dk art show & life goal updates

Important Life goal:

Get a warehouse.

Get all friends to live in it.

Work. Make art. And music. Be productive. Collectively.

Can you help with this goal?

Can we find a way to make this happen by April 30, 2011?

This is a serious inquiry.

Should/Can I turn this into a kick starter kind of thing?

Check the craigslist.org ad I made. (This makes it official, you know).

Some of Dorey's Mixed Media Masterpieces can be viewed @ the following locations in San Francisco:

Big Umbrella Studios
906 Divisadero St
February 18 - March 2

Le Burge't Salon
2737 20th St
*Opening: Create for the Cause
March 12, 2011
6-9pm

Green House Cafe
1722 Taraval St
Opening to be announced
March - April 2011

Sports Basement
1590 Bryant St
Opening to be announced
May 2011

:)

mind blowing

it's been raining so hard this morning and last night... somehow though, i've managed to stay dry, have lots of tea with friends, share recent dreams (sleep dreams, not like, goals dreams, but those included too, to some extent), and exchange beautiful music and music videos. 

to begin my day, i discovered some new incredible art @ my favorite art/design blog, booooom:

“Buses” photos by Andrew Miksys. -- perfect rainy day photography

Illustrations by Denise Nestor. -- mind blowing pencil drawings that are helping me understand myself and recent thoughts. i beg you to look at this link, if you look at nothing else on this blog. these illustrations are unbelievable.


Tape art by Buff Diss. -- tape art?!?!


Everfresh and Miso paint the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. -- will someone please let me do this to their wall at home some day? 

“Back to the Future”, an amazing series of photos by Irina Werning. People were invited to re-create their old photos. -- i also saw a post today with even more of her photos on the magazine's website that i sometimes work for:  here.

i love this music video from the same blog:  

“Who Knows Who Cares” a Take Away Show by Local Natives. -- incredible live performance in france on video made by take away shows

this is hopefully one of the only times i say omg on my blog, but i promise it's necessary. essentially necessary. OMG -- fucking take away shows is a ridiculously amazingly inspiring music blog that has a bunch of wooonndderrrffuuuullllll bands today being recorded in live, indoor and outdoor, public settings. fabulous performances of some of the best musicians i've heard this day in age that i love. these performances are just amazing. the videos are heart wrenchingly happy. i will probably never say this again on my blog ever again either -- please don't be mad at me -- i just jizzed in my pants. hours of time have been and will be going watching videos on this blog.

lastly, i re-located this mini text-edit file that i saved over the summer of 2010 and just found the other day on my computer, titled "BEST IDEA":


new life goal:

get a where house.

get all friends to live in it.

work. make art. be productive. collectively. everyone has to be on top of it.

cheap rent.

good ideas.

nonstop art and music.

I LOVE MUSIC AND ART. 

life is beautiful

i love taking pictures and i love writing poetry...

(a dorey kronick photograph of some incredible smelling roses in san gregorio that i finally just edited today. details for this photo here)

admit...

admit that things are not that bad

acknowledge that you're whole

and know that everything you're feeling is inside your soul.

i want to draw you naked...

(written on or around 5/26/2010)

i want to draw you naked

i want to see your soul

i want to touch your heart

and i want to fill your bowl

i want to feed you cereal

i want to love your bones

i want to kiss you day and night

and run over all your orange cones

i can close my eyes...

i can close my eyes

i can think

i can feel

i can breathe

the future awaits

the present exists

the past brought us here

continue the flow

and create

(a dorey kronick photograph of some precious little yellow flowers in san gregorio that i finally just edited today. details for this photo here)

are you ready to hear some good songs?

