Comments on: Mehlicky, The Raccoon-Gargoyle-Leprechaun-Dog-Bear

By: Katie

Katie — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:40:52 +0000

Tavi = fave. :)

By: Spencer Tweedy's Blog

Spencer Tweedy's Blog — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:58:39 +0000

[...] editing. I have a half-supportable opinion on digital photographs and manipulation that I’ve talked about before.. but I’m learning and just having fun right now. I think there’s a type of artful [...]

By: Spencer Tweedy's Blog

Spencer Tweedy's Blog — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:00:24 +0000

[...] her daughter, so they came to visit us. Both of them are ridic-awesome artists, and the mom made our gargoyle, Mehlicky, that I love. One fine evening she taught us how to make mosaics on an old acoustic [...]

By: Dreamer

Dreamer — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:50:41 +0000

It’s interesting that you say “School of Rock” was full of stereotypes.

Rock MUSICIAN characters are famously very difficult to do well. Salman Rushdie couldn’t even do it: his two Indian rockers in “The Ground Beneath her Feet” were cookie-cutters.

Difficult as it is, people love music, and musicianship (to the non-musicial) is an almost magical phenomenon. So we like putting musicians in our work, then we get them completely wrong.

By: Spencer Tweedy's Blog

Spencer Tweedy's Blog — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:05:31 +0000

[...] I even get the cameras working, and choose to use them, for that matter, I’ll figure it out. Experimentation, right? You know, that’s not entirely true. Technical stuff (i.e. learning how to use those lenses) [...]

By: Mike Cohen

Mike Cohen — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:15:08 +0000

Rock & Roll Ghost – you need a long zoom lens. My cat starts moving as soon as he sees a camera, but with my Sigma 70-300 I can take a picture of him sleeping without waking him.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:18:33 +0000

Great photos. You have captured the essence of summer (Ice creams, swings, dog walking) and I am insanely jealous.

By: Isabel

Isabel — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:54:47 +0000

You take some pretty cool photos, Mister.

By: Sarah J

Sarah J — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:24:58 +0000

Referring to your creative juices a flowin’:

Sometimes I get these bursts of creative energy and I won’t be able to do anything with it. Some days I just want to play my drums, but I can’t because I’m at my mom’s house and my drums are at my dad’s house. :( Other days I want to redecorate my room, but I can’t cuz I have nothing to redecorate it with! I also don’t have ANY friends to talk about [good] music with or discover new bands or something so I get all blehhh and not fun.
Man, writing all of that made me sad and bored with my life. :\

By: Sarah J

Sarah J — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:08:51 +0000

My grandma has a gargoyle very similar to that one…. it’s black/gray and its laying down and has his head propped up with his hands.

As for the teaching thing goes, I too have found it to be more enjoyable for me to figure out things on my own instead of someone teaching me. I started to take drum lessons in January and I really enjoy them because my drum teacher is super cool and he and I have the same music tastes, but I also like to go home, put on a song, and try to figure out how to play it. Actually, what we do in my lesson is 1) Snare rudiments (BORING!!) 2)Sometimes look at different grooves w/different fills 3) Work on song that we’ve selected— right now it’s Poor Places. All of those have really helped my drumming, especially 2 and 3 because they both give me new ideas and give me a new perspective on different things that I could try. Lessons are DEFINITELY not a bad thing, but when you’re on your own more of your creativity can flow, y’know?