crafty pillars of the squandered masses

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These are some small scale pieces I made at the beginning of the year.

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I started taking some designs and painting them onto shirts. I have about three but this is the only one that I have posted up. The other images are just random things that I decided to post. I hope you enjoy.

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This is a screen shot taken from channel 24 in Atlanta. Interesting stuff comes on the public access channel ever Friday night. Everything from booty butt shakers to guys with bottles taped on their heads saying that they are from another planet and talking about doing the right thing.

This is a painting that I made which is inspired by Basquiat. I have been wanting to paint something like this for a very long time. I love Basquiat's work, and even though it looks very similar to something Basquiat would do I like it very much.

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This is my newest painting. I wish I could have taken a better picture that wasn't so blurry. Hopefully everyone will be able to see it up close and personal someday.

my first show!

2008-05-20T17:10:00.000-07:00

hey if you are in town and can make it please come!

2008-05-11T15:59:00.000-07:00

These are just some of the images that I made in photoshop for a school project where I had to make some cd's.

2008-05-02T08:36:00.000-07:00

These are 10 by 10 inch paintings on fabric. The images are painted and then hand stitched. The paintings will soon be up for sale on the website http://www.craftmonsters.etsy.com, and there will be more designs with more color combinations to come.

The work of Marcus Kenney at the See Gallery in SCAD Atlanta

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This was my most recent assignment in my waterbased media class. The topic for the work was culture vs. nature. The piece was made using gouache, dirt, tea, and ink.

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Bagels for hands

2008-04-14T22:17:00.000-07:00

I was looking back at the old posts from senior year of high school to now and I had a good laugh. Everyone was always very nice with the comments which always made me feel good. I especially liked Chandler Gordon's comment from way back in the day about how he has bagels for hands. I cant remember which post he was commenting on, but I liked it quite a bit. I cant believe I have kept the blog going for this long. Seems like the hay day of blogging has come and gone, but oh well. Maybe it will make a come back.

I will try my best to keep updating and to keep delivering images that your eyes can feast upon. Peace to those with and without bagels for hands. Oh and check out the old stuff if you haven't seen it in a while. I miss those days.

Here is an image I made back in the summer of 2007 for an illustration class.

2008-04-13T21:23:00.000-07:00

oil fruit and gouache shoes

2008-04-12T18:23:00.000-07:00

These are some paintings from this spring quarter and from the winter quarter at scad. The fruit paintings are from the winter quarter and the shoes were made just last week for my water based media class.

Oil paintings? Oil shmaintings.

2008-04-11T11:09:00.000-07:00

I know it has been a long time since I posted. I dont think anyone still checks up on this blog, but here is some oil paintings I made during my winter quarter at scad. I like the work but I wish that the picture for my self portrait was a little more clear. The paintings look very different in real life, and I hope to show you all the real deals some day.

So far to go

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Hooray! Apparently I can log in my account again so I will probably be posting something golden and fuzzy pretty soon.

simple

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Thou shall not take part in bad art

2006-06-01T10:05:00.000-07:00

For my color theory final I had to recreate an artist's work. I chose to recreate the painting "To Believe In Food" by Jonathan Lasker.

For my last 3-D design project I had to make a replica of a food item using a substance known as sculpty. I chose to replicate some alfalfa sprouts. In this picture there are fake sprouts mixed with real alfalfa sprouts. Can you tell which ones are fake and which ones are real?

This is the last post of the school year. Hopefully I will continue to post during the summer. Without a digital camera I might go back to poetry. I thank everyone who came and checked out the posts.

To Richard and Emily

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Go to colorquiz.com and take the color quiz. It is really neato

Easter day at my G-ma's pad

2006-04-18T13:59:00.000-07:00

My mom is the one with the ear muffs on.
All artwork below is by my uncle. The guy without glasses.

Broken land treaty with the Creek Indians. Signed by President Martin Van Buren.

All indian artifacts seen above were found by my grandfather in Lee County.

We need to uncover the Danny Glover within all of us.

To kindle softly colored erosions of an unorthodox winter spell

2006-04-11T22:50:00.000-07:00

Of Montreal video

2006-04-02T19:32:00.000-07:00

Two students at SCADA made a Of Montreal video that is going to be on MTV.
Check it out at www.radicalfriends.com

Frosty Feeling

2006-03-28T21:08:00.000-08:00

Lets Stay Together

2006-03-27T21:42:00.000-08:00

I set my harpoon for stun
while you heat up a hot dog bun
just sit back and laugh
as I flex my gat for fun

True to the word
you goat theives got nerve
busting out the ransom note
while Juan rounds up the herd

Plump pigeons in the kitchen
while I'm doing the sac religion

Yo

uno dei gruppi

2006-03-12T22:51:00.000-08:00

Grandaddy poster

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the ice cream truck at night plays don't believe the hype

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Some recent sketches

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Bird in flight and portrait in progress

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Those aren't bags under my eyes they are just reflections from my glasses.