Click here. Don't even think about it. Just do it. "Indian Love Call." By Slim Whitman.

and now, click here. for another amazing song. (i got a private personalized performance today in my living room from battlehooch, singing this song to me. actually, just pat and a.j. sang this song. with a little tom mixed in there. but oh man, was it good. and oh man did i swoon. and oh man did they do a great job. now i'm in love with this song! "crying," by roy orbison.")

my house mate told me that i seem like i've been on ecstasy all week. [this is not a poem.]

too bad i haven't been doing any ecstasy lately. i'm actually just having a really great week. 

i have two art shows coming up that just got confirmed this week -- one at a salon in the mission district in sf and another one at the sports basement in sf. i've never been to either locations, but both shows came to me and asked if i'd hang work. absolutely. seeking out shows can be a lot of work, so when the shows come to me, i usually say yes, of course. 

i also go a job working 1 or 2 days a week at sf's great american music hall. i start on friday and i couldn't be happier about it. i used to work in a music venue in santa cruz and have missed the inspiring creative vibes. i'm happy to be a part of another music venue. show hook ups! lots of good shows coming up in march... i'll be seeing toro y moi there, thanks to my friend who got me the job, who is in the band castle, that i photographed last week. (you can see two of the pictures in the previous blog post.) her husband works at bottom of the hill, and will be hooking me up with show tickets as well :) i also paid to see warpaint i think at the independent next month. can't wait! good music. good job. good friends. good life. lucky lucky lucky streak.

recent dk art & design work

i was hired to take photos for a brand new latin restaurant in san francisco, called pasion. every picture you see on their website was taken by me :) check them out @ http://www.pasionsf.com/!

my friend that i met during my brief time working at pasion started a fairly new band with her husband, called castle. below are a couple of my favorite, totally tripped out shots, [although there were quite a few good ones of the behind the scenes crew]. i was taking pictures while they were shooting their first music video at the bottom of the hill venue, in san francisco, ca. 

i've also been hired to create my own small line of greeting card designs for mother's day, father's day, and one other remaining holiday for tiny prints :) i'll be updating everyone when they choose which ones will be for sale on their site.

inspired by einstein

(this is a self portrait digital photo that i took in may 2010.

i'm sitting on my personally custom painted chair, in front of my barely started canvases 

that later turned into the mixed media masterpiece series.

inside of my san gregorio, ca historic live-in art studio/loft space. 

in other words, dream land.)

i'm having a really incredible week. my spirits are high and i have nothing but good vibrations shooting out of me towards all of my precious friends and family members that i care so much about -- many of whom are going through tough times. i'm very lucky to be having a fabulous week full of deep thought, inspiration, rewarding art and design projects, amazing people, epic sunsets, delicious fruits and vegetables, and warming weather. i love thinking and feeling for myself, enjoying nature, indulging in art, and researching whatever i want to know more about. with that in mind, i spent a good amount of time this morning reading over some famous albert einstein quotes to post on my facebook page to inspire my some of my struggling friends, as well as myself. for a while i was obsessed with him... he's so fucking genius. see some of my favorite einstein quotes below this "exploding thoughts" mixed media piece i made in 2005.

(this is a mixed media piece that i did years ago called "exploding thoughts." click here for details.)

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. 


I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. 


I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. 


I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. 


A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. 


A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? 



A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? 


An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. 


Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. 


Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. 


As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. 


Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. 


Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. 


Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. 


Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. 


Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler. 



Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. 


Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. 


Imagination is more important than knowledge. 


Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow? 


It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.  


It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. 



Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.


Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. 


Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. 


Love is a better teacher than duty.




--thank you, Albert Einstein, for re-enforcing my sometimes seemingly radical thoughts, ideas, beliefs, and concepts on life. 

(this is another mixed media piece that i made years ago called, "life, death and disease." click here for details.)

later this afternoon, after thinking hard about a dream i had over the summer, which i may or may not have written anything about in previous posts on this blog, i stumbled upon a poem/personal note that i wrote february 27th, 2010:


"a night of thought"


what am i supposed to do
to be a part of this world?

how do i stay happy
and make others happy at the same time?
how do i fulfill my dreams
and fulfill the dreams of others?

how do i live life each and every day
and bring beauty, love, peace, and inspiration to people, plants, and animals?

how do i save myself
from falling into the disgusting black hole of society?

how can i live the life that i want to live
and do what i want to do
and make what i want to make
and be who i want to be?

