3.16.10

THANK YOU!

Many thanks to the record-breaking numbers of people (friends and strangers alike) who attended the 5th annual Collaborative Art Show ("Bear Art") at The Bike Stop March 12-13, 2010. Though numbers are not to my knowledge, suffice it to say, many children will be going to Camp Brightfeather, a summer camp for children with HIV and children whose families are affected by HIV thanks to all of you! Kind personal thanks go out to Veronica Bound (curator and organizer extraordinaire), The Liberty Bears of Philadelphia (the sponsors of this event), the owners and staff of The Bike Stop (who welcomed the event), my friends who were able to attend (sorry for the rain, but at least it wasn't 70 inches of snow, eh?), and the new owners who purchased three of my paintings. I'm very grateful for everyone's support, comments, observations and newfound acquaintences. Have a safe St. Patrick's Day week!

2.22.09



Take this to your leader: I'm helping spread the word and sell the latest CD by Phil Barker (original member of the Ohio band "Flat Bush") entitled "Take Me To Your Leader", I (my musical side now by the name "Still Inertia", published through CRC Music) make a guest appearance in a very early (we're talking circa 1996-ish) guest piano performance in one song entitled "Space Stripper". How can you check this album out? Well, if you missed out on the live show in June 2007, CRC Music is the place to order it from. The cost is $12 (plus 2-3 USPS Priority shipping charges). Again, I am not the publisher of this CD, but I'm merely helping connect orders from people to Phil Barker's music via the Internet. The album is published by Green Fiddler Publishing (BMI). I am simply happy to help spread the word of globally local talent.

CLICK HERE to go directly to the ordering page.

1.10.09

Things change and time passes. Still Inertia is letting the passage of time slowly re-shape and continue to mold these pieces into some finality of the upcoming 3rd album "Invested" (presumably in 2010)! There has been a new instrument introduced into the strudio. A KP3 Kaoss Pad by Korg and some fine tuning post recording work needs to be done through this year... not to mention copyright legalities and packaging. Jason Kraley (the man behind Still Inertia) still personally invites you INTO the CRC Music Studio to find out how you can help - and to give you a special opportunity to hear 5 songs that have been created since the beginning of this "Invested" album project (some tracks will be on the album).... just to give you a glimpse of how much time, effort and emotion has been invested into the ultimate goal: The first professionally national duplication, publication and release of the album in 2011. For more information, click here. Think of it as a nice birthday gift, if you insist.... [sigh] yes, I'm a year older...

10.29.08
Thank you to all who came to the Voyeur event. We raised over $1800 for the Mazzoni Center's Toys for Children with HIV/AIDS as well as The Keystone boys Of Leather group. DVDs of the silent video will be compiled and given as gifts to the main donors and all acotrs and actresses who participated in my filming project "Voyeur" which was projected throughout that night at The Bike Stop.

8.25.08

I have been absent online for quite some time. I now have more titanium in me, no one would really know it if they saw me, hell: it barely wants to be visible in an xray, but I can feel it and if you look real close, the multiple titanium plate fragments show themselfs only where the open holes and screw bolts are in the plates. One could say I'm the new 50 million dollar Jason Kraley... but it wasn't that much. Sadly, it is non-ferrous, which means it won't conduct electricity, it iwll not expand or contract from heat, and, sadly, it is not magnetic: So I can't do stupid party tricks like people making poems with those silly refrigerator magnets with words and letters... I'm on the mend, doing many things, including working with the lovely government, which actually is now working with me and soon... in the "wheneverywhere" near future... I will be releasing my 4-year album in the works... professionally. Professionally printed, packaged, UPC coded, and maybe, just maybe, in a crappy store near you! Thank you all for your emails, cards, and gifts! Cheers.

