grab the crown

CHECK OUT THE NEW SITE

2011-02-18T09:46:00.000-08:00

go on over to grabthecrown.com and bookmark it. as time goes on there will be free song downloads, free wallpaper, and tons of new art

working on a scroll drawing on my new lightbox

2011-02-09T19:39:00.000-08:00

some more sketches

2011-02-03T18:04:00.000-08:00

I am a line that can not and will not be erased

2011-01-31T00:33:00.001-08:00

You can't escape your past only embrace the mistakes you've made and try to creat somthing beautiful from the chaos.

some newer work mostly from the sketch book project

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a prayer from a kid in metropolis - Medium.m4v

2010-11-18T08:27:00.000-08:00

this is from a concept album im working on about superman

sketchbook project 2011

2010-11-05T22:18:00.000-07:00

My sister inlaw my niece and the coolest dog ever

2010-10-24T13:20:00.000-07:00

My brother Ben took this photo

2010-10-18T17:51:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook project 2011

2010-10-11T20:06:00.000-07:00

Kareoke fun

2010-10-07T19:02:00.000-07:00

in my dreams my world is just like one of my drawings there are monsters and patterns every where

2010-09-21T20:16:00.000-07:00

An old freind gave me this poster of a younger me as a joke I miss being 21

2010-09-05T07:44:00.000-07:00

the great imposter by-the fleet woods. lyrics

2010-08-31T22:17:00.000-07:00

Well I went and lost her
To the great imposter
I stood and watched her fall
Couldn't help her at all
Poetry so sweet has her at his feet
He's just begun
She thinks she's the one
All her friends they just watch her
For they know the great imposter

Don't she know he's on stage
It's not real it's just play
And he's playing the part
That is soon to break her heart
Oh can't she see tomorrow's misery
Soon she'll learn her fate
But it will be too late
All her friends they just watch her
For they know the great imposter

Poetry so sweet has her at his feet
He's just begun
She thinks she's the one
All her friends they just watch her
For they know the great imposter
And she's soon to join the roster
They all know the great imposter

ive been making alot of these little sculptures lately.

2010-08-26T19:40:00.000-07:00

i will be making a blog about and for these little guys when i have a few more done but here's a preview

two designs i realy liked that threadless did not.

2010-08-26T17:10:00.000-07:00

jason segals draculas lament full version lyrics

2010-07-28T16:04:00.001-07:00

LYRICS:
(ah ha ha ha's)

its getting kind of hard to believe
things are going to get better

I've been drowning too long
to believe that the tides going to turn

and i've been living too hard to believe
things are going to get easier now

I'm still trying to shake off the pain
from the lessons I've learned

(drums)

having you here now I see
things are going to be brighter

Oh and feeling you here now I know
I might make it through

Oh

loving you this long
has made me believe its forever

and with you these dreams I've forgotten
might somehow come true

and knowing your grace this well
just makes me want to be better

oh, and knowing your heart this well
makes me wish mine would grow

Oh my love and,
loving you this much makes me
want to write sweet songs forever

with a little love babe
we could make the whole world know
How much I love you

(ah ha ha ha's) here we go

OH...

and when I see your face
I'd swear to the lord I was dreamin'

Oh and when I hold your hand
I watch time disappear into air

OH my love and,
when I speak your name
I can feel I just said something sacred

While the saints pray for heaven
I thank God I'm already there...

its been awhile since i posted

2010-07-28T15:09:00.000-07:00

some pictures from the opening of my current show at fourthwall project

2010-06-14T17:07:00.000-07:00

Piraña attack

2010-06-13T11:08:00.000-07:00

My buddy obo

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Showing off the tattoo I designed for him at my opening the other
night at " the fourth wall project."

CameraBag Photo

2010-06-07T20:28:00.001-07:00

A painting for my show at fourth wall project

2010-06-07T20:28:00.000-07:00

i blame pop culture

2010-05-27T16:49:00.000-07:00

I blame pop culture for my fear of empty shopping malls. there the perfect place for a zombie apocalypse. like if i just watch the horizon of the parking lot some zombies will come ambling over it one at first and then hundreds and then im trapped in this fucking mall....god damn zombies...although all the free stuff would be fun for a minute.

the railroads and the riverboats....

