"PUNK'S NOT DEAD" gets FecalFace Photo of The Day!

"PUNK'S NOT DEAD"
Canon Zoom 35mm
Color Kodak Film
Shot onAesop Rock's Skelethon Tour 2012

Was thrilled to see that my shot got Photo of The Day on my favorite
art site, FecalFace.com! (5/5/13). Thank you FF!

See it here on FecalFace!

Cycles To Gehenna (Zavala Remix)

Everything about this video/remix of Aesop Rock's Cycles To Gehenna is beautiful. Love the shadow
and light too. I also want to be a ballerina...

TOP 17 IN 10

This week I've been thinking about how powerful music is and how certain albums can reach out, grab you, turn you upside down, and shake the change out of your pockets. In other words have an impact on us or set as a memorial...marking a specific time period in our lives. Growing up as a young person, I was exposed to a broad genre of music and developed a real love for many different bands. I'm so grateful for that because I could never see myself identifying with only one style. With that said, I thought I'd make a list of not just the albums that have had an impact on myself and my artwork, but albums that I loved each and every song on and literally drove them into the ground listening to them. Currently, Aesop Rock's Skelethon has been on repeat! I decided to do a top 10 from the past 10 years, but quickly realized it was more like top 17. Good stuff. What are yours!?

Arcade Fire/Suburbs

Beach House/Teen Dream

Freetime Synthetic/LP Mixes

Guru

Homemade Mummy pt.2

Speaking of Homemade Mummys, here's Aesop Rock's new video
Homemade Mummy. Love this guy.

Boards With History

July, 2013
PART II

I get my skate decks used from a local pop skate shop, sand them down, but still leaving a few grooves from tricks the skater did on the board. I love the fact that these boards have visited a lot places, rad spots, have performed some amazing tricks, and some amazing falls too. This is the reason I call these "Boards With History". A very nostalgic thought and connection for me in particular. Plus the boards get a second chance at being reincarnated as art pieces.
When someone purchases one of my skateboards, they also get a little history underneath the artwork. 

-Amia




A couple of years ago a friend gave me this little refrigerator magnet. It says, over the background of one of Jackson Pollock's drip paintings, "Never Apologize For Your Art." I love this quote and I look at it every time I open my refrigerator door. Very encouraging. Now all that to say this. I will never apologize for my art. BUT. I will let someone know when I think it sucks or I executed it poorly from my mind to the canvas as I felt I did on this piece, Fryerstarter. I wasn't happy with it from the finish and after finally getting some time to sand down the red sphere and redo Bob's Donuts in a simple fresh font... I am happy. And as my hero Jackson Pollock once said, "Sometimes I lose a painting. But I have no fear of changes, of destroying the image, because a painting has a life of its own. I kind of let it live."




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2012
PART I


"Let me put you up on Bob's Donuts, controller of the warm deep fryer that charms cobras..." -Fryerstarter


  
FRYERSTARTER
Acrylic on Skateboard
2012

So I've been back in the 'studio' which consists of
where ever I can lay my artwork. I've been
working on a new board design that I thought
you might like to see as it progressed in
increments of time during these past couple
of weeks. 

The basic reference to this board is based on
one of Aesop Rock's songs, Fryerstarter, from
his new album Skelethon which is so good by
the way.  


To view other boards I've done visit: AmiaArt.com

AESOP ROCK- Skelethon Tour 2012

Aesop Rock & Rob Sonic at the A-Club, Spokane.
I have to say... Rob Sonic's hair was so fresh!

Tour Cuts. Lucky winner got a live haircut onstage.
Racing Stripes!

Aes!

Open Mike Eagle. So good.

Dark Time Sunshine. Another really great band.


Hadn't seen a Mohawk this cool since the 80's!

Was my second time seeing Aesop. Definitely one of the best shows ever! Love this guy. He's so cool and I think I may have squeezed his side meat a little too tight! The new album is AMAZING.

Skelethon Tour 2012
Spokane, WA

Canon Zoom 35mm
Kodak color film


AESOP AND KIMYA DAWSON @THE KNITTING FACTORY
2011

AESOP ROCK & KIMYA DAWSON

Aesop Rock performed with Kimya Dawson for the first time

here in Spokane last night at the Knit along with Rob Sonic

and DJ Big Wiz. Such a good show! Aesop and Kimya have

collaborated on a new record which might have made some

people wonder what it would sound like, but they proved real

quick how well they mesh together. Am looking forward to the

album as well as Aesop's. All of them including (Rob Sonic & DJ

Big Wiz) have albums out and/or coming out. It seems we made

a good impression on them as Aesop referred to us Spokanites

a couple of times as being such nice people.

Thanks for coming here!