The Distance

Blue Scholars

One of my best friends presented to me a great 

idea the other day. His mind is like a lyrical dictionary.

He has a great depth of understanding when it comes to

lyrics. Recently he has been trying to find a way to do

something with this talent. He's still unsuccessful in finding

something significant, but at least he is incorporating me into

his love for lyrics.

The idea is this: he comes up with a visualization of what a

set of lyrics means to him, and I turn that visualization into

a design (like the one above). This poster comes from "The

Distance", by Blue Scholars.

A collaboration among two friends

Ze

Where I Live

West Campus Suites

Allie is the Hall Director for West Campus Suites.

At the beginning of the year I made staff shirts for

her and this was the result. Some of it had to get 

tweaked a bit because the university was afraid

it might get sued by a company (snickers), crazy right?

I would never steal from the actual snickers company.

I would steal from someone else who stole from the 

snickers company. I know it doesn't sound any better.

Ze

Just to Get by

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Many moons ago my friend introduced me to

another side of the rap industry. One that that

has more meaning than the mainline stuff you

hear on the radio.

This quote speaks many truths in my life. When

Allie and I lived in Buffalo, all we wanted to do

was buy a plane ticket to central America and start

helping people. We wanted to build a school for

orphans and have a health care facility on the side.

We still want to achieve this, but we realized that,

just like the quote, without knowledge of what we

were getting into we were bound for failure. We are

now at Truman State University to attain that

knowledge and to one day understand what it means

to achieve such a long term goal.

Ze

Ansel

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Some of you may have already seen this one.

The other day I learned how to change a picture

into a layered illustration, like the one above 

of Ansel Adams. We I read up on this technique 

I was eager to give it a go.

I didn't expect this quote to come from Ansel Adams.

I think it's because the world knows him best by his

pictures, not his words, but it makes sense. This man

spent his whole life observing nature. He would spend

hours upon hours in one spot waiting for the sun to give

him the best lighting on his subject. To care so much for

something and to witness your government not sharing 

that same level of care would be devastating.

Ze

Possibilities

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I was recently asked to create a T-shirt design for a

University sponsored event called the MLK challenge.

I made them a design that I'll post later on, but I made

this poster for my own personal agenda. I don't like war.

I especially don't like paying for war. every time I see how

much money the US spends on war it makes me want to leave.

society is so 

sophisticated 

and yet we use

 the most ancient 

means

of settling 

disputes, 

war.

This thought has been on my mind for too long.

Ze

Hello Again

Last time we talked I was in Buffalo NY.

 I was a youth minister living with my best friend. 

Minus the living with my best friend part, much 

has changed since then. I am now going to school 

to be a nurse and eventually a nurse practitioner. I

 study constantly but the arts are still a big part of 

my life. It's the main way my brain knows how to 

express it's thoughts. These thoughts, these hours 

spent creating images that have meaning to me, 

are useless unless shared. I have no idea how frequently 

I will post on here, but every time I create any form 

of art, be it paintings, music, etc... this is where it 

will land for my community to understand how I feel.

Lets Begin by Letting Go,

I love that.

-Ze-