More Artist's Info.

"More about The Artist"

FAMILY: My sister is married, retired from business and resides in Southern California.

The following categories are a collection of my . . .

FAVORITES:

• ART: Surrealism, photo-realism, satire, humor
• PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTISTS: Ansel Adams, Scott Mutter, Diane Arbus,
• COLORS: 18% gray, Fire engine-red and navy blue
• SHAPES; Triangles, circles
• PAINTERS: Yves Tanguy, Dali, John Douglas Cline, Van Gogh, Rockwell, Edouard Manet , M.C.Escher,
   H. Bosch, Von Dutch, Ron Cobb, Roberta Matta, Robert Williams
• SCULPT-ERS: Rodin, Claire Faulkenstein, Ellen Burr
• CHESS PLAYERS: Garry Kasparov, Deep Blue 4, Adam ferell, Moss Savitt
• ART WORKS: Moonrise Hernandez (Ansel Adams), Luncheon on the Grass (Manet)
• ART TERMS: Chiaroscuro, Horror Vacui, Rule Of Thirds, Avant-Garde, Ambiguity
• ART AUCTIONS ONLINE: Craigslist, Ebay, Ibid
• ART TECHNIQUES: Squinting, Early morning notes/creating, I ching ect.
• MUSEUMS: J. P. Getty, M.O.C.A., Kodak, Pompidou, Eastman
• CAREERS: Teaching; photography, flying rings, sport Judo, urban motorcycling, and Housesitting,
• ADVISES: Stay focused, maintain well being, coexist with others, avoid depression, stay busy, be educated, reorganize, renovate, replenish, stay alive we are all needed!
• QUOTES: "To err is human, to really screw up use a computer". . J. Hayden, "4 sure"
  "Doin a what comes naturally", "Can't we all just get along" King
• BOOKS: Photoshop 7 & CS 1, Art of Living, HTML for Dummies, Art, Interpretation of dreams, Psychic sciences, Touched with Fire, Unquiet Mind, Book Of Lists, Zen and the art of M M, Almanac, North Beach, 90291
• DICTIONARIES: slang, rhyming, thesaurus, Google, etc.   
• BOOK (Publishing) IDEAS: Life: "Somewhere Between Rapid Cycling And Multitasking, "There once was a planet that lived"
• INVENTIONS: Lifelight (auto safety), The Uninsured Motorist Detecter (gag) , Anti-cellphone driving...bumper stickers
• SCREEN PLAY: Van Go-er (a saga from "Urban Vehicular Domesticity")
• LIBRARIES: Venice, Santa Monica, Marina Del Rey, Mar Vista, Los Angeles LAPL, Beverly Hills
• TIME OF DAY & NIGHT: Sunrise...Day 10: AM / Night 7:00 PM.....Sunset
• AIR TEMP: . . 75° (day) . . . 68° (Eve.)
• WEATHER CONDITIONS: Light overcast (days) clear (nights)
• PLANETS: Earth, Moon
• RADIO STATIONS: KXLU, KPFK, KCRW, KWAV, KFWB, KPPC, STAR 98.7
• RECORDING ARTISTS: Eva Cassidy, Rickie Lee Jones, Lyle Tuttle, Smokey Robinson, Bobby Hatfield, Alicia Keys, Corrine Bailey Reye, Christina Agulaura, Chris Daughtry Etc.
  
• MUSIC: Salsa, Instrumentals, Blues, jazz, Techno, R&B, Rock, Ballads, classical
• MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: Flute, Hand drums (congas), auto dashboards at traffic signals
• DOG BREEDS: Olde English Bulldogs, Dobermans, Yellow labs, Ibizan (Pharaoh) Hounds , Jack Russell terriers, Rat Terriers, Schipperkes, Mutts,
• CATS: Tabbies, Burmese
• ANIMALS: Elephants, Giraffes, Dogs, Cats, Orangoutangs, Horses
• WEAPONS FOR SELF DEFENSE: Empathy, The kind word, Kevlar, Capsaicinoid (pepper spray), Judo, Tai Chi, keep eyes open, tell a joke, yell, count to ten, Block and Duck, quick recovery from the opposions aggression
  
• FOODS:
  DO"S: Eat enough but not too much, especially at dinner, chew well, smell your foods, filtered or spring water, 100% whole wheat bread (sparingly) Olive oil, Stevia extract (sugar sub.)
  grind up vitamins, Fiber, whole grains, veggies, fruits, melons, limes, garlic, tuna, chicken, Brown rice supplements; Green Magma, whey Protein powder
  
  
• DONT'S: White: bread, rice, pasta; refined sugar, salt, sodas, saturated fats, fried foods,
  red meat, junk food, MSG, preservatives, tobacco, alcohol, caffeine, aspartame,
  Sucralose, Nutra Sweet, Splenda etc.
  READ: "Fit For Life" by Harvey Diamond, H. Shelton, B. Sears &, jm@mercola.com,
  Paul Bragg (fasting), Gary Null etc.
  
  
• RESTAURANTS: Vietnamese Pho soup (Downtown), Tarasco's, Titos, Buffet city
• CLOTHING: Cargo shorts, baseball caps, golf & T- shirts, flip-flops
  
• SPORTS: Gymnastics (Flying Rings) Grand National Champion (1959),
    Raquetball, Boogieboarding,  single & dual line stunt-kite flying
• EXERCISING: Bicycling, deep breathing, Boogieboarding, racquetball, crunches
• GYM EQUIPMENT: Rowing and crunch machines
• PASTIMES: Social contacts, website design, photoshoping imagery, getting ducks in line, Planning, organizing, current events, art openings, kiting flying, travel, relaxing, fanaticizing, international e-mail pen-paling,
• ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES: Quonsit, Geodesic domes, Under ground, sub-aquatic
• FURNITURE: Hammock, pillow
  
• STUDIES: Website design, Photoshop CS, photography, nutrition
• SPECTATOR SPORTS: Gymnastics, Boxing, UFC, Big Wave Surfing, Tennis, SuperMoto
• GYMNASTS: Albert Azarian Dmitri Bilozerchev, Nadia Comaneci, Olga Corbet,
• BOXERS: Men; Rocky Marciano, Mohammed Ali, Joe Luis, Ray (Windmill) White, Georg Foreman, Butter Bean,
• WOMEN; Lala Ali, Christie Mc Martin
• BODY BUILDERS: Jack La Lane, Dr. Franco Colombo, Larry Scott, (female) Corey Iverson, Bev Frances
• FATAL HEALTH PREVENTION: Black Mold Toxicity; Bleach, Kilz (paint) Damprid (hardware store product) dehumidifier, open windows during the day, replace organic materials with synthetic materials (such as carpets wood boards, and beams, replace with tile etc.), deep breathing exercises
• HEALTH WEBSITES: Mercola.com-Ehealthy.com
• SWAP MEETS: TRW Parking lot (Computer & Eletronics)-Last Sat. morn of each month at 7am, Long Beach ;autoparts & custom car show-2nd Sunday morn. Rose Bowl Sundays all day, Saugus on Sundays
• THRIFT SHOPS: Santa Barbara, Ventura (Downtown), Santa Monica, Oxnard
• MOVIES: (dramatic) Rebel Without A Cause, BlackBoard Jungle, Last Tango In Paris, 2001 A Space Oddessy, 7th Samurai, Shock Corridor, Flash Gordon, God's Must Be Crazy, Door to Door, Coco's Nest, Bicycle Thief, Koyanisqatsai, Bagdad Cafe, Loved one, Being there, Outbreak, Torque, Mind's Eye, The Gate, Heart is a lonley hunter, Wildone, King  Kong, Pawnbroker,
  Cast away, 5Th Element, An Inconvient Truth
• MOVIES: (comedy): Modern Times, Hulot's Holiday, Little Rascals, Laurel & Hardy's, Eastside Kids, Hellsapoppin
• SCENES: Bath tub...in the Good, Bad, and The Ugly, from Harry meets Sally, "I'll have what she's having
• ACTORS: (dramatic); Tishiro Mifune, Rod Stieger, James Edwards, Lee Van Cleeve, Sidney Portier, Jack Nickolson, Robert DiNiro, Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Peter Lorre, Morgan Freeman, Steve McQueen, Russell Crowe, Humphrey Bogart, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Arkin, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Jack Palance, Densel Washington,
• ACTORS: (comedy); Buster Keaton, W.C. Fields, Jacques Tate, Laurel & Hardy, Peter Sellers, Steve Harvey, Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy, Richie Pryor, Keenan Ivory Wienans, Christopher Titus, Michael Richards
• ACTRESSES: (dramatic) Sissily Tyson, Jean Stapleton, Katharine Hepburn,
  Tyne Daly, Jessica Tandy, Faye Dunaway, Halle Berri,
• ACTRESSES: (comedy) Shelly Long, Katey Sagal, Lilly Tomlin, Jean Stapleton, Carol Burnett
• TV: (dramatic) Dragnet, Then Came Bronson
• ONE LINERS: "I'll buy that for a dollar" (ROBOCOP), "we don't need no stinkin badges" (Seirra Madre)
    "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" (Gable-Gone W T Wind), "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more"(Network), "I wouldn't hirt a fly" (Psycho), "What we've got here is a failure to communicate" (Cool Hand Luke), "Rosebud" (C. Kane), "I could have been a contender" (Brando-On the waterfront)
• PROVERBS: "Those who laugh...last"
• TV: (comedy) All in The Family, Honeymooners, Life of Riley, In Living Color, Seinfeld, Titus, Americas Funnest Videos,
  
