Don't Press Its Limit To Small Use

Kanka snapped this one during the party.


This is after I got home and had to peel my clothing and the latex appliance from my blood caked skin.


Makeup Applied... it's time to hit the road.


Took about 4 hours to throw this ruff little mechanism together. The piece is attached to the neck and a hose runs down the chest through the clothing and into a pocket that has a pump full of fake blood. I ditched the little piece seen here attached at the end of the line and ended up rigging the line to a Chloraseptic throat spray bottle, because I needed something that had a real pump and stop valve to allow me to keep a constant pressure of blood in the tube throughout.

Countryside Poultry

Running With Blood

Royal Backed Fortnight

Ginger Shot Snowbank

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New vending machine snatched from garage sale... SCORE!

Make Our Mom Proud

They Are Nuclear Fools

144 Green Lantern

Blessings Round Every PopTop

I've Got 32 Years Under My Belt

ALL DAY PARTY!!! I ended up rocking it hard at El Myr yesterday with friends from 3pm all the way till 3am... a full 12 hours of good times and drama.


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Heather & Steven... Steven was looking rather dapper this evening for once...


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Nate showing off how many people he's killed in his 31 years


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Brad rocking the 'GOOD TIME' was spinning the jams all nite long


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Nate inspects the padel after a good set of ass woop'n



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My Aunt Sue sent me one of the best gifts I've ever gotten. It's a collection of my Grandfather Art's playboy calendars 1962 - 1984... all in near mint condition. Totally gorgeous!!! His Playboy magazine collection to my sha'grin, got thrown away when I was just a kid after my grandfather passed away, so these calendars are a real treasure for me!!

That Would Kill You A Whole Lot Quicker

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Rollin' & Rollin' at El Myr last night. Julie brought me fried chicken and a batch of killer cupcakes. Best fried chicken ever!!!

Backed By Unmatched Flow And Recourse

Clandestine Lovers Who Quits Her Own Hooker

I Can't Help Myself

Who Is He And Where Can We Find Him

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Lunch at Six Feet Under

Why Don't You Shake Hands

Nate Moore's afterparty @ ElMyr celebrating his art opening at the Atlanta Airport.
ARTIST INFORMATION

Zipzz.. Zizz Zahh

Note to self, but more so... a note to my future children (the Internet never dies).
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"Be careful what name you give yourself on your business card." While Thomas is my professional name (on card), my heart aches everytime a friend refers to me as Thomas instead of Tom. This may be due to a lack of "hanging out" with these people I deem friends.. my own too busy fault. However... there are a number of women who also call me Thomas as well. Now while I find this totally endearing and really really (third-time) really hot... They are refering to me on a mother-based level and thus, this can become disturbing or very good in their favor depending on the woman (see Oedipus Complex). It's Freud speak and it's fact to me and it either works or doesn't. (Don't mess with Freud!) Anyways... I've always judged friendship on the level of name recognition.
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While it is handy to judge folks on what they call you in the immediate 'I can't see who just called my name factor', ... It's also a great and simple way to determine the 'know' factor when you walk though a crowd. Your professional name can kill you if you don't tell the folks who are close, what you want to be called... but hey it's the 90's so.... Ohh shoot wait... The 90's are gone... Must be getting old.
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Anyways children... point is... 'Do what you want... call yourself what you will'... just don't shame the Schaefer name! Your mother, probably called me Thomas, before she called me Tom, before she called me 'You Fucking Asshole!!', before she called me the greatest thing she ever slept with.. before she called me, as I do her 'The Most Important Person I Shared My Life With". There is nothing wrong with being a Romantic and living life as such kids. It will help either keep you out of trouble or in serious trouble... depending on your mood (smile). Most importantly a romantic attitude will help you meet the right person one day. Dedication to oneself is paramont to finding a person of equal mind whom you're willing to give up everything you dedicated your life toward... that is love.
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That is love.

Sometime You Feel Like A

All Power Is Given Unto Me

I Ain't No Joaquin Phoenix

This could be the best/worst thing I have ever seen...
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Ohh it gets better... watch him fall on his ass!
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No it's really really him!!! I think he may be bordering on genius... I'm not sure.
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I Don't Mind Sucking You Off

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Yup... Yeah ... Uh-huh... make a face... I know I did!
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Dear god Kate... what's going on baby... you're only 2 years older than me! Stop hanging out with that Leo character... he's sucking the life out of you obviously!!