2010-05-20T17:39:00.000-07:00

after a fight with a rather large house cat jeremy was forced to stich his own arm back on

2010-05-19T21:16:00.000-07:00

A Russian folktale painting I'm working on

2010-05-17T10:29:00.000-07:00

I didn't make this I just thought it was amazing

2010-05-15T10:05:00.001-07:00

"do you read life magazine I am obsesed with life magazine"-Allen Ginsburg

2010-05-14T20:32:00.000-07:00

images from the book i am putting together about american history

2010-05-13T13:08:00.000-07:00

What was wild has been tamed leaving only a hollow shell of the eden that the kings of old discovered.

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2010-04-18T17:21:00.000-07:00

the cadbury egg painting is back and almost complete... and I've been working on some other stuff too

2010-03-23T14:12:00.000-07:00

my creepy new beard

2010-01-29T12:54:00.000-08:00

my beard was getting out of control so i decided to get rid of it but while shaving it i came across the funniest/creepiest/best beard ever. thanks beard trimmer, your the greatest.

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My new buisness cards

2010-01-22T21:20:00.000-08:00

nodding out in a corner

2010-01-03T21:41:00.002-08:00

an image from new jersey. where elsecould it be from? fracking jersey junkys.

science is real!!!!

2010-01-03T21:29:00.000-08:00

I love the new "They Might Be Giants" record!!!!! i was listening to it the whole time i was working on this peice

happy holidays and a happy new year

2010-01-01T18:32:00.001-08:00

morte e la ragazza

2010-01-01T18:31:00.000-08:00

four sides of the pillar

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glowing mountain

2009-12-22T22:57:00.000-08:00

Fun with water colors

2009-12-18T16:05:00.000-08:00

consume to be powerfull

2009-12-16T03:04:00.000-08:00

sitting on a car in utah whith a good friend

2009-12-04T15:32:00.000-08:00

this is a low quality pic ill get some better ones up soon

we had been driving for nearly two months by the time i saw my first desert sun set.

exploration

2009-12-04T15:31:00.000-08:00

walking at the bottom of the ocean was a thrill not to be forgoten.this is a low res photo ill try to get better ones up soon.

Oh no, winters almost here!!!!

2009-11-23T07:00:00.001-08:00

It's starting to get cold again, the wood that was swollen all summer
has finaly begun to shrink the door hangs loose in it's frame, I can
smell fires from neighbors chimneys at night and trees have begun to
sparkle with cheap Christmas lights. I'll miss the fall but if I'm
lucky it will be back.

2009-11-23T06:53:00.000-08:00

I drew this to be an engagment present but couldn't part whith it. Is
it just me or does the coach look like bob hoskins?

some more components

2009-11-11T14:37:00.000-08:00

"the components project" or "stepping in"

2009-10-11T23:51:00.000-07:00

For a time I wanted to be art, I thought this took some special effort, I thought I had to escape myself in order to become art but I am starting to think I can not become art because I can not help but be myself and as such I can not help but be art and live in art.

I have decided to build a house, or to be more precise a shack. This shack will be built of and filled with art. I will place inside all that makes me who and what I am, from the comics, books and movies that I love to the cigarettes I smoke and clothes I wear to the random bric-a-brac and bobbles that inspire my ascetics but most importantly I will place myself into this space and will be as much a part of this piece as the art that makes up the walls.

You may be saying dear reader that this task is an impossible undertaking and as I look across my scattering of components I may be tempted to agree with you as I have a third of a walls worth currently, I do not have funding nor do I have a space to construct the final piece but mark my words I will accomplish this goal no matter what it takes.

This project could easily seem like an exercise in self-absorption but it is in actuality an exercise in self-emersion and an external projection of the internal in the only honest way I can conceive of.

In the next day or two I will post some preliminary sketches of my plans for the shack.

