Be Water My Friend

Be Water My Friend

print on paper

2010

brown

Be Water My Friend

print on paper

2010

green

this is a print i did fairly recently of Bruce Lee. this is my interpretation i guess, of an interview with him where he talks about martial arts and how, i'm paraphrasing here, he says don't be the teapot but be the water and flow out of the teapot and into the cup, you must be water my friend..."

Find Love

Find Love
acrylic and ink on canvas
3X3
2009

So i decided it's time i post some of my own art online. here is one of the first large painting i did, took quite some time because i first drew out the pattern then transferred then painted then outlined :) i think this piece has been one of the most enjoyable in terms of its process to finished product :)

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Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother. They were both deaf.

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#45
You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening.

#44
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

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#2
When it's hot outside, your more likely to get in a fight.

the hood

currently scamming internet off the balcony of my new apartment while listening to.. someone.. belt 'rolling in the deep' as loud as they can.. i cant quite place which window its coming from.. its now past 8pm and our beautiful neighbor, who is on time every single other night, should be outside on his balcony bbqing or cooking over the stove just inside in nothing but his tight ass black underwear, yeah you read that right, with his two little kids running around him and his semi good looking wife in the background. sitting outside staring at him do this has become part of our routine every night. its like a movie honestly lol he would never get away with something like this back home. oh and i didnt mention but he is ripped! :) should we feel guilty about ohing and awing over him because he clearly is married with a cute little fam, probably..
true blood has become a new obsession of the house, though we have only made it through the first two episodes due to our current internet, or lack of, situation..
tomorrow is the first official art history lecture of the year and i am super stoked! our prof is this super cute old guy from cech who has been teaching this class for over 25 years.. he knows his shit :)
just about to go back to the studio for some late night drawing :) we are in the middle of our first assignment which is supposed to be a collage of 10 words that express our first impressions of moving here.. its pretty lame and we only have had a week, kinda feels like a waste of time cause we could have just jumped right in and started with our body of work that we will each be creating in our time here. whatever i am having fun with mine, doing a drawing instead and collaging my words into each other in the drawing.. we'll see how it goes.. so far it is proving to be a much more difficult task than i originally planned for because of the scale i'm working on and the detailed imagery.. we'll see
i really want to get a tattoo while im here so im having fun brainstorming ideas about it.
i've been having really weird dreams ever since i've been here involving random sonorous with people back home. still have trouble falling asleep every night and still feel anxious all the time but what else is new.. such is life and life is good :)

whats not to love..

first day

currently sitting in an internet cafe in Florence with two of my roommates, julie and alanna. me and julie arrived today.. well yesterday?
we lest the 31 at 6pm and finally ended up in italy at 1:30ish today, the 1st of september.. currently running on my 5 hour sleep i got two days ago before i left. lol took a taxi to our place :D its beautiful! high ceilings all white and big windows with green shutters! -picture to come
we have been walking around the city already today and saw the duomo and beautiful big squares :)
so so happy!
next to go home and un pack.. then ptfo for a while :)

written in the air

-currently over the atlantic in the most uncomfortable plain ride ever! girl beside me seems nice but wouldn't let me have the aisle seat.. bitch. oh wait.. oh ok some turbulence.. here we go again.. already crushed two and a half flicks, 1 the losers.. pretty lame but kept me entertained enough, the second was a documentary style done of course by the lovely BBC called Human Planet: Jungles, that was sick! all about different people groups that live in different jungles all over the world.. GAHHH more turbulence! 'crew to your seats' that cant be good.. anyways! i will choose to ignore/try to ignore my surroundings and ramble some more about the movie. there were tribes of people in south america who build there houses wayy up in the tree tops! and other tribes that are all into the musicalness of the forest who where playing the drums almost with the river. just smacking it with there hands and creating a beat that others would join in on down the river to put together a rawring natural song :) the last one i didnt get fully through, it was another BBC The Earth Made Us: water.. or something like that. it was aight.. to distracted though otherwise i would defs be more into it.

-been up to pee twice, and to be honest I have nooo clue what time it really is.. the cell phone I have with me (from Canada) says 12;41 am, but my laptop (also from Canada) says 11;12pm…

-I know our air plain pulled out of the docking stating to go over to the run strip at 6:05 pm –my phone time.. so I think ive now been in the air for  almost 7 hours… GAH MORE TURBULANCE!

Also looking at the flight tracking I am now almost over the altantic!! Hurray! We are about to fly over Ireland and the UK then next is onto the mainland to touch down in Brussels Belgium!!

-local time at destination arrival 5:23am.. im so lost

-estimated time of arrival 7:02?