how do i spread good vibes
spread love
spread serenity to everyone?

i want to live a good life
i want to be remembered
i want to put the future in my hands
and mold it like clay
into something amazing
into something beautiful

i want to save my family
i want to take care of my friends
i want to shelter all of the weak, poor, and hurt
from the frightening world around them

i want to love
and be loved
i want to see and be seen
hear and be heard
i want to be bold
brave
self sustained

i want to share my thoughts
and have people care

i want to be the most incredible, brilliant, serene dorey kronick that i can be
and prove to the world that i'm worthy of this life
of this earth, of this solar system

i want to make art
i want to paint
i want to sing
i want to be

i want to stand on a tall mountain and view the scenes below
i want to see the sunset everyday
and appreciate the skies above me

i want to know who i am
i want to save myself
i want to be appreciated

how do i do all of this?

i suppose that is the meaning of life.

travel far and wide and make yourself known

help people, help animals, help the planet

why do we ask ourselves these questions?

how do we get so enraptured in all of these little details?

it seems so much farther beyond survival
but maybe it's not...
maybe all of these things combined are survival

humans have progressed so far that we possess and continue to come up with these kinds of thoughts and ideas

we needed a way to organize it and categorize it

so, i guess, we did our best to do so

the system is certainly not perfect

but i certainly don't have a better idea of how to make it work.

i'm just playing a small part
in a big thing
a really big thing
or so it seems...

maybe when we die
we realize that this was all just a very small time period
life, that is -- our lives
and bigger, more important things -- like holding the universe together -- take over us

rocks, dust, gas, atoms, molecules, "dark matter"
that's what the universe and everything within it is made of anyways right?
right?

maybe i'll just become a single molecule
a very small piece of matter that holds other bigger things together
and my part will be to function with all the other molecules

i definitely can't be the only person who has these kinds of thoughts
can i?

we're all just confused beings in this crazy universe
someone tell me who has all the answers
because i'd certainly like to meet them
and have a conversation about all of this

so many questions...

crushing on boy bands. hard.

New 

Toro Y Moi 

Music video on Urban Outfitter's blog: 

"New Beat"

Plus you can stream the new album and read a shorty interview with Chadwick. 

[Rad-wick.] 

(I have no photos of my own of this band, so I borrowed this one from the Toro Y Moi blog. 

I hope this is okay. I really don't want to get in trouble, but I had to have a photo to accompany this blog post. Right? 

Go check out their bog to see a ton of great photos, hear songs, and watch videos <3)

I actually met Toro Y Moi for a brief minute last summer. Let me explain...


I've been shopping for clothes, art books, and misc. accessories at Urban Outfitters since the [re-made vintage, sometimes snobbish hipster] store first came into existence, when I was living in southern California in high school. (Sorry to sort of ever so qslightly be slandering UO if you like it or work there and sorry to bring it up at all if you don't care for it -- I know that people can be very opinionated about this store. I've gotten quite a bit of attitude from some of their employees at times, but some of their employees are way cool, and you have to admit, they carry some rad shit. I spend my money there anyways. And on the flip side, they have 5-10 free song downloads every Monday with some AMAZING musicians. So don't think too hard about it.) I started shopping online with them for their decent girly clothing sales and realized that they started coming out with free downloadable soundtracks once in a while, with some songs that they play in the stores. There were often a few pretty great songs and new artists that I hadn't heard of on their soundtracks. I discovered a lot of great bands this way and continue to spend many hours dancing alone in my room to these tunes.


"Blessa" by Toro Y Moi came on one of the spring/summer soundtracks and I immediately fell in love. My friend gave me an extra ticket to see the band Caribou with her in San Francisco, during the summer of 2010. I had already seen Caribou before and loved their music, so I was way down to see them again. The day before the show was actually the day I was first exposed to Toro Y Moi and it turns out they were opening for Caribou. I was stoked to say the least.


