Scrapbook: assembly / Ramones (front cover), ca. 2014
This scrapbook is really a large notepad I suppose. Made from repurposed LP cover of The Ramones “Rocket to Russia ” (the inside vinyl as well as the cover arrived damaged and was replaced).
The folio-style front cover interior is decorated with the album’s damaged liner notes which is also used to cover the binding over the sewn-in pad of Hilroy Typewriter paper (found in my Mom’s stuff, probably leftover since the 1970/80s).
Barely started to use this one (mostly wrote letters and tore out the pages) and as such, sits in a storage locker waiting its turn to fulfil its noble purpose.
Driving across the United States mid-west region (Iowa and Nebraska, July 2015) I snapped photos with Lomo La Sardina (Sardine Can) camera loaded with expired 35mm film, directly out the moving vehicle window each :15 minutes for a full roll. The results are here, unedited, glitches and all – order is unintentionally scrambled but that’s not really the point.
Greetz from Elsewhere: dossier of maps, legends and sentiments
A rather large batch of handmade cards made from excerpts from my Fck Stats, Make Art dossiers (heroes and metaphors), scraps for poetry, and pre-franked stamps from Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North), collaged on white stock, with personal (albeit cryptic) notes scribbled, and sent somewhat anonymously (with assistance from a friend) to unsuspecting folks who seemed in need of a little pick-me-up parable to remind they are remarkable and executing noteworthy import-ness.
Displayed in batches, with limited annotations.
Greetz from Elsewhere: the simplicity of proper tools make large tasks so much simpler (Don’t Get Precious)
Fascinated by pigs of all kinds from a young age, i made scrapbook, drawing, plans for ownership, and learned the names and habits of everykind of swine from peccaries, to warthogs, to javelina. My sports-teams are always named after pigs (street hockey and fantasy sports to be more accurate) and i invented characters including “Super Pig” with appropriate uniform. I also raised a family of guinea pigs (until devoured by a ruthless opossum).
Evidence of these other projects are scattered elsewhere, whereas in this post, i share various sketches of pigs, farms and a buffalo – made when 7 years old.
Drawing: Pig head 2, David Olson, undated (likely 1977)
This yet-to-be-filled scrapbook is created from a repurposed VHS box fro my 1997 documentary film HempenRoad. The box (design by Pete Word and myself) included a gatefold for more images and narrative which works well for the scrapbook as both cover include design on inside and outside (note: the back cover has in the back cover on the inside).
The binding is green hemp twine and left exposed to the see the sew binding pattern and knotting as well the spine of the video box. The paper block is hemp/cereal-straw by Tree Free paper from Portland.
