"Death would not stop chasing me," has proven to be an interesting piece.

After posting it, in a just a few days, it recieved high ratings and only 13 views. The question remains, "Will it compete with today's ideas of art or yesterday's ideas even?"

Why is it that people seem to gravitate to this  piece of art opposed to all the other pieces I have posted? Is it because of the month? Is it to be associated with the #Inktober craze?

For me art is not selective to times of the year. It is a way of life, it is assoicated with the air that I breathe, so when I find I am havng the conversation with the millions I come across online, I truely desire to know how they feel about what is being presented.

I am happy with the ratings and views and the time people take to look or glance at my work. To find someone that will compensate me for my pen strokes has become another matter all together.

What has started to become a pet peeve:

When people like your work, give you rates but don't leave comments.

When people leave comments but it is unconstructive or just hate messages.

When people read your posts but act like there tonge tide or have no views beyond what they see.

The silence of the masses has become deafing.

It is only due to my extraordinary ability to not respond to nonsense that I have been able to post as much as I have. It is only due to my need for Creative expression that any of you are blessed to have a view. Then when no one says  a thing, I am half inclined to review my words and check myself.

I know I have not said anything that is against myself and so I release myself to share more. To a room full of silence.

Would be nice to know who they where:

The ones that looked at my latest pieces, gave some stars, in the midst of the silence.

It would be nice to know, (through private messages) How to increase a riotous fan base!

I take all ideas into consideration:

I promise no one is going to be ignored:

When I get paid, if you leave an address (through private messages)

you are liable to recieve a check in the mail, cause without you, no one notices!

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I am liable to get jumped on cause I mentioned proceeds that don't involve anyone except my friends and those I meet. In some states that call that Solicating and one day that will become a felony!

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I remember in college when people would promise me compensation and never come through. I am trying to be, 'that guy,"

I am running an industry, an enterrpise, alone and through clear blue thoughts....doing things never thought of...that makes it new.

I have to be quite now lest the catch up with me and close my space.

This is vendors politics a sharp shooting race!

I jammed with a friend today. He said he wanted to get back into playing the gutiar. So i brought one out and i played harp.

We jammed for a few minutes and learned we flowed well together after wards he says, "You sound better than you actually know how to play."

What does that mean?

I was curious. I have been posting a lot of work. I have been telling a lot of stories. Then I read the CC information and they go on and on about giving credit to the artist. I can copy the work as much as I like but it can't leave this place etc.

Well if I give credit to mysefl would I not be tooting my own horn too much?!

Should  I not give someone else a chance to do it?

It is nice to love your own work but there is a level of respect that I have for myself in which I just don't like talking about myself all the time. At some point I would love to say, "Hey this artist is good and I would love to work with them on a project,"

One day please let it happen...

A lot of the time when i am working on a project I aak myself, "What do I need to post in order to recieve feedback?"

I love that fact that 122 people coiuld dig the piece I did called "Unplugged!"

They looked at it and as they look my stars raise. It is a wonderful process to be recognized. I take it with a grian of salt though. Sometimes you have good days and sometimes you have bad days and the art is a reflection of feeling a lot of the time. I really try not to allow my emotions to take over. I really try to rermain placid. Then the work comes off flat and unfocused and the themes are all confused. The stories are there, but what will it take to get people really involved with the vision?

They say, "don't talk to me about religion, polotics, race, creeds, cast, sexual orientation, music, Don't share your views cause no one cares. Yet it is all I hear on the radio. It is all I see on tv, it is all I hear at the dinner table. So how can I have a good conversation about my art with those that are viewing it?

A lot of the time when I read the stories of others; be they short stoires, crime fiction novels, pulp re-inactiments, news articles, there is a closet motif I have noticed from these publications. Some of the things that are said give wonderful insights to the author and or a said group and how they think of the world.