2009-10-08T23:13:00.000-07:00

painting in gauch

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This is a wax sculpture I made the other night

we sought out adventure

2009-10-02T15:19:00.000-07:00

history

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history

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history

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injan

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COMPONENTS OF MY UPCOMING CONSTRUCT

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the other day a freind came over to my apartment for the first time, after looking around for a bit at the piles of art and supplys, pop culture periferys and asorted brick a brak he declared "this place is like the inside of my head only its in the real world" this made me think what if i could actualy do this? what if i could make my mind manifest its clutered and confounded beauty in the physical world? this has led me to the conclusion that i must make an attempt i will build a room from my found object work and then i will fill the room with what it is that makes me me and if possible i will move into this room for an amount of time i have yet to determine. it will be somthing like luise burgiouse "cell's" but where those spaces are used as metaphor and aligorie mine will be as close to a litteral living space as possible .

THE PLACES I HAVE BEEN

2009-09-29T19:56:00.001-07:00

THE BAHAMAS WAS AMAZING EVERY THING
HAD A GLOW TO IT AND AN INAUDIBLE BUZZ THAT MADE EVRYTHING COME ALIVE
I CAME BACK TO LIFE

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The rain dried and made it's escape leaving only a blue and steaming
day in it's stead. That night with the road still wet we could hear
the cars cutting the heat and silence and leaving trails of pavement
in there week

some picks of BKs N.H. house

2009-07-29T19:48:00.001-07:00

the quiet was overwhelming, the sound of water rocking against the shore and careful footsteps

i laid on the floor watching reflected sunlight move rhythmically across the ceiling

i am invigorated by the peace i found in that quiet corner of New Hampshire.

Thank you Ben.

thank you silence

thank you peace

how long have i been gone

2009-07-29T19:37:00.000-07:00

some new images

2009-05-06T20:13:00.000-07:00

i now have two books avaiable for purchase at blurb.com

GRAB THE CROWN

VOL. 1

By N. Colen

Book Preview

2009-03-23T08:47:00.001-07:00

the days adventure

2009-02-28T21:49:00.001-08:00

today i drove the two hours north to portland maine to get a few copys of the portland phoenix that used one of my pieces for its cover, as soon as my mission was acomplished i drove two hours across NH to milford to have dinner with coco and her family and celibrate her brothers birthday. after dinner i drove courtney and myself the hour and a half south to boston to watch a movie and pass out. all and all it was a good day. now i cant sleep.

P.S. my freind ryans piece is inside in the article and it looks amazing

cover of the portland phoenix

2009-02-26T12:39:00.001-08:00

i just found out that one of my images has been used as the cover of this months portland phoenix to represent the coverstory about the show that i was just part of at the whitney artworks. i dont have a great image of the cover yet i need to get up to portland and grab a copy and scan it but when i have it youll see it.
also though i know they will never see this i want to thank the whitney artworks for including me in the show wich is beautifull.

a thought

2009-02-18T15:14:00.000-08:00

i have been quite for awhile now i have remained out of the either and the real world for that matter i thought myself in a state of stagnation and thats what the people around me have been seeming to suggest, but it was no such thing it was a time of crystlisation all the busy ideas have slowed down and come together for the first time in one grand concept. better yet i can remain deeply inbeaded in my fantasy world for the duration of this prossces. up untill now i have been a flounderer, now i hope to be a shark or some such. i am soon to arrive."

what am i doing

2009-02-18T14:50:00.000-08:00

im sure ive lost my mind, but that may have happened long ago. school is driving me batty. i need some new taste, some new experiance. i need to live wildly.

somthing new im working on

2009-02-16T19:46:00.000-08:00

im trying to come up with images that in some way speak about my life. once the images are complete i will find an author and let them decifer the images and create a narrative or imagined biography of me. i feel that this will grant me further access into the world i seek to create through my work

a shot of my opening

2009-02-11T07:16:00.000-08:00

i was part of the "funnies" show at whitney artworks in portland maine this past weekend. it turned out pretty awesome. thanks to everyone who came.

what is this.....

2009-02-05T18:57:00.000-08:00

i have been uploading images of work lately and i know it can be confusing. im just trying to figure out what story im telling. bare with me and keep watching and one day it will all make sence