HRShaw

Full disclosure: I’m NOT a musician, and don’t expect to “go viral.” This is a labor of love over a span of many years. I wrote and recorded a triad exercise almost 20 years ago using a phone set to memo record, while sitting on top of the speaker of my Casio as I ran through it freestyle for a few minutes. Since then, I’ve kept the file on backup and whittled out and polished the guitar over time. It’s always been something I work on when I miss my daughters, and it’s always brought them in close when I play it. This post is just a way I’m able to share it with loved ones, and anyone else who cares to give it a listen. …like it, if you like it! Thanks, HR Shaw

A stop-action movie short that I made for my final in a sculpture class taken online in the Fall of 2020. My inspiration was the ongoing censorship that was happening in social media spaces and the creation, growing popularity, and significance of platforms such as Rumble as a result, allowing freedom of expression to thrive. Although I was never able to complete the project with any kind of audio, I decided to publish “Are You Ready To Rumble” now in 2023, because of the movie’s climactic prediction of retribution to platforms participating in the censorship of ideas and expression that seems to be occurring to a certain degree, such as the Twitter take-over and rebranding, as well as the growing popularity within the parallel communities.