5.21.08


The 0-10 pain scale used to be that 10=passing a kidney stone back when I was 28. Accordingly, the surgery, upon waking, was a resoundingly knife-stabbing "35-40" on that scale. It took the most amount of drugs to almost kill a person without sedating them (since the goal was to awake me from surgery, which was 1 hour and 50 minutes). After all they could do, if I turned that 35-40 into an absolute 10, all the drugs they gave me brought it to a 9.5

Thank you to all who have been there for me through it all, especially Stevo, Tosh, and Jason... and that cool nurse who hooked me up with the tastiest farewell meal that didn't include decaf tea and chicken broth soup again as my last meal before hospital departure.

Picture provided by the lovely Luca, whose graduation I am sorry to miss later this week... happy birthday in advance to Steve, the most supportive and understanding person through it all, thank you to Toshio, the coolest friend to ever get ALL my ear and facial jewelry back in place after all these surgical visits, and to people like Mr. Russell and the fine friends in Cleveland who are attempting to stay in contact with my progress through the conscious and unconscious moments of my month of hell.

5.12.08
THANK YOU to all who came out supported the Bears On Liberty Weekend event this past weekend and thank you to all those who attended last month's Bear Art exhibition. You all were hopefully entertained, had fun, and you also helped raise money for charity for both events. Thank you to all those who helped out and thought kindly to involve my experience into the fold.

9.21.07

          FILM ID: CR-V10

The last night of the 2007 Live Arts/Philly Fringe Festival's Late Night Cabaret (September 15, 2007) projected the premiere of the second annual top secret film Kraley Productions was graciously asked to create in front of the second largest audience ever for a Kraley Productions film. Directed and edited by Jason Kraley, this year the film took on a "mockumentary" version of NBC's (and BBC's) show entitled "The Office". The video is set in the new (and newly high-tech) Live Arts Box Office in Philadelphia. Starring Komal Kapoor, Amanda Grove, Lori Aghazarian, Becca Bernstein, Dom Chacon, Maya Choldin, Mike Dees, Jared Delaney, Jen Dillon, Karen DiLossi, Amanda Ditsky, Casey Gallagher, Tom Shotkin, Kate Tejada, and Jay Wahl, this film was shot in 7 hours and edited over the course of 5 exhaustive days. The ensemble of staff workers, actors and actresses, 2 cameras, 2 wireless microphones, and great improvisational action based on simple ideas written int he course of the previous week made this piece come alive and had the crowd unexpectedly laughing throughout a rather lengthy "spoken word" piece. This piece was musically saved by Toshio Mana and Gooding and edited on Final Cut Pro 4.5 HD. Much thanks to Stephen Keever (Executive Producer and Second Camera Operator/Super-Hero) and Maya Choldin (my first officially degreed Assistant Director). The piece marks Jason Kraley's 10th film, running 14 minutes, plus an additional 4 minutes for credits offering a special bonus of "outtakes" and memorable clips during the "on set" shoot, filmed and edited between September 9-15. This DVD will be ready for online purchase in the next week at Kraley Productions.

7.9.07


NOW RELEASED FOR FREE DOWNLOAD:
"The Reconstitution Of Roto Visage". Eleven artists came together to reinterpret, reinvent, and reconstitute the work of Roto Visage. Featuring remixes by: I.V.Lab, Pocka, Ahasverus, Conversations About The Light; Defractory, Calyx After This, Retro, Still Inertia, Worms Of The Earth, Anything In Wire, Nostalgia.

I played my hand (well, under my musical identity: Still Inertia) in this new online album by creating a re-version sonata of the song called "Smudge" by Roto Visage off their album - "La Muse Cachée". I spent several hard days creating a 7:32 version called "Smudged." I hope you all enjoy in the infinite vastness of musical appreciation, artistic deviation and expressionism that Roto Visage gave all us musicians such a great honor to explore...

This album guest appearance for Still Inertia has been added to Still Inertia's Discography. Click here for more information on the song line up, how to download individual songs or even the entire album online... for free courtesy of Kaos ex Machina netlabel.

Enjoy!

5.11.07


I have just been editorially recognized as the featured multi-media artist for the Spring 2007 issue of The Ashe Journal: an explorationally spiritual/artistic publication which provides a FREE DOWNLOADABLE issue in PDF format, or you can purchase a full color hardcopy to be delivered to your home.

