trojan,moving

well this is the last of the year, and i have been working on this deal again, getting close to a good photo of the deal
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there is going to be alot more detail photos of the deal,

friday

George Zupp art,

Well the weekend is here,
and still there is tons to do

And all praise be to Jimmy for gettin it posted last night...

The new site has some problems, but i am happy with it, i put the thing together myself,
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I asked josh Rios did he has a site, he said he wanted a real cheep shitty one that works like a maze, bingo,!
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puting it together in the last couple of months, i was trying to figure out how to organise it, i thought, just do it in chapters, its easyier to do it this way,
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Posted by chickengeorge at 1:04 PM

georgezupp.com

the birth of George Zupp . com is apon us

the time is at hand, even know there are a bunch of kinks to it i ll have the thing up and complete soon, but thats it let history be known

George Zupp art, my new site, its fucked up but its there!

Posted by chickengeorge at 2:13 AM

CDC is three years old

well, three years of what? how long can i keep this maddness alive,? one good things is the net is easyer to get on , so, its like live journaling,.

Well todya what am i gonna do, go meet Drek over at the gallery and switch some things around, and get back here ot work, i realised, last night this thing has got a ways to go, i only have a week here to turn this thing over, for some good phot opts, . i wonder if i will be up to the same thing like this ten years form now,? i think so, if i avoid a real life, ha-ha-ha-ha like i say

your lazyness most sucessed your sence of comfort to survive in this craft,

Posted by chickengeorge at 11:08 AM

the eve before CDC 3rd birthday

Chicken Dead Chicken third birthday is on thrusday

i am offering , for any one who wants one, to just email me there address, and ill send them free a chicken on cardboard, offer goes up till, the end of the year,.
here is something i found off utube,
Blindate crack hoe
thanks for those of you foes and frineds for clicking in...

whats been going on?

well i posted this painting or painting set to help me buy some more oil paint, i am going on a abstract blitz here in the next month or so,
View image this one painting, i did a while back and up dated it,

this is a studie on paper of the main painting, before the flood came,

this is a another studio of the sckull in the shed

the trojan project

i am sorta draggin butt here but the thing is comming along, i rembered why i was zonked on the project i am slapping polyurthian around like, i am coating BBQ ribbs or something, getting high off the fumes, yeaks! Link to this lot Ebay

link over and buy my painting to get me som more paint!

tales of tom

Tales of Tom

The Gi joe hunt was really fun, he was really competitive, and would go out of his way to rub it in that he got a good deal or some rare figure, it was like an rivalery knowing he was out there hunting down the joes score better deals and ammassing a bigger colection, real geek kinda stuff, but it was fun, cause rubing it in was half the battle, . and tom was good at it,

as a matter of fact,
thats how most of our fights would happen, but it wouldn't be just me and him it was all these other people who got tangled up into som BS tom was putting forth, it gets complicated
the only thing i can relate to it was sports, one story , when were in highschool, and in atheltics, we took general athelics and we put in with all these montley assortment of classes, we were the king, or the oldest,
well one time
there was this real mean stoner, they was called this back in the 80's they wore heavy metal black t-shirts blue jeans long hair, typcaly most were not week types more like the assholes of the school always walking around with a chip on there shoulder,
this one guy mike stillwell, was in our class, and PE class and he didn't like tom at all, tom would go after anybody, not being mean but start trying to joke with them in an underhanded kinda way, and he would not stop, if he thought you were tuffer than him and tom couldn't fight either, he was to uncordianted and stupid about it, but would be calling you names consantly,(he had three older brothers who hazed him all the time)
Well mike and tom would have some words but tom being a good ass kisser had figured out the coach hates this guy and everytime he would say somehting to mike, he made sure Winston was around, our head coach, so mike not wanting to get in trouble, which was an ordeal with this guy, too calmed down,
As a matter of fact ,
come to think about this i got into an situwation with him, in dodge ball, i rember slaming him once and he fliped out and ran up to me and wanted to fight but i rember saying" its only a game, there is no fight about this,rember, its olny a game"
afterward, i rember he came up to me and said that is psycholologist said he has anger manament issues and thanked me for not esclating the inncident, humm
he realy wasn't that bad, but, still a asshole bully

