Movie from 1967, "Portrait of Jason" documentary of an African-American Queen in New York City discussing himself

"Portrait of Jason"

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The Desert in Your Mind

It's not desert you see, it's desert you imagine inspired. Don't expect it to happen often, it doesn't.

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"Reaching the Mountain Top"

Here's a new piece from my trip in Puerto Vallarta available on a variety of products from Redbubble.com

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"Peyote Dawn" Desert Landscape in Glistening Colors

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I've been in Mexico, Puerto Vallarta to be specific, for a month. During that time I've continued to create artwoks with the subject of deserts. Like I've been working on in Phoenix and Palm Springs, but the colors have been affected by the local environment. The landscape colors are more saturated, with less white and grey in colors than the desert. Also the culture is more saturated. It's less "beige," with more bustle, and reflected in local artwork, both contemporary and historical. The Huichol tribe dominates craft style, with intensely colored pattern paintings. Apparently, hallucinogenic experiences after consuming the Peyote roots (Mescaline) are an influence.

"The Desert Within You"

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Gila River Desert Sunset from Redbubble

Gila River Desert Sunset available at Redbubble, Saatchi and Society6.

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Cal Avocado in Puerto Vallarta. Low Budget Chicanada.

Got a room for $17.00 in Puerto Vallarta. Same place as last year. Bought some cleaning supplies and after a couple hours of scrubbing it's clean and smells like a Monsanto pine forest with the help of Pinol, a Mexican cleaning liquid and disinfectant. Since this room is on a top floor in a low priced hotel, the internet signal doesn't have enough strength to connect a laptop, so a Chicanada is required. I'm using a smart phone as a hot spot (router) and have reliable wifi internet access.

TOP DEFINITION

chicanada

Something fixed the thrifty/cheap way.

Look at that car's bumper they busted a chicanada to make it stay in place.

#chicano#ghetto#fix#mexicanized#socal#halfass#job#attaching#attached

by sweetmami619 April 15, 2007

Tiny Meat fears Blood Pressure Test at Medical Appointment By Cal Avocado (guest blogger)

Medical appointment yesterday was a horror show. My fear of Blood Pressure measure in highest bloom. The 2 alternating medical officials repeated "stay on task!" throughout the appointment. No chitchat, no discussion but pressing treatment. Heart Rate gushing high. It had been as low as 50's in the morning in my apartment and high as 116 in the angst of this measurement to be publicly executed in a window-less exam carton (room) augmented by officials nipping at me for more efficiency, less whining, less immaturity, less childishness, keep ever ahead. It was a tragedy. The highest official charged with my case ordered an EKG therewith and the sub-official administered it. Fortunately the results were normal. And the BP measurement was OK, in spite of Heart Rate scraping the sky, which was quite a surprise as BP readings at dentist and periodontist in recent memory have been faint worthy. The official attending me marveled at my anxiety levels I could have survived to 61. Moreover, she expressed surprise I'm not taking medications for a weak mind and opined we all have to die, qwitchyerbellyachin' little queen, old prune, bedbug, faggot. I'm castrated, as if testicles existed in the first place! She and her lieutenant shamed my coward. An embarrassing example for all. A disaster.

This morning in the privacy of my apartment, Blood Pressure was perfect 121/75 as hardly any anxiety. Death is almost preferable to a medical appointment with Blood Pressure test. Yet here I sit another morning. So not quite.

"Ajo" Desert Landscape

Ajo available at Saatchi Art

Inspired by Sonora Desert Landscape around Ajo, Arizona.

Ambos Nogales Wall Mural from Society6

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Driving around Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora. This is the memory portrait that remains. Follow link to products:
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La Finikera (Phoeniquera) from Society6 as a Mural and others.

La Finikera is nickname for Phoenix in the Latino Community. Maybe it will crossover to general use. Follow this link:

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Buckeye Road Phoenix (Printed Wall Mural from Society6)

Funky Phoenix from Buckeye Road.

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Arizona Artist of the Day

Day 369: Charles Harker https://t.co/8dsDAK9A95 via @wordpressdotcom

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Kino in Zipolite as a Mural from Society6

Imagine Father Kino, absent from La Pimeria (present day Sonora), transported from the 18th century to the 21st, looking out at the lush landscape from a balcony above the coastal landscape at Zipolite in Oaxaca, in complete relaxation.

Technical inspiration from Vincent Van Gogh, El Greco and David Hockney.

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Busy Day in Purgatory

Started with a photographic image of a painting from 10 years ago and used it as basis of digital painting. The story develops from multiple trips along the border, from Nogales, AZ/Sonora, to Mexicali, Calexico Baja CA/California and Tijuana, San Diego Baja CA/CA. The Mexican side with it's much greater poverty and related effects on infrastructure and traffic, makes a big impact on my impression, wary of and attracted at once.

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As a mural from Society6:

"Camelback Road," Phoenix Arizona. A mural and other products from Saatchi and Society6

An imaginary, nostalgic confection about Phoenix, Arizona and it's history and character as a newer city in the American Southwest.

"Camelback Road" Phoenix, Arizona Painting at Saatchi Art



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A Bret Cavanaugh Lesson?

Be careful not to take too much advantage of privileges not earned; race, gender, sexual orientation, class, intelligence, beauty or nationality. Acts of arrogance and lack of empathy towards lesser privileged may return like unpaid bills, with compounded interest. Claiming or persisting ignorance will not make the debt collector whole. They want a valuable piece of you.

This is one lesson from the Bret Cavanaugh battle for a seat on the United States Supreme Court.

Beware of changing times and reshuffling powers.

Your immunity can dissolve.

Arriving in New York City after a month driving

Now that I've arrived in New York City after a slow car trip from the Phoenix desert in late summer across the country the most reliably fulfilling aspect of eastward travel is exposure to hot, humid forests and plants peculiar to the regions. Other than Arizona and New Mexico, the vegetation has appeared similar, stitched together into a big whole, since a common beginning in eastern Oklahoma. The United States is divided in 2 regions with a line drawn from west Texas to North Dakota separating east and west. The East is much more similar than the West, more consistent throughout. The West has radically varied terrains and climates, all more or less distinct from the similar one all over the east.

This is not turning out to be an indoor trip. Perhaps i got that satisfied during 20 years living in New York City. First, its the plants, and second the older buildings in a chronological succession of mainly English-American confected styles, that are the biggest attraction for me. And of course the different flavors and cultural accents of people peculiar to different areas.

The old buildings and eastern urban or village infrastructures are what I would add to the West to improve it. Subtracting 60 million people would correspondingly improve the East. Overcrowding begins around Oklahoma City and intensifies to near bursting in the Northeast.

California and the West more awesome and dramatic but the East more beautiful in intricate feathers, subtle designs and heartening details.

Santa Fe is California version of Oaxaca

A mountain road not far from Taos, New Mexico in the New Mexico Rocky Mts. Part of an adventure in Santa Fe.

"Santa Barbara Wine and Cheese" from Saatchi Gallery

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