shameless self promotion . . ?

stardate:7.13.06 on the road, colorado

2006-07-14T19:21:00.000-07:00

howdy,
today i'm in boulder, colorado
catching up after being in the bush
at the rainbow gathering
here north of steamboat springs
for the past few weeks

driving east to minn.
for the 10,000 lakes festival
where i'll be exhibiting
& selling my work
on shakedown street
then heading east
to the cape where i'm from
if i make enough cash
i'd like to make it to
the european gathering
in yorkshire, england
before heading back out west
for burning man

yesterday i posted this on my website
& thought of you...:

click on the link below
to watch a free videoclip
of the first 33minutes of
"..the song of my soul.."
recording session:
http:// daenglish.com/
songofmysoulsession33min.wmv

hope you're having one of the best summers of your life

blessings & grace
d

just for fun

2006-05-07T23:39:00.000-07:00

took an i.q. test online from tickle.com
here's what they had to say:

Your IQ score is:
You scored 136 on Tickle's IQ test. This means that based on your answers, your IQ score is between 126 and 136. Most people's IQs are between 70 and 130.
In fact, 95% of all people have IQs within that range. 68% of people score between 80 and 120.

There's more to intelligence than a single number, a single score or a single label. Tickle uses four distinguishable Intelligence Scales in the Ultimate IQ Test. By analyzing your individual scores on those four scales, we are able to look beyond the raw IQ score into how you process information and thereby determine your Intellectual Type.

Your Intellectual Type Is:
Your mind's strengths allow you to think ahead of the game �?? to imagine or anticipate what should come next in just about any situation. Because you're equally skilled in the numerical and verbal universes of the brain, you can draw from multiple sources of information to come up with great ideas. The timelessness of your vision and the balance between your various skills are what make you a Visionary Philosopher.

In addition to your strengths in math and linguistics, you have a knack for matching and anticipating patterns. These skills and your uncanny ability to detect the underlying blueprint of most of life's situations add to your Visionary Philosopher mind.
Two philosophers who share the same combination of skills you possess are Plato and Benedict Spinoza. Spinoza had insight into how things worked in the world. He could envision a future based on the patterns he saw in life, and used mathematical logic as a structure within which to present his philosophical arguments. With that base he was able to use logic to formulate his theories. Borrowing from his linguistic strengths he wrote eloquent texts and, therefore, was able to bring his philosophical ideas and structure to the rest of the world. His story exemplifies the talents that are present in the Visionary Philosopher intellectual type.

Whatever you decide to do in life, you've got a powerful mix of skills and insight that can be applied in a wide variety of ways. You can expand your mind to understand a situation. Your strong balance of math and verbal skills will help you explain things to others. For example, if you were on an archaeological dig and discovered an object, you could probably use your deductive powers to figure out not only what the object was but also how it was used. Given your ability to put things together, you are more than capable of inventing a life plan that is in synch with your perspective on how things were, how they are, and how they might be one day. Great Jobs For You
Because of the way you process information, these are just some of the many careers in which you could excel:
Archaeologist
Detective
Psychologist
Sculptor
Architect
City planner
Chief executive

Some of Your Greatest Talents
You've got tons of strengths. It wouldn't surprise us if you:
Think of the "big picture"
Can anticipate and predict patterns
Are good at context clues
Can see similarities in seemingly disparate things

Now let's look at the factors that contribute to you being a Visionary Philosopher with a 136 IQ score.

Based on the results of your test, Tickle divided your scores into four distinguishable dimensions �?? mathematical intelligence, visual-spatial intelligence, linguistic intelligence and logic intelligence.

Here's how each of your intelligence scores break down:

Mathematical Intelligence

Your Mathematical Percentile

You scored in the 100th percentile on the mathematical intelligence scale.This means that you scored higher than 90% - 100% of people who took the test and that 0% - 10% scored higher than you did. The scale above illustrates this visually.

