i remember being 16 years old living in hutchinson kansas driving over to the big city of wichita to go to the bohemian bean in the eaton hotel.... back when wichita was still a little punk rock, dirty and more than a bit shady.... it was a magical time in what i deemed to be a magical city....i remember this punk rock girl sitting outside on the curb with a dragon tattoo on her forearm.... i had gotten tattooed a year before and was very interested in tattoos..... i asked to see her tattoo and couldnt believe how bad ass it was..... seeing pictures in magazines was far different than seeing the real thing in real life.... i couldnt get over how awesome this tattoo was it was so colorful and perfect... i asked her who did it and she said ron dolecek....i remember thinking... how in the world did he do this... her tattoo was so opaque and colorful.. i had never seen anything like it.....after i had started tattooing a year or so i finally got to meet the amazing ron dolecek at a tattoo convention inside the barn at the kansas coliseum .... this had to be 1998 or 1999....in our brief encounter i gleamed some words of wisdom that have stuck with me throughout my tattoo career...
back then you could only really buy tattoo magazines in one place... i believe it was called the city news it was located on seneca .... it was pretty much a porn store that sold tattoo magazines so it was always an interesting crowd ... every month i would try to go there to get the latest tattoo rag.... one month i stopped in and ron was busy occupying the tattoo section.... this was very intimidating to me as i didnt really know how to approach him and thought that for sure he would not remember me and i sure didnt have the balls to approach him... conversely i didn't want to look like i was there shopping for porn mags... i remember anxiously walking around trying to find some middle ground to look at until he left.... while walking by the isle to see if he had left yet; he says to me... hey man come check this out...he held up this magazine and it was a tattoo that corey kruger had done of an ant farm... he said to me ... isnt this tattoo so bad ass...at the time i didnt really know what to do ... i just smiled and said yes not knowing really what else to say...i didnt really know what else to do so i tried to introduce myself thinking for sure he would not remember me from a year or two before ....he looked at me and said sure man i remember you before i even had a chance to finish... we looked at tattoo magazines for awhile and i was scared to death i would say something totally stupid .... we parted with pleasantries and i rember thinking was all that a dream... did that really happen .... was the best tattooer i had every met just super cool to me....? i couldnt believe it....keep in mind things were very different back then... there was only a hand full of tattooers in the whole state... you couldnt order supplies off the internet in fact there was no internet... you couldnt just call up a tattoo supply house you had to have a referal from another tattooer before they would sell to you... and even spaulding stuff you first had to have their number and send them money before you could even get a catalog.... it was a very private magical club
many things have happened in the tattoo world ,both locally and worldwide ,since then some good some bad ....but one thing that has remained the same locally is ron has always been the standard in wichita tattooing.... for years he has always remained a few steps ahead of everyone else.... constantly raising the bar.....i shutter to think what wichita tattooing would be had he not been here... i shutter to think what my tattoos would look like had i not realized what tattoos could be by seeing his work.....
now a days it seems everyone and their cousin does tattoos.... it seems the influx of mediocre tattooers that think they are rock stars run rampant....people that have not learned the basics of tattoos are in turn teaching others multiplying unmastered skills and dumbing down tattooing as a whole.... it seems many new comers dont care or understand where tattooing has come from and how it got to this place....to know the future you must know the past.... you are creating nothing new just more mistakes that have already been solved years ago .....although i do think this is true of wichita to an extent i feel there are more good than bad tattooers here...the more i travel the more i realize the tattoo public here has it pretty good... i know this is in large part due to rons influence over the past 20+ years...
change is an odd thing for me .... i find i struggle with it alot.... i have a hard time with computers and phones and the latest ways in which people choose to communicate....it seems there is always something being added to try to keep up with... just stopping by to say hello or hang out has been replaced with some digital mumbo jumbo....although i realize change can be a good thing ... often times i have learned change brings both good and bad at the same time...
