6/29/09 & You Are Not Alone.
 
Liz Lake appeared in Providence and found the Printshop. Asked if I was interested in Collaborating. Said Yes. 14 Colors later we wrapped up an Edition of 35 (w/ 5 Artist Proofs) Titled
"To Listen With Our Feet (To Hear our Hands)
 
Also, right now on my Flickr you can see a final print from one of the series I am working on for the Keymember show at 5Traverse opening July 10th. The DigiPic will not do justice to translucent halftone / translucent flat printed on translucent double-sided mylar - so you should just come to the opening.
 
Summer time fun has begun. Midnight swims in cold-watered quarries / bike rides to the beach / softball / goonies / fireworks and tshirts / skirts, so on, and so forth.
 
JZ


6/9/09 The Dark and Fog.
 
A dearth of updates belies the actuality of activity.
 
I will be showing work at 5 Traverse early July. 3 Suites of 3 Prints.
Also busy with commissions : Printed bike jerseys for a local crew and Letterpressed / Screenprinted Business Cards for a new local bike shop - Dash.
Designed and Printed posters for a photo show that my Studio mate Agata Michalowska curated.
Attended my sister's graduation from the GSD @ Harvard.
Drawing alongside Liz Lake for a collaborative book on trees.
Prepping for a class I am teaching on Indexhibit.
Bike Tour in the works. Early August - Because -
 
I begin working full-time as an Americorp Vista for the AS220 Community Printshop Mid August.
 
Also - Developing your-armor-becomes-you.

5/17/09 HBWZ/JE/SS/??
 
Last night I freestyle rapped with honesty and heart to celebrate so many excellent birthdays. Basically, everybody got borned yesterday.
 
I took on a fun funny project for an afternoon > check it out on my flickr . All the best bands were created and destroyed yesterday to celebrate Susan. They succeeded.
 
All the norms: Printing / Teaching / Biking. Also a lot of cleaning. Sister is Graduating. More Racing.
Good luck with whatever sits atop your plate.
 
Also: I am working on setting up a skateboard deck screenprinting rig and designing my own decks. Potential for workshops and more.

5/1/09 You Wanna Lose Your Life? Money is the Key in the Street Life.
 
Finished up Hydrus 3 for a small publication Mickey Z is putting together.
 
I hope your stomach feels better than mine.

4/7/09 There is no fate but what we make.
 
I forgot to mention I finished the BlackPus / MarkLord / ShawnGreenlee Posters
 
Also posted some quick sketches from Chicago. I saw a little kid in NYC with a Bat Tattoo on his hand so now there is Bat Club
 
Working on WNWN stuff / End of Semester Presentations / Hydrus 3 / ???

4/2/09 Coming of Age
 
The Bus to NYC has WiFi now. This is slayer. I finished printing the Black Pus / Mark Lord / Shawn Greenlee posters late last night after multiple carbombs and some jager.
 
Things coming up: Continued progress on the Body of work titled Security Theater.
Also. Prints and Design for a store that is slated to open DownTown Providence September 2009
Waste Not Want Not (WNWN).
 
I started teaching Alice to my middle school students. Google it. Also, Storytelling Alice.
 
Moreover, it looks like I will be teaching a Design Providence workshop on Indexhibit, the fantastic software I use for my website. Look for it late May
 
Good luck with everything everybody all the time.

3/31/09 Dead Ice
 
I've been gone for a minute but now i'm back again. Presently printing Black Pus posters for their upcoming show at AS220. It is Goo Obe 2. It is big also.
 
I am working to set a date for my open studio.
 
Chicago was very good. Big thanks to Anne Elizabeth Moore for hosting Agata and I. She put us up and showed us where to find the best Ice Cream Sundays in the world. Also. She organized Without You I am Nothing. Show and opening at Green Lantern in Chicago. Also she's done a ton of stuff that is gnarly.
 
On the train I taught myself how to built and texture maps in Quake 3. Also trying to better understand shaders. I am going to utilize this game engine to make and experience artwork in new ways.
 
