blake and jeremy play guitar and drums in my son's band. they had a great show the other night and i got some pics.











blake tat. color next.





jeremy alice sleeve. coming along.




the queen is still shiney from last week.















good crowd!



more here~ http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=44850132&albumId=2597628

josh.








margot in white w/black walnut paint















http://fernandofalcone.com.ar/

empress alice tarot watercolor. i was painting it to warm up to do a tat on jeremy's alice sleeve. i'd like to tattoo it bigger now. no camera for alice sleeve yet.

MDC is touring thru, but the closest they come to me is covington KY, by cincinatti. check out my art on the big banner behind them!

the cost of my smokes, american spirit tobacco, has almost doubled! i've never seen a commodity go up this fast my whole life! i'm going to plant some tobacco this year, i've grown it before. next year i hope i can get the good seeds of the stuff i used to grow(nicotiana rustica pumilla).




One of the best shows I’ve ever seen SSP didn’t stay on the stage for a minute, marching into the audience. At one point they even marched out the door into a small supermarket, with everyone dancing and parading behind!
A profound thing when you’re acoustic but loud.
They took 3 of my requests, rare songs I had no idea they knew. The woman isn’t always with them, so it was great they had her to do a bitchin “ederlezi”.+
Slavic Soul Party



Teknocheck Collision - MTV Video










IN IT not On It (part 1)










IN IT not On It (part 2)











Slavic Soul Party at the Air conditioned bar in Venice http://www.slavicsoulparty.com














Guns and Butter
"The Financial Barbarians at the Gate" with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. Europe; worsening financial situation and indebtedness; the history of banking and the criminalization of the banking system; tax policy; real estate asset inflation; US imperialism via the monetary system; neoliberal/neofeudal economics; classical political economy; finance capital breaking away from industrial capital; the financial crisis leading to a political crisis; similarities with the Roman Republic; what measures labor should take.
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/50059







www.myspace.com/ohvec


Maria Gunnoe Wins 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize
Congratulations to Maria --and everyone working to end mountaintop removal!
www.ohvec.org/links/general_interest/maria_gunnoe.html














The Struggle Against Mountaintop Removal: Leading Activist Mike Roselle Continues Fight Against Destructive Coal Mining
The Environmental Protection Agency recently dealt a blow to the coal mining industry when it delayed hundreds of mountaintop coal mining projects for a new review of their environmental impact. But the EPA decision still leaves in place hundreds of existing permits for mountaintop removal. The group Climate Ground Zero has been leading protests and peaceful direct actions against the company Massey Energy to prevent mountaintop removal at Coal River Mountain in West Virginia. We speak with leading activist Mike Roselle of Climate Ground Zero.

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/8/the_struggle_against_mountaintop_removal_leading

La vida de vagabundos americanos

a crapload of cool pis here~

http://ziza.es/2007/07/23/La_vida_de_vagabundos_americanos_42_fotos.html

night of the living dead poster girl tat i did on corey. still a little flakey so i'll replace this as i get a better pic.

more trajedy for helen, her cabin burns to the ground!

we had a work party at helen's over the weekend. worked on her sister's cabin, which helen may have to stay in til we get her a new cabin built.
she came to our neighborhood in the 80's and started building her cabin the same time i started ours. almost complete, her balcony lacked a railing, leading to the tragic accident that has left her paralyzed.
always the rowdiest fun person around, her accident gave even more edge to her terse humor. i bought my first kz1000 motorcycle from helen, who had a lot more hotrod stories of her time on it than i ever notched on my belt.
recently she's had a real full force brewery going at her place, quite the beer arteest. i was planning on drawing her beer label.

here's the gazette front page article from last saturday~



Hamlin woman rebuilding home after fire

HAMLIN, W.Va. - More than 20 years ago, Helen Hervey built a one-room log cabin for herself in Lincoln County. Two weeks ago, she watched her home burn to the ground.
With family and friends by her side, and despite being confined to a wheelchair, she is starting again from scratch.
"2009 is the new 1987," she said.
Hervey, 49, settled in West Virginia in the early 1980s. Originally from Cleveland, she traveled the country on her motorcycle. The friends she made brought her to Lincoln County in the early 1980s, and inspired her to settle in the area.
"I wanted to live the simple life, or at least what I thought was simple," she said. "I was just flabbergasted that, here it was in the 1980s, and there were people living out in the woods, growing their own food [and living off the land]."
She began looking for property, and in 1985, she purchased 50 acres outside Hamlin for $5,000.
"After I perused the country, West Virginia was the best place to settle," she said. "It's very hard to communicate to people just how beautiful [this state] is."



http://www.sundaygazettemail.com/News/200904040007


art auction benifit here! buy! donate art!

http://artistsforhelen.blogspot.com/

dryad and tree circus




for serial killer calendar i suggested the big mass murderers here's my favorite, augusto pinochet

www...myspace...com/..serialkillercal..endar

any suggestions on who next? cheney? idi amin?












