Ed Muscle Internet Deathbed

Hello

Welcome to the internet deathbed of Ed Muscle, a small American image-making studio based in Portland, Oregon.

Wrestling with form since 1984.

At Work

This summer, we're re-organizing our websites, working on a small book and starting the dirty work on a few longer term projects.

Helpful Quotes

“Woman is a rich source of dreams. Never touch her.”
Pessoa

“The tale is a block of darkness that I chip away at deliberately until I begin to glimpse tiny stars within; I seek to unveil as many of these as I can, leaving just the right amount of darkness behind them to make them shine the brighter by contrast, protecting them from the day.”
William T. Vollmann

“Conditions will never be ideal. Open your heart and begin.”
Francis Muscle

Active Sites...

What we have loved, others will love, and we will teach them how.

Wordsworth

State of the Muscle

  • And... The Ed Muscle Atlas is up. 07-05
  • Image archive is live. Atlas site next. 07-05
  • Made it home. Feeling energized. New stuff soon! 06-25
  • Road trip in June. Somewhere south of here. 05-31
  • All new images must be: thin, hard, electric. 04-26
  • It seems impossible to live this life without any defenses. Still: must remove all defenses. 04-26

GOOGLERS...

If you want her...

Keep it light!

Also...

Tell her everything.

Mission

I want to create meaningful work that bounces off the tip of the feeling as I'm feeling it.

Team Muscle

Ed Madrid

Ed Muscle and Ed Muscle’s Internet Deathbed are the work of Portland-based artist and newspaperman Ed Madrid in collaboration with various friends and rivals.