So my friend, Bodie Dennis and I started writing some reviews of the Beatles re-releases (mono and stereo) for our local culture weekly magazine, LIVE (Flagstaff, AZ)
Click Here to read Article 1 (Please, Please Me)
Article 2 ( With the Beatles, HDN and Beatles for Sale)
Article 3 ( Help, Rubber Soul and Revolver)
Article 4 ( Sgt.Pepper, Magical Mystery, White Album)
Article 5 (Let it Be and Abbey Road)
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Here are a few photos from my first Imogene pass Run. It was so amazing up there!
(The Imogene Pass Run is a 17.1 mile point-to-point mountain race within the western San Juan mountains of Colorado, run along a route which connects the towns of Ouray (7810 ft.) and Telluride (8820 ft.) by way of 13,120 foot Imogene Pass).
Here is a pic I took while being in last place, lol, really!
This seems to happen to me in every race. I just prefer to start s.. l.. o.. w..
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about 1/3 way up…
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at the summit, looking down the other side
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my pal, Matt Koons. He ran it in flip-flops.
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about 1/2 way down the other side…
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That night was so beautiful. It snowed and I slept…
Mr. Kurabi’s Tales of Lovely-ness and All Things Eaten.
Limited Edition Bronze Sculpture
Here are a few quick snapshots I took of a new bronze sculpture I just completed (pictured here in clay). Information and patina photo to follow. Have a great weekend!
:click to enlarge
Watching this twice felt right this morning…
Here are a few shots of a painting I recently finished. It is titled:
the secret collapse of miss lorraine
34″ x 40″; Oil on Canvas
click here to view painting super close-up
—> http://www.joesorren.com/zoombify/sweet_lorraine.html
It will be printed in the next issue of BLAB! for the theme of The Apocalypse. My thinking here is that it’s a micro-take about an apocalypse for this one girl. Her world being suddenly being interrupted by unknown forces (the phonecall). I like the idea that we all have our own private apocalypse scenarios, our own buttons that can lead to a death and perhaps, sometimes to, a rebirth of sorts, you know?
This painting will be shown at Copro Gallery for the BLAB!show 2009. Visit the gallery link for more information.
detail 1:
One of the best things about living in northern Arizona is the surrounding forest and trail system. Here are some photos I shot yesterday running around on the mountain. The summers here are just .. . wow.
Next week I am off to New York to further develop a collaborative show with Jud Bergeron at Josh Liner’s Gallery (scheduled for March 2010, more on that soon). I will try to post pics along the way.
There are also newly completed paintings and sculptures now drying and going through the final glazing stages, etc. I will post more about them later this month.
I hope you all are getting out there and getting dirty, wooo summer!…
(click to enlarge)
(this tree was totally showing off)
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Whenever I spent time with, “Where the Wild Things Are,” as a kid in the early seventies. I remember staring at the pictures, those textures, and the characters, and the transition of room to outsideness, and the feelings that evoked; that imagination is real, and other worlds are happening, and to believe in that is to sidestep a lifetime of staring into the box (as Lyle would say). Thats alot for a book to teach a 4 yr. old. Needless to say, I am so stoked to see this movie. The trailer has the feel already. Spike is so good. I am happy he finally got to make this movie the right way. And “Wake Up” by Arcade Fire never sounded so right. Damn…
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Here is a photo I shot while hiking around Telluride this past weekend. It was a spectacular weekend with David Byrne as the weekend’s standout performer (surprise surprise). The standout song, however, was a Conor Oberst song titled:
I don’t wanna die (in the hospital):
Well, at long last, I have finished the painting that I eluded to a week or so ago. It is titled:
“Filling Little Thoughts with Little Ears”
Oil on Canvas; 40″ x 40″
Now available as a Limited Edition Print. Click here to visit the store.
Click here to zoom in on this painting.
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