• TV GAME SHOWS: Jeopardy, Millionaire, Mr. wizard, Beat The Clock, Lotto, You Bet Your Life, DeaL
• TV MAGAZINES: You Asked For It, 60 Minutes, Ripley's
• TV CHANNELS: 28, 7, 2, 13, 50
• Radio talk shows: Kabc, Kppc, Kcrw
• CIRCUS: Cirque De Soliel, Pickle Family, Big Apple, Chinese Magic, Ringling Bros.
• CARTOON CHARACTERS: Popeye, Simpsons, Ren and Stimpy, Duckman, Betty boop, Heckle & Jeckle,
• ANIMATED FILMS: Toy Story, Minds Eye, The Gate, Simpsons, American Dad, South Park
• LOGOS: Apple (Mac), 99 cents only, Edsel
• TYPES OF VEHICLES; These photo-illustrated vehicles are my favorites chosen out of
  54 different autos and 27 different motorcycles I've acquired the past 47 years. After all the dust has settled, Wishfully, I'd rather own a... Brinks Armored Car ($ Full for life), an Ambulance (that rides behind me, especially while riding a bicycle, motorcycle, or as a pedestrian in traffic)...or a UPS or FEDEX truck (so that I'm allowed to park any where I damn well want too, with impunity!) and a JET-PAC or motorized surfboard, ready to be launched from within 100 yards from anywhere I'm at presently in preparation for the arrival of the...BIG WAVE!
  
  
• My ex: Vans, Rolling Condos., Hot Rods, Sports/Pleasure Cars and Motorcycles

63 VW Microbus.	63 Jeep 4x4 Wagon	63 Ford Econoline	91 Ford Aerostar 4,ooo watt stereo	78 Dodge B-300 V-8 converted campervan
27 T Roadster	40 Willys Coupe	56 Austin-Healey	51 Mercury 2Dr	69 Mercedes 280 Sedan

1973 Triumph 750 cc Cafe-Bonneville	2001 Yamaha, 600 cc Dual-sport motard	1954 B.S.A Goldstar	1963 BSA Rocket Three

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