Jim Rohn~ is noted for saying things like: " The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch."

Their is a certian amount of Jazz associated with my art, and pieces like

For the life of me I can not quite put my finger, as to where it stems from. Sometime I want to shut the valve off. Then I look at my work again and think; "Originality severs it's own purpose." Leave it as it is and those that can appreciate the verve will; those that can't, will be shocked into remembering.

 That is how TheShadling, (I am so sorry for this side note but it is clear now that Shadling is a woman from Switzerland, of course I still have my doubts, and a wonderful creator.) who will go down in history as having a touch with the pen that can really be said speaks for her generation.

Anyway I hope you get the point and onday those that view my work can help me give it a name. The style I mean.

When I was traveling, people would call it, "Realistically Abstract," as if I was a walking oximoron~ A lot of the time I felt that way and it seems to have been reflected in my work. I wanted to pick up a Mad Magazine from one of their earliest editions and see how the world viewed  the illustration, presentation and delivery back then. Could I be as memoralized as Mad Magazine or Rollingstone was?

I am not talking about a rewash of them or a Jimmy Kimmel announcer after he is made to retire, either. I would not mind having my own radio show, but I would want it to focus on art. Sometimes I feel it was all that time on the road that has opened my eyes to view art, music, OUR CULTURE, the way I do. (I know it was.)

The Tree-Houses of New Orleans. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/50-foot-tall-new-orleans-art-tree-house-dismantled-47383

 The guys and gals that did everything they could to manage utitlites of Decatur Street Mansions off the income of street performances and 20 foot murels. Oh how I miss the friends I made in those days. It's over with, I can't go back and nor can I expect the people I am surrounded by now to really understand where I've been and why I was there.

Someone suggested once that I am not really a Chritisan; I thought that was interesting; I knew it was because of my style of art that made them suggest such a notion. Christians just don't talk about the things that I do, nor draw what I draw. I think they could, they can speak to whom ever the wish, the notion that angels and devils is all that cross the mind of a Chrisitan is a bit short sighted or they've never read, "Behold the Pale Horse."

If you have not read it I suggest you pick it up as soon as possible, it is a great read and will help you to see the world as I do. LOL (That's if you want to see the world as I do.)

I have posted a few articles on Linkedin. I was just curious to know if anyone would be interested in what I had to offer and was given quite a listing of companies and entites that are looking:

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Now when I email these companies and ask them about a proposal, the crickets warm to pews. But I thought I would share with those that are interested in finding a place for their talents. I thought it was interesting that so many have been searching through my content and finding something they like. I would have to say as well, that it is thanks to NG's that such opportunities are even set on the table for an artist such as I.

Now am I going to work in NC, I don't think so. But if these companies have offices where I am located I might pay them a visit.

That is if they answer emails.

https://adventvoice.newgrounds.com/news/post/1010290

No, I don't think any of us would have thought Youtube, Reality Television, even programs meant for ones education in the things that matter would open doors to topics and conversations many would have done better with never knowing about. (I am sure saying her name will set off fires somewhere,) I can not hold back this feeling of wishing someone would have gotten a hold of Nasim Najafi Aghdam   before she exited stage left.

  I've heard it said that it takes Strength to exit a stage by yourself. A shameful lie; for after a person is resting in peace; the game is over. Whatever made her upset, what ever she felt she had a right to shoot someone over is forgotten,

Senseless. Counter Productive.

Thus the conflict in my soul. We recieve a few tidbits of information regarding (Mentally-ill-Terrorist-entertainers), have that is clearly something an average person would raise a stink about. Labor, not garnished with contracted wage. Not paying people what you promised them because they come from a desert is dirty and should not be swept under the rug as the, "nature of the buisness." Especially when we are considering a person.

  Nasim was a child with a camera in her face ever since she was young. I did not know her, but she believed in her work, her art, she wsa motivated enough to pull the trigger. I want to pull her from the other side of that door, but I know I better not. 

Let her rest; Never mention her by name agian; No memorials for Nssim.

I can't get her out of mind, I dare not even speak to anyone about it; without coming off as a sympathizer.  I am not~None of us are~ I know we are tired of looking at that door though and hearing the cries of people asking for vindication, protection, for the living. Thinking of her reminded me of a question my father asked me when I was in the third grade. At the time I never really gave him an answer but I want to give him one now.

He asked me, "How do you feel about Tupac's and Bigg's death?"

I know, what you are thinking, their is no correlation between the death of American Rappers, *Performers* and the death of a woman who jumped off the diving board by herself.

