I accosted Patti Smith before her show at The Vic tonight. She kindly signed my copy of Just Kids and proceded to perform one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen. <3
Just wrapped a short film with Carl, Joel, and Patrick!
Outlaw Vinyl All Done!!
Take a look at these beautiful fucking records. Waited a long time for all the pieces to come in from Tennessee, Colorado, and California. Get your hands on these!
Also, the kickstarter was successfully funded! Thanks so much to everyone who participated so far. There is still a little time left to get these records and a ton of discounted digital albums from Outlaw Con Bandana’s back catalog!
Outlaw Con Bandana Kickstarter
There are only five days left of the Outlaw Con Bandana Kickstarter! We’re almost 80% funded with only $210 dollars left to go. Be sure to check it out before it ends!
For $25 dollars Omaha residents can get the Ticks and Trips double LP on multicolor vinyl, the writing collection, and three full length Outlaw Con Bandana albums digitally! United States residents can get the same for $35!
You can preview the entire Ticks and Trips album below before you pre-order it.
Still fairly obsessed with The Master. Re watching, I had to make a .gif from this scene.
Just got back from my trip to Trinidad & Tobago. Many, many photos to come and a couple stories.
Bieber on the bus
(Illustration by Robin Dickinson)
Sitting in the back of the bus on my way to an afternoon shift I didn’t notice the young high schooler sitting perpendicular to me. A latino man in his mid twenties, aspiring to have Tony Stark facial hair, pointed him out to me.
Hey people have probably told you before but you look like Justin Bieber.
Yeah They Have
(laughs) Thats crazy man.
(laughs)
Bieber looks predictably embarrassed.
(laughs) Its not funny it just tripped me out….Mind if I take a picture of you?
No.
Gonna show my son. Tell him I met Justin Bieber.
(laughs)
You in high school? You go to the montessori?
Yeah.
How’d you get in?
Worked Hard.
Cool man.
The fan moves to a different seat across from Bieber to get a more straight on photo angle. He raises his Iphone.
Alright one…two…three.
He didn’t get quite the instagram he was hoping for.
Alright just one more! Thanks. Man they gotta be all over you at school huh! That school co-ed?
Yeah. (laughs)
Whats you name?
Jack.
Nice to meet you man. Patrick.
Patrick has a scrap of paper with notes on it. He pulls out a book to write something on the scrap. That book is Fifty Shades of Grey. (Side note: I’ve only witnessed men in their twenties reading this book on public transit.) He writes for a moment. He finishes and hands the paper to Jack.
You got Facebook right?
Yeah
Hit me up dude.
Patrick heads off the bus. This kid looks kinda like bowl cut era Bieber. If he didn’t want to look like Bieber I think this kid could do it no problem. His grey nylon jacket with a popped collar and baggy khakis suggest he isn’t trying to shake the image. Maybe he figures, “Funny dudes who want to take pictures of me on the bus are par for the course if I’m trying to hangout with the sophomore babes at Montessori school.”
Michelle's Dry Spell: Thursday is pretty much Friday.
During my grade-school daze, I controlled the weeks. They were mine to manipulate.
Let me remember the ways of 4th grade:
Thursdays are pretty much Fridays since they are pretty much stacked on top of each other. They meld and if you land on a Thursday, don’t freak a leak because the next day is…
My first roll of medium format film I’ve shot. Took these with a Brownie Hawkeye. I promise they’re not instagram.
Photo’s from my visit to Omaha for the holidays. Getting back into the groove, film school in 7 days!
UUVVWWZ Video Premiere!
The new music video I co-directed with Teal Gardner and shot for UUVVWWZ premiered today at Spinner.com! The song is called “Open Sign” and is coming out on UUVVWWZ’s new album Trusted Language which you can pre-order from Saddle Creek Records here!
This was such a fun video to shoot and a big thank you goes out to everyone who came and got muddy for us! Check it out below!
Michelle's New Shit!
My good friend Michelle (Co-creator of Herpe Betty) has a new blog. Its a chronicling of 100 days of sobriety. So far its been really fun to read check it out!
My reaction to signing up for Intermediate Algebra: Cool. Math on Wednesdays from 12:00-1:15pm? Sure, I can do that.
My reaction to discovering I also need to attend a “learning modules” class on Mondays and Fridays from 12:00pm-12:50pm, accumulate 3 hours of math lab time per week, complete…
Here are some photos from the set of the new UUVVWWZ video I shot this week! Can’t wait to show it to you all.
Me age 6. Got hit in the face with a baseball bat that day. Not watchin out.
Samsara
I switched shifts with a co-worker to catch the last screening of Samsara’s current run in Chicago. I didn’t think they would be able to top Baraka, but I was wrong. Ron Fricke has only further mastered the ability to create amazing and complex time lapses since the release of Baraka in 92’. This film more than anything made me want to get out of the theater and just go explore the world. So this is a rare case where I found it very powerful that the film made me want to leave the theater.
Do yourself a favor and get this when it comes out on Blu-Ray in Janurary. And watch Baraka if you haven’t already. Such beautiful work. I am still in awe a day later.
All stills from Samsara by Ron Fricke