I was asked to do the front and back cover designs as well as write an essay about my life up to this point. Amazingly, nothing censored! So have fun, read about myself and the other contributors and support "The Ashe Journal" and "Still Inertia" by buying a hardcopy of this issue, if you dare...

MUCH THANKS TO SVEN DAVISSON! Spread the word!

4.21.07
Thank you to all those who made it out to see the first public showing of Still Inertia's "Closer To Me" video and another nice viewing of Gooding's "Sunday Morning" at Joe's Coffee in Philadelphia. For those of you who inquired about the new album by Still Inertia, feel free to visit www.stillinertia.com for continual updates. Thank you very much to Joe's Coffee and for your applause. It meant a lot to me..

10.20.06
"CLOSER TO ME" (THE NEW VIDEO & SONG)

Of these many songs in the progress for my upcoming third album, INVESTED, there are a few that have been complete and awaiting their final placement on the album itself. One song is called "Closer To Me" and is pre-released with its very own video! I have been working on it (under the Kraley Productions realm) for the past 3 weeks and is now the first video converted to be viewable online.

October 7, 2006 was the official release date of the second music video ever for Still Inertia. It is an exclusively first new music video for a song called "Closer To Me" which is promoting the forthcoming third album entitled "Invested." Using footage spanning over 2 years in Cleveland, Ohio, the final lyrical pieces were shot in a day in Philadelphia, PA. Massive amounts of footage taken in Philadelphia were crunched down during pre-production to workable time-elapsed footage. This video explores the rather ever-changing emotional and mental health of someone who needs to get closer toward their own "within" before they are too far gone. It also demonstrates the continually evolving exploration of the creative boundaries of my music from its previous years. This, of course, combined with the other song "Eileen" only gives you a taste of what is to come on my third album under the identity Still Inertia.

The DVD features the full quality version (29.97 frames per second) as opposed to the 15 fps smaller/compressed version in QuickTime format for viewing across the Internet. Fully edited on Final Cut Pro 4.5 HD and finalized with complete menu design and integration on DVD Studio Pro 3. Total editing time: 3 weeks.

TO LISTEN TO THE NEW SONG:
Written & Produced by J. Kraley
Additional Drumwork: Roto Visage
Vocals, Lyrics, Music: J. Kraley

VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING ONLINE:
(QuickTime, 19.1Mb)
VIDEO AVAILABLE ON DVD:
(More details...)

9.17.06

Well the secret is out. The last night of the 2006 Philly Fringe Live Arts Late Night Cabaret (September 16, 2006) debuted the top secret film Kraley Products was asked to create in front of the largest audience ever for a Kraley Productions film debut. Directed and produced by Jason Kraley, the film was a mixture of sharing the daily life of a volunteer at the ticket selling Box Office during the Philly Fringe Festivals, saying goodbye to the head supervisor of 10 years (Lori Aghazarian) and turning her into the daydreaming star equivalent to the relative idea of the movie Flashdance, back in 1983. The video is set to Irene Cara's song "Flashdance...What A Feeling" and the film was shot and edited over the course of 7 days. The ensemble of staff workers, actors and actresses, and 2 choreographers made this piece come alive and had the crowd laughing and screaming all the way through. This piece was shot with one camera with massive tripod movement and edited on Final Cut Pro 4.5 HD. The video stars way too many people to list here, however the credits offer a special bonus of "outtakes" and memorable clips during the "on set" shoot. Film runs just under 8 minutes and was filmed between September 7-11, 2006.
THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO SUPPORTED THIS PROJECT AND CAME TO THE CABARET!

4.16.06
I just installed a huge chunk of memory engrams starting from my birth through 1996, as well as some memories of my last Cleveland apartment, my old car, and memories of the 2004 video shoot for "These Are My Tensions". They are all located in "The Memory" section. Not only am I complying with the Paper Reduction Act of 1990, but you never know what can happen to cherished photographs throughout your life (especially ones from the pre-digital Era). The only certainty is that they all will eventually fade in time; sometimes with the memory itself... except here.

