PLAYING LA ON WEDNESDAY

Ok so I love this flyer for the show I'm playing next Wednesday. I play at 9 and it's been a while. I'm gonna make a record this year and I'm just getting things rolling over here. My old friend Bart Davenport is playing bass with me, who as some of you know, is a real talent. Also, by coincedence, one of my favorite drummers Per Eklund is here from Sweden and will be keeping things steady. I've updated things a bit. Join me on all accounts: My links to currents.

Flyer by Robert Gungor

NEW WORK: MUSIC VIDEO FOR "HONEY"

So I made a music video with my friends (Amanda Marsalis, Ashley Eva Brock, Alia Shawkat, and Jessi Campbell) for the song "Honey" by Kacey Johansing from the album "Grand Ghosts." Really really happy with it. We shot it in Bolinas, California over the course of 3 days last January. It's the small town where Kacey lives in Northern California. We shot during a New Year's Eve party that ended up involving burning wishes, scribbled fates, hot tubs, redwoods, and 4 people to a bed or floor. I don't think I've ever slept in a house with that many people at one time. The dress was inspired from watching the old footage by the Lumeiere brothers. We wanted to have the viewer experience her transformation. Hope it inspires. Feel that pastel-colored California light.

Kacey is opening for Kings of Convenience May 15 in London and May 23 in Moscow. Other Euro cities around that time too. Paris, Berlin, Hamburg...Also, April 6 in San Francisco. Go see her!

Directed by Amanda Marsalis

Art Directed by Simone Rubi

Produced by Simone Rubi

Edited by Patrick Nelson Barnes

Dress by Ashley Eva Brock

Special guests: Alia Shawkat, Jessi Campbell, Simone Rubi

From the album "Grand Ghosts" (Released Feb, 2013)

I used an "Aura Photograph" for the cover design... can you see her?

 

YESWAY

Designed this poster for the experimental folk-pop band, Yesway. I love them so much. You can hear the song listed on the poster here. The drawing is by the band's own Emily Ritz. The other half of Yesway is Kacey Johansing. So excited for their album.

BOOK COVER DESIGN: INTERPRETING A TITLE

Photographer and buddy Amanda Marsalis and I team up again. This time for a book she is putting out with the good guys at Golden Spike Press in time for the LA Art Book Fair next month. The book will be printed on a risograph printer using 2 colors of ink. Gold (photographs of Californian landscapes) and dark grey (photographs outside of California). The cover will be black with gold ink. Inside pages will be light grey.

Title: Landscapes that are not in California and some that are

My interpretation:

Cover design for the upcoming book of photographs by Amanda Marsalis

FRIENDLY SHOP DESIGNS: FOGGY NOTION

I've been helping with some designs for good pal Alissa Anderson for her shop in San Francisco, FOGGY NOTION. Next time you're in the bay, go see her and revel in the good vibes in there. The shop is beautifully curated and directly reflects her taste, aesthetics, and the authentically-San-Francisco neighborhood. The black/white design is for totebags she had made for the shop. The watercolor design will appear in different colors from time to time.... She was recently featured on Bold Italic here:

 

Alissa Anderson in her shop Foggy Notion. Photo from the feature here

LOGO FOR THE BAND SNOWBLINK

Super happy with how this came out. Created something that was balanced but not symmetrical. Something that had lasting power and could hold the hand of future campaigns. Also, today there is a lunar eclipse. Eclipses bring new beginnings and honor the past. Glad we snuck one in there.  Austere and geometric, but still loose. Satisfying. I love this band. Check them out here. They are on the Arts & Crafts label in Canada. Good company.

 

SIRACUSA HAS A CRUSH

 

 

 

THE NOW MOON

I did this a while back and forgot. Now I remember! I like remembering. I want to remember how to "now" more than ever. More full moon writing.

RUBIFOX No. 4

I'm in Paris. It's been real good. I am a brand new Aunt again. Overwhelmed with good. I came to Paris the day after this thing below. Rubifox No. 4. My dear friend Kacey Johansing and her band consisting of rad dudes, Jeremy Harris, Alexi Glickman, Andrew Maguire, and Jorge Castellano, came down to LA from Bolinas and Oakland.  I can't believe how good it sounded, there, on the Rubifox deck. The sounds were so sweet that the valley behind my house swallowed up the songs, and sent neighbors driving for 30 minutes in the neighborhood to find where the music was coming from. I saw some strangers arrive, with new eyes, listening and feeling the vibrations along with the other 60 other guests. Not sure I've ever seen that happen before. The food was prepared by Carrie Clough. Moroccan/lebanese inspired. Yumtown. Here is a tiny glimpse through my little plastic film camera.

REPORTS FROM SUMMER & RUBIFOX NO. 3

Glimpses seen from my little plastic Diana camera. Here are some inners.

Tim, Maurice, a parent's pool. A-parently.

Lou likes haning on my pile

Big Sur. You can't see them, but there are clouds in the distance in the shape of waves.

Julia Pfeiffer, meet Amanda

High up, Big Sur

Amanda, Rubifox No. 3

Nicole, Ryan, Simone, Rubifox No. 3

Alia, Ryan, Simone, Rubifox No. 3

Mark, Michael, Bart, Barbara, Rubifox No. 3

Janella X 2, Jen, Rubifox No. 3

Jen, Lobster Rolls, Dill Chips, Rubifox No. 3

Mark + Jen's rad bev, Jerome, Susie, Rubifox No. 3

Jake, Snowblink, Rubifox No. 3

Maria, Janella, Jen, Mark, Avocado Beach, Santa Barbara

Paris, Nicole, Jessi, Avocado Beach, Santa Barbara