The truth is, their is a universal pull that motivated all three deaths and it had nothing to do with what they stood for or discussed with the world. "Greed," surrounded the deaths of all three. Promoters of Tupac and Biggie where not willing to pay what they owed. When the two asked for what was theirs from people that had no intention of seeing them have an influence in the world, bye, bye rappers. In the case of the woman; Youtube had her sign contracts and clauses, they hired her, regardless of her enternal beliefs and "Stiffed," her of some money and she would not have any of it. Very few can handle betrayel well. I know I've had my struggles with it. Those stories will never be rememberd that way.

Rappers will always be remembered as men that can handle a nine and do there time.

Nasim will be remembered as a woman who could not put lipstick on properly and an uneducated vegan.

After Tupac's life was taken, I stopped following rap; To me they were all dirty, greedy men, fighting over the grotto corners of every doped up neighborhood, just elevated to glass buildings. Crack dealers, morphed into TRACK dealers in need of supplying those around them with memories of a fix.
 I have felt that way since I was in the third grade, with my father looking at me, asking me, "How do you feel about the death of a Rapper?"

I was not so cold blooded that I could turn away from the weeping. I know he was of somethin incoruptable after being shot over a momentary bliss. I am not so colc blooded that what I hear a woman took her life because she felt robbed and abused by her employers, I'd turn a deaf ear to her plees, creeping from behind the door. I don't think any of us should; I was too young to care about the deaths of Rappers, who are no more real in the cosmic scheme of things, that matter. No more real than Cartoon Network or Sesame Street Amusment Parks or Disney Movies. Entertainers were never a part of my reality, but Nasim.

There is something different with her case, that just makes me want to keep perspectives in place.

I remember in college my favorite song was "All I wanna do is take your money."

It was everywhere, from strip clubs, hooters, the mall, my car.

The beat was what everyone wanted to hear, well every one in my circle. They remembered their quick fingered jack days in grade school and the laughs produced from getting away with petty thefts in highschool. Games we played as kids; all in a song. Then Nasim came.

She was real. A real person wornged by an obviously greedie corporation but we all enjoyed there product because we wanted to be entertained.

Recently I heard about some young rappers who were stripped in the night and robbed at gun point; again I think to myself~ They are the ones rapping about their expensive lives, how they ride or die, rough ride for life. La-da-da-ta-la-da. Just to sell records. So I hold on to my reserve if something bad happens to them. I am sure the money goes to a good cause.

But Nasim.

Supported by no one, who had followers, that have said nothing . She was assisted in her exit of stage left by voices who speak lies, and disappear as mysteriously as they arrived.

Recently one of my peices was compared to  the cover of Kreators album"Endless Pain," album. I thought this was intersting and because it was brought up I decided to visit some sites that help to shed some light on the idea behind this German Metal Band.

  Very curious how my American art can be confused for the stylings of German design so I wanted visit and see who they were and if they still perform or create works. They were apparently introduced to the world on October 1985 by Noise Records. Well at least this album was. They went through some ups and downs as discussed here, https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Kreator/Endless_Pain/805/. Now it can not really be said I am a fan of Heavey Metal, though it is insteresting that a lot of my art work has been compared to creators like HYDE and Japanese origin or this German band that has created music only a few thrashers could enjoy.

  It is nice to be counted in someone's number though. I listen to the music and compare artisitc motivations and sometimes wonder if maybe back in College we all could have had a cup of coffee together and discussed some of the problems we are trying to overcome in the world of the arts. Discuss some of the head strong wins we have established and the parralles in some of our ideas and how we can fuse them together.

  A dream conversation that would have never really been a reality because of our differances in age. Can you imagine in 1985 I was not even thought of, but my work can be said to bring back some of those memories. Which makes me happy in some regard, because I do not believe any creator should be forgotten or abused by TIME. I was born in 1988 and was not really centered around the heavy metal crowd. My influences stemmed from everything after the 90's and wanting to do more for the genre of modern and contempary art than what has been given, all in the name of the Freedom of Expression, which whenever I use that term, makes those in my immidate circle cringe because if their is no order to the sound, prose, line, structure, they can not see the art hidden inside.

 I was not the only one that had dreams of taking contempary art somewhere else; Tsurumaki has said that he tried to "break the rules" of anime when making FLCL. April 2000 to March 2001 alongside a manga and novel. It aired in the United States on Adult Swim several times between 2003 and 2011. Then we heard nothing more from them really or they got lost in video game productions and we know how grueling that life can be.

Those before me say they were inspired heavily by Anime, Punk Rock, DBZ, Naruto, Superman, and ScoobyDoo for what comes out on paper. Which could all be true. I mean GorillAZ is all of that wrapped into one packaged produced by 60 year old men but they created something that has touched the lives or many and won many awards that I would never take from them. I LIKE TO THINK Kids WITH GUNS was semiprofetic, published in 2006 and here we are now ten years later trying to figure out how kids have guns.

