Behold!
Friday, June 27, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Evidence!
Some pics from the opening are available here and here.
Alternatively- the entire sordid ordeal, as a slideshow:
Technology!
Plenty more to follow, not to mention actual live action footage, reviews, reflections and the very distinct possibility of TOP SECRET UNTITLED WAYWARD PROJECT 2009 news!
Stay TUNED!
Alternatively- the entire sordid ordeal, as a slideshow:
Technology!
Plenty more to follow, not to mention actual live action footage, reviews, reflections and the very distinct possibility of TOP SECRET UNTITLED WAYWARD PROJECT 2009 news!
Stay TUNED!
Thursday, June 19, 2008
The Opening: A Soundtrack
You heard it here FIRST, art fans!
THRILL to a sneak peek at the eclectic aural delights we Waywards have PERSONALLY SELECTED for your art viewing pleasure THIS VERY EVENING!
Collect the FULL SET of Wayward Mixtapes!
The Lord's. The Brigadier's. The Baron's.
7 hours and counting...
...till an opening night extravaganza, a serious tear in the space time fabric and history in the making.In the interim...a mixtape. A must listen for ANY crazy enough to venture into the Hawthorn Town Hall Gallery this very eve from 6 till 8 (as ALL of you should be...along with your credit cards.) Download here
Side A -
01. Gypsy - Uriah Heep
02. Jean Genie - David Bowie
03. 48 Crash - Suzie Quatro
04. Fire - Jimi Hendrix
05. Your Touch - The Black Keys
06. Stairway To The Stars - Blue Oyster Cult
07. Lookin Out My Backdoor - CCR
08. Bad Reputation - Joan Jett and The Blackhearts
09. Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Side B -
01. Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones
02. Pure Gold - Heavy Trash
03. Too Hot To Stop - The Bar Kays
04. Stand And Deliver - Adam And The Ants
05. Itchycoo Park - The Small Faces
06. Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix
07. Fireball - Deep Purple
08. Suffragette City - David Bowie
09. The Rocker - Thin Lizzy
My photos from the hanging on sunday and tuesday are up on MY flickr stream HERE.
Fun, hi-jinks and ART!
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
The Frase Mix tape
Get your SIDE A HERE!
1. Big Johns Special- Fletcher Henderson
2. I Ain't Drunk- Jimmy Liggins
3. Stroker Ace- Lovage
4. The Fallen- Franz Ferdinand
5. You Can't Roller skate In a Buffalo Herd- Roger Miller
6. Catfish Blues- Elmore James
Get your SIDE B HERE!
1. Rocket Man- Angie Aparo
2. When Did You Leave Heaven- Lisa Ekdahl
3. Big Iron- Johnny Cash
4. French Poodle- Sam Butera & The Witnesses
5. Redwoods- Wagons
6. Rock Me Like A Titan- The Hyperions
7. No Room For Squares- Hank Mobley*
8. Savage Beat of Augie Colon- Colon*
*Bonus track not appearing in the show.
(Album notes: The preferred Elton Johns original version of Rocket Man was unavailable. So I've substituted a cover by some guy named Angie Aparo. Eltons' is better.
My copy of Lisa Ekdahls Stranger On Earth was too scratched up to replicate so another of her nice songs- When Did You Leave Heaven-was used instead.
I won't clog up this streamlined COLLECTIVE blog with all my ramblings.......but if you pop over HERE and HERE you will see the remaining 6 pieces from my part of the show.
I neglected to cross post them the other day.
As you ALL know the art has been hung and awaiting YOUR LOVELY AUDIENCE!
Just going through my photos from the hanging process. Will upload SOON.
AS WELL AS MY MIX TAPE!
I neglected to cross post them the other day.
As you ALL know the art has been hung and awaiting YOUR LOVELY AUDIENCE!
Just going through my photos from the hanging process. Will upload SOON.
AS WELL AS MY MIX TAPE!
Documenting the hanging process.
Artist and art.
Curator in the bgd fielding non-stop incoming calls from people trying to get on the invite list.
HAVE YOU RSVP'd?
Goin' To A Hanging
Tipple: Swords Cab Merlot
Soundtrack: Potty mouthed curators
Fumes: Victory
Distractions: $5 spirits night at The Glenferrie.
More evidence here.
And watch the skies at Wayward HQ for The Brigadier's inevitable photographic update!
See you tomorrow night!
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Final Push III
Tipple: 6 pack of Tooheys Old & s pack Coopers Sparkling
Soundtrack: Louis Prima, The Raconteurs: Consolers of the Lonely, Wagons: The Curse of Lightning, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Kicking Against The Pricks, David Bowie, Sidney Bechet.
Fumes: BBQ'd dinner.
Distractions: The Wire season 1, sporting injuries, invitations to the pub, food, rest, fish tank watching.
Just finalising last 3 pieces before a trip to the printer monday morning.
Hanging Sunday and Tuesday.
The Final Push II
Tipple: 6 pack of Peroni
Soundtrack: The Black Keys: Catch and Release, Suzie Quatro: Best of, John Spencer Blues Explosion: Damage, The Young Turks.