I had a vision of youth slaying the old while in Chicago. This vision is destined to become a new version of Hydrus for a zine Mickey is putting out sometime semi-soon.

3/25/09 SGPC
 
Tomorrow I begin a trek to Chicago for the Southern Graphics Annual Print Conference.
Ill be building things with my computer while i'm away.

3/11/09 NF3
 
Night Fight 3 can be found and bought at Ada Books, 717 Westminster Street, in Providence, Rhode Island. The store is one of the nicest in the world.
 
you can see the crummy digitized version: Night Fight 3 *

3/8/09 KNITES
 
I want to see an internet ad that lets you take a picture of yourself using built in webcam and then you punch yourself or capture yourself or shoot yourself for a free _____.
 
Hard at work or riding hard. Night Fight 3 in Store tomorrow.
Do something extreme today. SRLSLY

2/25/09 Carrion.
 
I am finished working out the physics and movement of Night Fight 3 (NF3)
check the Flickr

2/23/09 All of the Time.
 
Last Week Was This.
 
Now I'm going to focus on Night Fight 3.
This week I am also doing a lot of Teaching.
Wish me luck.

2/10/09 Upcoming:
 
Large-scale work being installed for a collaborative show: "Structures of Weight and Light"
with Asher Israelow, Agata Michalowska, Will Reeves and Meg Turner. Show is up February 19th to the 26th and we're hosting a reception Saturday the 21st of February, from 3:30 to 8 @ Book by Book, in the Hope Artist Village. Pawtucket RI.
 

2/9/09 Printmaking is Discipline.
 
I've been gone for a minute - Busy.
Can't sleep so I redid my CSS
 
1. Teaching - Printmaking + Artstars.
2. Printing - Ben Jones suite of 3, 1 color prints for his show at Deitch Projects in NYC / 7 Color Edition of 100 for Campus Compact RI for upcoming Service Summit (collaboration with Andrew Oesch)
3. Seeing - Great Nick Cave show in NYC, James Amoeba in NYC and Provi, with a whole slew of exciting stuff at the RISD Tap Room. The following evening was High Places / Wizzardss (sp?) in Provi. These things expand.
4. A body of work I am developing; Security Theater. Includes: P.S.C # / Secure Virtual Natural Bridges / Practice / Bridges to Ignominy / Modeled Intersections (Nature and Artifice) / Night Fight(s) (It's Always Night. You Always Fight) / + More.
 
5. I'm on a boat.
 
I update the Flickr Page all the time.

1/20/09 This is real and not for play, todays Barack Obama day.
 
I'm quite glad and thankful.
I woke up under the weather yesterday. It was great to have such a nice excuse to spend the day in bed watching the inauguration sans guilt.
 
Things going on:
Visited Axelle Editions in Brooklyn.
Paper research in the Village.
Artstars begins tomorrow. Artstars in Service. Also; the First Artstars Film Festival.
Working on pieces for the Pawtucket Show. Opening in a couple of weeks.
Still reeling from HDD crash.
 
Last week I finished up the first stage of a collaborative poster / print with Andrew Oesch for Campus Compact Rhode Island and the First Annual Rhode Island Service Summit.
Also: Printed a set of three editions of five for artist Ben Jones.
I am jazzed about them.

1/2/09 HNY!
 
My Computer's HD Crashed and my Backup was chock-full of corrupt data. I've lost a fair bit of important work stuff, and a ton of fun stuff (like photos).
 
2009 will begin super slayer:
 

 
I'm going to be hunkered down and working hard.
Write me an email. Come visit me in my studio. We can draw together. Maybe print some, too.

12/22/08 Shuttle rush
 
Terminator 2: Judgement Day was the first movie I remember seeing in a theatre.
Now i'm going to inform you of the following things:
 
Tonight I watched police tackle and arrest an 18 year old in the bitter slush. Grand theft auto / possession of handgun. The saddest thing was the lack of surprise in the young man's eyes.
 
