still as it

still at it
so for the first set of work comming up
well those two in the back ground, a goat pulling her placinta around,,
and a self-poit, with matches again,
there are about five in the set, not yet done,
this weekend in things will start turning over,

whats all this crap about?
well, i would say its getting cold again, and i like to do alot of drawings ,i find myself start into this talking to myself with these two charaters trouble shooting over this one rare mess that was made out in this swamp ,. like an old black man and a old redneck talking about this thing they found, and there is a smart ass disclaim them, , this one piecei have rolling " fuckig mess" is where al the animals ate each other at once as a result of this withcy like diet thay ate and odd cercumstances with the weather., i like these point counter point dialoges ,.,
oh one time i rember reading this really were book on anti abortion it was like a three way dialoge with these guys arguing over the morality of an abortion but it was all done in a cartoon form , i rember Alvin college had the book, it was fun to read, and of cource the evil antiabortionist was saved in the end, but what i found fasinating was the way they constructed the dialoges one hothead Christian type one scartastic liberal type and one calm man of reason,

Alot og the Gatoer talk is like this thre way dialogs, it comes up with new pieces or a whole buch of meaningless ramblings. one note on dialoges i listen to my hiphop neighbors alot and i realise that the phaze"you know what i mean" is now a period in grammer, but who am i to talk
more to come

Posted by chickengeorge at 11:16 AM

still at it

two works in on the dealWell i would have to say
one of the things i realised about going home and seeing my folks is that they is getting old, and the dog has gone blind, its was one of those crazy fetching dogs, and now blind its sad it just sits there, depressed. its only a matter of time,
it got me thinking about getting old and such where will all this bizness end up, i have a feeling that hoepfull nothing terrible like a bad desises early on , won't alter my plan to just basicly retire out in some back woods area and go insain and paint, and all,. but if something bad happens to my health, hell hast no fruy on some of my foes, the wrath i might want to inflect, in my work, cause this is where i might end up in the end, stretched out over mind over matter.,
the jason 13 deal as got me all alarmed over what might be heroistic, now jason isnt a hero, but what he represents is some private male animalistic fanticy, of the hunter devode of some kind a of consciece, living like a wolf
but,
like i quat one of my heros
john alexander " my wife saved me from being an axe murder"
hahaha
i am also getting into old horror movies again, you can get them real cheep, on DVD,. it make good background sound, over at the apartment,
the main projects TET, is commig along fine, its just how to defend it?
more to come folks!

Posted by chickengeorge at 11:37 PM

monday, 9 days to go!

"Hog looking at burning cabin"

Thinking of the f-wood days it reminded me of this one time,

oh back i belive in 89, me and a buddie, nick started hanging out, he was from the same class, outta highschool, we had just graduwated and were both going to junior college, but we were both in onthe art bug, it was fun making paintings out in suberbia the post teen angst, well one night i believe Christmas eve, we hung out in his garrage studio and got smashed and painted all night listening to bauhaus and ministery, i rember Nick like lossing it in an drunken art indused expressionistc fit throwing the painting around and eventually whipping the ground with it, as the night came to morining we walked around the nieighborhood, sorta buzzed and eventualy home to crash, both of your folks were so pissed we ruined Christmas, but hey, what the fuck christmas is for kids, we need to get out of town!
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I have been busy putting togehter the Thing that eats thing piece, but i fell after this is over i am going to go back to some abstracts,
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An i also found out that the but crack girl , "Strawberry" is her name really knew she was doing that, and was trying to tempt me, some ancient border town trick she learnt somewhere, on how to catch a man. more on her later.
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sunday in th shop

Yea its gotten so bad, that i am snaping photos of women's butt cracks,

but thats the way it goes, when are these new hip hop ladys gonna stop dressing up like this! its not to comfortable when your trying to make a wood box is it!, which is what she was doing, is this like flashing or something? i am the victom here lets get that strait,!

