- CONTRIBUTORS
- Bart Davenport
- Danny Cohen
- David Copenhafer
- A Faulty Chromosome
- Sean Hayes
- Mark S. Johnson
- Kill Me Tomorrow
- Jim Long
- Makunouchi Bento
- Men Of Kent
- midori hirano
- Mist And Mast
- Pacta
- Sonny Smith
- Sonoi
- Spy->
- Chris Stroffolino
- Top Critters
- Cover artist: Maureen Gubia
- About JIM LONG
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Jim Long is an artist who lives and works in New York City. His first musical instrument was a cigar box guitar amped with a 78 turntable cartridge. He learned tunes on a foxhole radio, and built a short-wave receiver to play along with pulses and signals. His first songs were written for an imaginary company: Famous Artists Fun Toys.
DEET with Paintbrush (2011). Dax Norman. All Rights Reserved.
Jim Long There Were Some Famous Artists
"Songs are social sculptures. This performance features Will Kennedy on electric guitar, and jmx kennedy brought it all together at his New Jersey studio."
In addition to writing and performing "There Were Some Famous Artists," Jim Long wrote Sonny Smith's contribution "Mondrian." Sonny introduced him to the magic world of story-songs, and to ARTSONGS.
- INSPIRATION
- A newborn baby.
- An amateur photograph.
- Artist tools.
- Butch Anthony, folk artist, and his fortune-telling chicken.
- Art theft.
- The Brothers Quay, animators.
- Cocorosie, musicians.
- Brian Eno @ SFMOMA
- Exuma, singer, painter & performance artist.
- The Factory scene.
- Famous artists.
- Jean-Luc Godard, filmmaker.
- Stig Lindberg, designer.
- Rene Magritte, painter.
- Mondrian, painter.
- Charles Willson Peale, painter.
- Richard Pryor, writer/comedian.
- Egon Schiele, painter.
- About ART & FAME
- Even if it is long after their deaths, the life-stories of famous artists often achieve the same levels of notoriety as their most beloved works.
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