The Yes Men: Burger Scene

take the time to watch this and look in to years of yes men awesomness. www.yesmen.org

The license plate says it all but the dashboard crazy daizy and the sharks and the shell necklace put the finishing touches on.

I posted the picture of this painting on the left last month. Then I fixed the painting and I like it much better now.

this is the cast shot for the new comedy thriller I've been acting in for the last few weeks. It's called Hangin' In There. It's about a dirt bag crew of artists and musicians who are nominally employed to install and de-install museum art shows and the wacky mis-adventures that transpire during the install of a plein air retrospective. Sandy's jazz hands are a little weak in this photo but all in all the performance has been a real tour de force.....

kevin drew - tbtf

uuuh, can i uhh, ask you a personal question?
do i have to uh, grow a beard to be a part of you guys' club?

this record has been rocking me the last couple of weeks. super soulful and funky. give it a spin or youtube. Karl Hector and the Malcouns' Sahara Swing is the sweet new juice. Nice album art too.

I got this from eric and he got it from samuel. i don't usually bite this kind of bait but it is an interesting proposal

From Samuel Lippke’s blog via www.etrine.com. I would say more than racism I think American's just can't help but always trust old guys with white hair.

What if?
Obama / Biden vs McCain/ Palin , what if things were switched around? . . . . . think about it.
Would the country’s collective point of view be different if McCain & Obama had each other’s history and qualifications?
Could racism be the culprit? Ponder the following:

•What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the
stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed,
pregnant teenage daughter?

•What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard
Law Review?

•What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his
graduating class?

•What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a
divorcee?

•What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife
after a severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer
measured up to his standards?

•What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a
long affair while he was still married?

•What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became
addicted to painkillers but also acquired them illegally
through her charitable organization?

•What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?

•What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five? (The
Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of
corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as
part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s
and early 1990s).

•What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

•What if Obama couldn’ t read from a tele-prompter?

•What if Obama was the one who had military experience that
included discipline problems and a record of crashing seven
planes?

•What if Obama was the one who was known to display
publicly, on many occasions, a serious anger management
problem?

•What if Michelle Obama’s family had made their money
from beer distribution?

•What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?

You could easily add to this list. If these questions
reflected reality, do you really believe the election
numbers would be as close as they are? This is what racism
does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive
qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities
in another when there is a color difference .

Educational Background :

Barack Obama :

Columbia University - B.A. Political Science wit

Tim Fort's Kinetic Art

This might be more awesome.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU

This is very impressive. Thanks Emily. This stoked me out. Street art, shmeet art for sure but this is just plain good and ambitious.

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Work and life have been super busy but I'm back on the trolley.

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Good tune plus I like the andy warhol, to geoff mcfeteridge thread. I even see some of my own subconscious influence in here. my mom, a huge Beatles fan when she was growing up, rented this from the library when me and Jer were super young and used to baby sit us with the yellow submarine.

Mystery painting becomes an inspired portrait of the Reverend Ethan Acres

God has been making with the funnies lately. I have a show coming up that I call "Are You Ready To Testify" which for you MC5ers, you will remember being shouted as the band is introduced for their amazing live album. So the title comes from my desire to make a series of work testifying about my experience recently of God really talking to me. I am bad at putting my experiences with God and Jesus into words and verbal persuasions, hence testifying through the visual. As I have been making them I have been making tons of fun mental connections which turn into rabbit holes of thought that lead to visual connections for myself to translate for the viewer, but all revolving and those and that which testifies of God's awesomness.
The story of this painting is thus. I started painting this and have been working on it for a couple of weeks and for the life of me I didn't know why. It's not like anything I have done and was driving me nuts but I put all else aside and knew I had to finish it. Today it hits me.
Yesterday Doug Harvey graced the class I teach at Biola with a lecture on his work which was great. He has influenced a good deal on the games I play with myself on associations. He mentions that the Reverend Ethan Acres will be giving a sermon at the closing of Mel's Hole, a show Doug curated, and that I should introduce my class to his work. Word, I say. I love the Rev's work. Then on the way home it hits me, introduce his work, hell, I'll ask him to come talk to my class since he'll be out from Alabama at the end of the month. I email him, he awesomally accepts my invitation and I am stoked. So today i am finishing up this piece and I am hit once more. This is a portrait of Ethan. The reverend himself, testifying. It was all connected and meant to be.
The background behind the figures have a stain glassed effect which I associate with his Church of the Holy Fool in Alabama, or like, generally a church. Then I'm like, naked, why naked. When I think of Moses and the burning bush, or Jacob wresting God, I think of them nude, like when we're born, born again, etc. Then me thinks if the sign of the modern man (woman) is that we look within instead of up or out, this is a modern mirror testifier, like myself or my painted Ethan. Acres is bald(er) and bearded as well. The top panel is my geometric, again "modern" geometeric Heaven (the numeric value of the line lengths actually spell out "the holy testament of God"), that the clapping hands and blood of Christ (red drop under the clapping hands) can lead the viewer to. A "trinity" of panels. I've also been thinking about Mattise a lot lately and he did portraits of other artists. Shit man, this is my Mother Mary (or Libarace) in a tortilla. Funny eh?
If you don't know the Rev look him up for a few sermons on youtube, and a link to his site, and his "Sermon on the Hole" will be Oct. 19th at Grand Central in Santa Ana . Doug Harvey is in the link section of my blog.