CLASS IN THESE HERE TOLEDO, OHIO

DETROIT PRINCESS EXITS TOLEDO STAGE LEFT

Imagine my surprise upon waking one morning and seeing this news story:

http://www.13abc.com/story/15971960/princess-cruise-cancelled-after-fight-breaks-out

In Toledo Friday night, 600 people were on the Detroit Princess Boat in two ballrooms when a half dozen people started to fight on the lower level ballroom floor. Witnesses said, at one point, up 100 people were participating in the fight.

Friday was the hip-hop crowd and Saturday was supposed to be the R&B crowd. The boat is equipped with half a dozen on-board security officers during a cruise and other staff trained to move passengers out of trouble.
All passengers are patted down when they board, whether in Toledo or Detroit. Toledo police were called and sent two dozen officers to the boat. One arrest was made, but more are possible.

Did you imagine my surprise? Did you? No? PROBABLY BECAUSE I WAS NOT SURPRISED.
Only Toledo can force a Detroit Princess cruise line to literally haul up anchor and LEAVE.

NOT OCCUPYING TOLEDO

MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH...

RIBBONS!

I am still waiting for the T Shirt sample of that nightmare job I blogged about. Still. The shirts have been long printed and sold. My portfolio grows dust waiting for this sample. *sigh* So instead of sharing my non existant sample with you, I would like to announce my latest accomplishments:

    Three entered pieces won three ribbons!

  

OMG! OMG! RIBBONS!!

LOOK AT THEM

The 2nd place ribbon for POP CULTURE (A Coca-Cola© bottle) is a special honor as it is my first award for a painting as a medium. I am also awaiting the day when I can afford to frame some of my NEW pieces in order to show them...

MY FANTASY VS MY REALITY FRAMING

Because everything looks better in giant golden garish filigree --You know it does.

SEE!??

Exceptionally bad art brought to you by: http://museumofbadart.org

IT'S PHALLIC

NOTHIN’ BUT CLASS
A new quarter and class has begun and I am currently working on an illustration for one of the Seven Deadly Sins. The sin? LUST. I gathered the messege that I wished to communicate as well as a kicking quote from the Marquis de Sade. I am, however, struggling with this project. So far, I have narrowed down 20 thumbnails looking for a representational symbol. My abstract symbol (inspired by a live model) was wildly successful!

I am hoping for a FREUDIAN RIBBON next!

The above are my thumbnails. I went for Giger and got... I have no idea. Maybe I should have simply gone for Collins. My concept is to convey extreme sexual want/hunger with the pitfall of careless sex. I wanted to capture, not so much prudishness, but where an addiction to it all can lead. I want to create a piece that if faced with what is presented, one would actually be willing to toss over their own safety for that immediate gratification.

Although the nun works for the piece. As does the serpentine tongue. The last thumbnail is one of my rabbits staring at me while I sketched the thumbnails. I felt mocked.

I MOCK YOU! ALWAYS!

I MADE SALES!



I never thought I would ever live to see the day that I would thank listeners of talk radio...

BUY THIS MUG HERE:

http://www.zazzle.com/wspd_radio_waves_mug-168262102143066726

I love SPACE BUN. It is one of my favorite designs.

BUY THIS HOODIE HERE:

http://www.zazzle.com/space_bun_tshirt-235574715736751043

It’s official: I CAN pay the cable bill this month! Which, come to think of it, I better pay...









I AM BETTER THAN YOUR KIDS

http://www.iambetterthanyourkids.com/

Here is a sample of this exquisite website:

I am Maddox, a 32-year-old computer programmer and writer. I can spell, draw, and do math better than your kids, so I've taken the liberty to judge work done by children. I'll be assigning a grade of A through F for each piece:

"Guy Fawkes, one of five conspirators in the "gunpowder" plot to blow up parliament, depicted here as a haughty queen, standing near a gray flower."

OCCUPY ANONYMOUS

Speaking of which--South Park is even getting in on the act:

One reason that I love South Park is that they attack us all. Occupy Red Robin looked a lot like Occupy Toledo. View for yourself:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8iJLa0UxTU
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OCCUPYING

HE GOES BY "ACHILLES"

SEE!??

To update one and all: Occupy Toledo are still occupying. Now, various Occupiers all over this nation are starting to shoot and kill each other, rape each other, spread TB (blamed on the homeless), commit suicide and endanger the children they drag out there with them. One group elected a dog as their leader. Good choice. Woof!

BOW TO THE WOW

Nothing so dramatic HERE... but they ARE trying. Two members
(count them, 2) were arrested because they took a hand drawn sign into a city council meeting. Do not underestimate the ability to incur paper cuts on city council members with poster board. I feel the TRUE issue is about NOT hiring a professional graphic designer for the sign and NOT getting it professionally printed. I'M TIRED OF THE 99% MAN!

The two people are being charged with resisting arrest. They said they never TOUCHED any of the officers. Should I send an anonymous letter explaining the difference between assault and resisting? The ACLU has since been called in. The Occupiers here (Achilles included) were granted 2 weeks worth of tents. Oh boy.