so first the bad... saturday marks the last day that ron will be tattooing in wichita... it truely is the end of an era.... i must say i am very sad to see him go he has truely made wichita tattooing what it is today... however i am excited and happy for him as he sets out on a new adventure to colorado.... he has asked me to come tattoo with him at lucky devil on saturday to celebrate this event and i couldnt be more excited to do so..... word even has it he might have a bit of time in case you were wanting to get tattooed....i would like him to leave wichita with fond memories and soft goodbyes... all proceeds from the day will go to the "send ron off with fat pockets fund" because i think this is what not only i but wichita owes him... if you tattoo in this city its honestly because ron paved the way for you to... (trust me i know i was there ) ..... a big thank you card lined with money i think would be more than appropriate and would be a small memento of the respect and credit he so deserves....and if you give a shit about tattooing and tattooing in this city you will come down and get tattooed for no other reason to say you got tattooed at lucky devil on the last day ron was here... and even if you dont get tattooed come by and say hello we would love to see you.... it will be an epic day one that will be discussed in tattoo circles for years to come.... i hope to see you there....this saturday the 24th of november from 11am to whenever at lucky devil tattoo 551 west douglas...
many blessings i receive but am undeserving.... the older i get the more i realize where blessings come from...
this was emilys car a year ago after someone pulled out and hit her....she unknowingly was 2 weeks pregnant with our son...god bless this honda accord-ian
so after a year of biting my nails trying to locate a safe and affordable car.... all while hoping my 200000 mile+ car would not break beyond repair ..especially on that trip to the hospital.......we feel as though we have been super blessed and we are officially mobile....
momo has packed his bag and is ready to go!
so in the spirit of the headleys we are wasting no time... the first of many headley family road trips ! the shop will be closed friday and saturday and we are off to the dfw area to be with our friends matt and sam! its been way to long and i think we are behind them 30 trips or so ....
i will be tattooing somewhere saturday and sunday... im not sure where i might just go door to door when i show up...if it gets worked out ahead of time i will announce it....one thing i have gained with experience is knowing its alot more fun to just let it work itself out....to much planning takes out all the fun....anyway if you want to get tattooed message me on face book or just give me a call at the shop this week 316-303-0077....i wont set up an appointment with you but i will let you know where im going to be available for walk-ins...
i realized today i have a ton of flash i have been working on.... mostly remakes of old tattoos....tattoo designs that if they could talk we would all be the wiser... and some original designs from me... all drawn how i think they should be tattooed... clean bold and timeless tattoos your grandpa would like...i dont feel like you could get a better tattoo from me than what i have included in this past year of flash projects...i would like to only tattoo these designs ( i think i have over 70 sheets) they include.... pinup girls of all sorts, eagles, panthers, daggers, indians,gypsies, skulls, devils, angels , hearts, banners, racing, pirates, crosses, jesus, clowns, peacocks, mermaids, dragons, geishas, and snakes just to name a few.... you know all the cool stuff ...stuff you will never see on pintrest...but if you have other ideas let me know ....haha heres a teaser....
(i must request if you start reading this than please finish it... also please watch every video and click on every link in order or you might miss what i am trying to convey with this article... thanks for your time!)
i am many things....the most important thing i am is a father..... i cant think of a more important job that one could do than this.... my son morris means the world to me.... he makes me the person i want to be not the person that i am...another super important thing i am is a husband. i feel i have the best wife that anyone on this planet has ever had. my family means the world to me...they have taught me to not only care about myself but to care about my surroundings.... i never cared about my body and my health until i met my wife ...she has taught me the importance of eating right, exercise, and staying healthy....my son has taught me about community and how important it is not only now but what i leave behind for him.... before him i didnt care much about my surroundings...i want to set a good example for him.. i want to teach him how important honesty is, how important others are and how if he doesnt like something about the way things are than he should work to change it (among other things)... he has already taught me many things...most of all he has taught me that things in this life are malleable .... things can change and for the better and faster than what you might expect.....12 months ago i was not a father had no idea i would ever be one and had no want of ever being one.... now i couldnt imagine him not in my life.... i would do anything for him.... as some of you might know we had some health scares with him early on (we were told he had glactosemia)... i am proud to report by gods grace he is completly healthy...during this time all other things i held important in my life got prioritised, well into the unimportant category.... i was ready to change everything for him and gladly would have... where i lived, what i did , what i ate, what i spend my money on, just to name a few... he has reset my priorites in life....he is my legacy what i leave behind... he is my recorder .... it is no longer art work or tattoos or people that i meet in passing that will record me .... he will record all my strengths and faults... after i am dead and gone he will say... .my dad la la la... i see this all day everyday at the tattoo shop... i wonder if people realize how much they talk about there parents... its alot, start paying attention and you will see...i want him to be proud of me... now i will never be president or a millionare or something....i wouldnt want him to be proud of me for those things if i were them anyway but i want him to be stoked im his dad....not because i let him do whatever he wanted but because i was a good father and was available for him any time he needed me to be and i showed him the right way to do things not the easy way to do things.... morris has forced me to take a wider view of many things.... i dont think as i have gotten older i have become wiser but i diffently feel i have been blessed with a wider view on life....
