March 23, 2012

  • ))((

    "like a bad tv commercial"
    have you seen the bad creepy tv commercial where the new bride and groom keep getting warned separately about how they are doomed to lose everything? it's from some data storage back up your files type schemapository.

    they are out to make money sure but it is a sad fact of digital life that all these pieces of our work, lives, art, film and music are only as real as the electrons holding them together in a magnetic sea of a billion on and offs per second.
    and when your hard drive crashes, it's all gone, usually.
    we had two computers die this week here in the house. This bein g written on an old scrapper machine with funny blue lights and fans all over it. I squeezed in a couple of drives and broke me some windows to have and see thru for a while...
    got the ubuntu brewing up as we speak tho...

    I am missing all my art and music.
    The art part obviously sucks because I had created it all over the course of years and years....
    the music i have a back up somewhere out there,...I can probably downlow it from the youtube again if I have to.
    but eh, the show must go on...I'd like to share the last piece of art I made with the old machine...I made a print and t-shirt for my Zazzle store, Jolly Rastafari.
    It's called" The Power of Cock", I felt like I had to make it after days of seeing a big rooster with hypnotizing eyes screaming at me " The power of Cock compels you" all exorcist-style and stuff. anyway, here it is:
     
     

    now available as a
    print or t-shirt!



March 20, 2012


  • "I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth,
    forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily
    with my disposition that this goodly frame, the
    earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most
    excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave
    o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted
    with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to
    me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
    What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
    how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
    express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
    in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the
    world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me,
    what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not
    me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling
    you seem to say so." ~Hamlet

March 9, 2012

  • underwater love story - (reposted for your viewing pleasure)

     

     

    plank

                                in_water

                                             

      wet%20yello.jpg

     

                                                         SWB3_temp

                                                         DWB3.jpg

                                                                           Drowning-Hand.jpg     

                             taleoftheseamaid2.JPG

                                                                      150px-Hanakapiai_Beach_Warning_Sign_Only.jpg  

                        ophelie

                                           212013929_ed2476b3ef.jpg

                                           waterdress.jpg

                       

                         underwaterluv.jpg

          lovedark

     

     

     

     


     

February 22, 2012

  • i can see green when i lay in my hammock and see the sky thru the trees and their leaves.
    it's going to hit 78 here in the big D today...mild winter so far...I'm calling an early spring this year!

February 8, 2012

February 3, 2012

  • vivaldi

    it feels like spring and smells like fall at  72°
    tonight
    here in the dead of winter,
    looks like another rainy day to come
     followed by balmier inclinations
    i think i just saw a mosquito flit by the tv screen.
    damn this weather is making me horny.
    uh, i didn't reaaly just type that, did i?
    woops.
    `a.

January 21, 2012

  • mmm, cheeseburger...not!

    soylent ...pink?


      
    I still love cheeseburgers.
    but i guess I'm old fashioned....could always live with the old formula of the fda which did have a small allowance for, er, um, small percentage of cow by-products in ground beef...icky i know but it had been that way since before my parents were born...then came the rise in e-coli poisonings...real cause unknown, most likely due to an industrialisation of cows as products of mass consumption....much finger pointing on all sides, people dead, including children.
    and so the gods of the fast food machine, when given the choice between insisting that meat vendors clean up their acts and stop treating living beings as commodities and perhaps spending a little bit more or going with a quick technological fix that in turn created new sub industries for meat that was previously unusable for even pet food purposes and making a quick buck in the process, well, obviously the health of the public comes first, right?
    right?
    hello?
    it just goes to show, that with enough monosodium glutamate, apathy, secrecy, aluminium hydroxide, and ignorance, even dead cow can taste pretty good.

    mmm, cheeseburgers....not!

    "“Basically, we’re taking a product that would be sold at the cheapest form for dogs, and after this process we can give it to humans,”

    "BPI’s innovation was to develop high-tech methods of removing bits of beef from fatty carcass trimmings that had previously been sold for pet food or animal feed and then treating the beef with ammonium hydroxide gas to kill bacteria. "

    www.argusleader.com

    McDonald's and two other fast-food chains have stopped using an ammonia-treated burger ingredient that meat industry critics deride as 'pink slime.' The product remains widely used as low-fat beef filling in burger meat, including in school meals.

