new thing.

hey all.......6 of you haha!!!

i will start using a new blog as of now. for the most part. i will still use this from time to time. but the wordpress thing is for a new project im starting the pod collective. hopefully youll see cool things from this group soon.

caio

j

just a friend....ly birthday invitation.

i dont remember asking to be on the chicago defender's email list. but im glad i am. cause i get stuff like this in my email every once in a while.



OH BOY!!!!

polablog, blogaroid, whatever.

check it out.

this is a good thing. everyone try to do what you can. i know you have that one polaroid picture that means so much to you. i have many. i believe it needs to keep going. digital is ok. but the feeling of a fresh polaroid in your hand, the look of a happy life, a picture that was truly an instant in your life. i think future generations need this.



this photo taken by my old friend nicole. beautiful aint it?

this weekend.

two shows that you should go to this weekend if your in the chi area.


first is my buddy blutt show @ the star lounge(my former place of life). he is moving to seattle and is selling as much of his work as he can for cheep. he is a supper nice guy and a really cool artist. chicago will miss him.



second is the "nesting" show. @ a-okay official. people painting on russian nesting eggs. sadly an idea i had a few months ago but did not have the time or recourses to get done right. a-okay always dose a great job curating shows. so it will be great. my friends at ohnodoom, and buddy jason brammer are in the show along with a bunch of other great people.


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and last but not least. the show im working on is coming along nicely. i have 22 people so far contributing. some bigger names in chi so im excited. the show will be in november. and we may just have a little book of all the work for sale for cheep. and i have man other thing in my brain right now. hopefully i can get some of them done.

oh my god.....

this is just beautiful.

"Make for yourself a world you can believe in.
It sounds simple, I know. But it’s not. Listen, there are a million worlds you could make for yourself. Everyone you know has a completely different one - the woman in 5G, that cab driver over there, you. Sure, there are overlaps, but only in the details. Some people make their worlds around what they think reality is like. They convince themselves that they had nothing to do with their worlds’ creations and continuations. Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and driftwood and emerald earrings and books dropped in bathtubs and holes in guitars and plastic and empathy and hardwood and heavy water and high black stockings and the history of the Vikings and brass and obsolescence and burnt hair and collapsed soufflés and the impossibility of not falling in love in an art museum with the person standing next to you looking at the same painting and all the other things that just happen and are. But you want to make for yourself a world that is deliberately and meticulously personalized. A theater for your life, if I could put it like that. Don’t live an accident. Don’t call a knife a knife. Live a life that has never been lived before, in which everything you experience is yours and only yours. Make accidents on purpose. Call a knife a name by which only you will recognize it. Now I’m not a very smart man, but I’m not a dumb one, either. So listen: If you can manage what I’ve told you, as I was never able to, you will give your life meaning."

— Jonathan Safran Foer, A Convergence Of Birds

.................?

i believe there is some great life lesson in this video somewhere. im just not sure what it is.....

the show im curating @ the shop. it opens soon. come by and buy something. its for a good cause.

im not sure what it is. but this is a very moving painting.

obama speaks to the people of sin city.

this just looks goooooooooooood.

so, i guess a few of his friends came out to party.



"Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions - who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage."

"that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness."

"Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America."

"What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them - that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works..."

".....because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government."

"For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness."

"..because they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves. And yet, at this moment - a moment that will define a generation.....................

.....it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all."

the lucas sisters: my cousins.

 we see each other about once a year, if we're lucky. 

they hold a very special place in my heart.

and over the years, distance, time, life, we grew apart.

tonight i wish more than ever.

this was not true.

the temp b4 i walked to work. i thinks its above 0 now, im not sure.

ouch......

this weekend

i watched the west wing. in this one they almost cured cancer. 

i made seitan. i know i know. i looks like, well.....gross. but i swear, this is like a weeks worth food. and so delicious. i feel dumb eating frozen pizza as it cooks, but whats a guy to do? i was hungry.

oh ya, in chicago, over a foot of snow, after about 10-11 hours of constant snowing.......damn kids, thats just another day.

mel kadel

just found this artist. mel kadel


"hearts don't break"


this is lovely.

amen hunter.

"sometimes obsticles are there to remind us of our own strength. even if it really really sucks!"

part of an email from a friend today. 

how true.

lets hope i got some strength left in me.

i did not take pictures last night. this sums it up, i think.



yay 2009!!!!