as i started this whole thing out i am many things... i am a father, a husband, a tattooer, a business owner, a home owner (or it owns me anyway as many of you with old homes can attest) ,a christian, and to the suprise of some a person who thinks marijuana, cannabis, hemp or whatever you would like to call it should be legal....now before you make judgements please read on....
the united states classifies marijuana as a schedule 1 drug meaning it has no medicinal value... i have found this to be a lie ... a customer of mine with epilepsy tells me that after taking every drug on the market he finds marijuana to be the only thing that helps him not have seizures... i also find it odd that our government says it has no medicinal value when the fda liscenses such drugs like marinol that are based on the "bad stuff" in marijuana that cost upwards of 4,000$ a year ....to grow marijuana in your back yard garden would cost pennies ..... i am also told that one of the reasons marinol is not effective for cancer patients is that they cant keep it down or even swallow it ..... where as marijuana is supierior because it can be vaporized or smoked...it seems many things are starting to come out about the health aspects of marijuana...
i was suprised to watch this as i thought smoking marijuana was the bad way to go compared to eating it or vaporizing it... but it seems like more and more evidence is starting to come to light like this abc news article ....
but lets stop and think for a second ...... who smokes marijuana regularly....one of my all time favorites louis armstrong did he lived to be over 70 which doesnt seem very old but when your consider his life expectancy for someone born in 1901 was under 50 70 doesnt seem to shabby....willie nelson 's life expectancy is slightly over 60 he is still alive at age 80...diego rivera also out lived his life expectancy just to name a few... to me the idea that marijuana shortens your life just doesnt add up.... if marijuana took off 5 minutes of your life like cigarettes do we all know cheech and chong would already be dead.... where are the public service announcements with black marijuana lungs that came so easily with cigarettes... could it be that there is a difference .....
i watched this the other day of a father who's son takes a cannabis tincture to help with his siezures it almost made me cry ... what would you do if you were in this mans position.... have you ever been faced with this? do you feel that the government truely cares for its citizens or maybe they care more about pharmacy profits..but we are not much better here in kansas since we make people move who need marijuana as a medication..its sad that we call ourselves christians but yet we make sick people move just because there medication doesnt align with what we think they should have.... this makes me ashamed to be a kansas resident....
the other thing that marijuana has greatly helped many with is their heads..there are many aspects to this im told from help with sleep to appetite to relaxation this movie the botany of desire probably does a better job of explaining it than i can..fast forward to 2.21(the rest of this movie is great to check it out)
i have been trying to dig up facts of the harmful effects of marijuana... it seems as though we are not really 100% to sure what they are even after 12,000 years of the plant being around.... here are a few statements i have found from drugabuse.gov
Numerous studies have shown marijuana smoke to contain carcinogens and to be an irritant to the lungs. In fact, marijuana smoke contains 50-70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than tobacco smoke. Marijuana users usually inhale more deeply and hold their breath longer than tobacco smokers do, which further increase the lungs' exposure to carcinogenic smoke. Marijuana smokers show dysregulated growth of epithelial cells in their lung tissue, which could lead to cancer;6however, a recent case-controlled study found no positive associations between marijuana use and lung, upper respiratory, or upper digestive tract cancers.7Thus, the link between marijuana smoking and these cancers remains unsubstantiated at this time.