Your mathematical intelligence score represents your combined ability to reason and calculate. You scored relatively high, which means you're probably the one your friends look to when splitting the lunch bill or calculating your waitresses' tip. You may or may not be known as a math whiz, but number crunching might come a little easier to you than it does others.

This is the kind of question that helped to determine your mathematical intelligence score:

A boy is 4 years old and his sister is three times as old as he is. When the boy is 12 years old, how old will his sister be? 16, 20, 24, 28, 32.

answer: 20.
The sister is (3 )three times older than her (4) four-year-old brother. Three times 4 is 12, in other words, when he is four, she is 12. Twelve years old is 8 years older than 4 years old, which makes her 8 years older than him. This never changes. Therefore, when he is 12, she is still 8 years older, or 12+8=20.

Flexing Your Math Muscles
Like anything, keeping or improving your math talents requires practice. Here are some everyday mental exercises that could be particularly helpful to you:
Balancing your checkbook
Figuring out your monthly budget
Predicting what the change will be the next time you buy something
Calculating your waitperson's tip in your head

Visual-Spatial Intelligence

Your Visual-Spatial Percentile

You scored in the 100th percentile on the visual-spatial intelligence scale.
This means that you scored higher than 90% - 100% of people who took the test and that 0% - 10% scored higher than you did. The scale above illustrates this visually.

The visual-spatial component of intelligence measures your ability to extract a visual pattern and from that envision what should come next in a sequence. Your score was relatively high, which could mean that you're the one navigating the map when you're on an outing with friends. You have, in some capacity, an ability to think in pictures. Maybe this strength comes out in subtle ways, like how you play chess or form metaphors.

Vision Quest
Like anything, keeping or improving visual-spatial talents requires some practice. Here are some everyday mental exercises that will be particularly helpful to you:
Playing chess, or video games like Tetris
Studying maps and become the navigator on your next trip
Sculpting or photography

Linguistic Intelligence

Your Linguistic Percentile

You scored in the 100th percentile on the linguistic intelligence scale.
This means that you scored higher than 90% - 100% of people who took the test and that 0% - 10% scored higher than you did. The scale above illustrates this visually.

Linguistic abilities include reading, writing and communicating with words. Tickle's test measures knowledge of vocabulary, ease in completing word analogies and the ability to think critically about a statement based on its semantic structure. Your score was relatively high, which could mean you know your way around a bookstore and maybe like to bandy about the occasional 25-cent word to impress friends.

Here's the type of question that contributed to your linguistic intelligence scale score:

Inept is the opposite of:

Answer: Skillful.

The answer is derived by prior knowledge that "inept" means "unskillful" (Oxford Concise Dictionary).

Word Power
Like anything, keeping or improving linguistic talents requires some practice. Here are some everyday mental exercises that will be particularly helpful to you:
Doing crossword puzzles
Start reading just for fun
Befriending your dictionary
The next time something breaks, try reading the instruction book first

Logical Intelligence

Your Logical Percentile

You scored in the 100th percentile on the logical intelligence scale.
This means that you scored higher than 90% - 100% of people who took the test and that 0% - 10% scored higher than you did. The scale above illustrates this visually.

Tickle's logical intelligence questions assess your ability to think things through. The questions determine the extent to which you use reasoning and logic to determine the best solution to a problem. Your logic score was relatively high, which could mean that when the car breaks down, your friends look to you to help figure out not only what's wrong, but how to fix it and how you're going to get to the next gas station.

Here's the kind of question that contributed to your logical intelligence score:

If some Wicks are Slicks and some Slicks are Snicks, then some Wicks are definitely Snicks.

Answer: False
The statement is false because while some Wicks might be Slicks, there is no conclusive proof that any of them might be Snicks.

Logic Lessons
Like anything, keeping or improving logical talents requires some practice. Here are some everyday mental exercises that will be particularly helpful to you:
Trying some brain teasers
Throwing away the instructions and relying on instinct to fix something
Playing chess

What do all these percentiles mean?
For each scale, Tickle determined how many people received scores above and below yours. Your "percentile" represents what percentage of people scored lower than you. In other words, 90th percentile means you scored higher than 80 to 90% of people did.

