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the end is near?

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Hi... So, basically i thought i was back and i wasn't. I had to leave again to go on yet another trip. For those keeping score at home (like anyone is still reading any of this or gives a crap at all), that makes Mojave, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Oregon, San Francisco again, Dallas, Palm Springs, and basically the entire state of Wisconsin all in about the last two months. The good news is

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i forgot to mention that i am traveling this week and last. Oregon and San Francisco. I will be back in a week with more photo essays and thoughts (i hope). See you in a bit...Type rest of the post here

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Last week I had to take a day trip to the US/Mexico border (well, let's face it... the US Border) to get some shots for a couple of paintings. From my home, I can leave at 10:30am, drive for 30 minutes, cross the border by foot, take photos, and return home by 2:30.I don't have a lot of time to dive into the subtly huge differences between our perception of "normal" and what is "natural". I

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Just heading out to start my day when my mother gave me the news that Hell has been closed for further remodelling. Perhaps not all of Hell, butat least the area just after the gates. Limbo, or "the fringe" of Hell, once reserved for unbaptized babies to spend eternity floating, is being abolished by the new Pope B. in an effort to gain votes with the pro choice crowd, as the collection of old

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I went on a bit of a walkabout for the past 5 days... perusing Oakland's flea markets, attending an art school prom, flying over the ocean, driving through Joshua Tree and the Mojave Desert to Vegas on Route 66 with a golf legend, and home again.In the meantime, i fell in love with my tiny point and shoot Pentax Optio A20. So here's a little photo essay to pass some time...(shot from the air to

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I recently had the privelege of shooting a Friday Night Boxing event in downtown. Not the big time stuff mind you, just the scrappers, with only near a thousand people in attendance. It was pure bliss. I wasn't prepared at all this time for what shooting boxing would entail (easily the most difficult thing i have ever shot), but next time i will be ready. The event oozed concepts i have been

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in memoriam (the unknown military contractor)suit pockets, brass, bronze, blackening chemicals on canvas4x5' 2007This is a work i am wrapping up at the moment. Well, letting it sit anyway... one of its gorgeous features is that it continues to change due to the chemical reaction that is going on (so i keep working on it). I am still mulling the title... haven't settled. It keeps changing like

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This is my latest painting in the golf series (taken outdoors on a cloudy day... sorry). She is 3 x 5' tall, sosyouknow. For those catching up, I've been painting some golf lately... for monetary interests, and for personal reasons. I've been focusing so far on more the anonymous golfer (also the less white, or less male golfer), or unsung hero of golf as another way of dismantling the

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Hey faithful readers (both of you crazy Uzbekistanians), I am going on a wee bit of a break for the next week. I have some family coming into town and we are going to hang out and not blog. Can you do me a favor though and remind me to come back? I don't want to drift off the blog too long, it gets harder to return. Alright, much love... enjoy the transition into springtime, g

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I'm not going to go into a big long spiel about how 42K is more than the yearly income of 99% of the global population, but i will share a story of which i am reminded. The way this all turns out is not pretty.

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Stretching and priming a big mama last night. I had to capture this image (i chuckle here at my language, as if i was throwing a net on a polar bear), relating to the infinite space. without over dramatizing, i think any artist will tell you that this is the most anxious part of the process. A canvas with paint on it, becomes less menacing (exponentially) with every mark made, as the sea of

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nothing vanishes. (lemon juice and ink transfer on index pages from an old book of quotes)

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What if the emperor was wearing clothes?Why wasn't the idea of clothing enough? Was the tailor really trying to fool the emperor? What if that is only how the story was spun afterwards, because no one, including the emperor, got the concept? (and no one wanted to be the fool?) Were there really no clothes, or were the public's eyes not sensitive enough to see them?Why is it sewn into the US

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Art Powerlines, once again, has me thinking (damn her) with Edouard Glissant's perspective on perspective...."Even when an American artist uses the techniques of perspective, its use is not what accounts for the creative drive in the Americas. It has nothing to do with that. And that is something worth looking into. We are looking and haven't discovered yet. But the fact is that the arts in the

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(history is doomed to be refurbished)