back in SA town

this one painting is the beginings of
"its a long road that has no end"
on cardboard,
i have been getting into paper machie,!
whats some new photos comming up,
scruffy's stripper sculptures
Autumns "half body birthing women"
and JARR's snake thing
whats else and our new studio mate Willie, his studio.

back in F-wood,

Reflection on my first studio

So whats up?
I am back home here , at my original studio, this barn outside the house, in mid subarea hell, it wasn't like this back 25 years ago, everything looks like a maul, ,man its draining, there isn't much of an air here, but it is home, Alvin Friendswood area,. i used to tell my friends that if had to exist in the zone,i couldn't afford to live in some ones garden shed here,. where does and f-up folk artist type live here, ? After hanging out with Ken Little i realized that, our ideas of living aren't folk or the outsider bs, as much as it is country western, which is an idiom,. which is about a lifestyle, music ,romance a gesture or attitude, mauls , mini-vans and yuppies you want to run from,. its the simple life
But back to being here, this is some photos of my original studio, 87-91, it was here i started drinking my first beer and listening to AC/DC, it was the ancient times, where my artistic taste were emerged in Fangoria mag, porn mags, silly biblical metaphors , Hellraiser and women studies, hell i was even a virgin back then,.! alot of the paintings seen in the "city of chickens" mini comedy doc. were taken from that zone,. My neighbor a young kid at the time would come over to my house,( Kelly), and watch me paint, i was right out of highschool and i wasn't partying much just hanging out and painting, late at night, i was also in school Alvin college, i gave him alot of old work, he liked the crazy stuff, and the folks who made the movie, knew him, cause eventually Kelly moved to austin and started to hang out with movie maker types cause Kelly wanted to be and actor , he got theater gigs all the time and was good, and a bit crazy.
All the early paintings or at least the first ten 87-88, were really not much different than what i am into now, my friend's drama spun as paint, oddly i remember this one cat(real cat) i painted alot, and here i am now making the same fucking cat, (will post soon)
there is this one story, which i credit in starting of the whole art game, in 1987, the sumer before my senior year of highschool, one of my friends went born again Christian, Jimmy, it was an odd sumer, he moved away and went to his uncles church, odd enough it was Tiltons church up in Dallas, but jimmy as a Assmeblys of God person and now was a spiritual super hero , so to speak and he came back that sumer on a mission to save us one way or another, . i knew him for a long time, well three years, we all played board-games and got all fucked up on Dr pepper dwindling down the night hours in game playing and yelling at each other over bad dice throws., Jimmy was a real gammer, OK we were all geeks back them , but thats the way it was, jimmy was one of the troubled geeks, he practically raised himself and loved to get into stuff, mainly the on coming nuclear war with the Godless Communist, and the invasion of Israel, and the Book of Revelation, hell it was the 80's . Well that sumer he went away cause his dad left town and he had to switch schools, the delima when you float around alot, . he came back and was on a mission, which got progressively worst as the couple of weeks he stayed, things ranging from devils talking to him, to healing ,involuntary casting demons out, to tungs to spiritual warfare,. and he was dead serious to, ( there is alot of antidotes related to it), but the residual effect, to keep this entry to the point , is that it left me nearly obsessed with trying to figure out why he did all that, and capability to change your reality like that, and believe it? i made some of my first painting about role playing in this realm, Jimmy. i would say it left a sizable mark apon me in the capability to be delusional, but then there might be a fine line between fantasy facts and Religion.
Playing and make believe, i always felt were the core of most artistic endeavors, its amazing watching folks around here, who some i considered never really played with anything, but were considers healthy artist types, i may get a bit didactically moral about this, but escapism and play, invent stuff, or suspend your capability of reality, look into your dreams thats how they work, So for me, the envious side of me to self improve or "got tot the next level" looked apon a jimmy with mystery. how did he do it, he is playing 24/7, but then again reality does come crashing down eventually, . fantasy cann't sustain when it conflict with real life.
So, form 87 till oh 90, i existed in this small mini barn painting on there benches listening to the "Cult" electric and drinking Micky's big mouths, and talking to some of my old highschool buddies who hadn't left the area yet, Nick and Steven. my only duty at the time was art, i gave up painting military miniatures, and took up art, like Jimmy's call to God, what get a career? i was working at Burger king and did grocery work and wanted to be a psychologist (i had no idea) but my grads sux, but i was deteminded to make something of myself, and it was going to start in the rinky dink junior college , one class at a time, even if it took retaking them agian and again....
the old or new old barn out back was where it all started, late at night, away from everybody, God no wonder i cann't maintain a girlfriend they interfere with play time!,.

