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[2010-02-15 20:18:10 +0000 UTC]
"Namaste"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 1268; Deviations: 350; Watchers: 61
Watching: 141; Pageviews: 15742; Comments Made: 234; Friends: 141
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Ralph SteadmanFavorite movies: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Pixar, Star Wars, Fantastic Planet, Nightmare on Elm Street
Favorite TV shows: The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, That 70's Show, King of the Hill, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Adventure Time, Monty Python's Flying Circus
Favorite bands / musical artists: Animal Collective, Brian Eno, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Billy Joel, Harry Chapin, Tear For Fears
Favorite books: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (All 5), Choke, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Watchmen, Animal Farm
Favorite writers: Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Adams, Ernest Hemingway, E. E. Cummings, Chuck Palahniuk, Ken Kesey
Favorite games: Paper Mario, Katamari Damacy, Final Fantasy Tactics, Super Mario World, Every Pokemon
Favorite gaming platform: Currently Nintendo 3DS and Playstation Vita
Tools of the Trade: Mostly Prismacolor ink pens and acrylic paint, but I tend to use anything I fancy.
Other Interests: Playing/writing music (I'm a keyboardist/vocalist), philosophy, mental disorders, math and geometry, music theory, vinyl collecting, Legos
# About me
I'm currently a 24 year old artist/songwriter living outside of Nashville, TN. I work a dead end job at a cajun/jazz restaurant until I can get the money to finish art school.I'm completely self taught in all things art. Drawing started as therapy for me through the use of moleskin journals. Because of this, poetry/writing and art has always had a deep connection with each other. This is obvious in my pen and ink work.
I tend to classify myself as a psychedelic graffiti artist, but I also like to throw buzz words like "surrealist" and "abstract expressionist" in the mix to make myself sound fancier. Most of my work is a combination of surrealist techniques (automatic writing/drawing, decalcomania, bulletism etc.) and geometry with phrases or full poetry thrown in.
My pen and ink series which used to be called "Surreal Graffiti" centers around the feelings of sensory overload in a modern society as well as the idea of being a mere mask in a sea of faces. I love to draw people, even If I'm still learning anatomy. I see faces everywhere and feel a deep connection with humanity as a whole even though at times I feel as disconnected as the Moon is to the Earth.
As for my painting, I'm still learning what I can, but I really love color theory and hope to expand my knowledge of painting techniques once I return to school. It's becoming more prevalent even though I mainly focus on pen and ink. I spend my free time sketching and studying subjects such as philosophy, human anatomy and geometry to further my skills in art since I'm not currently enrolled in school. I find self education is the most important you can invest in.
I also have a dark and psychotic past which led me to making art in the first place. This coupled with my own mental illness (bipolar type II, OCD, ADHD) has had a significant influence on my art style as well as what I portray in my pieces.
My favorite artists are: Ralph Steadman, Salvador Dali, Jackson Pollock, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, Andre Masson, M. C. Escher, Joan Miro, Man Ray and Picasso.
Here are a few techniques I use:
Surreal automatism (both drawing and writing)
Bulletism
Decalcomania
Entopic graphomania
Exquisite corpse
Movement of liquid down a vertical surface
Paranoiac-critical method
Sleep deprivation
Soufflage
Surautomatism
# Comments
Comments: 112
Thanks for all the attention, I really do appreciate it. Hope you are well, and have a great day!
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Just in case I forget to say so later, Happy Birthday!
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Oh my haha! I'm glad I am held in such high regard to you, much love and thanks for your kind words and favorites.
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Thanks for the watch, sorry for the late reply, amazing gallery, and.... that is the most epic webcam ever
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Thanks for all the favs Tyler.
Did I invite you to visit my music site [link] when you have the time? I recognize your face.
There's also a poll concerning my music, located on my DA profile page below my ID, if you would like to participate. Your feedback is appreciated.
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Hello,Thanx for adding my Doodle to your Collection! Cheers!
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Thank you kindly for the faves and watch! Your profile makes you sound like my brain twin, lol We have a very similar way of thinking.
KeeeeeEEEEep creating, you have a realllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly beautiful gallery. Congratz! (I'll do an in depth browse and/or feature a little later! 
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thanks for the fav and watch,,btw : your gallery is amazing ! (: good woork
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Thanks so much for your support! I really appreciate it.
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Hello Tyler.
Thank you very much for 
and for 
A Midsummer Day's Dream
We are all in the net
Persistence of erotic song
I really appreciated it.
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Thanks so much for the fave, I'm currently intrigued with your gallery. ouo'
Gonna check it out now.
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Thank you for the favorites and thank you for adding me to your friends list
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Hey there 
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Thank you for your contribution to my forum (sorry for delayed response, the thread was closed) Your art has been submitted to be featured in Thanks again n,n!
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Surrealism is awesome BTW. Especially surrealistic writing. Have you heard of The Magnetic Fields?
Oh, and not that you care, but I have ADHD and get depressed easily as well, so yeah, I know how it is.
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Wow. Thank you so much for your extremely large number of faves from my gallery! I went direct from my gallery to your faves and I thought it had glitches out and stayed at my gallery!
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haha no way man! I really like the composition of some of your shots. I find beauty in simplicity and you seem to have be throwing some ideas around with more minimalistic photography. I'm an amateur myself (or at least I consider myself to be) and I try to support every artist no matter how well known or not.
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Well, thank you, the sentiment is appreiated. I'd get into a cool discussion a out surrealism but I'm too tired to bet my brain to work. So, yeah.
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I really like the style of your artwork! Looking forward to more
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And thanks for the watch!
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You are very good! I also feel like I am living on the moon because existence is boring and lonely. Earth is a truly barren place! It's exactly the same as the moon with craters. The only reason you don't see craters on Earth is because the meteorites dissipate in the atmosphere.
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This is quite profound considering the simplicity of it. Perhaps our craters are more of a psychological or even metaphorical kind. One could say events such as war have been the equivalent of meteorites crashing into the planet. Of course, one could also say that existence is pure speculation as we may all be figments of a collective consciousness. One in constant search of a higher purpose. Perhaps our attempts and success in reaching the moon are more a metaphor for attaining what we truly are; imperfect and damaged. Some scientists speculate that the moon was created from an incredibly large (the largest) meteorite collision on ancient Earth. This could be interpreted in such that the moon is in fact the Earth's shadow, composed of its own material, yet empty, cold and foreboding. A perfect mirror image of most of humanity. Just my insomniac thought for the night.
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