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I have been investigating the idea of memory as a weapon for awhile now, beginning in 2002 with a trip to South Africa, listening to a gallery director speak about what would happen to the monuments of the white Afrikaner, and what new monuments of the struggle against apartheid would look like.HLIB's post regarding the trend toward mass photography relates to this for me, and is also something

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Not much time for blogging today, so i thought i would keep with the Beatles theme for a moment and recall the words of John Lennon, who, if blogging existed in the 70s, probably would have never picked up his guitar again. So, guest blogging from beyond the grave... i turn it over to John...As soon as you're born they make you feel smallBy giving you no time instead of it allTill the pain is so

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Osama bin Laden... still out there.(James Cameron has now managed to resink the Titanic, raise it back up again, de-surrect Jesus and prove he was married with kids, and turn arnold schwarzenegger into a megastar... maybe he can locate ObL too?? Or at least make us a robot that will travel back in time to year 2000 and shoot Ralph Nader...)

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(the following comes from an answer i began to write Steven Larose in the comments from the preceeding post... it got long and started to carry into other things that i figured i might as well post it all... hope that's okay with you SL, but i guess that is what we are all doing here anyway...)SL: As far as the ant/remix connection/alagorical blend goes, I find that it has rung? my proverbial

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I'm about to write a post that i never thought i would. But it's casual Friday so don't think too hard on it.Like a lot of people, I was raised on the Beatles. So much so that listening to a Beatles CD now is like eating Kraft macaroni and cheese. A one time love that takes me back, but to where and really, is this nourishing at all?So if Kraft said they were coming out with mauve colored mac

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Details as i promised...(do these show up on everyone's screen even though they are outmoded?... hee hee, cheeky bastard...)

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photo: Peter Stuckings

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When i was little i would fall asleep to the sounds of my mother's sewing machine in the den down the hall. Other times the sound of her typewriter. And when neither of those were present, my earliest memories were the sounds that came from my pillow. I would hear marching in my pillow (which i suppose now was the sound of my own blood pumping), and i would imagine armies of people or animals

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I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon – but I want to stay alive.-- MadonnaGo ahead and rant amongst yourselves, I'm going to bed.

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in a tangent off ArtPowerline's post here regarding holograms being constructed of tiny parts that are in themselves still the whole. Thinking of how this relates to culture, and compassion... How each one of us is the whole thing. This cultural hologram (this maya?) that is the US(for those of us in the US), and/or that is the "global community"... how it changes, with how we change, with how

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Ceylon Caddie, 1903. oil on canvas. 5x7'And in case anyone might come back and read this blog again, you might be wondering where i've been. Well, i been busy. After deciding to take some time off after being crowned person of the year by Time Magazine (for reals), I have been spending more and more time in the studio.The job that was going to take me into the new year as a magazine editor fell

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My mom just sent me this. Go ahead, take a moment, watch it and come back.Her timing couldn't be better as i was in the middle of a side job for a company that builds ranch style housing throughout the middle of the country. Let me put that another way for those of you who haven't been to Frontierland at Disneyland. These housing tracts are essentially gated communities where you actually live

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I found this painting by Sir Edwin Landseer in one of my artbooks last night. Man Proposes, God Disposes was painted in 1864, when shipwreck paintings were all the rage round Europe, about 5 years after Darwin's Origin of the Species crashed head on into the opiate of the masses leaving said masses a trifle insecure.My fetish for shipwrecks stirred and i was reminded of this image on the cover of

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I promise.

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Disclaimer (part 1)-- I in NO WAY endorse or plan to endanger the life of George W. Bush. Those that know me also know that i am a pacificist, and would rather watch him rot at the bottom of a well for the rest of his life.Disclaimer (part 2)-- I in no way intend to become a blog that focuses solely on conspiracies, for example the stealing of the elections in 2000 and 2004, the plan to destroy

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and who better to say all that doesn't need to be said...

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That's right kids, Brittney and KFed are getting divorced.

