Hello friends! I've got a lot to share this time so I will keep the introduction brief.
Before I shower you with new creations, let me recommend this episode (304) of the Mixed Mental Arts Podcast – in which we chat about the silver lining of epochal change and how we're going to organize our knowledge into wisdom in the years to come.
I had their host Hunter Maats on Future Fossils Podcast last year and we hit it off. My episode on his show is some of the best two hours of conversation I've had in a while.
At any rate – I hope all's well with you, and shine my love like sunlight to you through that void across the screen. Say hi if we haven't spoken in a while! I'd love to hear from you and how it's going.
love
Michael
New Music
Streaming at Spotify & Apple Music
I just put out one of my favorite sets of all time and invite you into its gritty, luminous realms...
Recorded live at 3 AM at the Tenth Annual Utopiafest's Guan Yin Tea House tipi, this renegade set was made possible by my friend's questionable Chinese mobile PA system. (I found out later everyone could hear me play outside the tipi as they walked by, which provided a surreal soundtrack to the nearby silent disco.)
This downtempo quadrupedal trip from the cockpit of my acoustic-electronic starship is a celebration of the sacred hours and an invocation of the magic of a place and time, drawn down into the cozy weirdness of a psychedelic Sunday decompression on a gorgeous autumn evening...
New Digital Painting & Time-Lapse
Like with almost everything in life, fate dragged my lazy and protesting ass into the digital painting world eventually. And lo! It's wonderful. I'm still just learning basic skills in Procreate for iPad, but here's an early piece adapting my technique to tablet stylings.
Because the app will automatically time-lapse whatever you do in it, I can guarantee you you'll see more of these here, soon...
And because it's 2018, you can buy this piece on damn near anything:
Art Yoga Mats Are Here!
I can't tell you how long I've been waiting for this. Hop on over to Live Sankalpa and grab one!
(I mulled this over for a while before deciding on this company. They're serious about their quality; these are some awesome yoga mats.)
All Prints Permanently Cheaper
Exactly what it sounds like. I used to sell my prints for $15 each and then it felt like time to give myself a raise...but nobody else in my generation got a raise, because of the recession. If I had a dollar for every time someone told me they wished they could afford my art, I'd be a rich man.
I want my art to be there for you no matter what you make, so I've returned the prices on my paper prints to what they were back in 2008, when I was truly awful but it didn't matter.
Also I've dropped prices on ALL canvas prints and ALL original paintings.
Merry belated/early Christmas.
New Future Fossils Episodes
If you haven't listened to my podcast yet, now is a great time to dig in. I have the next 12 weeks' of episodes recorded and post-dated and from here it seems the show just keeps improving on its mission to inspire great conversations on our place in the Big Story...
(Also, I am looking for new sponsors for the show. Can you recommend someone who believes in the importance of the podcast as a medium for doing Good Work in the world, and wants to put their money where my mouth is?)
Upcoming Fun Stuff
Returning for my fifth year since 2009 to paint, speak about futures, and play cyberguitar.
Moderating a Sunday panel discussion on psychedelic therapy and consciousness hacking.
Playing cyberguitar, painting, and giving a talk at my friends' award-winning mini-festival.
