http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:kitchensmile&section=today deviantART RSS for by:kitchensmile en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:35:12 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/17367029/ http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/17367029/ Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:01:07 PDT
March 21, of this year 2008

from 6-9 pm

we will be celebrating earth day and the victorious natural change of spring over winter with a group show at the

Biddle Gallery in happenin' downtown Wyandotte!

The group show will feature the talented likes of Rick McQuaid, Ryan Weiss, Dave Moroski, Carl Oxley III, Rick Pruckler, Mrrranda Tarrow, Joey Merchant, John Albert Murphy, Michele Kramp, Jeri Hollister, Terri Sarris, Jerome Ferretti, and many more.

Yay!!!

[link]

scope it.

]]> ~kitchensmile http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/17007835/ http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/17007835/ Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:26:30 PST
BreadBox Gallery

located on 2750 Yemans

in lovely Hamtramck, Michigan

will be celebrating it's very first show

to the public on

Friday, February 29th.

I will be participating in this group show

which will be featuring the likes of Carl Oxley III,

Taurus Burns,

Mark Sengbusch,

Rachel Reynolds

and more.

Opening Reception 6-10pm

Anyways come on out and have an enjoyable night with your bestest friends!

all work will be quite affordable as nothing shall be bigger than 8 X 10!!!!!!!!

]]> ~kitchensmile http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/15902793/ http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/15902793/ Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:13:14 PST Ryanmweiss.com is on the air!
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check out my new website at [link]

let me know what you think!!!

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The show over the summer went pretty well. There was a nice turn out on the reception day! i got mentioned in some news papers and the Wyandotte news paper did a very nice article and featured my homie Jason Rohler, who was interpreting the paintings to music with an electric piano wired with all sorts of electrical what nots. I was working late nights all the way up to the reception so when it was done, i had to mellow out a bit. Find some other interests to shift back down to a normal gear. and now i am back at school. I'm working my ass off for my last semester here at Kendall college of art and design. My portfolio classes (which to the fine arts person or even maybe most lay people) are my thesis work. I'm illustrating as many music albums as possible and in my other portfolio class im doing editorial illustratons. these are a hell of a lot funner than i was expecting them to be. so yea yea yea.....

It's busy man. right from the get go, im working.

my editorial illustrations have been channeled into the more military aspects of articles. Over the summer i found out that there was an army base in North Carolina that had been giving it's soldiers, it's soldier's families and the surrounding community polluted water for 3 DECADES. The water was polluted with TCE and PCE, a degreaser and a dry cleaning agent, from a dry cleaning facility located on the base. An estimate says that about 200,000 marines passed through that base in those thirty years drinking and bathing in carcinogenic water. This does not account for the families that lived on the base or the civilian community surrounding the base. Rather appauling i think. So i did an illustration about that as my second in the series i will be presenting to the faculty in December.

My next strike is that incident that occured at the university of Florida. The STUDENT who asked Kerry some questions and ended up getting tazered in the auditorium. oh yea, first amendment rights? hmmm.... so yea. i feel empowered to support some stories that the country should probably be aware of.

I'm also thinking about tackling the JENA 6 situation too. e e e e e...

i've been very lazy about posting art works. i apologize. maybe someday soon when i've got more time than it took me to write this update.

if you interested in seeing work from the show this summer check out [link] it does not include by any means, all of the work but a selected few.

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WYANDOTTE STREET FAIR on July 13-14

Mr. Popartmonkey Carl Oxley 3 himself (www.popartmonkey.deviantart.com), the great Dave Morosky and myself will be hanging out, causing a spectacle at a table in front of Biddle Gallery (www.biddlegallery.com) with tons of affordable art!!!
and as a special treat the three of us will be doing a gigantic collaboration LIVE, with gigantic fun which will be auctioned off (i beleive) at the end of the Saturday. So come, hang out, buy some art, rub elbows with freinds and strangers and who knows maybe even eat some ice cream.

Secondly...

DREAMING THROUGH REINCARNATION August 6th - September 15th

I am having my very very first solo show going from August 6th to September 15th. The reception is August 17th so anyone and everyone should show up then. It's being held at the Biddle Gallery in Wyandotte. (www.biddlegallery.com) and i am very excited!

I will post a few teasers asap.

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I finished strong. Last night and the night before were all nighters. 48 hr.s and three of which were spent sleeping. and i just woke up from a 6 hour nap.

who said school was easy?

Woo waa!

i think i got a few things being put up in the open house.
i realistic oil painting, six illustrations for Movie Earth and my character design concept.

yea!

I love Charles Mingus! That guy was the shit!

