Chihouly ceiling at bellagio

Most beautiful chihouly I've ever seen. The bellagio does it right justa stunning hotel.
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Fountain of chocolate at bellagio

I shit u not!
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Vegas

So we get in to vegas late last night and we are readyg to crash. I go into the casino for a quick sed to test my luck. In two minutes I turned 5$ into 130$. Ilove this town! ... This morn anyways
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Sleepin in

Sleepin in
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Funny signs

Jerks
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Funny sign

No shit!
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Life is good

Bloody mary on a beaut
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Glass for belt buckle

Made 6-29
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Silver spring bubble

Wrap photo shoot
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Ample

Customer parking
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Nats 4 os 2

The nats seemed to pull together a solid game tonight 4-2 in the bottom of the 8th. Milledge just stole 2b.
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Os vs nats 2008

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Bonsai

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Car rainbow

Apparently nissans are at the end of rainbows
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Gramma anne

The news is good. While she is not at the top of her game, she is doing "ok". All best wishes.
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illinois pic

Grain lifter
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Illinois again

Well actually above
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Another midwest pic

Weird effect

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Crossroad

Rural savoy
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Visiting grampa

Its been near 5 years, and I still miss grampa leo
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Partying illinois style

-No arts and craft toy cows were injured during this photo shoot
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A hearty midwest breakfasts

Yes this omlette at the original house of pancakes is bigger than his head
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My aunt lynnys pottery

My aunt lynny was a potter. Most of her work was judaica. Growing up around her incredible work was one of the things that originally got me interested in ceramics
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Good night illinois

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Midwest

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Sunset

As the horizon quikly hides the sun, and slowly engulfs sugarloaf mountain
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Face shot glasses

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Zoot suit face jar

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Needwood 5-26

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Current face jug production

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Face jugs 5-22

image/jpeg new face jugs under construction at visarts rockville
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clayman

BOOGA-BOOGA

A theory of gratification, and the pained american psyche, leading to excess culture

When we were not as evolved as we are now as a species we lived subsistence lifestyles. Often very difficult ones. So we would spend our days eeking out life on meager means. So a natural feeling of gratification emerged as a human emotion when we suceeded at existing. Mainly being that of finding food, water, and companionship.
Well now we don't have to exist by meager means any more in most of america. So we don't have that natural gratification of human needs system in place any more. I believe this leads to many human "issues"
1-overeating as an example we are designed to feel gratification when we find food and eat it. It is natural to feel gratifued when one finds fuel to sustain life. So when we overeat it is when we keep trying to attain gratification for finding fuel. But when we constantly have that fuel without any difficulty it creates a paradox within the brain. We overeat to try to achieve gratification and the more we eat the less gratified we get. So we get "depressed" and begin to look for gratification...

Other activities can be substituted for overeating.
Overworking, drinking, sexing, videogame addiction, gambling.

This leads to the conclusion that excess begets excess.

And I believe on a large scale such as in american society it has led us to the very cusp implosion on many different levels.
But of course this is just a theory
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the ultimate market

I say, now is your chance to bid on an original Weisel face jug on Ebay. Starting at 100$ ea. This is your chance to win a piece for you collection!

pressure

Every day i feel that I should be making art, and if I'm not I feel like I should be. I have run into a problem. As an artist I am trained to look at things around me and and create an object from plastic space (usually clay) based upon my memories and studies. The problem is I get disgusted by my work if it reminds me to much of something else...

This is not a controllable response, sometimes I even get nauseously sick when I look at something and it feels like I've already seen it. So I am left with a choice keep "struggling" until I find something "original" or start toting around some barf bags. It is a nasty circle.

Face jugs, may 2008

Face jugs greenware
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Lamp base #1

This is the 1st of a new series of lamps. For a while I plan to make whatever I feel like. Time to play and create and learn.
May 8 2008
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needwood 5-7

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Lake needwood 5-7-08

I had some extra time before dinner. So I visited an old haunt. the lake is kept much lower than it used to be since the damn that held it almost burst during a flood a few years ago.
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Peter Max Easter Bunny

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this is my first blog

hooray!