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I, ___________________, will make art because I want to.

I will make one original work or pop out one idea a day.

I will enjoy looking at art almost as much as making it.

I will experiment with and delve into art making both popular and obscure.

I will fail.

I will triumph.

I will believe in myself and doubt myself.

My muse will kick my rear end in both reality and fantasy.

I will take more chances.

I will connect to the learned know-it-alls and attract and amaze the regular guy.

I will believe what I want to believe in and thumb my nose at gimmick and trends.

I will both conform and live on the left side of the radio dial.

I may not be as smart as you(booksmart, trash talker, name dropper, pop culture knowledge bank, art history speak, etc.) but give me adequate tools and I will create a smart, multidimensional, deep and profound, riddle-like statement in a manner that suits my soul.

I will admire and utilize simplicity and complexity. I will believe that both can walk hand in hand or apart, if need be. Redundant, maybe. Possible, for sure.

I will talk less and work more.

I will eat, drink, love, and sleep art, family, and inspiration.

I will fall apart physically. It’s because I am “working out” artistically.

I will fuse realism, abstraction, cartooning, expressionism, fantasy, and narrative.

I will claim to have it all figured out and be a clean slate at the same time.

(Feel free to add to this if you'd like,I wrote it one night, in my sketchbook, in a fury. It is largely unedited.I truly believe in and hope to live true to this manifesto/creed/mission statement.

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I love my family, my job, my friends, my life. Thank you art for saving me from boredom and sure dip shittery.

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I love the approach of spring. There is a fresh smell in the air, anticipation of warmth, track and field, gardening, easter egg hunts with my kids, fishing, a cold one on my back stoop, can't wait.

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"we're all looking for life worth livin." --uncle tupelo ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/9562499/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/9562499/ Tue, 01 Aug 2006 06:13:54 PDT
This is an easy show to get into, like, pay your ten bucks and instant resume builder for a cool travelling show...

[link]

The site is cool and look at the winners from last year, i am one of them, toot toot.


Just do it. ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/9552785/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/9552785/ Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:21:33 PDT
The painting is in my deviant art gallery as imprintrobynhitchcock.

I also recieved a nice mention in the review of the show. Here's the link: [link]

My work hung with some very accomplished artists and only one room over from my favorite picasso work, Woman with a crow. I feel vindicated, authenticated, and just generally excited to be accepted in such a show.

We have another opening tomorrow night. I have already sold one paintingin the show for $500 and hope the others move as well. More on that later. ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/8894356/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/8894356/ Sat, 27 May 2006 15:48:31 PDT
life is good. just gotta keep working on the work. ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/8598102/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/8598102/ Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:02:09 PDT
also, sending some slides for some big shows this week. both regional and national. rejection letters await me.

hope you are all well.

g ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/8440675/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/8440675/ Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:08:49 PDT [link] pictures of men who had been freed from prison after years of false imprisonment. the faces may haunt me for life. i had to excuse myself from the presence of these brave men in amazing photos. i hope my students saw the same thing i did today. injustice is rotten. i decided today that I tend more towards being an instrumentalist as an art viewer. That art today can and should be meaningful and perhaps help to save the world. bless you all. ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/8115089/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/8115089/ Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:23:17 PST
here is a link to feature in the local newspaper.

[link]


i "really" wish she'd edited out my "really"s a bit more.

peace
g ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/7995739/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/7995739/ Sat, 25 Feb 2006 02:32:33 PST
got five paintings in a juried show, selling them for 100 bucks apeice. if you are in the central ohio area, get directions to MADLAB gallery. the opening is March 4th from 5-7. it is a small gallery with wonderful ideas. they got my name in some press stuff as well and a reporter has come snooping for an interview and pictures with my work. i chuckled this to my wife because it was so surreal and she laughed too, thinking they wanted a school picture from my fourth grade class pictures or first year of teaching(a truly horrific photo) to use in the paper or something.

the five paintings in the show are in my gallery
imprint smiths
jesus needs a car
i'm always doing this.
turds
and
believe in me. ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/7823197/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/7823197/ Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:40:51 PST
gordon lightfoot.
the EPA. hell yeah.
Fat albert
bob seger
the summer of 1976(that bicentennial was boss!!!)
the warriors
conan the barbarian, the freaking comic.
nixon getting the axe
all of my uncles home, safe, from vietnam
delivering newspapers on the west side of north baltimore.

two things i hated about the seventies

disco
and
polyester. ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/7823136/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/7823136/ Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:35:02 PST ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/7378872/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/7378872/ Thu, 22 Dec 2005 02:56:44 PST
i am thankful for my job.you gotta love your job when they say, take a two week break, and you just freaking leave, paid, for two weeks. Plus, half of the time i teach, half o the time i paint, draw, and do other things. my lunch time is full of cameraderie and ridiculous male ramblings.

i am thankful for my wife, who is funny, talented, smart, and pretty darned good looking.

i am thankful for two healthy children who keep me on my toes and have breathed a new life force into my soul.

i am thankful for having my mom, every single minute. My Dad as well. they are the greatest mentors and are still raising me at this point.

