for dom's amusement

miguel and jose were inspired by a chunk of desk they found while cleaning out my garage-yard that dom had drawn all over, so when they were done with cleaning for the day, they tagged up some desk pieces.
and i am, thank you. (that's to the second pic)

also, this is the new room!!


dude. dom.



dude.


and like it's crazy cause the color totally changes throughout the day and at night when the lights are on only in that room, it looks like a space ship is landing in our dining room from the parking lot.


it actually looks a LOT brighter and a LOT cooler in person

(well, that is if you think it's cool. you either love it or you hate it so i guess if you don't like it then it's a LOT uglier in person...lol)

i can't even describe the color in any other way but neon. when you see it up close you'd swear it's glow in the dark. i just fucking cannot get enough of it!!!!! everytime i walk in i'm like, "ahhhhhhhhhh" (in a good way, not "ah" as in "AH! real monsters!" or whatever that show was)

but unfortunately the eye is temporarily in storage because I LOOOOOOOOOVE the full wall of neon right behind the table but believe you me, it shall find a new home soon.


hope you enjoyed. i'm probably going to delete this later so that this stays just an art blog thingy or whatever.

oh yeah and TEXT ME VASIL'S EMAIL please!!!!!! thanks!!


i miss hanging out dom!!!!!!!!!

black hoodies

heh heh funny story.

so after the eighth grade graduation ceremony, i was running around taking pictures of kids and their families and all of that and i look over to the side of the school (everyone was hustled out to the front lawn for pics after the ceremony) and in the middle of a deserted patch of lawn there was a group of dudes in black hoodies, jeans, black hats, etc.

...not going to go into anymore but you get the idea.

so of course i look more closely and see the first two students who ever spoke to me at ECP hanging out in the group. So me being me, I was straight up to their little huddle and yell out to carlos that i had to apologize for embarassing him in front of his friends but that he was needed for pictures. After which I proceeded to grab him and playfully pull him away from his friends while he only lightly protested. heh heh heh. When alejandro and fat boi (two students i also know and who were also there) started to laugh i was like, "nope, don't think you guys are getting out of it" and i let go of carlos, grabbed alejandro's arm and dragged him over to a nearby tree (saving them the real embarassment of their patnas seeing them actually taking the pics) while carlos and fat boi (riding his bike) followed.

yeah. hella funny.

one of the seventh grade students who i talk to a lot was awed just to find out that i had made carlos the previous stencil and that i had given him my number (which that student has also) in case he needed to talk to a trusting adult or get help with whatever. carlos rocks but apparently he's like notoriously cool.... yeah


anyway i am totally just having a ramble-hands moment but whatever. you know you love it.


so yeah back to the stencil... : )

SO we took a bunch of pics under the tree and after we took this one, carlos was like, "awww can you PLEASE make a stencil of that one. that's be CLEAN."

LOL.


I agree, it is.


notice the detail i added on the bike. I think the next time i print it i'll do the detail in a brighter color so that it will show up more.

hope you like it

As game

brayan saw the "end of year" print when i was giving it to carlos and asked me to make a print of him and his girlfriend. The only pic I have of them is from the As game we went to and they weren't really doing anything special so I made her look super dramatic and shit.

I like the results and so did they.

end of year 2008

so it's a year delayed...so what.

this is of Elizama, Carlos Mendez, Brianda, Alejandro Diaz, Fat Boi (Jose Ventura) and Jorge Zapata.


Try and guess who's from which street block by their hand signs.







Sorry about the shit quality of the pics but I took them on the last length of my mom's borrowed camera's battery right before I gave the print to some of the students in it, AND the camera is also a fucking piece, so there was no way the pic was going to turn out clear, but whatever. Good thing for you I just got a new camera so I'll be able to take pictures that aren't half blurry. Sweet what a luxury!

also, check out my new blog for my students at ECProcks.blogspot.com
i'm using it to post the pics of my students that i've taken over the years, it's mostly for my eighth graders who are graduating but i'm also going to put pics of my other students as well.
fucking love those kids man.