IF: emergency

IF: missing

IF: moon pt 2

IF: moon pt 1

IF: poem

8 things bout me/thinking bloggers Award

Thanks to andydoodler for tagging me.
Eight things about me. I'll leave wether they are interesting up to the reader.
1. I split my head open when I was 1-1/2 yrs old thus ending my chance of going to Harvard or Yale as the best part got soaked in
to the carpet leaving me with lil less then a full deck to play with.
2. i like sake with my sashimi and asahi with my yakitori.
3. i use to be a carpenter.
4. celebrated my 25th birthday complements of my Uncle Sam at one of his many fine resorts.
5. lived in and got married in Nippon
6. lived in a tent near Pusan during the winter
7. drank ice cold san miguel on the beach while watching the sun set in the PI
8. saw the sun rise from the summit of Fujisama
added bounus
9.and its been said that i jumped out of a perfectly good airplane 2800ft above the desert floor
(see what a lack of brains will make you do)

I know the rules state that i'm suppose to tag 8 others but my geekyness only extends soo far, and i'll admit, i don't have the aptitude to
do what it takes to tag that many. (It took me a year just to figure out how to post copy on this blog.)
so ill just list em and if u see them around u can tell em they have been tagged

1. Roz Foster 2. Sweat Pea 3. Jennie Ho (chicken girl design) 4. Chocolat

5. Flossy P 6. lil Kim 7. emila yusof 8. Astrid Mueller (Potato Mamma Design)

Just wanna thank Twisselman for his bestowing on me the Thinking Bloggers Award
My list for the Thinking Bloggers Award

1. Hardwax (Miri) 2. Carla Kurt 3.Roz Foster 4. Jeannette Langmead 5. Tony LaRocca

IF: discovery

IF: geeky

IF: twist

Alright this came to me while i was lying down but it was more red, black and white. Its still is in the R/D stages, but i figured it sorta, kinda fit in for this weeks twist. I figure i can milk this for a few more pics. As i play around more with it, i'll post em over on my crispy blog.

IF: twist

This is a slightly altered version of the birthday card i made my daughter for her 21st this weekend after she told me she wanted a 6 pack of Smirnoff Ice. It depicts all the places she has lived starting with being born in Japan then moving to Arizona then NY and now North Carolina.

IF: camouflage

Hiding out in the open sometimes is the best camouflage.

IF: rejection

IF: suit

Inspired by Suntory's (one of japans beers and whiskey that america does not import) very own spoke persons Mike and Jill. At the start of hockey season mike of course picked pittsburg's very own penguins. I mean after all what full blooded male penguin wouldn't, right. And his wife jill just picked any old team (cause mike kept at her too) soo she just happened to pick the ducks. So, whos quackin now!!!

IF: paradise ll (footnote)

If i changed the name, Bright Morning Star to Jesus, and paradise to heaven, then said that the description of this residential community and what it would be like to live there could be found in the Bible, in the Book of Revelation, Chapter 21, how many of you would still be interested.

IF: paradise

"what time is it? STANLEY TIME!!!! "

This is a illo from a previous post for IF: mighty i did back in Dec. Since its CUP time, i just wanna remind all u americas its the high flying ducks from Tinsel Town against Canadas own Senators from Ottawa. Startin this monday Lord Stanley don't care who wins just as long as there's someone to drink from his cup after they hoist it up above their heads for the crowds.

IF: cars

IF: signs

"CORNBREAD"

In the 40's Kilroy Was Here. In the late 60's and early 70's there was CORNBREAD. Phillies grand daddy of modern day graffiti. Thats right NY, he's the guy who started the writing on the wall. Darryl A. McCray " Cornbread" to me, started spraying his name as a way to get attention of a certain girl. (go figure). By the time he was done he had tagged every subway, trolly and bus route in Philly , not to mention a few police cars and wagons, just for fun. His biggest feats though were tagging the side of the elephant in the Philly Zoo, the top floor of a skyscraper being constructed right near City Hall, and the Jackson 5's jet (thats right he did lil michael jackson's and his brothers plane) when it landed in the "city of brotherly love" for a concert. It was still there when they returned to California.
....... but in the end he had to scrub clean every wall in Philly with his name on it. Today he's 52, still lives in Philly and works keeping youngsters from doing as he did in his prime. ....... but i gotta tell ya it was something to see, everywhere u went, he was there. I know cause i was there. HAHAHAHA !!! .....or was I?
Also, wanna thank everyone who gave me ideas as to how to finish the bottonm pic, in last weeks post. I did 2 both are posted now on my other blog, if anyone cares to look at some bad art.

