SLEEPYTIME PROJECTS

you aint no birdman

2011-01-17T14:55:00.000-08:00

nope

the real deal

for the minister

2010-12-15T01:11:00.000-08:00

some new work

2010-10-18T23:27:00.000-07:00

haven't posted up anything in a minute. here is some brand new ish.

not yet titled, 20"x20" graphite on vellum over gray bfk with white ink.

this one goes out to the homies satin touch and evan dent.

print says

2010-08-23T11:06:00.000-07:00

Print for the Holland Editions subscription series. White ink on MRI and XRAY film, Iodine splats + folder. one of 35, 8.5x8.5"

www.hollandreno.org

2010-05-14T09:35:00.000-07:00

Received a Jackpot Grant to print/frame some pieces, one of which will be on exhibit at the 
Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO.

They're 21"x15" and not quite Pranayama quality, but, you can only squeeze about $800 worth of blood from a budget-addled turnip...

This project is  funded, in part, by a grant from the Nevada Arts  Council 
 (a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs) and
the  National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency).

2010-04-25T09:36:00.000-07:00

power silence

2010-03-02T18:37:00.000-08:00

2010-02-20T21:46:00.000-08:00

beginning phages of the Nevada 7"

2010-02-19T17:43:00.000-08:00

yay pink. yay fuschia. (conceptual screensaver)

2010-02-14T11:11:00.000-08:00

c-town fort looking for fortress to mack on

2010-02-14T11:03:00.000-08:00

patron saint of lost causes

2010-02-07T10:41:00.000-08:00

your boy tummy rumblins

Lifted Type High

2009-12-07T14:02:00.000-08:00

It's been a long time. Stampede coming...

some noise and a test

2009-08-26T10:33:00.001-07:00

It is time by kissingteeth

OVER VERT - Gagging + Swallowing

2009-08-11T12:18:00.000-07:00

Over Vert - Gagging + Swallowing Cassette Artwork by Nick + Omar

Letterpress, Inkjet, Rubberstamp, Hand-painting, Hand-numbering

Edition of 200

For more information, visit: http://www.myspace.com/oververt

korea

2009-05-13T16:02:00.000-07:00

so it's like a year late, but here are some sleepy time appropriate pictures from korea.

an original american style taste skinny canned mountain dew at the DMZ and two elephant flavored vehicles!

sleepy time (one) mix - track list

2009-04-06T10:37:00.000-07:00

1. hudson mowhawke - star crackout

2. the rotary connection - respect

3. chrysalis - april grove

4. hedge & donna - midnight

5. the seeds - faded picture

6. atlas sound - unicorn rainbow odyssey

7. express rising - time and time again

8. donovan - get thy bearings

9. spirit - the other song

10. mark-almond - song for a sad musician

11. lee michaels - who could want more

12. dorothy ashby - for some we loved

13. rehash - arrangement for guitar, keys & voice

14. nancy sinatra & lee hazlewood - sundown, sundown

15. jukka tolonen - no quarter

16. le feelings - day by day

17. malo - say good bye

here is the basic track list so far for those that are curious. I'll try and update it with the time that each track comes in and some short annotations for each track

word is bond.

PS - I wanted to include some pictures up in this post of the cd/packaging, but didn't get a chance to do so before I dropped them off. so if anyone could hook that up and e-mail me some pictures I would be forever grateful.

new-ish-

2009-03-10T14:55:00.001-07:00

blee dat

2009-02-28T14:30:00.000-08:00

it won't always be this way. new things on the horizon. check back soon.

if only they looked this good printed

2008-05-15T11:09:00.000-07:00

ughhhhhhhh

itinerary

2008-05-10T13:55:00.000-07:00

Monday Aug4
RNO to DFW
DFW to NYC(LGA)

WEEKEND SOJOURN?
Friday Aug8, Saturday Aug9, Sunday Aug10
NYC to Bethlehem, PA

Tuesday Aug12
NYC(JFK) to MSP

Monday Aug18
MSP to DFW
DFW to RNO

cook it, cut it, measure it, bag it, sell it

2008-05-08T17:10:00.000-07:00

gramps ---

here are the (dirty) scans of the new versions. all is forgiven (jk! lol! girl, you know I never had no beef!) anyway, they came out fresh. i'm plotting and scheming. talk soon.

