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2009-06-24T12:47:00.004-04:00

COME visit my completely revised portfolio blog featuring work created between 2001 and 2009. The site compiles works in a variety of media including: painting, found object sculpture, photography, video, site specific installation, performance, digital art and sound.

Business Week

2009-05-07T17:38:00.002-04:00

Business Week
May 4, 2009 issue
Illustration for Business Week about
the unequal tax burdens on companies.

Art Director: Don Besom
Client: Business Week

Illustration Copyright © 2009 David Pohl
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Page Layout Copyright © 2009 The McGraw Hill Companies

My Media Empire

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You Tube Find the Time to Rhyme

2009-02-10T00:03:00.001-05:00

Loop Yoga in the Heart of Winter
January 30, 2009

Copyright © 2009 David Pohl
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2008-12-13T09:54:00.002-05:00

David Pohl Illustration
Portfolio: 2003-2008

Soma Mestizo Trans Europe Express

2008-11-15T15:23:00.001-05:00

Soma Mestizo
Trans Europe Express
(2000)

Video by Chris Ivey (Hyperboy Media)

Soma Mestizo (circa 2000)
Christiane D - Vocals
Soy Sos- Guitar
Eric "Boo Boo" Mason- Didgeridoo
David "Pingting" Pohl- Drums

Loop Yoga

2008-10-19T23:47:00.001-04:00

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.

2008-10-07T15:31:00.006-04:00

Update: www.davidpohl.com
Fall 2008
David Pohl Illustration : House of Pingting

Copyright © 2008 David Pohl
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small world : holy dirt

2008-09-30T01:10:00.004-04:00

small world : holy dirt
An improvised mixed media installation developed over a two week period in a
vacant downtown Pittsburgh storefront.

Commissioned by The 2004 Three Rivers Arts Festival.

Copyright © 2004 David Pohl
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Mantra : Ritual Cleaning

2008-09-23T20:44:00.004-04:00

Mantra (2001)

phonograph record players, record albums and
various found objects.

from the Gestures show at
The Mattress Factory
Pittsburgh, PA
October 27, 2001 - December 8, 2001

Gestures Curators: Michael Olijnyk and Graham Shearing

Copyright © 2001 David Pohl
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2008-09-19T02:11:00.001-04:00

7th Anniversary of 9/11

2008-09-11T13:22:00.002-04:00

White House Buddha (Uprising)
Digital collage
2001

Copyright © 2001 David Pohl
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White House Buddha (Uprising), 2001

Pittsburgh artist, musician and illustrator David Pohl created this piece shortly after September 11. Originally designed to be a sequential animation piece for a website, White House Buddha expresses the need for people to turn inward and toward a path of spirituality in the wake of the terrorist attacks. A popular element in Pohl’s work, the Buddha conveys the artist’s desire to see America chart a course of peace and caution in the aftermath of September 11.

-Nick Ciotola, Curator
Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center

Buddhaping Tingbuddha

2008-09-05T23:48:00.002-04:00

Somewhere along Highway 1
Northern California, USA
September 9, 2007

Copyright © 2007 David Pohl
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Mantra

2008-08-28T11:50:00.003-04:00

Randomly generated images by You Tube from the video Mantra
2001

Watch a video excerpt from Mantra.

on pingtingTV.

Aging population

2008-08-26T13:38:00.004-04:00

Sketch idea for an article about a new Center for Aging at
The University of Vermont that will study the social, political
and medical aspects of an aging population. Vermont is leading
the nation in having the largest number of elderly residents.

In the sketch I make reference to the famous wave created by Katsushika Hokusai.

Client: The University of Vermont
Art Director: Elise Whittemore- Hill
Publication: Vermont Medicine Magazine

Copyright © 2008 David Pohl
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Openings to the Sea

2008-08-07T15:37:00.003-04:00

Openings to the Sea
Ocracoke Island, NC
July 2008

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www.davidpohl.com

2008-05-20T14:59:00.001-04:00

Spring promotion
May 2008

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The Best of vastlesssmudge Volume 2

2008-04-21T20:23:00.009-04:00

vastlesssmudge
From Chariots to Garbage Cans (1983-1990) Volume 2
Available at Blast My Music

Copyright © House of Pingting Music
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Album cover art Copyright © 1987 David Pohl
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All Rights Reserved

vastlesssmudge catalogue

2008-04-20T23:28:00.001-04:00

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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Drawing workshop in Pune India

2008-04-16T18:25:00.001-04:00

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

Copyright © 2007 David Pohl
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Toy Zen Garden

2008-04-02T20:39:00.001-04:00

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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1999: Visions of the Time

2008-02-27T15:53:00.004-05:00

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

You are an explorer and you represent our species.
And the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea.
Because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas.
Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.
And so, to whatever degree anyone of us can bring back a small
piece of the picture and contribute it to the building of the new
paradym, then we participate in the redemption of the human
spirit and that after all is what it's really all about.

Terence McKenna

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

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www.davidpohl.com

2008-02-07T18:10:00.000-05:00

The 31st Portland International Film Festival

2008-02-01T15:08:00.000-05:00

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