About Rattlebrained
In the third person, Rattlebrained could be described as a “multi-talented artist, shaking perhaps a bit too many rhythms between his visual art work, the blues and a spontaneous albeit debatable attempt to help pay the bills by joining the overpopulated ranks of on-line t-shirt graphic designers a few years ago…
This last activity has taken over my mind like a B series alien remains at the outermost limits of financial disaster, which was pretty much where the first two activities were stabilized anyway, no biggie, I get by with a little help from my friends…
Art’s humdrum… There isn’t that much about art in this blog, initially I would have expected more but writing about art turned out to be extremely time consuming and my daily activities in the studio seem a long monologue that doesn’t repeat well, or something like that. If you are curious, a visit to my artist website gives a glance of the ongoing development of my art work.
Musical washboard and rhythm bones… I thank the gods who put these fine instruments across my path! I’m not that skilled with either instrument nor am specially gifted, I just practice as much as possible; it’s fun, rhythm puts my mind in a particular and very enjoyable place. I wish I had discovered this years ago! The Crawfish Blues Band & Swamp Train are the two bands I play in at the moment. And speaking of bands, living in a somewhat isolated area when it comes to American Folk and Blues music, it’s neat to be able find videos and songs by bands with washboard and rhythm bone players to learn and be inspired from; these are often posted here.
T-Shirt designs… Rattlebrained Designs is my main shop and boasts: unique instrument playing skeleton t-shirts for bassists, drummers, brass instrument and musical washboard players as well other cool blues and jazzy music designs. The store also carries original big bugs and insect apparel, and lots of other funny designs!. I enjoy drawing these, and it was a real surprise when they actually started to sell. Unlike in the gallery art world, most of the time the folks who buy t-shirts don’t know who made them, they just liked the design!
Throwing snowballs… A fun sounding metaphor of fluctuating meaning, the simplest being its connection to the “snow covered in the winter mountain” where I live.
Other links revelent to this blog are: Messin' Round, the first band I played in which split up after a noisy gig in Bienne. One day I’ll post the true story behind that… ::-)
And Jazz up your Washboard a Squidoo lens about jazzing up musical washboards…
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PS: This blog was first seen over at blogger during June 2006. In March 2008 I slowly moved the posts I still found interesting here as well as the (fortunately few) accompanying comments which is why the old post seem to have recent comments….