Fumes: Ink, acylics, triumph.
Distractions: Charlie Wilson's War, Mixtaping, Lady love, house guests...
Overall concept evolving as it happens, yes even now, but getting there.
Hanging Sunday and Tuesday.
The end is nigh!
Final Push
Tipple: Koonunga Hill Shiraz
Soundtrack: Judas Priest: Nostradamus, Motley Crue: Saints of Los Angeles, Stone Gods: Silver Spoons And Broken Bones
Fumes: Varnish, turpentine, black nail polish
Distractions: Metalocalypse Season 2, episodes 9 & 10; Buffy Season 8 #15; Armed Madhouse (Greg Palast); construction of mixtape for someone rather wonderful:
Digital canvas stuff received and in the bag.
Hanging Sunday and Tuesday.
The end is nigh!
Friday, June 13, 2008
More artworks
"Stroker Ace" Digital print on 100% archival cotton canvas. 20 x 16 inches.
From "Stroker Ace" by Lovage.
Lovage is a collaborative project headed by Dan the Automator aka "Nathaniel Merriweather". The album is called Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By, which was created in team with Mike Patton (ex Faith No More) and Jennifer Charles, who both provide vocals.
Automator has either been responsible for or contributed to many of the most interesting and progressive hip-hop/electronica/trip-hop/pop musical projects of late including Gorillaz, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Dr Octagon, Peeping Tom and Deltron 3030. His list of collaborators reads like a who’s who of the music worlds best innovators. Including the afore mentioned Mike P and Jennifer Charles the list includes Prince Paul, Kool Keith, DJ Shadow, Damon Albarn, Kid Koala, Primal Scream, Blues Explosion, Danger Mouse, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Shaun Ryder, Roots Manuva, Sean Lennon, Mike D, De La Soul, RZA, Cat Power, Jack Johnson, Jamie Cullum and more.
"Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By" is a concept album that’s agenda is clear in the title.
Not being much of a cat person I used to think they were intelligent, manipulative and self-centered creatures. But now I know they're just pretty dumb.
But they do like to watch...
"I Ain't Drunk" Digital print on 100% archival cotton canvas. 32 x 16 inches.
After Jimmy Liggins's 1954 "I Ain't Drunk".
The son of a San Diego minister, Jimmy Liggins started out as a professional boxer at age 18 under the name of Kid Zulu, then he quit boxing and took up driving his brother Joe's band around on tour. Following the success of his brother, Jimmy Liggins started his own recording career as a singer, guitarist, and bandleader in 1947. His band had a rougher and more tempo conscious sound than his brother even though Joe was more established and had greater recognition.
One of his early releases, "Cadillac Boogie" was a direct forerunner of "Rocket 8", itself often called the first rock and roll record.
This period of music known as Jump Blues, or Rhythm and Blues (nothing at all related to today’s R&B) is interesting as it's the bridge between swing (the pop music of the time), jazz and blues into the birth of rock n roll. The Liggins brothers and a stream of other musicians took swinging jazz, striped it back into a smaller format, added the blues and then, most importantly for rock music, made it jump!
Then, as with all-important modern music advances, white musicians took what they had created sanitized it and called it their own.
"I Ain't Drunk" still carries an important message for today in it's promotion of having a good time. There's a difference between getting drunk and having a drink.
Elmore James was a key figure in Blues History starting off as an acoustic guitarist (James's first instrument consisted of a tin can, a wooden board and a single metal string) he switched to a fiery electric slide style in the 1940's. He was one of the many Mississippi Delta bluesman who later found fame in Chicago where they created a new urban strain of the music.
In his early years he travelled the Delta appearing with the likes of the legendary Robert Johnson.
I have a few types of catfish in my tropical fishtank with my Salt and Pepper Catfish (Corydoras habrosus) being a favourite.
"You Can't Roller-Skate in A Buffalo Herd" Digital print on 100% archival cotton canvas. 32 x 16 inches.
After Roger Miller speaking some home truths.
Being in my early 30's I'm from the school of thought that believes that indie-pop reached it zenith in the mid-90's with everything coming afterwards lacking. There are a few notable exceptions thankfully. Glaswegian art-school indie-rockers Franz Ferdinand are a band I really enjoy.
I was blissfully rocked out by The Fallen, the first track on their "You could have it so much better" album.
In late 2005 I had lined up a job in Glasgow, Scotland. I spent a week there and then another week in Edinburgh before heading back to London. I absolutely loved it up there. Unfortunately the job fell through and I stayed in London.
Edinburgh is a beautiful city, where are Glasgow is more of a "real Scottish city". It used to be quite seedy, depressing and dangerous but in the last decade has really turned around and has some amazing culture, shopping and living standards.
For one reason or another I've never been able to step foot back in Scotland. It is my promised land.
RESOURCES (via You Tube)
There is no footage, film or otherwise of Elmore James playing but here is Samuel Jackson performing the song from the movie Black Snake Moan.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Who ARE the Wayward 'Toonists?