How are the percentiles determined? These percentiles were determined based on the one million users who have already taken our test. We then adjusted these percentiles based on a nationally representative IQ distribution to make sure that no level of intelligence was over- or underrepresented in the analysis. Thus, the percentiles we present reflect your score compared with people in the United States in general.

What factors helped determine my score?
If your score isn't as high as you thought it would be, remember that there are plenty of external factors that can affect your performance on the test. If you were tired, hungry or distracted, you might have scored lower than you expected because you were less able to concentrate.

Your level of formal education and your familiarity with taking these kinds of tests also influence how well you do. That's part of the reason IQ tests aren't a perfect measure of your intelligence. Your score would probably be quite different if the IQ test was designed to take into account your musical, artistic, emotional and social skills.

On their own, IQ scores can't predict someone's ultimate success or definitive potential for success. Many of the qualities that lead to great achievements are learned through culture, experience and schooling - not solely from doing well on an IQ test.

What your IQ test can help explain, however, is how your brain works best. By looking at the kinds of questions you answered correctly and the kinds of questions you answered incorrectly, we can tell you more about your intelligence type �?? the type that explains the kind of information that makes sense to your brain.

What is an IQ?
The intelligence quotient (IQ) measures the ratio of a person's intellectual age to his/her chronological age. Most adult intelligence tests are designed for people who are at least 16 years old. For this reason, if you are younger than 16, your Tickle IQ score might be slightly lower than your "true" IQ.

History of IQ Testing
One of the first scientific investigations into the concept of intelligence, came from nineteenth-century British scientist, Sir Francis Galton. Galton believed that mental traits, like physical traits, could be inherited. He published his ideas on hereditary intelligence in his book, Hereditary Genius.

Meanwhile in France, psychologist Alfred Binet was exploring ways of measuring children's' intelligence. Like Galton, Binet was passionate about testing and measuring human capabilities. Binet worked with two groups of children - those who were average students, and those who were less mentally capable. He discovered that average students could complete certain tasks that less mentally capable students could not. Based on those findings, Binet calculated the "normal" abilities for students within different age groups. From there he could estimate how many years above or below the norm a student's mental age was.

Just before WWI, German psychologist Wilhelm Stern came up with an alternative to mental age for measuring people's intelligence. He suggested that a more accurate method for assessing someone's intelligence was to measure their capabilities given their chronological age. He proposed that for a true estimate of someone's intelligence, researchers needed to calculate a ratio between the subject's mental age and their chronological age. Since the resulting numbers were represented by decimals, scientists decided to multiply this "quotient" by 100 to get rid of the decimal places. Thus, the formula for an IQ is: IQ = Mental Age/Chronological Age x 100.

Based on the ratio that Stern created, Lewis Terman, an American psychologist at Stanford University, coined the term Intelligence Quotient for Stern's Binet test scoring system.

How People Might Evaluate You Based on IQ Score
IQ tests serve as a useful tool for institutions such as public schools and the military, where great numbers of people must be processed quickly and efficiently, and placed in appropriated classes or positions.

In the United States, kindergarten-aged children are often given IQ tests to evaluate whether they need special attention or services. For example, children scoring 130 or over are often considered "gifted" and placed in programs accordingly. However, in most institutional uses of the test nowadays, the importance placed on the actual IQ score has changed.

Did You Know?
A widely-cited example of possible cultural bias appeared in the Scholastic Aptitude Test in the early 90s:

Runner: marathon
A) Envoy: embassy
B) Martyr: massacre
C) Oarsman: regatta
D) Referee: tournament
E) Horse: stable.

(Herrnstein and Murray, 1994) According to many, the answer, C), is more likely to be answered correctly by upper class children (predominantly white) because they are more inclined to know the definition of regatta.

