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About Me

* * * * *About Me* * * * *
Nice with the hands::
Painting, drawing, sculpture, touch... Body Art.
Sculpting my world through touch.
....Nice with the feet.
Dance. Capoeira. Steady mobbing. Standing Strong. Kicking, pushing.

::Tariq Sabur::
Body artist. Painter. Designer. Dancer. Mainly.
Other things as inspiration strikes.
Paint, wax, pigment, sanded floors. Good beats, stretched canvas, stretched skin, Blood and Ink. Coaxing words to their full expressive potential. Things that grow. Thats me.
From signature triptic series: "Bloom."
Deeper?
Doesnt really get any different; Same thru and thru.
Lately, i've become obssessed with an overwhelming drive to develop my art and career to its fullest potential... yet I remain constantly conscious of never letting that interfere with my self expression or creative integrity.
I enjoy the simple and pure pleasures in life, those of the mind, spirit, body, senses. Those that you can take with you to wherever it is that your mind goes when you lose everything else.
I laugh alot. And tease and flirt with the small and cute, because I was teased and flirted with when I was small and cute and it has made me the resilient, good-humored person I am today (now that im big and grown and hairy rather than cute and little and fuzzy.) Its the circle of life.
Reciprocate. :)
Prints and originals are available for sale online and at weekly live painting events
Custom body art and painting commissions by appointment. Please contact me here for email information!I am always up to some artistic mischief at events, or at my home studio in Mesa, so keep any eye out for bulletins on all kinds of fun volunteer ops to model, get ink'd, get painted on, participate in, hold stuff, (hehe ;) or in any other way find yourself worked into some sort of masterpiece. ..
P.S.- Please pardon my familiarity, it is the only way I know how to be :) Appropriately, the profile is constantly changing. Like my mind... my inspirations, my interests... Like the tides, Like the sands...
. . . Like the wind...
...Never the Heart. Be peace!
-T.S.

My Interests

Being human and regular, and flawed, and content. Taking life one step at a time. Being happy.Whilst driving, every minute. for more.I like meeting people from different places in the world, with hopes that one day, when I am in your country/state/city, we can hang out and teach each other amazing things about other parts of our small, but very interesting world. And teach each other how simple it really is. Or you can come to beautiful sunny Arizona to get a tattoo :)
Beauty in Subtlety. Pride In Sacrifice. Really Simple Things. The color Black might be one of my favorite things in existence. Different shades and tints and textures and layers. Sorry, tangent. just kind of add to this list each time I recognize another of the beautiful, simple, pleasures of life that I truly live for. I love dance and music and art and love and life. And brasil and good tattoos. Pretty smiles and sharing. Legs and arms and tummies and necks till you cant tell them apart. .. Beautiful taught brown skin. Putting ink in holes in it. Putting paint and colors and oil and kisses and love on it. Or just enjoying it plain.Listening to older people ramble* listing to little kids ramble* listening to myself* and the universe ramble*Building with family. Talking to long lost cousins with the HUGEST CUTEST DIMPLES IN THE WHOLE WORLD and lamenting about the distance between us. .. Having my mind stroked and my subconscious tickled. Other times just bouncing mindlessly off of walls or swinging from the cieling by my earlobes. Flirting just for the fun of it...
Flirting with ulterior motives. Having Mutual Ulterior Motives but flirting anyway- just for the fun of it. Ooooor just skipping the pretense and exercising our Mutual Ulterior Motives together.
Learning new things that make me laugh at all the silly old things that I used to do and think. then, smiling, thinking again, AND DOING THAT SHIT AGAIN! (while still laughing.)
Pinching peoples booties. Gyas cooking. oooh and flowers. I really like flowers. and *BADHAIR* and Painting live. and Tattooing. and Posting on my fotolog. Rambling online with little or NO conventional puncuation.
Striving to live my life as if I were writing a story book with it. Being the "best vacation story ever..." Touching lives. Biting people's booties. and fingers and toes...generel rule is it wiggles, it gets bit.
Seeing how long i can get this list before I have to delete anything on it due to obselescence. *Sigh* happy memories* Heres to remembering them, and to living them, and living them, and living them and living them and making them again again and a-fricking-gain!
Im also into putting paint and color and ink and love on other stuff besides skin, like this::

aaaaaand this

You think that hurt?!! hah! try this!
hehe
more portfolio samples at www.myspace.com/fineartforbodies

But thats all for now till i learn more html :)

I'd like to meet:

People with Skin.

Music:

MUSIC:: organized sound which provides some intellectual stimulus and inspires some an emotional response.
key words:: ALL OF THE ABOVE.
Heartbeats. Bike engines. (only veeery slightly discernable from one another, if you reeeally listen.) Anasazi's smile. Louie Vega. Live guitar on bus trips. Buju Banton's Voice. Shower singing. Sizzla. Flowers growing. Childrens laughter. Cousin Pete!! Porangui bangin on um daqueles cadeiras tambores que sÃ³ ele tÃ©m. Falando Nele, Mango Room. Sean'sbad and PETE SALAZ baby!!! Beats on city busses. **MANU CHAU!!!** Feet on the dance floor. Metal on sand on wood. Sepultura. All of Lisbella e o Prisoneiro. Beenie. Dancehall. Forrooooooooo. Luis Gonzaga. HOUSE. Cascavel. Santana. Roque. (not rock, if you say it like that, its wack.) Savignon Glover. Gregory Hines. Mestre Barrao. Jelly Roll Mmmmmmorton! Santana.Mark Darkfeather. Buju Banton. Sizzla. Wyclef Jean. Lady Bug. Diggy-P in the 90's. Busta Rhymes (before the fall-off (your off the list for 'make it hurt'). FUgeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees (as a group) Missy. The Phoenix HOUSE SCENE Orixas! Jamiroquoi. DJ Ororo too!! All actual hip-hop b4 2000. JZ.************************** Mya.************************** (she gets her own 2 lines. I'd center and put it in pink with stars if i knew how)If you have any of these things recorded, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE send music!! Lost all Cd's in Rio in a terrible betting accident.PLEASE RE-READ THE ABOVE TWO LINES PLEASE IM SERIOUS!!!

Movies:

* RedBone Guerillas * 7 samurai. All the standard guy shit. PI. Kill Bill. GoGo from Kill Bill. *Gogo lives! * <--- actually the best friend of the girl from the dragon/lotus tattoo up there looks just like Gogo... *sigh* even better ;) *anything with lucy liu.* anything with JLo (fuck yall) * Predator- that fool was a RASTA! *The harder they come * Angelina Jollie is overrated : ) still DAMN hot though... * Willow * The princess Bride * Star Wars * WestSide Story * DUECES WILD * Anything with foreign gangsters or european high crime * PORN * Lisbela e o Prisoneiro * Bad Movies with Diana* A alta do compadecida *

Television:

Rots your Brain. Better as a tracing table. Dont watch TV. Think.

Books:

*bullshit or fertilizer! get it RAW at www.exittheapple.com!!!! * *single woman's manifesto* (i think im in that one...) *parable of talents* *fast food nation* *stupid white men* *sojourn* *spiderman numba 99* *memoirs of a geisha**the kama sutra* *kabuki* *11 minutos* * a arte da guerra* * o Bushido* *crimson* *Battle gods * (comics definitely count)* *Coyote Kings of the space aged bachellor pad* (yes thats a real book) *My journals from when i was 8*

Heroes:

Space ghost. People who can pat their heads and rub their tummies at the same time. With their feet. The planet Pluto. Guevara. Tsunemoto. The Great and Powerful Almighty (you know- Aku.) Oh yeah: Me. You. Mom

My Blog

Time to greet the day...

Hear that?Blessed silence, birdsong. Heartbeat, breaths.The rythmic hum of a world caught napping.Thats initiative. Feel that?A knot in your stomach, a twisted feeling, coiled, ready to spring.An empt...
Posted by Tariq Sabur on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:41:00 PST

Random Ramblings... missing a freind

Dont know where this quick, sweet letter, became a long, bittersweet blog... Equally unsure of what to call it.If you (and you knoooow who you are) are reading it, (and i know you will be eventually) ...
Posted by Tariq Sabur on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:58:00 PST

But my Boyfreind Wont let me....

Hehe ;)Ive heard it a million times: You want to get a tattoo, but your boyfreind/girlfreind, husband wife, parent, or other significant other would not like it. You've talked about it a million times...
Posted by Tariq Sabur on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:50:00 PST

Celebrating Unemployment Part II- The gritty :)

..TBODY> ..TR> First off, thanks you for commenting on my half-complete blog yesterday!Sorry I had to run all of a sudden. Yesterday, when I was running around, it was hot, and I was sweating, an...
Posted by Tariq Sabur on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:33:00 PST

DUDE why is myspace blog editor uffed up!?!?!

Man what a pain in the ass.... (slash, slash, pound, question, mark, brackets, parenthesis, quotation mark, and sign, etc.) Lol.... thats why i started a blogger! so there, TOM!! ..TR height="100%" U...
Posted by Tariq Sabur on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:35:00 PST

Celebrating Unemployment

::Celebrating Unemployment:: ..TR> Waking up at the crack of dawn, getting up, getting out, getting to work.Still only putting on shoes till 3pm.Going to bed late. Working out, talking on the phone......
Posted by Tariq Sabur on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:23:00 PST

Stirrings... Brazilian Dreams

Afternoon sun-filtered-golden-tinted living room bring memories of "my room in paradise."Those same gold curtains gave it the warm color of amber gels over spotlights... the color of backstage apprehe...
Posted by Tariq Sabur on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:50:00 PST

Restless Rumblings...

..>Late nite... Leftover pizza doin the samba in my tumbly...with all the cough medicine.Flu sucks, even when you dont have it.Kinda takes out all your would-be accomplices even if it misses you :(Sud...
Posted by Tariq Sabur on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:02:00 PST

Our Stories Collide....

..> When Stories Collide.... Tariq Sabur 02/04/2008 The other day I was working on my story... (i pause here. Seeing inwards. A little crooked grin appears on my lips.) Just scribblin...
Posted by Tariq Sabur on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:30:00 PST

Cruncy Green Food

On lighter note... lol Crunchy Green food.(pounds on the bongos real quick)Tariq Sabur02/04/08 ..> Cruncy green foooooooooood, crunchy green food.(bongo break, saxaphone riff) C...
Posted by Tariq Sabur on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:44:00 PST