My art and style is going to make head way for some awesome conversation down the road.

I can not wait, for the fireworks to begin!!!

Dead men tell no tales, would be my first debue redention of art placed into NG competions this year.

I like entering my art when I can meet a dead line. It is tough sometimes with so much going on in our personal lives to meet the demands of fans and people around us.

It is nice though when we can accomplish small goals though. I really wished I had entered something for #Inktober but I am sure #Underthesurface will be just as much of a turn out.

I added a little bio to help the caption along, It really was not needed, the art tells the whole story. Honestly when I think of under the surface of anything I am led to the ocean and pirates and just the language that is developed from mercenary work. That is all a pirate really was. They were the mercenaries of the ocean. We have bounty hunters on land now-a-days too. Every time a salesman comes to your home to sell you insurance, think of a pirate and what he/she is selling #Underthesurface. I feel the same way about telemarketers. I hold no grudes though, we all have to get paid.

 We all search for the gold and have to dig real deep to find it. Sometimes when we find it, we get zapped by the troubles that occur after we have secured the riches of our hearts. Betrayel of family that feel you owe them for the years of feeding you, and giving you a home. We get zapped by the bill collecters. I think of the lottery winners that get zapped with the Lottery Tax.

 No gold or bounty is worth more than the journey it took to get there. That is the one consetelation I hold onto in my quest for what is #Underthesurface.

Interaction between people is very important for numerous reasons.

What is the main reason?

Why do we go through all of the trouble to get to know people when we know what the end result will be. We have these long winded conversations in hopes of learning something about people and then when we learn what where we looking for?

Where we looking for money? For friendship? For Sex?

Do all of these things roll into one?

I ask all of these things because I have always wondered can there be any real lasting friendships between the opposite sex? I devised the piece Fanny Hills in order to begin to illustrate what I have had to deal with between the relations of male and female most of my adult life. The sense of control that occures between the sexes in the workplace and in everyday life. "Everday life," discribing life outside of the workplace.

 When I don't have enough money, I stay home because I can not afford to take, "That gir," Out to dinner and certainly I would never want to pay. This being said, when you are married, how many men take a woman from the office out to dinner or set up interviews with the opposite sex, without tampering with there marriage.

It is a real conversation that most try to avoid because they would never admit to the tempations of the opposite sex.

Where do you rate this conversation in your own life and how do you handle it?

It is vertans day and so I have decided to take the time to give cheers to all of those I have met and the late comers.

I love my fans. Those are the people that matter. Considering my talent always has room for improvements and I am not in some grand gallery yet. I love my fans!

I love how they think about the world and are willing to share it on paper. They are willing to blast you on type, they all have a no holds bar attitude and understand what is I mean when I say, "Art is about creation!" Showing the world something new every time we put pen to paper.

I don't beleive I have seen a horrible peice from my fans to date. Every time I look at my fans art work I am ready to go into the "cave of solitude," just to see what I can produce that uplifts the conversation. I don't profess to know it all.

That was a pet peeve of my friends when we were grown up. They would say, "You think you are so smart!" (Never in a kind way) I would have to tell them no. I am actually no smartter than you. Just so we could talk about something else. I was really the master mind though. I had all the plans in the world when it came to making money, throwing parties, getting hoes, making babies, throwing D's on everything!

 I was the kind of guy that never allowed his mother to know how he was getting paid, never from shame. I never did anything "way out there." meaning I did all the time. My art is way out there, so you know my mind is on another level.

"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!