So what to say today? Well let me start off with the Winner of the free print raffle on the MadBill Fan page! Congrats go out to Summer Smith for snagging up the print! Hopefully we can do this again sometime! I would love to give away so much more free stuff I am just not a rich person. Think is comes with being a artist! Poor and broke till your dead and gone! Then someone else makes bukko bucks off your art!
On another note entirely I have a whole bunch of new stuff up. I finally finished the Something Fishy painting and let me say it is really intense! Also so much more stuff on all the sites and I hope you guys and gals out there really enjoy the art!
I have really been busting my ass lately to find a job but no success. I am not quite sure what to do here. I have a bachelors degree and yet no one will give me the time of day! Just don't get it! Why do they say school is so important when all that happens when you get out of school is your unemployed and more in debt. I can't for the life of me find any work in my field and all the local jobs tell me I am over qualified like there is such a thing... Just don't get it. At least its inspiration for the art....
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Patriot
Ok so I wanted to post these pieces as they mean more and more to me by the day. This first is a piece I did up to honor my hometown. The problem is that it hasn't received any recognition and nobody in my town of Rockford Illinois has even heard of it unless they are close personal friends. I was hoping to get it featured by the Rockford Art Museum or a local gallery but I just can't get anyone to bite. I could really use some feed back on the piece. It represents the respect I have for the Rockford while at the same time it disgust I have for the local economy and the treatment of area artists. It is like if your not hooked up around here your nobody. There are no amateur art shows, fairs, or exhibits. I just don't understand how a community that is as large as Rockford doesn't seem to want or need to support the arts. Very disappointing.
This next piece is a more patriotic piece. I wanted to do a piece that was themed after the United States. I thought what better an idea than stars and stripes. I started a blank session in photo shop and went work eventually coming up with this wonderful light show. I started with the stars and I wasn't sure how I wanted them to look or what color. I started them off as blue but when I started the rest of the piece it really didn't work so I changed them to white to really allow the red and blue to set on top. The piece really turned out great and I think that Americans can be proud of the American Art! Let me know what you think as feedback is greatly appreciated!
This next piece is a more patriotic piece. I wanted to do a piece that was themed after the United States. I thought what better an idea than stars and stripes. I started a blank session in photo shop and went work eventually coming up with this wonderful light show. I started with the stars and I wasn't sure how I wanted them to look or what color. I started them off as blue but when I started the rest of the piece it really didn't work so I changed them to white to really allow the red and blue to set on top. The piece really turned out great and I think that Americans can be proud of the American Art! Let me know what you think as feedback is greatly appreciated!
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Just wanted to touch base with all the fans out there. If you have any suggestions or would like to see something different, please feel free to comment.
I also wanted to announce that I will be doing digital portrait manipulations for 30 dollars a piece. What that means is that if you would like a personalized abstract digital portrait of yourself Get in touch with me and we can work it out. If you are interested you will need to email me a digital photo of yourself on a plain background. Pieces could take anywhere from a day to week to create and payment must be made upfront via paypal. Once payment is received work will commence. Not only is this business idea, but I see it more as a way to get on a more personal level with the fans. In the world of the internet it is so hard to see people as individuals and I think this would be a great way to see the fans for who they are!
On another note I have a lot more work up on the art sites and I invite you all to visit my galleries on Deviant Art, RedBubble, and Zazzle! I have been revisiting some works lately as well as creating brand new piece with a whole new MadBill style. I have been thinking outside of the box lately in the creation process and I really fell that it has been paying off. Been keeping the fans in mind and the suggestions that have been coming in and trying to incorporate the suggestions into the work. So as I said before if there is something unique you would like to see let me know and I will see what I can do.
Well enough rambling for now... Lots of Love
MadBill
I also wanted to announce that I will be doing digital portrait manipulations for 30 dollars a piece. What that means is that if you would like a personalized abstract digital portrait of yourself Get in touch with me and we can work it out. If you are interested you will need to email me a digital photo of yourself on a plain background. Pieces could take anywhere from a day to week to create and payment must be made upfront via paypal. Once payment is received work will commence. Not only is this business idea, but I see it more as a way to get on a more personal level with the fans. In the world of the internet it is so hard to see people as individuals and I think this would be a great way to see the fans for who they are!
On another note I have a lot more work up on the art sites and I invite you all to visit my galleries on Deviant Art, RedBubble, and Zazzle! I have been revisiting some works lately as well as creating brand new piece with a whole new MadBill style. I have been thinking outside of the box lately in the creation process and I really fell that it has been paying off. Been keeping the fans in mind and the suggestions that have been coming in and trying to incorporate the suggestions into the work. So as I said before if there is something unique you would like to see let me know and I will see what I can do.
Well enough rambling for now... Lots of Love
MadBill
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Updates...