Posted by chickengeorge at 8:57 PM

countdown

two week count down, tic toc tic toc

aaahhh who knows

the thing that eats things

this piece is comming along , ahh pretty good, i sit up late at night talking to myself in these old swamp farmers chatting about gators who ate other animales in the swamp, concluding to this one incident, where like four or five animals ate each other at once but got cought in the jam of the whole thing, it does break down to diet basicly, there is about four other cardboard pieces, to , we shall see, i spent the last night cleaning up the apartment, scrubbing floors, etc, my landlord happens to be changing out my kitch light sokette it busted, so much to clean, i guess one of the appeals to living outdoors , what do you clean?

it reminded me of some of the bums around San Marcos the river bums who are like always sitting around the picnic benchs with beer, they look smelly and well chared broiled, alot of them work around the city, not really bums,, but i can only imagine the life these guys much have, they might have the back room some house some where, very little posesions,.
I saw the Danial Johnson doc, man it reminded me of ol' Matt, but Matts rantings were more orginal, and he never go meds, either, i guess he is still in San Marc some where , i get a letter sometimes from him, he is just dealing with it, so to speek,
one of the things i told some of the lady folks around here, as they judged people, is ,.
Well you guys, being in the early twentys, don't know for sure which one of you's is going to go bad, meaning nervious breakdown , mental or addiction problems. some of these people "bad " behaviors, could be the first signs of some mental probelms yet resolved, but maifest some where in the near future,., like i have always said, ethics and moral issues are concerns of folks who , are some what healthy or professional, but the first thing out the window for people with "problems " is ethics and respect, or self respect, things become inclusive.

i guess you could see this with a danial or matt

stll working

still working but a bit burned out , i need to get outta here for a while, and do something differnt, i have about two weeks to wrap stuff up here, and then it will be back to the Trojan deal again,.
hummm
what thoughts have been going threw my head

well one thing i have concluded is living in an apartment, relaxing as it is , its more like a cage, i am too relaxed to comfortable, about all of it, i like the out doord better, you fell a bit more alive , dealing with the elemant, but i do lke the bath tub , and bright lights, but like my old studio in San marcos , i miss the burring squirl in the roof and the pungnte smells of of the back draft form the exposed parts from underneathe the house, sorta the haunted house effect,
i think if your to comfortable you become fat and your skin changes into being baby while softer , to a degree,.
i thought well if i was homeless of living out on a ranch out side all the time i would loss weight, and get all leathered up plus more active, well, why let a comfortable living get in the way of being more healty? and with my current econimic standards thats where i belong,, my folks want me to come back home, in suberia and get a "real" careeer and settle down in some form, i guess i have some questions to answer this week about what i am doing, ahhh,
keeping myself fit,!

still in progress

Top, man with gator, and the TET pieces,

whats in store the next 20 days

well,

i have about 20 days to blow out 15 projects, can i do it? and my new site is comming along great, just about there..

