David Menestres

@abstracttruth.bsky.social

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Destroy the original. Fax the images to Newark. davidmenestres.com Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/LGjqTCbctIfzanv6jEdM4Q88-gRORqbNrxZoWuHUs8BTfG7-NpFGao1HC8l7SHZs

The new Radon Abatement cassette and inserts. At the top is the cassette, the middle is the j-card/cover, and at the bottom is the insert with some words and a small reproduction of four Polaroids showing the band members.
It's a tromboncino squash on my kitchen countertop. It is big and bulbous at one end and rather lithe and swan like at the other. The setting sun has provided some dramatic lighting.
Squirrel eating a green tomato on a fence post.
It's a show flyer for the show linked in the previous post. It is essentially four images of a very cute kitten, one taking up the left half, and the other three taking up equal parts of the right half, with various color filters. And yeah it's a real cute cat and she is a sweetheart in person.
It's a show flyer featuring pictures of Ben's lovely little cat when she was a kitten. All text in post.
Dude playing some electronics in the backyard with a mono PA speaker behind him, looming like death itself.
A dude sitting in front of a backyard shed shredding some guitar.
Two people playing music: sax/electronics & drums. The lighting is very moody and what not
Two people playing music: sax/electronics & drums.
Three people playing music together.
Three small ears of Cherokee long ear small popcorn still on the cob. The individual kernels a very multi-colored running from pale yellows to almost black purples.
Show flyer, all text in post. There are many overlaying images of people and abstract objects. The color palette is mainly oranges and reds with the text in bold yellow capital letters.
White dude shreds a guitar
A Black woman playing music with various electronics & a cajon.
Two people making noise music with an assortment of objects.
Show flyer. All text in post. The left side of the image is black. On the right we see a bird on it's side covered by an electrical diagram and it is all heavily tinted read. Text is all in capital letters and is yellow.
Show flyer, all text in post. Text is most dark blue on a a heavily reddish-orange image showing various cars, intersections, and a woman dancing across it, but everything is in layers and blends together.
Show flyer. Some kind of botanical-ish drawing on a mustard-yellow-ish background. All text in post.
A young woman plays flute through a microphone.
An older white woman plays an upright piano.
Two old white dudes playing music in a recording studio.
Close up of the top of a bag of dark blue balloons which reads "Qualatex The Very Best Balloons"
The two zines mentioned in post. Both are 8.5x11 folded into 8 page zines printed in black and white.
Show flyer, all text in post. Text is most dark blue on a a heavily reddish-orange image showing various cars, intersections, and a woman dancing across it, but everything is in layers and blends together.
Three white dudes playing music.
A woman plays an electric cello through pedals
Dude singing and playing a harmonium while his husband plays drums.
A white dude singing and holding an electric bass.
The view from the stairs looking down on a dude playing guitar with pedals and things.
Looking down on me playing double bass and CillaVee dancing
3 Black women playing music in an art gallery.
3 Black women playing music in an art gallery.
A person is playing an acoustic guitar, a bunch of pedals, an ipad, & a mixer.
A person playing music in a living room.
3 dudes playing music in a living room.
Slow flyer for the last Test Run. All text in post. It's all text aside from some squiggly lines.
A couple of people climbing on a pink sculpture in the ponds at ICA RVA. They are holding bamboo flutes.
Flyer by Emily Vaughn Brown. It's a bluish-green background with a heavily stylized face in white. Text reads "Forced Resonance pond theater activity @ ICA 6/5/26"
Three dudes playing music in a thrift store. One doing trumpet & electronics, one on drums, one on modular synth
Interior shot of Circle Thrift.
A sign hanging above a urinal which reads "Please Do Not Spit tobacco Products into the Urinal Thank You!" and Do and Not are double underlines. The signs is hanging on white cinder block wall and you can see banding from the florescent lights.
Mnemonic trying to eat a toy piano at Material Room during a set that included Al Margolis & Sara Bouchard.
Two people playing music in a large living romt. On the left is a dude playing guitar and on the right a woman playing saxophone & electronics.
Two people playing music in a large living romt. On the left is a dude playing guitar and on the right a woman playing saxophone & electronics.
Saadia moving through a seated audience, rubbing her head against an audience member. A smiling person with a mohawk and multiple older people looking on
Flyer for show all text in post. The images are what appears to be baby dolls dangling from branches of a fig tree overlaid with pictures and text from a page in a book about Nancy Holt's sun tunnels.
A chair with a sign for tonight's show with the band names written in chalk.
Show flyer. All text in post. It's a collage type image with hands wringing out a mop, a small child playing a flute? in rain gear. And a couple of smaller images i don't know what they are.
Three older dudes making noises in a large room at the library.
Three dudes if varying ages playing various forms of electronics in a mostly dark room. Large red rectangle of light in the background.
A circular pin of the hausu mountain logo in the back of my car.
My left hand holding the new book from Melvin Gibbs called "How Black Music Took Over the World."
It's my right palm smeared with blood & guts from a mosquito.
"Jesus Wept" from the end of Hellraiser. Dude with chains through his flesh being ripped apart says "Jesus Wept."
Pale yellow bookmark. The image is a still from Terminator 2 with Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor loading a shotgun. Text reads: SMALL FRIEND RECORDS & BOOKS since 2018 I NORTH LOMBARDY ST. RICHMOND, VA [Image] ALL MY HEROES HATE AI
Mr. Burns "Excellent" .gif
Screeshot from the Libby app for RVA public library showing an ebook copy of "The Edge of Space-Time" with "About 14 weeks wait. 1 copy in use. 6 people waiting."
The glow of a small analog tv set illuminates a walkman on the floor.
Show flyer. Image is some leaves on the muddy ground. Text reads: ZabELKA BONG+CillaVee Al Margolis - clarinet, violin, contact mics Walter Wright - Board Weevil, percussion Mia Zabelka - violin, electronics, voice CillaVee - movement, voice April 18 2p @ Richmond Public Library
Show flyer. Picture is looking up through winter trees at the sky. Text reads: Improv Jam, sound & movement Andrea Beeman, Tommy Birchett, Sara Bouchard, Zoe Brezenski, CillaVee, Kittie Cooper, Jacob Courington, Danny Finney, Jimmy Ghaphery, Al Margolis, David Menestres, Ken Montgomery, Tyler Magill, Will Mullany, Saadia Rais, Davis Salisbury, Liam Weikart, Walter Wright, Mia Zabelka April 18 @ The Material Room doors 7:30pm music 8pm, $10 donation NOTAFLOLF