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time russert looks like a turtle



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craft statement (300 characters or less) :

Precious & semi-precious, hand crafted, one-of-a-kind, post modern, earth consciously ironic, sarcastically hip, edgy, and irreverent owls, birds, squids, hearts, robots, giraffes, pirates, deer, octopuses, & monsters.

All done in the third person.

------- note: 250 characters above - yet still irreverently continued below ---

Also!

Oh but yessss!!!!

We ALSO offer a wide range of snarky, inaccessible, overly clever, too-cool-for-school, hipsterishly unique, never been done before, "so beyond the realm of existence of the mere common man", artisan art / arty art art art art art & art "objects", with which, when combined together paint a truly fascinating portrait of the fragile nucleus of the human condition for all those capable of "getting it" / the chosen few, natively superior, intellectually emotional, "old souls" who derive joy in looking beyond the surface layers in order to discover and henceforth celebrate the true, intendedly breathtaking, brilliant, yet funny and depressing meaning behind this utterly important artist's life's work.

(much of which is available at no additional charge to the consumer)

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vinylmore



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time lapse Baltimore to NY



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light lasso animation test



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me and kim bought bear suits today



they seem to compliment old mister poo paws' piggy suit quite well...



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alas



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magic screen




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comic journal



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life expectancy



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keep on sporkin'



back from chicago and back at it...

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awesome



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uhhh...

Tuesday, June 20, 2006, 10:25 am [EST]

From: Elijah Gatewood

Subject: Cartoon of June 16th, 2006

Message: Mr. Claassen:

This matter involves a cartton that you put out on June 16th, 2006 in the Washington City
Paper.

The issue deals with a bottom cartoon responding to the murder of al Zarqawi, where it makes
the statement:

Yesssss! What's up now, al-Zarqawi? What's up now?. . .

Iam a nine year Army veteran and special military advisor to the Iraqi rebels. I would get into the concern about that drawing, but when you are dealing with idiots like you, it would waist my time. Instead, I posted an article on the Beirut Independent Media Center newswire advising people in
that Middle Eastern country what must be done as to the crises in Iraq: "U.S. Military Must
Be Forced Out".

This story can be accessed at www.beirut.indymedia.org. The newswire is located on the left hand side and the report is the eleventh one down.

As always, especially before this writing, Iraqi rebels are making significant progress. U.S. military has confirmed two missing soldiers from yesterday, June 19th, 2006, are dead.

---Elijah Gatewood,

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renegade craft

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS.

me and cam are gonna be vendors at Renegade Craft in NY June 17th & 18th...

I made a button for them to use on their site. It looks like this:





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rough edit, no sound



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light drawings: series 1



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more light drawings...

















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more light photos









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light drawings









more here.

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a little birdy sent this to me:



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can't stop

can't stop listening to pelican...

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exfoliation

this is the time of the year when your skin starts to come off of your hands and feet. it gets real cold so you turn up the heat and your skin gets dry and starts to die.

some people like to pick at it and make it smooth again. people like that seem to get off on it even, getting excited whenever they start one that really didn't look like it was going to pop up, and getting momentarily nostalgic and possibly a bit sad even when one has been conquered and the quest has come to an end.

"wow! that sure was a fun one!" they think to themselves.

and then they look all over trying desperately to strike it rich again. perhaps this section is ready, or maybe that one... perhaps i should check all the easy slot spots like the side of the big toe or at the back of the heel or just above the lifeline in that little padded area just below and to the side of the index finger.

that one only comes up like once a year. it's like santa claus and the easter bunny.

and when you finally do get it, it's like watching creation and destruction right before your very eyes in a matter of seconds. it is spectacular and it leaves you fiending for more.

and sometimes that can lead to desperation where you just want to make one budge at any cost, so you pick an area and you say, "ok, i'm gonna make this spot budge. it's close enough... i think you're good and ready to come up, aren't you now? aren't you? mister fingernail has arrived and he's gonna forcibly exfoliate your dumb stupid ass."

but that doesn't really work. it just starts to turn into a blister the more you scratch it around.

and that's when you really just have to throw in the towel and quit while you're ahead.

yep, you do.

not me though.

i don't pick at my hands and feet like you do cos i think that's pretty gross.

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the new girl

"hello. I'm the new girl..."



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new stuff

painting done at luster's house for bwana's sharpie show:



drawing for this pet noir book:



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sock holocaust



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lovin' it...




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full circle

haha.

loren just linked me to this comic which has a tiny little rasterized screenshot of wil's page which has an even smaller image of the book cover i did for him in the upper right hand corner.

this reminds me of those garbage pail kids that go on forever and ever and ever.

that makes me happy for some reason...

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future reference:

high school documentary

balloon clubs

how to make ink

dinosaur dashboard

pxl mod part list

pxl2000 film fest

movie film / slide film

dc art news

dc art forum

dc art calendar

stencil revolution

BORF!

dcist

NSO

kite fest 2005

kinetic sculpture race

dirty found

found

atomic books




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bitch i'll kill you with my hot fuckin' eyeballs



Fast-swimming predatory swordfish heat up their eyeballs so they can see rapidly moving prey better.

man that's weird.



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me and my homies like to play this game...



