By Mark | February 22, 2016
I know this might be old news to some of you, as this story went international last week, but, as I was out of town, I didn’t have an opportunity to speak with local artist Michael Dykehouse until last night. Following is our conversation about his now famous lead paint portrait of Michigan Governor Rick […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Michigan, Politics | Also tagged art, cremnitz white, Donald Trump, Flint, Flint Institute of Arts, John Boehner, lead, lead paint, Michale Dykehouse, painting, paintings, politicians, portraits, Rick Snyder |
By Mark | October 22, 2013
Remember how, a few days ago, I told you that my high-school-bully-turned-bandmate, Mike, in an attempt to make me feel even worse about myself than I already do, had relentlessly fucked with a photo of me until I had inch-deep wrinkles and sunken black holes where my eyes should have been? Well, my friend Patty, […]
By Mark | October 20, 2013
I’ve been in Wyoming these past few days, at the annual meeting of my one-day-a-year band, the Monkey Power Trio. This, I believe, was our 18th session. It was neither the worst, nor the best. All things considered, I’d say that it was positive. Many laughs were had. No one cried. No one screamed. No […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Photographs, Uncategorized | Also tagged 86, Adobe Bricks, Andy Calder, Ansel Adams, B.B. King, Bohemian Rhapsody, buffalo, Chocolate Chuck, cocaine, Cold, college radio, crazy ideas that just might work, Devil Man, Dick Cheney, Government Camp, government shutdown, Grand Teton National Park, Harrison Ford, heavy metal, I am Infinite, iPhone, iPhone apps, Jackson Hole, Jackson Hole Music Experience, King Strang, Lake Tahoe, Mark's big ideas, Monkey Power Trio, moose, Mormon, Mormon Row, Naia Venturi, Patrick Elkins, Pete Larson, polygamy, rock camp, rock opera, Sandra Bullock, Tahoe, Teton Range, Toccoa, vacations, Walt Whitman, Wyoming |
A few weeks ago, I received an email from a young woman who’d just moved to Ypsi from Brooklyn, after a brief layover in Ann Arbor. She was looking for studio space, and thought, I guess, that I might be able to help. I couldn’t. But, one thing led to another, and I ended up […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Ann Arbor Derby Dimes, artists, bandanas, bikes, Boston, bowling alley, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bowl, comics, container gardening, Corner brewery, Erika Hess, FEASTMass, gardening, images of Mark, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, pasta salad, portrayals of Mark Maynard in popular culture, Rebecca Solnit, Riverside Park, Rob Hess, roller derby, Sherlock Holmes, Spur Studios, The Warriors, University of Michigan, University of Michigan School of Art and Design, Ypsi immigration interview |
