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boxtop

the first one is the bitch of the bunch

About Me

doesn't suffer fools well

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Tracage Art Show DUSSINI's Downtown San Diego 06/05/08

My Interests

Art, music, film, books, pop culture, politics, science, spirituality, sex, hedonism, altruism, the environment. oh, and beer..... and whiskey.

I'd like to meet:

Hunter S. Thompson, Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Jack Nicholson, Paul Gauguin, and a few of these dead guys: Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci Claude Monet, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali,Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky Rembrandt,Cezanne, Goya, Magritte, Degas, Joan Miro, Michelangelo, Jackson Pollock, Raphael, Rubens, Marc Chagall, Velazquez, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Diego Rivera + Frida Kahlo, Paul Klee, Edouard Manet, Mondrian

Music:

Stephen Marley!!! Artic Monkeys, TOOL, OutKast, Beck, Whitestripes, My Morning Jacket. Dr.Dre, RHCP, LittleBigPorn, Deftones, Miles Davis, beck, RollingStones , Clash, YYY's, Jay-Z, Ozomatli, QOTSA, The Shins, Weezer, Modest mouse, Badu, 2pac, kanye. Lauryn Hill, Fugees, Cat Power, Ben Harper, Marley, also world music like Amadou & Miriam, Ali Fakir, Bob Dylan, God Father of Soul

Movies:

True Romance Royal Tannenbuams, Squid and the Whale, amores e perros. motorcycle diaries, china town, the shining, easy riders, welcome to the dollhouse, rushmore, King Pin, Big Lewbowski, Syriana, how to draw a bunny, ghost world, any and all slapstick comedies.

Television:

i could tell you what i fucking hate- the Jessica Simpsonification of television. fuck it all!!!!

Books:

Women-Charles Bukowski, 100 years Of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, anything by Chuck Palahniuk- Choke, Lullaby, Fight Club etc. except maybe Diary(reading it now and it kinda sucks). The Tipping Point- Malcolm Gladwell. artist bio's. classics- Hemingway, Steinbeck, Henry Miller etc.

Heroes:

Hansel

My Blog

Documenting the process- The Parade

i've been really into abstract lately. Sketching a ton of them and painting a few but overall having trouble converting the desired effect from sketchbook to canvas. I usually document my process as i...
Posted by boxtop on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:11:00 PST

Abstracts

i've been going in a new direction lately if only to get a better understanding of where i've been. the abstracts i've been doing are actually crude figurative renderings that become obilterated by re...
Posted by boxtop on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:03:00 PST

Roman Era Funerary Portrait Painting

i just found this cool story. these portraits are the inspiration for the portrait on wood that i've done in the recent past. http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/mport.htm click link to view my Fu...
Posted by boxtop on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:15:00 PST

Boxtop's July 6th Solo Show

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Posted by boxtop on Sun, 27 May 2007 09:47:00 PST

ArE U CLOWNing mE?

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Posted by boxtop on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:06:00 PST

i like lines.

most of my painting and sketches start with a one line drawing. not sure why i have incorporated this aspect into my art, but it seems to serve some purpose. - maybe to exert a certain amount of contr...
Posted by boxtop on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 06:11:00 PST

Mammoth 03/26/06

Cornice off the top of Mammoth Mtn CA 03, 2006. ...
Posted by boxtop on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 05:25:00 PST