So tom on the other hand couldn't stand the fact that he thought he was a tuff, guy, trying to scare everybody, and one time when we were playing foot ball or tag foot ball he ended up sacking him, as a quaterback, , i think it starddlled him and he fell back, but poped up and started chasing tom all over the field, it was halaious,!
it was like something out of a cartoon . toms bow legged gall-up and mike about falling and tripping trying to reach out and grab him in every manical effort to grab him while he was running,
as they spun around the field, Tom saw the coach and ran over next to him with mike on his ass
the coach grabed him and put him in a bear hug, Winston was a big guy like 6'4 half indian/german very lean probably in his early sixtys tough, farmer tough, he was also part of the orginal Quaker's Friends Church , that settled the region years ago,
Well he held mike down , and tom after catching his breathe, started in on him, " you think your mister tuff guy now, its just a game, "... etc, he went off on him about how inbalanced he was and how people are sick of him, , this while mike was creating more ways to kill tom in a spue of nastyies, that in our new school system would had him in jail over domestic highschool terrorism treats.
the whole thing calmed down, and mike swore he would get even, ?
did he ?
i don't know, but an inccodent like this would be a week point, for him, he tom created more foes out to get him, and he had a perpensity to make more,

One of the things i realised about tom much like serge, was that if some one was to follow them around they would creat thousands of funny but trajically idiotic storys, no one could create this mess, more or less write about it, they never saw these storys as funny but they thought i was dissing on them , for bringing up these bad tales

a concern for a reputation in the light of mischieve is the signs of a mind who refuses see what they do,..

I always saw anyone who claims they were "riped off" taken advantage of" or disrespected" as a habit...

you spot it you got it

buyer beware with you your dealing with... Years after all this i would talk to tom about these tales he thought they was funny only in respects that he knew i liked him, but the knee jerk emotion to rear back and try and embarass me was always there except i don't give a fuck what studpid things happen back then,. a total lack of narritive or self insight, bringin up storys or idea about "why" would be like questioning a pitbull on what they do's what they do's, there is no blackbox recorder on the plane down.....

X-Mas deal

So here i am working away in this cold and wet holiday season, still trying to whip out some of the colages,
but the train is a rolling,!

I think i am going to start streching up some canvas's, and get back into this new line of abstraction,

humm what else, i ended up visting my first friends Rich or richie Garren we go way back well, at least to elementery school , we played with toys alot, plastic kights and starwars figures, it got me thinking on the drive back here , the history of playing with stuff,
and man i was really into to it, my father said the reason i failed the fifth grade was it, school interfied with play time,. but i do rember the good old days of setting up all my civil war soldiers , a colection of marx and britains and having these battlle i was captivated by it for hours, but some where around 7th grade the majic stopped and i couldn't do it any more but belive me i tryed!, funny thing was this is when i met Thomas, , someone i would credit the reason i got into pyschology or became a psyche major to begin with,. He was in to civil war toys too . He had alot and played with them , this was befor GI Jooe deal. and he could still do it up until high school( play with toys,), Thomas was also a bit emotionaly destrubed,

In retrospect i think you have to have an powerful imagination to get sweapt away the toys , for alot of the nerd guys we just evoloved into compicated board games, guys like jimmy, and pat an david,
but i do rember this absulte most powerful almost worship like feeling about the toys, and what world they could evoke, (it sorta dawned apon me, when i visted the Hat 1/32 page ancients , two new long awaited figures have been releases) This is no time to start the games back,
lets just put them down for a while,

i mean, shit,!, paintings are one thing but my colection of ancients is another . i have been off kilter by being here constantly playing with art, its getting dry to a bit, but
the show must go on!