Egg hatched and raised in the fiery tumult of the Australian comics scene, The Brigadier, The Baron and The Lord were drawn together like orbiting planetoids swirling in the cosmos, as if nature, history and the gods themselves DECREED it!
Science Adventurers. Philanthropists. Dandies. Playboys. Thespians. Desert wanderers. Broadcast personalities. Master swordsmen.
Many have tried to pigeon hole these three, all at once known and utterly mysterious gents since they burst onto the scene they CREATED almost 94 years ago!
What is well known to date, however, has been debated, studied and mulled over by the greatest minds in HISTORY!
MOST say that in 1914, on a drunken whim, they ventured into the deepest regions of the Swiss Alps to put its neutrality to the test (there had not been a fist fight in that country since 1815)!
While unable to provoke any of the peace loveing Swiss natives into fighting each other, they did piss off Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who was hiding out in The Baron's rented chalet (which as it turned out belonged to the now infamous CAPTAIN DREADNAUGHT, the 'Toonists' eventual arch nemesis and a man whom the three would encounter numerous times throughout their colourful careers).
Lenin fled Switzerland back to Russia in a huff and, as the history books detail, vented his frustrations on the Russian empire.
Predictably, our stout hearted heroes refused to let their predicament get the better of the, and with nought but time on their hands and a bold creative itch to SCRATCH, they set about redefining the very notion of pop culture ITSELF!
Firstly, the three intrepid adventurers grew mighty and luxuriant BEARDS.
Then, with the combination of their powerful good looks, superior artistry and a keen sense of drama, they prevented the Hun armies from invading their adopted home during BOTH World Wars, and then quickly went on to invent every subculture EVER (yes, even goths), the comic book form and prog rock.
Finally, mere NANOSECONDS later, in a final expression of raw creative OMNIPOTENCE, the global movement known as WAYWARDISM was born!
Historians, critics and even Kings have suggested an arcane significance in this statistically improbable confluence of unrelated events- a grand, and as yet unknowable, SCHEME!
Since those fateful months in the most neutral country in the world, these dynamites of industry, ink and inevitability have regularly met to compare egos, facial topiary and their innate ladykilling abilities.
And from each ever more memorable meeting another gossamer thread is tied and another astonishing page in the story and influence of Waywardism is etched into TIME ITSELF!
Join us now as we, the Wayfarin' Wayward 'Toonists, bestow upon YOU, our adoring PUBLIC, our latest gift to POSTERITY, a titanic excursion into art-nirvana which has come to be known as The Swingin' Jukebox Jam!
The Wayward 'Toonists today: (From left to right) The Baron, The Lord & The Brigadier; relaxed, comfortable and completely huggable.
Science Adventurers. Philanthropists. Dandies. Playboys. Thespians. Desert wanderers. Broadcast personalities. Master swordsmen.
Many have tried to pigeon hole these three, all at once known and utterly mysterious gents since they burst onto the scene they CREATED almost 94 years ago!
What is well known to date, however, has been debated, studied and mulled over by the greatest minds in HISTORY!
MOST say that in 1914, on a drunken whim, they ventured into the deepest regions of the Swiss Alps to put its neutrality to the test (there had not been a fist fight in that country since 1815)!
While unable to provoke any of the peace loveing Swiss natives into fighting each other, they did piss off Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who was hiding out in The Baron's rented chalet (which as it turned out belonged to the now infamous CAPTAIN DREADNAUGHT, the 'Toonists' eventual arch nemesis and a man whom the three would encounter numerous times throughout their colourful careers).
Lenin fled Switzerland back to Russia in a huff and, as the history books detail, vented his frustrations on the Russian empire.
Predictably, our stout hearted heroes refused to let their predicament get the better of the, and with nought but time on their hands and a bold creative itch to SCRATCH, they set about redefining the very notion of pop culture ITSELF!
Firstly, the three intrepid adventurers grew mighty and luxuriant BEARDS.
Then, with the combination of their powerful good looks, superior artistry and a keen sense of drama, they prevented the Hun armies from invading their adopted home during BOTH World Wars, and then quickly went on to invent every subculture EVER (yes, even goths), the comic book form and prog rock.
Finally, mere NANOSECONDS later, in a final expression of raw creative OMNIPOTENCE, the global movement known as WAYWARDISM was born!
Historians, critics and even Kings have suggested an arcane significance in this statistically improbable confluence of unrelated events- a grand, and as yet unknowable, SCHEME!
Since those fateful months in the most neutral country in the world, these dynamites of industry, ink and inevitability have regularly met to compare egos, facial topiary and their innate ladykilling abilities.
And from each ever more memorable meeting another gossamer thread is tied and another astonishing page in the story and influence of Waywardism is etched into TIME ITSELF!
Join us now as we, the Wayfarin' Wayward 'Toonists, bestow upon YOU, our adoring PUBLIC, our latest gift to POSTERITY, a titanic excursion into art-nirvana which has come to be known as The Swingin' Jukebox Jam!
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