Let's Get FUCKIN' GRIMY!

It's in Our Nature

12x16"

Acrylic/Gauche on Canvas

A Study in Cohabitation Pt.1

16x20"

Aerosol Paint/Acrylic on Canvas

But you still are gonna miss the shot and possibly die, because you’re Yamcha.

Death Encoded Curse #tbt #myfirstabstract #254

The Inevitable Backlash

I’m personally torn on the events that occurred at Charlie Hebdo yesterday. As an artist I am a strong advocate in the freedom of speech and anti-censorship. I am also however very strongly the the idea that with those freedoms comes responsibility. It is a great tragedy what has happened, and in no way do I think that what had happened was warranted or that they had what was coming to them. I thoroughly detest religious and idealogical extremism on every level no matter what belief system is come from. But I also do not stand behind the phobic views against any person or group from any other person/group.

It is ridiculous and gross to think that people in this day and age think that reverting to extreme violence is any sort of answer to what ever may upset them. Two other things that are as equally as ridiculous and gross are that even though Charlie Hebdo was heralded as a champion of free speech, they along with everyone of their supporters were and are ignorant to the hate that they are unwittingly spreading, and the last thing is the fucking worldwide media is on top of all of this while the bombing of the NAACP chapter in Colorado is last page news.

Yes, I understand that no one was injured in the Colorado bombing but for fuck sake, can the media at least pretend not to be sensationalist shit bags and use the tools they have to spread the news equally and truthfully without dollar signs and their various agendas in mind. Wishful thinking eh?

My thoughts go out to all who have been affected in both incidences and to those who may be affected by the inevitable backlash by the collective ignorance in the world.

KU JOURNALISM MAJOR SHREDS “CASE” AGAINST MIKE BROWN

Shelby Lawson is a student at the University of Kansas, majoring in Journalism and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Lawson posted the following to her Facebook page: 

“Alright y’all. I’d like to clear a few things up. This is a general address to the long list of misconceptions and inconsistencies and abuses of power that exist surrounding the killing of Mike Brown. I have researched these points and provided sources in case you wish to do some reading of your own.

-The most common misconception I’m hearing is that Mike Brown was significantly larger than Officer Wilson. This is incorrect. On page 198 of the official grand jury transcript, you can see that Officer Wilson testifies he is 6 ft 4 and weighs 210 lbs,the same size as Mike Brown.

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-Mike Brown was NOT stopped because he was a suspect in crime. He and his friend Dorian Johnson were stopped for jaywalking, as Darren Wilson testifies to on page 208 of his grand jury testimony.

-Mike Brown WAS fleeing from Officer Wilson when he was fatally shot. Wilson confirms this on page 281 of his grand jury testimony.

-Officer Wilson broke police self-defense protocol, which teaches to disarm and incapacitate rather than kill and teaches officers to go for body shots. Officer Wilson shot Mike Brown twice in the head, after he shot him four times in his arm and torso.

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-Ferguson Police ignored protocol and refused to interview or take a statement from the eyewitness present from Officer Wilson’s initial contact with Mike Brown until his death.

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-The forensic examiner broke protocol by failing to take crime scene photos. On page 95 of the grand jury transcript, she claims that this was because her camera had died, however, she goes on to describe how she immediately followed Wilson to the hospital in order to photograph his “injuries.”

-Forensic investigators broke protocol by failing to test Officer Wilson’s gun for fingerprints, since Wilson claims that Brown grabbed his gun and caused it to misfire. Page 39, grand jury transcript.

-Darren Wilson was then allowed to break protocol by washing the blood off of himself before it could be photographed, making it impossible to analyze blood spatter patterns and determine what position Mike Brown was in when Wilson first shot him. Wilson recounts this on page 10 of his official police interview.

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-While Officer Wilson’s story of what happened that day has changed at least three times, six separate eyewitnesses, four of whom have never met each other, all have identical accounts of what happened. They were never interviewed by police.

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-These eyewitnesses all agree that Darren Wilson was the aggressor and that Mike Brown was shot while surrendering, with his hands in the air and that his last words were “I don’t have a gun. Stop shooting.”

-This is backed up by Mike Brown’s autopsy, which suggests that Mike Brown would have had to be in the hands-up position for the bullets to enter his hand and arm the way they did.

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-Furthermore, in a press conference, the coroner who performed Mike Brown’s autopsy relays that there was no trace of gun shot residue anywhere on his body, proving that Wilson’s claim that Mike Brown grabbed his gun, causing it to misfire, is impossible and untrue.

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-Ferguson Police lied about the distance Mike Brown was from Officer Wilson when he was killed. They reported it was 35 ft. but it was in fact 148 ft.

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-Owner of Ferguson Market states that he did not call police to report a theft of cigars, that the theft had nothing to do with Mike Brown, and that the man on the security footage is not Mike Brown.

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-The prosecuting attorney for the case against Darren Wilson has helped raise $600,000 in donations for Darren Wilson, creating a clear conflict of interest.

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-The police department that Officer Wilson worked for prior to coming to Ferguson was disbanded after multiple instances of racial profiling.”

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If they were in fact basing the costume designs of Frankie and Wilt on the above cover of Tank Girl issue #2, then Wilt is more accurately dressed as the devil.

Hold the fucking phone. Is Frankie dressed as Tank girl and Wilt dressed as Booga? Like what the actual fuck. How did I fucking miss that?