NEWS

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NEW TIME-LAPSE VIDEO WITH LUKE CHMURA

I ATE A WHOLE CHICKEN (ALMOST). HERE IT IS IN TIME-LAPSE:

Jamey Braden: Eats a Chicken from Earplug Video on Vimeo.

WORKING ON A CHAPBOOK

To be out this fall, published by my friend Jacob Severn.  You want some tastes of what may or may not be in this chapbook?  Oh, okay, here:

DREAM JOB

I work for the parks department.  I help manage their big state park parking lots, cruising around them, sometimes telling people how to park their cars.  I have my back to one large black pool-shaped parking lot now and I am talking myself down from a panic attack.  This is a tough things to do There is a lot going on right now. It is double hard because I also am feeling like there may be secret chaos going on behind me in the lot. Like because I’m turned around not looking, and there is no one to watch over the lot, that suddenly tons of cars are swarming, maybe the lines organizing the spaces have melted off or vaporized and there are so many cars now, ten times as many cars as normal, ten times more cars than the lot can hold and they are all swarming and there are people getting scared and honking and getting angry.  And I’m failing because my back is turned to them and I’m not there to make the essential guiding hand gesture. But I’m trying to talk myself down from a panicky attack because I went to sleep too late and the sun is too hit  and we have uncomfortable things to say to each other.  I am talking my self down and I will not turn around unless I hear a CRASH or a SQUEAL or a YELL or someone PEELING OUT.  I will not turn around until I feel like I can eat a sandwich again.

Pop Music Poem

Ah come on now

You got to

Get along!

Yeah baby yeah

You know it

Yeah yeah

Oh girl

You make me crazy

Uh huh

Oooh

Doo wee dooo

Give it up to me

Go on now

Oh darling

Gee gah goo

Heyah!

Hoo!

Good gaw!

Peaches n cream

If I take off my glasses and look at my orange cat from far away, he looks like a weird fat spray-tanned infant with the face of Newt Gingrich or a pervert.

Instead of Cutting

If I keep my hair long it covers my neck zit.  Which people will try and be polite and pretend or try  to look at will inevitably still look at so its best to just be it covered up. Another reason I should keep my hair long is that when I walk away from the sun, and the wind blows sideways, and I’m wearing a blouse with should pads or puffy sleeves, my shadow looks like James Hatfield from Metallica's early days when they were really good and still really young and really hot.  It’s like my shadow could kick someone’s ass and that’s important to me.

 

 

Baby You Make Me Cry

I’m looking on the internet for baby animals and I accidentally watch a “micro-mentary” about the killing of baby seals.  Their fur is so so white and their eyes are so soft and wet and eye-lashey like a Disney character's. I start to cry.  “Oh. My. God!” I choke.  In the next instant I daydream you seeing me here like this.  You rush over to cradle my head.  My nose gets caught in your belly button as I wipe my face on your shirt.  Your shirt is maroon and now it is spotted dark maroon from me crying on it.  I choke out/laugh“Sorry” and hug your mid-section once again.  In another instant I snap out of it.  I am able to faintly see my reflection in the white fur filling the screen and am horrified. 

I DO DECLARE

I did not know that a poem could simply consist of a declarative statement but it can.

My Darling Nikki

There Are Two Types of People in This World:

Those who say Nick Cage 

and

Those who say Nicolas Cage.

I need a studio

I did this on the floor and had to lock the cat up so he didn't get all ink paw-pawed.

APRIL TIMES

 

Yes, I want to know

LITTLE BUDDY

DEVIL'S TOWER PORTRAITS

UNDELINEATED MARGINS

CURRENTLY VERY IN > DOG FACED HERMANS. 
They ripped and shredded and tinsel tip-toed with glasser-cutter slippers. This is a notable favorite of mine:

BIG POT (LIVE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5V6hmo-UdU&feature=related

DFH performaning a ripper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2SlprYeVzo&feature=related

Beware the wikipedia article on them that opens up with this nauseatingly bland description: "four-piece band whose style could be described as anarcho-punk incorporating folk and noise influences as well as unorthodox instrumentation." It will rot your brain with mis-leading simpleton garbage.


On another note in which I compliment my self and former bandmates in the most complimentary compliment possible: I discovered this band quite some time after my now defunct band Wet Paint DMM had already been playing together for over a year. The opening guitar melody of this song reminds me of us a bit:

DFH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvi5baWCtLk&feature=related
WPDMM
http://wetpaint.bandcamp.com/album/dmm

More importantly and to end the day with visual stimulation, look HOW COOL THEY WERE:

ART FROM THE IPHONE: RECENTS

Here are a few things. First of all here is a tall, large yellow cone. I made it and it lives in our living room. I found the fabric and almost didn't buy it. Then the image of a tall golden cone appeared in my brain and I had to buy it and I had to make the cone. The cone is a friend and people like to touch it. It is the perfect height to stand over it and let it nuzzle the dip between you nose and upper lip:

CONE




















Next is the before and after for a poster I made for the Wet Paint DMM/Stephanie split 7". The first is the master, the second is the screened product modeled by Ian Judd:

POSTER



















POSTER



















And POSTER



















And PHOTO

NEWBS AND A FEW OLDS

 

 

 

MYSTERIOUS LITHS

AVERY ANN NOTHINGNESS
WAS AN INVISIBLE BLONDE
IN SMART ATTIRE

HER HOOP EARRINGS
WERE THE PLAYTHINGS
OF GHOSTIES
WHO TWIRLED
THEM AROUND AIR FINGERS

HER HIGH HEELS OF VAPOR
TURN DIRT AND CONCRETE
IN REVERSING QUICK-SAND

SHE WAS SO CONFUSED BUT
WAS THINKING HAPPY THOUGHTS

ATTENTION SEEKING ATTENTION

Wow,

I logged int Etsy for the first time in hecka months and had a letter from a staffer with a note saing I was featured on the blog! Pretty exciting!

