FL

In a few days (12 if you include today) I will be moving from Brooklyn to Florida. Sorry it’s been awhile since my last post, preparing for the move, finding a new apartment on the other side of the country, packing both house and studio, and a new found addiction to the video game World of Warcraft have taken much of my time. Needless to say, this blog is officially not about being a young artist in NYC any longer.

Advice to young artists wanting to go to NYC: Go now while you are young. Hurry up and just do it. My time in NYC has been the most exciting time of my life and I feel like Florida, or anywhere else, travels at such a slower pace that I have damn near superpowers in comparison. I could stay in NYC forever, but its not the place for me to have a kid. I have heard that NYC is the perfect place for children, with all its public museums, diversity, and culture. I agree with that, however, trying to raise a child in a one-bedroom apartment sucks, and my wife I would rather sleep at night. To boot, we can actually afford to buy a house in Florida, where as in NYC buying a house is so far out of reach that the light from it won’t even be seen on Earth for the next thousand years (it seriously costs a million dollars, as in a Fucking Million Dollars). So potential young artist with glimmers of hope and burning rages of passion in your hearts, go to NYC. Fucking go. You will not regret it and for the rest of your life you will tell the stories of crazy people on the subway, mountains and monuments of mankind’s accomplishments that you stood on or worked in, and adventures that you had which pale to what your old ass is doing when you tell. Do it now, because you will have a kid too one day and as Jimmy McMillan says, “the rent is too damn high”. http://www.rentistoodamnhigh.org (actual campaign for mayor every election season).

As for Crateartist.com and this blog, let it be said from up high that this blog will be taking on a new “personal” persona as opposed to being a “professional” blog. I still plan to make art, show art, and sell art; I just don’t think I will ever take it so fucking seriously ever again. No point, it only makes me angry when I do. Look forward to new pieces being begun as early as February and look for the announcement of the upcoming show “Jag-fu” in the summer of 2007 (more on this later). Also, I have been writing a little now and then and I plan to post the writing here as soon as I complete some revision.

So once more, sorry for the lack of blogs in the last couple of months. I can’t promise I will be adding much, if any, in the next few weeks either, at least until I’m settled in Florida. But for those who actually read this blog, and I know there’s not many of you, don’t’ forget to check up on me.