hari krishna

this guy was with his wife and kid but they took off. nobody pays or poses for me anymore. boo hoo. poor me. i miss the amusement park. but really im still having fun
i cannot believe how creepy i drew her. and shes cool. she laughed and hung it up in her apartment when we got there. i thought she would smack me nad not like it. thats a fish eye lens on her camera
this last one here is the guy who started the hari krishna movement in the u.s. i have a great idea for a big painting of him. i think my deal is ganna be caricatures of semi famious people who nobody cares about but me ....well, and i guess this guy does have lots of freeky followers to. they make good vegetarian food

sculpy sculptures

damn. it came out sideways. im a monkey on a computer
this is some sculpy stuff i made. its some of the first stuff ive made besides jewelry things with sculpy. the goal is to get to make some coool caricatures with it later.

mark twain

this one is Mark Twain if you cant tell already. hes the best writer from Missouri where im from.... and one of the best in the world if you know whats good fer ya!

this is the first time a left a face completely white. because he was a bit pale. and i drew his zits. see, im trying to get some more balls here with this drawing stuff

siri. super smart and pretty, she thought this one was to depressed looking.. but i think thats kind of funny to. ?

कारिकातुरेस ऑफ़ जिम मोर्रिसों, रवि एंड सोम फ्रिएंड्स

this red haired guy is Ravi og dj lov. hes a music guy here in norway


here is jim morrison





theese are a couple of guys from idas photo school. i think they look ok. but still i have lots to learn and this one hunchback with the bell is to portraity and not enough caricature.


this is chalote. she loved it. and it looks redicilious

theese aren' t even caricatures. this is a guy who is to aware and enlightened.

and this other picture here is a little bit of my take on religion and even society all together. get out while you still can. and as soon as you can

theese are pretty simple. i was partying that night. i think that hand/eye coordination is one of the first things to go with that. i cant drink and draw

more about florida

I just wanted to say that i was crabby the day i wrote that big load of crap about Florida later int this blog. Not that there isn't some truth in it but really i had a great time over all. In fact, i miss it and i learned a lot and met some great people. sometimes i think i need that kind of environment with lots of people and the drawing and entertaining others to be content. I'm ganna try to get into a park again to draw for sure. hopefully sooner then later i will be drawing tons of people all the time.
oh. i also didn't mention that its just bizarre how many religious people there are back in the u.s. I swear, its like going back to medieval Europe or something. But for all its problems , i miss and love it back in America. ...i just hope they don't burn me for being a heathen.
and i still cant post photos correctly. im like a cave man with this stuff.
love

more drawings!

I think these ones are kind of cool. I can tell I got alot from the guys in florida. If you wanna see the best thing ever go and search Sean Gardners blog. Wow. that dude can draw.
Both of these ladies wanted to be drawn with a glass of wine. I put a dead fish in the second drawing when she told me that she wanted the same thing.
Damn, this one came out sideways and I'm sure the world wasn't faceing that direction when I drew it. I like this one of the guy.

I have tried to load this picture twice and it keeps coming sideways.
Here is a shrinky dink caricature of Mereta who i drew a little further down on this page.
Ok. I'm trying to load photos of caricatures, and I swear, this thing is just doing whatever it wants.

germany
I think this one looked more like her in real life then in this photo.

this is Mereta with one that i drew of her when I first got here that she likes and one that I drew last night that I like. Guess the one I like and the one she likes.

more germany

Ok, i just got back from Berlin and I'm trying to add these images and its slow and not working and adding the wrong ones, so here is a drawing of Turid and its kind of cool but also kind of to much formula and typical but i like it anyway so piss off. She's suppose to be turning into architecture because she's and architect, and those are doozers.

this guy told me he was a cook when i was almost done with the picture, so i stuck him in an apron and gave him a weenie on a fork. He loved it and hes an art collector. He has a Dali and one by Hundertwaser. I hope he doesn't hang it next to those guys. Im not that good yet.

Here is Aneta and here new friend Thea. They are so sweet. Good memeories here in Drøbak. Ok, so now i really know how to post photos. i will try to post something cool now

alright. Im ganna try to put some drawings and stuff on this blog. it was suppose to be a travel blog but i never did much with it. i like writing in my journal and stuff..sooo, im ganna put theese drawings on here and i can direct people here to look at it and maybe i will get some work or something.

any way, check it out. here is a did a bunch of drawings for this business and they photo copied them and put them on there office wall and took the originals home. it was fun and great practice and some well needed samolies for my pocket.

back in the U.S.