Axel N. Erlandson (1884-1964)
“You
would think that as the trees grow, the formation would change. But
they don’t. This chair will remain about the same height. The legs,
arms and back will get larger in circumference but the shape will
remain about the same.”

No
other figure today or in known history went so far in demonstrating the
potential that trees have to offer to the art of arborsculpture...
With only a fourth grade education and a strong will to teach himself,
Axel Erlandson’s work “set the bar” for all aspiring arborsculptors.
http:../../..www...arborsmith...com/..treecircus.html













Robyn over at http:../../..artpropelled...blogspot.com/


introduced me to the photographic work of Hans Silvester, and to the
exquisite adornment of the people of the Omo Valley in Ethiopia...and
they were simply too beautiful not to share here!





























You can see more of his images here... http:../../..www...xarj...net/..2008/..omo-..tribes-..ethi......opia-..body-painting/

Lasciami entrare - clip

this scene took me by surprise, as did the whole movie, Let the Right One In.

yup, i'm folding up my studio in kent, going to be vagabonding a bit and internet might be real limited. i'm hoping to end up where i can grow food. i still need to sell art on the internet so don't be shy. sorry if my bulletins get scarce tho.

and i'll be back for dia de los muerte art show!









art for raw power retrospection, it's supposed to be on a skateboard too. that's ollie north as bonzo the monkey.

sorry for the crappy pics of the teaparty. i was apparently not on task like i should have been.






trea, aaron and friend, river






eric, julz and kate






julz dancing to slavic soul party!







opa cupa!





















and thanks everyone for the surprise b-day party!


Fun at Gypsy Raven Studio

me not doing great on hula-hoop




Birthday Greeting from Joe Cocker

From: siddhi blue vortex
Date: Aug 21, 2008 3:25 PM



: Birthday Greeting from Joe Cocker (Must See!)
sweet !: x4x





hula-hooping at gypsy raven

with aaron, tim, barry and chris jamming. me, tiara, kathryn hula-hooping. aleata on the camera. we whoop it up every friday.







livvy purse





alice strength tarot purse





alice death tarot apron






mex fey purse






print rack at the gypsy raven






detail of death tarot apron

my solo madhatter teaparty art show saturday august 16th at the red light gallery in akron.

trickswithhats

trickswithhats 2

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This is a Petrolia post mortem photo by Robson . It was extremely expensive to have a photo taken during Victorian times. Only the wealthy could afford such a luxury. If a child or other loved one died it was a common practice to have a photo taken either alone or as in this case with the family especially if there was not yet a living likeness.If you look closely you can see a base behind the girls feet and a post would go up from that with clamps at the waist and neck and the clothing would be open at the back. The arms would have stiff wires running at the back to hold them in place. Also notice the strange placement of the hands. The pupils are painted on the closed eyelids.
It was not until after ca.1900 with Mr. Eastman's film process that photography became available inexpensively, as we know it today. Post mortems were very common in Victorian times and if you look closely at portraits from pre ca.1900 you may have one of these photos. This photo ca.1888

http://www.flickr.com/people/triciajoy/

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Parade the Circle/ our missing animals of ohio group
mostly my masks and creations with jim j. sturgeon and kite, and elaine porcupine



the animals represented are extirpated by colonizing ohio, some are extinct while others can still be found elsewhere. see more info at my missing animals page





grace the swan princess




anne the dryad and grace





trumpeter swan float. the trumpeter swan is the largest waterfowl in the world and the largest bird in north america. they have recently been re-introduced into ohio.





grace anne randy







amanda, steph, linx juggler and randy the fisher





elaine's porcupine mask






jim j, nikki big-eared bat, porcupine and sturgeon







nikki bat and porcupine





video here at cleveland.com! some good shots of us!








jexo the wolf




ben the sturgeon












Parade the Circle 2008


our missing animals of ohio group preparing for and performing in the cleveland event







and earlier in the week we did the portage bicentennial




Оса - DJ - немецкий 3D мульт 1942 года



next we are thinking of a shakespear costume ball at the gypsy raven to go with the free Cleveland Shakespeare Festival's Hamlet and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
July 5th and 6th - Falls River Square Amphitheater, Cuyahoga Falls, OH

http://www.cleveshakes.org/

we need to promote the costume part of kathy's shop and get it off the ground, any help is appreciated! the gas prices have made the shops success tentative!