and from my fellow exhibitor's e-mail:
Hey Scot-tee, say it like captain kirk
I found this clip I shot of you and can't remember if I'd
already given it to you,
It made me cry… I love when you do the pirate thing.
HA-HA
I would have sent it but it's to big 4meg
Man all sound good heading south Belize and naked little
brown bodies every where like Gauguin that's where's I
wanted to be.
But I stuck in the frig for a while. If all works out I will be
inside where it's warm for a while and that's a lot of pressure
off. It's a lot cheaper here but there's very little call for
artwork or 3d so I'm still plugging away at the computer.
It's getting tougher by the day I can't concentrate but I never
could anyway. I am getting closer to doing some painting once
I come down enough to find all my stuff. I’m getting closer
everyday hope the mind holds.
Yell I know what you mean about those smoke blowers I was
sick of it a long time ago there is just to many flacks in that
state I don’t know how they ever get anything accomplished.
I’m happy for you getting to head south I hope it all works
out. I just need a place I can work I don’t want a bunch of
money I just want to do what I like doing I’m told then the
money will follow I have always worked for and at what
others wanted if I don’t do my thing now I sure that time will
run out on me.
I don’t want to be a homeless vegetable in this cold or
anywhere else. I seen what happens to people, I living proof.
It’s sounds like that’s where you need to be and just have a
good time from all the crap.
Good luck and may you get what’s owed to you.
Love ya buddy BT
I would love to stand on a beach some where and paint naked
brown girls with you again one day. That summer on Venice
will always be good memories to me… the closet I’ve every
been to living the life I had planned as a young boy. Living
the artist life not to many have been able to say that in the
style we did it. Even poor and nothing more than what we
carried there I feel I had more than so many others and even
more than others only dream to have. I wish I had better
words to say it was a great time for me.
I’m glad you was there… you played your part so very well.
just thought you might get a kick out of it….
podloonaroon 
Very good videos sir, Bravo.You have life is a man.And I'm happy to get aquainted with one another to you.Good.Big Artist
you came so fast it surprised me…. thanks for watching and commenting.
The anticipation while traveling down the paththrough the woodswow.If it were 39 years instead of 42I may have been the naked flower girlblending in the brushdeeper in the woodsbathingchest deep with yousmiling andenjoying the view!(you bring these things out in me, Scott!!!):yikes: 😆 :angel: Hey thanks for sharing you. This was great!!!jilleevanillee
jill, if you could hear the monologue well enough… i was a flower child essentially, in those days around 1964, it was about seven years after my halcyon teen years and feeling of immortality and eternal freedom. i always used to say, i'm not a hippie… i'm pre-hippie. if anything, i'm a late beatnik. that was an entirely different movement from the 'hippie' generation.anyway, i would have been glad to have washed your back chest deep in the stream. outdoors, in the still woods is a powerful and elemental impression full of power, sometimes with aphrodesiac results.i'm so glad you enjoyed the tour of big sur.
Nice to meet you, Scott – in person, sort of.Someday I need to visit Venice Beach for sure.
yes, alan, it has a kind of crazy multiferousness (don't get to use that word very much). also the weather is almost always perfect. even in the summer when it's ninety degrees inland, we have what i call the pacific air-conditioner. sixty degree water of the pacific (japan current) with a predominant onshore breeze makes it a comfortable seventy-five at the beach.btw, that wasn't me in those clips. in the first one i was in the 'role' of the pixilated artist, somewhat lifted from alec guinness's portrayal of 'gulley jimson', from "the horse's mouth". on the bluff at big sur, was a combination of my father and my cynical, but lacanically amusing brother.the real me is in this blog. i would love to host your visit. you can have my room and i'll sleep in the living room on my 'book-couch'. six big boxes of art books, covered with a soft layer of hundreds of drawings, four inches of foam rubber, topped by an oriental carpet, sheets and blankets.bring your camera….. (like i need to tell you that.)
I don't know, I think you're going to have to start charging me Scott!!!This has been quite a ride…:yikes:
I remember and this comforts me, a time that will never be again, unlike..? Ah, to be on 'The Road ' again, and all that that implies, but that is lost in another time and all around us is unfamiliar newness that I fight with every fiber of my being.It's not a simple… generation gap. It's another world in-between then and now, and if I don't hold on tightly to remember, how it felt, the freedom, of so much, this, here, today, everything, will also be lost to me.And my words may not be expressing what I'm really trying to say, feel. And I shouldn't be free writing, but it pours out this way and at times I just don't care how or if the words come together for some. Because I'm not really here, I'm still in another time.I know I'll never fit in anywhere. And God knows, I don't want to.I'm just trying to understand. To help the people around me. My Granddaughter I am raising with my values, from my time, and although confusing to her, and at the same time, I don't want it to be…I WANT her to fit in and I DON'T!!! So conflicted. Yet willing to get back out on that limb and if I have to, just keep dangling, waiting and hoping…something edible falls from the sky.stilljill:confused: :wait: 🙂
if i charged you (*laughing) you'd stop coming… don't want that.i know exactly what you're talking about. no advice. except my ultimate resort will be to go to belize or any other country that doesn't specialize in violence.what we have lost is the freedom to roam anonymously. it was a 'police state' in the fifties, then the sixties had the government throwing up it's arms in confusion as to what to do about us. now the fear mongers (government) and news media fear peddlars have created a world they wish us to accept without revolt. a plebicite, or referendum of the honest opinion of the people who are north americans would, i venture to guess, reveal that most of us, ordinary souls, are not happy to hear that we have armies in 127 different countries.we all know that our grandchildren are going to pay for that in hard coin and suffering. and for what? to spread democracy? democracy is alive and well. and has been for 2500 years or more. sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't. it doesn't work when the people lose the effectiveness of their voice. and a consensus will always reveal the conscience of the governed.it just happened… no one is to blame.well, maybe a few careless campfires spoiled it for the rest of us who dutifully burned only 'dead and down' found wood within walking distance. we allways doused the fire with water or pissed it out.now there are so many rules with greedy fines. if you get caught sleeping somewhere without a permit from an owner or organization, you can be arrested. and the fine will cause you to become a fugitive from justice.vis a vis grandchildren, and i am gaining more of them every time i look up there's another one… the more the merrier. the best influence is just to love them.