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Voting... the last, desperate act of a desperate man.Tomorrow is the single most important day in the history of this country. It is indeed the first day of the rest of our lives.Tomorrow we find out if voting, our last thread of hope in this thing called democracy, is lost with the rest of it. Look, i don't care if you are a republican (aka independent or libertarian now) or a democrat. If you

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(so do we all see the pattern here? Election videos till the big day... I've got to much coming into my brain to really have time for the outputting here... so let these do the talking)

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No amount of marching in the streets is more important than just witnessing the information in this video.A democratic legislator recently received discs in the mail anonymously that could be used to hack into a Diebold machine. Suddenly ABC was reporting that the elections might be skewed. That's all it took for this article... one politician receiving a disc. (this is important to remember)A

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Orwell, eat your heart out...This video is old. Nearly two years old. But have you seen it on TV?American computer programmer Clinton Eugene Curtis is seen in this video testifying under oath in front of the U.S. House Judiciary Members in Ohio.

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What... oh yes, blogging. Well then here i am and here we are and there it all is. I don't know why, but sometimes i just have to take a breather from this whole blog thing.So, without going into a big ol' story about it all. The fence project, this project, was taken down last month.Two men on an unnamed crew came and snipped all the names down. A few community members came and gathered it

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A new friend introduced this to me a couple days ago, and i am in absolute awe. Finally, a reason for the internet...This project is going to change music listening as we know it. Imagine being able to shape radio to exactly the kind of mood you are in, but without being tied to your same old boring collection... this is it... welcome to "God's iPod". (Say goodbye to the next 3 hours of your

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untitledoil on canvas. 8 x 10"this was another wee painting i just finished that i thought i would share. i seem to like having these kinds of paintings going along with anything else in the studio. It is more the place i just get to "paint" and kind of take my mind out of it. The practice of being fully absorbed. I came to this rather huge and really minor revelation yesterday: true awareness

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Ashes connects the dots perfectly.What is amazing is that most liberals and democrats and republicans(dormant) still don't understand this. They are still in some state of "shock" that this administration wouldn't send enough troops, wouldn't have an exit strategy, wouldn't arm the troops they did send, would ignore osama bin laden altogether, would cover up every report of terror on the rise...

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everything in tact/everything in ruinsoil and ink on canvas. 5x5'This is the painting i just finished. The next in the "color by numbers" series i have been working with. First parts are here and here.Some of what i was starting to think about can be read here too. The color by numbers part of the painting i took from the New York Times front page of Bush giving the first issues of the "Medal

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Some people I meet, i just want to keep in a room somewhere so that i can visit them whenever i want. My favorites... my heroes and my inspriration.I had just stepped off the plane in Edinburgh in 1999, the first time I met Alero Olympio. I had never been there, but i was going to stay for two months on a painting commission just before a residency in Italy. She had come to pick me up.I had

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Here.

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I have been receiving bags of fanmail (mostly from Europe, where i'm huge) asking me, "why exactly were you just in Scotland a few weeks ago anyway?"I was hired to go take photos of a golf course in development on the East Lothian coastline of Scotland, also known as "the cradle of golf". Now i can already hear you art nerd cynics out there going, "ewwwww golf??? how borrrring". And that's sad

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Well with a title like that, for sure it's gonna be a cheery post. But i gotta do it, just to help it get around, and so i can reference this later for Dickhead Republican Uncle (who is becoming quite the guest star on Nonprophet).Seems the National Priorities Website (that i found thanks to CnL) has this way of calculating what the US could do with the money that has been used to pay for The

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You scored as Cultural Creative.Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational.Cultural Creative100%Idealist63%Materialist63%Romanticist63%

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Just getting settled in again. Wasn't feeling all back yet since the Edinburgh airport decided to hang on to some of my stuff for awhile. Ugh. I really don't want to get into a rant, but i will say this: it's all a freaking lie, and the security is a joke.How do i know? Well... from the minute you set foot into the airport last week, all you hear is "no lotions liquids or gels". It almost became

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Well the jetlag has got me totally screwed up at this point. Its about 6 in the morning now and i finally decided enough staring at the ceiling and so here i am. Bleary eyed and blogging. Really worth the price of sleep to see this out the window of the flat i am staying in. That is Bass Rock. You can't see the color here but that is a huge white rock off the coast of North Berwick, on the

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i don't think i posted these yet, and i meant to a long time ago. These were the paintings i was talking about a ways back that i did for a show and i got sick right in the crucial part. I consider them more sketches now as i learned so much about what i want to get out of this work. These went over well with a lot of people i guess, but for me they just didn't hit the mark i was looking for. I'm