Nice Ringtone Jack

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Morning Boxing @ ElMyr

Give Me Your Favor

HA! - "There was a lot of problems because of the kind of socks we wore."

The Head Of Small Talk

Tonight I have finally acquired a copy of the Ronnie Littell Special. It has taken 2 years worth of travel to the Buffalo area... but now we have it and the truth will soon be revealed.

The Command For Juice

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Damien Hirst at ElMyr !

Chomp & Chew Her Spit And Spew

Take Care... The Enriched Flour Is Poor

Beat Treats Sticky Number

How to steal Google Earth content for projects and other fun stuff. Thats right... taping up paper onto my monitor as a reference frame... how old school is this! Working tonight on this IntelliTEAM piece for client... it's a total gas, let me tell ya!

See it live: IntelliTEAM II

I Have The Names In My Watch

Speak & Spell Programs

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Ol' George still has some moves it looks a like!

The Spin Cycle Rolls On

Just need to admit to myself that I am over-worked right now. I've taken on too many tasks in too small a window. I'm creating my own stress. I need to be a better manager of my time.
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Sleep when your dead and then take a vacation.

Put Those Stamps On The Letters

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Holiday season has me in kind of a funk. Might be the fact that I have too many projects going on at once or maybe that winter is a cold and lonely season. Probably the first, but the last still sticks and twists right between my fixed and floating ribs. It's been mentioned on several occasions that I've kept the personal life out of this blog the past 2 years. Yeah pretty true.. this thing was meant to be a catalog of ideas for my work. What I didn't expect, but should have known would happen, is that the work and reality portions would mix on here too. It makes perfect sense since most of the work is themed around personal issues anyways. Yeah... no content for 2 years... how it goes. I'll have to stick with it till the end of this year. Next year may be different thought. It's been strange times these past 2 though. Everyone I know is either married, getting married, having kids, with kids, getting divorced or something else outside of my realm. And as I get older I realize that that whole side of life hasn't hit me as of yet and it's a rather depressing thing. Going out and doing anything with my friends tends to be a drag for me because at the end of the night I get to share an endearing conversation with myself as I head back home. Standing around at parties with my friends and their husbands and wives and such can make you ask yourself "This isn't me because?" People are always saying how lucky I am to be single again and blah blah blah. Let me tell you something... it gets real old real quick. Sure most of my heros were single as well, but I have a suspicion they had the same attitude as me... when does it end. Married friends tell me they know of these great ladies they want me to meet. Divorced friends tell me to stay single.... they're bitter I know and they have that right, but at least they can be bitter. I'm reduced to getting personal on a blog thats supposed to be about my work... and sadly this is part of the work. Definitely a reflection of things I'm producing... or not producing. I'd say my mental state can be understood by the amount of work I produce in a given year... or better, the number of correspondences I send out in a given year. Barker complained the other day that he hasn't gotten anything from me in the mail for ages... it's a reflection on me and the way things are for sure and it hurts. I figured I'd be a happier person this year... I'm working out everyday. I'm eating better. I'm learning new skills. I'm building out the studio. My business with Cherrylipped is taking off... it's been a great year. But at the end of every day there is still a sigh that comes out of me and I know it's not because the day was difficult... it's just a sigh about the state of things and the parties and shows I didn't go to.
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So I spent a good number of hours this week going back into this blog to fix some PHP transition errors and get some things more organized on my servers home directory and weed out things that don't link anymore and such (Tyfoon CMS is now up and running! Thanks Nic!!!!) . It was a painful process that still isn't done as 2007 still needs to have all of it's links re-routed to the proper directory on my server. But yeah.. it was tough going through things again and interesting to see the drop out in 2007 to current. A lot of it made me smile, but there were other portions I wish I could go back and rewrite. Life doesn't let you correct mistakes from the past though and so we live with them. Thankfully most of my mistakes from 2007-2008 aren't on here so I suppose thats a good thing... though you can't learn much from nothin'. Barker wrote me once and told me that after reading the blog from beginning to end one day he was convinced it was one of the most depressing things he ever read. After going through it myself past to current I have to agree. This isn't a very happy place, but there are some things that still make me smile.

I Don't Want To Be On The Beach

Hanging Loose One And Only

He Was A Sunshine Fruit

Brad rocks the coat-head look at El Myr. Wasn't that cold out there guy...

He Was Only Five Foot Three

Another late night.... rocking out all sorts of fun projects. It's really daunting and frustrating, but I've gotten to one of those points on the project where all the themesand elements are starting to gel... which is a beautiful thing. So it's late... drinking coffee and rocking out to some live sessions from The Modern Lovers. This record is just sick... it's too too wonderful. Yeah it is this months album too... a pretty good one for the month of December I think. Of course it may work better in the month of February... but I need some Modern Lovin' this month so...
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Now for that New York subway sound!!

If I Were A Daughter I'd Be Sterile

Check out Isabella Rossellini in GREEN PORNO

Sitting Up To Eye You

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Kanka is leaving my mark all around the world again it seems. What a nice fella...
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Headed home for some Thanks Giving today... lots of good eats in order tomorrow. Always good times. Lots and lots of work going on right now... mostly web as usual. Trying to dig my way out of the mess of content I need to build out. According to the big board it's 7 sites currently in Build-Out phase and then 4 new ones after that. Good stuff.. gonna keep myself busy the rest of this year and into next it seems. I have this huge interactive animated flash movie that I also have produce before the end of the year. I'm not having fun anymore... ha ha ha. Who am I kidding.
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Production room is finally finished, but I need to get back into the studio after the holiday and get the exposure table built so we can start cranking out t-shirts and posters for next year with some speed. That will be some good times. Shoot I need that button maker back from Harris too... got to get that stuff back to top priority after I wrap up all these other web projects. Seems like I'll have a good amount of time to sit back next year and get back in to art production again.
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The key of course is getting this sites content system sorted out and posting all the work. But thats the whole point of the production room now... so I guess it's all getting there.

Don't Come A Rockin...Try'n Act So Cool

Thats right... new from Ferrara Pan — "CHEWY Lemon-Head & Friends". Pretty great stuff... they also have CHEWY Fireballs, but I didn't try any of those. Ohh yeah also scored some MAMBAs from the candy racks as well... haven't seen that stuff since I was like 12 back up in Buffalo.
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Was hanging out at Bothwell's new crib last night ... house warming party and such. Place was packed and then packed some more. Must have been well over 60+ at this little party. Hung outside by the fire most of the night with old Spin Creative types and other loyal friends. Lindy discovered an interesting method of wearing pants when doing the whole fire thing... pretty brilliant stuff. Lots of crazy fools all over the place last night, some pretty cool neighboors hung out by the fire and guzzled beer with us. There was almost a fight at one point and tons of good looking ladies... Ouch.
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When I was leaving a group of us got caught up in a conversation with some crazy neighborhood lady who was poppin Colt 45's and telling jokes to us in the driveway. She really seemed to have something against Billy D. Williams and when I confronted her on it she said..."Quiet down there Superman I'm trying to tell you'z a story now!" I think she meant it too... though I've never been referred to as Superman before. Maybe she had me mixed up with that Clark Kent guy.

And You've Been So Busy Lately

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Yes I have been busy lately... to busy to do anything fun it seems. Nope... haven't sent any postcards recently. Nope... have made any new prints lately. Nope... have finished building the exposure table. But anyways... there is much to to and then there are other things to do on top of that. I've got this double set of white boards staring me down. They look pretty formidable with all the organized gibberish I've written on them. My mission is to erase as much of that board as possible before it over fills with to much work. Filthy... it's just filthy.
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On an up note I have recently finished building out my reference and completed art storage room. Floor to ceiling shelving all around and a small stand-up table in the center of the room. So I've gotten all the finished pieces out of the studio space finally and into they finalization and archiving room. It's a pretty smart set-up since my office is right next to the space... so pulling refernce materials to build up this site will happen really fast now. Good stuff.
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Anyways... tonight or well this morning arleady i suppose I'm up late working on a web site for a client... yup... Good stuff.
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