Judgment is slightly overrated!
Well, once again! I am back! It has been a while but hard work in the lab is allowing me to hangout with you guys again!
I have made some great strives in growing my designs business and connected with some really talented individuals. There are some new tools and designs that have been added to my arsenal of industry leading marketing tools.
I hope to get some real positive feedback and some great leads on new technology businesses. Hope everyone is doing well! Keep organic design alive!
I’ve been missing in action because life is throwing everything it has at me and it’s just me, my family and friends! I am spiritually inclined and there is always light at the end of the tunnel… it just seems every time I get a glimpse something comes and block my view.
As a freelance artist I continue to struggle and for the first time; I have become a starving artist. I choose to give up the office life for a better life me and my children. But finding work in American is not as easy as it should be… thanks Washington D.C.!
Big corporations have become the voice and house speaker for the country but not because they raided a country or state but because people have dedicated their live to chasing paper (greed of money). The average citizen in any country works to pay bill and live another day, but the greedy individual wants it all. They will do anything to get it, have a customer sign a contract which is set up for fail.
I believe in people and USA is not the government, it is the people who work hard with blood sweat and tears. I am proud to be a citizen in this great country but the politics and aggressive foreign policies has other countries view on American as greedy individuals.
There are so many people that are giving back now a days but they just don’t get the attention like the bad guys. I’m am currently trying to fight off homelessness and have to get back to the lab, my art is all I have but we will pick up right here.
Stay positive!
Well they say God will not put anything on your plate that you cannot handle. This I believe to be true, however; the Government in a whole other entity and will! I have worked all my life and did what I needed to do as a father to raise my children. I’ve worked two jobs to pay off a past due balance on child support. My oldest or twenty (soon to be twenty-one) and nineteen (soon to be twenty).
I have not worked a full-time job since 2009 and fell behind in payments that in any other state would have stop when they turned eighteen. I just graduated from the Art Institute for Graphic Design and I am determined to work in my field or start my own business as a freelance artist/designer.
I try to stay positive but it seems all elements are working against me, every problem that I encounter; I solve with cognitive solutions. People always say it could be worst, and it just seems to get worst. Now New York State is attacking me again as if I was a dead beat father and it is just not so; you can ask my kids; with the exception of my oldest son. We had an arguement on Facebook about money he needed and just did not have the funds.
This is the government master plan, dislocate the father and make his life so incredible dismayed until he is non-existed. Now Uncle Sam can come in as head of the household, and make sure; the family is solely depended upon the system.
I never hid from my children or the support system it was something put in place by an angry women; with nothing but revenge in her heart. Men are running away from their children and working meaningless jobs the pay under the books or just giving up and not working at all.
I will not let their system come between me and my children, also I will continue to build myself. I am not giving up like some many are today; look at the suicide rate and how many are military. They continue to drive us like cattle in herd towards death and poverty; our children minds are riddled with sex and money.
You can not force a man in to poverty but garnishing wages they he cannot possibly afford; it make no sense. You cannot give the woman or man the power to destroy another passion for life because of a broken relationship.
The real dead beat father; never see a day of court or waged garnishments, because they have victimized someone mind beyond repair and nine time out of ten release from parental rights. I know this for fact because I’ve seen it done so many times and it make me sick. This is not Gods plan, this is the Three Little Pigs of Government; the three branches of Government. It must end, there is no one standing up for the single parent who is struggling alone, without any hope. I do not ever mix Government/Politics with religion but people say just pray and keep holding on; something goods coming your way.
And I will continue to pray but Someone has to take a stand for the last standing Father’s Day… or just end it!
I love you Dad!
Cardinal Fan for Life!
I have been airbrushing for about twenty years are so and I am self taught. When I purchased my first brush, it did not come with instructions. There was no Google or YouTube, so I had to purchase Airbrush Magazines and learn from the best. Also there was group of artist who mastered the airbrush so well they open a shop on Jamaica Avenue in Jamaica Queens. The Shirt Kings we great artist able to deliver some of the best work on the East coast.