One funny note about thomas was well when we entered highschool he dropped the civil war toys for this new thing toy called GI joe it must have been 83 84, he started ammasing a bundle of them , i resisted until about 86, but all threw out highschool we were secretly buying and colection them, Thome was abit unbalanced, in retrospect, he was like my "eddie haskel," he loved "joes" a i was into them to, but it was uncool to have them and he would be very touchy about leting anyone know he had alot them, we got into all kind of fight over highschool threatening to "out" each other to wome or people we wanted to impress., i credit my prepencity or obsession on drama to him, well all throw out highschool he was trying to be cool,
i guesse, all our crwod was the the geek crowd but tom went off in the deep end trying to get a girlfrined, and be the party man, back in the early 80's this was pre DARE or any of the "no" campain crap, in Texas everybody drank beer early on, it was no big deal, all the partys were like that,. When Tom figured out he could have partys and give beer out , then things started to roll, he would hid all his Joes away. Some how we would always get into a fight about something, but the new joe cataloge would come out and we would be friends again.
Over the years i realised how much i was sorta like thomas because of his obsessive nature he was alot differnt than me but, he could go on and on about stuff, this sorta giddy enthusiam for the kinda cool gun Rambo whould have or that neet explosion in starwars of the deathstar blowin up, or women..

Sometimes i find myself slipping in to a thomas'esk character over chickens which come to think about it, ..

We quit haning out after highschool but thomas always revered me as one of his good friend, i got to know his family pretty good and greatly admired his mother alot, they don't make women like that anymore, but around 97, he moved over to San marcos and guess what, i was aleady picking up joes off garrge sale, why? this was way before the ancients deal,
It stared when i bought a whole bucket of them for a dallar,?

well Tom was going threw a devorce and was working like mad, and his mind was tortured over where to put his thoughts, we started hanning out, and i show him my new joe colection he swore them off some decade , and said he sold the whole lot of his colection at a garrage sale
(something i knew he would regrate )
at the insistance of his family to grow up!, but now he was grown up and wanted a new hobby, (to take his mind off life) and the bug was set in motion.

it was like the good o days running around buying every joe out of a garrge sale or fleamarket, (this was way before ebay deal, that sorta killed the scrarcity of the hunt, ) i remember it was ruthless, once as if fate was at hand, we were at this garrage sale,
and he asked this lady or mother does they have any joes, and she started calling her son's name out, "Danny bring your toys out here now! some one wants to buy them,"
i thought, man," fuck this women, make me sell my toys for pennys, .."
the boy was crying and doing what his mother said but only bringing out the bad ones, he stomped aroud slamming doors as he brought out old boxs of busted up vehicles.,
Thomas was jubbliant, "Are you sure there isn't more in there," adressing his mother, " i got alot of money here and i pay good prices for these toys, " only inspiring the mother to yell loader at here son.
"Hurry up, lets get rid of all of it! you don't play with those toys anyhow!"
The poor boy had this twisted and sad face to him.
Thomas would say an aside to me, "you gots to get on them, i know he is hiding the good shit somewhere,"
the kid was pouting and stomping around, the mother excite on getting some money, "Hurry up! bring it all out!" in this loud hi pithced voice.

The torture was too much to endure , i thought, i cann't watch this, and got out of the garrge, and walked out on the driveway,
but thomas came out,
i said what happen ,
"She wanted something like 20 bucks a piece on some of these things, (thinking he was a rich colector type),
"i ain't gonna pay that for a cobra H.I.S.S tank with no turrat and stickers and missing it shield that bitch is crazy!"
so he said forget about it.
Man if i had to go threw that deal as a kid, i am sure i might have decked or mamed somebody over it,

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the old aprt shot right off from my desk, i just got threw eating some frozen chicken tenders, bake them till they is real hard, and eat them with hot sause, this after i whacked down a six of natty lites"

friday

Well Friday is apone us

there is only weeks left to get done with a whole show and compete the trojan deal, phots comming soon..

