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I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.

Brian Chippendale

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Brian Chippendale
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 22
Graphic Artist
Musician
New York City
New York
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More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal balls...and the art world is eating those balls up!
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I actually write a lot, but mostly just daily gibberish. I am a documentation addict: I just peed. I walked down the hallway. I dropped my pencil. I just aged a minute.
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It's painful to not be able to fully focus, but it keeps you fresh.
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You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.
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I don't like people feeling like they've been cheated out of their money, and I too have been caught in the back of floor shows, only to inspect the backs of necks and the mudded sounds pushing though bodies.
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Lyrics always fall short with the amount of energy thrown into the playing. Lyrics to some extent are just the product of a singer's insecurity with singing.
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That's why I started amplifying my voice at all, to capture the little sounds I make when I am pushing my body physically, drumming away.
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It's really nice to have things to mail to people when they mail you things, or trade to people at shows. Something homemade, it feels... down to earth.
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I love digestible art, but I make what I think is organic and realistic, and therefore it's incomplete and completely tangent oriented. I try to keep with what I am thinking about that day - which changes too fast.
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Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs. Why should that be limited to a certain medium?
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Fun has to rule in a lot of scenarios. Occasionally, when you are really getting going, you need to stretch beyond language. It has to go out the window.
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I hope to incorporate more variety of beats, more syncopation. It becomes very easy to play straight beats straight rock is alluring.
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I've been creating work by silk-screening images of arms and legs and heads and objects on paper - like drawings of vegetables, guns, hats, whatever - and then also printing sheets of patterns, colorful polka dots and line drawing patterns.
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Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.
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People have a hard time reading my comics. I think I leave things out, but I feel you should.
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I think alot of vocalists believe in the sound, or the way they sing it - it's interchangable.
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There are people who seem to be on the verge of going either way, and something kicks in to support either the visual or the auditory. Maybe if you are in a rush for success you follow the one that is the most successful, and the other falls to the wayside.
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I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic.
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