K'Ray Noobslappa Part 2: The Baggage I Left Behind Allowed Me To Go Back To What I Do

Okay, after a few hiccups, heartbreaks and disappointments with the reception of other works that I have done, a move across the country, and several hours/days/months lamenting on the LACK of progress....

I have actually (re)(re)restarted the actual statue itself.  Look at previous posts for the base that K'Ray will be standing on!

This is K'Ray's head.  At this point I had about an hour vested (and I went to bed shortly thereafter.  For some reason I get creative impulses LATE at night).  You can see the stack of clay bricks that will eventually be her body.

I decided that K'Ray needed a body this morning.  This is the point that I stopped at to research how many fingers a friggin' Ewok has...

...which is three.  This is K'Ray as she currently exists, and she will hopefully have legs tomorrow!  Remember that the point of this (like my last foray into Star Wars inspired sculpture) is to first and foremost make one of my favorite people on the planet smile, and secondly make a Ewok that doesn't suck/I hate.


So this is K'Ray Noobslappa, Slapper of N00bs.  Soon she will be perched triumphantly atop a pile of Stormtrooper helmets, screaming in victory towards the heavens; or something like that.

行ってきます！

アダム

My Brother's Dream: Part 3

Nervous?

My Brother's Dream: Part 2

Okay LoViz plays a little here, but he is HYPED up... (he reeeally isn't that cocky, but he IS that funny...)

My Brother's Dream: Part 1

I am really pumped, because my brother is going to go up on stage for the first time in his life!

My Brother's Dream: At the Barking Kudu, and the second comic is up!

So far, better...

My Brother's Dream: At the Barking Kudu, and the first comic is up!

LoViz is W A Y funnier!

GK-0611 The GhettoJedi: お金をもてます (o-ka-ney-o-mo-te-mas)

Still have to make the leaf into water, but I added my name, replaced one of the 愛(love) kanji with the one for 'ocean' 海(Umi), cleaned up the kanji for "son" and "niece" as well their names, and added the motto at the bottom, 夏が来ている "summer is coming".

GK-0611 The GhettoJedi

 SO I have been learning Japanese as of late, and that kind of stymied my art/blog/etc...  :)

I have picked up Japanese caligraphy (Shodo) and so I have worked on finishing a piece that I started when I was 16 years old.

GK-0611 The GhettoJedi: my piece that I am doing FOR ME. For any of ya'll that have seen my tattoo on my left shoulder... THAT is what will be in the frame. My name will be above the image in "dollar bill font" and my favorite motto will be below. :)

The  kanji are for "forever" on the top two corners, "love" on the bottom corners; Musuko (Son) with Reese on the left, Mei (niece) on the right

 

..Ow.

More pics soon!

Ghetto アダム

Excuses From theGhettoJedi >or< "What had HAPpened was...."

I have been sick as hell, and I honestly haven't felt like doing much but sleeping when I get home...

I HAVE been learning Japanese though (no shit) so don't be surprised when I start spouting off in weird squiggly characters...

KRay is coming along great, though I have run into some issues with the clay I am using, the DETAIL i can get is amazing.  I will post a slew of progression-type pics here in a bit.

こんいちは！！  (konnichi wa, or good day!)

－－－げとじぇぢーーー

The Weird Questions Random People Ask You When You Have A Headless Ewok In Your Hand:

 Q: What, if anything, inspires your art/what the fuck is that, a headless Teddy Ruxpin???

A:

 'Love', above all else.

It is no secret to anyone, save the people enthralled in its grip, that love is the one thing above all else that inspires the Creative to be themselves.

I think that Shakespeare wrote an entire library (or close to it) of plays on the subject of unrequited love, so there is worse company that one could keep.

Mind you, I am not saying that 'romance' inspires me to create, and I am not saying that being ‘in love’ necessarily has EVER the subject of my works. Not hardly; unrequited love is not very romantic, and I am not the sort to create ‘mushy-mushy, frou-frou’ works of art. I lean more along the lines of 'R2-D2 vs Godzilla.'