The military tends to use IQ test results to assess which field a recruit might be best suited to. Instead of relying solely on the intelligence rating, the IQ score, the military will now look at the kinds of questions a recruit answered correctly. Once they know that, they have a better idea of what innate skills the recruit can bring to specific assignments and duties.

And as far as the business world goes, uses of such tests for employment purposes was declared illegal �?? except in rare circumstances �?? by the Supreme Court in 1971.

In social life, the IQ test is only really applicable if you're specifically joining an organization based on IQ scores like Mensa, a society founded in 1964 for people who score in the top 2% of the IQ test. But, in general, there are still some misconceptions about the importance of test results. Chances are, people you know are more likely to be judgmental about a high or low score than most institutions are. Luckily, this is usually just a case of misinformation and is easily remedied.

Did You Know?
Robert Jordan, an applicant to the New Haven, CT police force sued the department in 1997 after he was refused entry on grounds that his IQ test score was "too high." A spokesperson for the police department was quoted as saying people with too high of an IQ "tire of police work and leave not long after undergoing costly academy training."

Limitations of IQ Testing
Much debate circulates around the different IQ tests that are administered throughout the country. Many researchers claim that the tests measure cultural knowledge and understanding, not innate intelligence. Critics suggest that both IQ and standardized tests are racially and culturally biased.

According to a 1996 report by the American Psychological Association, "Intelligence scores partially predict individual differences in school achievement, such as grade point average and number of years of education that individuals complete.

Nevertheless, population levels of school achievement are not determined solely or even primarily by intelligence or any other individual-difference variable. Many differences can be attributed primarily to differences in culture and schooling rather than in abilities measured by intelligence tests."

Outside factors, such as where you grow up, what kind of school you attend, and how much school you attend contribute substantially to the development of intelligences. However, it is not yet clearly understood what those factors are, or how they work. It is widely agreed that standardized tests, like an IQ test, do not accurately reflect all forms of intelligence.

Obviously, cultural knowledge, creativity, wisdom, common sense and social sensitivity are not measured in IQ tests, but they certainly contribute to a person's intelligence.

Still, there are some people who feel strongly that IQ tests are the best way to predict future performance at work and in school. They feel that IQ tests are better predictors of future success than even trained personnel experts.

Experts have numerous theories when it comes to explaining, defining and predicting intelligence. Some claim that intelligence is innate and fixed and can be measured with clearly defined statistical methods. Others claim that experience and environment affect intelligence - that intelligence is the composite of many different talents and abilities which continue to improve over time.

Further study of Intelligence
Three researchers have made significant advances in this field in recent years:

1. Robert Sternberg - Has proposed three sub-theories of intelligence: context, experience, and the cognitive components of information processing. In short, intelligence involves either adapting to your environment, moving to another more appropriate environment or changing your environment. Your level of experience with the activities or knowledge being tested gets reduced to intelligence, but intelligence is best measured out of context �?? when you perform unfamiliar tasks.

2. Howard Gardner - Has proposed his "Theory of Multiple Intelligences" where there are seven independent but related intelligences: logical-mathematical, linguistic, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal and intrapersonal. Gardner is one of the biggest proponents for developing new methods for testing intelligence. He speculates that intelligence is culturally and experientially based. One's experience will influence how much each of these can be expressed.

3. John Horn - Horn had proposed that there are two factors to intelligence: fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence. Fluid intelligence is one's ability to reason and solve problems in novel or unfamiliar situations. Crystallized intelligence is the extent to which an individual has attained knowledge of her culture.

In general, recent research has focused on intelligence as something that can be changed �?? not as something that is fixed in childhood and as something culturally and experientially based. Most current researchers agree that there are multiple forms of intelligence, although there is no consensus on how many.

Your Tickle IQ Score
Your Intelligence Type
Your Intelligence Scales
IQ Answer Key
What is an IQ?
Average Tickle IQ Scores By State
IQ Test Development
Additional Reading
Certificate of Intellectual Achievement
Tickle's IQ Test Development
Over the last two years, Tickle's psychologists developed this IQ test using proven, high-quality IQ test questions such as those in the Mensa Workout tests and the Shipley Institute of Living Scale �?? an intelligence test that focuses on both vocabulary and verbal abstract reasoning. Those are the skills that are associated with problem-solving ability and social comprehension/judgement.

