Ill be here on business til Saturday night.

Lets hope i dont catch on fire. Either way im golfing Saturday morning. Pray for me.

I stole the pic off someone elses blog again, but this is too ill to not pass on...

...but i'll tell you what, I'm feeling refreshed. 12 days in Aruba, and an unscheduled overnight stay in Charlotte, is just what i needed.
The sun, the warm ocean, the laid back resort, the numerous steak dinners, the beer, rum and cigars, and of course, the little lady.
You dummies out there that never go anywhere, and never take vacations...step your game up. Drink one less latte a day, smoke less, do something to save some loot and get away. Lifes too short.

...anyway, on with a few pics...



The historic windmill in front of our resort, The Mill.


These little bastards are everywhere in Aruba.





$1 drinks from 5-6pm = Me drinking 9 rum and cokes in an hour.


The lady prefers her wine..


I love this guy. Benjamin Petrochi, the end-all, be-all of ARUHIBA cigars. He does it all from growing the tobacco in his back yard, to rolling the final product, to running and selling them in his store. (the only Aruban cigar company ever)



...i enjoyed a lot of Bennys handywork (as well as the requisite cubans [you get a chance to try the new cuban Cohiba maduro no. 5, do it, ignore the $35 pricetag]) while i lounged around. Had to bring a bunch home too, for the ol' humidor.





...bottom line is, Fuck mexico. Aruba > you.

Go see for yourself.

ps - I spent a lot of time on planes, so I got some concepts for some new paintings before the year is over, so keep a lookout.

See ya in two weeks, chumps.

Basically just trying out my new camera...

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...on the same old BIG and PAC paintings.








I stole these pics from a different blog. I didnt bother to pay attention to who painted them, let me know if you want me to find out.

I just thought these deserved to be shown to as many people as possible.

Scroll to the bottom of the page. I just added a new TWC banner.

...and yes, i tied a t-shirt around my face.

....yes, i know im retarded.

So like i said, i took third place in the LRG ad contest. I won the following stuff:

• Promotional LRG laptop case



• Promotional LRG PDA case (which im now using as my camera case)



• LRG iPhone case

...and heres a different entry i submitted for the "Friday the 47th" hoody. I won nothing based off this one. I suck. (Although i spent less than an hour on it, so F it)

I didnt do a whole lot on this, but its worth posting anyway. The jeweler making this contacted me for some help in getting the artwork fixed for this peice. They already had the gist of it, and just wanted me to fix it up.

Im still in awe a little bit. Its white gold, and HUGE. From what i understand, its gonna get fully iced out soon.

This is the original artwork that i cleaned up. The customer obviously used the NHL logo as reference.

Recent entry for an LRG ad contest. "Ben's Night in Tokyo" was the required theme.

I won third place. Ill post pics of my prizes later.





Logo for The Olympic Eagles basketball team. Renton, WA.

...more pics coming soon.