2006-01-12T23:13:00.000-08:00

These pics are a few sketches I worked on over the Christmas break.

And an evening with Nour's hookah.

Class assignments

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Daft Punk stamp I made for a 2-D design project.

A self portrait for Drawing 1.

Here are a few more drawings I thought were really neato.
Paul

Saja

Lacey

Students work from a different class.

My friend Nour working on a still life with a cool automatic eraser.

Selected Sketches

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Come Together

Muffins

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Chomski's Demise

Untitled

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Thanks to my friend Marshall I can upload sketchbook pictures onto my site now.
I call this one "Under the Weather".

Poetry for Pohuski

2005-11-17T10:15:00.000-08:00

Here are three poems I have posted on Steven J. Pohuski's (Richard's old room mate) webpage.

1.
Oh Pohuski
you yearn for clarity
but the bewildered badger
that frolicks to and fro in your soul
will not let your clouded senses
become smog free

2.
wow pohuski! college life must be grand
spending so much time with your head in the sand
letting the breeze take all your cares away
until supply runs low and you have nothing to say

burden your spaniel for the winter time
crave the blood that flows in that vine
and tangle with the masses that tickle your spine

wow pohuski! where art thou bro in the forgotten clan

3.
rambunctious revelry
is the thought process
of babylon's beverly

know this. for fortunes feline follows only the ones who tread in clear streams.

I think I will keep it going

2005-10-05T21:56:00.000-07:00

We like to mellow out our moments
with a little thing called jimmy
just a taste for the tongues tip
to remind us of how sweet life can be.

2005-09-30T10:11:00.000-07:00

Loft @ Earthlink Live: Fri. 9/30/05, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, 9:00pm
Wed. 10/11/05, Metric
Thurs. 10/12/05, Brazilian Girls, 10:15pm (Hell yes I'll be there)
Sat. 11/12/05, Super Furry Animals

2005-09-19T11:30:00.000-07:00

Check out these awesome shows for the fall 2005.

Variety Playhouse: Wed. 9/21/05 - Mike Gordon and Leo Kottke
Fri. 9/30/05 - Gabby La La and Particle
Thurs. and Fri. 10/13-14/05- Henry Rollins
Mon. 10/17/05- Destroyer, Immaculate Machine, and
The New Pornagraphers
Sat. 10/22/05- Buckethead
Sat. 10/29/05- Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
Mon. 10/31/05- Perpetual Groove

Fox Theater: Fri. 10/14/05- Nickel Creek and Old Creek Medicine Show
Fri. and Sat. 10/21-22/05- String Cheese Incident
Mon. and Tues. 12/12-13/05- Phil Lesh and Friends

Drunken Unicorn: Wed. 9/27/05- Of Montreal
Fri. 11/11/05- Perceptionists feat. Mr. Lif

Tabernacle: Mon. 9/26/05- Bloc Party
Thurs. 9/29/05- Decemberists with Sons and Daughters
Sat. 10/29/05- Death Cab For Cutie with Stars
Fri. 12/09/05- KC and The Sunshine Band

Roxy: Thurs. 10/6/05- My Morning Jacket and Kathleen Edwards
Mon. 11/07/05- Matisyahu

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Hello my friends. I hope you are all doing well where ever you all are. If you would like to get in touch with me outside of this blog my email address is sabrah20@student.scad.edu

Ok I messed up, but the address is correct now.

Quotes from The Courtyard

2005-05-05T22:00:00.000-07:00

Here are three great passages from Alan Moore's The Courtyard.

