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Joseph The Artist (when he has time)

Artist use lies to tell the truth...

About Me

Even if I said I was in a relationship, I was driven to it by freaking Cam-Hos. Leave me alone. I don't want to look at you prancing around in your unmentionables and teasing me with your seductive looks. I'm in a relationship and that relationship is all about keeping away from you!

Okay. Let ye all know this one thing about me. If only one thing you can keep in mind. I have a sense of humor. Some may say twisted. Aye, twisted indeed. I have not found ways to manifest this, like creating an animated television show that's bound to offend most humorless and narrow persons. Perhaps mi blogging will take on the life of its own. Future will tell. After all, there is nothing wrong with being offensive, just be funny!

Now a little 411 on Joey D Artist. As my moniker implies, I aspire to the art. Visual that is. Much satisfaction is derived from drawing and painting what I see - at will. I've been studing under an artist with another student at our studio. My main body of work now is in the figureative. The human body. A wonder of matter, muscle, bone, fat, skin, and hair. I draw mainly female, but am looking to find some sculpted male models for the sheer esthetics of it all. Gay males will work.

I'm originally from the Philippines. Thus explains the short brown guy personna. This, an interesting mix, because I could be classified as South Pacific, but I have a little Spanish in me. Which I do intend to get in touch with. Si. I'm a South Seas Latino!

Look at my picture and you'll see a pretty normal looking guy who loves his Purdue Boilermakers. Come football season, Michigan and Ohio State fans can all stick it.

Naturally, being from an Engineering mill like Purdue University, I am an Engineer. Four and a half years of sleepless nights and envying Liberal Students with their crazy social lives. Then I went back to during the 90s recession to be an Industrial Designer. A Liberal Arts student; the irony never stops. I didn't have the crazy social life I imagined, since I had to spend most of my waking time in the studio preparing designs for class projects and fighting over a Mac at the computer lab. Graphics design.

Well, I've worked for International, formerly Navistar, formerly International Harvester, for the last eight years now. I'm in Ergonomics, which means I help my group keep our trunks and buses from being a pain in the ass to use and maintain. It's good to have a mission in life.

This leads me to the art thing. I've been going to Artlink for figure drawing for the past five years now. I drew the human body fairly well. Then one day, Dave, a coworker, invited me to join him in studying with a master painter. An artist practicing the 500 year old Western tradition of the Flemish, Italian, and French painters. By having private tutoring lessons with Kerry, I've been able to at least glimpse what these old masters were able to do. Plus, my skill at drawing the nude has improved tenfold. I'll post my drawings and development ideas here for you art lovers to look and and wonder, what the hell...???

That was four years ago and Dave's no longer with the group. Now it's picture making time. I have at least ten ideas for fully excecuted works of art. Art that I hope to have exhibited on some fancy pantsy gallery wall. Sure, I'm not doing Modern Art, because I can draw and paint what I see, instead of throwing pigment onto canvas like a chimp.

Now comes MySpace. Which I was directed to by a friend's Live Journal. A friend who doesn't want to speak to me anymore because I've hurt her with words and my twisted sense of humor. Okay. Here's to making new friends. The first two being Ann Marie and Emily. Fearless Radio's female personalities with as twisted a sense of humor as I have. Yay!

I love twisted women. And if they're funny...even better!

I'm pissed. I just added on more information here and now lost it. Thanks MySpace. Now I'll have to think up of new things to say.

I will try to recover it from my memory banks. After breakfast. I'm sooo hungry. Can't think of anything else besides food.

Okay, this is what I wanted to put into my profile before I lost it (as best I can remember). Grrr. I have a great appreciation for humor. Even sick, twisted, offensive humor. I don't care, just as long as it is funny. Unfunny offensive humor will incur my wrath. As in Khan!

I try my hand at humor at times. Like with the blogs I'll be writing. I make people laugh, I don't recall if it's because I'm wearing something backwards. Humor is free association for me. I take a somthing off the top of my head and combine it with the next thing off the top of my head. All in all keeping a tenous relationship, but still related never the less.

The number three is my favorite number. What's not to like about it?

I use to have this obsessive-compulsive thing with the number 3. When I ate at a buffet, I'd fill my plate with three of everything I wanted to eat. I should have been a chubby kid, but my fast metabolism saved me from years of torment. I looked for patterns for three and would notice them within eyeshot. Same could be said for doing things, like washing my hands three times, or repeating things to myself three times. I've never done anything like a three-some before, but life is still full of possiblities

I like beer. Beer makes me happy. I know it is a false kind of happy, but I feel so warm and good all over. If I imbibe enough, my legs get all numb and I start saying things off the top of my head. On a recent trip to Chicago (which I will blog), I discovered body shots. Yes, Cuervo, navel, and belly piercings blend for a unique taste combination.

I tend to be verbose. I've got to do something about that. Me work on this UG! I can be more succinct. I could get all British about this.

Okay that all for now.

My Interests

I'm thinking of these things off the top of my head.

