Weighty Brass

by on May 31, 2016 at 12:34 pm
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I’ll post my final batch of folklife sketches in a bit but I had to show this one by itself because I was really psyched while doing it. The band performing Chaotic Noise Marching Corps had a great anarchic energy that really blew me away. It reminded me of one of the strips that started Bloom County’s Deathtongue storyline where Opus first show up with his sousaphone and claims that he plays “weighty brass” these guys made it clear that such a thing was real.

Chaotic Noise Marching Corps Band Saxophone weighty brass
They’ll be at the HONK! Fest West festival this solstice. Can’t wait to check it out.

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Sketch Challenge Day 31 – Her Grandmother

by on May 31, 2016 at 11:19 am
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Today’s rhyme, “Before her Old Grandmother” made little sense to me and I’m pretty sure I misunderstood it completely… frankly I think it’s another orphaned song verse.

Sketch Challenge Day 31 - Her Grandmother

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Folklife 2016 – Sunday Sketch Batch

by on May 30, 2016 at 12:55 pm
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I didn’t sleep well the night before and had someplace I had to be later in the afternoon so I don’t think I was ever in my zone enough to do quite as many sketches Sunday as Saturday but I think I did okay.

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Sketch Challenge Day 30 – A Little Man From Derby

by on May 30, 2016 at 9:53 am
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Maybe it was because a slow start today but I couldn’t figure out what the context of today’s rhyme, A Little Man From Derby, could possibly be. Fortunately I had plenty of options in our present context and went with snooty maître d’.Sketch Challenge Day 30 - A Little Man From Derby, maitre d

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Folklife 2016 Day 2

by on May 29, 2016 at 12:47 pm
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Well my second day of folklife went very well and I was very productive with at least two of these definitely working as grist for the mill of portfolio material. For today at the moment it’s raining. I have been told it will dry up by noon and if it doesn’t I have a camera and I’ll enjoy the music.

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Sketch Challenge Day 29 – I Had Two Pigeons

by on May 29, 2016 at 9:31 am
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For most of these sketches I’ve been trying to do period, not that I know much about 17th century England, but for ones like today’s rhyme, I Had Two Pigeons Bright and Gay, I just couldn’t. I’m perfectly aware that pigeons are raised in the country but from my own cultural perspective pigeon fancying will alway be an urban thing.

For better or for worse, the first thing I thought of when I read this rhyme was Marlo Stanfield with his pigeons from The Wire.

Sketch Challenge Day 29 - I Had Two Pigeons

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