My friend Brandon Buckner

I would like to introduce you to my friend Brandon Buckner, a painter, sculpture, musician, and video artist.

You can see his blog here.

You can see his myspace "Vest with Hood" here.

My favorite memory of Brandon is when, during grad school, we had some old paintings up in the art building that were strange and disconnected from what we were interested in at the time, decided to hang an intentionally bizarrely painted picture of Kenny Rogers with a card listing medium, and dimensions, and a title that was something like "The Gambler," so that the painting was presented in the same way as the other artwork. It remained undetected for around a week or two before it was removed by the school.
He didn't tell me about it, and I noticed it one day walking through the hall to class, and it was a very nice, funny moment of recognition.
Now he's faculty at the University of Tennesse at Chattanooga teaching foundations.