Howdy folks,

I have a couple of shows going up soon! Real, art-type shows! Oh, man.

Marc Tasman, a Milwaukee-based artist, recently completed his Ten Year Polaroid Project (1999-2009), for which he took a Polaroid self-portrait of himself every day. For ten years.

In celebration of its publication in Dialect Magazine, here is The Man Above the Universe collected into one web-page. Oh glory be.

Haven't posted in a couple weeks, due mostly to the fact that I've been finishing up my Photography Portfolio series, The Uneventful Life of Arturio von Anglebanger.
I'm having the finished pieces printed up as Art-trading-cards (with slick designs and spiffy little story blurbs on the back) to be sold for cheap at my Photo Portfolio show (Friday, May 16th at the ArtBar). [Side note: the ArtBar is a nice little cafe/bar in Riverwest that makes up a tasty Bloody Mary. Worth a visit.] They'll also be projected in a fancy-pants manner; too bad the maximum resolution I could get them made into slides with was around a third of the images' actual size. But cool beans anyhow!

I shall be dressed as a luchadore. Come say "Hello!"

Also of note: I've received some official Props for my One Thousand Pardons series, in the form of a Frederick R. Layton BFA Award! Not sure how many beans that's worth yet, but hopefully it'll buy me some hard drives and Pirate cards. The award was presented to me at the UWM BFA show yesterday evening, and was definitely a surprise... I arrived at the gallery to see the back of a circle of people clapping.

Oh, and another thing: If you happen to play ForumWarz, that nifty browser-based Internet Simulation RPG, look me up sometime.

I entered a photography contest at the Milwaukee Art Museum and won!
The contest was judged by MAM's associate curator, Lisa Hostetler. I basically sent her everything worthwhile I've done for the past few years, and she picked out Building a Better Buffalo as the top photo montage/collage piece!

For my efforts, I received a prize package consisting of one (1) Ted Simmons autographed Base Ball; one (1) Headshot of Ted Simmons, mid-guffaw; and one (1) 2007 Ted Simmons Collectible Bobble. I also won a door prize- two tickets to "the Rep," which basically made me feel like an asshole.

An asshole with a bobblehead.