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A late night spur of the moment dousing of red to a painting that's been sitting <span style="background-color: white;">around </span><span style="background-color: white;">the studio for a few months now just drinking all the orange juice and wearing my t-shirts without asking. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I think yellow is next.</span>rawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358403396820258365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350690035424424844.post-54080015660473225942012-06-12T08:12:00.002-07:002012-06-12T08:12:50.441-07:00Brown and Yellow, Brown and Yellow <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been sketching these for a few weeks now. ( I can't stop!) I went a used book store <b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Book-Buyers/104299204809">Book Buyers</a> </b>and bought a bunch of old National Geographic magazines and began sketching the amazing photos of people and culture who catch my attention.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The definition of poverty and what it looks like depending of where you live is interesting to me. Also the ideal of the poor exploited for the less poor by the rich.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not sure how many I'll do but once I get enough (or run out of hood jargon ) I would like to make some really large paintings and other pieces. Until then I'll post sketches, color studies and smaller paintings. </span><br />
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What happen to the American dream?! It came true! You're looking at it!rawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358403396820258365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350690035424424844.post-79353845229594160362012-03-12T09:55:00.001-07:002012-03-12T10:00:39.791-07:00Chilren are a blessing, ain't they.<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My little girl just got her first two teeth. She's now eight months old and her swag is severely swollen. I remember before she was born so many people would tell me that my art work would drastically change. That <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slUbPBythp0">seeing the birth of my first child</a> will force me to see only the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sK0Ozn8LDA">beauty </a>in the world and I will have a softer approach to my art. That I won't focus on the primitive ugly urge that is human nature which causes us to continue to destroy one another just as we have done since the dawn of our existence. I will no longer feel rage and passion about the corporations and institutions who exploit those without the means to fight back for their personal gain as I watch everyday people struggle to make something out of their existence while those at the top get fat and drunk off our backs. I won't care to seek out and ask questions about the world and my place in it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm so glad I don't feel that way any more because that shit was bumming me out... now here is a painting of a woman sitting on a golden bull that's slowly bleeding to death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's weird when I was a kid I knew nothing and thought when I grow up I will know everything. By the time I was a teenager I didn't want anyone to tell me anything. (Because what did people older than me know?) When I was in my 20's I thought I had it had figured out and saw the world as it really was. Now that I'm 32 and after a decade of studying and observing and experiencing, I've realized that the more I learn the less I know. The world and life aren't as black and white as they were in my 20's now everything is in<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyCCJ6B2WE"> techno-color</a><span id="goog_1398447447"></span><span id="goog_1398447448"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a>. A lot of let downs, a lot of reasons to hope but most of all, a lot more questions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is why I'm naming my show in July at Central Piedmont Community College, <b>"First The Fat Boys Break Up, Now This..."</b> </span><br />
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Tonight the plan is to watch 30 Rock (we don't have cable), eat some <a href="http://www.meijer.com/s/nissin-top-ramen-ramen-noodle-soup-chicken-flavor-1-package-3-oz/_/R-118473">peasant food</a> and then work on this painting titled "Watch the Throne" for my show in July at CPCC. I'm eager to see how the bull turns out. I plan to paint him a yellowish color. It's my first time I've use an animal this prominently in a composition. I'm going to finish this painting by Monday or <a href="http://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20100624/90-percent-in-us-get-too-much-salt-5-foods-blamed">die</a> trying.rawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358403396820258365noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350690035424424844.post-4736279564632219062012-02-09T12:18:00.000-08:002012-02-09T12:18:57.728-08:00DUHH!