2008-05-08T17:07:00.000-07:00

opening move

2008-04-16T08:27:00.000-07:00

LET IT BE KNOWN that on this the 16th day of the 4th month of the 2006th year anno domini a challenge birthed from Dr. Gramps has been issued forth to the Minister of Rooftops. Quoteth:

"If we can't play in person, let's go for it long-distance. Pe2-e4. Long Algebraic Notation. You gonna go for Petrov's Defense or the King's Gambit? Get on it, suckah."

good faith

2008-04-16T08:20:00.000-07:00

I know it's been like two months, but we're getting there, trust me...

2008-04-16T08:10:00.000-07:00

I Love Your Mom (oh yeah, don't die) - American Flats VC, NV - April 2008

2008-04-13T15:59:00.000-07:00

3000 Miles is a Long Walk - Virginia City, NV - March 2008

from the archives - duality

2008-04-10T13:49:00.000-07:00

feel free to chop and screw till your hearts content, maybe this could lead to our first sleepytime shirt...

the shit and the shitty week II

2008-04-05T03:57:00.000-07:00

the shit

1. our anniversary - smog
2. plotting the escape
3. the mayan burrito at tulum (i'll take what i can get in this town)
4. storeyville by frank santoro
5. getting paid to download yes albums for your boss
6. meeting chase and caedron at golden chicken and ribs for 1/2 hour
7. picturebox inc.'s new store front in bklyn
8. motel life by willie vlautin
9. cleaning out one's car and finding reno ish from two years ago
10. international player's anthem - ugk ft. outkast

the shitty

1. partners in crime threatening to jump ship
2. getting b. porray + guest lost in the hasidic jewish neighborhood in williamsburg...on a sunday
3. falling off (and having to admit it to those you look up to)
4. wack! art from the feminist revolution @ P.S.1
5. not being able to find the smog album i want within 40 MILES of my house
7. state and local tax (pennsylvania, i got beef nucka.)
8. spending the weekend worrying that you fucked up the film your boss needed a week ago
9. creative life store by cheryl dunn (way to have all the bomb ingredients and still make a shit salad!)
10. real decisions

2008-03-27T17:45:00.000-07:00

the shit

1. sepia-toned americana

2. the mirror - me, you and everyone we know soundtrack

3. rough material with elegant potential

4. joe d's daughters

5. art laboe

6. easter dinners at sizzler

7. the length of tonyboy's beard as of 3/23/08

8. the shirelles, the marvelettes & barbara lewis

9. 1/2 hour layovers (as opposed to 19 hour ones)

10. silvery grey on pale yellow (as seen on the disc of grizzly bear's yellow house)

the shitty

1. blue skies + icy temperatures

2. when your dog wishes you weren't its owner anymore (i.e. adopts new family)

3. getting fat eating food that you don't even like

4. white reggae

5. ms paint drawings of powerman 5000, static x, system of a down, etc.

6. jordan almonds + chocolate malt balls (easter- suck it.)

7. growing pains

8. small towns without convenient parking

9. saeglopur - sigur ros (after the 1:55 mark)

10. lyme disease

uh-oh spaghettiO

2008-03-25T23:08:00.000-07:00

who got the credit card? gramps? reacts?

that high pitch tone

2008-03-20T20:54:00.000-07:00

Ya 'eard?

attn: realness

2008-02-20T22:51:00.000-08:00

what you know about real talk?

2008-02-17T10:44:00.000-08:00

galaxy slap test

2008-02-16T23:24:00.000-08:00

testing...

zero

one

two

ceremony

2008-02-15T20:40:00.000-08:00

mi amor

2008-02-11T14:30:00.001-08:00

Sheppard gallery '08
Valentine Auction wall decoration

keep ya game up

2007-12-19T03:43:00.000-08:00

practice like e'ry day

check it while i wreck it

2007-11-07T16:39:00.000-08:00

tell me have you seen her

2007-10-26T05:20:00.000-07:00

satin touch
aka
whyte rain
aka
finger nasty
aka
white poon
aka
white fuckin'
aka
realness
aka
600 grams of black foreskin

Showcase

2007-10-02T12:45:00.000-07:00

The Minister's beckons with an inviting hand…

Inside layout, chopped and screwed a la Mr. E.B.