  After everything has been said, I really can't say I was motivated by any of these sounds, prose, lyrics, or desires echoing though our radios. I am an individal and if I cave into the idea that someone can influence what is real to me without my consent, then I am allowing someone to call me brain dead. Which we all know that is not true. I can say because of what I have experianced the art comes easy. Refelctions of dreams turned only into reality by my pen and not by men. I am hoping most of the time someone takes something postive from the content, the images are just a prop to ganer attention; when that is settled, then the story unflods.

  For the longest time there has been discussion on the dangers of video games, movies, music, anything that protrays viloence and the art that has been presented has been said to be the work of demented people. It made me so angry to hear that. To know everything I grew up with, from Something Wicked:

To Ex-Files:

TO the Pretender:

as seen as something bad, demented, disturbing, Out of this world to the point that anyone who brings to the topic of discussion possiblities that are clearly evident from every news source, and infrustructure since I was born is given this face :

While listening to what I found to be quite entertaining as a young artist. Always feeling I knew the difference between Fact and Fiction.

So, what aside from my life, entertainment, music, and liturature went into the creation of, "Holding the Line," I can not say it was Metal Thrashing Rock, I would say a love for Pulp, and Imagination and Mystery!

SAN BRUNO, Calif. — In Iran, she was known as Green Nasim, a social media star with followings on YouTube, on Instagram and elsewhere.

That was a tragic case. It really burned me up to hear that story. Sigh; She was not the only one telling people about the eerie sensation of speaking to people, of sharing what it is your heart is set on delivering and never quite recieving the validation you are looking for. I suppose there is an idea that if we don't talk about the issue will disappear. Leave at she was crazy and killed herself. Don't try to understand them; they don't want to be understood. They, what a cop-out term.

  Those that made fun of her, or thought there was something so senister in her behavior, clearly have never been robbed by a corporate entity that has the nerve to say, "After they have robbed you, stripped you, made you do things you would never have done in a million years, unless you were going to get paid for it. THAT YOU ARE  NOT and your NOT as important as we made you out to be."

 You know that is what corporate told her, so she slept in the back of the place in her car. The cops knew she was there; "But she seemed calm, She did not pose a threat to anyone, She is a vegan." Sigh.

It is creepy how we know so much about a case like this based on the report from the news. Creepy, what we don't know is what goes on in the headquaters of Youtube that makes employees want to do what she did. I hope her family is cared for, I hope they fix in the news what they said about her, I hope she is treated better in her passing, then how she was treated in life.

  There are some things I can't laugh at.

Slavery, People Farming, Indentured Servitude, What is that process when people that are not legal in a country and have to work in secret or in the basement of a textile mill, "SWEAT SHOP," (IS YOUTUBE RUNNING A SWEAT SHOP of DATA USERS!?) was the world made to ignore Youtubes clear violation of a person's right to acquire substantial amount of collateral to pay her rent, because she could not quite articulate in English how she felt? (When you look at the story in that angle it gets pretty bad and you don't want to talk about it anymore. Someone literally took advantage of a person because they could not speak english.)

!!I like to consider myself a hunter of the strange and wonderful!!

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/american-airlines-learjet-pilots-describe-seeing-ufo-over-arizona-10280978

I was curious about this ball of light that he saw at 40,000 feet above his air plane?

When that happens can it be compared to the Dog Truckers see after hours of being on the road. I hear there is this dog from hell that chases truckers sometimes after they have not slept for days. So my connection is the fact that a pilot may suffer from similar experiance of flying for too long and naturally sees extra balls of light.

Thus the UFO, and Ray Stern has a story to tell. Then the cycle of chasing green men continues.

Again I don't believe in aliens and so when I hear about them, my skeptic radar comes and I am always disappointed because the stories can be proven wrong with little attacks at logic, like the one I brought up about the Hounds from hell reported to have been chasing truckers for years.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/american-airlines-learjet-pilots-describe-seeing-ufo-over-arizona-10280978

Now just because I don't believe in little green men does not mean the story does not have a moment of truth connected to it. I just like to believe I have a grasp on reason a lot of the time and just because CNN is not willing to catch a story or report on it does not mean it is not crediable. I have to be reasonable. If Trump not dealing with Russians is reasonable, then we can talk about Aliens. If Marching against racism for 50 years is reasonable then we can talk about Aliens.

So friends of the strange and mild, share your thoughts on this delightful subject. LMAO.

I saw a young woman yesterday, who in my youth would have been my experiment in a matter of hours. I would have had her in every club around the city for a few nights and she would have wanted to marry me in a matter of months. Bumped into her at the barbershop.

 Interesting right?

What kind of woman do you meet at the BARBERSHOP on the black side of town, right behind the baptist church, right next to the tattoo parlor?

Only a few pass that way, lesbians, marajuna dealers, those that work the cosmotology department, lipstick lesbians (which are my favorite kind of woman, because they will rob a jewlery store, when times get hard, they are the ride or die kind of woman, I find myself missing from time to time, no need to train them on what to say to nosey cops or a do-gooder neighbor, that can't stand you have  a new car every week and you claim to work at McDonalds and have been pushing a lot of over time.)

 Another kind of woman that visits the Barbershop is the one I bumped into yesterday, with the faded haircut that was smoother than mine, and hazzel eyes that cut into useless conversation about the weather and pleasentries, like butter. Hips that sache while she is sitting and a mind set on plotting anyone out of a dollar. Male or female, old our young, if you have the connections to pay-dirt, she is your distant aunts best friend from years ago and you should remember her. (Not just because she has something more too offer than what "Superhead," was known for, but because you all are nearly family.)

 Did I mention she was drop dead gorgeous.

If she was not so dangerous I'd remember not my youth and how the story of getting involved with such a woman ends.

"The lip-stick lesbian~Flapper" of the Milleniual generation is a primal  creature that can never be sastisfied, tamed, or understood.

Her beauty resides in her pure VICOUSNESS.

Many ask me, after I describe these things, "What does a person who say's he believes in Christ and is "Saved," from SIN, know about Lip-stick Lesbian Flappers?"

Sometimes they ask, "Why are you remembering nights at the club that lead to one night stands and relationships ending with a beautiful woman putting a knife to your throat, for your wallet?"

A lot of the time I am made to smirk at thse quandries; None of us can claim we've matured, earned anything intellectualy, spiritually, eternally, if we've never overcome a little darkeness.

The idea of being "SAVED," means nothing if we've never been in need of rescuing.

I looked at the young woman realizing she was about my age, still desiring only the best in life and did not have an ounce of remorse for hurting a few people to get there.

Where ever, "there," was.

https://www.essence.com/hair/black-women-bald-heads#1131961

https://adventgradepress.com/2018/04/silence-is-acquiescence/

Many feel they get away with something in the silence. Say not a word, do nothing, admit nothing when you are caught doing something wrong and maybe the world will forget and nothing will come of it.

Lay low and don't touch anything you have stolen for 6 months and we all will sit pretty after the storm settles.

The way of the wolf and bandits and marodurs of our modern world.

Yet in the silence, upon the hill is an eye and a voice that sees all. When we are able to tap into it, they call you all sorts of names. They even believed Jesus healed through the Devil at one point. He had to assure them that none of us can serve two masters. It is true. I have not ever been able to listen to the doctrine of thieves and not know the end result would be much harder than where one started. "The way of a transgressor is hard," Harder than a Humphrey Bogart film. Many love it though.

  With hands filled with sticky goo from filth they have touched or from acquring goods without having earned it righteously. There are many now-a-days suggesting we are to be okay with failure, we have to fail many times before we can claim any victories. What they mean is, "We have to be okay with being called, liers, theives, and down right evil, before someone sees how hard we tried to be good."

  Is it really that hard to be good? 

I expect to a lot of good feeback from this one.

I sent it originally somewhere else to be published, but they have not responsded and so I thought, O well time to put my fingers to work.

https://avproductionsblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/31/digital-stick-up-kids/

Since I am down to one resource and have not taken to the time to really get my fingers wet with this goo of DoSS that is disturbing my feeds at www.adventgradepress.com I am looking for other sources to publish my work. I asked a friend and she is acting the butt about it because she is not trying to pay me 50.00 for material that is not really going to be interesting to anyone but me.

  I was a little offended. Really so I am talking to the air, when nearly 300 people a year tune into the site. Can you imagine, most are at home looking for work or too busy to deal with me but I have 300 people keying in and that is something to look down on. (I don't think so)

I don't even consider Social media to be an honest source of viewer rating so I don't count what is said on those platforms.

So one site is down for the moment because of someone of the articles we like to discuss.

I was attacked last night and so I am not to  tell you to go to www.adventgradepress.com at the moment and read my latest letter to the infomus History Channel that continues to scare you children with "Alien-creation" stories and desiring to get Al Gore elected. I can tell you to read my latest article at www.avproductionsblog.wordpress.com and you will find it there.

They ask, "why do you have to so many places to read the same information?"

Answer, because we live in a crazy world that thinks DoSS attacks is a nice Christmas present.

So because I am down to one resource to upload information you will have to visit https://avproductionsblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/31/my-letter-to-the-history-channel/ for the latest brain bashing read for your Saturday morning!