Research into the effects of long-term cannabis use on the structure of the brain has yielded inconsistent results. It may be that the effects are too subtle for reliable detection by current techniques. A similar challenge arises in studies of the effects of chronic marijuana use on brain function. Brain imaging studies in chronic users tend to show some consistent alterations, but their connection to impaired cognitive functioning is far from clear. This uncertainty may stem from confounding factors such as other drug use, residual drug effects, or withdrawal symptoms in long-term chronic users.
i found this one to be the most interesting.....
Marijuana increases heart rate by 20-100 percent shortly after smoking; this effect can last up to 3 hours. In one study, it was estimated that marijuana users have a 4.8-fold increase in the risk of heart attack in the first hour after smoking the drug.5 This may be due to increased heart rate as well as the effects of marijuana on heart rhythms, causing palpitations and arrhythmias. This risk may be greater in aging populations or in those with cardiac vulnerabilities.
so i did a little research on this statement.....and found this...
Mittleman, noted that as an immediate trigger for heart attack pot smoking is nearly twice as dangerous as sex for a sedentary person, exercise for a fit male or female, a tantrum of rage, or a bout of anxiety. But its less risky than a spurt of exercise for a couch potato or a snort of cocaine.
Despite the high percentage of people younger than 50 years old who report they use the drug – 12.5 percent – Mittleman doesn’t foresee an epidemic of pot-triggered heart attacks. For a 50-year-old baby boomer without other risk factors, like high blood pressure or high cholesterol, the absolute risk of having a heart attack in the crucial first hour after smoking marijuana is one in 100,000, he says.
hmmm ... so in other words our government has obscured the facts... maybe what they should have wrote was .... if you are a lazy couch potato and never exercise... marijuana may give you a heart attack... but dont run around the block because that will probably kill you first...
this statement was also on the national institue of drug abuse....
The potential medicinal properties of marijuana have been the subject of substantive research and heated debate. Scientists have confirmed that the cannabis plant contains active ingredients with therapeutic potential for relieving pain, controlling nausea, stimulating appetite, and decreasing ocular pressure. Cannabinoid-based medications include synthetic compounds, such as dronabinol (Marinol®) and nabilone (Cesamet®), which are FDA approved, and a new, chemically pure mixture of plant-derived THC and cannabidiol called Sativex®, formulated as a mouth spray and approved in Canada and parts of Europe for the relief of cancer-associated pain and spasticity and neuropathic pain in multiple sclerosis. Scientists continue to investigate the medicinal properties of THC and other cannabinoids to better evaluate and harness their ability to help patients suffering from a broad range of conditions, while avoiding the adverse effects of smoked marijuana.
so we can make a drug to emulate something natural (so we can charge more for it possibly?) "while avoiding the adverse effects of smoked marijuana" which are what???? you havent made those clear....are you starting to see a pattern here.....
but the usa isnt all bad when it comes to marijuana ...they currently allow 4 people to receive federally grown marijuana.... no joke....you can watch a video on it here
now why would the government say its ok for these few people to have medical marijuana but not anyone else... are there conditions worse than others... hmmm doesnt make much sense to me but i guess keeping marijuana illegal doesnt make much sense to me either....it didnt make much sense to the us department of agriculture to make it illegal either evidently....
hmmm so your saying we can grow many of our own textiles we now import from china? ya that seems like a horrible idea....there are many things we as americans can make from hemp from houses to cars to clothes etc... do 5 minutes worth of research you will find out...
it seems to me the worst thing about marijuana is marijuana laws.... im pretty sure jonathan whitworth would agree with me since a swat team broke in his house with guns drawn on his wife and child and shot his dog all for a misdemeanor amount of marijuana....who is the greater evil in this story.....
earlier i stated i was christian ... i tend to side with pat robertson on the idea of marijuana legalization
i do not feel god makes mistakes...he is the inventor of marijuana.... who is our federal government to say it has no place....