After seeing both bands, totally blissing out on the radical tunes and dancing my feet to the beats, I stuck around the venue to say hello and thank you to the bands while they were taking their equipment off the stage. I handed out some doreykronick.com stickers and smiled uncontrollably while speaking with the musicians. I love musicians...


Turns out Chadwick is also a Graphic Designer and only 24 years old (errr 23 at the time). The rest of his band is all about the same age. Heyyooo, that's my age too. Sweet. After being inspired and stoked to meet everyone, I went home and bought the album online and blasted it really loudly in my room and on my ipod for months while making art, biking to the beach, riding the Muni, etc. I'm excited that they're gaining some momentum in the industry and really drawing in a solid crowd. Gosh they're so cute... sparks flying all over the place. Too bad they probably get plenty of female attention as it is. I'll just have to enjoy them from a distance.


On a side note, the band of boys that I presently live with in San Francisco is still wonderful, inspirational, and magical:  

BATTLEHOOCH

(From left to right: Grant, Tom, Pat, Ben, Ryan, and AJ. Mmmmhhhmmm, I simultaneously have crushes on all of them.)

They've been compiling and editing all of their favorite footage from their adventures on their epic U.S. desolation tour, blogging, making new music videos, and sharing their written documented experiences all over the web. I've been very excited to see and hear about their travels, the people they met, the crowds they attracted, the places they saw, the things they did, and the overtly whacky, personalized stories that go along with all of their journeys around the states. 


My favorite music video from the tour is from their visit in Florida:


Watch "Honest" by Battlehooch



(((Also, on BATTLEHOOCH.com you can see all the other rad Desolation Videos under "What's New with Battlehooch" --- Desolation Show link --- which several of our close friends helped make, produce, edit, and put together. Thanks friends! Man, we're lucky to have such a talented and genius group of giving friends that support us all and our crazy endeavors. You can also see their other fun hangout videos and read about their tour @ the BATTLEHOOCH blog.)))


Speaking of Battlehooch -- I am so fucking lucky to know these guys. They're some of the best friends I have ever had. The group of eclectically-musically-talented and ridiculously-creative-thinking boys are not only some of the most quirky, entertaining people I know, that constantly make me laugh, smile, and remember the reason for my own existence -- but they're also some of the sweetest, most caring, genuine, thoughtful, humane, kind, and handsome dudes in San Francisco -- hands down. I don't know that I've ever lived in a household as loving and miraculous as this one. Not a single day goes by that I don't think about how incredible it is to have such amazing and true friends. Love seriously exudes out of my pores for these homies. I'm not psychic, but I foresee a very bright and fulfilling future for these guys as a band, and as human beings, as a whole. 


Thank you for being true friends and sources of inspirations to myself, all of our friends, and 20-something year old kids all over the Bay Area (and now the rest of the U.S., and soon, hopefully, Europe) Battlehooch. I mean that from the bottom of my paint-filled heart. 


I'll be a fan until the day I die.


Piecechow for life.


See Battlehooch on Feb. 25th, 2011 @ Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco for Noise Pop.


Heeeyyyoooo, they were even featured on the Upper Playground blog/site, see the photos taken at our house and at the beach, down the street from our house here.

(Ben blowing Grant's gorgeous hair in our living room with my dirty Vornado fan, while 

Ryan sniffs a candle on the couch behind them, and Tombo checks his phone. The artwork behind is by me [left, middle], Ryan [right, top], and then me + Dave Teichner [bottom, right -- appearing next to Grant's head.)

In terms of my own career in art and graphic design, ‎I'll be designing a line of holiday cards for Tiny Prints designs (to see their site, click here). I'll be doing Mother's and Father's Day cards. What would you want to tell your mom on Mother's Day? Or show her in a picture/graphic? Ideas are welcome to help the inspiration process! I'd love to hear your thoughts. 


My friends and I need to start our own Bay Area creative collective.... We all know way too many talented creative people with fabulous skills and knowledge to offer. How can we make this happen? Someone help! I have a plethora of sparkling ideas and I don't know how to get them all out into the physical world by myself.


And finally, a great quote for today, "Music is what feelings sound like," -- Unknown.