Jordan Wayne Long

I'm an installation/Performance artist originally from Bald Knob, Arkansas. Here you'll find my work, things I think about and artists I think you should know about. I currently live in L.A. and am co-owner of The Pretty Gallery and co-founder of halfcuttea. You can visit my website HERE.

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Snow comes to the manor.

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Here's the video documentation for my latest performance piece I did at 12128 in Portland, OR. Here's the link to the video: https://vimeo.com/101601760

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Hunting by Running. 

This civilization hunts by exhausting their prey. Watch this guy run down a Kudu. I love the respect they have for the animals they hunt. 

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Sandeep Parikh {Writer/Director/Actor}

Take a look at our newest short documentary about the Actor/Director/Writer Sandeep Parikh. 

He’s well known for playing Zaboo in Felicia Day’s series “The Guild.” but he’s also written and directed a web-series for Comedy Central called “The Legend of Neil” and is currently producing content for the Nerdist including his new animated series “Game Off.” Take a look into what it takes to create comedy content in the online world. 

-Half Cut Tea

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I love "The Legend of Neil". It was so great to get to film Sandeep and watch what he creates. 

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Check out the soundtrack to Nick & Lilah’s “Glass Cabin” documentary. 

Like this and want to hear more?

Matt Glass creates the music for our documentaries and you can listen to all of his work HERE!

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Episode 3 of Season 2 is now up over at Half Cut Tea.

About the artists:

Jennifer Catron and Paul Outlaw are two southern artists who live in Brooklyn, NY and are changing the way the world looks at performance art.

Whether it’s serving Southern crawfish and Po’ boy sandwiches out of their fish fry truck, having dinner atop hydraulic tables or giving hot air balloon rides above the New York City skyline, Jen and Paul are making their mark on the art world as a duo going to great lengths to give you a performance piece like you’ve never seen before.

Both Jen and Paul make their living outside of the art world, Jen as a tutor and Paul as a set designer. This gives them the freedom to decide where they’re going and where their art will take us next.

-Half Cut Tea

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Hey Conservatives, There’s Nothing “Delusional” About Being Trans

Chelsea Manning’s declaration yesterday that she didn’t want to be referred to as “Bradley” anymore and would like to live as a woman from now on instantly made her the most famous transgender person in the world. It also forced people to deal with the idea that some people feel like they are a man in a woman’s body, a woman in a man’s body, or a version of gender that doesn’t fit into the traditional male-female binary. This is not a new phenomenon—those who are neither precisely men nor women have existed across cultures and eras and have been both venerated and persecuted over the centuries. The simplest and most humane way to treat trans people is to just treat them as people, refer to them as the gender they want to be referred to as, and accept that unless you’re having sex with someone, it doesn’t matter what his or her genitals look like.  

For people who haven’t had much exposure to trans people, however, Manning’s announcement was “controversial” or “confusing.” (Even though it was already known that Manning was transgender.) The ultra-cis folks at Fox & Friends were all like, “Whaaaat? A man wants to be a woman? That is bizarre and I don’t think anyone understands what’s going on!” Other media outlets were reportedly struggling with which pronoun to use when referring to Manning. (It’s not thathard, guys. The VICE style guide says, “If someone is transgender or a transvestite, use the pronoun of his or her preferred gender.”)

Fox and Friends’ bewilderment is certainly insensitive but using the wrong pronoun or admitting that you don’t understand transgender issues isn’t all that vicious or transphobic, necessarily. Enter the National Review’s Kevin D. Williamson, who just wrote a post titled “Bradley Manning Is Not a Woman” and subtitled “Pronouns and delusions do not trump biology.”

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We’re easing into Monday…

A couple leaves their jobs to build a house of windows in the mountains of West Virginia.

Watch the video here

via This is Colossal

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Fresh air picked up our doc on the glass cabin today!

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Half Cut Tea: Artist Documentaries

SEASON 2 PREMIERE 

Episode 1: Nick Olson & Lilah Horwitz

In 2012, Nick and Lilah quit their jobs and set off to build a glass cabin in the mountains of West Virginia.

Nick is a photographer who specializes in tintypes taken with a camera he made himself. He currently works for a landscape company in Milwaukee designing one-of-a-kind objects and spends his off time travelling the country looking for adventure. Lilah is a designer. She has made several clothing lines, each one coinciding with the a city/place she inhabits. She currently sells her work in New York boutiques and also works for a landscaping company in Milwaukee Wisconsin.

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To my Followers:

Half Cut Tea is a project I've been working on for the past 6 months. We recently got back from a Kickstarter funded trip where we traveled the country documenting artists. We just put up our first episode from that journey. Please take a look and share. 

Thanks!

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We just released a trailer for Season 2 of our documentary series. We documented artists from Boston, NYC, West Virginia, Detroit, Arkansas, Utah, L.A. and more.

Click on the photo or check out the Trailer: HERE

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My documentary web-series just released a trailer for our upcoming season that starts next week!

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Mos Def Joins Artistic Resistance to Gitmo Prison Camp

In a graphic video published on the Guardian today, Yasiin Bey, better known as Mos Def, undergoes…

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Shooting in West Virgina for Season 2 of Half cut tea documentaries

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Here's some pics of our shoot in West Virgina!

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Jeff Speetjens {puppeteer} 

Jeff Speetjens is a puppeteer living in Santa Monica, CA. At Bootsy Bellows, a nightclub on Sunset Blvd in West Hollywood, Jeff performs with a variety of marionettes from the stage to the dance floor. Jeff has directed a variety of film and stage productions. His short films have been featured in festivals such as the Cannes and Ion film festivals.

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also featuring an original score composed by me!

Check it out

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Some Screen shots from our upcoming Documentary on Jeff Speetjens/ Puppeteer. Jeff took us to Bootsy Bellows to show us just how awesome being a puppeteer can be. 

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Check out our Infomercial explaining some of the incentives we have for our Kickstarter campaign!

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If you’re wondering what the HORSE LEVEL reward  on our Kickstarter will look like, here you go!

Half Cut Tea: Artist Documentaries

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We’ve launched our Kickstarter today to help us reach further in Season 2!

Please check out my Kickstarter campaign to help us fund Season 2 of Half Cut Tea Artist Documentaries. 

Thank you guys!