Genesis 1:29
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
29 Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the [a]surface of all the earth, and every tree [b]which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
now dont get me wrong i do not believe children should have access to marijuana... i dont want my son to start smoking marijuana when he is 16, unless he has a medical condition that it can help... growing up in hutchinson kansas it was easier to get marijuana than beer at a young age... perhaps it was because alcohol is regulated... i think colorado has it pretty figured out . i do agree that regulation would help keep it out of the hands of young people.
so why now... why has this become such an issue for me...well first and for most my son.... if he decides to smoke marijuana as an adult for whatever reason i do not want him to go to prison i do not feel for growing or ingesting a plant given to us by god he should be put in the same room as murders and rapist. If my son would have a condition that marijuana would help i want him to have safe access to it. also I do not feel we should give our money to anyone but hard working green thumbed americans who grow marijuana, we are making criminals and people outside of this country rich this makes no sense to me. i know many people here in kansas that would vote to legalize marijuana for one reason or another many who dont smoke but would like it to be legal... police, teachers,parents, you name it... many feel they cant speak openly about marijuana without facing some sort of punishment from there neighbors.... well i know their neighbors feel the same way... we are afraid of ourselves.... i feel that if every person who was pro cannabis spoke out we would change this law in no time...... i am a hard working american who pays all my taxes and now as of this year i am a voter... i plan to work for and vote for laws to legalize and regulate marijuana in my home state of kansas.. i do think this is possible.. work is already being done by the fine people at kansas medical cannabis network. if you think marijuana should be legal please vote.... voting really can change this on a local level. politicians want jobs.... they work for us ... if they dont work for us lets get rid of them and find ones that do ... thank you for taking the time to read all this... i welcome any comments and also any debate to mattcicada@hotmail.com please feel free to repost this any where as i feel there is alot of information that needs to be spread
ps. i view my writing as prose ...so i have little need for punctuation or spelling..haha besides i draw pictures for a living....
its odd when things that you are thinking of in the back of your head surface...... do you ever have that?where you are kicking around this thought back and forth in your head... not seriously.. just entertaining the idea..from time to time and with no goal..... and then without choice it comes up in your life... possibly making you approach the idea slightly different but more motivated now that the idea is clearer... like perhaps there is some other conscience pointing you in a direction you wouldnt figure out on your own...im glad i have the friends i do... they are great..they make me smarter than i am and offer many perspectives that i would not see....thanks freinds you know who you are.....and thanks chris showalter for the enlightened look at the 3 stages... i am proud to have such wise friends
it was an awesome experience to help put together last years skateboard show GET RAD i wish i had more time to be a part of it this year.... while i havent had much time to skateboard this summer with our new sons arrival i still have been riding to work almost everyday... it is great fun i often times think about a statement bruce lee made..... and although i dont look at the city as my enemy i do think of it often like the ocean... bruce lee said.... "where my enemy expands i contract and where my enemy contracts i expand"..... this is very fitting if you have ever ridden down town in traffic late for work..haha
anyway i would like to take this chance to announce i have officially decided to do another show...... the idea for this show has been festering in my head for quite some time... and as per todays conversation i think that i have a direction that i feel comfortable taking it... no not all of it is worked out in my head and im sure there will be many more insane and enlightening conversations to be had on pattie street..... no im not going to give to many details... everybody loves surprises,,,, the official press release reads something like this...
what...OFF THE WALL- in defense of tattoo flash, an educated look
where....?
who.... tattooers local far dead alive
when... sometime in the next year i will make no dead lines i am more concerned with the show being perfect than rushing to try to fit a schedule.....if it takes longer than a year to put together than so be it
why... to protect the life blood of tattooing ... to educate so people understand what they are seeing.... to show the beauty that is sadly overlooked by the modern day tattoo collector
....i refuse to let swallows fall to the grace of the google bird
anyway a picture of my son and chris from notes and noises and a few tattoos i did last year that i got photos of today... o and a super fun hardy dragon i was blessed with last week..