1. All events are time roses, the clenched fuck uncrumpling into a life as the species folds back to annelian ancestors.

2. Cul-de-sac trashcan enclosures dab ghostfish and hornet-hung fruit on night's pulse points.

3.The word burst inside me like summer thunder, sends scarabs and swastikas rippling over the screen of my eyelids.

fart

2005-05-04T20:47:00.000-07:00

fart forth fantastic fragrance
aroma arouses anger all around
reeking wrath ruins righteous reign
tainting those tasteful times

2005-03-18T12:32:00.000-08:00

kraft cheese is tasty yum
into the yellow i bury my thumb
i'll take it out to have a taste
consuming the entire bit of yellow paste

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Savor and weave your obedient basket
or cast an early shadow upon your doubtful casket

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can you wave a flag of bodaciousness
and cry one tear of gold
only to dash it all to cinders
and turn yourself to the cold

Untitled

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cursed and scorned are the aborted forms
tangled and annihilated in forgotten swarms
they get no chance to crawl and prance
in an invisible world they do their limbo dance

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crafty pillars of the squandered masses
dribble slowly down life's crippled path

Rosemary

2004-11-28T18:02:00.000-08:00

To the eye
there is not much attraction
nothing more than the usual green

To the touch
there is no geniune feeling
a special texture cannot be found

But to the nose
there is a freshness
that no other body part can sense

A smell that glides into the nostrils
and traps itself inside
so that the nose never forgets
nature's gift of rosemary

Tasty Tangy Berry Chew

2004-11-19T14:39:00.000-08:00

tasty tangy berry chew
taint my mouth with turquoise blue
holding strong with wax like texture
while the tongue tangos with the sector
of tasty tangy berry chew

Untitled and Weird Beard

2004-11-18T19:11:00.000-08:00

There are drifters, grifters, and shady shell shock shifters
And they all hold their own wrinkle in my brain

While the tsunami greets us with wet death
Memories of all of them
Drift like gondolas through the cracks of my skin

they say that if you want the best
see Weird Beard for success
and gladly for a price
he will prick you once or thrice
with a poisoned needle tip
grabs your heart with a kung fu grip

Seasons within a day

2004-11-06T15:47:00.000-08:00

Spring arrives in the morning, summer comes at noon,
Fall is present at twilight, and winter begins with the rising moon.

I asked the fool if he was willing

2004-10-04T21:10:00.000-07:00

Recently I was given an assignment in AP English 12 to write 5 limericks. I was thinking of using this one.

I asked the fool if he was willing
to eat a pie with manuer filling
he said yes
made a mess
and announced to all the taste was thrilling

Four rows from Wilco

2004-09-24T08:55:00.000-07:00

Four rows from Wilco
And the music is divine
My friend and I cheer with the audience
As hypnotic tunes direct my mind
I go in and out of trances
Energy from the crowd intensifies
While pseudo hippies perform ridiculos dances
Numerous guitars wail like screaming chickens
On the stage the leader singer calmly prances
In and out through the aisles
People storm the bar for beer
But I just stand and listen
While Jeff Tweedy tells Bush
He can kiss my rear (not even close to what he really said)
After it was over
The moment was captured and enclosed
To a special place in my head
Where I can go to remember when I forget
That the Wilco show at the Fox
Was the shit.

2004-09-22T08:53:00.000-07:00

Couldn't find a morsel for a meal
that was worth consuming
Couldn't see the goodness in the preachers words
for they were all dooming
Couldn't think of how to begin the process
because I was so use to the concluding
Couldn't find a special spice
to brighten the stew I was brewing

2004-09-15T20:26:00.000-07:00

Bitter wads of cosmic goo
you stuck to me
when i stepped on you
you were always there for me
at the bottom of my shoe
smearing gladness across the grass when i ran
never criticizing my big master plan
you never did say much
always thankful when i gave you something to munch
bitter wads of cosmic goo
please say that you like me too

Across the bridge and Puddle of Pud

2004-09-11T15:31:00.000-07:00

Thanks to everyone for posting those nice comments from my first post.

Across the bridge in the land of gaping mouths
a voice cried out it's unending hymn of praise
a voice sighed before its' spirit was to fade
and two ragacious rouges
were brought humiliated upon a stage
spitting with disgust
at their brothers who had been betrayed
by the one who accused the rouges of doing the inhumane

Puddle of Pud
why were you a dud
we sat side by side in prison
digging our pirdeless ditches
later I gave you kingdoms and riches
and you repay me with a duck!

What the fuck!

Large Masses of Floating Green

2004-09-08T20:33:00.000-07:00

Hello. My name is Sean Abrahams and this is my blog.

Large masses of floating green
bring forth visions of new things to come
and whisper gently into our ears
your message of wisdom

Large masses of floating green
bring forth refreshing drops of moisture from the sky
and caress the soil that misses you so

Large masses of floating green
bring forth the kisses you left hiding in the sink
and let the strength of their spring hit me hard enough
so that I can remember how beautiful it all use to be
when I'm too old and in the way

More soon to come... Fuck Splenda!