>>>> Etsy's Blog Spotlight <<<<

I also have work up at Crawl Space Gallery in a show called Call and Response. It was curated by Jeffry Mitchell and is rather psychedelic this is Mitchell's statement about the show:

"A feather, a skull, the moon and stars, a man (?) and half a lady, crystals and sequins and the grandchildren of Piero Manzoni and Allan Kaprow. There’s something about magic, Hippie magic, and the way the LOVE CHILDREN freed them selves from the cross and sought spiritual expression through ancient forms other than the Christian one that resonates through this show for me. It’s very much my story, and the story I look for. It’s the story that I can’t help but see and although I claim that each pair of works in this show found each other on their own, the instant I see these works I bring stories to each of them, helplessly, naturally."

Needless to say, I like the way this man thinks! The show is up until the 26th of April.

There are a couple of pretty positive reviews of the show in the Seattle Times and on Regina Hackett's blog where she made a mysterious comment about my work:

"Who dares put scraps together at this late date? Only someone who deeply loves them. Jamey Braden's title makes her case."

I'll take it! It's true, I love the fuck out of scraps and all things scrappy-dogs, people, books, table, MAKE IT FAST AND MAKE IT SCRAPPY we all have a lot of living to do.

I got an old Emac of Ebay (PS my home phone number equals EBA-YDAY) and when I play music on iTunes, the screens quivers ever-so-slightly to the beat.

I've been tipped off by a friend that there is a store in Portland called Stand Up Comedy.

Here are two newish artworks but, alas, I think they aren't SCRAPPY enough and I shall burn them and consume them in my morning porridge. They were (maybe not) fun while they lasted!

WINTER'S LAST BLAST

I thought about making another blog, just devoted to drivel, thoughts, random images, what I'm working on in process, etc, but then I realized why not just put it up here? EVERYONE DESERVES A LITTLE DRIVEL NOW AND THEN. But then I was also excited because I thought I might call it TubeShapedBubes. Now I just have a new band name idea to add to the list of:

Foods
Jazzm
The Baby Jesus

and the like. Anyway, in newsworthyness I just found out about some exciting personal-art-inertia in the shape of attention of different forms. First of all I got another Poster of the Week in the Stranger. Funnily (funnily?) the tradition of anonymity has been kept--for the last one, my name was lost/misplaced and for this one, it was chosen from the street with no name but the writer recognized the work and threw my name up for the following week here

About this poster with this write-up


I will get a proper scan one day. It says "forget about your bare cupboards in the company of friends" I was out of town but I wish I could of gone to that show, what a line-up!

Secondly, in attention-getting news about attention-getting, I found out a piece of mine was chosen for the Crawl Space Centennial! It was curated by Jeffrey Mitchell who makes cool monochromatic cluster-y ceramic sculpture and other things:


So that's exciting! I haven't had a show since the Magickal Spectrum and I just got a rejection from Gallery 4 Culture, so I've been a bit rejuiced especially when combined with the exciting news of being mentioned in an article by Jen Graves in ARCADE .

The issue is about the Art of Waste and looks great! I can't wait to get my hands on a copy. The feature editor is Abigail Guay who is also the Exhibition Director at Open Satellite in Bellevue. I've been meaning to go there forever! She was also the Visual Arts Intern at the Stranger before me and came to my house to train me on database stuff. Super nice lady! The article mentions these babies:





I've also been into wood-burning. Moving has disrupted this process but I hope to get into full-swing again soon once the novelty of making curtains has worn off (you think I'm joking.)
Here's the wood-burned piece that was on Magickal Spectrum followed by the waxy pieces that inspired it:






Are we done yet? Yes, for now. Oh, and PS, it's DAMN cold out.

WINTER LIGHT MOVE TO SCANDANAVIA IN MY HRRRRT

SHOW AT ZEITGIEST IN OCTOBER

I'm pleased to be preparing at a distant for a show at Zeitgeist Coffee in Pioneer Square opening October 7th. The College drawings will be in this show as well as some kind of free-association wordy type of new watercolors. It's call Educational Crap-Happy and is subtitled "Drawings as Confused Intimate Learning" mostly because I constantly think about going to all kinds of school all the time and I'm confused as to what I'm doing all the time so I guess drawing is a way of just doing instead of figuring where the act of doing actual does figure and that to me is confused intimate learning.

POSTER OF THE WEEK

My flyer for the Japanther show was chosen for Poster of the Week for Sept13 but my name is not credited! Here is the lucky poster. Please email me if you would like to commission me for a flyer!

RECENT DRAWINGS

Here are some recent drawings, friends.
These as well other pieces are up at the McLeod Residence at
2209 2nd Ave in Belltown until July 27th 2008. Take a look!