October 7th

Just hanging out....

It's been a while since my last post, but I've been busy, so this is gonna be a big one with a lot of goodies.  Got back from Oktoberfest, I'd tell you more... if I remembered... here is a little taste my experience in Munich:

3 hours into Oktoberfest...

This week I did a bunch of work on my amulet, and none on my stone sculpture.  All that's left to do on it is punch out some 24 brass circles and then solder them + the rest of the brass ontop of the silver.  After that I will cover it in melted tar, let the tar cool, and then bend the whole disk convex. The tar is so the amulet will stay as one piece while I bend it.  Finally I will file all of the imperfections off polish the whole thing and then make the worn leather strap for the necklace and then it'll be complete
Here's where it's at now:

Dope.

I also headed out to a small town called Carrara, which is the mothership of marble sculpture in Italy.  Its about a 2 hours train ride North from Florence, and is chocked full of everything marble.  The sides of the mountains which envelope the city's horizon are all cut out, and the city itself has marble everywhere.  While I was there I stopped at a few museums, a few workshops, and museum dedicated to marble, the rock itself.  This place truly embraces is past-time.

Here's a sculpture in the town center dedicated to a bunch of miners that died in the nineties from a mine collapse.  It's absolutely epic and the stylization is phenomenal. It was constructed at one of the oldest marble workshops in Italy, let alone the world.  The shop happened to be right across the street, however photos were not allowed to be taken there so I got no proof of its epic-ness.




These two pieces are outside of one of the workshops I visited near the bottom of town.  I have an album on my facebook that shows more of these guys' works,  They are absolutely fanatic about their pieces.  The master of the workshop is in a family that has sculpted for far over three generations and has been sculpting for 72 years, he started when he was 14. 

 Nothing too exciting happening here back in Florence, I went to a Muay Thai class and got my ass kicked, I plan on going every week now, my room-mates and I also got bored of the same old looks so we grew mustaches:

Ladies...

Here's some of the old work I did before I got here, I found a few pictures on my phone:

All of these paintings, which are in shitty lighting, are black and white acrylic paintings ontop of  1'x1'x1" wood frames that I constructed (the stop watch is 1'x1'x2" so that it sticks out).  After I painted the pieces in black in white first.  Then I mixed my colored acrylics a little at a time with a gloss and did about 8 layers of color, painting mostly with my hands and fingers, this effect left the colors splotchy aged and very textured.  These four are by far my favorite paintings and also were the most fun I've had painting. Just thought I'd share 'em with everyone.

Heres the music I've been listening to lately.  The Phoenix song and The Dogs song aren't downloadable but just as enjoyable, as for the others, right click and save link as.  Macs: hold control and click, then save link/file as.

1901 by Phoenix (DLID Customization Remix)
Good ol' Phoenix sound with a little bit of razmatazz.

Eyesore by Women
Catchy tunes and riffs kinda old school and low-fi, it reminds me of October.

Ashes to Ashes by Warpaint
Watch out Bowie, this remake kicks ass and is even that much more trippy.  Go float in space for a bit with this song.

The Start of Something by Voxtrot
Perfect song.  A refreshed version of the smiths that makes me miss the close moments with the people of my past.





Also here's a link to my favorite artist, everyone keeps asking me who this guy is and what his works look like so here's Gerhard Richter's Artwork.

Tomorrow I head out to Venice and Verona for a night, I plan on taking lot's of pictures, so I'll let you guys what is there when I get back.