 When I read the writings of others I am thankful that we remain in a free country and have the right to say what we feel or believe. Sometimes I am surprised by what comes out of the mouths of others, but I do try to respect the fact that they are allowed to say what they want. If they say something offensive I must remember that there words neither shape my world or my view of myself, lest I allow it. I only allow it when I begin to believe it.

  This is the spirtual warfare we have been waging in America for quite some time. It is half the reason I don't  like psychologists or those that have made a profession of studying the mind, and how people think. Those that have made a study have a tendency to put people in catagories and take away an indivudals signularty of thought because he has heard from time to time the same things from a wide source of people and believes the cure all stands upon the numbers of people the create a group of like mineded individuals opposed to really dealing with the issue; he or she the psycologist, will just say, "You are fine, we have a word for you, this is your condition, live with it."

  The truth is what comes out of our mouths should help shape the world we live in, Not degrade it or make it less than what it is. We should never justify how the world has sought to emasculate men and determine a, "HE-MAN" is an archaic view of man, till you want that same man, to build you a city of liberation. There are rules to finding peace and liberty, yet there are some authors and thinkers and speakers that will say something that makes me think to myself, did they really mean that?

 For example Rush Limbaugh is quoted in saying, "America has not been Great since the 1950's"

He bashed MaCain cause he spoke agianst Nationalism; and he blames, "The Estabilishment", (Funny words to descirbe Democrates and Non-conformist like the Independant Parties) That is our system in America since the beginning of Democracy in this country. Nationalist-Republican Reds vs. The Establishment Democratic Blues and Indepandent Grey Coats who because they never say a word, lose all position in party politics to the winning team, which, since The end of the Second World War has been the Establishment. (That is of course, according to the Nationalist sympathizer Limbaugh, who has no more proof of that statement, then I do, that Obama & Walmart  alone was the reason for the death of the labor markets in this country).

  Limbaugh is allowed to make conclusions that boggle the mind, what he is not allowed to do is try to make people believe that one party has been finding ways to bring down the  country and that polocies as old as the 1950's is the solution to our problems. Limbaugh never lived in the woods with those families that could not pay there bills and where given the cold shoulder by there Great America. No one hates America, as he suggested of the Democrates. Any more than does a Republican hate or bless America any better than a Democrate, as I have seen it, the fact that no one can come up with a solution besides falling back on the mentality of the 50's, where it was dog eat dog, and civil liberties where non-existant; they should keep there mouths closed; Without the technology we have today, we would be back in the 50's for real. He really suggested the 50's was good for mankind. How many of us where born in the 50's. I was not and I be damned if I am made to go back in time cause some old geezer lost his ratings amoungst the younger, faster, wiser generation of Millienuals that will not work in some grease dump, grind mill of life to make it in the world of the 21st century!

  I am tired of being called a Millenual like it is a bad thing. Are you serious, if It was not for men and women like me, you would not have anyone to give your worthless I-phone too, cause they would not know how to use it.

He is such a dweeb! A real hypocrite and does not need to speak for anyones party ever again!   

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Books=Knowledge.

At least that was what I was led to believe as a child growning up.

Now that I am a grown man, I have come to find Books=Influence.

People go so far as to determine only what they say to be fact; only what they say to be true, even if what they say could be as fictious as the books that they write.

So how do we determine what is true and what is imagined? Using the same dew decimal system that the library of congress uses to seperate Non-fiction from Fiction.

What is the difference? That is like asking what is the difference between Capitalism and Communisim or What is the difference between Liberation and Freedom. What is the difference between Free speech and speaking evil?

That last question is the answer between Non-fiction and Fiction. When we are growning up those that are older tell us what is right and wrong, from there experiances and we, the younger generation are exprected to hold certian traditions in order to uphold truth. When we don't hold to traditions we are subject to falter and to speak fcitions as Non-ficition because we did not go through what our elders did. This ignorance leads us to create phantoms of truth and fall into the same pits as those before us and that is why there are no new stories. That is why Hollywood can only rehash the same plot lines. That is why the sounds of orchastras can not come up with anything beyond Bethoveens O'd to Joy when expressing infamy for there is only one truth. There is only one way to describe good and evil.