i am thankful for my brothers and sister, who are better friends to me now than they were when we were kids.

i am blessed to have so many friends that it's ridiculous. i only wish i had more time to hang with all of them this break.

thats not all, but i am pretty thankful.

tidings.

g ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/6950475/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/6950475/ Fri, 04 Nov 2005 03:26:19 PST
inspired by............

listening more than talking
laughing at common and weird things.
a perfect sentence/lyric/statement/quote/thought
great bands with bad names
any kind of pop culture in print/magazine
my muse(wife) and kids
great short poetry
autumn
coffee
cheap beer
nostalgia and lost stuff
someone trying to make a difference
david lynch
spike lee spike jones and spike from bensonhurst
lynda barry, aaron mcgruder,
polaroids


not inspired by.........
hard drugs
bad situation comedies(freddie)
people magazine
heartless human beings
jeff koons
expensive bitter beer
wine
loud scream rock
selfish politically minded people republican, democrat, socialist, it matters not. ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/6768370/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/6768370/ Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:17:26 PDT
drove to dick blick and picked up a few things, a big screen for the first time in ages.

drove to seafood japan and picked up sushi building kit.

drove home and "boys of summer" came on, that song almost makes me weep sometimes, freaking 1985, long time ago. it was nice though to hear and try to match don henley's tenor with the windows down.

got home and attacked my family with hugs.

had a drink or two and built some california rolls and spicy tuna and laughed alot. the weather was too perfect, warm and cool all at once, we ate a buttload of sushi on the back porch.

i gave judy her sweetest day a day early, two really nice little paintings/collages about vinny vinae. she appreciated it.

if all days were like today...

blessa your souls. ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/6644112/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/6644112/ Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:27:37 PDT Sullivan
Sand
Snow
Surfing

I am so close to finishing so much i could poop my pants. Posting next week like a madman.

these are your important years you better make them last.
-bob mould husker du ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/6610054/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/6610054/ Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:19:50 PDT
gone daddy gone my finishing is gone. ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/6513565/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/6513565/ Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:40:54 PDT
MOm
mango
markers
mud puddles
micheal Stipe
morning(early)
midnight
milkshake
mars
macintosh ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/6398952/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/6398952/ Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:14:12 PDT ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/6259669/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/6259669/ Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:02:04 PDT BIG URGES SATISFIED ON SMALL SCALE, WITH FLASHES OF CREATIVITY
Published: Wednesday, August 17, 2005
FEATURES - LIFE 01C
By Eileen Dempsey
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

A new trading-card exhibit has opened in town, but visitors are apt to leave their cash at home.

The cards don't show baseball stars or Pokemon characters. Instead, they depict miniature works of art.

And they aren't for sale: They're traded only by artists.

''It's part of the art form that no money is supposed to be involved in the transaction,'' said Lisa Ohmer, owner of the Columbus Center for Book and Paper Arts.

Inspired by similar shows in Canada, she launched the ''House of Cards'' exhibit here.

More than 500 artists from throughout the world responded to her call with about 2,500 pieces -- each measuring 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches (the size of a baseball card).

The display, whose art form is traced to 1997 in Switzerland, will travel next year to Georgia.

Professional artists and designers -- along with paper crafters, quilters, calligraphers and children -- submitted cards that feature painting, sewing, screen printing and rubber-stamping.

Some are funny and some serious; others are wistful or whimsical.

"Every card has a story,'' Ohmer said.

She joined three central Ohio artists in judging the works for their beauty, humor, originality, use of fabric and overall quality.

Dan Gerdeman of Grove City, whose ink-and-watercolor sketches won the award for humor, hadn't pursued artist trading cards before he entered the competition.

"I'm just amazed at the variety and just how ingenious these cards are,'' said the 38-year-old, who teaches art at Hilliard Davidson High School. "Some are massively elaborate.''

Whether two- or three- dimensional, each card should easily slip into a standard plastic sleeve.

The size of the canvas appealed to Gail Rosenblum, 61, of the East Side, whose entry was recognized for its beauty.

She used fiber, polymer clay and colored pencil in creating her pastel-hued card of a female face.

"I've made a dozen to trade,'' she said. "This sounded intriguing, and now I'm hooked.''

edempsey@dispatch.com ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/6171086/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/6171086/ Mon, 08 Aug 2005 17:26:30 PDT getting a prize without expecting it.
talking to family who you haven't talked to in ages.
hugs and laughs unconditionally.
grilled chicken marinated for hours.
finishing one or more works a day.
sleeping more than seven hours at a clip.
watching a movie that scares you shitless or makes you cry real heartfelt tears(non soundtrack induced)
country ponds with rope swings ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/6045542/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/6045542/ Wed, 27 Jul 2005 04:11:07 PDT
[link]

that stuff i wrote about it's later than you think, well, it is so quit wasting days watching bad sitcoms and crying in your soup. i woke up yesterday and realized that i've been out of high school longer than i was ever in school. no regrets. but time.....it flies. enjoy yourself... ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/6020344/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/6020344/ Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:24:19 PDT it's later than you think

todd snider....