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I (too) have been reading a lot of what feel like heavy sighs around blogatopia... especially coming from the artsy area.I remember this same lull when we started bombing in Afghanistan, and then Iraq. And now with the Middle East shit on the rise here we are again. I think we take this very hard as artists, many of us anyway... as it is especially antithetical to who we are and what we are

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i'm back from my trip. had the best time, but i realized yesterday that i'm floating in the blues still. not sure what's going on, but the state of the news looks a lot like the state of my brain.art powerlines post has clued me into something a bit deeper about my headspace right now. "What occurs in our neighborhoods is connected to everything. The new sidewalk outside my front door is

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i have nothing to say right now. i'm pretty bent out about the Stem Cell veto and hearing the media salivate over the possibility of even more war. I was taking a break next week anyway to travel so just consider me out now. I'm going out to the middle of nowhere to take a breath cuz right now i can't take this shit anymore. see you in a week...

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another small practice painting. (terrible photo... couldn't get the glare out) No, it's not really called bloggers ... that's just what it reminded me of when i put it here...

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oil on wood panel. 10 x 12"These were a couple of small paintings i had done recently to get my hands moving again in the studio. I get urges every once in awhile get a little "realistic". Maybe just to remind myself to take my time, to mix colors, to really sit with something for a bit or feel a sense of investment. In these two i can say i was definitely feeling the need to paint images that

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From Bradblog.The 23% becomes the 51% with the touch of a button.

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More man club for today.... besides what is being said here, watch the suits behind the man being interviewed (who is, btw, good german Steven Bradbury, head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel...), particularly at the end... watch their little fascist mouths as their smug little message get's delivered. Fucking hitler youth... people were TORTURED...This is the club. They

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That title is self referencing and stupid, but i'm so high on coffee right now i don't even care. Here's the deal: I'm posting this one late and i wanted to post it a long time ago but didn't want to follow up my Equality/Compassion post with a misogynist radio DJ calling a woman a bitch, especially when i agree with the DJ. (Oh, don't worry... you'll see)Adam Carolla has made a career off being

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This just in....i guess it was just his time... um... too.so, to update my conspircay theory: Yes I believe Cheato Lay is dead. As well as this guy and a few other people that may have been preventing some other other people from getting the money they thought was theirs. (CUT TO: the assasination of the heads of the five families in the last moments of the Godfather)Whatever. Fuck em. I have

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Exhibit Afrom CnLNo mystery George W. Bush has no respect for women.(Q:when you and your dad aren't talking politics, what do you talk about? GWB: pussy)But consider this post a sidecar to the Equality post earlier... it's a splendid illustration. Condescending tone, big swooping hand gestures while speaking... READ: i'm so much bigger, like a pufferfish in a suit, and who cares what i say

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I have to draw attention to an exchange between Deborah Fisher and Eric Larsen as the model for how and why blogging works.The idea that a blog conversation is "virtual" has got to be outmoded at this point. It is just another form of communication now. (Who is to say that a face to face conversation is ever any more "real" anyway?) Granted the internet social scene has it's perils... MySpace

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To riff off Ashes' post here...I have also studied through the most important years with women teachers who were very keen to the simple truth that "Art remains always, at some very basic levels, a feminist project." The workshops i attended were filled with mostly women and several men (and even fewer that were "straight"). In my experience it seems a longer journey for the men to begin to tap

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Watch the video hereAnd then commence packing.What these are... those kids in college. You know the ones. You know who she is and you know who he is. They don't give a fuck as long as they are making money and everyone is looking at them. They don't even believe what they are saying. Shit, they don't even know what they are saying. They are soap opera stars behind a "news" desk.Anyway, small post

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Game boys, 24 hr cartoon networks, dvd players in the back of your head rest, Blues Clues, Baby Einstein... whatever. What the hell happened to all you parents out there? Did you forget your roots? You wanna know what your kid is missing?A Sense of Wonder.(and yes, i did put a freaking Zepp cover on my blog. Why? That album cover there, along with many more in my mom's collection, is probably

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Well, as i was typing the post below about he who shall not be named, i wrote a bit about how my blog is wavering between art and politics without delving wholeheartedly into either.I just got a call from the Oceanside City Council as i finished typing ("wow" i thought, "they really hunt you down for those library books") and anyway it turns out you are all reading the blog of the newest addition

