James Victore in town

Location: The Portfolio Center

125 Bennett St.
Atlanta, GA 30309

Phone: 404.351.5055 or 800.255.3169
Fax: 404.355.8838

Date: Thu, Oct 14
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Admission: TBD

James Victore, vastly talented, world renown graphic designer, is giving a chat at the Portfolio Centre in Buckhead Oct 14th.

"James Victore is an independent graphic designer whose clients include Moët & Chandon, Target, Amnesty International, the Shakespeare Project, The New York Times, MTV, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and Portfolio Center. He has been awarded an Emmy for television animation, a Gold Medal from the Broadcast Designers Association, the Grand Prix from the Brno Biennele (Czech Republic) and Gold and Silver Medals from the New York Art Director’s Club. Victore’s posters are in the permanent collections of the Palais du Louvre, the Library of Congress and the Museum für Gestaltung among others."

I'd heard about the Portfolio Centre from my days doing graphic design at State - they have great resources for designers, freelancers, and artists of all stripes.

Kirkwood Ballers, Eyedrum

Last night, on a whim, decided to abandon the hypnotizing computer screen for more interesting climes. Randomly saw on ArtNews a thread regarding the Kirkwood Ballers' Club, an event (like many many many) I'd always SAID I would attend but never manage to.

Not this time, by gad!

Drove down to Eyedrum. Got there at 11pm and saw all of 7 people. "Is this over?" I ask one of the fellow I run into "It's just begun..." ok, I can dig it. Small audience. Cozy. Nice.

Promptly I run into our old buddy Tom, who's ready to do some of his numbers. Since I'd sang along with him at one of his Christmas parties, he invited me up on stage with them, where I let loose a number of shrieks and verses, the whole time trying - and failing - to read the lyrics sheet in front of me. No matter, this is improv!!!

The other numbers were just ear-shattering, trip-inducing melanges of sound, sensation, vibration. I was able to completely disconnect from what I am and what I am doing and where I'm going and where I've been just by riding that 30-minute synth & kitchen pot & african drum airplane - my consciousness exploded into endless scintillae of sound, such as aerosolized U-238 ordnance sparks liberated from their shells. In other words, it was hell of cool...

I don't know if the meagre attendance speaks to the decadence of this activity, which promises to happen once a month at Eyedrum, but I dearly hope not... Go! Go forth, people. It's well worth it.

Next time I go I may take my violin.

Mountainousness

Glorious gorgeous natural scapes do invite one to let one's hair down. At least that's what I've found to be true in the mountainous climes of Transylvannia County, NC.

There's a moment of being before nature, especially upon hearing the roaring cascading swirls of water, where the rest of the world just falls away, and an attentive person will find herself blending with the landscape. After a while you cease being a person with that constant barrage and baggage of noise - you just be.

This particular swirly wood lent itself to that theme

I feel the need to update this blog

so I will just post some random stuff:

1) a possibility exists of a collaboration show at Eyedrum with a good friend. If not this year, soon


2) wood art: these pieces are created from found driftwood

3) Other "plutonian" work, actually, that does take me away from art but which seems important and transformative in its own right - helping post, code, and illustrate Jim's intensely powerful output on JustMeans.

I'm making a committment now to start posting here more - and elsewhere. Aside from my constant scribble-scribble in journals hopefully nobody will find till I expire (and hopefully not even then) I realize I do myself a disservice by staying holed-up in my own little universe for so long.

My output here makes no sense - it is random and hermetic and not really representative of all I do or all I care about. I've kept it up because it has served as a portfolio of sorts, but I'm tempted to just take it all down, my entire online reality, and start from scratch. That's probably too much effort, but I will, even though it will be difficult, strive to be more real - even if it hurts a bit.