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September 23. 2006 Painting Dogs Today is my first day of painting dogs at the Festival Walk in Hong Kong. Festival Walk is a huge Mall and theoretically I will be seen painting dogs by 3. 2 Million people. If that's a good thing I am not that sure yet but it certainly beats working in an office. When painting dogs you have to show some concern towards the wellbeing of the animal. Dogs can get quite emotional and it is advised that you mix warm water with your paint especially at the more sensitive areas at the tail end of the dog.

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September 22. 2006 24/7 Noctual Navigator I have been featured in the 24/7 Noctual Navigator.

What ever you do, never try to please people. Even the highest paid professional people pleasors can't get it right most of the time. So you might as well just do your own thing. (whatever that is) More notes

The best part of having a teenage son is that you can always blame it on him if your wife finds a roach in the car. More notes

September 16. 2006 Weirdest Thing This morning I got up early, made coffee and went to my office. on the way I was admiring the beautiful sunrise with barely a cloud in the sky. Just when I turned on my computer this enormous loud bang shook the whole house. It took me a couple of seconds to figure out that it was a lightning which must have hit very, very close by. I went out in the garden and looked up. There wasn't a cloud anywhere near us. And there wasn't another thunder after that. Where did that thing come from?

September 14. 2006 My Aura I have a new camera which can capture the auras of people. I tried it first on myself. This is cool. I always thought I am the only one who sees those things. You do see them though? ... Do you?

I am a beer kinda guy and don't drink much else. Recently I was invited to drink single malts. That left me with a complete new species of a yet to be described hang-over. More notes

September 14. 2006 T-shirts for my Festival Walk performance I am thinking about making some T-shirts for my performance at the Festival Mall in Hong Kong. I actually was able to make a couple of those but I was too lazy to do the backs.

History is History There is no more time for history. Stop archiving your posts because there is so much new stuff out there that we don't have the time to go back and check out the old stuff. I wrote this about five years back: Creating a daily log on the web is changing the documentation of art from something that had been done to something that is happening right now. And from about the same period: The value of art is moving from exclusivity, from being the only one who has it to being the first one to have it. Like cell phones. First it was a status symbol just to have one. Today everybody has one and you differentiate by having the newest model before your peers get their greedy hands on it. I realized that I basically just contradicted myself. I used two examples from the past to illustrate their irrelevance. But they were relevant. Just the slightest chance of relevance makes it obligatory to archive everything we do. There is the remote chance that some things you have produced in the past will at some point be connected to something current or maybe you yourself become so important that somebody wants to study your complete body of work. Another one :-) Many veterans are often past tense.

September 10. 2006 Healthy sleep There is a huge difference between falling asleep and passing out. Whenever I stay at my friend Dick's place in Hong Kong I tend to fall asleep on his couch while watching some movie. He claims that I snore sometimes. I didn't believe him so he recorded me.

September 10. 2006 Stick Insect Hunting There is another reason to bring the era of the Stick Insect Hunter to an end. - That tragic incident with Steve Irwin. Let's face it they are not called "STICK" insects for nothing and they are after all wild animals.

September 9. 2006 Restructuring program As part of an internal restructuring program, the artist formerly known as the: Aggressively Shy Stick Insect Hunter or ASSIH shall from now own be referred to as the: Blue Haired Reincarnated Swan or BHRS.

September 8. 2006 Dress-up the Hachiko A lifelong ambition finally came true. I will be painting dogs in a mall for week.

Art is an important counter balance to popular culture. It is the advancement of thinking as opposed to the re-confirmation of the expectations of the lowest common denominator. More notes

September 7. 2006 Computer Carrier Recently I had to carry a computer over a small hill onto a ferry and into town. That thing was really heavy and I was looking forward to reach the shop where I supposed to bring it for a repair. Just before my arms went numb I reached my destination. Apparently and unbeknownst my friend who owns the thing, he didn't buy the computer in that particular shop but rather at the competition half a kilometer away. I was sweating a little by the time I arrived at the second shop. Before I could even say a word they handed my a name card which had the computer repair shop's address on it which was inconveniently located at the other side of town. In the meantime I was getting late for an important meeting another a mile away and a few hundred meters up the hill. I had no choice but to carry that thing all the way to my meeting and later all the back down again to catch a train to the repair shop. With much relieve I dropped the computer at the counter, filled up several forms and answered diverse questions. At the end of our conversation the girl wanted to have a US $ 80 down payment or wouldn't accept the computer and I had no money. I brought the computer down to the street again grabbed a few beers at Seven -Eleven to cool down and I tried to develop a creative scheme that would release me of my dilemma. By now I carried that thing for almost two hours all over Hong Kong. Luckily then my friend who owns the computer came over from across town to bail me out. He even interrupted his happy hour beer. In the meantime I made friends with a bunch of models who one after the other and independently started conversations with me regarding the computer. If you want to get know beautiful women in Hong Kong carry an Imac across town. Works better than poodles.

September 6. 2006 Bohemiana Jewelry Click on the picture to see the whole series Some more jewelry fashion pictures

I wonder at what point I stopped remembering. More notes

September 6. 2006 Fashion Model Donray Click on the picture to see the whole series My son Donray is getting old enough to earn some money. Hereby he officially became a model. Comparing this to the picture of me above it becomes obvious that it is about time that I hand over the family modeling business to the next generation.

I am very consistent. I constantly have to do something different. More notes

Reality is a feed-back loop. TV shows stage reality. People watching those shows start to imitate it. TV picks that up, exaggerates it a little and throws it right back at their audience. More notes

I collected 50 bucks from various friends supposedly to be given to some kids with cancer. Then I used the money to buy some beer and drinks for bar girls instead. I always wanted to know how it feels like to be a politician. More notes

September 2. 2006 Jewelry Fashion Shoot Click on the picture to see the whole series

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