<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mitt Romeny recently said that he didn't care about the very poor...yeah we know.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>rawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358403396820258365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350690035424424844.post-82689944245389321332011-09-23T07:58:00.000-07:002011-09-23T08:04:20.208-07:0030 foot time machine<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I want to let you in on a little secret. I kinda hate doing collaborations with other artists. Yes, the guy who help start an art collective isn't too fond of working with other artists. Reason being is I've had some pretty bad experiences with collabing or watching others do it. Either the chemistry and timing isn't there or one person is doing all the heavy lifting while other use him or her as a crutch. So now I'm pretty selective about who I choose to work with. I don't want to create some horrible decrepit monkey fetus and call it art ( Sadly a monkey fetus in a gallery would sell like crazy). So I'm always a little apprehensive when beginning to work with someone. But this wasn't the case with the project below titled <strong>'Here's Hoping it Rhymes for a Reason"</strong> which is now on view at the UNCC Center City Building until Oct. 11th.. I've know John since college and we've both wanted to do a project like this. Plus alot like me John worries about getting better with is work. In turn this forces him to push himself to new heights so I can respect that because I'm constantly trying to do the same. So the entire process was quite enjoyable, we painted, talked about life and art, made stupid jokes (really stupid jokes), all while listening to late nineties hip hop... just like in college when life made a lot more sense. It felt good.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqbFD71z53X8AKJKu1m4NdwhRgBCRl3HtJj6ikYNsSut1VfSDy6RLCORrZyMCCGtL5ym9E-EVRsxSakLtE91A-xN0Fx1gqGHDv9W1_6MW-ziZRPBK74XTKvj-B-SBU4-wAe3z_RoRPX0H8/s1600/rhymes+for+a+reason+web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hca="true" height="132px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqbFD71z53X8AKJKu1m4NdwhRgBCRl3HtJj6ikYNsSut1VfSDy6RLCORrZyMCCGtL5ym9E-EVRsxSakLtE91A-xN0Fx1gqGHDv9W1_6MW-ziZRPBK74XTKvj-B-SBU4-wAe3z_RoRPX0H8/s400/rhymes+for+a+reason+web.jpg" width="400px" /></a>rawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358403396820258365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350690035424424844.post-2925352113448415952011-09-22T07:44:00.000-07:002011-09-22T07:44:24.478-07:00me talking about me<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Here is an interview I did for <a href="http://clclt.com/">Creative Loafing Charlotte</a> produced by Brooks Newkirk (she's great). In it I'm fake painting while talking about what inspires me, my influences, and process. I've always love hearing other artists talk about their process so it surreal to hear me talk about what I do.</div><br />
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Hree is waht we hvae so far. I'm raelly ecxtied. Pelase come thrgouh Sat and wacth us fnish it.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So Jago 13 and I have been commissioned by UNCC to do an installation in their new gallery downtown. We have a week to go. And I will be posting through out the week to document our progress or slow descent into madness, whichever gets paintings sold. (Probally the madness). The name of the show is "Here's to Hoping it Rhymes for a Reason". You can come out this sat to see us finish the piece while listening to late 90's hip hop. Feel free to stop by. In the meantime check out the pics below from day one.</span><br />
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I just finished this one Sat morning at about 4:30am. This painting has been staring at me for the past 4 or so months. I have a few symbolic elements here that may become reoccurring: the pedestal, the barbed wire and the doll with it's soulless black eyes.<br />
I plan on doing a companion piece to this one, hopefully by the fall. <br />
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Recently I've taken an interest into patterns and ornaments. This came about after admiring the work of <a href="http://www.muchafoundation.org/MGalleries.aspx">Alphonse Mucha</a>. I love his use of ornaments with the human figure.Soo I pretended I was the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WRioiXImSc">Madlib </a> (fans of Madlib will appreciate this link) of art and sampled what he did and try to make it my own. Above are some ornaments I designed in Adobe Illustrator. I found the source material from a book of tile patterns from around the world which I came across at a used book store. I added in my own symbolism in each such as the <a href="http://rawgoods01.blogspot.com/2011/06/it-was-pleasure-to-burn.html">burning book</a> and the mother bird feeding the chicks dollar signs instead of your pet hamster that got loose. <br />
