“Souvenir” September 7 2010

“Daylight” August 31 2010

Really excited to be a featured artist at Les Salonnieres this coming Saturday!! Check out the link, some amazing performance, food and drink coming up! Click the link for info on this NYC food, drink and art event:
Les Salonnieres

“Empire sky”

“See for yourself” 8/10/2010

Look what I found today in the Hudson… wrote a song about/for it.
“Down by the water”

This is the first entry of my new project: the Tuesday entries.
Every Tuesday I will post a new video of a song/piece of music accompanied by an animated video.
It can be older songs, brand new songs, covers, little bits and pieces of sounds- I don’t even know exactly yet- it will be inspired as it goes. I am just excited to take on a challenge and learn to make better video’s.
I never sit and wait around for inspiration- I believe it comes as you create. I have written so many new songs and painted so many new paintings over the last year and I think that directing them into a weekly entry will push me to finish things and send them ‘out there’. Share them instead of locking them up in a computer.

This first one- a cover by Manu Chao- one of my favourite artists. Always loved this song and its total simplicity. I painted the backgrounds and raindrops especially for the video. The moon and stars [planets?] were barrowed from my painting “Prayer”

This is my first music video with animation in it. I am still learning- it’s very basic, but I really enjoy the process and like the visuals.
I painted most of the artwork especially for the video and took a couple of images from paintings that were already made.

The song is called “Serve”, I wrote it somewhere during this last winter and here are the lyrics to the song:

Serve

I’m not here to take you down
I’m not here to change you
I’m not here to tell you
what it is you should do
I’m not here to judge you
I’m not here to fight
I’m not here to tell you what’s wrong or right

I’m only here
I’m only here
I’m here to serve you

Sure that we make hundreds thousands of mistakes
Sure you’ll see me falling
falling from grace
Sure there’s gonna be some thunder in the sky
it’s eternal play between dark and light

I’m only here
I’m only here
I’m here to serve you

We’re walking through streets in high c’s
in low and sorrowful symphonies
and I get lost and I get
outta breath and outta stride
But I go back, I go back
each and every time
Duty calls me to
My delightful plight
To serve you

Aren’t we here to pass on what we were given
Aren’t we here to make it a little easier on each other
Let’s be sweet

We’re only here
we’re only here
We’re here to serve each other

Here are a few stills from my latest video- it’ll be up and running very soon!
It’s my first attempt at animating my art into my music.. really enjoying marrying these two together and playing with [very basic!!] animation.  The song is called “Serve”, new song!