~ This already happened. You can’t change it, but you can visit if you clean up after yourself.~

Do you think about the future?

Does it get you excited? Or maybe it fills you with fear and loathing. Maybe your outlook is shaped by the possibility of higher returns from your investment portfolio, driven by extractive and deregulated technologies, inhumane policies that ignore the needs of the commons, while rewarding the private sector and willfully ignoring climate and vaccine science.

Lol. How pessimistic of me.

Maybe it’s a constant thrill because you’re just some dude/ette who instinctively knows that the only relief any of us will get is when sweet death takes us because we can’t afford to survive a burning planet suffering under the crushing weight of a right-wing, techno-accelerationist fever dream. (“BTW, we found your data in a recent security breach. Have you updated to our latest software release, powered by AI? You don’t have to think anymore. Your cognitive abilities are now our IP.”) Death is the only certainty in life, and if there is one thing humans love, is rigid and fixed belief in things we can’t control.

What I’m saying is, I launched a new project –

The Future is a Constant Thrill is a self-initiated “exhibition” currently taking place throughout Eugene and Portland, Oregon on wooden and metal utility poles. The series is comprised of 43 graphic images laser jet printed onto 8.5” x 11” 24lbs neon matte printer paper. This first run is an edition of 300 copies being installed into the fall. I have a second volume of graphics already in the works for 2026. I started putting them up around town in early July, but they don’t stay up for long, so keep your eyes peeled. I don’t consider this street art, but it does rhyme.

This project engages with online culture wars, belief, structures of economic power and the surreal nonsense of staring into to a screen all day consuming monopolized content. They are momentary graphic events, throwing elbows with metals bands, lost cats, car shows and prayer services. Produced in a common flyer format, these infinitely reproducible images are meant to be experienced as blunt, reactionary, ephemeral, ambiguous, and contextless graphic anomalies, decoupled from metric-driven, online content platforms.

This is super-analog doom-scrolling, but you use your feet instead of your thumbs. There are no URLs or QR codes pointing back to their source. Your not being tracked or followed (that’s just your neighbor behind you, walking their dog.)

Thanks for your attention on this matter.

The complete set of images are up on my artist website.

Summer performances and new album

In June my collab project, Free Static, pretended to be an ambient band for the Ambient Ecology series, put on by Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble and sponsored by the City of Eugene. Later that month we played at the Wandering Goat with legends Angst Hase Pfefer Nase (Caroliner), Shin Chida, S Glass (Bananafish) and our local bff’s, Mandom. (BTW it’s really great that the Goat is back to putting on shows. Eugene is in short supply of good venues for experimental music.) Then I played a solo set in Brookings, Oregon at Semi Aquatic Gallery. And finally Free Static played at Turn! Turn! Turn! in Portland, Oregon with Mandom, Trigger Object, Spiritual Exit and Solar Return from France.

ALSO → Free Static has a new studio album coming out as soon as I finish making the cover art.

BTW, if you like experimental music and want to see it live in and around Eugene, you can always sign up for the collectively-run Eugene Experimental Music Collective newsletter for announcements of upcoming shows.

Hey, while I have you

Welcome to the new newsletter. I’m still getting used to how it works. If you missed my previous announcement about moving platforms you can read it here.

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Bonus round

Listening lately:

Above the Fray by DāM Funk (instrumental beats)

Flying Microtonal Banana by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (psyche rock)

Occult Rock by Aluk Todolo (instrumental metal)

Active Agents and House Boys by British Murder Boys (techno)

Passed me By by Andy Stott (dub techno)

Black Sky over the Projects: Apartment 2025 by Public Enemy (hip hop)

Reading lately:

Sonic Life by Thurston Moore

Ghosts of my Life - Writings on depression, hauntology and lost futures by Mark Fisher

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