Thanksgiving 2011

Alright, let's try this again.
I went to L.A./Torrance. Reasons I went down: Thanksgiving, food, Harmony, my sister, my parents, friends, uncles, home sweet home, inspiration, ideas, network, memories.

The plan (I make it up when I get there), Side note: I just got this printer/scanner/copier for free with my computer, it's a scam because the ink runs out in few weeks and you'll end up paying 20 times the cost of the printer in a year but the scanner is free so, I love it....scan everything that's 8.5 x 11 or smaller:

This is what happened:

Every Thanksgiving my parents make a feast and bring it to all the people that work for them at the motels they run. My aunt came over and stayed up all night. Thanksgiving morning I ship this stuff over and my uncle and I  allocate it unevenly. Went to aunts in Diamond Bar this year for the feast. Korea town for chicken with Eddie and his Mexican girlfriend - Koreans and Mexicans unite (symbiotic in businesses, my gang, the artists writing letters of ref for me, Harmony, Elaine and me - all great examples). I have a friend who runs a coffee shop in Hollywood but he wasn't there. We took Harmony to the Natural History Museum and ran into the soon to be UCLA massacre at USC. Went to an old high school friends house for lunch. Visited a friend in L.A.  for lunch and a tour of the television studio he worked in. Cruised through Silver Lake to find some tea to settle my meat and spice infested stomach at Inteligensia Cafe. The same day dropped by Johns in Pasadena for dinner and then back for coffee with Pravin, my buddy from high school. 

The "kids" 

Yup that's my "Bike Chick" painting in the back ground.

Note I left my cousin more than 6 years ago. It's like a petroglyph.

The mexican sister of a friends girlfriend just got back from Iraq and was craving Korean chicken

Planking

Plan B. Pinks was crowded.

My dad doesn't trust the deadbolt

Koreans believe you live for a 100 years if you eat cactus. 

My mom loved this color. 

Throw Dora cup full of milk into blended strawberry = Harmonys version of Strawberry milk 

UCLA vs. USC

A bunch of Koreans I knew in High school and their husbands and kids

Pravin Ugalat

Check out the license plate. 

L.A. Blog becomes Art Blog

Took a trip down to L.A. no really Long Beach because that's where I flew in to which is in L.A. county but my house, or my parents house is in Torrance, which is still in L.A. county.

Home is a strange place, always. I'm somewhat paralyzed each time I go there. Torn between the sense of responsibility and personal ambition. I guess I could find balance, which is what I did. Sense of responsibility = being family, hanging out with my sister and the baby, checking in on cousins. Personal ambition = I'm trying to art here, so in simplest terms that entails 2 things: 1)being in the cave (studio) getting down and 2)getting out there seeing things, meeting people, networking, collecting a million facebook friends.

The way I see it in this day and age, anybody could be "famous". Everybody has the ability to create a network around them of say (random number) 1,000 people who likes their work and supports it by buying, promoting, seeing it. There's making it big in the world and then there's making your own world to be big in.

So in end it comes down to ambition. How ambitious am I, are you? Ambition to work like a mother and ambition to go out there and work like a mother building your world.

I always thought it was vanity to be ambitious in that way but if the work is good and it's got to be good, something that is compelling, and it brings value to their life then why not buy it, and why can't I ask you to buy it. In the end you, they can always say no. So ask.

Crap this was supposed to be about L.A.. got carried away Ok next one. But anyhow. I'm supposed to be writing daily blogs on my process in the studio. Stay tuned..

If you see this guy around, call the cops, he's a hooligan...

Banana

This is awesome!
The things you see on television while trying to keep a 2 year old preoccupied.

Beets

I had beets for lunch the other day..

Albino Poo

What's dope about drawing albino poo is that you don't have to use any color. There aren't even eyes to make pink. No color at all, pure black line.

What's dope about albino poo in a porcelain toilet is that the piece of crap is camouflaged, which I guess could be dangerous. Again you don't have to use any color what so ever.

This reminded me of this -> ..an old Lakota prophecy having to do with an albino calf.

"When White Buffalo Calf Woman promised to return again, she made some prophecies at that time One of those prophesies was that the birth of a white buffalo calf would be a sign that it would be near the time when she would return again to purify the world. What she meant by that was that she would bring back harmony again and balance, spiritually. No matter what happens to Miracle in the coming months and years, Joseph Chasing Horse says the birth is a sign from the Great Spirit and the ensuing age of harmony and balance it represents cannot be revoked." - Joseph Chasing Horse

Back in Street Spirit

Got a phone call from Desi telling me I was in Street Spirit again.
Did this painting live last year for a memorial event at St. Mary's Center, a service provider for low income folk.

Apparently it will be the image for their holiday cards this year.

Buy your copy of Street Spirit today, support the less privileged!

Could I put this on my CV?
http://www.thestreetspirit.org/international-day-for-the-eradication-of-poverty/