stampede - bobby digital edition and more

2007-09-29T11:43:00.000-07:00

ELEPHANT OF THE DAY - "ELEPHANT STRUT" by MAKER

thanks to everyone who came out on thursday, that shit was the motherfuckinhotness. thanks to my mom for being the sleepy time mom. thanks to sara and natalie for hosting us. thanks to devin for being a true g with a staple gun and a wood burner. thanks to whyte reign for patience while i took forever to figure out the video chat. thanks to ben tedore for projecting and dvd burning assistance. im gonna say that one twice, thanks to ben tedore for projecting and dvd burning assistance, oh yeah and digital printing assistance too. thanks to sarah turner(sp?) for figuring out how to stop the projector from overheating. thanks to toni rock for china east for me and my boo. thanks to dr alston for putting in hella work to make the video piece hot-to-death. thanks to reacto for building some shit, and building it again when it was called for. thanks to satin touch for getting your fedex right.

SleepyTime@GrayspaceSoon++

2007-09-18T16:29:00.000-07:00

Odelay Putos!

2007-09-03T13:15:00.000-07:00

Poon Blanco en la casa! Best believe my internet access is dodgy at best, but I will be in more consistent communication shortly. I should be done printing my stamped images by the end of next weekend, and I will send them out as soon as I am done. My dad has my flask for the stank piece, and I can coordinate with one of you about picking that shit up from the library or something. I got so much shit to tell you guys, but neither the time, energy or internet connectivity to get through it all. At any rate, more words soon, but for now just know that I love you like bobby loves whitney, and that somewhere out there we are wishing on the same bright stars.

love,

wight rayne

tremors

2007-08-28T21:39:00.000-07:00

It was about 6.9, or even 7.

that's MR. Rockstar to you

2007-08-28T11:50:00.000-07:00

A brief recap of the recent TITLE FIGHT held just east of Reno:

Round 1: Eno and his signature "1,000,000 Needle Punches" make the Champ weary. Looks like it could be a quick bout! Blades valiantly manages to keep morale up despite the annoying stings and the bell tolls, signaling a brief intermission...

Round 2: Blades fights back with new-found charisma and stamina! A wonderful left-hook from the Champ utterly stuns the novice Eno. Not since the Tenneson vs. Fitzgerald match of '47 have I seen such an impressively smashing coup! The referee jumps in, wisely declaring a TKO on behalf of newly crowned "Rockstar". Those betting on the young upstart should have known better; Blades once again proved why he is the reigning Champ. Now, his notorious "one/two" combo is all the more intimidating. Watch closely and you'll only catch a glimpse of the menacing Stampede destroying all foolish enough to get in the way.

(Soundtrack editing to come ASAP)

iOYE!

2007-08-27T17:06:00.000-07:00

And the Minister proudly proclaimed with the utmost urgency, "All ye whom have come seeking inspiration and enlightenment! Bask in the glory of newly inked legs. It is my sincerest aspiration that--one day--fanciness may emanate from within your epidermis as well. Maktub. I'm out."

The crowd was left speechless and disoriented, yet oddly satisfied.

(Soundtrack editing to come ASAP)

A lone male strays from the herd...

2007-08-27T16:21:00.000-07:00

Five became four as an epic journey across the North American continent results in the opening of a new chapter in this young elephants life... He knows he can always follow the vibrations in the ground back to the old feeding ground.

east verdi speakeasy tattoo party

2007-08-12T17:35:00.000-07:00

it's done. i'm down.

one down, three to go...

How do you eat an elephant?

2007-08-11T09:13:00.000-07:00

1. Cram as much down as possible.
2. Sense that you're close to puking. (Knowing your body is optional; it'll become readily apparent.)
3. Force one more bite and effectively push yourself over the threshold.
4. Run to the bathroom.
5. Relinquish all control and empty the majority of what you've just consumed.
6. Convince yourself it's worth it*.
7. Clean the toilet and your face.
8. Jump back out.
9. Proceed to Annihilate with Focused Reckless Abandon.
10. Emphatically state "Yes" when asked if Sleepy Time is your real name.

*Having a hype-man present is incredibly beneficial. Having a whole hype-team is even better.

earthquake

2007-08-09T22:53:00.000-07:00

tomorrow tony -AisforLionsRoar- boy is going to demolish a swensen's earthquake in the name of sleepytime, tight-ropes and satin touch aka whyte rain aka white fuckin' aka finger nasty aka white poon, respekanize!
-choppin' bliggity

ps. nick, could you add www.killallthewhiteman.com to the links on the side.

