Fall today

Today

I love Fall.

The start of a new series

So this is my new stuff. Although this is a commissioned piece it gives you a hit of the direction I've taken.

Texture, texture, texture.

I'm planning on having at least 3 times as much texture as this one.

This is a close up of the middle pannel.

The Zen of Sarcasm

 01. Do not walk behind  me, for I may not lead.
         Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow.
         Do not  walk beside me either.
         Just pretty much leave me alone.

02.  The journey of a  thousand miles begins
         with a broken fan belt and leaky tire.

03. It's always darkest  before dawn.
         So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the  time to do it.
  
 04.  Don't be  irreplaceable.
         If you can't be  replaced, you can't be promoted.

05.  Always remember that  you're unique. 
         Just like everyone else.

06. Never test the depth  of the water with both feet.

07. If you think nobody  cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

08. Before you criticize  someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.
         That way, when you criticize  them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

09. If at first you  don't succeed, skydiving is probably not for you.

10. Give a man a fish  and he will eat for a day.
         Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat  and drink beer all day.

11. If you lend someone  $20 and never see that person again,
          it was probably a wise  investment.

12. If you tell the  truth, you don't have to remember anything.

13. Some days you're the  bug; some days you're the windshield.

14. Everyone seems  normal until you get to know them.

15. The quickest way to  double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your  pocket.

16. A closed mouth  gathers no foot.

17. Duct tape is like  'The Force'. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe  together.

18. There are two  theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.

19. Generally speaking,  you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.

20.  Experience is  something you don't get until just after you need it.

21. Never miss a good  chance to shut up.
         AND 
 22. Never, under any  circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same  night.

Beautiful dream

I go to Alain's house [Caprice]. It looks like a bungaloo. I walk in and hang around for a while. We're supposed to go out somewhere, I'm waiting for him to get ready. I walk down the hall where I hear some noise. I go to the window and I look down at this amizing beauty. I'm up 6 storys and right on the shore. I can see the big blue ocean immediately under me and there are HUGE fish just swiming and having fun. When I say HUGE I mean HUGE. I though they were whale but they weren't mammals. One of them did one quick move of the tail and was miles away. I was in awe in front of this beauty and strength. They almost looked like needle fish but giants. I tried to look at the mouth of one of them and it looked like a prehistoric fish. I then looked down and I see that it's a hotel. There are people on the floor below looking down as well. I say "isn't this beautiful?". They agree. It was David Wechsler. I walk back and look around at the different rooms in the place. You can tell it was done by a very creative person. The hotel doesn' have a beach per say and it's located somewhere hidden where noone would want to be. There are many rooms in the place. I walk back and Alain is getting dressed. I walk outside because I wanted to take a closer look at the pool. It was huge but there was something odd. In the deeper end of it there was, underwater, a jacuzzi. I just didnn't understand what a jacuzzi was doing under water. Alain tells my that the owner is a gay man and I say "of course, only a gay man could have so much taste". I walk to the shore, there are people swimming and I see so many fish, it was amazing and they were all coming so close to the shore. I had nothing to feed them with so I go back to the place to get some bread or something. N'djamena and her friend [dont' know] were at the place. On the table I find, bread, cake and boxes and boxes of yellow crystals like they were grown right out of the box. They were all aligned like a tray of wheatgrass, you know?

Thank you Gaia

Thank you Krishnamurti

Another dream

Alain [Fiston] is driving the car. Dominique, Kian and I are in it. We get to a point where there will be traffic. I don't know this place. It's completely foreign to me. We take a detour on the left. Kian and I get out to find out, on foot, if there is another way. We get to this peer like building and we walk and walk until we reach somekind of corner.
I can see the water. We're six story's up. I hear a gun shot. There is chaos. I grab Kian and get closer to the window. I see the ocean's surface and I think that if trouble comes into the room, we jump. I can see across to the other window. I see two white men, older. One of them is holding his left shoulder. He's bleeding from the gun shot. I can see the bleeding hole. He's holding the gun thought. He looks down and throws the gun into the ocean.