Reliability of the IQ Score
Once we built the Tickle IQ test, Tickle performed a large-scale study to compare the results of people who had taken both the Tickle IQ test and the established Shipley Institute of Living Scale (by Walter C. Shipley). The Shipley test has been used for more than 50 years to assess facets of intelligence. We did this to ensure that the way we constructed our test would yield reliable and valid IQ results.

We used scores calculated by the Shipley test as a basis for calibrating Tickle's IQ test. That ensured a high association between the two tests and, because of that, the validity of our IQ scores. In fact, the Tickle IQ test is highly reliable�??the Chronbach's alpha is .81. In other words, the questions on Tickle's IQ test are internally consistent and they all measure intelligence accurately.

How Tickle Calculates Intellectual Types
In the past, researchers who have constructed IQ tests have discovered additional patterns that relate to the categories of questions a particular test-taker answered correctly �?? categories such as mathematical, visual, verbal and logical. When these researchers analyzed peoples' results, they found that, for instance, a test-taker might have answered the math-oriented and verbal questions correctly, yet tended to answer the logical questions incorrectly. From such patterns, experts were able to define some internal scales of intelligence to the overall IQ test. Thus, using those internal scales, they could offer an actual IQ score, such as 105, as well as a measurement of how well the test-taker did within each question category.

After 1 million people took the Tickle IQ test, we ran what is called a "factor analysis" on the answers those people gave. This statistical analysis identified the similarity between groups of questions in our test. The analysis demonstrated that this particular IQ test accurately measured four underlying dimensions of intelligence: mathematical, visual-spatial, linguistic and logical.

Each of the questions in the Tickle IQ test relates to one dimension of intelligence. How reliable are these dimensions? Well, for the scientists and statisticians out there, their reliability coefficients were .85, .84, .81 and .50, respectively. The gist of all of that is that Tickle's scales of intelligence are highly valid and we can accurately tell you how high you scored on each of those scales relative to the other test-takers�??thus yielding an accurate intellectual type.

Your Tickle IQ Score
Your Intelligence Type
Your Intelligence Scales
IQ Answer Key
What is an IQ?
Average Tickle IQ Scores By State
IQ Test Development
Additional Reading
Certificate of Intellectual Achievement
Average Tickle IQ Scores By State
Over 30 million people have taken Tickle's Classic IQ Test. Here's a look at the average Tickle IQ scores, broken out by state.

State Average Tickle IQ Score
Mississippi 110
West Virginia 110
Alabama 111
Arkansas 111
Kentucky 111
Louisiana 111
Florida 112
Georgia 112
Indiana 112
Maine 112
Michigan 112
Missouri 112
Nevada 112
New Mexico 112
North Carolina 112
North Dakota 112
Ohio 112
Oklahoma 112
Rhode Island 112
South Carolina 112
South Dakota 112
Tennessee 112
Texas 112
Wyoming 112
Alaska 113
Arizona 113
California 113
Connecticut 113
Delaware 113
Hawaii 113
Idaho 113
Illinois 113
Iowa 113
Kansas 113
Maryland 113
Montana 113
Nebraska 113
New Hampshire 113
New Jersey 113
New York 113
Pennsylvania 113
Vermont 113
Virginia 113
Wisconsin 113
Colorado 114
Massachusetts 114
Minnesota 114
Oregon 114
Utah 114
Washington 114
District of Columbia 115

peaceful warrior

2006-03-23T21:38:00.000-08:00

night before last attended a private screening of
peaceful warrior
the film adaptation of dan millman's novel
"way of the peaceful warrior"
from the producers of "what the bleep do we know"
held in the 50 seat screening room
at lionsgate films in santa monica

we showed up right on time
with only front row seats left
the fellow welcomed everyone
said we'd have a discussion after the film
the film was great
starring nick nolte as socrates
after the credits the lights come up
the fellow invites everyone in the room
there were about 30-40 people
to share their ideas about marketing the film
"..& oh by the way thanks to nick nolte
for being with us tonight.."
i turn around
& there is 5 rows behind me is nick nolte

the conversation picks up
and this blond women is speaking
articulating some interesting insight
for about 3 minutes before i realize its
goldie hawn...

