Window to the World 001 (digital debris ©2015) A recent addition to the digital debris archives takes this Seattle shot self portrait and sends it through the broken coding works.

Continuing the digital debris series of glitch based photo manipulation as a means of expressing our urbanoia and social media malaise. Some times romantic, sometimes elegiac then shattered in the code transfer.    Jon, digital debris ©2015 (Black Rainbow Alternate)

Pin-Up King ©2015

 Brand New Retro is a series that blends my love of retro beefcake mags of the 1950's and 1960's with their eroticized masculinity and kitchy California ease and the more evocative plays of darkness and light more associated with my surrealist-horror work like Devils.  I like for the uncanny and the erotic to blur lines, they (hopefully) then subvert their sense of ideological marker and lead the viewer somewhere richer.

The limited series is  sensual, over-processed, and yet austerer and simplistic.

Here again working with model and actor Samson to evoke a half remembered dream of a pin-up star.

Samson, Objectified Obscura no. 001 ©2015

After a brief break/holiday escape to Hawaii to recharge my creative battery,  I am launching my first new series of 2015 Objectified Obscura.  Here's Samson in the first preview pic,  enjoy.

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.

The Bride of Frankenstein ©2015

What's a  boy to do with an iPhone, Instagram,  some free time and a series of Funko/ Super7 line of Kenner inspired Reaction figures based on classic film monsters (the Universal Monsters, Hellraiser and Trick r Treat to be exact) . Here's a one-off series just for fun.

Samson, fall  (no.07) ©2014

Chip, Bedroom series no,06 ©2014

Chip, Bedroom series no,04 ©2014

Chip, Bedroom series no,05 ©2014

Chip, Bedroom series no,01 ©2014

Chip, Bedroom series no,03 ©2014

Chip, Bedroom series no,02 ©2014

Passages (Chip no .01 ) ©2014

Actor/choreographer and model Chip, is the latest to pose for the Passages series .

More after the jump

Digital Debris 11 ©2014

Following my recent participation in LOUD TATE:CODE and subsequent exhibition at the Tate in London my interest in glitch-based work grew and led me to revisit previous shoots and concepts from my Multiples series and approach them with a new eye. Images culled from various shoots, many never before seen are here distressed, glitched, damaged and reformed as technicolor shrapnel.

Chris, Bedroom 01 ©2014

Actor, model, artist Chris for the Bedroom Series

Passages (Chris 01 fall 2014)

   Actor and model Chris for Passages 

More below

Passages (Samson no .01 Fall, 2014 ) ©2014

Model and actor Samson , shot for the Passages series. Third of Eight shoots lined up for the series and book.  Very excited for the rest, Samson was lovely to work with.

 

Samson bedroom series Fall 2014

 Very excited for my latest shoot to feature Actor/model Samson for the Bedroom series, fall, 2014.

MORE  Below

Passages (Jon v. 01)

 musician and local fashion plate Jon in the first of Passages series, fall 2014 .

A Ghost of a Chance (Jon, outtake, Fall 2014) ©2014

Here's a salvaged outtake that's taken on another life that I quite like.

Culture Vulture 01 ©2014

First in a series  with  limited edition book/video coming soon. 
Feels good to be back at work

Jon, my bedroom, close up Portland ©2014

 Here's a preview of new works in progress with musician/fashionista/model Jon.  New show and book in the works, stay tuned.
 Another Kenneth Anger inspired shots after the jump !

 In London this weekend? Head over to Tate Britain for LOUD TATE: CODE where you can check out my glitched up take on Marmaduke Cradock's  A Peacock and Other Birds in a Landscape (c.1700) . It's an exciting honor to be part of the exhibit that takes on code in our modern culture. It's great fun reshaping classic British works from formal studies (such as Cradock's) into gorgeous technicolor digital debris.  And certainly my first time showing a piece at the Tate. 

(more info after the jump) 

Listen Below! 

Defunkt Theatre proudly presents In the Forest, She Grew Fangs by Stephen Spotswood
directed by Andrew Klaus-Vineyard
October 10-November 15 2014
Thursdays - Sundays at 7:30 pm (no show Sunday October 12 )
At The Back Door Theater • 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Portland, OR (enter through the Common Grounds Coffee Shop)
Pay-what-you-can Thursdays & Sundays, Sliding Scale $15-$25 Fridays and Saturdays

In the Forest, She Grew Fangs is presented in partnership with the Lines for Life Oregon YouthLine

Special post show Talk Back Events with staff and teen volunteers from the Oregon YouthLine focusing on the effects of bullying on teen mental health in the cyberage
1)Friday, October 17
2)Saturday, November 8

                                  new photo and video works coming soon! prepare!

Process work ©2014

photo by Rosemary Ragusa Photography

Here's the latest clip "TokyOno" from my  Boarding School double album Mute Songs (this track comes off Vol 01) Hope you enjoy.