JOKE
Q: Why is Occupy Toledo like the circus?
A: IT'S IN TENTS!!!!

(intense - in tents - circus?) - well it isn't funny if I have to explain it.

STUDIO 566

DRAMATIC

HONORABLE DAUGHTER #1 IS EXPECTING

SIMS UPDATE

 

Uncanny, isn't it?




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OCCUPYING OCCUPY TOLEDO

TWO FOUR SIX EIGHT - I THOUGHT WE WERE GONNA CONGREGATE?

These here Toledo is seeing the radical movement of Occupy Wallstreet, except here it is Occupy Toledo, in a place called Levis Square. It is pronounced “leh’ veez.”

Not pronounced this way – get it right, it’s a protest.

As the resident liberal of the local AM talk radio station (you think I'm kidding?), I knew I was going to walk hard and represent. I'M TIRED OF THE MAN!

Eat shit! A billion flies can't be wrong!

I made sure I knew where I was going -- in terms of Levis Square, not in terms of my life. Even at age 47, I have no freaking idea where that is headed...

shaddup.

After living 35 years in this city I still get confused so I went on a map quest. During stalk view, I beheld quintessential TOLEDO, OHIO:

The Toledo, Ohio Welcome Wagon

In my old age (see above), I am becoming a fiscal conservative. I have no money, but I am becoming a fiscal conservative. Maybe my meds need readjustment. This brings me to the difficult issue of Student Loan Forgiveness. The loans would be forgiven but that would mean the taxpayer is left to pay my bill. As it turns out, that’s fine with me. Sign the petition:

http://www.forgivestudentloandebt.com

I don't know why I can't find a job.

It seems the protesters were met with a psuedo police-state when their electricity was callously cut off. They had plugged in their appliances, computers, cell phones and amps into a telephone pole in Levis Square. It seems, Occupy Toledo was not approved for tents. Porta-potties and electricity... well~

But Mayor Mike Bell agreed that tents and canopies would not be allowed, and portable toilets and electricity would only be available if Occupy Toledo were to pay for them.

Furthermore, he said, Occupy Toledo would have to establish an end date for its gathering before the city could issue it a park permit. - The Toledo Blade - 10/14/11

Permits!? We don't need no stinkin permits! ... Do we?

So this was, in the eyes of these here Toledo law, considered “stealing.”  We taxpayers would otherwise foot the bill. (Just like my student loans!) I feel your pain, brothers and sisters-in-arms... I feel your pain.

 YOU NEED ONE OF THESE:

Electricity is free, isn't it? – It’s in the sky when it rains!

As an educated artisan, not only am I up to my eyeballs in school loans with little to no hope of ever paying them back in this lifetime, I can make the coolest pop-culture protest signs and still have no one care!!

My ultra cool hand-painted sign

Where the hell is everyone? Seriously... I made a sign for this!

Meanwhile, in other parts of the world where the government is truly despotic (not that our country isn't giving it the "Ol' College Try") and countries are suffering as a whole (not just individuals or parties), we have:

OCCUPY ROME - 10/15/11

And that same morning in these here Toledo, Ohio:

Nothing says "REVOLUTION" like "STARBUCKS" and a Slim Jim.

It’s all relative, right?

RIGHT!

MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE STUDIO566 RANCH

AWARDS!

Studio566 is recognized and published in the Design Annual:CREATIVITY DESIGN 41

for this shameless self-promotion piece:

It's my shoe.

PRODUCT OF THE DAY!
This design also received recognition through Zazzle!




AND NOW... BUNNIES

Bouncing Bunny I animated but will spare you that pain.

In celebration of my favorite time of the year...

In celebration of my favorite holiday of the year...

I DON’T NEED NO EDUCATION
My current class is CHILDREN’S LITERATURE. It is a Gestaltic trip down Freudian Lane at best—At worst, it is a catalyst for sequential nervous breakdowns. All the reading about the Victorian Era inspired me to draw my beautiful  great-niece in her halloween costume. It was meant to be therapeutic. It was. Thank, Gestalt.

ME, ME AND… WELL, ME
I am currently working on a FaceBook project of drawing portraits of those who “liked” my status that day. They are stick figures. And yes, I DO think it's funny. Samples will be forthcoming. As an artist, however, I love when people draw things for me… especially portraits. Here are three portraits that fellow artists have rendered of Yours Truly. Each are very different, which reflects each very different relationship I have with the artists. I love all three of these portraits.  

Bruce Barrows @1983

Katie Simrell - 2011

Eddie Weichman - 2011

 Speaking of me, my Social Sims is haunted. She also eats her own shoe.

Chatting up the afterlife

HOW ILLUSTRATORS AGE

(By Mark Kaufman for EFII)

I DON'T KNOW WHY I THINK THIS IS SO DAMNABLY FUNNY, BUT, BY GOD, I DO.
I laugh every time I look at this picture...

HAHAHHAAHAHAHHA!

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