so 2009 was quite a wild year. it's weird to look back on a little bit. i spent new years at brandon's in escotown. promptly thereafter moved from king st. to 28th and telegraph. life slowed down a bit, i started what was to be my last semester at the academy of art university, and had a cleanly shaven face. i turned 24 in february, had a dance party in my bedroom, and woke up comfortably alone, as i did most every morning of 2009. there is a bit of a blur there for a little bit, i worked an went to school a lot, and then at the end of march halcyonaire spent a week at tiny telephone for the first session for "dread hymn". shortly afterwards, after a solid three years of consideration, i decided it was time for me to end my enrollment at the academy of art university. thrilled with the new prospect of starting my artistic endeavors outside of my experience in that institution, i took to riding my newly converted bike throughout the east bay. i miss this time quite a bit. i worked very little, lived off of what i had saved, and just rode a lot. i experimented also with a lot of different lettering styles, some may or may not have found their way onto this here blog. most likely not. did my best to hang out a lot with friends and kicked it pretty hard. i mean, HARD. in the later part of april i went on a short west coast tour with lewd acts. had a lot of fun, spent sometime in portland (two days?) and hung out with jocelyn for her birthday. bruised alex's ribs in seattle, almost fought a cab driver. came back, continually kicked it hard. brandon came for a few visits, we ruined each-others livers and memories. during one of these visits in what i think was actually late may, at a party at sebastian's house in berkeley i caught the eye of a young lady by the name of liz freeman. we talked about being from san diego and had a shared distaste for a certain individual we both knew. went for a long walk in search of more drink and later that evening exchanged numbers after some friends and i left her apartment where we had moved to from the previously mentioned house. i continued to hang out for life, working minimally a week. around this time in june i was hit with a bill from AAU telling me i owed then upwards of $5000. this and a number of other factors led me to the decision to move back down to southern california to live with my parents again for the first time since august of 2005. hung out with this liz freeman character a few times on her porch, watching a liquor store, talking about whatever. i came down at the end of june to help my parents move about three blocks to the new house where i was going to live with them. on the third night of us moving my grandmother, sally, had a massive stroke that caused or was a 25% brain bleed. i saw her in the hospital with no answers and boarded a plane back to the bay to spend my last month in the bay. i feel sad, thinking about both of these things. i probably always will. spent that last month having quite a good time, hung out with liz a few times and learned that she too was moving back to southern california. i move down, start school, start work, do that. a lot of both. october brings david bazan to san diego, along with me seeing that show. i think i've visited liz every week since then. (oct. 3rd?) that brings me to now, where i have been working, schooling, and visiting san diego. i get to see a lot of my friends who i didn't get to see a lot while living in the bay. i am sure i left a lot out, but i am getting tired after this red wine and i am sure i lost anyone reading this by now. i will condense this year in far better manners in another way. also, will have a "best of" list for '09 and maybe will work on one for the decade. 2009 was a year where i re-discovered a lot of music, or, got into a lot of music that wasn't quite new. until then... live in peace

readjusted and another.

i think this might end up being a place where i just post experiments i've been doing. not that i am by any means calling my work "experimental", more of exercises i suppose? yes, an exercise in not being too caught up in myself to let anyone else see things i work on. 2010 is nearly here, i think i shall work on a "best of" list...

this is a poster i made for my ten year old sister. it consists of her favorite colors, and i told her i would make her a poster for letting me take over her room when i moved back home in august. ten year olds are funny... also, the color and shapes in the background are based on the Fibonacci sequence, thank you golden section and mark reynolds.

and the haze begins to lift

after all these years

marry me

so i've been out of it for quite sometime. i am moving down to long beach in a week or so. it will be very interesting to see how it all pans out. i have worked on a few things, i'll probably get those up here in the next decade or so. the halcyonaire record has some pre-mixes done and we're saving money for the final stages. well, hell, here are some mock-up covers for the blue heron re-release, re-mastered, re-most everything'ed cd. cosmic wizard. dude. get cosmic.

Oh man...

If you know me, you know why this is awesome... I hear you my brother...

America Is F*cked.......(Graphically at least) from Jess Gibson on Vimeo.

okay, so i am going to try and recount a little bit of what has been going on. i just last friday go finished with the first week of tracking for the new halcyonaire record we're making. we were holed up in john vanderslice's wonderful tiny telephone studio with ian pellicci engineering it for us. it was a completely awesome experience, the studio was great, ian was great, and the mexican food was great...i kept far better track of the happenings in a real journal that may or may not find their way onto this here blog. i just thought i may share a few photos of the first day here right now...

early in the morning we headed over to nick's place to pack up his van and haul it all across the bridge.

saw some words on a buildings on the way overthe front door.


we were welcomed by this sweet wall of amps and ian's bike.


nick was quick to set up his drums, he ended up using a normal rack tom that was blue later, but this set up looks ill.

a few things i've been working on for the past couple weeks.

oh man, this is gonna be awesome!

now you wear your skin like iron

and your breath's as hard as kerosene.
Mr. Townes Van Zandt has been owning my newly 24 year old ears.

not my photos...

new zealand beach house...

seriously though, iceland...

someone buy me one?

some things are just too good not to share...

"I realized design is a signal of intention."
- Michael Braungart

new place

pics for my mother of my new place. sorry the photos are bad and so is the layout! but it should give you a good idea of where i'm at.

these two things made me smile today.

these two thing made me smile today.