The Minister Himself

2007-08-07T21:10:00.000-07:00

elephant of the day - ballartist

2007-08-07T18:48:00.000-07:00

apparently, they auction elephant paintings at Christie's. the most expensive one sold for 25,000 dollars.
now who's the ballartist.

elephant of the day

2007-08-06T11:51:00.000-07:00

this is the image that i gave sara for the press release.
word is bond.
choppin' bliggity

Sleepy Time Takes Manhattan

2007-08-05T22:45:00.000-07:00

Ambiguous Orifice Showcase tattoo mock-up

2007-08-05T22:30:00.000-07:00

AisforLionsRoar aka dr. alstagynegonnafuckyouup

2007-08-05T22:27:00.000-07:00

choppin' reacto

2007-08-05T20:44:00.000-07:00

T.A.T.U.

2007-08-03T14:42:00.000-07:00

so, tonyboi doesn't want to get tattooed, but after he and i spoke about this yesterday i had some ideas that i think could be worth exploring further. the first one was a semi-joking solution that i think could be really intersting and add a sense of humor to the piece while addressing tony's concern that the audience wouldn't really be experiencing touch. i had jokingly said that tony should just get a stamp and stamp it on himself erryday, he said he would be down and then said that we should stamp people as they came into the show. today i was thinking about this and I think it might be dope to have 4 videos of people getting tattoos and then the last one would be a montage of tonyboi stamping himself everyday. then either next to or below tonyboi's video could be a shelf that would have the stamp that he used and a fresh inkpad, for fools to get they stamp on.
choppin' bliggity

el see deez

2007-07-31T01:23:00.001-07:00

these bad boys are 44-49 bucks on ebay
5 inches

here is another 5 inch one that goes for like $44

this one is 2.5" and goes for 25 on ebay with 27 for shipping from hong kong, but if we buy 5 that might get cut down

i also saw replacement ipod video screens, which are 2.5" for $39, but those might be a bit trickier to hook up.

through the storm

2007-07-01T14:28:00.000-07:00

cleaning up

2007-06-30T01:31:00.001-07:00

went through my old phone and found some sleepytime appropriate photos

reacto b-day extravaganza, post sizzler

in the lab 1

in the lab 2

unclean installation

is this some sort of performace piece

in the lab 3.

cleaning up

2007-06-30T01:31:00.000-07:00

images for sara

2007-06-29T10:39:00.000-07:00

r ob & r ob + others

The Air Conditioned Nightmare Tour

2007-06-27T15:28:00.000-07:00

Nevada,California,Arizona,New Mexico,Texas,New Mexico,Arizona,California,Nevada.

Images for Sara

2007-06-23T16:42:00.000-07:00

nick solo images + nick & fellow sleepytime crew collaborative images

two line elephant drawings:summer school day one

2007-06-12T12:43:00.001-07:00

satin touch's elephant fact of the day

2007-06-09T17:05:00.001-07:00

elephants can be trained but never tamed. they place themselves and those around them into a pecking order, and they understand that they can rebel against and kill their trainers, handlers and human counterparts at any time. however, elephants are also smart enough to understand the concept of consequences, and they know that rebellion and disobedience will surely bring about some sort of punishment, usually extreme physical pain. like humans, elephants strive for peace and tranquility, and so they CHOOSE to perform and labor under the supervision of humans knowing that they can wile the fuck out and end this shit at any time if it gets to be too much to handle. like humans, they accept work as a fact of life, but they can get fed up with the grind too, naw mean? many handlers have died trying to forcefully coax an elephant (particularly a male elephant in musth) into performing or working against the animal's will. sometimes they just ain't feeling it. respeckognize.

(you may have to double-click on the video to get it to load up on the youtube site.)

save graffiti...