I have a whole slew of new art up and anyone interested in any tiedye wall art should get in contact with me. I have framed pieces for sale!
Check out all the latest digital art from yours truly over on http://psycozugninga.deviantart.com/
I came up with this piece and let me say it absolutely awesome. Let me know what you think... The piece is titled Atlantis and can be found at http://www.zazzle.com/atlantis_poster-228382476850593188 I have prints available and much much more.
MadBill
Check out all the latest digital art from yours truly over on http://psycozugninga.deviantart.com/
I came up with this piece and let me say it absolutely awesome. Let me know what you think... The piece is titled Atlantis and can be found at http://www.zazzle.com/atlantis_poster-228382476850593188 I have prints available and much much more.
MadBill
Friday, February 19, 2010
Fat Head!
So MadBill has teamed up with FatHead Films and begun working on some new short films! Post sound editing will start tomorrow on a couple of them and there are more in production as we speak. We are gonna be cranking them out as fast as humanly possible. Got a lot on my sound design plate for the next week or so. Not to mention that my computer got a virus last week and I have spent the better part of this week reinstalling everything from XP on. I just got pro-tools up and running today which completes the main programs I am running. It took about all day to download from the Avid site, extract, and install but from what I can tell it is all working fine with the exception of reason which I haven't dug the disc out for yet.
As for the films. I am going to be cleaning up a couple of the older pictures they have made so they can recut them to DVD. As for the new stuff... I will start working on Dwelling and Till Death 2 this coming week sometime. We have a shoot on Sunday and that will prob blow that day out of the water for me as for working on the computer stuff. I really wanna blow through these first ones and get to the stuff we shot as I know it looks good so far. Plan on getting though one a day! At least that's my hopes. I am doing the whole post for the equivalent of a hour of video so yeah got my work cut out for me.
I'll keep you all updated and post the vids when we get em done! Ta Ta for now...
MadBill
As for the films. I am going to be cleaning up a couple of the older pictures they have made so they can recut them to DVD. As for the new stuff... I will start working on Dwelling and Till Death 2 this coming week sometime. We have a shoot on Sunday and that will prob blow that day out of the water for me as for working on the computer stuff. I really wanna blow through these first ones and get to the stuff we shot as I know it looks good so far. Plan on getting though one a day! At least that's my hopes. I am doing the whole post for the equivalent of a hour of video so yeah got my work cut out for me.
I'll keep you all updated and post the vids when we get em done! Ta Ta for now...
MadBill
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Spirit
On the wings of those forsaken by the everlasting will of triumph, there was but one who's power truly rivaled that of the gods! His name was unimportant as he said...
"Eternal happiness can only be measured by one's inherent ability to do good. Everything else is simply material. Love blinds, money corrupts, power shifts from hand to hand. The only true feelings come in the form of the art we make. And even those are misread, reinterpreted, and lost forever. The journey of life is laid out before us with so many forks the damn road looks like spaghetti. We should just put up a big reflective green sign in every delivery room in the world that says welcome to the spaghetti know as Life."
I think the hitchhikers guide had it right with the words Don't Panic! The fact that we go through life as it is, is bad enough. If you panic it's over. The world really needs to come together under a common goal of bettering the human race. I personally feel that the idea of global paranoia really hits it on the money. Why can we not all just agree to disagree. Chris Rock's character in the movie Dogma said it perfectly. He said we should all have ideas not beliefs. Ideas can be changed but people fight and die for beliefs. I just don't get it. Why would you fight for a belief? If you believe what would it matter what anybody else thought. Fighting for your freedom to believe is another matter entirely. So many religions so many beliefs. The one thing that always pops into MadBill's head is this. To anyone believing in a god or gods, Why would any all powerful, all knowing entity ever interfere. Why would it ever pass its ideas onto mere mortals. Even if there was a afterlife. Wouldn't it rather let you live your life and measure you out as a person at the end your turn. I would say that if you had any advanced knowledge it would tip the scales. I also find something very displeasing about a imaginary line of good and bad.
Life is what you make of it and if you place all of your faith blindly into a religion then that is your choice. What I would ask is that you never force your ideas onto anyone. If someone chooses to believe in something else or just not to believe in anything isn't that their choice... and how would it ever undermine what you believe?
Back to the dinner. To get from the spaghetti to the desert you have to to free yourself from all the bad juju. You have to be happy with yourself. Expressing ideas of progress and achieving goals set forth by yourself. I think a happy person does what they love. I am a artist. I work in a variety of mediums and always hope that someone will relate to my art. Not just like it, or want to buy it and put it on their wall. But really relate. We go through life with all it's ups and downs. I have made my art in the best of times and the worst of times and it all relates in the pieces I have created. It's history in the making. To be remembered is something we all aspire for and what better way that to make something that will last the test of time. To put your emotions out there for the world to see and understand is the first step and really allows release of pent up emotion.
