What are you doing today? - Page 123

Gabriel Combs · #**1221** **new day**

slept for maybe 14 hours or something, or at least just laid there. luckily, the kat was out of food which gave me a little more motivation to get up do things after walking to the store. cleaned up a bit, and have put a couple hours in on art. now a salad. picked the last harry potter movie up from red box on way home, which will be my later evening to keep me distracted. staying focused on simple thoughts of survival.

Ray Rolfe · #**1222** **Drunk dial!**

send MNARTISTS.ORG a MESSAGE?

http://audioboo.fm/mnartists.org

Ray Rolfe · #**1223** **What are you doing today?**

Saw a meteorite burn up over Saint Croix. It wasn't large, but it lasted almost 5 seconds! yellow white color.

Sang Christmas carols with an elderly gentle man who had broken his hip. Hope he survives.

Keeping the home fires burning.

Ray Rolfe · #**1224** **Look outside right now**

5-9-2012

But anyway. Tonight there is a shooting star shower.

Gabriel Combs · #**1225** **...**

i think it was cloudy here last night. the windows were all frosted up anyways, only 5 degrees out. cloudy tonight, snow expected for next couple days. was cold biking this morning. there is no shortage of winter in these parts, and when the lake effect snow hits it snows horizontal and drives into you if you have to go against it. builds character. i've been making sure i get exercise and going out anyways. ship a package or get food. been keeping my focus pretty tight and trying to figure a way to get back to mn without leaving all my art stuff on the curb again. i've done maybe 350 pieces and sold them with this towns name on the back now, and have a pretty good flow for more. period of mania hitting with little sleep but much art made. try and coast til spring and see what happens...

this is statik kinetic abstrakt 010212
3" x 5" bic cristal on re-used vintage library index card

Ray Rolfe · #**1226** **Jmb**

I'm happy I wasn't killed by the Illuminati yet.
I stopped being of interest
just in time.

Ray Rolfe · #**1227** **life continues**

Nights caring for an ex-CIA pilot inventor. Very kind old man. Very smart too. Patents, marathons, accomplished perspectives. But after the stroke, he needs a watch man assuring no devastating falls occur. It's been a good mix of neurological wit from a world traveler. Post glacial geology. Specific gravity floats. Feeding Penguins in Antarctica.
I just thought it was interesting to note this artistic record of episodic life experiences. For a poor guy, I sure have range.

Ray Rolfe · #**1228** **Gotta read this man.**

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mira-s..._b_819321.html
Money Can't Buy You Love But Art Friendships Can Create Joy
The most sustaining force in an artist's life is supportive friendship with other artists. If at some crucial moments in your life you can form a group of close friendships with artists who share your aesthetic ideals or at least understand and enjoy them maybe even more than you do yourself, you can make it through the incredible difficulties of being an artist: financial peril, near constant rejection, fragility of success. If those friendships also are the basis for artistic collaboration, that is more marvelous still. And there is a particular kind of collaboration among artists who are friends that is special because it takes place outside of the frame of the art market, often before each individual's path is fixed and their fate is determined, that is before some become rich and famous, while others struggle along, and still others die or vanish from the scene into another type of life than the one of the artist. Such moments are nearly impossible to sustain, but it can be pretty conclusively proven that these are often the happiest times in the lives of these artists and often too those artworks that later are seen to have the greatest market value emerge from just these moments of friendships and creative projects undertaken in relative conditions of anonymity, for the sheer joy of making and the pleasure in shared ideas.

One such a web of creative friendships among visual artists and writers working in the mid-20th century in New York City.......

Read the rest at that link above.. it's inspiring.

Gabriel Combs · #**1229** **deluge superpower**

march came in like a well tamed soggy lion and will likely go out like a baby goat. i am up with the classic insomnia of my kind in the early am. the cat is trilling around the room about the deep mysteries of katness. her curiosity about the keys clicking is eating her. yesterday was a good art day with a couple good ones that were already started completed. it has been vivid dreams revolving with insomnia and i've tried to get away from it but there has never been any use in attempting to blot out the cycles, so let the circles encompass my eyes and sharpen my focus once more. i've made as many art auctions not in mn, as in mn now with a total count of 1068. close to a third on average goes overseas, mostly france, germany and uk. the majority of highly detailed graphite work goes there, and those countries will pay a higher start price. i am thankful for every piece that sells and relentless in my productivity. i've never taken my eye from my goal, and never will.

i found a copy of the most comprehensive book yet on van gogh at the library, and was surprised with some of the depth of fact finding executed by the author who pretty much found every scrap of detail on the artists life. read a copy of one day in the life of ivan denisovich and a couple other books lately. i have a good pile of to reads on the shelf, although i have been a lazy reader lately and likely not read more than a book a month this past year.

there is a certain roughly tolerable routine in my isolation here. this doomcloud horizon of a cell. a cement grey sky and icicle bars to play their role in one mans metamorphose. another day is a page in a book i make stick one grain at a time, ant that i am. one drop in the deluge.

Ray Rolfe · #**1230** **2012blues**

It's to early to be this warm here. Solar flares, you know. All the frogs are being born now..
I've been a bit depressed with how stupid everyone seems to be, and how far gone the slave system has become. It's not improving. Even intelligent people are falling victim to relentless, scientific brainwashing. I don't know many people with the critical thinking ability needed to perceive true reality. It takes some heroically creative mind power to comprehend, confront and continue on knowing. Non stop stupid bullshit on facebook. Of course it's not all bad, I'm just crabby cause TCF is trying to steal my money again. I HATE that bank. I had 37 dollars in there, and all the sudden, for no reason, my account is at $00, and listed as closed! Gotta make an irate phone call in the morning.

I have 10 days to try for a McKnight Photography fellowship. I'm potentially early mid career.. It could work. 25 grand to build it to a valid prolific level. I think my work samples are definitely good enough. I just need to pick so few, and compose a viable fellowship plan in 10 days. I kinda wish I had some high level curator to pick 10 photos out of 10,000 for the app. But I trust my vision.

Well, here's a Clydesdale horse for your viewing.