Last night we went out with a bunch of the performers from the course. It was a great time. We sat outside near the water at a bar in Olinda, which is a little town really close to Recife.

This video is of Babi, one of the singers in the course, singing what I guess is a traditional song because everyone we were with knew the words. She is using a toothpick holder as a shaker. Fucking great.

Brazil, Killin it!

We've been spending time with lots of cool people here in Recife. Some of them are priests, some are students here at Catolica (the University we are teaching at), some are performers in the piece we are working on here, some are faculty, some are just people we've met. All of them are great. They've been taking us out around town and to the beach and we've even been lucky enough to get down to another beach town south of here called Porto De Galinhas, which literally means "Port of Chickens."

These pics come from the last several days in and around Recife and Porto De Galinhas.

This is Isabel and her cousin Renata. Renata lives in Buenos Aires, so now we have a friend that we can visit there. Hooray! They brought us to a bar called Boracho. HA!




We went out to Recife Antigo, the old town in Recife, with some of our friends. We got them all to paint their nails...



This is Tiago and his girlfriend. Tiago is our drum leader and is one of the greatest dudes we have ever met. Such a badass drummer too.



B on the beach at Boa Viagem.



Me and Isabel on the beach in Boa Viagem, which is the beach here in Recife.




This is from the back door of the beach house we spent the weekend at in Porto De Galinhas. You can't see it, but there is a pool there as well. Aww Yeah.



Romerita made a paperhat for B at the Creperie we ate at on Saturday night. Romerita is one of our students and she happened to be down in Porto when were. How fortuitous.





When were in Bezerros for the Papangu Carnaval, I made this short video of this truck. I wanted to post it last time, but youtube and I are not getting along so well here. Today we are, so you get this-


This one is from last night on the beach in Porto De Galinhas. I love how the lines move. I tried to make a longer video with better lighting, but it doesn't work so well. Guess I have come back here and do it all over again...

Oh yeah

Here is a video that I made while in Europe. The quality is sorta bad, but you can get the gist.

CARNAVAL! CARNAVAL! CARNAVAL!

Its been a while since I updated. My camera was in the shop getting fixed so I wasn't really making any pictures for a while.




I was in NY for a few weeks after leaving Germany. NY is cold. The first picture is from a performance that Alison did at a gallery. That's Nathan Bennett in the Roman Garb. The other picture is from a party that the Black Label Bike Club DJs did at the Autumn Bowl Skate Park on Valentine's Day. Kids were dancing in the skate bowl. And Porkchop was burning up the halfpipe in the other room.



These look like Jon Read drawings.



Currently we are in Recife, Brazil at Carnaval. WHOA. So intense. I have never seen anything like this ever. Mardi Gras pales in comparison. Its not like the Rio Carnaval either, because this version is like a popular Carnaval where everyone participates. Dancing in the streets to Maracatu, Samba, Frevo, crazy shit. The above images are from Galo which is the official first day of Carnaval, Saturday, though the night before the ceremonies began with Caetono Veloso playing on the main stage at Marco Zero. There were over 1.5 million people at Galo.



After Galo, we went to the beach for a few hours. Swam with sharks. There are signs that say there is a "better than average chance for shark attacks" in these waters.



Yesterday we went to a small village about an hour and a half from here to see the papangu. It is the tradition of this village in Pernambuco (the Brazillian state we are in) to wear these masks and clothing that cover their whole body. Some of these costumes were really elaborate, some not so much.



This is us with Padre Miguel. He is one of the priests here at the Jesuit house we are staying at in Recife. Which by the way is pronounced He C Fee.





This is us with Aldo, one of the Jesuits here. He has been like our tour guide. We go out with him every night to the Carnaval here in Recife. Great dude. The other night we saw Gogol Bordello, who we rode down here from NY with. It was raining so hard, but it was fun as hell. Eugen had everyone, myself included, jumping up and down and dancing all night. Great fun.

Off to see more weird. Ciao.

This is the flyer we were sent today.


We leave for Brazil on Thursday 2/19 to work with an orchestra for a few weeks, then we head over to Bolivia on like the 12th of March or something.


So this is cool. We played in Anghiari in Dec. I found it today.

I'll explain later

The installation we made at POW Gallery.

This is GOOD

So we were at the gallery and Brandon wanted to put a "crack" in this little CRT screen we had there. Yeah, it cracked...