INSPIRATION: Im always jealous whenever i see other tattoo shirts..... one of the hardest things for me is choosing just one design to put on a shirt... how can i choose just one... what tattooee design says red sea tattoo... hmm i dont know ... what design is my brand? i dont know that either... whenever i see a tattoo shirt i always think... how did they decide on that image ,what was their thought process....... i like doing shirts but like tattoo designs its hard to pick just one .. i was thinking awhile back how if i was a pizza place it would be so easy to draw a shirt design i mean i do appreciate some pizza drawings (thanks dallis) .... god bless pizza but if you know me you know that i have an affinity for chinese food... i could get chinese food every day of the week if my wife would just agree.... i have been accused of liking even the worst of chinese food..... dont get me wrong i like the good stuff to but its hard to go wrong with some sweet and sour sauce on pretty much anything....mmm and crab rangoons.... arrggg well i guess i know what im eating for lunch.... anyway im getting a bit side tracked....so the shirts... its the year of the dragon the year my son was born i wanted to celebrate this but not with a typical tattooee looking tshirt ... so i thought if red sea tattoo was a chinese restaurant what would our t shirts look like... if a red sea tattoo chinese food delivery boy showed up at your house what would the shirt he was wearing look like....i will be a monkeys uncle if i dont think i nailed it... these are my favorite shirts of all time.. i havent worn to many of my shirts i have made in the past... i find it a little weird to wear your own companies shirt i guess ... but i will proudly wear this one... and it will probably make me hungry every time i put it on.... so what design is on the shirt??? well like most take out chinese food you are never really to sure what your going to get... the shirt design is a secret... is it chicken or cat.... or maybe a dragon... hmmm i wont say... i will say the sticker design is not the design on the shirt.....so buy one and find out...
WHEN: the shirts will be available friday the 15th i open at 11am ...
PRICE: the shirts are 30$ i make no apologies and sorry but no freebees
SIZES: i have small threw 2xl if you want another size please email me and let me know i will see what i can do if i decide to make another run of these
SHIPPING: many of you have inquired already about shipping... the only fair way for me to sale these shirts to not only locals but friends and customers out of town is offer them at the same time... so if you are out of town and want a shirt i do take paypal.... i will not except any orders before friday the 15th at 11 am... i will bring my computer to work and as i get notification from paypal i will pack up a shirt for you all shirts will go out monday the 18th... shipping charge will be 5 dollars a shirt making the total 35$ per shirt paypal is mattcicada@hotmail.com
AVAILABILITY: i do have a limited quantity of these shirts... if i sell out of them super fast i may consider doing a second run... i do not like doing 2 runs of the same shirt design but if there is a great demand i might think about making more since i like this design so much....
MADE IN THE USA: well haha on you china.... i take great pride in saying 100% of this shirt is made in the usa.....the shirt is 100% cotton made by american apparel (ya the super soft ones! just in time for summer) printed by local wichita legend phil ross ( and yes if you want to get shirts made i highly recommend him) so if you buy one you are not only supporting me and my family you are also supporting phil ross and his and also the fine americans that made this shirt... if you spend money with your neighbor it will come back to you ....... money spent over seas stays there.... i think its smart to buy local and support local business .... thanks everyone for your consideration and patronage
first of if you havent heard i would like to announce.....ITS A BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!! morris oliver headley was born 5-5-12 at about 5:25 pm after 41 hours of natural unmedicated labor (ya my wife is tough as nails!) if you are mexican you will celebrate his birthday every year!
secondly i would like to apologize for unanswered phone calls and emails over the last few weeks... it has been a crazy time and i will soon start digging myself out of this hole...
hmmm where to begin.....