i think its been years since i posted last. well I'm back in the u.s. and I'm leaving again soon and i wanna vent it out a little.
in this city in the south. I'm out of the wintertime. its warm. i have an art job. these are the good things.
sooo..streets lined with open air cafes..? nope, this would be the perfect place for it with the weather, but they haven't made that here. and who would really want to sit out near the street with all these cars going. ...bike lanes? wrong again. I'm almost the only one in the city who uses the sidewalk. i can go for miles on my skateboard and maybe i only pass 1 or 2 people. ..they look crazy, or homeless. ..does it say weird things about me to? and the roads are packed with cars. There is no city train or street cars and the buses stop running early. How is my attempt at making less pollution and liberation from automobiles viewed? I was told that I'm irresponsible for not having a car.
At work people care very much about money. Obviously. The same songs are played over and over. I will shutter for years at the mention of any of these Christmas songs i hear everyday. Even my coworkers recognize that its damaging our Psyche.
I will just say about my job that I very much enjoy the work, it is making visual art, and its at a place where everybody is suppose to make people happy on there vacations so they can get back to there jobs and there lives. ..ok, i guess i ended up telling everything almost.
then back to home after work where the people incessantly zone out to movies and video games to supplement experience to there fragmented and half-lived lives. they are at the movies now while i borrow one of there computers.
the people are always thinking "get for me, get for me". They aren't interested in understanding what is going on in the world. They don't want to hear about it. I'm sure that very few understand how close we are now to having a nuclear weapons accident, or how we will know with in 10 years if there will still be humans on this earth in 100 years or not. They don't know and they don't want to know. They will keep going to work everyday, getting for themselves, hearing the same mind numbing songs over and over, driving isolated home with there own songs playing, and into the house huddled around the T.V. with aliens fighting on it or vampires or some other boring fantasies. If you try to tell them about it they will resist it. If you are going to have any conversation about it then you are just being a bummer to them.
I remember when I was doing some peace work years ago we talked about how there is a psychological way to make war impossible and we all know that they use clever psychology in making people into warriors, but I think there is also a psychological way to make subversion impossible, and i think they have figured it out. Its working.
They could have created a paradise here, but instead it more resembles Mordor. Actually it reminds me a lot of Bangkok. Oh, and if you decide to have a philosophical conversation you might be equally let down. They will say "not now" but they will mean "not ever". This place where I'm working...it reminds me of the sultans palace in Turkey or the Forbidden city in Beijing. It is walled in and paradise on the inside. Beautiful tropical plants and animals. And outside the walls are the noise and traffic of everyday life.
ooooh, they're home. I gatta get off this computer now. More to come soon.

back home

San Pedro

I haven't been typing much. I was in Ecuador. Living on bannanas at the beach. But i'm back now in the siera of Peru. it's cheep here and i will type more and try to bring this web page up to date. I've now been in South America for 5 full moons, but here's a story from my first full moon of the trip. It happened right around here where i am now. This area is where the first Incas came from, where the oldest constantly inhabited city in the americas is, the people say this area is the umbibical of the world. I don't know, but there is a very special energy here. Never planing or intending to come here, i keep coming back.


ChewbySelva cooked the San Pedro for hours over the fire in the open court yard of the house where we were staying. It was a 1 room house with no bathroom, kitchen, or running water but with an excellent enclosed court yard for camping and fiestas. That night was Luna LLena (full moon). Every full moon is celebrated and remembered with theese friends. And in preperation for the purification of the SanPedro, nobody ate meat for these days. ChewbySelva is from the selva (rainforest) and has traveled extensively and shared much of his knowledge with me. I find him to be a bit easier to understand than most people. He knows how to talk to gringos. He made the batch a little mild because it was my first time. He's nice like that. It was difficult to leave this night with the guys, because the most beautiful of the Incas showed up and wanted to party with me. Locumbia yelled for me not to go.... I enjoyed the cab ride out of town. I haven't been in one of these goofy tiny racecar looking things much on this trip. We had just enough money for the cab and bread. We always have just enough money. We hiked down dry river beds into the night and each of us drank one glass of SanPedro under the light of the moon. When we arrived at our site for the night, next to a waterfall spring, we fell straight asleep to the music of the water, we were exausted and cold.
In the morning we all drank more, each saying nice things and drinking to our good trip. filling our bottles at the spring we hiked out of the lush green valley (snacking on all the vegtables that grow along the way) to the dessert mountains. In the dessert we took the sweet fruit of the SanCayo cactus to chase the bad taste of the SanPedro. I drank to "no mas guerras, no mas fronteras" (no more wars, no more borders) .
The sound of ChewbySelvas flute and the sound of Rastamans digeredoo echooed through the vallies and we looked for pretty rocks on our hike. Me and Rastamon hiked back down to the spring to get water for the others at the top. On our way down we found cactus cigaretts and smoked them. I learned more spanish and he english in a language trade. In the valley again i saw the irrigation system at work. a system that hasn't changed since before the Incas. In the field i had a talk with a funny old lady working her field. the rest of the day was spent in the sun and despite the language barrier, whenever i saw my friends i had to smile or laugh...
.... ..that night getting into town..it was strange seeing the bars and all the cars and crazy people of Babylon. I didn't want to party with those people. We went home.
My friends asked to look into my eyes. They starred for awhile and the said i had been effectively purified by the San Pedro cactus.