Many of us seek to believe there is a grey area in which we can live, a world in which amoral means are just as good as moral means and this philosphy is what created the feudal era's; a time in which America has never seen because we sought to always be above those lines of thought. We understood good and evil and we understood it because we had a firm foundation in what was true and what was false. What works and what does not work. It is when a society sets out to claim that their history was made up by liers and that there could have been an alternate reality from what we are living in, that creates a confusion and disunity in the minds of the people and a civil strife.

 I walked into Walmart and was concerned that there are no good new books. That the New York bestseller was "Fifty Shades of Grey!" Those that read it could have sworn it was a new idea and something wonderful. Yet if they knew the history of Grey and Marquie de Sade they would have realized how old the stroy really is and how far from it being a plausible piece of diction or applicable in an American society. Escpecially a society set upon rules of law that determine we uphold a standard and saftey for our children. But maybe people really do like dreaming of love from a selfish source and think it is ok to use people, that slavery is ok in any sense of the word. Does not make it true.

Only Fiction. 

I wanted to reiterate this line of thinking because through my work I am hearing a lot of things that disturbe me.

I give advice to people. I hear the tone of others and it seems people are disheartened because no one is takiing them seriously or because they don't take themselves seriously.

We are told it is not the product that sells or generates money. It is the loudest person in the room.

That is true.

If you are presenting work and no one is taking interest it is because you are not presenting enough and do not precieve yourself to be "SELF-MADE" enough to produce.

I do not work for a corporate and I think that is great. Only when we do work for a corporate then our checks are garuenteed. That is what people like, gaurentees of pay.

We present our art work, thinking someone will like it because we like it. We know deep down that is no one pays for it, then they don't like it! We have this idea that green backs mean we are worth somethning and everything we produce has to have a political angle and it if does not then we are not relevent.

That thought has to stop. Art has it's our relevancy becuase the stories that are generated by the artists are relevant.

Those that do the work thought it was enough simply to do it, Thus they are relevant and should be heard. Should be seen and this is why we are thankful for NG. They give us that space to become relevant.

The moment you begin to feel your line of work is not reaching the right ear or an idea is just not surfacing around the right people. Then you are missing the point. Those that you are trying to impress with your work, your words, your prose, your ART, are in the same boat as you. Seeking relevance, none of them are any more richer or poorer than yourself because there money is depandant upon your feeling of relevance.

Case in point Michel Jordans Shoes. Can you imagine what used to be worth 100.00 a pop and kids used to shoot eachother over is not in Walmart for 20.00 or less. Why? cause Jordan is broke, he lost his sponsers that have seen he is no longer relevant, Everything he did has become the past and unless someone comes around and has something new to share, then what. Well his shoes will remain worthless as they were when they first came out.

Now that logo, "Jump Man!" will live forever in my heart, I want to know the man that created that image and how much he got paid. Did he use NG? probably not, but he was relevant. Maybe it was not a man, maybe it was a woman. Who cares, the point it is, that image was what helped to sell Jordan. It was the Art and the commercials, it was people that viewed themselves as a buisness not buisness men that changed the world.

I look at all of my peices and blush everytime.

I blush from the this feeling of love that starts in my toes. I love every character and every thought associated with the expression. I love the freedom associated with that expression and wonder how many others feel that way after they post of a piece of themselves for the world to see.

It took me 3 years to finish a lot of what you see and I am not so arrogant to say that something could not be fine tuned. It is the idea that I am after. I want to know after an idea has been illustrated who can capitalize on top of it. I would love to speak through art only. Never have to use a word only express how I feel through the motion of the art piece. To me that would be taking Pitctionary to a whole new hieght.