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drew denny

BIG WHUP.

About Me

I'm from Austin, Texas. Now I live in Echo Park, California. I enjoy making things like songs, films, dresses, and breakfast in the shape of a face. My birthday is cinco de mayo, and my favorite cake is strawberry shortcake. Que rico! I have spent approximately 30% of my adult life traveling around India, Asia, Central & South America studying labor & agricultural movements. Most recently, I spent two months in Peru working with Aldea Yanapay , an organization that provides education to at risk youth and children in police custody in Cusco, and in Bolivia working with Ushpa-Ushpa , an organization that supports a settlement of displaced miners outside of Cochabamba. Last year, I spent a month in Brazil learning about agroecology and photo-documenting the Movement of Landless Workers . Please contact me if you're interested in these organizations or if you'd like to help me exhibit or publish my photos in an effort to help them raise funds.
Current projects include:
Hollerin and stompin in BIG WHUP
Art editing for LA RECORD
Baking mini-cupcakes for Modern Lovers
Aesthetics and Politics
seed smuggling
Publishing a photo book for Ushpa-Ushpa
Balinese Gamelan
Kung Fu
Past projects include:
Tiny Creatures Zine 1
Thank Tank 2007 at Eighteen-Thirty
Curating Soft Bodies, Tough Creatures (featuring the Audacity of Blood
Running through the desert for David Gelb
Taking lots of pictures of Pizza!
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/3/2007
Band Website: myspace.com/bigwhupband
Band Members: Big Whup
Big Whup
Big Whup

*annabelle blue is a very old song, which began as the first song i ever wrote on guitar and ended as this ethereal beast, co-written and recorded by dnonkong . enjoy now for it will soon disappear. bwahhahahaha!
Influences: thistle and twang
Sounds Like: a whinny and a neigh
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Miracles on the Golden State Freeway

These things ACTUALLY HAPPENED. The first occurred on the 5 South, on my home from school, and the second occurred on the 5 North, on my way to school a few days later. 1. I didn't realize I was goi...
Posted by drew denny on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:20:00 PST

Broken Squirrel Mix 2

i am on an internet mix at the LA RECORD website. didn't know it was happening, though, so it's not all titled and credited properly but i'm so pee-in-my-pants excited that i just don't care....
Posted by drew denny on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:09:00 PST

a french girl blogged about me!

can't tell if what she's saying is good or bad, but it sounds pretty when i try to say it in my head...you can read her post about me here. if you know french, could you please tell me what she's say...
Posted by drew denny on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:37:00 PST

soft bodies, tough creatures

the Soft Bodies, Tough Creatures show at Tiny Creatures! An interactive extravaganza exploring the human brain and body! Paintings, neuroscience installations, humanimal drawings, sound/photos, a po...
Posted by drew denny on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:25:00 PST

tiny creatures zine

approximately 122 hours of my life (including 2 sleepless nights), 88 pages, 66 images, 12 articles...the tiny creatures zine was my first attempt at editing and tiny creatures' first publication... i...
Posted by drew denny on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:53:00 PST

can't help it

These photographs are my very first to show in a gallery:The show will be up at tiny creatures until July 7.If you'd like to know who these people are, what they're doing, and why I think it's importa...
Posted by drew denny on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 02:57:00 PST