“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”
- Carl Jung
Once again I'm awful and dump way too much on you at once! I'm sorry and I love you. But wow am I ever excited about this new stuff — I think this latest newsletter outdoes every other I've released. Enjoy, and write back any time!
New Music
Just played the best gig I've had in years at Meow Wolf Santa Fe opening for DeVotchKa (who is, by the way, an act I've always respected but suddenly now that I've finally seen them live one of my favorite bands of all time). As always, Patreon and Bandcamp supporters got it first, but now it's up on Spotify and all other major streaming services (in an abridged form without the between-song dialogue, which would have messed with being able to put this on playlists, but is an essential part of the show in my mind and is there on the full-concert HD video YouTube and the lossless audio Bandcamp pages).
New Paintings
My first collaboration painting with my daughter Ada, who just turned three, plus five others! Sometimes I seem to go months without painting and then, like this, I knock out six in one week. When it rains, it pours. Most of these are sold but the Ada collab is available, as is the "Fabergé eggs launching seed bombs" type piece — 100% of the sales of which will donate relief to Ukraine.
I still have a ton of prints for sale as well as NFTs but have not made any for this batch yet...meanwhile, I'd far prefer to just keep doing commissions, which I've always loved as a professional illustrator (as I used to with the 350 custom-painted hats I made back in the day)...
Xenobotanicals - painting collaboration #1 with Ada - Unsold
Space Cactus - Sold
Seeds Not Bombs - Unsold
New Podcasts
Soooo excited to have made it onto Tyson Yunkaporta's podcast The Other Others after his wonderful appearance on Future Fossils 172. Here's his description of the episode:
"Progress would be wonderful — if only it would stop."
- Robert Musil