Hey, thanks Scott, you're cool!And yes, LOVE, truly the only reason we are here!!Peace my Friend!:)
I will keep that in mind, Scott. Not that you need to host me – it's nice if you'll allow me to meet you on Venice Beach.
cool. i think we might have quite a good time exchanging ideas and 'shooting the bull' together.
well said,well said dear bro'. i echo alan's sentiments, but i also feel i know you very well. remember our first literary dance together? i compared you to cc cummings and we dallied and riposted off each other and then i got to know you the more i read about you and it was my honor (still is) to write poems about you and to visit your pages and stand starstruck in joy at all that art, gifts from God. and ever since then i am no less amzed and struck in wonder at what you can do.Peace – younger bro, i salute you.BTW:i had no foreknowledge you were going to write about the past and now if you trip out 🙂 over to my own page you'll see I too have touched on it, but not in as profound or grand a style and content as you have done here. loku scribbler of dreams
love you loku. no i can never forget the fun we had crossing swords now and then in the beginning when i was a newbie and you were the seasoned veteran of the 'word'. the prime voice… lol words do have a certain magic, as allan (ricewood) has noted. i still feel that there's more 'life' in the comments than in the posts.i'll be right over.
Now, this is quite a coincidence, if you believe in them. The day after your response to me regarding living in Belize, I received this postcard. I've been trying to get it on here, let's see if THIS works!!!
When I pulled my mail out and saw this, I thought, very cool!!I don't know who Robert is. The restaurant is the BoneFish Grill….fabulous food and atmosphere.I'm racking my brain (which is a chore) to try and figure out, because I don't remember, filling anything out OR ever leaving my address.Always pay cash when I go out to eat, never my credit card, so, who knows??A coincidence to be sure!!Hey, thanks for the help posting the pic! I scanned it right away, then ended up placing it on my blog in my photos.I hope you're having a great Saturday!!!I'm going back to work for awhile and it's such a beautiful day here! Maybe I'll stop at BoneFish…I'll be hungry by the time I'm done..hehe!!Peace!!:cool:
Postcard reads…Greetings from the Caribbean,Discovered some great Dorado (mahi mahi to us). Should be in the restaurant by the time you get this card.Off to the Mediterranean in search of spices, wines, and great fish recipes. May stop in Malta, depending on the weather.Will write again soon-Robert___________________________________________________________________(from my favorite restaurant!!!) I liked the timing of this postcard!!!Jillee:happy:
Cool! There she is!
Got it, and thanks bunches!!!I'm with you, and, in a New York Minute!!!It's truly paradise.
"Off to the Mediterranean in search of spices, wines, and great fish recipes. May stop in Malta, depending on the weather."i was trying to show you how to get the picture into the comment but whatever i do some material i write just disappears because it's code.i'll take the mediteranean in a new york minute.but this is all you have to do…[IMG={the address of the pic}and end it with a ] then, at lastclose it with [IMG]get it?
i am having trouble showing this but if you put the elements together with no spaces you get the picture. ( then, [ with IMG inside ending ] () now without the curved parenthesis.
"Don't worry be happy"Thanks for teaching me that today….
cool, sarah, just have to remember.
hello, my dears arts friend.how are you to day?see u.
i feel fantastic. thanks for inquiring.
GOOD. I HOPE EVERY TİME FELL FANTASTİC TO YOU. WAWWW!..KİSESSS….:flirt: :heart: :heart:
Scott-Since I can't get Venice Beach for CultureSurfer, can you ask if I can have this?
What other clips? And is there a site you want me to link to?
You've got my wheels spinning…How cool would it be to have a whole series of short videos on The Artists of Venice Beach? I'd edit if I can just get raw videos & I'd upload 1-2 per month.
there's no copy prevention on this… it's in the category of 'home movies' bill's clip, i mean. and the other clips are mine… public domain.
naomi,i'm going back to the boardwalk in june. i can get some footage for you, just for fun. then you can edit and play with it like michael van did.other clips? yes, if you wait.what i meant was that when you click on the little video my fellow artist bill t. made of me, you are linked to two more videos i uploaded to 'gouper.com' which has since become 'crackle.com'.at least that's what happens on my blog page if i play the boardwalk video… it just goes on and plays the big sur videos.
i'll let you know when i have some footage. it's a wild and crazy place in the summertime. it's a bizarre and surreal place the rest of the year.
Cool, thanks!
naomi,i'm going back to the boardwalk in june. i can get some footage for you, just for fun. then you can edit and play with it like michael van did.other clips? yes, if you wait.what i meant was that when you click on the little video my fellow artist bill t. made of me, you are linked to two more videos i uploaded to 'gouper.com' which has since become 'crackle.com'.at least that's what happens on my blog page if i play the boardwalk video… it just goes on and plays the big sur videos.
I can't wait. I'm going to make a whole lineup just for Venice Beach artists on the CultureSurfer ART page. And footage of people performing would be great to have as well.If filming gets to be too much, you could just spread the word that I am looking for people to send me footage.Now I'm gonna want to go out there & check it out for myself!!!
cool.:cool: