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Check out my set of photos from a recent Bryan Ferry show in Cleveland.

He was probably my favorite guitarist next to Dave Davies & my brother Mickey.

He also put out my favorite album of 2009, possibly one of my favorites of the entire decade.

I co-hosted a radio show with my friend Beth on WCSB 89.3 in Cleveland on January 1st, 2010. We did a retrospective of Rowland’s work. You can listen to it on the web through this podcast:

Rowland S. Howard Retrospective on WCSB, Cleveland

Plus, I’ve written a eulogy to RSH here:

http://popshifter.com/2010-01-01/rowland-s-howard-1959-2009/

-Julz

Are available to read at Popshifter.

I rarely ever update with any new actual art work lately, and since it crossed my mind today, I thought I would.

This is in response to an audio piece composed by Greta Pistaceci called “Degenerate”.

To give you an idea of what’s behind my image (since its subliminal) …

The 4 colors: red/green= Italian, yellow/blue=Swedish

Greta is Italian & Swedish.

The black background: it evokes how alot of soundwaves look on a screen… they usually have a black background unless you select the soundwave for editing.

The lines: are actually a barcode! I have a barcode generator on my computer at work that I have to use for placing within the designs of product packaging. So based on the word ‘Degenerate’ I used each letter based on its numeric place in the alphabet (IE. the letter ‘e’ equals ’5′). So, the numbers I typed in the barcode generator are equal to ‘Degenerate’, and that is the exact numeric barcoded result! I removed the visual markers that indicate numbers, turned the whole barcode on its side, and then used a horizontal warp tool in Adobe Illustrator, to skew the entire image. It was all done in vector, in an 8×8 inch square.

The audio piece itself made me think of repetitive & warped counting, but still has some order to it. It wasn’t so abstract that there wasn’t a system to it… it wasn’t making noise for the sake of making noise… it sounded mathematical, actually. I’m terrible with math across the board, but logic equations make sense to me, and I always aced those… and something about the piece itself reminded me of a logic table.

-julz

I am really absent-minded sometimes, I swear.

An acquaintance of mine informed me that an animated video I worked on 2 years ago is in an online exhibit.  I had forgotten all about it.  It was showcased at a film festival here in Cleveland last year called “Private Screening.”

It’s listed in their 2007 archives,  but it was featured last May in 2008 at the premiere.

So without further ado, here was my contribution:

The live photo section is up for viewing.

The web & multimedia stuff will be next. Eventually, there will be a section for music compositions too.

-julz