       


    edit: I incorrectly listed aluminium hydroxide as an ingredient in the sliming process, when actually its ammonium hydroxide. But don't worry, the aluminium is found in the cheese in the form of sodium aluminium phosphate, lest that cheese refuse to calcify.
    enjoy!

December 14, 2011

  • I GOT A JOB!


    I GOT A JOB AFTER SOME SERIOUSLY LONG AND HARD SEARCHING.
    I WAS ALMOST GETTING SCARED, AND I DO NOT SCARE EASILY.
    PERSISTENCE PAYS OFF, AND NOW...
    I'M WORKING IN A MACHINE SHOP, RUNNING A LATHE AND END MILL.
    I CUT THRU HIGH GRADE STEEL WITH INDUSTRIAL MACHINES, I BEAT RUSTY PIECES OF SCRAP METAL APART WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER, I BLAST RUST AWAY WITH THE POWER OF A DESERT CYCLONE...
    CASH PAID DAILY AND LUNCH TOO-
    JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS.
    THANKS GOD, I OWE YOU ONE.

November 7, 2011





  • I dislike being censored by a company I do business with...Zazzle in this case, where the majority of my designs are distributed thru. Most of the time my vexations with Zazzle are upload/download issues or making sure that colors do not bleed thru or that my stuff is always at the bottom of their featured list or not show up at all.
    I'm not worried about that as an artist; I'm a big boy and I can hammer out color issues or upload/download and I'm not worried about their silly little online market...'cause I'm drinking Milk and someday some famous Rockstar is gonna be wearing my cool threads.
    Unless of course, he or she never gets to see them in the first place.
    Case in point:
    "Follow Your Leader", a stencil depicting Adolf Hitler blowing his brains out with the title caption featuring prominently.
    This stencil first appeared on the Berlin Wall during the 80's and has been sprayed on walls all over the world around the punk and skate scene...
    I am not claiming ownership, I just like to play with pretty colors and textures as is usually the norm in my art.
    My version is standard Rastafari colors of green, yellow, and red, with green being the left and gun, yellow Hitler in the middle with his brains blowing out red to the right, all fading in a bilinear gradient.
    Copyright is not at issue here.
    Zazzle is trying to ban this particular piece saying they or their shareholders don't like it without saying why
    "Design contains content that is not suitable for printing on Zazzle and/or it's brand partners"
    Is all I got from them so far.
    Now, obviously Zazzle can do whatever the fuck they want. It's their company, I merely provide the ideas, they provide the thread, ink, and marketplace.
    Convenient, yes, but I still don't like being told what I can or can't say/print, particularly when I am taking a stand against racism.
    Soon I will have my own press and be able to make some of these designs myself on my own t-shirts...till then I may be migrating over to Threadless or one of the other online fashion design houses. It's a wait and see for now.
    `J.



November 3, 2011

  • 42, going on 42

       
    Have you ever forgotten how old you were? have you ever been just dead wrong about it for a whole year? I think I must have hypnotized myself some how last year, I must have really not been very resistant or unimpressed or something....as was recently pointed out to me, I am 41, and about to to be 42 tomorrow...but all year i have been thinking i was *already* 42 and was about to turn 43.
    i saw my mom a few days ago and she corrected me..but still it took a calculator + my mom + memories from school/ drunken new years eves gone by. to make me realize just how far off the calender i was ....  I think maybe i was abducted...possibly brobed? (what a classic typo!) no, i haven't been 'brobed in a while thank god. just in ahaze of sortz.
    i vaguely remember one of my other personalities pulling a fast one on me last year...maybe he wasnt having a good time at his birthday last year? I'm not sure.
    I still don't get it. It's some kind of trick or riddle.
    why would i believe i was a year older than i really was for almost a whole year?what would be the idea/purpose from the other one(s) ?
    but i guess in the short term..
    I AM NOT AS OLD AS I THOUGHT I WAS BY A WHOLE YEAR!
    wow.
    i still can't believe i'm still 41.
    for one more day.
    again.
    ; )
    bonus pic!

    "Kundalini Dragon" by Aaron McNees ©2011