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Art of Michael Leone

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About Me


about me?
i guess it's safe to say
i have a vivid imagination!!!!!!
sometimes TOO vivid!!!!!
where do i get my ideas?
i'm not wholly sure actually!
things i've seen...
felt...
or witnessed. (in a figurative sense of corse!)
but other outside creative influences
i'm sure...
other artists...
music...
film...
i try to add the depth of feeling
and emotion to my work.
this may appear heavy to some?
perhaps?
but life get's pretty heavy!!!!
some might agree?
creating is the one thing i feel
i was ever trully good at...
cause it sure wasn't sports!!!!!
i can tell you that!!!!!
but it's where i feel at home...
it's where i'm happiest!!!
the creative spark is unpredictable!!!
it seems to have a mind and life of it's own?
but when inspiration and imagination
are in alignment...
this i can tell you
there is no greater feeling!!!
at least for me anyways?
i enjoy sharing my ideas!!!
as i enjoy sharing what other people experience
when they view my work,
it's fascinating to hear other peoples interpretations...
there is no wrong interpretation for art!
we all see something different!!!
the only thing i don't exactly care for,
is if someone is arogant enough to
declare what an artist was saying in thier work!!!!!
that's just asinine!!!!
how can someone know what
someone else is thinking???
a mind is a complicated thing!!!
some people never fully understand their
own thoughts!!! let alone someone elses???
but no two people will see something
from the same viewpoint,
or share the exact same experience.
that, i love!!!!!
we are all given our own oppinions,
as we were all given assholes!!!!!!
and people usually think the other persons
always stinks!!!!!
isn't that always the case???

My Interests

Painting, Drawing, Sculpting, Music, Movies, Walks in the Park, Walks through Manhattan, Collecting Replica Swords and LightSabers, Playing with those Swords and Sabers, Collecting Figures, Playing with those figures, Lifting Weights, Green Tea, Seeing how many times in the day i can watch Star Wars or Conan the Barbarian!!!!!!

I'd like to meet:

Luke

Music:

Danzig, Slayer, Misfits, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, King Diamond, KISS, Rollins Band, Anthrax, Judas Priest, Sepultura, SoulFly, S.O.D., Korn, Lords of Acid, Van Halen(Roth), Chris Cornell, SoundGarden, The Doors, The Beatles, David Bowie, Marilyn Mason(his older stuff), Yngwie Malmsteen(his older stuff), Soundtracks by Basil Poledouris, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Ennio Morricone, John Barry, Wendy Carlos...

i really also enjoy classical...
Beethoven, Bach, Mozart...

and all other kinds of freakyloo!!!!
or sumthin'?!!!!!!!
y'know?
whackaDOO!!!!

Movies:

when i was a kid i fell i love with fantasy films!!!
i enjoyed such mind numbing treats like.....
STAR WARS, Dark Crystal, Tron, Conan the Barbarian, Raider's of the Lost Ark, Clash of the Titans, Excaliber, Dragonslayer. then as i got older, say 13 or so... i found myself watching a lot of horror movies, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, American Werewolf in London, Exorsist, Evil Dead...you get the idea?
i'll not go down the WHOLE history!!!!
but here is some other junk i enjoy....
Pulp Fiction, the Good the Bad and the Ugly, Clockwork Orange, Goodfellas, Clerks, Dumb and Dumber, Nacho Libre, The Big Lebowski, Cable Guy, Jackie Chan in Drunken Master, Escape From N.Y., Big Trouble in Little China, The Thing, Trainspotting, Lords of Dogtown, Napoleon Dynamite, Johnny Suede, Fight Club, What about Bob?, Donnie Darko, Sin City, Spider-Man, TMNT, The Monkees "HEAD", National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1, Batman, Superman, Rush Hour, Immortal Beloved, Interview with a Vampire, Rocky, The Shining, 12 monkey's, Dracula, Sword of Doom, Yojimbo, Seven Samuria, The Samurai Trilogy, Shogun Assassin, Dirty Harry, The Matrix, Desparado, Kill Bill, Constantine, Mystery Men, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Rambo, Young Frankenstein, Clerks II, Zoolander, Death Becomes Her, Predator, Demolition Man, Total Recall, Cheech and Chong, Groundhog day, Fear an Loathing in Las Vegas, Saturday Night Fever, Caligula, Last Action Hero, Taxi Driver...
yadda, yadda, yadda...
so on, and so on........
btw...
if NOT for
"Raider's of the Lost Ark",
i think the suspense between
"The Empire strikes back" and
"Return of the Jedi"
WOULD have been
TOO much for me to handle!!!!!

Television:

i don't enjoy mind numbing soul crushing tele...

Books:

Art books of the Great Masters. I have Volumes and Volumes of Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Bernini, Rodin, Rubens, Egon Sheile....I have my collection of old Comics and Graphic Novels...Star Wars books are also in abundance!

Heroes:

Anyone who has helped me develope my Art, Mind, or Lifestyle.

My Blog

there was a time...

there was a time,when the world was flat!!!people used to wear shoes on their handsand gloves on their feet!!!but they weren't always called gloves and shoes!!!NO!they wer calledwhuffers and pickapatt...
Posted by Art of Michael Leone on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:43:00 PST

what are our purposes???

funny actually...no matter what happens in life...no matter what arises...we all have our solitudes!!!i'm just happy to have one that i can withdraw intomy own world.create what ever i want...and in t...
Posted by Art of Michael Leone on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:35:00 PST

Greatest moments in Star Wars!

Anyone who's anyone has to admit THEEEEEgreatest moment in any Star Wars film is when theJedi's and/or Sith bust out the light sabers and startfucking shit up!!!!!!THIS my friends is a collection of s...
Posted by Art of Michael Leone on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:55:00 PST

TOSHIRO MIFUNE 1920-1997

Toshio Mifune stared in such classics as Yojimbo,Seven Samurai, Hidden Fortress, The Samurai Trilogyamong others.he had a supporting roll in the 60's classicSword of Doom. although not given much sree...
Posted by Art of Michael Leone on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:00:00 PST