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“The official site for Steven Cerio and his pleasantly psychedelic art, trippy animation and illustration.”
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| Mark Storrs and Tim Paulman ...hire them!!!
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If you like HAPPYHOMELAND...I designed it and the masterful Mr. Mark Storrs of Auburn , NY made it work.
I would HIGHLY recommend working with Mark....he follows through on all of the details...he's always available to put out fires...easy to get ahold of...fast...and does exceptionally high quality work at a better price than you are going to find ANYWHERE else...trust me!!!
Give him a ring....Mark Storrs (315) 406-7845 or testpilot@theorybound.com
All of my Flash was done by Timothy Paulman...another master of his form...he works so fast it's embarrassing! I'm not sure if he wants his phone# broadcasted over the web....if you are interested in working with Tim you can email me at cerio@happyhomeland.com and I'll connect you to him.Unbeatable quality, pricing and swiftness!!
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| My band..."ATLANTIC DRONE" signed to NOISEVILLE
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I started a band called "Atlantic Drone" with my childhood friends Jim Drago(bass) and Brian Daignault (guitars) in 2004. I play the drums, pianos,xylephone,wrote the lyrics and the other two have entrusted me with all of the mixing on this, our first disc which Jim Gibson has agreed to release on his NOISEVILLE label. Our psychedelic platter couldn't find a better home with label mates Toothfairy, Helios Creed and Skullflower!
Mr Gibson came up recently and overdubbed some sitar tracks on a few tunes and we managed to record over 2 hours of improv with Jim sitting in with the band as well( hopefully some of this will edited down for the next release.)
I am hard at work finalizing the mixes and cover graphics for the cd and possible limited European LP pressing.
We hope to have it in NOISEVILLE's hands by late May 2006.
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| SORRY....I haven't been around.
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Sorry I haven't been working on my blog much! I had some complaints..sorry, been busy. I haven't been lazy, I've been working hard on a new book of my work...started a comic too ( I had a tower of story ideas I've been sitting on for more than a decade, thought I should exercise them. If you know my "PIE" comic, this one is denser, trippier and less verbose...no title yet)...been helping Sal Canzonieri round up artists for his new "Fistful of Rock" book (which is exhaustive and beautiful!) and he had me write one of the three introductions to the book, along with himself and Mad Peck...designing a vinyl toy...teaching illustration classes at Syracuse University...working on a poster for Expressobeans.com (should be available on their site in a month or so)...putting finishing touches on my next album with "Atlantic Drone" for NOISEVILLE...preparing ideas for a dozen or so new posters...and, oh check out and buy my new IPOD skin by MACSKINZ!!!
Best, Steven Cerio May 2006 |
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| An exerpt from my puppet show....
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"Your Childrens Breakfast Tables" monologue.
Steven Cerio, 2006
"Your childrens tables are on the
porch near the grass.
The table legs are yellow against the table cloth made
of pieced together wonderbread bags.
Their bowls made of color plastic
with relief sculptures of their heroes licking the
spilt milk off of the frootloop placemats
that dangle sloppily off the edge
of the table and hides more spilt milk in its shadow."
Beaded indian belts out of the mouths of robots,
bleating themes for crunchy cereals that
bounce off the rocket ships and locomotives bathing in corn flakes.
" QUICK and EASY ANYTIME
"Brimming with flavor in every vitamin rich bite!!"
"TREAT TIME IS ANYTIME
TREAT TIME IS EVERY TIME"
The indian headress shuffles with birds
-whistles for adventures in candy kissed rice.
-kissing the cow girls with banana flavored gums
"FRESH and CRISP- they NEVER mush up in milk !!".......
"the best thing that EVER happened to corn."
The bears dance with the Indians ,
3 high on each others shoulders ,
juggling fruit and packets of sugar.
" Light rises up behind the breakfast guests in bright Nabisco colors .
It is the eve of the invention of milk ."
(pause)
Most of the hungry bellies smack and growl while
the softer hands wipe up the puddles of whole milk in
grandmotherish aprons,damp dishtowels and fake frowns.
Seems the flakes actually skip to the bowl
to a strobe lighted beat of glaring fruit colors (and flavors)
that leave chocolatey foot prints across the glazed
miniature donuts framed in graham cracker "A"-frames
and ginger bread fences flavored with creamed lime vines,
lemon chiffon hard candy flowers,
- still shiny
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| "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Coleridge
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This is classic psychedelia..........
KUBLA KHAN by Samuel Coleridge
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea. 5
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:
And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills, 10
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted 15
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst 20
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion 25
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war! 30
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device, 35
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played, 40
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me.
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
That with music loud and long, 45
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair! 50
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
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| A New Piece...."Distant Bee Travel" 2006
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| "MOO-BAH-CLUCK" show at Zahra Studio Gallery
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| flea market finds
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I usually come home empty handed but I got lucky this week.
The box graphic is
from the predecessor to the spirograph. This one holds the paper on a turntable and spins it under a weighted pencil.
The Humpty is a bakelite pepper shaker.
The yellow duck was hand made and painted from the looks of it.
The tall white phallic dog figurine is just that I guess.
The metal bee tray was from a Monster maker kit. I had the kit as a kid, but I never had this bee sadly. You had to pour your own unhardened rubber into the mold and heat it in the monster oven and then practice your patience in letting it cool: a patience very few children have including myself. Many many heat blisters later I still didn't learn.
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| Brian and water
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A photo of my horn player "Aunty" Brian Kieser that I took at our last recording session...and a photo of water in the bottom of a fountain
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| "OM" by Alan Watts
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I trancribed the following from the ALAN WATTS ‘OM” cd. It is only a small fraction of his spoken word piece.
“Listen down,down into that sound…what is it?
This sound is you vibrating...
and who are you?
Don’t give me your name address and occupation.
Who puts it on, your body?
What an act that is, and who puts that on?
Come off of it, you know very well who you are but you won’t admit it.
You’ve always been around and always will be. You’re not some kind of a tourist visiting in this world for just a short time.
You are the energy of the world.
You don’t know who you are do you?
You think you are going to die someday ,yes.
that’s because every now and then you have to go off to know your on.
The whole thing is pulse.
You old trickster, deep down you know the whole bit, and therefore what you want is surprise
You are it
You are running the show.
Your brain is the most complicated thing in the world which you,
yourself grew without even thinking about it.
You have always been around but it doesn’t get boring because we keep forgetting it.
Boundless inward in the atom…boundless outward in the whole." |
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| unpublished Juxtapoz magazine questionaire
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These were my answers to the unpublished "Greatest album Covers of all Time Questionaire" given to me by Juxtapoz Magazine in 2001
FAVORITE 20 ALBUM COVERS(in no particular order)
1. Frank Zappa "Orchestral Favorites" by Gary Panter
2.Frank Zappa "sleep dirt" by Gary Panter
3. Frank Zappa "Studio Tan" by Gary Panter
4. Smack my Crack (compilation) by Gary Panter
5. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band "Doc at the Radar Station" by Don VanVliet
6. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band "Shiny Beast:Bat Chain Puller" by Don VanVliet
7.The Residents "Not Available" by Poreknow graphics
8. The Residents "Residue" by Poreknow Graphics
9. The Residents "Mark of the Mole" by Poreknow Graphics
10.Jesus Lizard "Down" by Malcolm Bucknall
11.Black Sabbath "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" by Drew Struzan