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Well so my blog is slowly turning into one of those political commentary blogs i never wanted it to be (and a rather half assed one at that since i a'm not willing to put both feet in). Yesssss I'm still making stuff and I do have arty things to talk about, but I mean c'mon! How can someone like me resist something as easy as this....It seems our favorite piggy has left the Animal Farm for a sec

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Not one to brag, but i scored pretty high on this. Not because I'm bitchin, but really because um... er, well... Hitler was just a better writer than Ann. I did not score 100% though, and if anyone out there does, let me know and i will celebrate your wisdom.TAKE THE CHALLENGE!(DISCLAIMER: It is not the intention of NonProphet to make comparisons between Ann Coulter and Adolf Hitler (for example:

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The higher ups of the Republican Party would like you to believe that Liberals/Democrats/free thinkers don't have a solution to the quagmire (abosolute mess) that is Iraq.Well, I have one that seems pretty darn easy (compared to the shit we are in now...)One of the main jobs of US Soldiers is to protect the war profiteering corporations that are supposed to rebuild the infrastructure. Instead,

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Ohhhhh really, Time? In an attempt to sink lower than their cover of Trans Coulter, Time magazine decided to use this for their latest cover to self reference a long history of covers... as such:Now, I wasn't alive for Pearl Harbor or Hitler. But i think i am safe in gently screaming that there is no way IN HELL that you can compare the death of Hilter to that of Zarqallafagus.How many things are

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(for ashes... here's what yer missing. doesn't this make you homesick?)So, I'm getting back to normal after being really sick. Well first i was in St. Louis for about 5 days, then i got real sick. I will have photos from St. Louis up soon (they have one of the most interesting interactive public art works i have ever seen). Other than that i had to finish 3 paintings for a show and having a

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Today was the big day. Carrie and I, in the interview we had done about the fence, invited everyone in the community to join us and participate in writing and hanging the names. We really didn't think anyone would show up... as I would find throughout the morning, my silly assumptions were generally wrong.The man who had started hanging the flowers and the flags years ago (who we just met last

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ever so proud to be an american

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how bout a tv channel that just shows artists making stuff 24/7. I'd watch that. There is probably nothing more hypnotic.(ashes... take note that he also makes use of magic art goo. hey, this painting kind of looks like your felt paintings... um, are you stealing from bob ross?)

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This video goes with the Curtis White essay i posted below. This is the Christ I imagine he is describing. I don't know in my lifetime if i will have the courage to ever be this honest, sincere, or vulnerable... let alone the courage to even speak this slowly and clearly. but this is what it takes to bring on real, profound change... the liberation of the oppressed and the oppressor, through

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just when i wanted to get all bitter and disgruntled and hopeless about the internet being swallowed whole by mega-corps. this happens...Kudos to the "Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act of 2006" and to those that fought so hard to make it happen. It was getting kind of scary there, the scariest part being that no one really knew this was going on.now go back to reading the essay below.

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This is the essay i have been waiting for. I didn't even know i was waiting for it, but then it found me on the side of the road, hungry, worn out and hitchhiking to anywhere other than the places i had been bouncing between... namely Anger Sadness and Discontent.I'm so happy someone actually has the whole thing online. I was about ready to type it all out myself. But here it is.(takes a second

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well, i'm just real busy is all.i have so much i want to get to on here and yet everyday i have some other crap to take care of. it's gonna be like this for maybe a couple weeks. I have three paintings to finish and the fence just continues to continue, plus Carrie is in town for a bit and the cat has pancreatitis, so blogging is taking a backseat. man, sucks when real life starts to infringe on

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(from the movie "Network"... made in 1976. And for the time being, yes, i am posting quotes. i'm busy...)Arthur Jenson: You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it!! Is that clear?! You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and

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This excerpt comes from John Berger's The Shape of a Pocket..."In 19994 Miquel Barcelo wrote the following in one of his notebooks:To paint a flayed ox has rebecome important. Like in other times but always different. Not like the Romans painted food, not like Rembrandt, not like Soutine or Bacon, not like Beuys - suddenly the chance to paint this has become something urgent, necessary,

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been a little light on the blahg as of late. all is well though. There's just lots of things in the cooker right now. For someone who is "jobless" there's certainly lots to do... above are some elements i'm mixing together for new paintings for an upcoming group show. so good to have another deadline... we like deadlines. just not lines that are dead.at top, another bit of innards i pulled

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a pop quiz...1. Which of these people is stealing your money?2. Which of these people plots everyday on how to take even more of your money?3. Which of these people follows more closely the original ideals of what it meant to be an american?4. Which of these people gave more to the economy than they took for themselves?5. Which of these people is responsible for americans losing their job? (i

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...mexico?i don't want to get in the habit of posting things like this. But the whole world needs to see this clip from The Daily Show. And it's about propaganda, so it fits right in...