Love is the basis of all of my art. And, no, it is a headless Ewok, you idiot.

K'Ray Noobslappa Part 1: Progess HAS Been Made

I have been super busy, and I also just took a well-needed vacation to New Jersey - so I have been out of the loop.

That is NOT to say that K'Ray Noobslappa has gone by the wayside!  This time I am doing the EXACT opposite and sculpting the base first.

As promised, the helmets are differing colors:

and  looking at the base from the "front":

I have little doubt at this point that I will NOT stick with wax (as it is not permanent) as the final medium, but I can beat the HELL out of the helmets to make them look weather.  You know, like a Noobslapping Ewok just regulated up on a battalion of Stormtroopers.

Ha.

As I said, I also plan to cast this structure BEFORE the rabid Ewok is mounted to it (that just LOOKS funny even as I type it!!!) because I think it will make a dope ass candle!

-Ghetto

EK-0205 Part 10: Paranoia No Stigma

I received notification that EK-0205 made it to Korea today (which is actually tomorrow, if you know any thing about time zones...  my brain hurts.)!!

I was about wretched with worry about the thought her sinking to the bottom of the ocean or some bastard asian mail handler kicking her around like Ace Ventura...  I am not normally like that about inanimate objects, but I suppose that I have an obvious emotional attachment to something that I worked on for so long.

Sad to say, but I will more than likely never see EK again  :( , but my sister is a photographer, and she took a LOT of pictures.  Thanks to SoyLatte (i call her Baf) for that...  Since she has been delivered to her new home, I feel as though I can post the finalized pics.

I present to you EK-0205 (fin)...

 the finished "garbage" base

EK-0205's emblem

Epic Action Shot!!!!!

I had a lot of fun with this, and I assure you that I will revisit EK-0205 again (when I think of an appropriately hilarious situation for her) in the future.

I came to the conclusion that I was put on this earth to make people smile, and so I must assume that my art is meant to do the same.  This little pink stormtrooper was conceptualized, and fabricated to elicit one of my favorite smiles - and I think I might have nailed it.

So.  mues vitalamen vobis, muse numerous unus is done and delievered.  Now I have an Ewok (of all things) that I haven't paid any attention to...  muse numerous duos, now on to...

you...ohs?  (God that was horrible!)

Ghetto

EK-0205 Part 9: EK,Where Are You??

After so being a brat for so long, and no mailing EK...  NOW IT HAS BEEN A WEEK since I mailed her, and still no word of her arrival.  It is affecting my ability to move forward on my current project.  More on that later.

/START RANT

Oh.  Sure.  I am SURE that it just "takes a while" and "Korea is f****ing FAR away" and i get that.

I have mailed things there before, and I realize that it may take longer that the 6-10 day estimate, and YES I know that it hasn't been 10 days yet....it's just...

I miss that little pink harbinger of The Galactic Empire, and her unnatural obsession with Hello Kitty and cephalopods...  and i hope like hell that she makes it to her new home okay.  I kinda did invest two months of my life in that 'little' project....

...sigh.

/END RANT

 

K'Ray Noobslappa Part 1: Changing Gears Before I Am N 2 Deep

I have been exceptionally busy at work, to the point that i STILL have not found a moment to go by the Post Office and ship EK to Korea.

Bad.  Ghetto.

Sigh.  So on to my next project:

As previously stated, K'Ray Noobslappa is an Ewok (yes....  I KNOW, Ewoks suck) standing triumphantly atop a mound of stormtrooper helmets.

I have been casting helmet after helmet in wax because I thought that it would be an really cool candle.  I also was casting each helmet in a different color because the recipient  of the piece lives... an alternative lifestyle... and I though that a "rainbow" pile of stormtrooper helmets would make a hellava statement.

I think that I am going to stick with the multi colors, but maybe not the medium.  Wax is great to make the helmet look marred and beat up, BUT if you leave the candle in your CAR i tends to start to melt.

This is no good.  :)

However - A SIDE PROJECT OF THIS has become a pile of Stormtrooper helmets cast as a candle, because it EERILY looks like a pile of human skulls, and that, my friends...

is Metal as fuck.

Ghetto

Ghetto and LoViz have created our intros for our animation projects!

Look to http://LoVizProductions.blogspot.com in the next 24, and here at The Dive for Ghetto's in the next 48

--Ghetto

Project Number 1: I Miss You Already

I have been experiencing back issues again, so sculpting is kind of paused in between projects.

I will post the sketches of K'Ray Noobslapa of Endor in the near future...

EK-0205 Part 8: The End Complete

She is done.

No more resin to watch cure.

No more paint to watch dry.

I will have extensive final pics, courtesy of my sister (she is a photographer) but I will wait for the recipient to get it before I post them.

I have spoiled the surprise enough LoL with my compulsive need to share enough, methinks.



---gTo---

EK-0205 Part 7: Final Touches - Her Badge

Nuff Said.

Art Manifesto 2011

As I apply the finishing touches on my first project of this year, I feel inclined to try and properly convey the terms of my current series of works.

I.                   Apollo, God of the Sun, Lord of the Muses

I have always had a fascination with the Ancient Greeks, their myths, and their Gods.  Of the entire Pantheon, I hold Apollo dearest.  One of my cats is name after Apollo.  He is the Ancient Greek god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; medicine, healing, and plague; music, poetry, and the arts; and more. 

Sure, he had a mean streak (he was known for being vindictive to those that were NOT true; ie plagues); but through his Muses, Apollo was credited for inspiring creativity and dance, gazing at the heavens, and the Arts of all kinds.  This is the one reason above all else that I have always loved Apollo above all other Olympian Gods.

II.               Muses/Greek; Muses/Adam

In Hellenistic times, Apollo had nine Muses:

1.     Calliope – Epics 

2.      Clio - History 

3.       Erato - Love 

4.       Euterpe - Lyric 

5.       Melpomene - Tragedy 

6.       Polyhymnia - Sacred 

7.       Terpsichore - <edit>Choral and Song

8.       Thalia - Comedy 

9.       Urania – Astronomy

I am certainly no Greek God by any stretch of the imagination, but I do happen to have nine Muses on this Earth.  Not only do I have nine Muses, but each one coincides with the Classical representation of what that Muses was purposed to inspire.

I am thankful to each one of them.

III.            I Have Become Apollo (not really…)

I believe that you are on this planet for a finite amount of time, and to be inspired to create is such an important gift that it should be appreciated and recognized.  Because I am a generally weird and quirky person, this realization of mine has inspired me to create nine sculptures to my Muses as meager birthday offerings. 

  

So as my first offering to The Muses of the Ghetto Jedi is sent out this weekend (already 11 days late as I write this); I reflect on the nine people in this world that have, each in their own way pushed, shoved, loved, inspired, and sometimes hated me into continuing to be the writer and artist that I am.  

Now if I can just find nine people that don’t think that I am a weird freak, then I will be in business…

EK-0205 Part 6.2: The Base May As Well Be Another Sculpture

Eureka!

Finally, after tonight's clear-coat application and 24 hour curing, EK-0205 will become a World Traveler as she is an avatar of one anyway...

I am a little sad, because I have spent many an hour literally "watching the paint dry" (or resin cure, or silicone cure, or ....) and admiring my handy work.  I am quite proud of the way that she turned out, for someone that hasn't sculpted seriously since before my 12 year old son was born.

I am going to seriously miss this piece.

So, EK-0205, I will enjoy these last hours of you being a work-in-progress, but I will soon say goodbye as you journey off to your intended purpose.  You were born to elicit a smiles and I know that you are anxious to do so...

Sniff.


Daddy is so proud...