Inspired by the cut-up experiments of William Burroughs, I used various techniques to create original cut-up compositions

Art as always a possibility.

Art as always a possibility.

It looks like older prunings have turned dark as they've dried out.

The cambium layer was hard, wet, and very cold underneath all those layers of spongy bark. I think the bark is a good insulator, so the very cold night had chilled the whole thing down, and it was kept there by the insulation until I cut into them the next day. There is a kind of film of wet, white powder on the cambium, which could be wiped away with a finger.

A cut-up between some UCSC and AFSCME propaganda flyers that I found at my work.

Adding another to my park album (sorry - left a few places blank for confidentiality).

Sources: paper - gm designs applepickin'_bg5; word cutups - KPertiet Wordcutups srpingtime (Designer Digitals); fonts - Myriad pro and Traveling typewriter

Kate in one of her 2 new Hot Cutup Pancake t-shirts.

Swedish death metal act, CUT UP, have teamed up with German Deaf Forever Magazine to premiere their brand new video clip to ‘A Butchery Improved‘, taken off their upcoming debut album “Forensic Nightmares“! Check it out HERE!

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Altered image - two photos cut into strips and arranged

Pictured: Anika K. and Miles M.

Here's the second load, back in my driveway. I did not have time to unload this. I had to rush through a shower and a change, and then get back to work. It was really fast work back at the felled tree to clean it all up and load the truck again, however.

Accidental scanner cutup.

Art as always a possibility.

After most of a year of looking for Jacaranda mimosifolia, hoping one would fall over naturally (I don't cut anything down - I lie in wait, like a vulture for things to fall on their own), one finally did. Things worked out for me today, big time.

Very eccentric rings around this very off-center pith. The rings are enormous, too. They must be 3/4" in diameter at their largest side.

2007

newspaper collage on index card

Criss-crossing trails from Eucalyptus Longhorned Borer larvae.

The cut was diagonal through the log. If I do more of this, I'll need to learn to start the cuts straight, or figure out some guide system.

No idea at this point what's hiding inside this thing.

Very green in the center.

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By Gianpaolo Rende

Pretty much all cleaned off now. Most of the crap on the table is either powderized bark, or the powdery waste of the Eucalyptus Longhorned Beatles who ate about 1/4" under most of the log, excreting it back as powdery, Eucalyptus-scented powder.