Another dream

Alain [Fiston] is driving the car. Dominique, Kian and I are in it. We get to a point where there will be traffic. I don't know this place. It's completely foreign to me. We take a detour on the left. Kian and I get out to find out, on foot, if there is another way. We get to this peer like building and we walk and walk until we reach somekind of corner.
I can see the water. We're six story's up. I hear a gun shot. There is chaos. I grab Kian and get closer to the window. I see the ocean's surface and I think that if trouble comes into the room, we jump. I can see across to the other window. I see two white men, older. One of them is holding his left shoulder. He's bleeding from the gun shot. I can see the bleeding hole. He's holding the gun thought. He looks down and throws the gun into the ocean.

Thank you Maharishi

Thank you Maharishi

Hey! I'm an uncle

This is my brother Igor and his new born son Nico.
Nico was the name of our father.
I haven't seen Igor in 13 years.

Hey! I'm an uncle

This is my brother Igor and his new born son Nico.
Nico was the name of our father.
I haven't seen Igor in 13 years.

Momenta - Necklace videocam I WANT IT!!!

The Momenta PC is a finalist in Microsoft’s Next-Gen PC Design Competition that you strap to your neck. Momenta necklace isn’t a whole lot more refined, but at least it’s a touch less noticeable. It’s got a camera that’s constantly recording what’s in front of you, but it also measures your pulse rate. When you get excited about something, it automatically saves the previous five minutes’ footage for you to review later...[ Click on the title or here for more about this article ]

Meeeeeeh.... [click here for the rest of the story]

Cool! I thought of Jerry.

Momenta - Necklace videocam I WANT IT!!!

The Momenta PC is a finalist in Microsoft’s Next-Gen PC Design Competition that you strap to your neck. Momenta necklace isn’t a whole lot more refined, but at least it’s a touch less noticeable. It’s got a camera that’s constantly recording what’s in front of you, but it also measures your pulse rate. When you get excited about something, it automatically saves the previous five minutes’ footage for you to review later...[ Click on the title or here for more about this article ]

Meeeeeeh.... [click here for the rest of the story]

Cool! I thought of Jerry.

My heart

Jerry sent me this flower and that exactly how my heart is.

My heart

Jerry sent me this flower and that exactly how my heart is.

This is how I feel today.

I woke up early today, even before the sun. There was something in the air. I got up and looked out my window and that's when I saw it, the rain. It was coming like a blanket of haze. I quickly closed the window and went on the covered patio. I laid atop the table with a blanket and pillow as I watched this raging thunder and lighting show express its beauty on the sky's screen. It was wonderful. I laid there for more than an hour as I watched the sun trying to pierce the clouds.
I was analysing the shapes and color to try to capture this beauty on a canvas but then I stopped. I chose to stop and just watch the show without any intent on copying or saving or anything else. It was complete and so was I.

Personal Year 7...a time for analysis and understanding

This is my year:
A 7 personal year promises to be a very introspective year, a period of some pause and reflection between very active years in your life. This year should provide you with some time for gaining some understanding of yourself, and you are apt to spend a good bit of time in contemplation. It will be good for you to spend time alone or in quiet activities, as free from outside responsibilities as possible. You should try to get away from business pressures. This is a good year to reflect on the past and plan for the future. This will not tend to be a year of action, but rather a year of waiting and development. One of the most profitable activities in with to engage during a personal year 7 is that of study and writing, for your ability to think clearly, analyze, and integrate your thoughts is peaked now. Your capacity for research and understanding is at its very best. It would not be unusual for you to take on an appearance of coolness and detachment during a 7 year. Certainly, it is best for you to focus your attention on your talents and your skills in an effort to use the time you have now to refine them. Perhaps you can find the time to gain more education, or simply spend free time in reflection and meditation.

This is how I feel today.

I woke up early today, even before the sun. There was something in the air. I got up and looked out my window and that's when I saw it, the rain. It was coming like a blanket of haze. I quickly closed the window and went on the covered patio. I laid atop the table with a blanket and pillow as I watched this raging thunder and lighting show express its beauty on the sky's screen. It was wonderful. I laid there for more than an hour as I watched the sun trying to pierce the clouds.
I was analysing the shapes and color to try to capture this beauty on a canvas but then I stopped. I chose to stop and just watch the show without any intent on copying or saving or anything else. It was complete and so was I.

Personal Year 7...a time for analysis and understanding

This is my year:
A 7 personal year promises to be a very introspective year, a period of some pause and reflection between very active years in your life. This year should provide you with some time for gaining some understanding of yourself, and you are apt to spend a good bit of time in contemplation. It will be good for you to spend time alone or in quiet activities, as free from outside responsibilities as possible. You should try to get away from business pressures. This is a good year to reflect on the past and plan for the future. This will not tend to be a year of action, but rather a year of waiting and development. One of the most profitable activities in with to engage during a personal year 7 is that of study and writing, for your ability to think clearly, analyze, and integrate your thoughts is peaked now. Your capacity for research and understanding is at its very best. It would not be unusual for you to take on an appearance of coolness and detachment during a 7 year. Certainly, it is best for you to focus your attention on your talents and your skills in an effort to use the time you have now to refine them. Perhaps you can find the time to gain more education, or simply spend free time in reflection and meditation.

Guess who???

I'll give you a hint: It's Bill and Hillary Clinton. Hee, hee, hee.

)I would give credit for this image but I forgot where I got it.(

Weird dream with flower hands

I saw n'djamena. She was with her new beau.
He looked just like Alain when he was young.
I went up to them. It was a group.
I go to kiss her hello. She leans back and gives me her hand. I go to shake it in confusion. They all make weird sounds like making fun of me. Then her beau and her make me place my hand [right hand] palm up, fingers closed, pointing at the sky.
Then they make this weird sound like a river or the wind, some kind of hissing sound.
As they all look at my hand, they make me understand that I should start opening my fingers slowly.
When they're open, half way open, with a movement that looks like birds drinking out of a lake,
they use their hands with pointed fingers and dip them into my hand like they're drinking out of it.
Everyone was making a gulp, gulp, gulp sound, and it seemed like they were telling me that this is the new way to say hello, you know...new hand shake?
The end.

Guess who???

I'll give you a hint: It's Bill and Hillary Clinton. Hee, hee, hee.

)I would give credit for this image but I forgot where I got it.(

Weird dream with flower hands

I saw n'djamena. She was with her new beau.
He looked just like Alain when he was young.
I went up to them. It was a group.
I go to kiss her hello. She leans back and gives me her hand. I go to shake it in confusion. They all make weird sounds like making fun of me. Then her beau and her make me place my hand [right hand] palm up, fingers closed, pointing at the sky.
Then they make this weird sound like a river or the wind, some kind of hissing sound.
As they all look at my hand, they make me understand that I should start opening my fingers slowly.
When they're open, half way open, with a movement that looks like birds drinking out of a lake,
they use their hands with pointed fingers and dip them into my hand like they're drinking out of it.
Everyone was making a gulp, gulp, gulp sound, and it seemed like they were telling me that this is the new way to say hello, you know...new hand shake?
The end.

Old Man Rock

This is still "La Soufrière", the bottom of the crater. We still have 1 hour to the top.
My foot is on Old Man Rock's forehead.
Do you see it?
This formation is due to a smaller rock falling on this one thus splitting it in three.

This one sold in Paris

So a friend of mine brought this painting in Paris with her and sold it. Yeah!!!
I need the $ or should I say €€€ because I get paid in Euros :)
I wish the photo could show you the true colors of the painting... It doesn't do it justice.
I need a new digital camera. Mine is shot (get it? ha, ha, ha). The one I really want is the Canon powershot A630. I love it!
Can you buy it for me? Pleeeease.
It's on my wish list from Amazon.

I'm claiming this one!!!

Yeah! This is my precious... mine, mine, all mine. Such a beautiful place...and what a handsome guy. We saw a young eel in the rock. It was so pretty. I spent the day diving off and climbing back again...a well spent day I say.