2007-06-06T21:40:00.001-07:00

The minister is in the house!

so sorry

2007-05-19T11:43:00.000-07:00

toni girl here is another photo, it's taking a while because a lot of the photos didn't turn out that well, however, i think this one might be my favorite

the hotness.

in regards to both tonyboy and nick's posts i think there are a lot of good ideas floating around. I was just thinking about the record thing the other day. I've got something that i'm working on at the moment that i want to post up when i'm done, i think it could lead to some interesting ideas.
-r ob

2007-05-18T21:27:00.000-07:00

tonyboy is the wind beneath my wings and now that he has ignited the inferno that this collaborative effort is destined to become, i will do my part to fan its flames by responding to his post. my first impression is that all of the ideas listed below have a lot of potential, but i am worried that they (except for the prophecy-spitting behemoth) might be heading in the easiest or the most predictable directions this project could take. i think that the five of us working together on this project could produce something really unique and amazing, and i would be bummed if it never got past the "you do this, i do that too, let's do it together" level of interaction. i guess what i am saying is that i would really like to see us slug this out as a fivesome- to create a body of work that is integrated and fully considered and holistic while still allowing each of us as individuals to do our respective damn things. i don't know how the rest of you guys feel about it (though i'm incredibly curious), but i'm not that stoked about the idea of a scattered, crammed together, "let's pack this bitch"-style, hodgepodge installation. i don't, however, have an immediate alternative to that way of working....it may be trying to figure out some sort of framework that will allow for individual ideas and varying degrees of collaborative ideas (2 on 1! 5 on 1! hooray!) to exist in the same piece. tonigirl, caedron and i have briefly discussed the idea of time capsules- sculptures consisting of random found objects, drawings, mixtapes, dead birds or anything else that belongs in the ground in a specific location. rawblades and i had talked quite a while back about making a record, a legitimate vinyl record, that would consist of audio pieces on the vinyl and visual work on the the packaging...not so dissimilar from tonigirl's book that she made in the black rock press. thinking along those lines, we could do something where each of us creates a package, an audio/visual collaborative "book", with each of the other sleepytimers? a birdhouse coffin that, when you open it, spits pre-recorded prophecy at you? an elegant toni girl box filled with paper airplanes that you have to dig through to find the grimy-ass mix of baltimore club tracks laced by rawbliggity? a hand-sewn, silk-bound book with a hairminnesota stitched to the cover and a 'wigger's elegy' mixtape inside? ......obviously, the pairings would be more deliberate and intentional than that, but you get my point...on the real, i don't know what the answer is. time capsules and books may be dumb ideas, but they would be something unique to this group of five people at this very moment, and that is really what i am interested in. this won't be the last time that we work together in smaller groups, but it may be the only time all five of us get down together as a unit and so i want to make it as integrated as possible. that being said, i do think the "2-on-1" ideas that tony proposed could become some really great things. they all seem like they could be pieces, movements if you will, of a performance. possibly. maybe. i don't know. anyway, i will end this before i ramble on too much. i'll see you guys tomorrow.

p.s. bea goes with the flow you put in motion. if you spazz, she gonna spazz. if you behave, she gonna behave. maktub.

-nick

noble savages, unite!

2007-05-18T16:15:00.000-07:00

Thank you Rob for pointing out that while jumpstlye may not be for everyone, dry-humping certainly is. And thank you Nick for bringing up the topic of collabo's. (Working with Tre would be pure unmitigated hotness. "We ain't morose; we just dig making videos of dead shit").

In line with that train of thought (collaborations), a loose proposal:

working with Toni girl on some paper folding project documented in a stop-animated manner
working with Rob on some sound/music mindfuckery
working with Caedron on some performance rawkus
working with Nick on...training his dog to behave herself when she sees me.

and working with everyone on making a giant-ass 5 person behemoth of a luciously tentacled, bird-encrusted elephant covered in poetic surfaces and spouting prophecies from the rooftops of not only ConTemporary and Grayspace but NMA, PWS, UNR, WM, WHS, RHS, and SSS as well.

Maktub, Sleepytime +2.

a tre dog and tony boy collabo!

2007-05-17T07:44:00.000-07:00

amon tobin and lasse gjertsen....eat your respective hearts out.

slow it down

2007-05-16T21:23:00.000-07:00

tony, i think you need to ease up on the glow sticks and E and get down with some bumpin' and grindin', naw mean...

foto

2007-05-14T23:44:00.001-07:00

bladez....where are the other photos? ya know from that record st. day?!

2007-05-12T19:25:00.000-07:00

Best shit since the Apollo Crunk Dance Kabob.

Jumpstyle making it in the Tightropes repertoire for the next DD comp.

2007-05-08T21:39:00.000-07:00

210

2007-05-03T20:01:00.000-07:00

paper airplanes hot ass shit biotch