Wire Pilots

For me, it's always a challenge shooting in the dark without a flash. I had some good practice tonight at a local concert. Guitarist Dan Rubright, percussionist Ted Rubright and bass player Rick Vice comprise "Wire Pilots," and they put on an excellent show featuring music composed by Dan Rubright. Dan's music (all of it instrumental) is difficult to classify, but it tends to be centered around salient memorable melodies supported by complex chordal and percussive textures. A special guest for one song was violinist Daniel Schmidt, a 10th grade student at Grand Center Arts Academy. The location was the Kranzberg Arts Center Studio in St. Louis. IMG_5300 Wire Pilots - Rubright IMG_5133 Wire Pilots - Rubright IMG_5165 Wire Pilots - Rubright IMG_5184 Wire Pilots - Rubright [More . . . ]

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Deep paint: Making a one-shot expressionist painting

Question: How do you create a large exquisite expressionist painting in one session? My friend Paul LaFlam is an artist in St. Louis, and he would give an answer something like this: Pour several gallons of hardware store house paint onto a big horizontal wooden canvass and then "brush" the paint with torn pieces of cardboard, making sure to let your painting dry for at least three days, because it is 1/8" deep. The layers of the paint interact with one another, and "the paint does much of the work itself." Paul offered to let me videotape his unusual process awhile back, and we finished up editing the videotape today. Check it out.

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