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aRtDaMaGeD?!

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About Me

I'm an Artist and Designer. I also make music. Primarily, I paint in acrylic on canvas and wood; however, I use most any visual media I can get my hands on: spraypaint, ink, watercolor, collage, and my laptop. I've been drawing into the laptop with a Wacom tablet recently and loving the new interface. I have a gallery in southeast Portland called Artdamaged Gallery. You can find the link in my top friends. I also exhibit my art each month in various venues around Portland and the west coast. My portfolio of design work has been growing with many concert posters and album covers. If you know a cool band that needs good art, please send them my way. My rates are fair and I love doing music related artwork.My website has been updated as of February 2007, and you will find well over 300 images of artwork, illustration, design samples, and sketchbook pages.CHECK OUT MY ART: joelbarber.com VISIT: Artdamaged Etsy Store
I love music almost as much as artwork. I'm a dj and turntablist. I spin records, play laptop dj sets, manipulate and scratch vinyl and sample from my laptop using various software and midi controllers. I'm part of the electronic music duo Surrounded By Ninjas. You can hear tunes here on myspace or at our website. I have also been working with a newer project, SubAtomic, which is and electronic fusion qartet. I'm practicing drums also, and have finally started jamming with other musicians and practicing my sampler drums as well. I bought a bass guitar, too, but I have some work to do before I'm ready to sit in with it. 8)
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My Interests

painting, stenciling dots on everything, creating weird visual texture, breaking the rules, being a rock star, making little scratchy sounds, adding effex to already weird noises, knobs and buttons, fire, clean dirt, the smell of spraypaint, blurry photos, avacados, cute girls

I'd like to meet:

creative expressionists. musicians that do it for the love. artists following your passion. entertaining weirdos.AnD BaNdS tHaT NeEd PoStEr AnD AlBuM DeSiGn! LeT's TaLk!

Music:


LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC! dj remixes! home-made mix tapes! Garage bands!DJ Shadow, Cold Cut, Thievery Corp, Krueder and Dorfmeister, Dan the Automator, Handsome Boy, Deltron, Gorillaz, United Future Organization, Red Snapper, Amon Tobin, Bonobo, Squarepusher, Radiohead, Flaming Lips, Postal Service, Frank Black (even better live than Pixies,) Soul Coughing, the Mars Volta, the Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, Funki Porcini.....
Local and festival Live faves:
Eleven Eyes, KJ Sawka, Maktub, Signal Path, Cozy, The Very Foundation, The Bent Vue, Jacob Fred Jazz Odessey, Das Rut, Scott Law Band.
Latest Vinyl Score: the fifty 7" 45rpm's that i left in my truck and melted. oops. before that: Amon Tobin: Verbal (prefuse 73 remix), Boom Bip (venetian snares mix, buck 65 mix)
My Band Website: surrounded by ninjas!

Movies:

willy wonka, better off dead, strange brew, waking life, bill & ted's excellent adventure (but bogus journey was stupid and totally unbelievable..."station"...what's that crap?) what the bleep do we know, napoleon dynamite, space balls, princess bride...

Television:

i don't own a t.v.

Books:

Some Favorites: The Alchemist, The Four Agreements, The Artists Way, Birth of the Beat Generation, Nova Police, every book with big pictures. currently reading: The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, by salvador dali.

Heroes:

Marcel Duchamp (father of dada, french inellectual), Andy Warhol (pop artist, icon), DJ shadow (turntablist/producer), Christo (installation artist), Lori Anderson (new wave performance artist), The Beat Poets (Jack and crew,) Nick Bantok (wrote and illustrated the griffen and sabine trilogy.) anybody who is innovative and creative, pushing the envelope for their time, inspiring others and provoking thought.

My Blog

Abstract Figurative: Back by Popular Demand.

My first very prolific series began in 1999, in which I manipulated closely cropped photos of women's faces with photoshop and used these images to map out compositions on canvas. It was an excellent ...
Posted by aRtDaMaGeD?! on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:37:00 PST

ARTDAMAGED STUDIO!

November marks the beginning of a new era. I just rented my first studio space! It's in southeast Portland, close to home and huge! I'm sharing the space with another Portland painter, Zach Tobias. Za...
Posted by aRtDaMaGeD?! on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:24:00 PST

I'm Featured in Apogee Gallery Group. Come Check it out.

Hi there.For the month of April, I will be the featured artist at Apogee Gallery Group. Please stop by and join the discussion. I'll be waxing philosophic this month as freetime allows. I wasn't sure ...
Posted by aRtDaMaGeD?! on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:53:00 PST

NEW UPDATED WEBSITE AND PORTFOLIO!

FINALLY! I have updated my website AND have added a PORTFOLIO of Galleries that can be viewed as thumbnails or in slideshow format. OVER 300 IMAGES! You'll find:Three Painting GalleriesA Design Porf...
Posted by aRtDaMaGeD?! on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:25:00 PST

Check out the Podcast! (Live Surrounded by Ninjas)

Yo, It's my first Podcast! Asher and I went into the studios at Mastan Music and layed down some tasty live Surrounded by Ninjas tracks and had a brief interview for the Mastan Music Hour. It was su...
Posted by aRtDaMaGeD?! on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:05:00 PST

Artdamaged on eBay

I have an online ebay store. It's the only way that I can currently sell art online and allow buyers to use paypal or credit cards. I'm realizing that I get taxed by both ebay and by paypal, so my p...
Posted by aRtDaMaGeD?! on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:39:00 PST

Artdamaged Gallery Open!

Thank You Cadenza Academy! Mike and Kevin Pardew have opened a very cool music lesson space on 21st and Clinton in southeast Portland. I designed their interior color scheme and painted a large 360 ...
Posted by aRtDaMaGeD?! on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:55:00 PST

Frisco ( nobody in "the City" calls it that )

ahh san francisco. san francisco has embraced us and really makes it feel like what we're doing is working. it seems like surrounded by ninjas is getting some recognition and our worries that blurri...
Posted by aRtDaMaGeD?! on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 05:51:00 PST

but can you DANCE to it?

i'm sitting in humbrew's in arcata, ca. asher and i are playing a surrounded by ninjas gig tonight. we got some good press in the local Hum paper. they summed up what we do and hopefully people wil...
Posted by aRtDaMaGeD?! on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 06:23:00 PST

how to create anything

How to Create Anything By Madeline Gerwick-Brodeur This process is from The Isaiah dead sea scroll, and is an ancient technology that works miracles. If you want to learn more about it, read The...
Posted by aRtDaMaGeD?! on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 02:12:00 PST