•  3. You can pack a lot of stuff into the back of a pickup truck....Here's Kevin with our best "Pack your truck like Sanford and Son" rendition. This is what the truck looked like on our way to set up the festival on the first day. I promise that by the end of the second day we had packing that truck down to a science. There are no pictures to support this so you'll just have to take my word on that....

•  4. If your airbrushing at a festival and you run out of CO2, compressed gas to airbrush with there's a company on Long Island that runs an emergency CO2 delivery service. Can you imagine that? They saved my weekend twice...Thank you "Long Island Beverage"......for all you do this pimpin ride's for you.....

•  5. People will ask you to paint them some interesting things.....On this particular occasion I was asked to bring someone's vision to life for them. She called it "The 4 Elements." Jenna talked me through her vision while I painted. It was awesome to be able to bring her vision to life and she really loved it which was the icing on the cake. Thanks Jenna for trusting me with your vision and for snapping some great shots of the shirt in progress.....

• 6. Screen Printing's cool.....Kevin and I made our first successful efforts towards making screen prints and I intend to exercise my right as an artist to explore it in many forms from here on out......more on that soon....Here's the first screen print Kevin and I made. Can you say lot's of t-shirt designs coming real soon boys and girls?

• 7. And finally I leave you with this........I learned that Anything you do that makes a child happy, ( even something as simple as airbrushing their name on a t-shirt ) is worth more money than the world has to offer. There were numerous children that I had the honor of painting for over the weekend and each one of them brought a little bit of beauty to the day. The joy it brought to their faces to have something special made just for them was nothing short of PRICELESS. I can't wait to do it again. Viva la festival........

"A pack of punkass pumpkins about to suffer the wrath of the Sullivan sister's surprise attack."

Yay I won!

My design, "Serenade", has won the Threadless competition and will soon be on t-shirts around the globe and I couldn't have done it without you. (and the 30+ years locked in a room hacking away at a piece of paper with a sharpened tree limb.) 

This means that my design is going to be printed and sold on Threadless.com for a certain period of time (no one really knows how long that is). Basically until the t-shirt sells out. Point is if you want one you should get it now. After they sell out you have to beg and plead on the forums to get them to reprint it and let me tell you it's not a pretty site. (the website's pretty, the begging's ugly).The thing is you can not get the shirt from me. I signed a deal when I won that they could sell the shirt exclusively (in exchange for a large suitcase full of money). Ok maybe not a suitcase but enough to convince me to give them exclusive rights to sell it on Threadless. I'm not kidding when I say that this item will sell out and of course this is not a sales pitch to make me more money. I've already been paid (where is that damn check?). I make no more money off the future sale of this shirt but as I mentioned before if you want one and miss the opportunity I can't do anything about it. (Just a little inside info if your really interested in having one.) As you can see from the title of this newsIetter I have nothing but big love for Threadless because they love designers, artist's and creative people in general and that's pretty awesome. If you like cool t-shirts and you haven't been to threadless yet head on over there now and tell em I sent you. (I claim no responsibility for what they may do, say or throw at you if you do actually mention my name.)

Here's your options:

> Buy the shirt < 

> View my profile on Threadless <

You can see a slideshow with all the colors by visiting my About page
Thanks………

"The title had been in my head for a while and I tried to convince myself it wasn't the one I should use," Ritter admits, "but for me it was perfect. I was thinking back on the period of my life leading up to this record and my experience up to that point was, you get up, you start to play music and you tour. It's such a strange life style. In a lot of ways I felt like I became this thing, half-man, half-animal, out in the middle of the country, playing. It was so bizarre. Everyone else is living their lives and doing things that are bit more normal … I became the proto-hunter-gatherer, going out wherever and doing stuff and trying to find a way to make sense in a human way. I think back on that time and feel definitely, those were my animal years."

I can only say that I know exactly where he is coming from. I have lived many animal years myself which is another reason that prompted me to submit to this contest…..

Vote for my design by clicking the thumbnail below.

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