Just being positive really helps. There are just so many different ways people try to be happy. I swear none of it works. Like I said you have to be happy with yourself. Nothing can make you happy. Pesonally I used to drink a lot as well as smoke pot. I thought I was releasing but really I was just hiding from reality. I allowed myself to be sucked into a fantasy and lost more than I can imagine in the process. Although I achieved so much on my stint of drugs and alcohol I just wonder what else I could have done if I wasn't out trying to get fucked up in my free time. I was making myself happy while I was fucked up, but as soon as the inebriation left I was worse off than before, not to mention all I wanted to do was get fucked up again! I mean excuse my language but this I a testament to how I lost almost ten years of my life to a addiction. I worry so much now. I can only imagine how many years I took off my life in a search for happiness that never came. I devoted my life to the shit and still find hints of it everywhere I look in my home. I just want to be free and happy for the rest of my life. I'll continue to make my art regardless of what people think. It makes me happy and that's all that matters! MadBill leaving my mark... Hope you like it!
"Eternal happiness can only be measured by one's inherent ability to do good. Everything else is simply material. Love blinds, money corrupts, power shifts from hand to hand. The only true feelings come in the form of the art we make. And even those are misread, reinterpreted, and lost forever. The journey of life is laid out before us with so many forks the damn road looks like spaghetti. We should just put up a big reflective green sign in every delivery room in the world that says welcome to the spaghetti know as Life."
I think the hitchhikers guide had it right with the words Don't Panic! The fact that we go through life as it is, is bad enough. If you panic it's over. The world really needs to come together under a common goal of bettering the human race. I personally feel that the idea of global paranoia really hits it on the money. Why can we not all just agree to disagree. Chris Rock's character in the movie Dogma said it perfectly. He said we should all have ideas not beliefs. Ideas can be changed but people fight and die for beliefs. I just don't get it. Why would you fight for a belief? If you believe what would it matter what anybody else thought. Fighting for your freedom to believe is another matter entirely. So many religions so many beliefs. The one thing that always pops into MadBill's head is this. To anyone believing in a god or gods, Why would any all powerful, all knowing entity ever interfere. Why would it ever pass its ideas onto mere mortals. Even if there was a afterlife. Wouldn't it rather let you live your life and measure you out as a person at the end your turn. I would say that if you had any advanced knowledge it would tip the scales. I also find something very displeasing about a imaginary line of good and bad.
Life is what you make of it and if you place all of your faith blindly into a religion then that is your choice. What I would ask is that you never force your ideas onto anyone. If someone chooses to believe in something else or just not to believe in anything isn't that their choice... and how would it ever undermine what you believe?
Back to the dinner. To get from the spaghetti to the desert you have to to free yourself from all the bad juju. You have to be happy with yourself. Expressing ideas of progress and achieving goals set forth by yourself. I think a happy person does what they love. I am a artist. I work in a variety of mediums and always hope that someone will relate to my art. Not just like it, or want to buy it and put it on their wall. But really relate. We go through life with all it's ups and downs. I have made my art in the best of times and the worst of times and it all relates in the pieces I have created. It's history in the making. To be remembered is something we all aspire for and what better way that to make something that will last the test of time. To put your emotions out there for the world to see and understand is the first step and really allows release of pent up emotion.
Just being positive really helps. There are just so many different ways people try to be happy. I swear none of it works. Like I said you have to be happy with yourself. Nothing can make you happy. Pesonally I used to drink a lot as well as smoke pot. I thought I was releasing but really I was just hiding from reality. I allowed myself to be sucked into a fantasy and lost more than I can imagine in the process. Although I achieved so much on my stint of drugs and alcohol I just wonder what else I could have done if I wasn't out trying to get fucked up in my free time. I was making myself happy while I was fucked up, but as soon as the inebriation left I was worse off than before, not to mention all I wanted to do was get fucked up again! I mean excuse my language but this I a testament to how I lost almost ten years of my life to a addiction. I worry so much now. I can only imagine how many years I took off my life in a search for happiness that never came. I devoted my life to the shit and still find hints of it everywhere I look in my home. I just want to be free and happy for the rest of my life. I'll continue to make my art regardless of what people think. It makes me happy and that's all that matters! MadBill leaving my mark... Hope you like it!
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Long time coming!
Well I have decided that for lack of better things to focus on my art a lot more here recently. The problem is I am just one of those people that can't stick with something! I start projects and don't finish them. I just conk out about half way through and can't figure out how to finish the piece. Losing motivation really sucks. I have so many great ideas just can't deliver here recently! As an example, I have three paintings sitting in the other room and all of them are in need. Just can't work myself up to finishing them. I think that's why I love my digital art so much. I can hammer out a digital work in roughly an hour or so. Where as the paintings can take weeks. I have to say my patience is crap!