count your blessings now!!! all of you... ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5992332/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5992332/ Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:34:51 PDT
building lincoln log towers so my son can smash em.
feeling my daughters gums to see when that eyetooth will pop.
finding two best buddies that i havent seen not heard for years.

latex paint, lots of it all of the place.

juxtapoz magazine

neckface

brandon bird

cheap beer, always ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5927302/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5927302/ Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:03:43 PDT
he and i have been watching little rascals greatest hits when sophie sleeps. he laughs as hard as i do. sophie is the orneriest kid i know but also a real beauty who works the smile and eyes better than any one year old i've ever met. she will be a challenge in 13 years, i am sure.

this old life is a good one. bless you all. ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5888329/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5888329/ Sat, 09 Jul 2005 17:50:22 PDT

best things to buy for 3$

a twenty dollar frame at a garage sale.
6 candy bars.
6 cold ones
one roll of 120 film
a rolliflex tlr camera
willie wonka and the choc. factory VHS
a whole slew of gloss and matt gel medium(grumbacher)
a pie pan-muffin pan- and pizza pan. ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5859884/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5859884/ Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:48:39 PDT
today i started a canvas that was about flying and running that quickly turned into an attack on every stolen moment i could find. i snuck a few meals and artist trading cards in and even watched a little rascals compilation with my little rascals. every other moment was filled with this painting. i will post it tomorrow as i am an hour from finishing it. i guess i picked up the guitar today and strummed until my fingers hurt, not too long as i haven't done anything on the instrument in too long.

eat yer spaghettios kids. ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5776130/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5776130/ Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:20:28 PDT ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5736740/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5736740/ Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:49:55 PDT ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5698434/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5698434/ Sun, 19 Jun 2005 20:41:54 PDT ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5639370/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5639370/ Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:01:08 PDT
so, someone out there, sometime, kiss them for me... ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5615502/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5615502/ Sat, 11 Jun 2005 04:07:22 PDT [link]
Chainsaw ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5580085/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5580085/ Tue, 07 Jun 2005 13:28:44 PDT
Dreaming of surfing now that the real summer heat kicked in in the midwest(states) and the only thing i can do is pop in Bruce Brown movies and get in squirt gun fights with my son.

I got voted Teacher of the Year by the senior class at my high school. Vindication!! Props from kids rank so much higher than props from rule makers/adults. The visual arts are important and viable in a huge school. If one or two politicos could figure that shit out, the American school system might get beyond testing as indicator of good schools.

Read an amazing poem by Vonnegut about a conversation that he had with J. Heller, or Keller, i can't remember. Simply put, Fortune doesn't mean anything if it is not appreciated and used to help others.

Last but not least, watched some of spiderman with sullivan last night, he knew it was spiderman before i did. THe line by Uncle Ben, "with great power, comes great responsibility," always floors me.. ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5467122/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5467122/ Thu, 26 May 2005 11:59:26 PDT ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5439447/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5439447/ Mon, 23 May 2005 14:15:36 PDT ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5439423/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5439423/ Mon, 23 May 2005 14:14:12 PDT ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5408488/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5408488/ Fri, 20 May 2005 03:15:37 PDT ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5267653/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5267653/ Wed, 04 May 2005 18:02:07 PDT
2 gallons of milk, 8 honey buns, and box of frozen chicken nuggets.

one ticket to see andrew bird.

3 rolls of 120 film

see a movie a multiplex.

2 big beers at a crappy bar.

25 dvd-r's.

1000 pennies.

i was sick of my last journal and finished the heck out of my book. ooooooooooyeeee-uh. ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5188700/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5188700/ Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:45:17 PDT
write a grant or finish the final book.

write a fricking no thanks grant for no f-ing thanks or finish the final copy of a sweet book and make a few dollars and be the envy of the hillbilly neighbor hood that i live in..... giddy up...

aw heck anyway. finished two paintings last night and started a freaky sound spoken word video project at school today. painting a gorgeous picture of sully for judy on mother's day, realism once a year to prove that i can still ride the old horse. whinny whinny ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5075013/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5075013/ Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:58:58 PDT ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5033429/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5033429/ Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:52:16 PDT surfer snowball
speeder sprint
sock spool
skag slackass
stories sleeve
spank scar
stupendous
sorry ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5022049/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/5022049/ Thu, 07 Apr 2005 03:16:20 PDT
swell sarcastic
surf scene
squeeze sniff
snap soap
sweenster seed
sheeee-ot sunny/sonny
sullivan sip
sack sucker

and a tribute to my college roommate years ago
shabba dooo. ]]> ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/4957824/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/4957824/ Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:22:59 PST ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/4909866/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/4909866/ Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:39:53 PST ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/4891369/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/4891369/ Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:52:48 PST ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/4883663/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/4883663/ Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:13:29 PST ~dgerdem http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/4871975/ http://dgerdem.deviantart.com/journal/4871975/ Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:34:59 PST
just about ready to shoot video for a project that has been in the works for three years. tentatively titled Elements: the story of Vinny Vinae. pictures posted soon.

i love making art, not enough time or coffee to keep me going.

g ]]> ~dgerdem