this new home movie deal

"Phoenix"

one of the things i am going to do is explane this sculpture in a ten min rambling rant, i have no idea as to what to say but i can explain the map to how this piece was created, i am going to slice movie clips in on the deal, this is like chaper one, expected time 10 min to do it, You know one thing i was thinking, was i wonder where you could buy a ton of roaches out right,? it would be neet to make like a ship and put it in a standing tank of water and fill it with roaches, ahh you know a ship about five feet long and sink the thing slowly and watch all the roaches flee fromthe thing, maybe put some pirch in the tank for special effects, and watch the roaches try and flee form the deal, with alot of close ups etc,

this other project i am working on is "Bling Bling " a repluca of a slot machien with all these rats comming out of it, with coins in ther e belly ?
its amazing what you can make out of cardboard,, its been my new found medium, next to hot glue, i couild fabercate my whole career on found cardboard compressed down with glue paint and poly,.

off to work,
dec 28 is CDC's third B-day

i am thinking about doing a mail out, like a cardbord chicken mailed to who ever has the pations to read this site, ? who ever that might be, it cann't be all random folks,
ill announce the deal, soon, but if you want one
email me
chickengeorge1236@hotmail.com

merry Christmas

2006

So a recape on this Year in CDC

Yeap , the end of another year here in San Antonio, about a year ago, i was busting ass on the Nacho volcano deal making these larg sculptures,
One idea, i have been running around with is getting another house, i found one outside Brenham its a duzzzy of a house on 290, real fucked up too but a good localcation, i think that if i was to get a studio it might as well be seen by the public, and make a contraption out of the deal, i hate dealing with the city, make some large whacked out house, an eye sore or beuaty mark you decied, but then there is the $, after this deal i can see alot of traveling and making my main base in SA, i like that place alot, but i do get stir crazy,

Nothing much new on the babe front, i am not really trying either, but its differnt now, real calm, my budget has baounced back like crazy, one of my buddies serg, is over in Georgia right now he followed a devorcoe woman over there and to form a new life, but is now stuck, why did i predict this thing wouldn't work out? hummm, like i said fools rush in, but with serge its nothing new, almost expected, maybe its me being cynical about dating in general, but i have heard just to many horror storys of guys cutting there limbs off for women, and being dropped for a better deal, thats why i don't do much, i match the deal as it evoles,
but some guys are idiots about the shit, ahhh differnt game for differnt people,

Art wise, i am going to switch over to this new set, i think with what time is left, its like cooking you got to count on oven time, for the end game and what its gonna be, is most likely this dvd, and let me tell ya this is going to set up a good trend here,
once my main site is rolling, i am going to sell them off, the dvd ,like a buck or two, its going to be me narrating the evolution of the project and all the factiods related to movie seens, as perswasive points,. the "Phonix" piece is the first one up on the slot, i am learning on how to compose a movie off my new computer, and there will be more to come,

whats comming up

this new show , "drawing on words" i ll be hanging with Josh Rios, and Enrique, there will be a big spill about that, and the night of drawing!

me doing a catoring gig, over in houston with Jimmy and Richie Budd

these wierd gags at the Cove, something Ken little put together, me and Jimmy did one last month were be beet each other over this game we made up, it was funny alot of wedgys and bitchslaps etc,

the completion of the Trojan project!

another E gallery show,

profiles on babes, hummmm , well only asscrapstrawberry is the only one i talk to now, but she said i was to old, can you fucking belive that, i thought art blurred the age barior deal, its a hard sell for chicken in SA town,

Ventures in Abstractions! back to pick up where Chappel hill set lft off 2002,

past events

well CDC went threw some trubulant changes, early this year with the enrtys of the "history of obsessions," had to kick it all off, real life impending in on the deal, then the trojan project build up , got alot of comments on its completion, then i got all nervious and started putting alot of my back enrtys in draft, cause of a stalker, some thing i will go in on years from now, in retrospect,. And then there was Scruffy ,
one of the first babes of the site, and set up a new thing about gusshing over women, something i had to watch it , before
so now i am a free ranging bastard, out on the loose,
but most likely gonna keep my head about things, and comlete the work thats at hand.