So what else is going on, i got a call from jay low last night, its seem odd that we both called at such cold times, but none the less, it was fun trying to figure out our messed up love life, what it all means in the end,,.
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i think and can predict with good certianity that i am going t land a studio here, probably in a ware house some where, i have one in mind, i will fofill my life long dream of living in a warehouse, like some rat. It reminded me where all this crap started from ohhh way back in the day,
1988, the U&H warehouse system on these wierd shipping docks, in houseton, i meet this guy wes hicks there, he had this what seemed at the time humongious studio, i think he was just trying to make it in the Houston art seen, I rember just being out of highschool at the time, and wondeing, "man this is the shit!" its almost befitting that it might happen here, i am already invisionin how i am going to sleep, i might make a rattrap coffin to complete the effect which two platic pumpkin on each site, and sleep like count dracula,,
ahh well at least one should get into the role.
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stay tuned folks!

still in progress

some one came up to me about making a smoke free zone, i told them i would sign that potition, when ever they add an admendment , that would allow me to beet the shit out of smokers, at will, cause they want to hurt the comunity health& safty. she laughted, and i said, well, , we want a smoke free zone,
well i want to assault folks i feel are harming my health, whats wrong with that ?
i am protecting my self by doing this, smokers are like commiting chemical warfare on our comunity, there like terrorist, !
she said, "we just want to make things safe"
Yea ! excatly! safe
i think China has the same fucking policies'
get the fuck out here!

scary stuff

still in the works
View image LT Thomas

one of the things i got in the mail or of ebay was friday 13 1 to 3, , i could write a whole bunch on these moves, more the make of this movie, the sound tracks are real good, they have this like tention or suspese to them , i rember in some of my highlites of smoking weed, back in the day i would get all freeked out, and here these types of sound tracks, but in this paranoid conclusiveness to what is happening all around and you just figured it out,
Thinking of real life scary stuff, i rember once out in Brenham i was watching tv, late at night and i happen to look out side, and saw a small grass fire, it was windy and a near full moon. my first reaction was that there was some one out there watching the house to see if anybody would come out,
so i turn out all the lightes and slowly made my way out the back door and grab a brum, and paced around to where the fire was, and just watched it, to see if i could spot anybody,, nothing happen, and then i snook over and patted it out, but keep watching the place to see if anybody was around,. naaa
the next moring i figured out what it was , a bottle rockect shot from a car,,. if i would not have been there, man it would have been a hell of a grass fire, as soon as it broke out in to these other pens,,.
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the Friday 13 movies kinda like the halloween series , i always felt was about catatonic squitziodness on the male side, what this term means is the frozen nature or animallike nature of the two killers, more mike than jason. "Frozen or catatonic" is more a meditive state , some one who could look at a tree for hours, with out moving, no thoughts just emotive stances, Also the type of movie( and as i have noticed, that movies have changed alot) filming now is way too fast, back in the old days,
you would waste time in watching a person, just stare off into the didstance, or an actor walking somewhere,,,,not now!
that was one thing watching moves today its like a spead up music vedio,.
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I gues the barn sernious finds its roots back in some of these movies, its like a setting, and one thing i have conclued from this mess of being here, is i like to be and object in a setting, mauls suberia, traffic, ahhhhhh sux
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i can coast for months on a good setting, its like "fine" art reancting, in the white trash zone, i don't know my stay here in the post RRSA zone, is going to be alot like this i am going to have to exist like boar or havialia,
but on the brigh side all this work has not been for nuttin!, i have alot of new arrows, and new targets,

Perkins and LT

the Rev.Symor Perkins "Johnie Cockern" sketch

utube stuff

Steven Chandler and Gus Fink

View image Buster Graybill, JARR and jasymine Graybill

utube

the thing that eats

beer taste good now

So, i am slowly getting back into action, here, spent last night making wire sculptures on all these animal heads,
i have three weeks to wrap up this project,

