drew and mike are TEAM AWESOME

seriousness

the bottom image on this one is from some book lillian had.... ^

when the mind wanders and things just appear on the page.

ridges

this one i found in the garbage last summer.

you, know, THE garbage, the collective garbage of everyone who produces garbage, all of the garbage that IS. not 'someone's' garbage, 'the' garbage.

you can find some pretty crazy stuff sometimes. like a trove of wierd/ interesting overhead pictures of land that doesnt always look earthly....

wierd where you can find similar looking things...parallels, ridges, ranges, wrinkles, bends, folds, fabric, rock, bark.

the birds and the bees

drawing by ernst haeckel

today's Shakti Gawain thought is:

"Most people do have some sense of what they would love to be doing, but this feeling is often repressed and is experienced only in the form of some wildly impractical fantasy. Get in touch with your fantasies. Observe and explore thoroughly your most incredible fantasy. There is truth in your desire, even if it seems impossible. It is telling you something about who you really are and what you want to be doing."

There is a new shop in Kensington Market called Good Blood Bad Blood (there may be an 'and' in there) and a few days ago Drew and I went in there and began chatting with the guy in there. He is one of (I think) 7 artists, mostly from OCAD who take shifts running the shop and who all make art to sell in their shop. It is mostly silkscreened prints and shirts, but also little fugurines and jewellry, drawings, etchings...so cool! they are renting the space together, and there is no cut on their sales because it is their own colectively owned store! wow. The guy working when we went in really inspired us to just make art! and not focus so much on an alternate job for income...so much energy and time goes into a full time retail or whatever job, not leaving much time for art, the passion. He said he is making less money, but is soo happy, happy to be making art all the time, and selling it.

living to work, or working to live?

other such fancies

further little doodles...less recent, less time spent, still a flow from beyond the mind, or the conscious mind...

yesterday Drew and i found matching buttons at the goodwill that said "turn ideas into action.. DO IT NOW!" on them. A sentiment worth considering. We also found a little book by Shakti Gawain, with daily meditations. The one for June 1 said " Money is a symbol of our creative energy. The more willing and able we are to open to the universe, the more money we will have in our lives. Our ability to earn and spend money abundantly and wisely is based on our ability to be a channel for the universe. The stronger and more open our channel is, the more will flow through it" and the mantra for the day: "my channel is open and money is flowing to me".

I beleive it. And living entirely in the present, not in the past or future, and in the present observing everything and seeing the beauty in all helps greatly to open channels for the universe to flow through.

so while at the goodwill i bought a nice bag for three dollars, one like i had been wanting for a while. and when i got outside the store and looked into one of the many pockets, there was a twonie (toonie?) inside it! woah. the universe is amazing!

the recent moleskine

so here are some of my newer drawings, and i am liking the direction they are going, or perhaps i just like the pen i have now...hard to tell. in any case, most of these were done on the plane home from calgary about a week ago. i went into some sort of high-altitude trance where i was very drawn (no pun) into what i was doing, and just drew fluidly for a long concentrated period of time. wierd. anyway, i like this pen i have. just a black ballpoint, but i find the pen and the paper you have can truly affect your art and your inspiration.

lately i have been endeavouring to just DRAW, and not THINK about it. not worry or consider the end result, just draw from my ..core i guess...if that makes any sense. kind of like a stream of consciousness from my brain or whatever down my arm and flowing out the pen. its hard sometimes, to not think and to let go...but its important to do that i think.

final computers project, an animation based on a Vincent Price radio story/ clip called "Escape" ! lotsa fun. enjoy :)