January 5, 2021 12:43 pmPublished by John Carmody
"Seer/Sucker (aka The Illustrated Man's Guitar)" is a mixed-media découpage exploration of better days in the USA.
Taking a bass guitar that was a birthday gift to me from Pat DiNizio of The Smithereens, I set out to relocate it and me to a whole new plane using good ol' paper and paste.
There's a story hidden inside - see it in the midst of still photos; time-lapse imagery; frame-by-frame animation, and straight video.
I shot the photographs and video using a cheap-o camera, composed & arranged the soundtrack music, and except for John O. on the drums, played all the instruments.
December 11, 2020 12:17 amPublished by John Carmody
"Chucks Reduxe" is a time-lapse of my studio shot in late-fall quarantine20 on a cheap-o camera with a soundtrack composed and performed by me.
July 17, 2014 12:59 amPublished by John Carmody
Audio Collage - "dogHeaven" is a black-humor’d live take on Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial, with Stalinist show-trial overtones and a groovy exotic beat. I played all the instruments except the drums (John Orem) and built all the samples.
June 11, 2014 12:37 pmPublished by John Carmody
This piece is a soul-patch'd treatment of 2 bass guitars and obscure samples from a 1960s record collection. I made all the samples, played all the instruments except the drums (John Orem.)
July 17, 2014 1:33 amPublished by John Carmody
Ever heard of the Collyer Brothers? This is a time-lapse rumination on the ruination of pop culture – the discarding and obsolescence of perfectly good media types and content. Un-planned and backwards, this is a complaint about how modern popular culture is garbage, and that generally what was, was better.
Custom-Designed Clothing For Sale!
Mostly, I focus on recreations of ephemeral relics from the better days of the USA.
1898, Paris: Voici Des Ailes
1916: US Liberty Dime
1917, Chicago: The Real National Pastime
1936: American Artists logo
1968: Hubert H. Humphrey Campaign Logo
1971: Do You Feel Lucky?
1971: Washington Redskins – I Like Sonny
1972: Richard Nixon Campaign Logo
1974: Trav’s Inn – Glen Echo, Maryland
1980: Do You Know What’s Good?
2020: Chucks Reduxe
2020: Grimm Whitman Band Logo
1902 Phone Book
1916: US Liberty Dime Mask
45 RPM Adapter
Cat Whiskers
Chicago 1917: The Real National Pastime: Mask
Disco Still Sucks
NietzscheIs Dead – GOD
Oh Hell, or Hello?
Space Invaders: Game Over
Space Invaders: Villains
What The Hell Kind Of Clown Are You?! mask
XTC Go 2: Stop Reading Now!
Chucks Reduxe
Interactive StoryMap: Bus Trip Across America, pt 1
Interactive Temporal Map: Family Journeys, 1660 – 1960
Interactive: Family Burial Plots, Mt Olivet Cemetery