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Be sure to look for these designs and a couple of more in the backgrounds of my future work.rawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358403396820258365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350690035424424844.post-67879980937868757072011-06-22T12:27:00.000-07:002011-06-22T12:28:55.181-07:00they grow up so fast a work in progress<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGp_wOzEVzNnkXWDhTJ-Bg6BPm7NdPCEv-UeL8HAcN_70SMcqffXGic1ieP96sL5sZbc7YRAAPUvxH7iiH5OP0fYcbIQUjTyo4LHc-lXrZ9BkG03BAerr3jIGu4FvJ_vXt5mXWMYBsOeo1/s1600/flag+girl+wip.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGp_wOzEVzNnkXWDhTJ-Bg6BPm7NdPCEv-UeL8HAcN_70SMcqffXGic1ieP96sL5sZbc7YRAAPUvxH7iiH5OP0fYcbIQUjTyo4LHc-lXrZ9BkG03BAerr3jIGu4FvJ_vXt5mXWMYBsOeo1/s400/flag+girl+wip.jpg" width="345px" /></a></div><br />
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This pic was taken late last night. It's a quick shot of one of the new pieces I'm currently working on. If you recall the <a href="http://rawgoods01.blogspot.com/2011/06/about-ink.html">line drawing</a> I did of miss lady a few days ago. Now she's all grown up...next thing you know she'll be too good just being black and white and insist on being colored...I blame rap music.rawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358403396820258365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350690035424424844.post-87349604160627611842011-06-16T07:07:00.000-07:002011-06-16T07:07:08.602-07:00The Problems We all Live With<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRRhpCDZG3HEk8e3jzzAoPe5Yl_iUumAljcgXXHN0ZXNzqemMyKU6g3w2z8qTTp7yilng0nf3lMSxFIxyIdtpJ-M_LwgzFHRB9P4cRFKV_BvytWx5dcyKHxNGzcGVxBDqH3YuP8VjIuqTn/s1600/problems.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="247px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRRhpCDZG3HEk8e3jzzAoPe5Yl_iUumAljcgXXHN0ZXNzqemMyKU6g3w2z8qTTp7yilng0nf3lMSxFIxyIdtpJ-M_LwgzFHRB9P4cRFKV_BvytWx5dcyKHxNGzcGVxBDqH3YuP8VjIuqTn/s400/problems.jpg" t8="true" width="400px" /></a></div><br />
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Here is my latest painting that I finally finished titled 'The Problems We All Live With" it was inspired by <a href="http://www.globalgallery.com/prod_images/600/74852.jpg">Norman Rockwell's</a> painting of the same name. I'm just trying to make sense of life right now. I think we can get too tangled up in happiness or the ideal of happiness too pay attention to whats really going on around us whether it's good or bad for us.<br />
I'm pretty happy with it. I used more colors in this palette that I have in the past so that's something I'm working toward. <br />
Well on to the next piece.rawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358403396820258365noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350690035424424844.post-43738869110467179672011-06-16T05:58:00.000-07:002011-06-16T05:58:15.935-07:00The Worst Of! Vol:I<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnICCQE-MHI61OVo_HME18E8r2V5aT3FuMr4LB0N73yJAL42fuGFk52hiPvMTVl7FZvC_Uf_hQF91qFkToar1KAeMRDUuKa9Wey_kVFwYHaaMYbW4yXX4VHHQUnFCsJb74RaydSNSzPCJR/s1600/color+struck+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In a time long long ago circa 2002-2003ish in a land call UNC Charlotte Rowe arts building I meekly roamed the halls making what some called 'art'. (and a brief time after graduation) It was a time when Cobra Commander was president and I actually thought Blackstar would make a second album. (silly me).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've come a long way since then. From time to time I like to look at my older work to see how I've progress. An artist once told me the difference between a good artist and a bad artist is that a good artist has more bad work. (form all the hours of pratice). The work below is bad....REALLY bad...I mean like Spiderman 3 or Sarah Palin using the English language bad. But I'm confident enough in the work I'm making now to show these. So before there was </span><a href="http://rawgoods.org/artwork/1614589_they_re_gonna_reap.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I was making what you see below.</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sidebar: The reason all these pieces are colorpencil and bad photoshop is becasue I'm what science refer to as 'poor' (Look it up. Its a real thing), So in college I couldn't afford paint but prismacolors were way cheaper so I just learned how to use them. It wasn't until after college I was able to buy paints on a regular bases. </span></em><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Remember <a href="http://rawgoods01.blogspot.com/2011/05/vector-death-grip.html">this</a>? Oh, you don't? Well, it doesn't matter because I have what you now see above. I want to do a series of digital illustrations and transfer them onto wood panels. The panel above is 11"x14". People have been asking for prints of my work but I've always wanted to do something different.