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made some connections. met a couple sweet artists and i am supposed to be doing some graphics for this awesome dude named Cam, who makes his own long boards which will be exciting! i also got invited to do a DIY artist's market at Grand Valley's campus this spring. so thats fun.

as far as whats going on, personal work has slowed almost to hault. I've got a heavy class load this semester thanks to my "excellent" scheduling skills.

but i am illustrating a short story a friend of mine, Jake Rebh, wrote called "Movie Earth". It's awesome! it's about a really messed up dude named jack redfry who lost his legs to frostbite in antarctica on a quest for answers and was born with only one eye. His spirit, before jack was born, asked god why people live they way they do so god made a movie of the history of earth to explain why we are the way we are but that still didn't help his spirit understand, so god sent the spirit down to earth as jack redfry who lived with out a care, knowing all his descisions were already made for him. it's crazy sweet with alot of visuals. so ill be posting some of the illustrations up as i get them done.

also during the downtime of my sickness, Hannah introduced me to the productivity plague known only as "Katamari Damacy" for playstation 2. Im hooked and this game is part of the reason im so behind already. damn...

]]> ~kitchensmile http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/11360271/ http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/11360271/ Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:26:41 PST Group ART show being held at Shannon Graphics at these new coordinates:

131 s. division st.
grand rapids, mi

the show is known as "Freve 13" in honor of fictious freinds steve and frank and the address of the show place!

on the date of Saturday january 13th, 2007 yo!

FREE FOOD (artist potluck) and FREE MUSIC! and if you catch me early enough FREE ART! thats right i said it, FREE ONE OF A KIND HAND MADE, HOME GROWN ART.

There's going to be a plethora of artists stretching across the vast spectrum of art work types from wood working to surreal and anything in between and around.

FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUn

be there and/ or be square and the show is a good opprotunity to exercise that new years resolution you made to yourself to be "sweeter".

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Im not sure how many people are showing and what kind of work will be up but my freinds Rob and Blake are curating the show.

Acoustic music will be served and im pretty sure cocktails and/or ordervs(however the hell you spell that word) will be there.

January 11th, 2007 (better get used to writing 2007!)

underneath the illustrious Vertigo Music (store) which can be found at these coordinates!

129 Division Ave S
Grand Rapids, MI

so come one come all! enjoy enjoy enjoy!

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i will post new stuff very shortly.

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October 9th-November 10th,"Aliens" UFO's and aliens invade Wyandotte. Artists reception October 13th, 7:00-10:00PM. That's right, Friday the 13th!

the illustrious o.g. homie, popartmonkey [link] , and i will be there on friday!

Come hang out with us and a bunch of really great artists from assorted places in michigan.

Mixed Media show featuring work by Leo Kuschel, Carl Oxley III, Dave Moroski, Joe Scott, Karl Laub, Davin Brainard, Jim Stella, Rick McQuaid, Ryan Weiss, Ken Brown, Ken Brown, Jr., Jack Henske, Nancy Byrum, Joe Kemeny, Ed Robinson, Frank Pahl, Greg Z., and more.

come check it out! be there or be square... or get abducted... or what ever the aliens want to do with you for not coming out if you dont come out!

Also noted author David Twichell well be here to talk about his UFO experiences. How will humankind react when full disclosure of the alien presence in our world is finally released? Why has official secrecy been perpetuated for so many years? Is the UFO phenomenon a modern myth or have they always been with us? What are the credentials of those who insist we are not alone in the universe? These and many other provocative questions are addressed in “The Global Implications of the UFO Reality” by David Twichell.

biddle gallery website [link] for more info

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At the edge of the sea, in a quaint Mexican village, a small boat returns to port. An American happens to be standing there, and he compliments the Mexican fisher- man on the quality of his fish and asks him how long it took him to catch them. "No very long" replies the Mexican.
"Then why don't you stay out there longer, and catch more of them?" asks the American. The Mexican replies that he has more than enough fish to satisfy the needs of his family. The American then asks; "What do you do with the rest of your time?" The Mexican shrugs; "I fish a little, I play with my children, take a siesta with my lovely wife: most evenings I go to the village to see my friends; we drink some beer, play the guitar; I have an interesting, happy life."
The American interrupts him; "I have an MBA from Harvard, and I want to help you. You should start by fishing for longer. With the extra income you could buy a bigger boat. Then, using the money you generate from that boat you could buy another, and another until you have a large fleet. Instead of selling your fish to a middle-man, you could sell your fish directly to a factory for a better price -perhaps you could even open up your own factory. Then you could leave this tiny village for Mexico City, Los Angeles - maybe even New York, and from there you could control all your business affairs." The Mexican asks; "How much time would this take?" "About 20 or 30 years" replies the American. "And after that?"
"Well," laughs the American, "That's when it becomes really interesting; you take your Company public on the Stock Exchange and make millions of dollars!" "Millions of dollars? And after that?"
"After that, you can retire to a small seaside town, buy a nice boat and spend your days fishing, playing with your grandchildren; relaxing with your wife, visiting friends, drink some beer and play guitar." ]]> ~kitchensmile http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/9477425/ http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/9477425/ Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:12:45 PDT it's getting me down.