2.23.06
There is a woman who lived over 86 years. Her name is Eileen. She is my grandmother. She passed away on February 5, 2006 at 5am EST. Her death (and life) has had such an impact on me, the only natural way for me to express it was to write a new song. I wrote this song, entitled "Eileen", 4 days after her passing, and will be on the forthcoming album by Still Inertia: "Invested". If you would like to hear it, feel free to click on the link below so that her life may emotionally touch other humans like yourselves in ways she could not have possibly imagined during her lifetime:




1.31.06
A big thanks for all those whom I've been told showed up for the movie, "Born Lucky". I apologize for not being able to share in the experience of being with Shahin on stage to introduce the movie, but I was glad to hear there was distinct mention and relaying of my apologies for being far away. I hope you all enjoyed it, casted your votes for the evening, and hopefully the film may travel the country all beause of all of you!

11.8.05
I am living in Philadelphia, for those of you wondering why my sea level has changed so drastically. For those of you wondering what I was up to with the "Final Days" painting spark, the entire collection is now on display and for your personal viewing in the newly updated Portfolio under the Art:Paintings section. In other news, due to my irratic mental state, I'm embarking on a project that will turn into the form of a new album, once again only as freneticly different as my brain is at this moment in my life.
Stay tuned for further information.



9.26.05
THANK YOU EVERYONE!

Thank you so much for all your support and attendance. I am pleased to have touched so many people in so many differently shared ways. I am also glad to have sold such a variety of selections from my current collection of paintings and photographs. I have been further inspired to continue to create along the style from which my new work is emerging from... when I settle in Philadelphia.

4.12.05
Still Inertia: "From The Ancient Center"

(THE SECOND ALBUM)


"From The Ancient Center" is the new album from Still Inertia which serves as the musical companion to an art exhibition installed April 7, 2005, by native Cleveland artist, Christine Siarka, entitled "From The Ancient Center: Mandala Drawings and Metal Sculptures". Christine translates her own personal, contemporary versions of mandalas from the traditional Tibetan concepts into amazing metal sculptures of mandalas. Working under the musical identity Still Inertia, I was commissioned to create music specifically for this exhibit and its installation. Working in the studio with Mike Williams (of MadNote Productions) and Amanda North, this is the first time Still Inertia created an album that concentrates on the human experience during meditation. With such intentions, it is with great hope that the listener becomes aware of the moment in time they create each time this album is played in its entirety; a moment when nature and technology exist harmoniously...

Fretless bass guitars, Siren-like vocal textures, rich layers of tribal rhythms, tints of pianos, humpback whales, a chinese gong, and even a turntable are all carefully and vividly woven together to create "From The Ancient Center". With meticulous continuity clocking in at 45 minutes, this album exhibits 4 songs (or movements) specifically created for the walking meditation engaged during the exhibition's opening night. The evening was a wonderful success and experience, and the CD was pre-released to those who attended that night. The positive consensus from the participants in the walking meditation was: "I've never heard music like this before."

Curious? Trust your ears:

"Cetus (excerpt)" Listen (MP3, 1.2M)
"You Shed Light In Me (excerpt)" Listen (MP3, 1.2M)
"Vessels (excerpt)" Listen (MP3, 1.3M)

The music was a permanent installation of the exhibit and will continue to encourage the interaction of visitors, connecting the visual art with the music, to create an ever-evolving rock mandala in the center of the room. Photos and video captured its growth and will be released online in the very near future in The Memory section.

Visit www.stillinertia.com to purchase this CD.
Visit the Still Inertia Discography for track listings.

3.25.05


As for Matt Cirino, my personal tattooist: He has relocated back to Cleveland, Ohio, and currently works at The Illustrator in Elyria, Ohio. To contact him personally for appointments and information, please email him at mattsaweee@yahoo.com

12.22.04

Thank you for visiting! I am a freelance web/graphic designer, programmer, artist, musician, and filmmaker all rolled into one person (with 4 websites to help spread the madness). In 2004, this site has gone through a most extensive and complete overhaul since the year 2000. I also run my record label CRC-Music (www.crc-music.com), I present my musical indentity through www.stillinertia.com, and all my accomplishments as well as abilities available for freelance and outsourcing needs can be explored through Kraley Productions (www.kraleyproductions.com).