a few more folks speak up
then the man sitting near goldie speaks up
sharing a wonderful suggestion
about the wisdom of hiding the film
and letting those who really want to find it
do so
once again it took a moment before i realized
it was kurt russell...
we shook hands on the way out
what a great night..
what a great film...
westcoast premier june 2nd
will be entered in the inspirational film festival
in santa monica april 28th...

if you like conscious film
pass the word to see this film

the day i became a movie star

2006-02-23T23:52:00.000-08:00

the day i became a movie star
i slept almost 'til noon
sorted my clothes to do my laundry
stood on my head out on the point
ran backwards & sideways along the beach
tossing stones over my shoulders
then drove around LAX
looking for the way to the beach
at the end of the runways
where i got to smile for the camera
playing a "homeless man"
holding a sign that read
"change today?"
and just as the camera started to roll
dolphins popped up right in front of me
what a great day
then i went & did my laundry
nothing like clean pants for the next few months

yup
this was for a film called
"threshold" to be screened in
the 168 hour film festival
march 7th in glendale, ca

this whole thing came about
on tuesday my friend louise
who i havent heard from in months
called out of the blue
& left a message
about her friend bill
directing this film for the film
festival where each production team
takes a verse from the bible
& has 168 hours to create a film
about 10 minutes long....

& the rest
is history...right?

more good news...?

2006-01-31T23:04:00.000-08:00

live
broadcast
of self produced
artshow tv
7pm
feb. 28
comcast
public access
channel 24
in l.a.

i'll be
painting
canvas
on camera
live

did i mention
it will be
live

artshow tv goes primetime

2006-01-30T22:01:00.000-08:00

[great news: artshow tv goes primetime]
next airing:
fridays 8:30pm
feb. 10th, feb. 17th, feb. 24th, mar. 3rd
adelphia channel 98 in l.a. county
& channel 77 in santa monica,
&
friday feb. 10th, 2006 4:30pm
& feb. 17 at 5pm
on comcast channel 24 in l.a.

painting
a series of acrylic on raw canvas
paintings
in 28.5 minutes on camera...

stay tooned

the cosmic weather

2005-10-17T14:33:00.000-07:00

[learninto fly /the bluedge....? closeup,acrylic on raw canvas]

wednesday oct.19th 5 pm[pdt]
the cosmic weather astrology show pilot
will be aired on adelphia cable
public access channel 77
in santa monica, ca
and also available on
http://www.cosmicweather.com

this show features my good friend
& webbiz partner kelly lee phipps
the renowned astrologer providing
a weekly 28.5 minute
astrological weather report

the i/me/my part of this story is:
i'm the self appointed executive producer
meaning it was my idea to get him to shoot it
& send me a copy
so i could walk it over to the studio
and get it on their schedule...

its so exciting...
& friday i shoot my own show

im realing enjoying this kind of
thinking, designing,& creating in
video broadcasting as an artistic medium...

look forward to doing more

well its official

2005-10-13T10:39:00.000-07:00

friday oct. 21
i'll be going into the public access tv studio
at adelphia cable in santa monica
to tape the first installment of artshow.tv
[just set up the website too]
for this first one
i'll be painting canvas on camera
just to get comfortable with the format
in the future will include on location footage
of painting canvas on venice boardwalk
as well as interviews with other artist of different mediums
as well as artshow openings

the long term vision for the website artshow.tv
is to provide high definition/lcd screen art content
in slideshow format of emerging & established artists works
by subscription as lcd screensavers, public space art shows,
& inflight entertainment/shopping options...
as well as video arts, special events, art openings, artists video bios,
& interviews...