On a entirely different note, I am still unemployed. It seems I get many nibbles but no bites. I really think I chose the wrong career path. I thought maybe my art would be able to supplement me through these hard times but nothing seems to work! I can't make any money off it even though everyone that looks at it is like cool or neat. I sometimes feel that they are saying it to my face and then talking shit or something behind my back. I don't know. Guess I'm just paranoid or something. In any case. I have cleaned up my life here recently. Clean as a whistle or so they say. I haven't smoked any pot or drank at all since new years. Got a little over a month and running now. As for the cigs I think I am on my last pack! I have two left and I am pretty sure I am not going to be buying any more. Long time coming! Got bout ten years of smoking on my lungs and I think its time to quit! Gonna be rough so watch out guys. Might not wanna get in my way the next couple of days! :) Further more I feel a sense of relief and once I get some lung capacity back (more like once it gets warm out) think I am gonna start running again. Hopefully I can drop myself back down to under 200. That would be great! Haven't seen those days since high school.
Just also wanted to say, if any of you guys have any ideas on how to get the art out there a little more, I would really appreciate the advice! I can't seem to find my niche and could really use some help!
Well so long for now,
MadBill
On a entirely different note, I am still unemployed. It seems I get many nibbles but no bites. I really think I chose the wrong career path. I thought maybe my art would be able to supplement me through these hard times but nothing seems to work! I can't make any money off it even though everyone that looks at it is like cool or neat. I sometimes feel that they are saying it to my face and then talking shit or something behind my back. I don't know. Guess I'm just paranoid or something. In any case. I have cleaned up my life here recently. Clean as a whistle or so they say. I haven't smoked any pot or drank at all since new years. Got a little over a month and running now. As for the cigs I think I am on my last pack! I have two left and I am pretty sure I am not going to be buying any more. Long time coming! Got bout ten years of smoking on my lungs and I think its time to quit! Gonna be rough so watch out guys. Might not wanna get in my way the next couple of days! :) Further more I feel a sense of relief and once I get some lung capacity back (more like once it gets warm out) think I am gonna start running again. Hopefully I can drop myself back down to under 200. That would be great! Haven't seen those days since high school.
Just also wanted to say, if any of you guys have any ideas on how to get the art out there a little more, I would really appreciate the advice! I can't seem to find my niche and could really use some help!
Well so long for now,
MadBill
New Logo!
Got the new logo up on the blog here. Took me a while but it looks great! Way better than the black one!
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
MadBill Art is all over the place...
Well, what can I say. I am currently rocking 2 art sites, one stock photo site, a sales venture, and two fan pages. Plus the blog here. I am totally overwhelmed with all the work maintaining everything. The problem is nobody is interested. I just don't understand. Life is funny that way. I'm stuck in my home town and just really need to get out. There are no jobs for me here and I have no money to get away. It's just like everything that can hold me back is holding me back! I need a fresh new way to get my stuff out there. If you people out there have any ideas for me I would gladly appreciate them. Kinda stuck in a rut!
On a more happier note. Happier for the MadBill Fans I guess (all 3 of them I think). I am currently holding a free print raffle on the MadBill Fan Page on FaceBook. Check it out - rules for entry are in the discussions. I was hoping it would boost the popularity a little bit but so far only got two people interested. I don't know why? Isn't free awesome?
In any case I just needed to vent a little. Lifes been pretty rough here lately. Feels like MadBill's gonna be a hobo if something doesn't happen. I went in for what I thought was a deleivery job today. OMG it was a door to door meat salesman position. LOL I was like wtf! How do you sell Steaks door to door. Go to the damn grocery store. In any case MadBill will not be going back there. I think I need something that is a hourly wage or salary. Not no I put gas in your van and hopefully I make some money selling crappy steaks. People gotta eat but shit I aint eating a sealed steak that came from god knows where and is vacume sealed riding around on the back of a truck!
Oh well, done rambling for now... Peace!
On a more happier note. Happier for the MadBill Fans I guess (all 3 of them I think). I am currently holding a free print raffle on the MadBill Fan Page on FaceBook. Check it out - rules for entry are in the discussions. I was hoping it would boost the popularity a little bit but so far only got two people interested. I don't know why? Isn't free awesome?
In any case I just needed to vent a little. Lifes been pretty rough here lately. Feels like MadBill's gonna be a hobo if something doesn't happen. I went in for what I thought was a deleivery job today. OMG it was a door to door meat salesman position. LOL I was like wtf! How do you sell Steaks door to door. Go to the damn grocery store. In any case MadBill will not be going back there. I think I need something that is a hourly wage or salary. Not no I put gas in your van and hopefully I make some money selling crappy steaks. People gotta eat but shit I aint eating a sealed steak that came from god knows where and is vacume sealed riding around on the back of a truck!
Oh well, done rambling for now... Peace!
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