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Report

Hello again my Favourite Person. I have been gone a week and I have quite some stuff to Report. There is work piling up, but only in terms of paycheck size. Which, as you can figure out on your own, means that (unless I overestimate your intelligence, in which case I sincerely apologize for making you think that I think that you're slow) I have little work in terms of number of projects but quite some money hanging on it :) I'm not sure if you know this about me, Zonk, but I belong to the artisan category of art. Which makes me underpaid, underfed and eternally squatting over my traditional tools. So every time I spot a check bearing my name with a 5 figure amount written on it, my reflex reaction is 'haHA bitch!'. Which kinda sucks but o well..

But that is a lame Report. It wouldn't have been on a general basis but on a since-yesterday-basis, since I have other huger things to tell you, as approximately 50% of you already know, I should go ahead and add it to my Report. So here it is: I may be playing at the Frog. On the 9th of May. Kickass you say? Not so, I say. You see, I have never played in public before, and I really only sing to myself, and to do both for the first time at a place like Blue Frog is fucking stupid. And I wouldn't have taken it up if I didn't have my anxiety drugs. Thank you, Lonazep. Time to misuse you :) And now I've told you. I'm off to make a List to figure out How To Not Screw Up At The Frog. Coming up in my next post whenever I wander back here, 
Kirtana Krishnan
Star News.
(Don't ask why. Star News just sounded right.)

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I am Indeed Awesome

IT'S DONE MY WALL IT'S DONE IT'S DONE!!!

:D
You have NO idea how happy I am, Zonk. I feel AWESOME. You should feel awesome too, you know. It's a kickass day and you're the only one outside of my family that gets to see any pics at all. Now, its really impossible to get a good pic of the whole wall, so I'm putting up the best one I have, and also a pic of my favourite part of the whole wall. The stars :) Used my old toothbrush to do em and I love how it looks now :) 
And so my wall, which almost broke my back, is finally done. To my beyond-satisfaction. FUCK YOU UNIVERSE! :D
  
And my most favourite bit:

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Guitar etc.

**Its CARL, not Zonk, in the original. Howl By Ginsberg.

This guitar is more work than I imagined even. More than 2 coats just to get rid of the brushstrokes and some are still there. I think maybe I shouldn't have primed it. Just unevenness for no reason. Not like I found a spray can I could use to get rid of that..

Anyway, its not much to look at yet, but because I feel like it and because I can, pic:
Note to anybody that's looking at this: THIS ARTWORK IS MINE. CREATED BY ME. NOT BY YOU. SO FUCK OFF IF YOU'RE THE TYPE THAT'S GONNA PRODUCE NEAR-IDENTICAL STUFF AND COME UP WITH CONDESCENDING EXPLANATIONS ABOUT HOW DIFFERENT IT IS FROM ITS NEAR-TWIN THAT I MADE FIRST. YOU'RE AN UNIMAGINATIVE WASTE OF SPACE AND THIS IS WHEN YOU START TO FEEL LIKE SHIT. 
And that applies to everything on this space.