evolving into tv production

next step is producing with kelly lee phipps
the cosmic weather
a weekly astrological weather report

leading up to producing :the astrology show
a live call-in astrology talk show
[websites: theastrologyshow.com
& theastrologyshow.tv remain to be developed]

stay tooned

something said should tell it

2005-09-17T21:41:00.000-07:00

cruzin' along the interstate
run outta gaz
pull over
jump out
walk around
dig out the can
fill it up
put the can back in the back
walk around
wind from traffic wizzing passed
sunlight beaming warm
&
bam
shooting pain in right foot

reach down
underneath
teva sandal
grab
sticking out

the nail

felt like
all the way to the bone

pull
it
out

toss
it on the dash

jump in

drive
on . .

48th birthday ?

2005-08-25T23:54:00.000-07:00

well

it finally happened

jupiter has made 4 trips around the sun

since the moment i plopped outta mommyz tummy

oooooooowwwwwwwwwwww

do i feel any different???

heck yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

when i was like 20 or 25

i couldnt even conceive of what life might be like after 40

never mine a whole nother venus cycle past that

yeah it takes venus

traveling around the sun

in the most perfectly circular orbit

of all the planets

five of its 584 day cycles to carve a 5 pointed star

in the sky while returning to within a degree or so of where it was 8 years ago

cant tell me there's no intelligent design/divine design in that .....

anyway if you happen to look up towards the west just after sunset

these days you'll see venus & jupiter coming together

close to spica, the brightest star in virgo

as they all move toward setting

[ & me me me born with 5 planets in virgo

7 planets in the 8th house]

spica is the wheat or corn the virgin is holding in her hand

so we have venus the planet of love & harmony & art

getting inspiration with jupiter the planet of expansion/opportunity/

faith/philosophy[love of wisdom]

publishing & travel ..

& both sharing inspiration

with the symbol of the first fruit of the harvest

in the hand of the essence of purity & goodness

what the heck does all this have to do with me

& you

? ???

look out...

..now you may think this is just a fuzzy picture

but i was driving 55ish mph

into a torrential thunder/ lightning/ rainstorm

shooting thru the windshield timing to miss the winshield wiper

which was nearly useless against the water volume

notice the strange yellow/orange of the sky

15 minute/miles back it was blue

nebraska

30 seconds later i looked back at a double rainbow

forming

that ended up stretching from horizon

to horizon south to north

then the lightning kicked in

for the next 3 hours

'til the wyoming border rest area & sleep

that was the night of the full moon in aquarius

the waterbearer

ruler of electricity, radical change, friends /

community/ brilliance/ genius & weird ness

go figure...

what the

2005-08-18T10:22:00.000-07:00

so im driving like a crazy person cross country thru like pennsylvania, ohio, indiana
its night the moon is brite & as usual im doing about 55 mph the radio hasn't been working all day i figure out a way to take a self portrait of a man a week away from his 48th birthday...

so im sitting here at a reststop in iowa using the wifi connection at this picnic table when this fellow walks up with a bag of goodyz in hand like water & cookyz & extending his other hand for a handshake says:

"david english ?"

i said yeah

he says

"ive seen your art before

& i pulled in here with my truck[semi] & saw your van & well the misses & i wanted to give you this little token..."

i say incredulus

"you've seen my art before????... man your blowing my mind here...go figure

just when you think your just out here literally in the middle of nowhere

iowa of all places

creating this stuff & no body seees it ..."

bammm!!!!

the cookyz were good too & the water was cold

thanks universe

we go on to talk about vermont how his misses would like to move there ...

life goes on huh?

well

2005-08-14T00:10:00.000-07:00

i have no idea why im doing this

other than the fact that the universe gave the idea

then kept pushing

as the header says so much of the life of the artist is

about shameless ness

promotion of the essence of ones true passions

selflessly & purely expressed

so why do we create

but because we must

one has to create to live

to feel well enough to move forward