Wednesday, May 14, 2008
The Old King
Detail (mixed media on wood) circa 1990
Copyright © 1990 David Pohl
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It is impossible to have progress without conscience.
-Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
Monday, April 21, 2008
The Best of vastlesssmudge Volume 2
vastlesssmudge
From Chariots to Garbage Cans (1983-1990) Volume 2
Available at Blast My Music
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Album cover art Copyright © 1987 David Pohl
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Labels: vastlesssmudge experimental soul freestyle music MP3 downloads
Sunday, April 20, 2008
vastlesssmudge catalogue
vastlesssmudge releases available now through BLAST MY MUSIC
The most famous band that no one has ever heard of
In 1983 I started a recording project called VASTLESSSMUDGE, which lasted for 12 years.
(1983-1995 if you're counting)
I started overdubbing using 2 cassette decks, a radio shack mixer, two dinner plates, a small toy flute and a garbage can to record my first track "Sculptural Depression" ~ which featured the barking of my new puppy Kali.
In 1987 while attending The Cleveland Institute of Art, I cross registered at The Cleveland Institute of Music and took a course
in multi-track recording, where I produced "My First Trip To the Orient" & "The Civilization of the Yellow River" for class
assignments.
In 1995 I purchased a 4 track, and recorded the tracks which became Microgroove, the final vastlesssmudge recording project.
Microgroove (1995)
From Chariots to Garbage Cans (1983-1990) Volume 1 (1993)
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Drawing workshop in Pune India
Drawing workshop in Pune India
In February of 2007 I spent a week as a guest artist educator at Creative
i-College in Pune, India. In one of my workshops students created a collaborative
drawing of the Indian subcontinent using the spirograph as a drawing tool.
Creative i-College
Pune, India
February 2007
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Toy Zen Garden
(2005)
Modified Fisher-Price toys, paint, canvas,
spirograph and found objects.
Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery
937 Liberty Ave, Downtown Pittsburgh
June 3 - 19, 2005
Toy Zen Garden was created over a period of 5 days, using
modified Fisher Price toys as painting / drawing instruments.
The piece culminated in a 45 minute live painting performance in the gallery.
Copyright © 2005 David Pohl
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Friday, March 07, 2008
Night of Shiva
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
1999: Visions of the Time
Postcard (Front) for 1999: Visions of the Time
One Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine Digital Images
September 10 - October 24, 1999
Melwood Photgraphy Gallery
Pittsburgh Filmmakers
Pittsburgh, PA
Curated by George Davis
Copyright © 1999 David Pohl
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The Fourth World, the present one, is the full expression of man's ruthless materialism
and imperialistic will; and man himself represents the gross appetites of flesh. With
this turn man rises upward, bringing into predominant function each of the higher centers. The door at the crown of the head opens, and he merges into the wholness of all Creation, whence he sprang.
~ Hopi Indian teaching
The problem of art is inseparable from the problem of consciousness.
~Jose A. Arguelles
The warfare is psychic now. Whoever controls the language, the images, controls the race.
~ Allen Ginsberg
And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last.
~ Chapter one, Verse 17: Revelations
If you cannot see God in all, you cannot see God at all.
~ Yogi Bhajan
It's more fun to compute.
~ Kraftwerk
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Screenshot of Pittsburgh's Pop City website featuring one of my illustrations.
Illustration Copyright © 2006 David Pohl
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Thursday, February 07, 2008
www.davidpohl.com
www.davidpohl.com
February 2008
Design: House of Pingting Design
Illustrator: David Pohl
Copyright © 2008 David Pohl
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Friday, February 01, 2008
The 31st Portland International Film Festival
Poster for The 31st Portland International Film Festival
Client: The Northwest Film Center
Design Firm: Sandstrom Partners
Designer: Sally Morrow
Production: Spike Selby
Art Direction: Sally Morrow & Spike Selby
Typography: Darren Booth
Illustrator: David Pohl
Illustration Copyright © 2008 David Pohl
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Poster © 2008 The Northwest Film Center / Portland Museum of Art
Labels: illustration, Sandstrom Design Partners, The Northwest Film Center, The Portland International Film Festival
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Road Sign Removal in the UK
Road sign removal in the UK
Digital Illustration, 2007
Art Director: Keval Joshi
Client: Time Magazine (Europe)
Illustrator: David Pohl
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Labels: illustration, Time Magazine
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Everywhere I follow you
The San Francisco Bay
Berkeley, California
September 2007
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Everywhere, I follow you
O' Lord,
you have just turned the corner
and disappeared into the crowd.
O' Siva,
my glowing psychedelic blue Lord,
dark as the indigo night skies.
One day,
I shall trick you into a meeting
face to face.
In that instant
when you shine as the world
far flung in the stars
and near my transparent pulse,
I shall surprise you in the act.
Then, looking into your startled but fearless eyes,
O' Lord,
I can be drowned at last
in utter union.
~ Anu Kumar
Sunday, January 06, 2008
I'm Going to Go Down To The Sea
I'm Going To Go Down To The Sea
1989 (Original Version)
Listen
I'm going to go down to the sea.
I'm gonna maka big splash!
(Repeat)
Instrumentation:
Yamaha PSS-270, Piano, Woodblock & Vocals-Pingting
Recorded by vastlesssmudge 1989
Copyright © 1989 House of Pingting Music
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I'm Gonna Go Down To The Sea
(1995 Version)
from the Microgroove Sessions
Listen
I'm going to go down to the sea.
I'm gonna maka big splash!
