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Carrie Jadus Warms Up For The Portrait Exchange

August 12, 2008 – 9:08 am

She’s still searching around for the perfect domain name, but Carrie is determined to establish an artist’s portrait network in her hometown.

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Suburban Cartoons For Everyone!

August 12, 2008 – 8:58 am

I did these little 18×24 paintings last week. I am trying to remember what I saw when I was a kid in the ‘burbs, with a lot of time and nothing to do. I am noticing that what I remember at this point is women my parents age who could potentially give me food. Maybe [...]

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More Cartoons Of Sunbelt Suburbia In The Seventies

August 8, 2008 – 9:46 am

Well, one more, anyway. More to follow. I have more fun drawing these little pieces of fragmented memory from my distant youth than I do painting them, but painting them is pretty great, too. When I get enough of the images together, they will come together as a story or series of stories, and I [...]

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I Like Cartoons

August 7, 2008 – 11:44 am

And as long as the hot wet blanket of August makes it hard for me to slap paint, I’m going to do the most funnest thing I can– paint cartoons. Cartoons about suburbia when I was a sunbelt teenager.

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Get Yer Elvis On

August 7, 2008 – 10:03 am

I saw this RV in a big hot flat empty parking lot on US 19.

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St Petersburg Florida Keeps Us Safe From Degenerate Art. Praise Jesus.

July 29, 2008 – 11:20 am

My first action as regards this story yesterday was to blast it out to my Upper Left Coast media buddies so that they could heap further well-deserved abuse on the rubes of Florida and add to the merriment of the rest of the nation, who scorn us with unwavering scorn. As is appropriate. More grist [...]

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Greetings From Roser Park, Florida

July 29, 2008 – 9:57 am

At least 2 of the 101 Photos of Roser Park, St Petersburg have been used as references for paintings so far. As I have previously stated, by midsummer my use of color becomes deranged from the heat and I will not return to a reasonable palette until January. This is not really a choice. It [...]

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Room Temp Glass Doesn’t Flow, Even At Florida Temperatures

July 29, 2008 – 9:46 am

I was going to make some sort of observation about how I captured the flowing nature of glass, which technically a super-cooled liquid, but it turns out that the notion that “solid” glass continues to flow very slowly at normal temperatures is crap and in the category of such gee-whiz urban legends such as “we [...]

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Tampa Confederate Flag Antidote– Call to Artists

July 23, 2008 – 10:11 am

There is a pretty good argument to be made that in terms of numbers of deaths and long term social repercussions all over the globe, as well as the misery inflicted over many generations and hundreds of years on millions of people the peculiar institution over which the southern confederacy explicitly seceded was an even [...]

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Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Get Jobs In NE St Petersburg

July 23, 2008 – 8:21 am

The prison-industrial complex has spread into the Caribbean. I saw this sign on a lawn in Old Northeast neighborhood of St Petersburg, Florida. I have friends in the landscape maintenance business, and I feel this kind of competition is just unfair, although I will admit it does alleviate unemployment in the just-might-possibly-be-a-friend-of-a-terrorist’s-chauffeur’s-cousin sector.

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