Jamie Lyons

ARTIST | USED SURFBOARDS | PHOTOGRAPHER | REDWOODS | FILM MAKER | WHISKEY | EDUCATOR | MANURE | IOTAS | SPECTACLE | GAMBOL | BONGOS

[Jamie Lyons @jclyons]

Sesame Street once made a Waiting for Godot sketch with Muppets. Telly and Grover waiting for Elmo. Existential dread in felt form.

And then the tree got up and left to sing show tunes. The furniture tapped out. That tree is all of us.
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#SamuelBeckett

[Jamie Lyons @jclyons]

and what crawled out is stranger and more honest than anything Hollywood ever had the guts to attempt #CriterionCollection #DeadMan #JimJarmusch #RobbyMuller #NeilYoung

[Jamie Lyons @jclyons]

Robby Müller burns this world down in black and white because color was always too polite for the truth... Dead Man is a shot of mescal and a knife in the ribs, Blake lurching through a fever dream America that was ALWAYS already a rotting corpse.

[Jamie Lyons @jclyons]

Neil Young's guitar doesn't score this film, it ATTACKS it, howling at the void like a wounded animal that refuses to die. Jarmusch and Müller took the Western out back and put a bullet in it...

[Jamie Lyons @jclyons]

2 lines. All that survived of Sophocles' Nausicaä. We took those fragments to Pillar Point at Mavericks and performed them on a beach that's been Ohlone sacred land, a ship graveyard, and a bootlegger's paradise. Don't just use a location let it talk back
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[Jamie Lyons @jclyons]

It just is: messy, heartbreaking, and more alive than most people manage in their sanest moments.
#theater #documentation #liveart #performance
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[Jamie Lyons @jclyons]

I had the privilege of studying with Spalding Gray for two quarters, learning to excavate truth from the wreckage of experience, to find the story hiding in the confession.

[Jamie Lyons @jclyons]

then vanished into a life so idiosyncratic and fierce it makes conventional success look like surrender. The truth here doesn't redeem anything.

[Jamie Lyons @jclyons]

Raw, uncut chaos. Everything eating everything in perfectly balanced horror. Divine rage without soft edges. What real looks like when it's not comfortable.
#LINESBallet #AlonzoKing #DancePhotography #ReunionIsland #ContemporaryDance
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[Jamie Lyons @jclyons]

Père Lachaise: where immortality projects fail spectacularly and trees push through marble. The story isn't Morrison or Wilde, it's the forgotten nobodies whose monuments are now moss farms. There's something honest about that failure.
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#PèreLachaise #Paris

[Jamie Lyons @jclyons]

Père Lachaise: where immortality projects fail spectacularly and trees push through marble. Real story isn't Morrison or Wilde, it's the forgotten nobodies whose monuments are now just moss farms. Something honest about that failure.
#Paris #Grave
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[Jamie Lyons @jclyons]

Peninsula Creamery in Palo Alto: a fuck u to disruption culture, standing firm while everything around it optimizes itself to death. Some places deserve to survive because they remember what they are https://t.co/MiLndfvFGj… #PaloAlto #SiliconValley #Authenticity #disruptiontown

[Jamie Lyons @jclyons]

I'm trying to trap something real, nail this moment to the wall like a desperate insect. If I get it right, it keeps moving, keeps living long after I'm gone. That's the only immortality that isn't total bullshit.

#ArtIsLife #CaptureTheMoment #ImmortalityThroughArt

[Jamie Lyons @jclyons]

Someone believed this car would take them somewhere. Believed the house would hold. The island's promise would sustain them. It didn't. The clouds press down like a bruise. The monster isn't the wreckage, it's the delusion that paradise operates on faith instead of physics.
#rust

[Jamie Lyons @jclyons]

Stuff like this gives me hope. #future #artists

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[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

Let’s get #PFAS out of our food @rachaelray. Let’s work together to protect our families.

[Jamie Lyons @jclyons]

Kay Metz didn’t fuck around.
#artist #art #santacruz #ucsc
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[Jamie Lyons @jclyons]

This guy with no training captured rock and roll growing fangs—documenting beautiful chaos as it happened. He understood the best shots happen in between... proving authenticity beats technique

The secret: show up - pay attention
#photographer #punk
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