(Repeat)
Instrumentation:
Guitar, Small Drum Kit, Percussion & Vocals- Pingting
Recorded on a Tascam 4-track cassette deck.
Recorded by vastlesssmudge 1995
House of Pingting Studios
Copyright © 1995 House of Pingting Music
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Friday, January 04, 2008
The Heart
The Heart
2005
Loop Yoga
Listen
This soundspace was created to accompany my mixed media installation
for a show entitled "Momento Mori" at
Cleveland State University, May 20 - June 18 2005
2005
Loop Yoga
Listen
This soundspace was created to accompany my mixed media installation
for a show entitled "Momento Mori" at
Cleveland State University, May 20 - June 18 2005
Labels: Loop Yoga Installation Art
Rain (Blessings)
Rain (Blessings)
2005
Loop Yoga
Listen
This soundspace was created to accompany my mixed media installation
for a show entitled "Momento Mori" at
Cleveland State University, May 20 - June 18 2005
2005
Loop Yoga
Listen
This soundspace was created to accompany my mixed media installation
for a show entitled "Momento Mori" at
Cleveland State University, May 20 - June 18 2005
Labels: Loop Yoga Installation Art
The Eternal Now
The Eternal Now
2001
Loopyoga
Listen
From the compilation "Loops To Find the Time"
House of Pingting Music, 2001
Loop Yoga is a recording project that I began in 1998 to facilitate my yoga & meditation practice. Loop Yoga utilizes “sampled music” in the creation of repetitious sound currents with the intention of deeply connecting to the divinity encased within a sound structure.
Loop Yoga was created using Macromedia Soundedit 16 & an Apple McIntosh PowerPC 8600.
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone. Solitude expesses the glory of being alone. The innermost nature of solitude is the presence of the eternal upon the crowded roads of the temporal.
excerpt from The Eternal Now by Paul Tillich
Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1963
Labels: Loop Yoga music meditation yoga
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Jerry & Lena's Christmas Part 1
Jerry & Lena's Christmas is one of the absolute GEMS of my record
collection. It is a home-made 78 rpm disc (Christmas greeting) made in December 17, 1944
by Jerry & Lena and their three children Marie & Loretta (Peachy) & baby Geraldine.
It was sent to Aunt Clara & Uncle Newly. I found it in a Pittsburgh thrift store in 1987.
To listen to the MP3 or to download it, click on the garageband button below.
Happy Christmas!!
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Jerry & Lena's Christmas Part 2
Jerry & Lena's Christmas is one of the absolute GEMS of my record
collection. It is a home-made 78 rpm disc (Christmas greeting) made in December 17, 1944
by Jerry & Lena and their three children Marie & Loretta (Peachy) & baby Geraldine.
It was sent to Aunt Clara & Uncle Newly. I found it in a Pittsburgh thrift store in 1987.
To listen to the MP3 or to download it, click on the garageband button below.
Happy Christmas!!
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Mm Mm Good Idea?
Unpublished sketch idea for a story titled:
"I Am the Walrus"
A short fiction piece about a woman's experience with Alaska's culinary delights.
Client: Tufts University Alumni Magazine
Art Director: Kelly McMurray / 2Communique
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Ideas come & go. Often they get rejected in favor of other ideas.
This ended up becoming the final.
Sunday, December 09, 2007
SLAB (Front Cover)
SLAB
The SOUND + LITERARY ART BOOK of Slippery Rock University
Mixed Media Digital illustration
Design + Illustration: David Pohl
SLAB logo design: Hyla Willis
Client: Mark O'Conner / Slippery Rock University
Copyright© 2006 David Pohl
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SLAB (Back Cover)
SLAB
The SOUND + LITERARY ART BOOK of Slippery Rock University
Mixed Media Digital illustration
Design + Illustration: David Pohl
SLAB logo design: Hyla Willis
Client: Mark O'Conner / Slippery Rock University
Copyright© 2006 David Pohl
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Labels: illustration
Friday, December 07, 2007
Too Much Blood
Portrait of George W. Bush
Unpublished sketch for the LA Times
2007
Copyright © 2007 David Pohl
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Labels: illustration unpublished The Los Angeles Times
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Only the Lonely & the Afraid
Only the Lonely and the Afraid
Illustration for The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Art Directors: Matt Petty & Rico Mendez
Illustrator: David Pohl
Client: The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Layout Copyright © 2007 The San Francisco Chronicle
Illustration Copyright © 2007 David Pohl
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Labels: illustration unpublished The San Francisco Chronicle
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Ganesha
Ganesha
Ink and fire on a yellow napkin.
Pune, India
February 2007
Friday, November 23, 2007
Harvest Puja
Harvest Puja
November 2007
Offering of the fruit of the Summer.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Buddhaping Tingbuddha and the Sun setting on the Time
Buddhaping Tingbuddha celebrates the setting
sun with Van Morrison's "Purple Heather" playing
over the car stereo. Somewhere on the road in Utah.
Yum.
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Channeling Mark Twain
Channeling Mark Twain
A Novel by Carol Muske-Dukes
Illustration for The Los Angeles Times Book Review
Art Director: Carol Kaufman
Client: The Los Angeles Times Book Review
Illustrator: David Pohl
All rights reserved. Copyright © 2007 David Pohl
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
Illustration for a book review of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
By Vincent Lam.
Client: The New York Times
Art Director: Kelly Doe
Illustrator: David Pohl
Published: October 2, 2007
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Full article is here.
Monday, September 10, 2007
Land Mind
Land Mind
Somewhere on Route 80 in Utah
2007
Copyright © 2007 David Pohl
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On the Road with Buddhaping Tingbuddha
