New album coming soon!

Get ready to be graced by Dawna Marie's amazing song writing. Sessions on the Sixth is the first of Dawna's long awaited farm recordings. For a copy of this rare recording you can contact Dawna's manager at: skaterat@thewinkingcircle.com

Garden-Boarding

Check out our latest project. Garden-Boarding!

An art blog that we both follow was hosting a build your own skateboard project. The goal was to build a skateboard out of found or recycled materials. I like skateboarding and we both like doing hilarious projects together so this is what we came up with. You can check out the video at: http://www.vimeo.com/14876561

Or check out the blog at: http://www.booooooom.com/2010/09/13/converse-skateboarding-hack-job-winners/#more-20928

Back to Cool

It is back to school time for me. This is my first year of my declared major: sculpture. I'm fairly certain that I'm going to switch my major to drawing & illustration, but for this year I'd like to run with sculpture, taking advantage of its interdisciplinary nature. I'm technically doing a double major right now in both sculpture and drawing because I squeezed into two core classes, which I'm discovering why that is not advised. Two consecutive, six-hour classes would suck, if I didn't love them so much.

"Meaning does not precede experience but occurs in the process of experience itself"
-Rosalind E. Krauss

RAYN FORST

Not even twenty minutes from our house, we went to a rain forest to have a little hike, lap up some glacier river water, and swing from vines and release our inner Tarzans.

It was a nice hike. I was pretty afraid that a mountain lion was going to pounce on us, but luckily.. only one did. Christian wrestled with it for a good twenty minutes before he crushed it's skull with his bare hands and then immediately harvested the organs and skinned it, dried the meat and made me a nice fall coat. Pretty good day I'd say.

Starfish & Seafinks

Christian and I were itching to go adventuring the other night, so we rode our bikes down to the ocean, climbed down over some rocks and plopped our feet in the chilly water. What we found was amazing, incredible, shocking, hilarious, and cool.

We found out that Christian is actually a SeaFink. The lesser known twin brother of Rat Fink, the LandFink.


We also found... giant purple starfish! Christian was scared to touch them, and he was also crying because his feet were cold, so I plucked some out of the water and introduced myself.





We also saw a teeny tiny little baby jellyfish, that was only slightly bigger than the little jelly in Finding Nemo. AND, we saw multiple seals. I tried to call them over but to no avail, as usual.
It was a good adventure and we caught a stunning sunset over the city on the ride home.

Stay Weird

The other day I was looking through some of Aarons old photos and I found this little gem. Yeah, that's Ben and Will back in the day. It almost brings tears to my eyes. I am truly inspired.

One of my favorite quotes:

It is from a vintage Winking Circle zine. Thanks Torbin Ross and Hillbilly Willy.