the not so great first....thursday we found out threw a routine state screening that morris is galactosemic ... things just didnt seem quite right with him and he was having some health issues and not getting better... the odds of galactosemia are 1 in about 65,000(ya i should play the lottery) he is 1 of 2 babys that will be born in the state of kansas with this metabolic disorder this year.... 1 carrier gene from both of us and hes stuck with this... i knew he was in trouble in the first place with headley genes but i really had no idea.... its scary to think had this been 30 years ago he might not have made it.... so chalk one up to modern science and modern medicine ( this is the first time i have ever said this....) and a big thanks to the state of kansas from the bottom of my heart ( this is also the first time i have ever said this) routine pku screening is not available in every state.... tomorrow we see a specialist on this matter....
so now things have appeared to level out and are on the up and up.....lets hope so anyway......
these things i know are true....
my wife is awesome.... she never fails to surprise me... she is an awesome mother and an amazing person ... how i ever fooled her into marrying me i have no idea....
we have an amazing family that i am so blessed with i hope that everyone on this planet can feel this love before they die...
god is alive and well and works in amazing ways... you cannot put god in a box do not limit him with your imagination
this kid of mine already knows some of the coolest people on this planet we feel so blessed to have such awesome friends...
being a father is unexplainable... i never thought i would receive such a gift.... he makes me the person i want to be not the person i am...... if i could write a song about it, it might be this one...
so i am slowly getting around to phone calls and emails etc... i will return to the shop on the 22nd and if you are wanting to meet my son we are planning to stop by the bike cave open house on the 19th
this blog is entitled vignettes for a few reasons ... this word came up today... its been on my mind ...i like this word i wish i had more ways to use it in a day....anyway its a few random thoughts rolled up in to one blog entry please sit back and enjoy the ride please excuse my randomness it is how i think.. lots of time overlapping this is in no chronelogical order so please relize there is no structure to this one bit..more vignettes to follow... well maybe...
.... i have completed all the work on my house that im gonna do before baby time... well all the major work anyway i still have to do a few things like.1.hang up pictures and mobile in babys room 2. clean windows inside and out 3.clean up huge mess in back yard...4. clean up art space more 5. put in latch strike 6. fix screws in door 7. well im gonna stop myself there but anyway i have all the major super grueling way out of my league stuff done and i feel good about this i can finally sit back a little bit and catch up to myself ... so here are some funny things... slowly getting my nest back in my house ....settling in moving stuff getting construction things moved unpacking my art space that was sacrificed to the tasks at hand....some pictues from that...
i love these loteria cards... sure i know they might be a bit over done but man i love them.. there raw simplicity and the purity that attracts me to them... i picked these up on a trip to texas a few years back...so cool...
some crazy texan gave me these... how i miss him... they are good reminders of good times... they are magical posessions i hold dear...and the coffee can full of healing energy i managed to aquire on one of my many safaris in my attic
another amazing paper reminder of good times past...us versus them.... when art was something different and when coolness was not dictated by the mass media... and yet another bountiful piece of booty i acquired on long journeys threw the dangerous tundra of my attic... ask me to write a blog about this...
more magical imulates given to me by magical shamans and journey men of my time.. and tools of the trade
more reminders of enchanted adventures and science experiments
some mythical concocktions processed for tranfermations of douglas fir... plastic product supplies and rock on motivation...also my vast array of banknotes housed in cleaver repository ..
and then there was this guy.... o how i have spent so many hours with this a-hole... though a hard worker i will admit and no worse for the ware i will be glad not to spend my time in his company any longer...
ha...next up i am trying to decide my future relation ship with this blog... do you read this.. .... i dont care if you dont think its very good or if you think its awesome really i guess...i just wonder if anyone reads this damn thing... if not thats fine i just want to know... i wont waste my time writting this stuff if you dont get at least 30 seconds of some sort of wierd amusement from it...so if you read this crap if you really do pay attention to computer stuff please tell me... you dont have to hit like on facebook or whatever...your coolness factor is not at stake... and i wont tell your friends or anyone we both know but please send me an facebook message or an email mattcicada@hotmail.com and simple say ..... i read it...... you wont get an email back from me there is no trick i just am on the fence about computer crap.....and i dont wont to waste my time when i probably should be doing other stuff anyway...
this is shorter than what i planned i have more topics to discuss but its getting late and im getting tired so thats all for know...