the mess of the devil

made in Redford Texas,
so what going on, like all net problems what looks like for sure thing still takes time site on delay,
its been pretty quiet , but i have an insain amout of work to get doen with, jeeeze!

studio

just days in closeing to lauching my main site!

and i landed a show in chicargo, thanks Dolan!

sunday in the shop

Well i am bringing, "phonix" piece back into the shop for repairs and make it complete, plus i am going to roll the first section of video on it

i also cleaned the shit out of my studio put things in order a bit, threw out alot of bad projects, but for the next couple of days i am working on a sculpture piece called" bling-bling" its a dupicate of a slot machien with stuff commingout of it, it will look good with the TET, piece
the weather is looking good outside,

i should get back on the Trojan deal an make it complete, its just rusting away other there,
humm
so what else, one thing i realised , was that i was on a babe rollercoaster ride, from 98 till this year, i am going off the lluv cycle and getiign back to my ussaly creepy self, man its awonder what a babe will do to a mans mind?
but none the less, life goes one, i coasted hard more destrubed times,?

Friday nite live!

well its fridaynight back at the studio
i figure ihave five days laft here to confer a whole E show

what else is going on, geezze its might lonely here, but thats a good thing, i make the best work when i am out on my own,
one thing thats got me spining is what gonna to happen here a year from now, how am i gonna make it here in thr big town of SA, with out a job, i gues its gonna be hobo style,
what other funny things, i am putting together this film idea, its gonna be the alfa and omega of chickens sculpture productions, i will make an avaiable dvd of this thing when its complete, so ia m gearing up for it,
but for now i am preparing a mini show in less than a month
one thing i am going to complete finnal is the fearfactor is satanic idea
oh the trojan project
is postposned for theses three other projects, just you watch and see,
one other thing i learned when i was hanig out in brenham and watching tv
was love is an addiction, i saw this doc, on PBS
about what happens to the brain when its on love, all natural of cource
but it got me thinking about people who are good looking , they have had this attention when they was real young, and if your something like a teenager and jummping from one crush to another its like a drug abuse, and it figures why, good looking folk have more problems dealing with relationships than butt ugly folks, they ain't all strung out on the fleash, ugly folks, which i consider me in the catigory, only because
much like the early addiction to ciggerttes , one learns to be addicted to the fleash, , well it nevver happen to me until i was ohh 22, but believe me i tryed, but with some other folks it cam much easyer, as a matter of fact they chose there addiction, and hence, developed, ther vise acording, to ther upbringing.
aah
one other thing i got an idea on tonight
is to do live painting at the cove, this deal ken threw me and jimmy,
ill go into it later
and

its CDC's third birthday comming up on the 28

Posted by chickengeorge at 8:37 PM

headed back to SA

one funny thing on my way over to Brenham is i broke another tooth, on the same raod where i had my first cavity, or experianced it, yeaks
i will be back ins SA, with a firmer grasp, on whats to be expected this next three weeks,

look out

Posted by chickengeorge at 5:47 PM

the end game

well i have finnaly figured out the end game to this

what its going to be is, this finaal movie, one thing i have realised by being here, is can you seperate the author form its works?, humm its a lifes story at hand , and work and life cann't be seperated, if you can help it, so
i am going to make a movie
one that's partly inspired by the Bacon documentary, and the other is of the advise of my fellow cohorts, that being, you should but your words to these works, it will mean all the world,
So this movie will be like me talking about the sculptures, and spoting key senese from some of my favorite moves, but the main elemant is the rambling freeasosiations belonging to each of the sculptutres, , but where to make this setting perfect, and how to colect the data for it?
this new laptop , acts as a one man media machine, i am going to recored all this BS, when i get a a digital camra, and complile it to a movie,
the second deal is going to be a good collection of some of my most fiercest abstacts to date, in the line of the old "Chappel Hill set",
so i am going to simer on it for a while and see what happes?

