropologist who found a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size. By using the average human brain size and extrapolating from the results of primates, he proposed that humans can comfortably maintain 150 stable relationships.
150 sounds a little ambitious to me. Anyways, here’s a big new painting (2025)
#lineart
Here’s to trying to sum up the arty farty side of 2024 with a handful of previously unposted projects, including but not limited to:
An unused tote bag design
A couple portraits of kind friends
A stained glass resin light box experiment
A dream about a boat playground
A weird prehistoric fish (alongside some doodles by the great @craigthompsonbooks )
A shirt design for Harlan County
A commissioned Maui scribble for an obsessed daughter (you’re welcome)
A leaky ceiling repair
And finally, a heavy jazz concert
Happy new year
