THE SHORT VERSION:
Was a digitizer for machine embroidery, and damn good at it; it's foolish to define yourself by what you do to pay the bills, but it's something I was passionate about. Then I got a tattoo apprenticeship, but then the partnership which was opening the tat shop fell apart (or something; still don't know details), so now I'm an ex-Digitizer, ex-Tat. Apprentice loading boxes in trailers for a shipping company. Not a job a highly-trained monkey couldn't do, but good benefits and I'm still doing freelance graphics.
I'm weird and wouldn't have it any other way, there's no LEASH LAW for the IMAGINATION. Leave the mind free to wander, music moves me, I'm blunt, I can fold beautiful cranes into small squares of paper and twist animals into the shapes of balloons, I'm imaginative, earthy, eccentric, creative, thoughtful, I cherish the surreal...
THE LONG VERSION:
I'll fill this out later, after I've invented lots of cool stuff to say that I've done. Until then, I can be investigated more thoroughly through the following links-
MY ART
MY (electronic) MUSIC
MY BOOKS
"THE MASS OF MEN LEAD LIVES OF QUIET DESPERATION" -Thoreau
"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over.
Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."
-Kurt Vonnegut
"THINK FOR YOURSELF; QUESTION AUTHORITY!" -Leary
"HE'S WRONG; YOU'RE WRONG; THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM IS WRONG!!" -L.S.
"WHEN THE GOING GETS WEIRD, THE WEIRD TURN PRO"-H.S.T.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" -Ben Franklin
"Hey, you know something people? I'm not black, but there's a whole lotta times I wish I could say I'm not white"-Zappa
"It is necessary that man extend his vision beyond the political realities of the present" -Marx Marvelous (Tom Robbins)
"IMAGINATION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN KNOWLEDGE"-Einstein
"When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." -Lewis
"MUST CRUSH CAPITALISM!" -zombie Lenin
"STOP BITCHING AND START A REVOLUTION"- Zendik
"WOULD YOU SAY THAT YOUR GLASS IS HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL?
Half empty. My journey isn't over yet. I still have so much to fill in my glass! :) " -Michiko
"I believe in birth, copulation and death, although copulation embodies the other two, and death is only a form of borning. Someday I shall die. Today, I think I'll copulate." -Amanda (Tom Robbins)
"I don't need a why, I'm an artist: I just need a what & a how!" -me
"...Embrace this moment. Remember. we are eternal.
all this pain is an illusion." -TOOL
"What are YOU to ME?"-UNKLE
"We have given nothing as long as we have not given everything"- WWI French 'Ace of Aces' Guynemer
"I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. I believe in everything; nothing is sacred."
One more thing; if you are motivated by money, purchase things for their perceived status value, think wearing the latest fashions is important, spend a lot of time shopping in malls, just had to go out and get the latest _____ (unless it's an album or book), harbor secret little hopes that people think you're 'trendy', or are similarly mentally crippled, you have my pity. now GO AWAY!! before I smite thee with a blunt object, for you and the Apathetic Hordes are my sworn enemies...
all scrolling images above are samples of my work