Yet I never did get to work with them so I could not operate this tool and put it down for about two years. Well I was working in a distribution center as a manager of the shipping dock and had my second child. I know the wages would not be enough to raise these beautiful little girls, so I picked the airbrush up and began to practice relentlessly. Until finally… a job well done.
I moved to Virginia for a summer to rehab my grandfathers house and took a job in a small Flea Market in Portsmouth. I am pretty sure it was where I did my best work, the owner was a graphic designer and some what of an artist but he had just lost his airbrush artist and I actually ran the booth for him. He purchase a Kit from the West Coast Airbrush company, out of California. These guys are pro’s and it was the videos were very informational, I learned a lot on how to make the shirts look professional. That year he got a booth at the Black Expo in Richmond VA and I did get a lot of exposure and ran into a classmate who was a recording artist also performing (Damon Hall from Guy). Dude… he remember me!
I really did some great pieces and unfortunately loss the portfolio (it hurts to go into detail) but I think I still have a Polaroid from the expo. However, it was not paying the bills; so I went back to school but not for art. I was able to obtain a certificate for medical billing (Medical Assistant) and land some really good jobs. By now I’m on my third kid and broke up with the kids mother, yeah that is right, child support.
Even though I landed a job working in an office with health insurance, it was still hard to pay the bills. So once again I picked up the airbrush for additional income and working two jobs. If you do not suffer for your art, you might be designer.
Well unemployed and it’s about to run out; I have not choice but to bring my skills to the table and do what I love. Office work does not appeal unless i’m designing or using the skills I learned at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, where I gained an Associates Degree for Graphic Design.
I am currently doing some freelance work and hope to land a big account with major designer or distributor. I love branding, logo, web design and creating brand awareness, social media is the best place for awareness but its all about growing business.
I could go on forever but my stomach just growled… talk with you later!
Have a great day!
I created this fictitious magazine cover for a friend after seeing her post this picture of her beautiful little girl on Facebook. We have known each other for quite some time now and it has been a great platonic relationship.
We met through a mutual friend and she gave me a ride home from Main St., after a great night of socializing. I think we kind of bonded in that ride because the conversation was great as she and I were going through some rough times.
She moved to California but was able to maintain the friendship through social media. She met the love of her life, got married and had her first born. I was very happy for her because she is a special person. You can tell she is special by the way she is raising her little princess.
When I seen this picture; I was speechless! Wonder how many people opt to give their child the notion of diversity and how to embrace it. I was working with a black lady inside Sam’s Club as an outside vendor. A young black girl with a child came to our booth to see the presentation, she had a white doll in her basket. The black lady said you need to get a black doll, this upset me but I did not say anything because it was not the place or the time.
When we start raising our children and inserting moral values early on; it fortifies their social setting for later in life. My friend is quite a few years younger than me and not my age or race ever played a roll in our friendship. Til this very day we don’t socialize on a daily basis and I’ve not seen her since she has returned to Missouri, but our respect for each other still remains the same, it is my hopes that this picture goes viral and one day we all will respect and love each other the same.
We cannot all get along; but we can respect one another.
One!
My good friend Kevin suffered a stroke late last year and was moved to a nursing/rehab facility. He did not suffer much damage but he has been on a ventilator since October. He is know on a cap where they can remove the vent in the day and so he sleep comfortably, he’s on it at night.
I went to see him today because they have moved him very far away and times are extremely hard for me being unemployed and no transportation, we have not seen each other since last month. He was very happy to see me, I have been taking care of his business and making sure he has what he needs. His family lives in Iowa and they have been there for him as well.
We have lived together for about 4 years and became good friends, like any two people living together; there are ups and downs. Kevin is a good ole farm boy and is a good nature man. He is kind hearted and worked very hard just to make ends meet.
Unfortunate he lost his primary job early last year so he did not have medical benefits, so I had a lot to do to get him the proper medical attention he needs for recovery. I applied for medicaid and disability for him and it took a while but things have finally been approved and he can get better treatment and a good facility.
It is very hard to find good friends these days because everyone is so consumed with themselves, trust is not easily handed out. I’m not sure if Kevin could do what I have done for him for me but it is not important, the important thing he is happy and smiling and talking again. If I had to, I would do it again!