IF: citrus

Top a lil tribute to the late great Harry Nielsen.
Bottom still in progress but not sure yet how i want to finish it,
maybe some kind of asian streetscape done in line.
if i do it i will post it on my other blog.

IF: neighbor

(M. Jagger/K. Richards)

Neighbors, neighbors, neighbors
Have I got neighbors?
Have I got neighbors?
All day and all night

Neighbors
Have I got neighbors?
Ringing my doorbells
All day and all night

Ladies, have I got crazies?
Screaming young babies
No piece and no quiet
I got T.V.'s, saxophone playing
Groaning and straining
With the trouble and strife

Is it any wonder
Is it any wonder
Is it any wonder
That we fuss and fight

Neighbors, do unto strangers
Do unto neighbors
What you do to yourself, yourself, yourself

Is it any wonder
Is it any wonder
Is it any wonder
That we fuss and fight

Neighbors do unto strangers
Do onto neighbors what you do to yourself
Yourself, yourself, yourself
Neighbors, neighbors, neighbors

Neighbors, neighbors, neighbors
Do yourself a favour
Don't you mess with my baby
When I'm working all night
You know that neighbors
Steal off my table
Steal off my table
And doing alright, alright, alright

Neighbors do unto strangers
Do unto strangers
What you do to yourself

IF: remember

Remember i said i'd go through hell for you
u said the same
i lied ;)

IF: polar

A polar bear and Rudolph the red nose raindeer in a polar blizzard.

IF: fortune II

Hotei or PuTai offers good luck and fortune.

IF: fortune

IF: green

IF: snap

And i bet you thought that snap, crackle, and pop was my ceral.

5 min quickie this week. if i have time to make it pretty, i will post an update.

IF: i spy sakura (cherry blossoms)

Sakura weeping
petals floating to the ground
soft breeze sighs
In Japan it is now Hanami Season. Time to view the cherry blossoms, eat, drink, sing and compose haiku.
You ain't lived till you've done a hanami party right, so they say. I had mine last night.

IF: total-whole-hole-circle

IF: wired

In the 60's there were 3 guitarist that every one agreed on where the best, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck.
Now its over 40 years later and I just read an article this past weekend that said Clapton sold out and Page burned out.
It also so said when asking any famous guitarist who the best is ... one name rises to the top....
JEFF BECK!!!
The last man standing.
This is my tribute to him, his music and the Lp he made in the 70's with the same name as this weeks word... WIRED

IF: hide

IF: communication

IF: gravity

IF: crash

IF: sprout

IF: red

IF: super hero

Hi.
I’m a retired super hero.
I left the business back in 68.
Now just me and my baby here relax
on the beach in the land of the Rising Sun.
We’re waiting for that perfect killer tsunami
wave to ride. When it gets here, we’ll ride out to it,
crest it just right, then drop down and shoot
the tube, maybe milk that sucker all the way south to
Okinawa. Makes me excited just thinking about it.
Well in the mean time me and my babe are get hitched today.
After all gotta do something to burn time while we wait.

IF: 80's

Top is a pic I took in the 80's when I lived in Japan, of little boy and his sister dressed in traditional hakama and kimono for Shichi-Go-San Day, which is celebrated the 15th of Nov. I took their piture right as they were entering the gate of the shrine with there mom. I did this watercolor of them in the 90's. Below are sketches I did during that period of time.

For those who might be wondering, but then again might not

was trying to get a new blog set up on my website and was hoping it would be done quickly so everyone could post there to start the new year off but, it isnt going to happen. But hopefully soon, if i can get it to look half decent. So far not to thrilled with the templates and etc etc. its late, im tired, soo im out.

IF: buzz

IF: New Year (The yr of the Boar)




Ok I finally decided to see if I could actually figure out how to post some copy on this thing. After all if I can design my own website how much harder can this be. (and it has been over 9 months) Just wanted to wish everyone at IF a happy NEW YEAR, speically to every one who has fequently stopped by this past year. THANKS!!! Well after spending 3 hrs on trying to place the copy were I wanted it, I couldn't do it. So I guess this is harder then making webpages, cause even the html code from dreamweaver wouldn't work to place the copy where I wanted it. At one point, I had the copy down the page overlapping my peace post. Now you know why I dont write any posts. Any suggestions or help? (and dont tell me blogger/help.com)lol been there done that.

IF: Phoenix, AZ, Camelback Mnt.

IF: peace

IF: help

IF: mask

IF: might

IF: invention

IF: thanksgiving (have a good one and give thanks)

IF: clear

IF: smoke: