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About Me

I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 I make prints, mostly woodcuts, but other stuff too. Visit my website:

My Interests

www.joshuanorton.net making woodcut prints, wood sculpture, art, cruising on the longboard with headphones! Travel is good, as is reading, exploring, and expanding.

I'd like to meet:

Brock Samson, Renastair EJ, & The Man with no Name. .. www.joshuanorton.net

Music:

A little of this, a little of that. This could include (but of course not limited to): Sleater-Kinney, Hugh Masekela, Howe Gelb/Giant Sand, Luke Polipnick/Volcano Insurance/Flame Thrower/many others, Lubricated Goat, Leonard Cohen, Voivod, The Chad Albers Quartet, Malkmus/Jicks/Pavement, Meat Puppets, Iron Maiden, Bloodloss! Bushpig, Mother Hips, SLAYER, Circle Jerks, CAN, Amon Duul, Neu!, Marvin Gaye, Byrds, Beachwood Sparks, Neil Young, Mudhoney, Lou Reed, Serge Gainsbourg, Sun Ra, Black Flag, Miles Davis, The Kills, etc. I'm a big fan on classic country as well... you know... Waylon, Willie, Kris, Cash, Hank... oh yeah.

Movies:

I like watching the motion pictures sometimes.

Television:

Marquee Moon/Adventure

Books:

The Island of Dr Moreau by H.G. Wells, and 'the Jesus Papers'(fascinating). 'Fingerprints of the Gods' by Graham Hancock 'Secret Teachings of All Ages' by Manly P. Hall. 'The Age of Spiritual Machines' by Ray Kurzweil. Also a big fan of Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure stories,Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl, Albert Camus, Edward Abbey, Ben Shahn's 'The Shape of Content', comic books by Dan Clowes, Charles Burns, Alex Ross, Batman from the 1970's, Savage Sword of Conan

My Blog

Wild West woodcuts

Summer has been great thus far. Lots of new prints. The new series of prints are almost theatric images with wild west iconography. These works are very much about individualism vs the conformity o...
Posted by JNorton on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:42:00 PST

five new works posted

It's been far too long.I've finally posted some of the new work that I've completed recently. Most of this stuff will be exhibited at the Tugboat Gallery in Lincoln, NE in June. It's a two person sh...
Posted by JNorton on Tue, 20 May 2008 08:06:00 PST

three new prints for your visual pleasure

joshuanorton.net is updated. Check out the three new digital/woodcut prints. I’ve been trying to complete one of these a week. The purpose of this is to establish momentum, to loose some of th...
Posted by JNorton on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:37:00 PST

Neu Werk!

joshuanorton.net is updated with new work and info. The newest piece is a combination of woodcut and digital photographs. I'm currently working on another large woodcut/digital combo, this one is goi...
Posted by JNorton on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:52:00 PST