can anyone suggest any remedies? ]]> ~kitchensmile http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/9321102/ http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/9321102/ Sun, 09 Jul 2006 12:39:40 PDT
I dreamt that all the sudden we realized that the earth wouldn't be able to support life on it in about 30 more years. everyone paniced. the government stepped in and people were getting displaced from their homes and everyone in michigan was getting pushed to the south eastern side of the mitten. everyone was in poor health, coughing and in rags. President Bush decided to take a stand against this and to solve this problem he decided to round up all the youth of the world into these huge soccer feilds that were caged in. in these soccer prisons he organized soccer tournaments in which he supplied both teams of children with guns while they played soccer. needless to say instead of slide tackling the ball away from one another or playing the sport like it was supposed to be the children would just lazily shoot each other. now the really sad thing was that the parents and other people around the world were completely blind to this. for some reason they thought it was weird that all the children had to play soccer but they were very supportive of thier children competeing internationally and showing up each other. they didn't see the injury and death the game caused to each other's sons and daughters. the winners saw another day and lived the rest of the day in pointless triumph. no one could see what was going on. the sky was an endless horrible orange and gray that touched the ground and made you feel claustrophobic. As the numbers thened out, my mother told me that they would eventually kill all the kids of the world. the president's plan was to kill off a whole generation to prolong the inevitable. as we were being transported from field to field on a school bus, i saw many of my friends maimed and battered. there was nothing fun about this brand of soccer we were playing. it was horrible and such a bassackward way of doing things. it was like we were all in this pseudo concentration camp under the veil of a huge distraction such as the impedeing end of the world and soccer. the inhabitants of earth fell for it like cattle following the judas cow into the slaughter. i woke up in tears when my sister was killed.

what scares me the most is that people are like cattle in some ways. we scare easily, we're ignorant and selfish at times. ]]> ~kitchensmile http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/8844454/ http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/8844454/ Mon, 22 May 2006 12:22:17 PDT right.

anywho...
if any one has any ideas for anything, throw them this way! ]]> ~kitchensmile http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/8578135/ http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/8578135/ Tue, 25 Apr 2006 05:43:17 PDT ~kitchensmile http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/7180325/ http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/7180325/ Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:59:11 PST ~kitchensmile http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/7086879/ http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/7086879/ Sat, 19 Nov 2005 07:23:17 PST i now have two peices hanging in Eye Candy. Eye Candy is a hand made goods store in the yuppie bohemian side of grand rapids. people make clothes to sell, glass beads, home made odd musical instruments, just all sorts of neat little creative hand made doo dads. the chick that runs the place is really cool, i think im getting alittle ripped off right now but im strangely ok with it, for now. I just have my fingers crossed that the two peices will sell. i'm selling The Enlightening and Moving on Up. she said for me to bring anything else in that i wanted and she'd look at them.
it was all so weird and sudden. a freind of mine and i were talking in my photo class about going to taco bell after class was over. so his fiance picked us up and took us out to taco bell. while at taco bell dustin was like o i was talking your art up the other day. i was like oh thanks and stuff and he's like she wants to see it, she owns a gallery. it worked out she that she could see me on friday and i walked in with a couple peices i pulled off my walls and boom, she loved them and now they're on her walls.
this would be the perfect place to try and sell some of my toys... ]]> ~kitchensmile http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/7053121/ http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/7053121/ Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:41:14 PST [link] and i got word that our school has the ability for us to make vinyl toys, so we jumped at the chance. no one else in our school is making toys so we thought we'd explore that possibility.

Im making the inital peice out of sculpy with which im being pretty anal about. the toy is based off the yellow character from the enlightening peice. i think zac said he'd check into what we need to get to make the molds today! very very exciting!

i also kind of started a 4-6 peice acrylic series on "things that can go wrong". basically im using anatomy references and the usual characters. im possibly alittle paranoid about health lately for some reason, nothing serious just going through one of those paranoid stages about nothing.

other than that, new peices have been few and far between. i've somehow slipped and im now behind in my schooling. i've gotta type a five page paper thats late anyways, i've got a three page paper due in a class that i dont remember, i've got about 4 hours of painting for illustration painting to do and like 6 hours in the photo lab on top of regular homework that all needs to be due at different times throughout this week. o but when this stress passes there's going to be a huge purge of creative shit coming out of me. can't wait. ]]> ~kitchensmile http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/6903901/ http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/6903901/ Sun, 30 Oct 2005 06:12:26 PST ~kitchensmile http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/6436258/ http://kitchensmile.deviantart.com/journal/6436258/ Tue, 06 Sep 2005 20:27:10 PDT
peece and prosperations!
ryan ]]> ~kitchensmile