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> I plan on posting more in the coming months but if anyone is interested in purchasing the design above just contact me. </div><div style="text-align: left;">Next on deck may be a rehash of good ol' <a href="http://rawgoods.org/artwork/1614614_rupert_s_war.html">Rup</a></div>rawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358403396820258365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350690035424424844.post-34410316265173742252011-06-13T10:01:00.000-07:002011-06-13T10:01:55.935-07:00about ink<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK-VJd-33Czq1nWmvqiwiUOTcUD4RabBJmtSx6y2zoAy1qrzdaNIhgPsS8y_PwzV5hxHv6Z5DHwAc_er3W-75wygGcWUFc16fLY3cmxK3jsBNOt2SXoAhIyeSODMIRNCcjK6FR_1ec6vGQ/s1600/pedalstal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK-VJd-33Czq1nWmvqiwiUOTcUD4RabBJmtSx6y2zoAy1qrzdaNIhgPsS8y_PwzV5hxHv6Z5DHwAc_er3W-75wygGcWUFc16fLY3cmxK3jsBNOt2SXoAhIyeSODMIRNCcjK6FR_1ec6vGQ/s400/pedalstal.jpg" t8="true" width="243px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's an ink line drawing I did last week for a new piece I'm working on. I know what you're thinking. "Why is she wearing rain boots!?" Well first let me say I hope you weren't really thinking that. But for those of you who were (nobody) I originally drew her with an umbrella but decided I didn't like the shape the umbrella made with her body. The flag hanging down by her side makes a nice dynamic shape. And I like the boots so much I decided to keep'em. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Illustrator plus Photoshop plus procrastination equals obscure references to <a href="http://www.raybradbury.com/books/fahrenheit451.html">social science fiction novels</a> that no one really cares about but yourself.rawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358403396820258365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350690035424424844.post-80240299845957253312011-05-24T06:47:00.000-07:002011-05-24T06:47:57.949-07:00vector death grip<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH6t1ylcV75XJEyIKwGwBMXsArOeTWeHE-VVgKZ9OvdIm8e2kLwv5sC_-44DTUrbq_dIEC_-PNgvATbrOejGWsCgR2YdHdJgGr2NE0_xgW4vI1XR-Fv-8cdAmSza7GL3h24jcu6xsM2bvZ/s1600/have+nots+web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; height: 350px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 246px;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH6t1ylcV75XJEyIKwGwBMXsArOeTWeHE-VVgKZ9OvdIm8e2kLwv5sC_-44DTUrbq_dIEC_-PNgvATbrOejGWsCgR2YdHdJgGr2NE0_xgW4vI1XR-Fv-8cdAmSza7GL3h24jcu6xsM2bvZ/s1600/have+nots+web.jpg" t8="true" /></a></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I lose my flash drive last Thrusday. And which everyone knows the loosing of ones flash drive is a sign of the apocalypse. ( I think it's in revalations somewhere) So I rush out Fri and got another. That was a close call. Hopeful I don't loose this new in a few months, then the world will really end. </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx8UgjyV8UI"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm sure of it.</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On my old flash drive I had about 1000 pics and photos of things that inspired me. Now all gone. So last night while taking a break from painting I began looking through old files on my computer. I came across a illustrator file that I didn't finish of this WWII graphic I found online that I wanted to update. So I finished drawing it in illustrator then decided to take it into photoshop and give it a weathered old timey WWII look. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So tonight I'll continue to look on my hard drive for old crap then post it as new crap.</span>rawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358403396820258365noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350690035424424844.post-85395563357749646612011-04-20T09:23:00.000-07:002011-04-20T09:23:33.949-07:00No one expects pop lockers!<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHP73djY78FEYKpBwIuO-rV6LgdKYjfww2vx7oyoR5XRCRCabjrOZ7o7sLX_cIz6BMBcbaS9NNNW4LNaG31cxFGuLzmgsFDtc6RmmO35SLbcUuIa__YwPnmX-0lAvjs-pneXhXvmV2dyCn/s1600/muraul.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300px" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHP73djY78FEYKpBwIuO-rV6LgdKYjfww2vx7oyoR5XRCRCabjrOZ7o7sLX_cIz6BMBcbaS9NNNW4LNaG31cxFGuLzmgsFDtc6RmmO35SLbcUuIa__YwPnmX-0lAvjs-pneXhXvmV2dyCn/s400/muraul.jpg" width="400px" /></a></div><br />
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Yesterday I was at JCSU's new Art Factory to work on a mural that I'm in the process of working on with some of JCSU's art students. While there the always lovely Donell Stines stopped by with some breakers to practice for their event at the<a href="http://www.museumofthenewsouth.org/exhibits/detail/?ExhibitId=107"> Levine</a> on May 1st. and before they begun she snapped this photo. The dancers were really cool and I can't wait to see them perform. After the photo they went inside and did there thing.<br />
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As for me I stayed outside sweating and getting paint on my shirt...rawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358403396820258365noreply@blogger.com0