lets unleash the fury

what other stuff, comming up today,

i got two new pieces, anthoer Rev, Perkins, and a secon LT Thomas, piece,

Yeap
i was hanning out with autumn and scruffy, i asked them to show me there tits this was they best they could do, cause it was cold, etc, it was funny talking to scruffy about men etc, and well autumn too, about men acting like ass kissers, for some reason, i love to act like a whimp around scruffy like whinny and pathic, cause she is so gangsta like, its usssaly not my typical stance but i like to develope a comedy, around people like what they like and dislike, herald was sitting next to me, and he is real nice to women, scruffy went off on herald about , " if a woman ask you to do this or that, say fuck you bitch!, they will respect you more by telling them no!" which goes against the grain of herald typical dating approach, which is kill them with kindness, hence, we is both sitting there in the cermaic studio, acting or being these needy nerds around these to hot for TV babes!, you can feel the heavyness of our eyes layed apone these two women, HEHEHE
bahh but kidding aside
after that we went to the store and got some sodas, they said they wanted one, and but apon offering them we said, well the asshoel male side told us "fuck you bitch" but there there is the friends side that basicly generious, now if we took your advise, what would we do,
they did a turn around, over they were cought in a verbage trap, , (women hate that shit) so they backed down. "we don't want that soda" not to confront there pride. but Autumn just walked up and took the soda!,

do you gals honestly think me and herald are trying to "pick " you women up etc, you have done nice things for us, we are all friends here, y/n

For some reason i like acting all geek like , around here with some folks, alot of the situwations are so retarded that to try and clean yourslf up for much of anything would be to much work, so i like to just be myself,. maybe i am a geek all along,.

i guess there isn't much playfulness in the dateing world, , thats why i gave up dating along time ago, if any one who is sucked into the standard of how men should act, its women (in their 20) out on a date, "God let me breath here,.is this some test" you bet cha!

i think the appoach to women wanting a real masclien type of guy is simple, most of those types,(men) put to much importance on there machismo, and its real easy to trick them into stuff, like, " a real man wouldn't be cheep and would buy me dinner!" etc, plus some guys like to be the king, about the matters, but as for geeks, ," what can you do for me? you cann't even whip your own nose, much less foot this 80 buck tab i just generated at the bar, cause your cheep ass cann't afford it, oh i might fuck you tonight,. ",
i could almost hear the thoughts leap form there little circles.
Ahh So maybe being a geek is good repleante for women out on the make.
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So
one of the more funnyer note last weekend , i ended up hanging out with Mel Chin, in Junction, i forgot about this old story about cargo cults, (he made a model of a bomb in relation to the cargo cults anitdote) he went on to talk about this move Mondo Cane, i have seen this movie once, i think it came out in the sixtys , but there is this funny story related to it, the movie had a seen about "crazy " art happenigs like Yevs Klien 's naked women dragging themselfs in paint on white paper,. Aparently , Yevs gave pemissin to have these shots of the happening in this film, but when it was releasesd it looked more like it was charaterising it along with the rest of the worlds oddititys, and with in viewing the film a couple of weeks after he died of a heart atack,? Mel is a great guy to talk to, i love this guys stage delivery, i saw him give two talks, its like conpericy theorys , left wing politics, and the occult of the media mind washing, all wrapped up in art, i consider his art more like illastrations for elabroate theroys, intertwind with a revalation of "how it might all work" one of the high lights of the night was watching him drink it down with the boys till at least 4 pm, and taking on the young art maverics sarcism
, you have to have stamima to do that,
Basicly Mel isn't much difernt in intersts than alot of the Austin overtly read conspircy wackos outta austin, but his sucess is int he art zone,.
,
I saw this one guys work Jesse English, i like this guys stuff, he ran a video of his sculpture, in reations to the wood, it was like a courty boy goldworthy kinda zone, he had alot of it shot moving backwards , with this opening seen of a rolling ball of grass, it was real strange.
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And a new comrade in arms, Venessa Cash(in the Texas extreme) work in junkstore blobs (fabrics)and blingified, sorta twisted but surrealy cheesy, it was fun to talk to her about simual tastes in stuff, ,.

friday

I can tell how healthy i am by the way beer tastes, if its flat an bitter, i ain't feeling so good, and if its tasts clean and refreashing i am feeling great,

this comming weekend

well, i am going to recover from this flu thing,

and get back to drinnking, , and get thi fucking train rolling! whats comming up , a couple of my ebay folk purchases, what topics, hummm, mel chin campfire drinking, and that mondo cane story, plus extras the passing of mister danny giestler(sp) a story related to that --- and a

update with scruffy and a newly found ceramic babe Autumn

yeap!