This section I update most often out of all the site... just to let everyone (anyone who cares to) know about what is currently going on in my life.. no matter how far away you all may be geographically. The Story section contains the story of my life in the form of info and recommendations. Feel free to have a look around, view my portfolio, bookmark my reference section and if you have any questions or comments, please send them to jason@jasonkraley.com.

Yes, I am on MySpace.
www.myspace.com/jasonkraley

Yes, I am on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/jasonkraley

No, I am not on MyFace - er, Face Book.

Hellos =
Stevo, Keith, Ariana, Mike Williams, Gooding and his crew, Elaine (my non-pink mohawked chickadee), Mr. Jason Popejoy, Nicole, Mike Gaines, Matt Cirino, John "I Am Electro" Rowland, Sara "Loverlips" Langhenry, Toshio, John/Jeremy/June, Shwag & Lisa, Veronica Bound & Aaron, Bill & Dan, Ren & Dell, Abner & John, "Skink" Dan (in the cheese state), Toshio, CJ, Chrissy B., Jason W, Shannon, Lil' G, Christine Siarka, Shahin Afnan, Vincent O, Alx, Natalie, Bonepumpkin (Matt Jay), Rob Harmon (Bound In Ink), Mike Taylor, Coral, Disastro, Drubskin, Gavin & Jim, Ginger, Anne Marie, Holly, Lori L, Lori A, John Nanovsky & Peggy, Drew, Bear and Jeff, Sandy, Juleen, MC Cornflake and Marcus Absent (aka Christian), Crusher (I miss your chiropractic skills), everyone kind soul at The Bike Stop and in The Liberty Bears of Philadelphia, Zach, Courtney and Jeremy, Phil & Stephen M., Jeff Junker (thank you for Bender), Skinhead John, Pedro - The Old Wiseone, Jason D, Salaha (are you alive?), Sara J.M., Eddie Beverage, Mary & Toni, Mark & Darren (and that London pal Paul, too!), Stu, Nate, Sean & Brian (Boston), Mark & Kerri of the Hudson Falcons, Johnny Shea & Mark Blanx, Anja, Mattymoo, Jason D, Everyone at Muggs Bar, Tammy R., JoHn (Yep yep) Reno (still alive buddy?), Melanie & Terry R., Andre, (Where in the world is) Jeremy my ex-"acclink"-co-worker, Amanda North, Amanda Bell & Jason Mould, January & Jason (from the Bloody Irish Boys), Jason Coffman, Mike Trombley, Michael Casey, Jen D./Kate/Everyone at 1812 Productions, John Loesch, Grucy Steve Fox, John Gill, Gilligod, Evil Steve-o & Kev Kev, Kevin Glaccum, Mike Dees, Pete Prior, The Fabulous Lee Etzold and Doug, Luca & Becca, Marc & Jay, Nate, My NY pals (Bill, Hypofixx, Joe "The Director", Patrick, Roger, & Tammy R.), Psydde Delicious & his boutique, "R0gu3", Johnny Flash, Jen Engel (alive?), Jern, Lisa H. and T'Jork, Bob Nekic, Nadine, Pepper McGowen, Bertie, Punkrock Pete, Amneh T, Eric "The Pigfucker", JT and Ty, Evan B. (where for art thou?), Robby and Sal, Robert Drake, the parental units (Mum and Dad, Phil and Laura as well), Joe Minadeo, Jude (Jugoe), Brad from Low Technicians, Jack Dangers and his crew, Greg Boil (from The Boils), The Unstoppable Guy from Guns On The Run (we miss you Dick!), the blokes from Hard Skin (had a blast meeting you and hearing you each night), and everyone else not mentioned! You know who you are (or perhaps why you weren't)...