12. King Crimson "Court of the Crimson King" by Barry Godber
13.King Crimson "Nightwatch" by P.J. Crook
14.The Who "who by numbers" by John Entwhistle
15.Big Chief "Drive it off "by Mark Dancey
16. Black Flag "in my head" by Raymond Pettibon
17.Black Flag "My War" by Raymond Pettibon
18.Dave Brubeck Quartet "Time Further Out" by Joan Miro
19.Santana "Santana" by Lee Conklin
20. Santana "Amigos" by Tadanoori Yokoo
21. DEVO "Are We Not Men..." by (Mark Mothersbaugh?)
22. Frank Zappa "One Size Fits All" by Cal Shenkel
23. Frank Zappa "Burnt Weenie Sandwich" by Cal Shenkel
24. Santana "abraxas" by Mati Klarnwein
25. Miles Davis "Bitches Brew" by Mati Klarnwein
26. Miles Davis "Live Evil" by Mati Klarnwein
27. Frank Zappa "the man from Utopia" by Tanino Liberatore
28. Thelonius Monster "Next Saturday afternoon" by ?
29. Tool "lateralus" by Alex Grey
30. Snakefinger "Snakefinger" by Mark Beyer
31. Genesis "Foxtrot" by Paul Whitehead
32. Genesis "Nursery Cryme" by Paul Whitehead
33. The Butthole Surfers "Psychic and Powerless: Anothyer Man's sac" by ?
34. Grateful Dead "AOXOMOXOA" by Rick Griffin
35. The Cramps by Stephen Blickenstaff
36. Molly Hatchet "Molly Hatchet" by Frank Frazetta
37. Mudhoney "My Brother the Cow" by Edward Fatheringham
38. R.E.M. "Reckoning" by Howard Finster
39. Robyn Hitchcock "You and Oblivion" by Robyn Hitchcock
40. Robert Johnson "King of the Delta Blues" by Burt Goldblatt |
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| QUOTE OF THE MONTH
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| Eric Jones told me..... “When I have déjà vu I try to relax and remember the future.” |
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| tent caterpillars
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I watched a group of tent caterpillars slowly devour a tree outside of my studio window this summer. Amazing what they can eat in one day.
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| Eggplant
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This is a photo of one of my cats. Her name is Eggplant . She stays up all night with me when I work. I don't care if you don't like cats...look at that face!!!
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| William Parker, Jemeel Moondoc...... Free Jazz
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Here are a couple of photos I took the last two times William Parker came to NY.. The group photo shows Parker with Jemeel Moondoc (sax), Hamid Drake (drums) and Steve Swell (trombone).Hamid let me take over the drumkit for a few improvised pieces while he played a hand drum. I have a short film of that, maybe I'll post it one day).
The other photo depicts William in a bass solo when he played in Syracuse at the Unitarian Church with Gillermo brown on drums and Dave Burrell on piano.
Both shows were amazing. Moondoc, Burrell and Parker play the kind of music that sends me home elated each and every time.They're the kind of musicians that you feel obliged to thank after a show.
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| sketchbook stuff
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Here are a few pages from my sketchbooks. Ink,watercolor and whatever else happens to be sitting on the drawing table.
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| one fungus ....one lichen
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Photographed these both off of the same tree.
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| Dog Walk
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I spend this past summer working too hard but I managed to get out to the pond when I dog sat my friend’s two pugs; Bud and Miniature Dog a few times before the fall. The minnows looked extra shiny. We sat and fed them wonder-bread. Miniature Dog ate the rest of the loaf when I fell asleep.
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| Girl and turtle in love
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I dreamt I was wondering through the suburban neighborhood I was raised in when I came across a man obviously attempting to disguise himself as an old woman with his gray wig and thrift store blouse. He told me he grew up down the street from me and was visiting his mother and attempting to foil the attempts of the paparazzi to get a shot of him. Then both of our attentions turned towards the forest at the end of the road where the street turned to dirt when we heard a woman’s voice filtered through a short wave radio, sobbing for help. Then I found myself holding a stack of photographs of the distressed woman. She was an adorable plump Mexican woman of about thirty. She was floating on her back down a shallow stream clogged with fresh green weeds. Her face was the only part of her that wasn’t submerged, a lot like the painting by Waterhouse.
The speed at which the cross dressed man removed the photos one by one from my arms made it appear as if I was watching a film and I was puzzled to discover that she wasn’t distressed after all but very relaxed and her face showed an almost ecstatic and blissful expression. The camera followed her closely as she drifted slowly downstream. Her wet clothes waved to me from under the greenish water. I noticed that she was holding what appeared to be a disc or circular package of some kind against her chest. Before I could discern it’s identity she leaned in intimately and whispered to it. I couldn’t make out what she said but recognized the object as a large soft shelled snapping turtle. It responded by snapping playfully at her nose and barely missing it’s target. She then pushed the reptile away in a flirtish way and exclaimed “What’s with you anyway!?” The turtle then drifted off screen and looked at the camera and into my eye. I was the camera man. |
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