someone politely said my Boarding School work sounds like classy stoner music so with that "compliment" in mind I give you the album version of Try and it's chill out, hypnotic, kaleidoscopic new video. Enjoy! 🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄   

A brand new video debut!  A Marbled Swarm, A Hornet's Tongue is a witchy, grimy, hypnotic throwback to 90's  era music videos you'd obsess over late night on MTV's 120 Minutes program. Shot on location in southern Iceland, it is teh title track from Boarding School's brand new album.

Electric Sheep is the ambient/artnoise composition that will provide the score to a new video installation work later this year.  it was recorded and remixed during the same sessions as the upcoming    "A Marbled Swarm, A Hornet's Tongue" (out 01-13-2017 on Le Garçon Sale Records). The 48 min sound-design piece runs the gamut from anxiety-inducing dissonance to hypnotic late night trip-hop and back again.

It's available to stream now and for download on February 03

In Bloom 02 ©2016

A new series taking low-res archival and unused photos from my past work and manipulating and abstracting them with an eye towards graphic design and graffiti.   

Bedroom Series (Clifton no. 35)  ©2016

 After appearing in two back to back critically acclaimed stage productions (Cock by Mike Bartlett & the controversial masterpiece Blasted by Sarah Kane) up and coming actor Clifton  tries out a new role as model for the Bedroom series. A Midwesterner relocated to the Pacific Northwest Clifton is a talented actor on the rise and we look forward to his continued success in the near future.

Passages (Clifton no. 01) ©2016

      Actor Clifton  has had quite the year with the lead roles in Cock by Mike Bartlett and  most recently in the critically acclaimed production of Blasted by Sarah Kane (both staged at Defunkt Theatre).  A gifted and tremendously talented actor ( and first time model) one of the final participants of the Passages and Bedroom series which comes to it's conclusion this month.

Passages (Nick Mattos no 04) ©2016

Author Nick Mattos joins the Passages series. Nick has been a long time friend and collaborator having appeared in my film I Am Not Myself Today, the feature film Spark and in work created for Pulse.  Nick was a long time contributor to Just Out and PQ Monthly among other publications writing on spirituality, relationships and LGBT issues. 

Bedroom Series (Christopher Hall no.01) ©2016

 Artist Chris Hall joins the ranks of the Bedroom series. The Portland-based multimedia artist mixes painting, photography, and projection based work critiquing social issues in our media culture.  Only three more models remain for the series. Lucky 13. then collected into book form and slide show for presentation.

Passages (Christopher Hall no. 01) ©2016

 Artist Chris Hall joins the ranks of the Passages series. The Portland-based multimedia artist mixes painting, photography, and projection based work critiquing social issues in our media culture.

Andy J © 2016

                                  
Eight naked men, in alphabetical order in my bed.  As I finalize the last remaining shoots for the bedroom series in Portland and gear up for my next grand adventure this summer I thought I'd revisit some of the previous shoots with a few outtakes. Enjoy

Broken Bits no. 01 ©2016

 Broken Bits series is inspired by the late 80's early 90's childhood and teenage years- specifically the glitches seen in Nintendo NES games. Combined with that other adolescent obsession like late nights, contraband porn, and horror movies the aesthetic is a scrambled nightmare of have concealed pixels based on source material form my archives. 

As if I haven't been busy enough between producing theatre and my art career I'm actually hard at work in my fleeting off time on a new Boarding School record tentatively titled Automatic Hiawatha. It'll be out sometime before the end of 2016 but I decided to drop a teaser of a few tracks (still in demo form) in the meantime.
Enjoy. 

Jon, Anaglyph Angel ©2016

This collection of recent works from my on-going Digital Debris series are an exploration of new technologies, Pop Art call backs, and embracing glitch, and data bending applications as a form of art making.  They serve as 21st Century process paintings; crunching low rez archival works, HD selfies and video stills into technicolor Rorschach tests.

 The Devils series is getting some re-edits with more unseen pics still to come soon. stay tunes, just in time for the fall to begin.

I've taken a step back into less ambient waters as of late, musically. My art career is so diverse that at times I have to step away from one medium that I love to have an affair with another.  Making films  has patiently waited while my work as a theatre director has taken off and being co-artistic director of a company is quite time consuming and was one of the many reasons I chose to dissolve my last musical project/band Mattachine Social. I try to squeeze in photo shoots when I can. The other day, missing my bass guitar and my art-damaged improvised noise punk roots I recorded this quick composition. with  a simple set of rules: 1 drum loop, 1 bass guitar.  It's two takes (1 overdub) and zero fucks given, mistakes and all thrown in. Here's to shaking off the rust.

After ending Mattachine Social and having now released a double album and an ep of instrumental electronic world music and film score as Boarding School  I thought i was time to start wring towards an eventual solo album (as AKV) . I'm lining up a great batch of accomplished and game session players and I'll be in and out of the studio all year but in the meantime I have this lo-fi dance pop single Tired Old Queen  and  the Townie remix that came from a recent session. Enjoy.