La Soufrière

This is "La Soufrière", the live volcano on my home of Guadeloupe. The last time it erupted was in 1976. This white smoke you see is sulfur gazes coming out of one of the craters. The smell is toxic but I like it. It took about 1 1/2 hour to hike up there and I thought I was going to lose a lung. Although painful sometimes, the hike was well worth it. We were higher than the clouds.

Old Man Rock

This is still "La Soufrière", the bottom of the crater. We still have 1 hour to the top.
My foot is on Old Man Rock's forehead.
Do you see it?
This formation is due to a smaller rock falling on this one thus splitting it in three.

I'm claiming this one!!!

Yeah! This is my precious... mine, mine, all mine. Such a beautiful place...and what a handsome guy. We saw a young eel in the rock. It was so pretty. I spent the day diving off and climbing back again...a well spent day I say.

La Soufrière

This is "La Soufrière", the live volcano on my home of Guadeloupe. The last time it erupted was in 1976. This white smoke you see is sulfur gazes coming out of one of the craters. The smell is toxic but I like it. It took about 1 1/2 hour to hike up there and I thought I was going to lose a lung. Although painful sometimes, the hike was well worth it. We were higher than the clouds.

Fascinating!!! I think I hate my family

I truly do.
What a fucking bunch of conniving selfish morons.
I guess I want to vent.
I feel the hatred and rage coming up through my veins all the way up to my head.
I just don't understand.
I'm happiest away from them.
I feel closer to strangers than I do my own flesh and blood.
What a bunch of fucking idiots.
ALL OF THEM!
They can go FUCK themselves!
should I tell them? I wonder.
I think I'll just what I did before...just stay away.
Life is too short to hang around assholes, especially smelly ones.
I should just move on...
Physically or in my head?
I guess there is no difference.
I'm listening to "god is a dj"
I'm happy. It's happy music.
My head is bobbing up and down.
Life is good again.
They can just go fuck themselves.
Actually, there is one...yeah but she's crazy.
Never mind.
I will paint
I will paint
I will paint
large paintings
large paintings
beautiful paintings

Fascinating!!! I think I hate my family

I truly do.
What a fucking bunch of conniving selfish morons.
I guess I want to vent.
I feel the hatred and rage coming up through my veins all the way up to my head.
I just don't understand.
I'm happiest away from them.
I feel closer to strangers than I do my own flesh and blood.
What a bunch of fucking idiots.
ALL OF THEM!
They can go FUCK themselves!
should I tell them? I wonder.
I think I'll just what I did before...just stay away.
Life is too short to hang around assholes, especially smelly ones.
I should just move on...
Physically or in my head?
I guess there is no difference.
I'm listening to "god is a dj"
I'm happy. It's happy music.
My head is bobbing up and down.
Life is good again.
They can just go fuck themselves.
Actually, there is one...yeah but she's crazy.
Never mind.
I will paint
I will paint
I will paint
large paintings
large paintings
beautiful paintings

I'm home?

So here I am back in Guadeloupe.
It's weird being here...
I've been living in St. Louis for 20 years now and now I'm in Guadeloupe, my home country.
I feel like I know this place and at the same time I don't.
I operate through the system but I feel like it's a dream.
It's almost as if I'm still in St. Louis in the "real" world, the awake world but I can't do anything in it and Guadeloupe is the dream world where I move around and make things happen.
I have been painting again, which is good. I've sold both paintings I've made, which is better.

I'm home?

So here I am back in Guadeloupe.
It's weird being here...
I've been living in St. Louis for 20 years now and now I'm in Guadeloupe, my home country.
I feel like I know this place and at the same time I don't.
I operate through the system but I feel like it's a dream.
It's almost as if I'm still in St. Louis in the "real" world, the awake world but I can't do anything in it and Guadeloupe is the dream world where I move around and make things happen.
I have been painting again, which is good. I've sold both paintings I've made, which is better.

I'm strange!

