Recently I've made a couple timelapse videos that show a complete painting in around 3 minutes. The Hendrix is currently embedded at http://vinylart.info/ and also currently has over 20… Read More

This is the display including that Hendrix. It was installed at the Chandler Fashion Center the day before Thanksgiving. What timing! It'll be up indefinitely too, so we'll see what kind of… Read More

Foreshadowing is a term usually used literarily. However it's kind of perfect for my work too. The black of the vinyl is all foreshadowing in a sense, creating the depth out of which I bring… Read More

You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life? - Robert Plant Read More

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. - John Lennon Read More

Being a rockstar is the intersection of who you are and who you want to be. - Slash Read More

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. - Kurt Cobain Read More

There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace? - Jeff Buckley Read More

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear. - Sammy Davis Jr Read More

Free your mind, and the ass will follow. - George Clinton Read More

I'm picturing Wiig's SNL Target Lady. My Wikipedia page was approved! It was a process with a learning curve for sure. And it required a bit of patience. But...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… Read More

I'm picturing Wiig's SNL Target Lady. My Wikipedia page was approved! It was a process with a learning curve for sure. And it required a bit of patience. But...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… Read More

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell. - Keith Richards Read More

Craziness is like heaven. The more you get into it they’re going to say, ‘Damn, that cat’s really flipped out. Oh, he’s gone now.’ But if you’re producing… Read More

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my… Read More

Trying to grow up is hurting, you know you make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more. - Aretha Franklin Read More

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. - Robin WilliamsEvery closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing. - Bill CosbyNot only do I not know what'… Read More

The power of people, when they focus on something positive, never fails to amaze me. - Ozzy Osbourne Read More

Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self. - Jay-Z Read More

You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know. - Jerry Garcia Read More

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that. - David Byrne Read More

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. - Marvin Gaye Read More

Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's… Read More

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts. - Amy Winehouse Read More

I have no desire to be a superstar. I just do what God tell me to do. If there's anything me have to do, me a go do it. - Bob Marley, via Roger Steffens Read More

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors. - Jim Morrison Read More

I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do.They always say that time changes… Read More

This is epic. This is the coolest piece I've done. This is the coolest framing job of my work. This is why I do these.This is why the fellow had me do these:As a kid I always loved the Stone… Read More

(i)nspired by photo by John Kelly on White Album cover New music is great isn't it? Especially when it reminds you of old music you like. Right? It's interesting how we gravitate towards wha… Read More

If this then that.In my college course on artificial intelligence I learned how life can be modeled as sets of rules structured this way. Amidst the chaos it does seem that much of our exist… Read More

"Can't do it man. The master of funk descends on hartford at 7:30." - PCUAwhile back I had the honor to gift a piece to Lou Reed (http://vinylart.blogspot.com/2009/12/full-bleed.html). Then… Read More

Back in high school, I was friends with Rio Caraeff. He introduced me to some great music, including The The's album "Dusk" which is one of my favorites still.Today Rio is CEO of VEVO, the c… Read More

"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes." - Pablo PicassoThe way I conceive it, art only happens when we do what Picasso is talking about. When we flow in the moment witho… Read More

I was standing next to my John Coltrane portrait at the Open Studios event at http://santamonicaartstudios.com last weekend and a thought struck me. Following that show I sold the above Fred… Read More

Underwater basket weaving is an idiom which refers to classes at university generally thought of as filler and not valuable in education. A lot of activity in online marketing feels like tha… Read More

 Our goal of $25,000 will help launch our newest program, Online Instrument Drives, which is an easy to use donation platform that helps thousands of youth receive the instruments… Read More

Once a month I send out an email newsletter with Vinyl Art updates that you can sign up for on this blog or at http://vinylart.info/why.htm for free. http://vinylart.info/press.htm has some… Read More

It's tough, this art marketing thing. My ultimate goal is to get to paint, to get to contribute what I can, to get to be of value to you and my family. To do that, I have to serve my art, li… Read More

There's an episode of The Cosby Show in which one of the daughters, I think Vanessa, has brought home a guy to dinner and sprung their plans for marriage on the family at dinner. Cos gives t… Read More

In a flash. He's gone.http://vinylart.blogspot.com/search/label/JasonA blur, a teary-eyed blur of years follows. Ashes remain on the mantle. Paintings remain on the wall.Clarity slowly retur… Read More

I'm trying to wrap my head around the event of Yauch's death.Dammit.When Cobain went, I was in school and his music connected with my life. I spent the rest of that day flat on my back in th… Read More

So after a year in CA we're heading back to AZ. Yep. This'll be my new little room. In the meantime, in Pacific Palisades I'm having a swan song solo show at the restaurant I sold a bunch at… Read More

So I've tried a couple traditional gallery group shows. Next, art fairs! Hadn't planned on doing this, but this March I'll be showing work in person in Laguna Beach for First Thursdays at th… Read More

On Feb.4 a music-inspired group art show called Pink Noise will open at Parlor Gallery in Asbury Park, New Jersey. These pieces of mine will be included! They contacted me late last year abo… Read More

The weather in southern CA has been perfect for our 1st holiday season here. Just perfect.We love the gloom.We love feeling the need to be warm and cozy.We love the warmth of family.I was gl… Read More

Stark white. Lou Reed was the 1st piece I painted with white acrylic straight from the tube, no gray. It was on a demo record, which I thought was appropriate at the time. Demos usually have… Read More

"the hardest decision you will ever have to make / lies underneath your fingers" - dead wax inscriptionBy L.PhelpsI've been thinking a lot lately about changes. About who I am. About what di… Read More

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all Read More

I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time Read More

It's not the teaching, it's the learning Read More