- 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 MARK S. JOHNSON
Born in 1947 in Massachusetts. Because my father was in the navy when I was a child our family moved frequently. I grew up all over the country. Then when I left home at 18 I began traveling in earnest, hitch-hiking several hundred thousand miles around North America. Also one time, just for fun, I walked on foot all the way from North Carolina to California. Over the years I worked at a variety of jobs, including three years as a street musician. I graduated from Wilmington College in Ohio in 1976. In 2003 I published a songbook of 88 original songs entitled "700 Miles Of Curves". For the past twenty-five years I have worked as a school teacher in San Francisco. I am now teaching Pre-school, and I teach all of my students to play the open tuned ukulele... one hand method.
[Mark runs the Pacific Gap Folklore Center in San Francisco, where he teaches music lessons and collects folk songs performed by passers-by. He has compiled many of these spontaneous performances into a series of Pacific Gap Folklore Center Archive Recordings CDs. For more information on how to purchase these, contact him using the email link above.]
Mark S. Johnson Art Artillery
"I have friends who are artists. They use pen, pencils, brushes, things like that. Sometimes they refer to these tools as "art artillery". So I just wrote a song about these artists' tools. Because the song counters the normal meaning of "artillery" it is an anti-war song. Woody Guthrie wrote a song called 'Ladies' Auxiliary' which I patterned this song after."
- 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 SUPPLIES
- While the earliest artists may have used sticks and fruit derived dyes, anything can be an art supply.
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