well i am slowly getting over this crap, sickness,

one of the new many conclusions i drew apon last week, was well, my nerviousness is, like a fury, it cuts both ways, some in the postive and the negative, its the obsessive side that takes over, it can be highly focused but sometimes on the wrong stuff, in some way i don't have much control over my toughts they just happen, go where ever,
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the thing that east things deal is like , Toney, that artist from Al. this trouble shooting about gaters what they do and superstiions, etc, i am devloping a bunch of dialoges around the main sculpture, will be rolling out these ftwo sketch drawing based on the feeding chain of the swamp, kinda in the zone of the python who ate the croc, and exploded?
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figuring stuff, CDC hits 50,000 hits!

50,000 hits on to 100,000

well there is alot of stuff i am trying to figure out, one is this mess of a sculpture i was making....

more tonight!

the "thing that eats things " is running bad, i fliped out last night and destroyed it, , some reason the computer wouldn't log on, it would have been nice to have a photo of it before it blew up,
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i am working when i am sick, i think its some sinus infection, this thing won't stop,
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the photo , the gator head in it, is going to be a set of head eating each other, i was develpoting the idea this moring on some new coffee, i got so i am getting back into the groove,
and
i think i figured out what the end game to this is, about a year form now, as i was sitting in the tub, i am just gonna go hobo style and find a spave hang here for several months at a time, and then on to somewhere else, i have this fear of being a wage slave, so, with that in mind i am just going to make a new set of work , and then so on, driving around last night week and stuffed up it remined me of on of my favorit mafia boss, i think the only on who survived to die and old man, he actually retired from the mob, ( i saw this in a documentary) this old thin unassuming man, who drove around all the time, and drank expressos by the gallon, never ate much, but was real quit, , i geuss the Christians were right the meek shall inherate the earth,
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So its back to the drawing board, ,
it hard to come up with stella entry , i am usssaly buzz or amped up, now just sick
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stay tunned folk!
the 50.000, mark is apon us

monday

well i got at least two weeks to knock out some new stuf without losing my mind,
i basicly just am now surfing on what i want to do, just grap anything and start working, it seems to all come together, like the forming of ice,

the two works in the back or very basic sketchs, are a flash back to the days of old, i don't know why but i am doing two of my fav Friday 13 and halloween works, , i ended up buying three dvds of the first three movies of friday 13,,.
This one painting, comes from a moter head song, the long roads has no end, which if i am not mistaken is a muddy waters song, but none the less, i ended up making a painting of it where jason is walking down this road, there will be another follow up on it where these maze of chopped roaches , and this jason like charater is walking up to the door, where these roaches are trying to get insider? why , id n't know its some jibberish that i wrote down , on cardboard, , i guess it will be a weeks work just trying to complete the things,
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thats the way it is now just fre-assosiations, and what ever i get into it must have some reason behind it, i liken it to the squiziod-catationic- states of mind - out around the old barn kinda stuff, -
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i am going to end up getting a digital camra and set up these mini movies on how to build sculptures, kinda like the twists and truns it takes to make these things, the new jason 13 zone
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humm what else, ,, as for my personal life nothing new, i am sorta draining myself of drama,
well any drama, i have a couple of good friends i talk to but mostly, its a reconjuring of my past and evoking the manica of work,,
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and the main or first sculpture out , the thing that eats things, in hommage to ol Buster Graybill ,
comming soon...
he has a show over at the donkeyshow gallery in Austin

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still felling sick

So ,
i am busy trying to produce these three main projects, still under the weather a bit, no drinking, for a while,
more to come
and
look over there at the counrter this site is about to cross the 50,000, mark, wow,

nov.

"I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him"

Booker T Washington

new stuff comming soon!
&
i am figuring out the hptm codes finnaly!
maybe spelling will be next?

i have about six major projects in the works, a recape on what going to go down, this winter,

View image sketch for the thing that makes things

the basis of what i am up to, things cut out of this kinda material.