Love [ & Other Mythical Beasts ]

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

My dearest friend... you will soon begin to love again.

To love again.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

another unfounded theory.

i have this theory that somewhere there is a parallel universe where every set of lovers gets to live their fairy tale, and beautiful dreams of happy endings in this realm don't go to waste, and they are only transfered to this place where every precious moment is saved for exact copies of people who love each other and learn to forgive and grow old together and live ever after. and what didn't work out here in this world, works out for someone else somewhere else. its nice to think that somewhere in the vastness of creation, love truly did conquer all. somewhere in the universe the person you love loves you back. somewhere in the universe the person who loves you has your love in return. and you get to be together forever like you had dreamed about. somewhere in the universe the love that had been created doesn't disappear, but lovers get to rejoice in it and live on it like water.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Photoshop Text: Smoke, Philadelphia, Gangsta

I didn't have work today so I decided to hang out in the Graphics Lab at the Tech Center, and learn some photoshop since all my fin aid got screwed up and I didn't get to take the Computer Imaging and Digital Imaging Studio courses I was trying for...

I'm by no means a Photoshop expert... not that I haven't tried before. I just don't have Photoshop and use GIMP on my laptop for any editing I need to do. But I thought I might as well learn the industry standard... for fun? Anyway, here's what I came up with and their tutorials in the order I finished them... I like the sparkley one the best.

Smoke Text Effect.

LEARN THIS TECHNIQUE HERE.

Grungey Text Effect.

LEARN THIS TECHNIQUE HERE.

Sparkly Text Effect.

LEARN THIS TECHNIQUE HERE.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Poop.

Blue Angel. Acrylic on canvas panel. 6 X 6 inches. 2010. Uban.

Reading:

'Tis. The assimilation process is hard and often embarrassing... I like it so far. I expected too, since I remember Angela's Ashes changing me.

Artist's Shit.

I was explaining to my brother how much I hated the fact in grade school you have to ask to use the toilet. I hated the fact that the stalls makes taking a shit embarrassing, when poop is natural and why do we have to be ashamed of feces? We're trained at a very young again to be embarrassed by what is natural. I always thought it was crazy that I had to shit or piss and had to hold it if a teacher wanted to be an asshole or something. I was telling my brother how I think these experiences with shit have a lot to do with why I ended up an artist. So I could smear my shit around. And take a shit whenever I need to. If someone had just let me take a pee or a poop whenever I needed to as a child, then perhaps, I would've ended up a normal person with a job in an office or something horrible like that, but instead I'm an artist because some dumbass somewhere decided to make me scared to pee. That's how you get a UTI, buddy. So he sent me the above link. And I 'm giving you the below link.

Anal expulsive.

BEAUTIFUL LYRICS...

Listening to: "If I ever feel better" -- Phoenix

They say an end can be a start
Feels like I've been buried yet I'm still alive
It's like a bad day that never ends
I feel the chaos around me
A thing I don't try to deny
I'd better learn to accept that
There are things in my life that I can't control

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Unfolding.

"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."
— Max Ehrmann (Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life)