This new normal..

Well folks, we find ourselves in an highly crazy time.  This time around its not just me, Michigan or the United States of America, it's the entire planet.  While being locked at home, literally the day after I got my chefs coat our facility had to close.  I can cook at home and when I do I cook for many, I then invite friends who are in more dire straights then I am to stop by the house and take a to go package of hot food off the porch while I stay behind protective glass.  I am one of those with pre-existing conditions that if I caught the virus it would probably kill me.  My lungs are permanently damaged because while in Morocco in 2011 I contracted the Bird Flu and after nearly a 5 year battle I am better but very cautious.

All of that said, I still feel the need to help in some way so I obtained a 3D printer and for the foreseeable future I will be building items to help with first responders.  In addition, when I cook, I make sure my local police precinct, fire fighters and other first responders are aware they can stop by and pick up a free hot meal.  Same rules as for friends, they stop by honk and I place the to go containers on the porch.

Here are some images of the printer in action making extenders for face masks that help take the pressure off of your ears.  My plan in to deliver 60 of these every couple of weeks, the rest of the time I use the printer to help me create some of my more complex art pieces.  Images later on the art stuff.

This last image is of an invention I created years ago call a common PEZ interface, you can use this to create your own PEZ heads.

I really want to stress how important ALL of you are to me so...Stay Home, Stay Safe, Save Lives it would be really wonderful to see you again and if I have not met you it would be wonderful to meet you and toast to surviving this horrid thing.  We will get through this, I have faith in that!

To my international fans, we despise the orange buffoon as much as you do and I am confident that come November he will be removed from office, hopefully kicking and screaming while being dragged out of the White House by the capitol police!!!

Fuck Trump!

I don't know who created it, but I am glad they did!

Art in upcoming shows

Trumps Amerika and the new flag of the republic of Amerika, Revolted show, January 21st thru February 4th, 333 Midland, Highland Park

 

Jesus of Suburbia in the Breaking Borders show, January 27th, 28th, Tangent Gallery, Detroit

My Perfect Woman in the Detroit Dirty Show, February 10th thru 18th, Russell Industrial Center Gallery, Detroit

Revolted!

There is a war coming...

There is a war coming, 

I can feel it boiling below the surface. 

It will be a war in this once great nation between civil liberties and the far right. 

It will be a war that will destroy the government as we knew it, 

it will divide this country and it may be the beginnings of an extinction event. 

 

Human extinction!

 

And at the root of it is Donald Trump and his mind numbingly inept cabinet!

New political project "Brain Cells" Update~

Started working on my next political piece. Called "Brain Cells" starting on January 20th 2017 it will start counting the number of brain cells lost because of the sheer stupidity of Trump and his cabinet of nitwits.

It's a complicated one with 32 Nixie tubes (digital before digital existed), three Ardunio boards to control everything and connect to the internet. Several hundred feet of wire, two power supplies and a few hundred chips, capacitors and resistors.
The Ardunio boards will "listen" to the internet for Trump tweets, his surrogates tweets, check for honesty and deduct brain cells from the count. 

Top portion has 18 tubes which represent our brain cells, bottom is the date, and the last row is a 24 hour count down clock.

I hope to have programming complete so it can be turned on, on Inauguration Day.

Let's see how many are left after four years of Trump!

Here are a couple update images, still waiting for 16 circuit boards and a few other materials. 

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Donald Trumps Amerika

New works in progress...

The piece below is called "Something Wicked This Way Comes" the hands will be coming out of the two smaller canvases.

 The piece below is called "All Hail Donald Trump"  When finished the hand will be orange and both the hand and constitution will be in a barbed wire cage.

I want to make a statement about Trump winning the election...

But I have no words, other then I did not vote for him and he is not my president!!!

This image is for those who DID vote for an orange racist bigoted asshole!!!

Donald Trump and his entourage...

Still in process...

Modeling clay with marble basses: