Outer Space

I tried to scan the sketch of my most recent garbage can art but it turned out crappy as I had only sketched it; no hard lines to copy. So here is a video of Supergrass singing 'Jesus Came From Outer Space'.

Enjoy! Pictures to follow as soon as they're available! Most likely Ssturday evening!

Walk the Walk, Chalk the Chalk

Just finished the painting I had been working on for my sister, obviously title Owl Time as you can all clearly see that the scene this painting portrays is, in fact, Owl Time.

I can only imagine that any animal would have its day when it pulled up from the dregs of its ilk to join humanity in such highly evolved activities as extreme sports and drinking energy drinks. Nothing defines humanity better, I feel, than pounding thirty-two ounce cans of high-fructose corn syrup while screaming through the air on a small piece of wheeled plywood.

But seriously, I hope she likes it. It took me forever to finish and for that I will most likely apologize too much.

This Friday I'm going to be Chalking the Walk at downtown Canton's First Friday celebration! I hope to see you all there as I stumble through remembering my original submission. I hope they return my sketch or the image I end up chalking will be covertly different in many small ways. Perhaps it will be title 'Crisp Flaky' rather than the original 'Flaky Crisp', who knows.

I'm also percolating some more ideas for community fun projects. My most recent thought involves interviews and some small amounts of paper. We'll see what comes of this as my thoughts progress into fruition.

Stay tuned for pictures from First Friday as well as updates on my Massillon Garbage Can! I'm hoping to have three sides of the latter project finished within the coming week, all of which will be viewable here.

Till then, stay with me! Oh please, please do!

Early Evening Blaze

While working today I realized a smallish picnic table had been placed near our parking lot. Citing this as a valid excuse to enjoy the outdoors, I made plans to use the facility for a lunchtime retreat.

As the two o' clock bell rang me into lunch I willfully traveled to our office kitchen, prepared a salad of decent proportions, retrieved my baby carrots, and made my way toward the untreated wood table.

Lunch was very relaxing and took a lot of the day's troubles off of my shoulders. Customers had been calling in and making all sorts of ludicrous demands of me. A woman claimed she would be using two weeks worth of service in the span of the weekend and the fact that a small fraction of her service was nonworking was unacceptable. Suffice it to say, it took one escalation to supervision for her to get her childish way. Another man claimed his service was offered free which doesn't make mush more sense and was equally frustrating.

But while sitting outside I simply enjoyed my sun dried tomatoes and listened to the world unfold around me. Insects flitted about as I forked greens into my mouth and let the pain of ignorance wash from my mind. Every sip of my cherry yogurt consoled me and reminded me that these small distractions were life's way of telling me everything was going to be fine; there are much worse conditions to be in.

I regrettably had to return to my post once the three o' clock bell sounded but I did so with some small renewal of vigor and hope. The rest of the day relaxed and slipped into my control as I loosened my grasp of the bowstring of the day. I sailed through the afternoon and promptly returned home where my girlfriend and I joked about all of the cleaning we had to do at some point over the weekend.

Retrieving the large bag my sister had given me for my twenty-third birthday I found a small aquarium and Ninja Turtle replica. I hope the fish that soon swims in my aquarium finds a good home with us, I know Leonardo has.

Now, I'm listening to The Yardbirds and sipping some Stone IPA. If I'm going to live up to telling people I'm made of fire, I need to continue burning on into the night. Good night.

Nothing But Trash

So I'm working on a local art project to paint a trash can up with some fun characters. Inspired by the local shop 'Howard's Tiger Rags' and seemingly the only soda machine on the streets of Massillon, which are both in close proximity of my trash can, I'm going to paint a series of beverages decked to the nines. As the sketches become available, you'll see them here.

I also have some other projects going on. Please see the owl and ammo box below.



I plan on using the ammo box for transporting art supplies and the owl is intended as a gift for my sister's graduation.

On top of all this I have also recently been accepted for the next First Friday event in Canton, 'Chalk The Walk'! The sketch I submitted, 'Flaky Crisp', was selected to be created as a large scale chalk creation! Woo!

If you don't hear from me on this well documented blog, see you at any of these local events or in the streets of the world!

Abraham Lioncoln

Here is the final for the Lion's Theater Benefit! I hope it goes over well. I'm also going to donate "Pinky Tuskadero" and "Serpents and Steeples". Hope to see you all there!

WIP Lioncoln's Theater

This is a new piece I'm working on for a benefit show supporting the Lion's Lincoln Theater. The finished piece will be complete as of Wednesday! Tell me what you think(if anyone is still out there)!

State of the Blog

So I"m drinking a beer and regaling the days events with a bit of humor.

It started like any other Monday: got my laundry ready, got my clean clothes on, and went to Mom's to use the washer. Got there, loaded my laundry and set out to playing some Gang Garrison 2. After kicking some ass, the washer beeped and I went down to get my second load started.

Unfortunately, we seemed to be out of detergant and dryer sheets. No problem, I thought. I'll go to the nearest grocer and get some of each.

That did not work as I had left my wallet a half-hour away in my apartment. On top of this I had less than a quarter tank's of gas to get back to get it.

I drove very slowly to conserve gas and my car did make it. After filling up, I bolted back to the grocer nearest my mother's and bought some dryer sheets. At this point I got my second load in and started and proceded to fold my current load. Needless to say I was more than a bit annoyed.

I finished my laundry and drove home like a total asshole. Got here, unloaded my laundry and trudged home angrily. Upon reaching my door however I noticed a small yellow envelope.

I got inside and set my laundry down. Upon inspecting the package, I realized what I had gotten in my envelope!



A wonderful package from a wonderful man! Andrew Thompson has made some of the best music that has ever entered my ears and he had the good graces to send me a free copy of his album along with a note stating the fact that I had won it even though the contest had been during the Autumn of 2008.

Now, whether or not Andrew had enough people enter his contest or he just felt sorry for poor little Canton socialite, I am appreciative either way. Hopefully I will have video footage of myself performing his single We're in Business soon so I can send it to him. That way he will know how much his music means to this Ohio-bound nerd.

But beyond this, the blog...

The blog is going to be updated. I've recently run into some expenses and things that must be dealt with. I hope to have weekly updates sooner than later so the one or two people that read this won't be to disappointed.

I have recently sketched out a new piece that is yelling at me to paint it. Expect a WIP(work in progress) picture of it soon.

In the mean time go listen to Andrew Thompson! He is a story teller and a wonderful musician at that.

I'm drunk! Have a good night!