Art Project

floating image inside bottle . . . so cool . . . and I made it!

I've been waiting approximately forever (maybe a year and a half) to get some commission work for my art. It's finally happened. While we were returning from the art show at my sister-in-law's house in Deland a couple of weeks ago, I got a call from an event planner in Miami wanting to know if I could duplicate one of my pieces that she had seen in my Etsy store, only using her images, to create centerpieces for a big 60th birthday party that she is doing.

Here's a picture of the piece that tickled her fancy . . . and that of her client. I call it Patron Cadillac. It's a 1954 Caddy on an empty Patron Silver tequila bottle. It looks pretty cool, if I do say so myself . . . and I do. You should too, because I know what the hell I'm talking about, and by now you should know that's true.

The neat thing about working with a commission client is that they challenge your processes trying to get exactly the effect that they want. The first thing that happened with these folks is that they thought, from looking at the pictures on Etsy, that the image was on the inside of the bottle. It is not. It is on the outside of the bottle, but when I realized that they wanted it to be on the inside because that's what they thought they were looking at, I had to figure out how to get it on the inside. So I did - because, you know, I'm kind of a genius when it comes to figuring out how to do obscure shit. Just saying.

Anyway, figuring that part out inspired me to take the concept several steps further. To that end I've got some ideas for interesting new stuff. Keep checking back, because whatever I come up with will be here first.

Half Full, Half Empty, Less than Zero

As many of you know I am busy trying to accumulate $749,000,000 using the so called Law of Attraction. You can read about it here, and here, and also here. I thought it would be useful today to mark my progress so far in raising this not inconsiderable sum. To wit I have prepared the following chart:

As you can readily see the universe has so far provided none of the requested, believed, visualized, and accepted funds. ZERO is the thus far accumulated total. My thinking is that the universe better get freaking busy!


Forbes magazine puts Bill Gates net worth at somewhere north of $40 Billion. I'm putting mine at somewhere south of $1 Billion. In other words I am ascribing to myself approximately 1/40th of the value of Bill Gates. I am not one of those people who think that Bill Gates in an evil genius bent on world domination. I think Bill Gates works hard to make the world a better place, and he deserves every good thing that comes his way. So do I, and I am willing to settle for less than 1/40th of what Gates gets. I don't think this is unreasonable, although, apparently the universe does, at least so far.


I only have anecdotal evidence to go on, but after a careful analysis I have come to see my personal claim on the world's bounty like this:

As you can see my portion in life is less than half full, less than half empty, and less that a nice dram of Balvenie Double Wood Single Malt Scotch in a glass that is too big for it. It is less than ZERO because there is just enough spilled to let me know what I have missed, but not enough to lick up off the table.

If just one person buys my eBook at the Amazon Kindle Store, I will be 35 cents closer to my goal. I am more than willing to help the universe out a little. $749 million is no paltry sum, after all, even for a limitless universe. I'll do my part.

If that same person is then among the first five readers to post a review of my eBook on Amazon (see details here), I will send them an 8x12 print of the artwork of their choice from this blog, to include any photos and works available at my Etsy store (see the shop aimless arts tab above or just click here). In this case I would be out about $18 in materials, labor, postage and handling, but I would still count myself ahead of the game. I would still mark that I had made some progress, although of course I would have to subtract that sum from the red juice in the ball of the thermometer and hope to make it up in volume.

These new images are among those available in this sweet, sweet deal: