Okir @Okir@mastodon.social
Pinay artist, writer, editor, Fil-Am, non-profit schlepper, chinatown crone. https://jeanvengua.wordpress.com www.local-nomad.net
Starbucks is closing 150 stores https://boingboing.net/2018/06/19/starbucks-closing-150-stores.html #starbucks #Business #Post
Dear U.N. nations, please help us get rid of this horrifying infestation in the White House. It's really gross and disgusting. 😥
Painting through the sciatica paid off. Sold a painting! https://jeanvengua.com/2018/06/14/wednesday-is-full-of/ (caption for url: painting is abstract, rectangular w/flowing bright colors & blue splotches). Tomorrow: shipping. #artists #art #tutoring #artistslife
It’s difficult to get into father’s day today. Love my Dad, love my mom, but can’t really celebrate these days until the abuse stops, families at the border are reunited, and our border policies are revised. Let’s make America humane. In the meantime, I’m still making art. #fathersday #art #artists #artistslife #thorns
Rockin' Cubist-type collage, with arty female nudes in it:
Guess what, #Mastodon t-shirts! https://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/t-shirt/men/mastodon-t-shirt/924252/ Thanks @dopatwo 😄
Still time to submit art or writing to LocalNomad's "Falutinism" issue! You know you always wanted this: Be part of a fake art movement now! The badly-rendered imps will thank you! http://www.local-nomad.net/sample-page/ #fake #art #fakeit
"Going Large, Going Tiny," my article on painting big or small, and how that relates to the size of your art studio (and budget): https://jeanvengua.com/2018/05/26/going-large-going-tiny-painting/ #artstudio #bigart #miniatureart #smallart #artists #art #painting
On MADI art: https://jeanvengua.com/2018/05/23/madi/
Yo ho ho, the artists' life. Going to GoodWill to look for a pair of used jeans today, and maybe some overalls...
It's weird to select, sort, paste, cut, paint, erase, repaint, and just generally dither and struggle for days on a project. Only to have all that vanish from my mind ten minutes after the thing's complete. It's not that I think everything I do is flawless. But in the end the magic voice always pipes up with, "Yes, that's how it had to be. It could never have gone any other way. You can move on to the next thing in peace." 🤔
Maybe the problem is that I need to eat some pineapple pizza.
Had all kinds of good intentions for art making today, and so far all I've done is paint a yellow blob, which looks more brown than yellow, on some paper. I want my yellows to be yellow, dammit. Like, you know, pineapple pizza yellow. 
Hey #artists and #writers, the deadline is coming up soon for Local Nomad's "Falutinism" issue, summer 2018. http://www.local-nomad.net/sample-page/ We'd love to see your work! The BADLY RENDERED IMPS will salute you! #visualart #elloart #art #parody #satire #poems #shortfiction #essays
Seconds, maybe minutes, between online tutoring, she swallows swaths of information from the news, from "friends," from dogs cuddling geese, cats nuzzling pigs, and weather reports. Remembers "outside" and looks out the window: a mostly dead rose bush with one living branch pushing forth a few blossoms. In the distance, a species of "pine" tree that looks like it once provided landing pads for Archaeopteryx.
Well, the doc's report on my health was not horrible (whew), but it wasn't great, either. Need to get my exercise on, and gulp down great amounts of water...
That moment when the doctor's office calls you the day after yr lab test was done; wants to see you tomorrow a.m. 😕
Poetry reading in Oakland: done; powerpoint presentation, Salinas: done; Jean-Michel Jarre freaking awesome concert: done; state & fed taxes: done; now a quiet day sipping gunpowder tea, and back to editing work (kind of a relief...). #poetry #jeanmicheljarre #oxygene #taxes #tea #freelancer #ronin
Helluva lot of tutoring to do this morning (left over from last night). Powering up my inner Kukicha warrior. At some point I will get back to that painting? #English #writing #gradstudents #painting