I must be strange. I just don't rely on any labels for my happiness. I couldn't care less what you thought of me, just as long as we have a great time together. That's all that matters.
If I really cared about what other people thought, I wouldn't see any of my friends. They have all done or said something I thought was hurtful, bad, etc.... It just doesn't matter.
Can you and I make magic when we're together. That's all that matters.
No one knows about tomorrow, it's no use worrying about it.
You know, I want to be wanted like any other person but there's no way to really know...ever.
So what I'm left with are facts, right now, what you chose to do. If someone "pretends" to be my friend but says stupid stuff about me behind my back, I wouldn't care. Just as long as we enjoyed ourselves truly when we are together.
Hey, I know some of those sentences where not properly structured. Deal with it!
Peace.

I'm strange!

I must be strange. I just don't rely on any labels for my happiness. I couldn't care less what you thought of me, just as long as we have a great time together. That's all that matters.
If I really cared about what other people thought, I wouldn't see any of my friends. They have all done or said something I thought was hurtful, bad, etc.... It just doesn't matter.
Can you and I make magic when we're together. That's all that matters.
No one knows about tomorrow, it's no use worrying about it.
You know, I want to be wanted like any other person but there's no way to really know...ever.
So what I'm left with are facts, right now, what you chose to do. If someone "pretends" to be my friend but says stupid stuff about me behind my back, I wouldn't care. Just as long as we enjoyed ourselves truly when we are together.
Hey, I know some of those sentences where not properly structured. Deal with it!
Peace.

Xmas

It was 52F on Christmas day when I had a late lunch at Latchi's.
I drank too much warm Sake and played with the kitties.
I started my trek to her place in tears as I watched the highway go by.
I guess the sun was setting and the music was beautiful.

Xmas

It was 52F on Christmas day when I had a late lunch at Latchi's.
I drank too much warm Sake and played with the kitties.
I started my trek to her place in tears as I watched the highway go by.
I guess the sun was setting and the music was beautiful.

I wonder where I'll end up today.

I don't know where I'm going but I do know where I'm not.
Hoping is futile and waiting is hopeless.
I guess I use to wait for others to behave in a specific way...a way that I thought was right.
How stupid of me.
First of all, there is no right for all. I guess there is only right for me.

I wonder where I'll end up today.

I don't know where I'm going but I do know where I'm not.
Hoping is futile and waiting is hopeless.
I guess I use to wait for others to behave in a specific way...a way that I thought was right.
How stupid of me.
First of all, there is no right for all. I guess there is only right for me.

mother of the year

In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set oftriplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in thepregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size,they died shortly after birth.The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly startedto decline in health, although physically she was fine. Theveterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into adepression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogateanother mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve.
After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only orphans" that could be found quickly, were a litter of weaner pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger. Would they become cubs or pork chops??

Take a look........ you won't believe your eyes!!

Abortion

The terms used for the egg in a woman's uterus after it has been fertilized by a sperm are zygote, blastocyst, embryo or foetus depending on the stage of development.

I find interesting that the term used by people against other people having abortion for this bag of cells is an "unborn child".

So I guess along the same line of thinking we should call human beings "pre-dead cadavres"?

mother of the year

In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set oftriplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in thepregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size,they died shortly after birth.The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly startedto decline in health, although physically she was fine. Theveterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into adepression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogateanother mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve.
After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only orphans" that could be found quickly, were a litter of weaner pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger. Would they become cubs or pork chops??

Take a look........ you won't believe your eyes!!

Abortion

The terms used for the egg in a woman's uterus after it has been fertilized by a sperm are zygote, blastocyst, embryo or foetus depending on the stage of development.

I find interesting that the term used by people against other people having abortion for this bag of cells is an "unborn child".

So I guess along the same line of thinking we should call human beings "pre-dead cadavres"?

New Biz

so I officially started my business last week. It's called jeanjoel spatafora LLC. How about that. Yeah, I've decided to run all my odd jobs and art stuff thru the LLC. Basically I'm an independent contractor. It'll be easier to keep track of $ and file taxes, etc....