And don't spout theoretical nonsense at me, I know as much as I need to know about most of that, and what I don't know I won't take time to figure out. So the change of topic, because that is all it really is, won;t do you any good at all. 
My apologies, Zonk, but I've become a little cautious now about these things. You never know what can happen. And that's why I almost didn't put up a WIP pic. But screw probable plagiarists, I thought I should put up a pic if I want to put up a pic, and so I did, with a giant shout of a warning to ward off evil. But the concept I won't tell in any case, till I finish this and its up on facebook which is so much more public than vox..
Anyway, pic:
A LOT is left. Sigh. Tomorrow I need to add the fanciness of the artwork and shade this darker. And most importantly, I need to gloss it up when I'm done. Which I'll do when I find whatever it is that glosses guitars up. And don't shout polyurethane at me. I've done enough internet research to know that. Point being I don't trust everything I read when it comes to not screwing up other people's guitars. And I hope the guy at Peter Pereira was right and the tone doesn't get fucked. Though how anything can retain its tone with this much paint on it I have no idea. Well in any case, I think I will sleep now. Pray this turns out as good as the last one, Zonk, though I really doubt I can produce something like that again. Even if the artwork gets better. Poured out every last bit of Soul I got into that other guitar..everything else is just random now. Anyway, time to hurry up a little. I can't keep chilling like I do. I can't. And I wish it struck me more often. I have barely any time left to make something out of all of this and neither the industry nor the confidence to try. Ah Zonk**, while you are not safe I am not safe and now we're really in the total animal soup of Time. Sorry Allen, wouldn't steal from you, but just that the lines fit so snugly and sometimes I do believe that a bit of me is a Carl.. There's a Kitu that's happy to fly every so often and a Kitu that dies everytime they wonder how quickly poor I'll be and then there's Carl who's too much of one and too little of the other and I don't know which…and we all know just where he ended up.
But no, I won't ever end up that way :D These sinister things I say keep freaking me out. Do me a favour, Zonk; next time I talk bullshit of this sort come over and slap me a little. Not too hard please, remember that I've never been slapped in my whole entire life and the first one's bound to be a bit of a shocker… Actually screw that, just come over and shake me a bit or something, that should be enough. Although I must warn you, I don't take very kindly to being shaken by strangers. So lets make a code; when you come over to shake me, say curiouser and curiouser! first, and then wait for comprehension to dawn upon my face, and then shake me. That way I'll know its a Zonk and won't scream for help and stuff. 
Anyway, I should be off now. Goodnight Zonk, love you all.
:)

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Wazaa!

What a day this is, my friend, what a day indeed. Not yet noon and already I feel like I am Awesome. Just as long as I find those shoes I left in Chembur. I hope no drunk idiot threw away the bag along with the bottles and shit..that would be a MAJOR problem cos no way I'm making those shoes again. People should really not clean up in a hurry after parties. Honestly. You'd rather let the mess stay a day than throw away someone's baby by mistake or something. And no I didn't leave anybody's baby behind, just shoes, but its bad enough isn't it. And screw you if you don't agree, make your own blog if you want to whine about it. 

Speaking of whine, I just got mailed by a sommelier who wants to put my shoes in an article. I'm very kicked and furiously googling. And also mildly confused. There seems to be nothing not wine on the internet that google throws up   for this guy. I'm hoping this isn't some major mess up, I hope he isn't thinking I paint corks or something, sounds like a far shot I know but you can never tell, Zonk. These things happen. Trust me. I know all about It and Several Other Unrelated Things.
And now to get to work. Good god I have too much to do and I'm a lazy bum. HELP.
Ta Zonk. 
Love and so on,
Your's Still Googlingly,
– K

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You want to be me?

You do? Eh? 

YES you do. Cos I'm the awesomest prductivest person in this part of the world today. I stopped putting up pics of shoes a while ago, haven't even put up my beloved Alice shoes, cos I got really tired of putting up so many in so many different places, but since I've been so productive this last week and today specially:
:)

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Metapainting..

Alright. I've spent absurd amounts of time on the Alex Grey website looking at his work and reading up and stuff. All for a pair of shoes :) But well. I guess we'd all rather know what we're talking about. Or painting about. Or any of that. Point being, I've spent almost a week with this pair, and I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out :D 

Now, if anybody's interested, here's the references:
Go to http://www.alexgrey.com and look at:
The Artist at Work (1 and 2) under Mission of Art in Drawings
The default painting that pops up when you click on Paintings
These I referred to a lot but ended up not using at all:
Angie 5th chakra (was considering line drawing on a blue background)
Jessica chakra 2
Jillayne chakra 7
(all these under Subtle Body in Drawings, but I ended up not doing any chakras anyway so yeah..)
What I've done is a metapainting..painting within a painting type. Its a third person looking at the artist looking at himself. The right shoe is obviously the artist's representation of himself, (taken from the artist at work 2 mainly, but referred to all 3 also). I've done my own drawing though..my artist is skinnier and I've left out the brains and blood vessels and stuff, but kept the raw fleshy colour. Skipped all those rays coming from his heart and eyes and stuff. I would have done the stripes and those extra faces blessing him or whatever, but I'm afraid of too many layers of paint on the shoe. There's already a very skinny ghost coat of white under all the artwork. 
The left shoe is the artist as we'd see him. Should have stuck out like a sore thumb and looked like a completely natural human being but I just couldn't do that so I made him bone white anyway though I gave him clothes and stuff.. too bad they are that gay. The colours fit well so I used them. And the pajama's are like the ones I'm wearing right now :D
In case you're still really reading this, thank you for not getting tired of me and also notice the folds on his shirt. This is the first time I've attempted shading folds on cloth (or just cloth at all), taught myself and I feel a little proud if I may say so myself. The folds on the pajamas are in slightly random places I think..anyhow, its uselessness painting minute details onto footwear and I should have started on another pair instead of spending all my time painting pajama folds but well I felt like it.
Anyway. Its actually dark blue and bright orange though my camera so kindly screws up all colours for me. Will take better pics with a proper camera when I go to jam tonight. 
For now: ( I think you gotta click on it to enlarge..too bored to upload each separately..)
AlexGrey shoesAlex grey shoe left-the artistAlex grey shoe right-the representation of the artist.

Notice how I was industrious enough to put the shoes on a black t-shirt for the photos and all. *bows*

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Bohemian Rhapsody!

Okay, this commission took up so much of my life this past week that I have to explain in detail.

The way I interpret Bohemian Rhapsody, it's a song about a guy who killed a man and is on death row, but doesn't really feel too much remorse except that he has little time left. He's probably a psychopath, but there is something wild and exhilarating about him and about his ability to do exactly what he wants and accept any consequence that may follow. I think the song is a lot like..adrenalin?  
(Personally, I see Camus in Queen here: if you've read the Stranger/Outsider, I think this character in this song is a lot like Meursault; killed a man, refuses to grovel, talks to his mother in his last days..freaky.) And that exhilaration is the 'Rhapsody' aspect of the song. A rhapsody has many meanings, I know, but I'm working with the ecstatic outburst/rapture type meaning.
Anyhow, the figure in the middle is the Meursault-type man; he is pretty much doomed–a noose around his neck waiting to tighten and the devil that Beelzebub 'set aside' for him wrapped around his waist and sucking him down ('Beelzebub has a devil set aside for me…Bismillah let me go..no we will not let you go..'). That is the darkside of the song. But his head is upturned (his arms were originally outstretched but that became too Jesus so I bound them down), and across his brow is that white thing that turns into birds taking flight, which I associate with rapture. (Not just the birds but the upturned head and the birds together somehow.)
Now, I believe the song itself has so much vigour and is so upbeat that you forget that its being sung by a murderer waiting to be hanged (which could be a little morbid if you think about it :D ). And because the song seems so celebratory, the rapture aspect stands out more (to me) than the killing-dying aspect. Which is why the white and maroon thing stands out more than the main artwork in the centre. And the reason it becomes swirly and stuff is that I have always associated the word 'bohemian' with the word 'hippie'. Not entirely accurate but I think it could be a pretty universal misconception so well.. The ochre area depicts flames btw, yellow ruins the colour scheme so made it ochre. 
Phew.
Might add some more to the left shoe. But its only an abbreviation anyway. Now I sleep. 
Ta people ~

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Rastafarian shoes

I've not blogged in ages I know, and I'm going to do that today. But first, time to put up horrible pics of a pair of shoes I've been working on that I really like..

Disclaimer: The background is black. My phone insists on making it green for some reason I don't yet know. 
Breaking it down: I've put in a Rastaman in profile on one shoe, notice the dreads and the striped hat; and the lion in profile on the other. Would have been more stylized if I had the space..my original illustration was way cooler but canvas shoes aren't the same as paper so bleh. The swirls in between, not just for decoration. I'm playing with the theme of an Exodus. So if you look carefully, and see the wave ends arrange in a diagonal across both shoes, you'll probably get the reference to an other, earlier exodus, though that was from Egypt and this one's supposed to be to Africa. (Hence the lion in the space where the waters part.) I'd intended to put in white smoke coming from the guys mouth, the marijuana reference.  Would make even more sense in terms of weed being one of the paths to whatever.  But I'm a little worried about there being too many curly swivels on the same shoe, so I've put that on hold for now. The rest of the shoe I'll paint black I guess. 
Rasta shoes2
Rasta shoes2

Was more work than I'd imagined, but I like these shoes..
See you soon, whoever's still here. 
~ 

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