I live on the Road by Selling my Art - Wanna Come?

Nothing to say except about the vortex. This is a figurative place that you get pulled through, like the proverbial knothole. It's when you finally run out of money & stuff you would part with (sell or trade) & are free-fallin'.

This is where you either invent a parachute or whatever, but if you don't get something going, expect to hit the pavement --hard.

ENTER: THE GIG

The other thing I wanted to mention is to the person who said they already had all the stuff I mentioned: There's always going to be something you wish you had, so look around. Also be mindful of overall weight, cause you don't want to bog down your vehicle.

 

Hey, I don't have much time in the library, but I'll post this if I can find it online, or some of you other can. This is good news & only took me 9 months of stepping out by faith to overcome. But now, hey, this is a great day for all you others who would like to come along. Hey, also, I dunno if this is cool, but if anyone has an airport card for a G3 out there, then let me know.

 

thats funny cause i was the same way untill maybe a year ago. I got into plants( i always grew them but i just became more interested in them) basically i grew weed and studied every aspect of how to make it grow well and get bud but at the same time it made me realize man i really like plants all plants, i want to know how they each function, live, adapt,and then those observations usally show up in my drawings (i use patterns pervailent in nature) WELL after all this rambling about me i just mean once you know you want to do something go for it 100 percent dont be lazy though study the styles and work hard the money will follow as the saying goes, and hey if it doesnt id rather live poor doing my dream job than rich and miserable

 

Well, you may want to try something. It's weird all the things people do on the street--juggling, doing stuff with sticks, sidewalk chalk, plus the singing thing.

 

I guess they say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but most creative people I know don't exactly think so.

I've noticed so many more people out painting this past month. I don't know if I had anything to do with it, but I never coined the phrase, "plein air', as the French had that going in the Mid 19th century & another book said 1895. It just means getting out of the studio to paint.

Sometimes the fact that they feature those peices in Artist Magazines where some lamer stippled something to death or copied it stroke for stroke from a photo because he plainly had too much time on his hands. All the non-artists go, "Wow--it looked exactly like a photograph!" I mean, so then what's the point of doing it? --take a picture...

The thing that pisses me off is I saw these freaks parading around town with signs saying THEY were doing Plein Air painting at such & such a location & asking for money for themselves. But this was my location they had on their signs & they weren't doing jack squat! I never saw them there. I just happened up town one day & saw them. They were posers collecting money (begging) for something they perceived made me a lot of it. No way. It can get you by & sometimes you might even feel blessed & a little wealthy if you live as cheap as dirt. Hey, you can afford some wine, but can't drink in bars.

That is always the Altamont in the ointment as far as I'm concerned with the Hippy movement, the thing that screws it up, is when people start ripping each other off. That wasn't cool when they killed that guy at the Stones concert or when they sold each other bad drugs, etc. Human nature.

Another guy I saw at the free clinic said he saw a guy with a vehicle just like mine & a sign on it about what I was doing parked on such & such a street. Anyway, I know I'm the real deal, so fuck it. I mean there shouldn't be a lid on creativity & that's what this venue is all about, my hitting the road, at least to me. If anybody shares my sentiments & some of you seem to, then right on.

I just really think panhandling is for emergencies only, people should get a gig--have a plan, be creative. The world doesn't owe us a living. But I think scamming another poor creative, using their approach, another brother starving artist shows someone is really fucking cold.


God made man a little lower than the angels. And he's been getting a little lower ever since!

 

Ha ha ha I live in LA and meet people like this all day everyday. They're like, "I'm a musician" or "I'm an actor." And I'm like, "no you're not, you're a waitress." And they're seriously ALL over LA it just annoys me.

Your journey sounds like a fun one, you're lucky and best of luck.

 

Ha--not too far from where I am. I meet them here too. "Me & my boyfriend are from LA & we're actors." I guess they were Extras somewhere in a crowd. The funniest thing is when they dress like actors/musicians they've seen. You get that during film festivals. I know a couple of film stars & it's no big whoop, they're just people. They get bothered by that, "Hey--do you know who you are?" It's hard to just go back to normalcy from them.

OK, I'm like painting at a certain place every day & selling...Meanwhile these guys...I don't know what they were thinking. They had a sign just like mine but they were uptown panhandling as if they were doing the gig themselves. I don't get it. I didn't approach them because I was shocked that somebody would copy something like I'm doing since, what would they get out of it? It's easy enough to panhandle in this town, so what were they collecting for. I mean, I have my art right there displayed, so people are getting something for their money. I just don't get it. Gosh, can't they be more creative than that?

 

Hey, why not go for it? It's the greatest feeling in the world.

 

Hi, sorry I'm just working my way back in the replies. You can check out my hipforums gallery & get a fair idea of my style. But now I work completely outside. People dig that. I'm not doing the Photoshop & graphics now or teaching. But I get to talk to anyone I want. People just come up & talk to you.

 

Thanks a lot. Hey, you can do it too. It's amazing how little shit they really give you about it. I mean, you have to tread lightly, but after you define the lines in an area, it's downright fuckin amazing!

 

Take me with you

 

Sorry, you're underage. Come back in a couple of years I don't mean this to squelch your fire. I admire your enthusiasm. Yet just imagine some authority figure thinking that I'm trying to recruit underage females?

 

Man, that's awesome. I might do something like that one day when I'm old enough to move out on my own.

 

Addendum from below: Sorry I don't mean this to squelch your fire. I admire your spitzerdinkum! I just could see the cops that regularly cruise these sites (government job looking for porn!) thinking I was the ringleader of a cult recruiting people under 18. Maybe in some other country, but in anal retentive Amerika, they're apt to arrest first & ask questions later. They're fuckin paranoid in this country. These British people were telling me they were scared to even ask a kid for directions in the US for fear they would be suspected child molesters: Three Cheers for Fascism: Suspecting the Innocent & letting the Guilty go Free. DUH GW & a lot of morons who preceded him.



I'm insulated from the Peasants
because I live in Washington!

 

As per the above question: Wondering were on the West Coast it's Sunny & Dry; I was wondering where in fuck on the West Coast it's Sunny & Dry? Please let me know specifically & if your town has:

A) Scenery

B) Tourists

C) Tolerant people

D) No asshole cops

Thanks,

I may be coming to a street corner near you. If so, please present me with fair virgins & plenty of bud. Also chocolate Just goofing on ya...

 

thats something i found too, especially around the larger cities - there was a kinda snobbery about it. like a feeling of you aint one of us cos you buy your own food and don't sleep in the shelter.

never mind the fact that you bought your food and everything you need out of what you busked for.

 

DO you ever come to colorado? Thats where i am. I'm 16, so i couldnt really go with you, but it sounds like a blast. I am an artist. I've never had a job and i really love to create art and poetry. If you came here maybe we could hang out and smoke like a coupple of hippys. Send me a message, cause i cant keep track of these forums.

 

Oh, and im sorry that america sucks so bad. i really am... i didnt vore for bush. and if i was old enough to vote i wouldnt have. I hate the cops, and its really a fucked up thing that all these people are paranoid because of them, but also, it's kinda funny. lol ttyl... really tho, send me a message if you want to.

 

Hey, just might do that. I hear Boulder is cool, Pearl Street or thereabouts good thru Sept.

Yeah, I have to use the public computer right now, but am working on getting another computer with wi-fi.

Just stay withe the programme (art). I find that even the cops respect me because maybe I do something besides drink, smoke pot & panhandle, which makes me (almost) respectable. but they still check you out if you have long hair. But after a while they leave you alone becaue they know what you'reup to.

Hey, my time is expiring, but later...Hip hip hurray!