amazing new images by lynn crounse

lynn came over monday morning and took better pictures than i could have imagined. my kitchen never looked so good. these are straight out of her brain [i mean camera] no cropping, light, contrast, tonal corrections- this is how she rolls..

interesting documentary on copyright

rip: a remix manifesto starts off talking about how girl talk [a fave 'music collage artist' of mine from cleveland] uses published copyrited popular music as raw material for his dope jams. it illustrates how this 23 yr. old needs to pay $4.5mil in royalities to make a typical album of his legally, and then points out how engaging new technology has made each of us the same kind of criminal, and some on a bigger scale:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/88782/rip-a-remix-manifesto?c=News-and-Information/Documentary-and-Biography

there was also reference to lawrence lessig's

creativecommons.org

as well as another old fave band negativeland- who used the term culture jamming to describe how they used commercially familiar audio out of context to sever 'normal' programmed associations as social/political commentary.

which is a great segway to adbusters magazine, though unrelated to the film.

adbusters.org

they've been a longtime fave.

peer recognition is validating- thanks to materialicious design blog for including redplumjam in the ranks. nice turn around on that too:

http://www.materialicious.com/2009/08/redplumjam.html

new arrival

alright- the new redplumjam.com site up & at 'em. thank you for the applause.

if you remember my brief corporate partnership with old friend and cabinetmaker Dave Hooke [may he be employed in peace]- High Q Woodworking LLC is no more. that mean ol' economy never gave it a chance.

i've spent a long time putting together what was supposed to be a simple one page website with some links to tearsheets- there's always something new to learn: this blog is one for instance. a ready made, recognizable, linkable, easy to update way to keep my site relevant. not a bad start- so far i haven't broken anything..

here's some relevancy: i have 4 new big collage-assemblage pieces in the works this week. also, i just painted my living room, where my good friend [and favorite photographer] Lynn Crounce is going to photograph some of my newer furniture pieces & some artwork too- hopefully the fresh work will breathe some life into my business here in Richmond. you can count on me to alert the media too- then i guess at least it will serve to entertain my fellow underemployed designer & builder friends..

excelsior! [aloha dave]

here's a picture

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test 123-

wood is pretty.

over-

redplumjam blog

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test 123 test.