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bacon bits for eyes and an olive for a mouth

there are a lot of holes in my ceiling tiles. holes and divets. there are little wads of hair in the corner from the last time my hair was cut in this room. a fingernail. there's a box on the shelf marked "little people", but there aren't any little people in it any more. a donkey in a chair, and a matador with a chipped cape. gumby, pokey, peewee, and an upset blockhead. an elephant mug with a trunk for a handle. a stoplight, some metal lunchboxes and an indian without a drum. a smoking bartender who has given up smoking. a pirate hat and a cowboy hat and some bunny ears hanging on the wall. marionettes and a drawing of a fish on the door. xray gogs, wooly willy, and a big box of crayons with a built in sharpener. he-man puzzles, bunny feet, a guitar with a pinup girlie on it. a dark room sign, a shelf full of gumball capsules, and a train set with tracks that are out of service. a bottle opener from the cap center, and a light table from the thrift store. a goblet full of dried ink. garbage pail kids and drawings by luster kaboom. a car mirror that wouldn't fit, and a screenprinted sunglasses display sign. a flask full of vodka and a pile of bottle rockets. a shelf full of old video game systems, and another full of old cameras. comic books, regular books, and a huge bin full of sketches drawn on napkins and tiny scraps of paper. a fisher price movie player, record player, pixelvision, and ferris wheel that never get used much anymore. a table with bowling pins for legs and a framed embroidered clown head weqring a big yellow bowtie. a painting of pink legs across from another of a huge sock not far from an orange hand puppet of a king. a pink bear suit in the closet, and a red blanket that once used to be special. a button machine and a complete set of peewee's playhouse episodes. a 1966 copy of the game acquire, and a vintage copy of yahtzee. a boglin, some pez dispensers, a boxing nun, a mister T doll, and some simpsons toys. jabba the hut nailed down to a coin bank holding a toe separator full of this little pig buttons. a santa mug hanging out with a pirate mug with rag dolls sitting in them next to a small boxcar from a model train. a bar light with a pile of tiny pink pigs underneath it, and a little white horse sitting next to the word "banal" from a refridgerator set full of magnetized words that was found on my bathroom floor next to a cigarette butt and a large wad of dust and a nickel. a little yellow aardvark, a space gun, and a talking peanut dispenser that doesn't talk any more. a whole lot of records, sketchbooks, out of date electronic devices, clothes, guitar amps, and a TV. a scooter in the other room, and a trampoline in the yard. a whole lot of paint, comic racks full of comics, piles of art supplies and frames surrounding a screenprinting table. a stack of paintings. a drafting table with a secret drawer built into it with the words "where the magic happens" written on a scrap of paper pinned to a board supporting a whole lot of pens, gluesticks, and a T-rex toy with very tiny arms. a binder full of wacky packages and a huge pile of magazines. a cutout of a pirate and a jaggermeister doo rag from Ozzfest. crown royal bags full of clay shaping tools, rubber stamps, and a soldering set. a spaceship toothbrush, a very old framed drawing of my great grandfather, and a bed tent with a treehouse printed on it. an awesome pillow case with a big yellow guy with a very strange looking head standing next to a white bird that is standing in front of a rainbow that only has 4 colors in it. a poster full of ninjas facing a blanket with winnie the pooh holding a wad of semen printed on it. "vicious little monkeys" written on a wall next a guitar chord chart underneath a piece of newspaper that was used as a dropcloth with a lot of different colors of paint dried to it. a bin of old photos and super8 films. a super8 projector, a 16mm projector, a xerox machine, a slide projector, a tripod, an old video camera that records time lapse, and a copy stand. a pair of pink converse.

yes.

when i grow up, these are the things i would like to own.

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quite happy to have a digital camera once again.

i'm at work, and jason asked me to make a web banner for people to click on and go to a page where they can submit event listings.

so i drew a retarded little guitar and colored it pink and took off my shoe and put on my smelly sock and made this little guy. it took like 5 minutes! oh digital camera, how i have missed you so...




also, 's some really bad quality pictures of the artomatic room. i'll put up some better ones later...



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I WILL BE THE LUCKIEST MAN ALIVE!

Dear thepennyman,

hey. thanks for the bunny feet. i got them today. i left positive feedback. do you have a whole lot more of them? i noticed you posted another buy it now auction with 4 more lots of 12... how much would shipping be on all 48 of them? Do you have even more? Can you make me a deal on bulk bunny feet?


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knifey



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what i've done sofar at work today...



CityPaper ghost


My first comic is running in this week's paper. I have to finish it by sometime tonight. I'll post it once it runs. I'm also doing Jason's job this week cos he's out of town. Last night I was here til 6am putting together 23 packages of orders for stuff and whatnot. They're all fancy cos I'm retarded and couldn't just write people's names on the envelopes. I painted the emvelopes and painstakingly rubber stamped everyone's names on them. why do i do such things?

new best thing about staying up all night is that you get to go to mcdonalds for breakfast sandwiches when you're all ass tired. There's no way I could get up before 10:30. mcdonalds breakfast food is kind of amazing, sadly enough.

the other day i went to this corn maze / pumpkin patch / petting zoo in the middle of virginia. it was kind of retarded but awesome and the lady who ran it gave me a scrap of fabric with this smiling corn dude on it. that made me happy.

on the way there we stopped at this other mcdonalds where I saw the scariest photos I think I've