People and places. Well there is the art thing, drawing and painting. Drawing and painting the human body. Landscape painting. Impressionist painting. Then there is me trying to learn Spanish. España. Mujeres España. Gael Garcia Bernal. Live in Spain like Papa Ernie. Correando con los Torros. El Tomatina. Russia and russians. Russian history, from the Tsars to the fall of Communism. Russian women. Purdue University. Boilermaker Football. Purdue Women's Basketball. The Big Ten. Comedy is always attacting my attention. Anime. Japanese culture and food. Go Go Yubari. The Samuri. Sushi, Nigri, Shashimi, Wasabi, yum, yum, yum. Engineering. Archeology. Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. The Revolutionary War, American Civil War. World War I and II. History Channel. World and Military History. Italians and Italy. The Renaissance. Eastern Europe. Eastern European Women. Ireland. Irish Red-headed spit-firey hot tempered Women. India. Ashwara Rai. Bollywood Cinema. Lots of "I"s here. BMW 3-series, standard trasmission (automatics are for wusses). Rebuilding Engines (once I get a garage). Being a gear head. Motorcycles. Custom-made Choppers. Antique Autos. Ferraris. Bugattis. Auburn, Cords, and Dusenburgs. Calligraphy. Creating Illuminated Manuscripts. Writing letters by hand, pen and ink. Creating hand-made greeting cards. Having a good discussion with intellegent people. Shopping. Clothes and shoes. Decorating shows. Cooking and cooking shows. Space Exploration. The Solar System. Astophysics. Robotics. Artificial Intellegence. Building gaming PCs. Apple Macs and IPods. Graphic Design. Sandman and big sister Death. The Endless Ones. Frank Miller's Sin City. The Red Star. Collecting Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel action figures and statues. The Middle East. The Far East. The East Coast. China and Chinese history. Chinese Cinema. Hong Kong Cinema. Ziyi Zhang. Having a good time with interesting people. Jazz. Musicals. Classical Music. Independent Cinema. Complaining about the weather. The Weather. Global climate changes. Biology. Paleontology. Geophysics and Plate Tectonics. Antropology. Forensics Science. Cold Case Files. God.

I'd like to meet:

Twisted women. Twisted men. Twisted people. Do you sense a pattern developing here? Above all, a sense of humor. Plus being part of the Art scene is big in my book.

I'd like to meet Darth Vader. I'd like to ask him why the Sith are so intent on ruling the galaxy. Are there fringe benefits? Is it a trip to have so much power? Or do they just want to stick it to the Jedi?

Music:

I've been Podcasting Fearless Radio shows, so that's what's been on my Ipod for a while. I have a wide spectrum - go figure. I listen to soundtracks, like for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Sarah McLachlan knows how to get me in the down mood, nobody does depressed like Sarah. GreenDay, the old stuff I listened to in school. Johnny Cash, when I was younger and in a town that was dominated by Country stations. Mozart and the soundtrack to Amadeus. More music to add as time goes on...

Movies:

I'll be adding to this list as time goes on and my memory improves. I'll kick it off with two I never get tired seeing over and over again: Starship Troopers (bugs are bloody) and Tremors (Dag gummit Bert, them graboids are gitn' smarter).

Television:

Let's start this off with a comedy I've loved forever - M*A*S*H. I wanted to be Hawkeye when I grow up. This is followed closely by Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Now the Sci-Fi channel rules my Fridays with Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis, and one of the best shows on television now - Battlestar Galactica. I'll be adding to this as time goes on as well...We can add Firefly to that mix. I got the DVD set as a primer to watching Serenity. Fell in love with the show.

Books:

I'm working on two birthday presents right now. DiVinci's notebook and Love Poems by Pablo Neruda en Español and English. More books as I read them.

Heroes:

This will sound corny, but my Mom. She puts up with the worst shit everyday and somehow keeps her sanity. Then there's Sam Clemens. Here's a person who was constantly battling the darkness with his world renowned sense of humor. Everyone he loved seemed to have a bad habit of dying. Is it any wonder that his books took on a more jaded and darker tone? Not to mention his overall opinion on humanity. More heroes to come...

My Blog

In the Arms of Strangers

On Wednesday nights, I usually am downstairs in the Artlink basement working on figure drawings with the rest of the regulars. Tonight however, I spent only a half an hour. There was a movie playing u...
Posted by Joseph The Artist (when he has time) on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:23:00 PST

Friend and former coworker okay at VT

The moment I heard about the shootings at Virginia Tech, I thought about Darrell. He had left my former company about a year ago to take a research position there. I was not able to immediately get a ...
Posted by Joseph The Artist (when he has time) on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:11:00 PST

Death Journal Entry 14Apr07: The Job Fair

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Posted by Joseph The Artist (when he has time) on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:57:00 PST

Finally caught up with reading blogs

Silly as it may sound, I feel that it was important to read and comment to every blog on my subscription list. Reading them feels like visiting the people I care about on MySpace and chatting with the...
Posted by Joseph The Artist (when he has time) on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:37:00 PST

Death Journal Entry 12Apr07: Crappy weather, unemployment straightened out

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Posted by Joseph The Artist (when he has time) on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:13:00 PST

Way behind on blogs

After traveling to, being in and leaving Chicago, I am way behind on my subscribed blogs. For all those who I read and comment on, my thoughts are on the way. Slowly but surely. I do enjoy reading the...
Posted by Joseph The Artist (when he has time) on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:08:00 PST

Death Journal Entry 09Apr07: Easter Sunday

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Posted by Joseph The Artist (when he has time) on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:55:00 PST

Joseph reviews Grindhouse

Grindhouse refers to a genre of films that were low budget B-movies with a perchant for excesses in violence, dismemberment, bad acting and exploitation of women for those with deparved sexual appetit...
Posted by Joseph The Artist (when he has time) on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 02:58:00 PST

Death Journal Entry 07Apr07: Pontus Pilate, Evil Dude or Roman Bureaucrat

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Posted by Joseph The Artist (when he has time) on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 02:12:00 PST

Death Journal Entry 07Apr07: Writers can be wonderful liars

There has been a laps of several months since my last journal entry. This topic was spurred on by my admiration for writers and how it would be a sorry world if we did not have their stories to reflec...
Posted by Joseph The Artist (when he has time) on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:35:00 PST