Here are some of the things I made this week:
Goo Obe *
Night Fight 2 *
Selected Works / Dec. 08 *
 
I'll be in San Antonio and Brooklyn for the remainder of the year.
January is going to be zany.
Best wishes to everyone everywhere.

12/19/08 A Bridge Implies Effort.
I was inspired today by Pro-Fit Iron Gym Pull Up Bars.
I drew a lot of birds and was psyched to find an eraser. I read and enjoyed Yuichi Yokoyama's New Engineering. Yokoyama writes, "I don't like fighting, but i do enjoy drawing the movement of bodies in combat..."
 
Me too.
 
Yesterday I made the likely to be renamed "Street Combat"
Also the AS220 Community Print Shop's website has nice things to say.

12/17/08 Surr
 
I have been drawing contained virtual nature, archetypal avatars, and creatures I would run from. They are graphite on black paper and they do not scan.
 
I printed a small stack of Throne 3.
Also. Fun quick print based on one of the drawings mentioned above.
 
Also. The Joe Buzzell Edition is selling out quick-like. As it should.

12/10/08 Keep Light Your Dark.
 
Believe I Build Bridges.
1. Show in Pawtucket. I am working on something 3-d. This is rare for me.
2. Commission for Campus Compact with Andrew Oesch. Laser Cut Screenprinted Ed.
3. New Version of Hydrus for Giant Robot Beasts Show in San Fran. Jan 17th?
4. Quake 2 Series AKA B/B.t.t.u. 2 that look more like this.
5. Editing "the news" - A film by my afterschool students.

12/4/08 Infinity Fest
 
Today body armor became ancient entrances and hard kids sport noh-like bird masks.
 
I found out a day or two ago I'll have prints heading from the Fantagraphics shop in Seattle to Giant Robot S.F. New stuff and old stuff will be hung alongside work by a multitude of excellent artists who similarly have work in the newly released Beasts! 2, published by Fantagraphics.
 
Beasts! 2 Video Preview.
 
This evening I printed Game of Life tees.
White
and Black,
 
Always check the Flickr *

11/25/08 Mstrs / Pirates
 
The monstrs of the universe responsible for the massive deregulation of wall st. and banking should be held accountable for their crimes. The big three should have their heads chopped off and forced to adopt visionary mileage and manufacturing standards to the tune of 100+ mpg electric / gas hybrids in <10 years. All the money being handed out should be extensively documented and these records should be easily accessible online. If we were to be giving that money out to ordinary Americans, they could pay off their debt, make improvements to their homes, purchase new, affordable and efficient cars (or bikes) and potentially send someone to college / start a small business. I am counting the days until our President-Elect can grab hold the ropes and begin to right this capsizing ship.
 
New Drawings of Collapse
 
I watched a man beg on knee for money to stay warm and off the streets for a night. I'd rather it have been one of the lobbyists and leeches responsible for this mess.

11/21/08 New Theme is Live.
 
Brooklyn again. Tweaking new site design. With the remainder of my day I hope to share lunch with Gaby, draw, visit the Forth Estate / Axelle Editions shop, and attend an opening at the Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in Williamsburg.
 
More things I am thinking: Thron 3

11/19/08 Providence Public Transportation Pains Me Like My Knee.
 
New Work Happening;
Agata Collaboration *
Network D *
 
Also, always check the Flickr *

11/17/08 I've Got Work in this Book.

Beasts! 2 Available from Fantagraphics Books in December

11/12/08 The American Auto Industry is Well-positioned to Die.
 
New stuff I've been making.
Smoke Sneaker *
Game of Life Posters *

11/7/08 All Things are Possible
 
Tuesday I voted for the 44th President of the United States of America, and danced into the early hours of the morning. To believe again!
 
I began prep work for a new print, and did a lot of loose work on paper.
Enjoy this drawing: Sleeper Self
Also: Determined Foe
and a hint at things to come: Throne *