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oil on wood panel. diptych. @3x4'in my recent return to paint, i decided to work on this older painting i had started years ago. the story goes that i put the first layer down and decided, no... i want to do this big. So i did a triptych that was 6x12'. It took me a hell of a long time and i ended up with hundreds of birds. remembering scientific specimen trays of dead birds i had seen in a

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trying to get used to this being my online sketchbook. So i thought i would post these even though they are not really "done" and because they will most likely change. they are "diary paintings"... kinda more for letting some things out and to get the brush moving a bit. they have already taken on several other lives in layers beneath these, and may continue to do so.I've been away from painting

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by god...SF Earthquake. 1906. (100 years ago today)by ourselves...

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i can remember daydreaming in South Africa about the dutch coming to the shore for the first time. It may have looked like a few ships coming in from over the horizon, but really they were towing behind them a blanket of history. A membrane, another layer added or subtracted. Same for the americas...I imagined this huge wall behind these boats, like tidal waves look in the movies. All the

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Been rolling this phrase around in my head for awhile now. It came to me from a quote from Maurice Blanchot while reading about ruins... "the disaster ruins everything, all the while keeping everything in tact."ruins of a disaster are overwhelmingly defined by time and space, but they are also out of time and place.nothing is actually missing here

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You know... keeping up with all of the evils "these people" weave can get to be a chore. But the nice thing is the whitehouse sees that too, and they have created a way to help the weary fascist/patriot keep it all straight.Since what looks like November of 05, the whitehouse has been "setting the record straight". aka Talking Points Central. Now, I'm trying to figure out the best part here... is

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untitled (USA today)Beautiful artwork is work that is compassionate. For me, that is the whole essay.Felix Gonzalez-Torres would be my choice for the Venice Biennale too, because i am in awe of him. "What Would F G-T Do?" something i ask myself quite often in the studio.That said, perhaps the State Department believes Felix is the safe choice because, although his work is political... he is dead

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Sikorsky Aircraft makes the Black Hawk helicopter. The CEO is George David ( i was always a bit freaked out by people with two first names). in 2005 George David made 58 million dollars. Yes, over a million dollars a week. over $25,000 an hour.near $500 a minute.Over 5000 times the annual pay of a minimum wage worker.He has an apartment in Manhattan with 9 bathrooms.In 2004 he was paid 88

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i'm posting this because i didn't want to. i had a revelation today that i'm about as precious as any anal retentive white american virgo can be. i make me ill at this point. "pussyfooting" is what i believe the term is. (i have no idea where the hell that term came from so if i just crossed into some feminist no mans land, i am carrying a white flag..) I actually think it comes from how

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these were a few recent monoprints. more studies for paintings than anything else... when i say that i mean that these may not necessarily be what i paint, but I'm more looking at different qualities and new marks.

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carla's recent posting at Art Powerlines of her coloring books has inspired me to post something i've been playing with too. The old color by numbers fun pages... (Really, between coloring books and paint by numbers, could there be any more lazy way of teaching our kids "creativity"? But what were ya gonna do, i mean after all, we didn't have LCD monitors in the backs of the headrests to keep

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this is the work i was writing about earlier that involved the prison jumpsuit. i made this in september of 05 for the InSight show at the Claremont Graduate College gallery (curated by Caroline Maxwell). The work is a reflection on the detainees at the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The United States is holding more than 500 foreign detainees at the prison. These men have been deprived of

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monoprint from a couple weeks ago. I have spent the last couple years with suits moving in and out and around my work. I often use suits to speak about the facades of men. this shell in which we hide and the cage in which we can be trapped. Usually the suits are empty, or at least the wearer is invisible, and sometimes hanging from some string that connects it to the great puppetmaster in the

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