Skowhegan Day 4 quick visual summary

So I'm still getting settled into both how this place works, meeting the people involved and getting my studio set up. I'm missing a box that I need. It's here but im not exactly sure where on the 300+ acres it is. Anyway that's a different story, right now the story is that it's actually kind of cold and raining for the second day in a row. I believe it will rain tomorrow but since I'm still just running around going to lectures, drinking coffee out of my free Skowhegan travel mug, and getting all the supplies I'll need, I guess it doesn't matter.

In the meantime here are some photos of some of the areas on campus. Like I posted last I'll be able to update this thing a lot more frequently now.




So the internet is slow here and I have been trying to upload two more pictures of studios but I been trying for a half an hour an have now given up. i'll upload them later when the server is less busy.

Skowhegan

So it sucked to get here but here is pretty cool.

Anyways, I just now got access to a proper computer so sorry to anyone who is actually bored enough to check this. I will be posting much more regularly starting...now.

Anderson Gallery

I should mention that since I will be moving to Boston I had to leave my job at VCU's Anderson Gallery. Everyone who works there is amazing and I will miss greatly.  So much of my adult life (counting college) was spent there that it'll be strange to not have that building and the people who work there included in my everyday life.  I wish everyone good luck and be assured that you will remain a part of my life.  This is the only shot I have of the goodbye party that isn't out of focus.  

Skydiving Orange County

So the Carroll men (+ Alisha) went skydiving. I only mention the gender thing so as to point that the entire Carroll line could have technically come to an end in one fiery plane wreck.  

Please note that I look really weird in the photo because Im wearing goggles.

Either way it was lot of fun.  Strangely enough I wasn't really scared at all.  I believe it may have something to do with how "boring" I actually am.  I kind of took on playing the role of a good little soldier.  You know check the altimiter- view horizon- check for rip cord- land, basically the opposite of what I learned from watching Point Break.  

This is Tim landing on a soccer field.

Blogn'

Yeah so I've been slacking on the blog recently only because of how busy I am with both the getting ready to move and wrapping up at work. So here is a bunch of new stuff.

Nathan Joyce Mouthbreather Show

Yesterday, I accompanied Nathan Joyce with his set of mostly new songs. Also on the bill for the night was The Catalyst, Mouthbreather, The Riot Before, and Sweat Lodge. I hadn't played at Gallery 5 in a while but it went really well. Allen Bergendahl made everything sound great and they have a fairly new stage I hadn't seen before, but the success of the show is thanks to the really great audience that adapted to Nathan's set and then instantly transitioned into the pace needed for the rest of the show. Nathan sounded awesome and I didn't mess up anything until the end and even then I think I was the only one who noticed that I wasn't playing the part I was supposed to be playing. Luckily for Nathan the part fit fine. I'm not sure when it's coming out but Nathan will have a self released ep available sometime soon. I played on it and so did a few others though I'm not sure who made it on as the plans for the recording changed a bunch and since Nathan lives in Florida which makes coordinating between people hard.

The following is a picture of John Martin of Mouthbreather/roomate of many years doing what looks to be either an impersonation of the Elvis on the flier for the show or the forbidden dance of the Troll.

Jonathan Vassar Show

So I played a show with Jonathan Vassar last Thursday. 

We had practiced a few times including before the show so I felt pretty comfortable with the material.  I really like playing music with Jonathan as it's both pretty easy to play to, but also sounds great with the cello. I played with the mute on my cello to make up for the fact that it was an entirely acoustic set, which I think worked about how it should.

All in all, the turn out was really good and it was a nice night, though a little on the rainy side.  It was great seeing David Lamb of Brown Bird again though I didn't get to hang out as much as I would have liked.  Liza played with Curtis ending the night really well.  I like when shows book light and end proper. 

I really like playing music with Jonathan and I'm really excited about his upcoming EP that We're putting out on TripleStamp.  

I play on the record, but more importantly so does everyone else especially David Shultz and The Skyline.   You can check out his website here. You can hear an almost completed version from one of his songs off the new record here, as it was recently included on a RVA Magazine comp.  I'm not sure when the record will be officially out but I assume it will be this summer.