Goat dragging afterbirth

well i am off,for a while

Posted by chickengeorge at 11:28 AM

recape and a Heaps

i love this painting joe Heaps Nelson
it poses all the elements brick pumpkins and some old withc character
check out his site
heaps site

this is an sculpture piece of Alisons Bush and Cheny as chicken hawks in the war, now Alison is this girl in the photo, View image

this is Mimi Kato's piece of a stranded ship made out of salt on this nice table.

and last but not least scruffy aka LEGS aka Algra
oh i faint at the site of seeing her go, but this was here last display of work her four main figures , nice work, very sexy View image
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and the last photo of Legs, she sure was an odd mountian bird,, bon'vogage

and this is a phot of "Strawberry" ass crack girl, she is definalty insain, from what i can figure she is an crazed crafter type, and like to argure with chicken about his bad behavior around the studio, ..

then there is Autums piece, one of the babes i snapped a photo on when i got the new lap top, i wonder what the meaning is in her work hummmm..

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thur evening

well its over,
humm what to do next, take a break headed out to Brenham for a while, get out of the city,.,
whats comming up?
the last days of Sruffy, her show,
the mysterious Asscrakc lady "strawberry"
what projects?
Trojan is baaaack
and another mini show or deal in Jan early,
plus my new site? when the hell is it gonna happen?
plus much more

thrus morn

well i have been up all night, and the thing looks
aaaaaa to much!
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One the odd things about making sculpture what you picture isn't what it might turn out, one needs some time to edit and cut and paste stuff, or outright abandon the whole freaken thing,

after coasting from a coffee rush at six pm last night, then a six of tall natttys then back to coffe this morning, my stomack or nerves have about had it , and this is just the beginng,
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It was just me an Herold , talking the night away, we went over to Taco Cabana , i like to bitch to Herold about womens issues and all the gossip around, i am trying to figure out his probelems, ? which i boiled it down to the facts he needs some girlfriend, ahhhh misery like company

Buster's catfish
Buster Graybill, , i saw a photo of this the heads eating thes heads and it got me rolling on the piece, ?

So what sup next?
i have a bunch of photos comming up, and still there is some more work..

Wed, night stabbings

Friday 13th

and work related

Well one thing i would say about all this is, that it is wrapping up and i realise i am on the last year of this bullshit, how is it gonna end?
one thing i got into was this old Friday the 13th myths, etc,

This one piece created with odd assoted bugs and roaches
View imageHere is a small dish of them ,
i made this piece where a jason charater was comming out of a maze and looking at this house,. kinda like the "shining", well,
you know some people don't like roaches?, i remeber once
well this could be some of the first stories of chicken's boyhood adentures with girls, is i used to collect bugs as a kid, bugs out of, pool drainer catchers, and mount them on strophome, and label them, beatles were like the gems, i rember once giving my prize bugs to this girl and her folks as i learned years later thought i was a bit misguilded., ahhh, but bugs, made into a maze, i like , its like the kinda art that some scientist would make were the bugs are taking to each other,

this picture , could be a take off of the thing i made in therapy at one point,, well
a long time ago i went to therapy , well it was a student trial deal the grad dept had up at SWT, i was a volenteerr, i thought i needed it cause of my post crisis with the WWW(2001) deal, but i went to counceler, she was in training, one of the things she had me do was play with toys and make a situwation, i made this maze loaded with characters, and a maditor roaming the maze,
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Another painting i tryed to complete was
"mike myers dies in Halloween II" , of him on fire but it didn't make it,

So whats up
well i got at least four more pics, and this main piece
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and well its back to work!

stuff etc

Well this is the last couple of days with this its either shit or get off the pot!"

which come to think about it is why i have got hemroids! fuck! i also have converted my diet over to nothing but salids, , i like it. not so bogged down by BBQ and tacos abuse

some of the work is comming off the line

three pictures made outt cardboard
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still as it

So
its getting cold again, i am working at my apt, trying to get this thing wrapped up here is the basic lay out of it and here is the base i am still working on

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More to come!