End The Fed

People, stamping or writing on money is legal as long as you don't obscure the numbers, mutilate the bill to the point that it's unpassable, or attempt to alter the value of the bill. Otherwise, go for it! I've had this stamp since 2006. It's easy to design something in photoshop, then take this to your local neighborhood craftsman and have them create a stamp and then make your feelings known! it's fun and a real conversation starter. It's a way for the people to protest! Be civilly disobediant! I think I'm feeling inspired by this story about a possible Federal Reserve Audit, the FIRST in it's nearly 100 year history! Can you believe that??!!? Don't you think that the American People deserve an audit after this unelected quasi-government institution has driven our economy all that time? I do! Everyone in America needs to watch this speech by Bernie Sanders! Speaking Truth to Power! The only thing I would disagree with Mr. Sanders on is raising taxes. Before taxes are increased on ANYONE we need to patch up all the holes of CORRUPTION in our government from the city to the nationwide to the international level! That would be like pouring wealth into a sieve and supporting a malignant foreign policy!

Bill Moyers With Matt Taibbi and Yves Smith on the Banks

This is a MUST WATCH video regarding the world economy. Spend 28 minutes and soak up some outrage that we should all be feeling!

mosh pit

Are there rules in a mosh pit? Are there rules on Wall Street? Our banks get to throw all the elbows they want and it's the common people who are bleeding and broken as a consequence. I'm not sure what's next for the world. Are we going to be conned and cowed into thinking that more bigger bailouts and 'stimulus' are going to solve anything? As we get closer to the Black Hole, the forces grow parabolically greater until there isn't a number yet thought of that could possibly 'fix' anything.

This image spins off another painting I have going of Wall Street traders buying and selling on the exchange. Both paintings are going to be in the Hive Gallery show this July 7th! It's my homage to George Bellows! oil on canvas, 36 by 48.

Stand Up Rage! Max Keiser and Alex Schaefer

the Alex Schaefer Hour Mosh Pit Madness

I had a lot of fun on the Alex Schaefer Hour yesterday so I thought I'd post a picture of the new work in progress I started on the show and you can listen to it all! acrylic on canvas, 36 by 48

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the kiss

this is a theme that every artist I have ever loved has painted! This is my second attempt from the same photo reference, a smirnoff ad in playboy magazine november 1980. ooh! that's some good vodka right? is Smirnoff still advertising in playboy? ahahhaha! yeah no. I cropped in on the original photo which shows the entire length of the female model; I like this closer focus. I went full fauve here! put your goggles on, the paint is flying.

painting the Arts District

A bunch of friends and I have been going painting in the Arts District centered around 3rd and Traction. In fact here's a painting of that very intersection! It's a cool part of Los Angeles and in the time I've lived in LA, what an amazing transformation. oil on canvas, 24 by 12

art burrito

cut out a 12 inch circle canvas tortilla. Soak in water then brush with gloss medium. "toast" the canvas tortilla on a bumpy surface with burnt umber and a palette knife. remove art waste from the trash and place on the art tortilla. fold in half, fold in the ends, roll the burrito over and you're almost done. Sign the art tortilla and give it a final basting of gloss medium. Ready to consume!

Fuck the 80's: Bummer Games

Seriously. Here's a painting from the series that was finished for the Charlie James show last month. This is a clothing ad from a 1984 Playboy magazine. What the hell were we thinking with those shorts? That's a lot of man-thigh. The three red white and blue medalists smacks of American Exceptionalism, an idea held by our political leaders that the USA is above the law; it's an attitude that over the years has done nothing but breed hatred for our arrogance. Here's a shot of the painting in progress and then the finished piece. As always, I try to continually work the entire canvas from the initial slap dash attack to the details. It makes it fun to do and look at! oil on canvas, 48 by 36

Jamie Dimon is a Suicide Banker

JP Morgan Chase Bank and the rest of the Too Big To Fail Banks are Economic Terrorists better poised than any other institution in the world to take down the American Dream more pervasively and completely than any "terrorist organization" identified by the CIA, the Department of State, and our government. They will cause more fear and disruption to civilization than Al Queda, the Taliban, the Martyrs Brigade, ELF, the Shining Path, the Revolutionary Struggle, the Aryan Nations, the Black Liberation Army, the Army of God, etc etc etc combined! Their campaign of annihilation will hit every state, every city, every neighborhood, every savings account, every pension fund, every single person across the country and world. We need to rethink what is terrorism folks. Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs are all State Sponsored Terrorists.