word up geert

GizMag invited me to fill in the blanks as part of their lucky issue seven. There is some really awesome work in this one- all the way from Belgium! Check out GizMag #7!!

taung twister

Odds

A couple of random things today. Over the past six months, I have collaborated with Noah Lamport on a few electronic experiments, and usually I use one or the other pieces at shows. The first picture is a type of theremin that is played through contact points. On this one, "Foundation," the user places their palm on the copper skyline and manipulates the pitch by playing the triangles with their finger tips. It is built into a cigar box and has no exposed wires or controls on the top surface. All circuits copyright Noah Lamport.



Farmers' Market is just another moleskine page.



Ways of Seeing, Perceptual Habits in Viewing Art. ON SITE N1 "ON SITE ON SITE ON SITE" 1972

Best of the Suncoast 2009

I was named the Best Visual Artist in the Creative Loafing Best of the Suncoast Issue. Rad!

more

Kind words over at Jazjaz.net :D

drinking out of cups

No Naked Singularities

Artery Magazine

I'm really excited about this one! The Artery Magazine is an online publication coming out of Buffalo, New York. After some phone calls, I recently answered some questions for the site's editor, Laura Duquette. You can read my interview here.

FINCH HOUSE . COM

Say Hello to Finchhouse.com!

And Maid Mosephine's now blogging at Creative Loafing!

Juxtapoz

http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/meet-greg-ferris

GTFO!

Upper Playground repost?!?

Special Delivery:

Invention

Babby Studios

I had to keep myself busy at work to distract from the steady workload & strict deadlines I've neglected...



I came home to a beautiful space made possible by Babby!



Time to work.

Check out my piece in Seattle based Redefine Mag! :D

Creative Loafing: Young fellow pleads.

Suddenly astute, Creative Loafing immediately broke wind of Erin's Campaign to elect me "Best Visual Artist" in their Best of the Suncoast edition. Close enough!


Check out kind words at Gasbit in Philadelphia, and Jackie Godsey's Art Ed Blog, and sweet stuff at Bicycle, Bicycle Designs.

A week into the Meteoreyes tour, I miss Andrew Sink.

MY ESCAPE INTO LIFE AKA "A MILLI"

"Greg Ferris' art is a culmination of playing with art school materials and rejecting art school rules. He re-appropriates textbooks and architectural elements in creating otherworldly scenes that reverse their original connotation.

In a small town full of landscape paintings and glass sculptures, he has ignited a grassroots effort to engage those around him in creating a community with which we all identify. His most recent work, Paraprofessional Magazine, is a vessel allowing young artists to discuss identity in an unedited, unglazed fashion and distribute it to the people searching for just that."

-Erin Murphy

Featured artist at EscapeIntoLife.com

Also Design Is Kinky in Sydney, Australia!
AND Fabrik Project!
Ikebukuro in Japan.
+ Illustrate My Day blog. ftw.

Bites

A new project is in the works! :D

In the tween time, I have a Japanese fan!

+ PARAPROFESSIONAL Mag reaches China.

PARAPROFESSIONAL MAGAZINE

Check out PARAPROFESSIONAL 0001 PDF


P.S. Continuing shameless self promotion: Blogging in the Netherlands!

B/D!

happy birthday to me, my website was featured on Beautiful/Decay.


**Edit** Re-posted on Existing Visual!!

Interview at Americansafari.org

photos from Intellectual Freedom Festival

More shows:

8/22- Maid Mosephine plays the Emerald Bar in St. Pete w/ Sons of Hippies
8/28- Ringling School Art & Design (Maid Mosephine + Tiny Ensemble)
8/29- Maid Mosephine at the Box Social w/ XOXO

shameless shameless

new site

gregferris.info

sextant

Big shout to Rob at Lumpytunes on WSLR!!! Alt. Tuesdays 11-1 on 96.5 FM.
Lumpytunes plays the best music I've ever heard on a radio program. Listen online at WSLR and check his myspace.

Tiny Ensemble
7/24 @ Clothesline The Box Social w/ Villanova Junction
8/7 @ The Box Social w/ Harper Sublette and Sons of Hippies
8/21 @ Cock n Bull Pub w/ Airoes, Paragraph, Superband...

Maid Mosephine & the Equines
7/28 @ Pastimes Pub
8/8 @ Intellectual Freedom Festival at Selby Library
8/18 @ SOAP at Pastimes Pub
8/29 ???

Cats in the Basement
whenever

Holy Ghost Agency
every Cabana Inn open mic

yip yip?? nope.

Live track

Tiny Ensemble - Gentle Bearded Man (Live @ Clothesline!)

Tiny Ensemble on Myspace.

FLQNR

Skiffle and I played at the Florida Quarterly Noise Report at Will's Pub in Orlando yesterday. Awesome.

Skiffle

Cats in the Basement

photos coming soon!

circle

stone

folk science this saturday!

Cats and Horses Store

We're working on an online store, and now you ca get some records at http://catsandhorses.bigcartel.com

Folk Science: The Musical!

Also available: T-shirts, cds, posters, stickers (pictured below)



Epic Future Tour leftovers!

parts 2 & 3

le petit ensemb

New Cats!

Cats in the Basement - Indigent King

Trappe

Q: Where can I see Tiny Ensemble play??

A:
4/3 - Townie Showcase!
4/4 - Pastimes Pub
4/10 - Epic Future Tour House Show!
4/21 - SOAP!

Also, I will have some art dangling for Kanpi's 2nd anniversary/ 4-20 bash!

+Thanks Sons of Hippies for the shout out in Creative Loafing.

The Indigent

"You had supreme advantages, you made a brave start, you established a splendid beginning, and then you sat back and bragged about your ancestors and your resources- and your prospects- and let the vermin crawl all over you."
-Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Post-Folk Science Trapezoid!

Listen to the new jam featuring our latest member, Mosephine!

Tiny Ensemble - Deposit Box

My other band, Letters From Elvis, just finished mixing our demo- you can listen to it on the space.

Letters From Elvis - No Home

of the machine

"Should I say now that I like Metropolis because something I have seen in my imagination comes true, when I detested it after it was finished?"

-Fritz Lang

Tiny Ensemble aka 'Micropenis'

Listen to our live recording from last night at Pastimes Pub at Myspace.com/tinyensemble.

Shawn McBee has the entire debut on youtube!

happy pi day!

i like turtles

gentle bearded man

Letters From Elvis tonight at Sarasota Olive Oil Co.
Happy birthday Sutton Stringfellow!

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home brew compensation

parametricism in folk science

i'll explain this later. busy busy busy.

thank you for your picture jessica beck :]

banner

rainbow toe-socks & sandals

Today is moving day; break-time remix pictured.

pet cloud

"i love wizards" -mamabear

super x-13

Must see Mind Field. Must skate. I work the skate park sundays.



Pics from the show at Cats & Horses Club!

coop presents

word.

Leg: a solid foundation for greg

I want to tell you guys a little bit about what all this stuff is about.


A while back I made 'Worm-hole.' It was a 10 x 10" steel cube with a hole sucking in through one side and out the other. Then I painted the whole thing black and added white grid lines- warping with the stresses of stretching spacetime. This was my strange little model of the universe, but what else? WTF?
Early on, my instructor for the sculpture class told me I wouldn't be able to do it that way I had proposed, but I went ahead anyway. It was a terrible mess of work hours; I cut the entire thing in two, and heated the remaining solid sides with an acetylene torch and pounded the contours of a quantum dimension before reuniting the pieces. It took forever to achieve such..let's say, organic...results. Yet precisely that, I realized, was the point. To demonstrate some complex theoretical idea through such a primal process of hammering and hammering away, suddenly seemed like such a beautiful metaphor for the human spirit. Our will to manipulate destiny among the absurd paradox of our condition! I had finally identified what it was that I had been doing with my odd works: Folk Science!

New Site!

Mosephine and I have just launched our new site at CatsAndHorsesClub.blogspot.com that will feature upcoming events & provisions. :D

Affiche!

see me.

Cinema Sounds

This weekend Maid Mosephine and I will be helping Harper score Akira Kurosawa's Dreams!

science & contemporary life vs. natural world and the past

BROTHERS FROM DIFFERENT
MOTHERS AND FATHERS
ALSO SOME OF THEM
ARE GIRLS AND
THE PARENTS ARE GAY


Erin at the Fruitville Library reading garden in the morning.


A concept page for '30 Songs' flyer.


"Prior to humanity’s awareness to it, the universe was a coherent, self-regulating entity awaiting discovery. Humankind’s additions to and modifications of that preexisting order often damaged it, so that the architect’s charge is a kind of restoration effort requiring him to incorporate his understanding of the eternal in every design, as did the Pantheon’s makers, hence its everlasting appeal. “What the space wants to be” is itself- that is, it wants to assume its rightful place in and be a proper manifestation of the eternal order of things."



Wizard demonstrating laser eyes on crystal mountain.