Living off the land 100%

[bubblesmcgrath]

Who?

That's by A. Hitler

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Who?

He "redesigned" large parts of Europe with tanks.

 

[phillm]

I recovered it

I wouldn't have been to upset if someone had foraged it It came my way for free anyway I like it because, it still smells of my mates partner's fabric conditioner. She washed it for me and it reminds me of home. I suspect many adventurers here will get that.

Fabric conditioner bottles make for great male piss bottles when out camping. So now I associate the smell of Lenor with piss. Don't know why I mentioned that.

 

[Pickman's model]

He "redesigned" large parts of Europe with tanks.

A bit more than Stan likely to do

 

[Wookey]

Is he dead yet?

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

A bit more than Stan likely to do

Very few artists are fully appreciated in their lifetime.

 

[phillm]

We all enjoy attention don't we? The right sort of attention. What I don't understand is why people post immature insults here thinking they're being funny when they're actually just making themselves look like, well... what they might actually be away from the anonymity of an internet bulletin board. It doesn't bother me. I barely read any posts from certain posters. As someone who fairly regularly has to deal with drug and alcohol crazed schizophrenics, and murderers on the streets of strange foreign cities, I don't lose any sleep over it, but wouldn't say I enjoy it. In over 10 years of travelling as an artist reliant purely on income from art, I have never had to throw a single punch. I am extremely proud of that fact - very few people could manage it. Perhaps those knowing that this is the sort of guy I actually am think it is an invitation to hurl cheap jibes?

All that is a bit shit here is far outweighed by the support and friendship U75 as a whole offers me when I am in a strange place where I know nobody it is very easy to find comfort from the internet, especially here.

All is good really

I am an artist. I sulk if I don't get attention. Far to willing to put myself on a pedestal, so don't complain when people inevitably try to knock me down. Rock and roll!

When Hollywood comes to make the inevitable movie of this escapade which of course they will - this cri de coeur and call to arms will be a seminal moment in the narrative. Will need some re-writing though and some love interest. It is to be profoundly hoped that you and the story have a happy ending.

Thinking a hybrid Timothy Spall / Hugh Grant figure. Maybe Alan Benett could have a stab at the first draft.

 

[Cid]

Who?

Some bloke who didn't make it into the Vienna School of Fine Arts.

 

[phillm]

Nice pic !!

seconded you is the bomb or something like that.

 

[Corax]

Very few artists are fully appreciated in their lifetime.

Quick everyone, buy original Stan's whilst you still can! Couple of Bock each!

FOR TEH GRANDKIDS

 

[Cid]

You lot are easily impressed...

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Kerchunnnnng!

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Sketch posted as requested by someone. Totally inadequate webcam photo. I will buy a new camera when I reach Aveiro.

No sooner had I finished someone wanted to buy it. Then someone else asked if I could do the castle - commission for tomorrow. I got extremely lucky.

Turns out the restoration project in the village was completed just Two months ago with the inauguration of the hostel (left of sketch). The castle is genuine. Supposedly, or purportedly the best preserved and most beautiful in Portugal. I shall climb the hill tomorrow and check it out whilst sketching. So, surprise - I stay another night. Will spend on a bed and shower. My eyes and brains are starting to burn.

€50 for 2 hours work. €60 more tomorrow. I am cash comfortable again. I can check the forest and allotment for foraging when I descend the hill through the beautiful parkland tomorrow afternoon. Collect my cash and put in Four hours hiking towards Aveiro.

That's an excellent drawing...

 

[Pickman's model]

You lot are easily impressed...

Degenerate artists have that effect on the credulous

 

[spanglechick]

We all enjoy attention don't we? The right sort of attention. What I don't understand is why people post immature insults here thinking they're being funny when they're actually just making themselves look like, well... what they might actually be away from the anonymity of an internet bulletin board. It doesn't bother me. I barely read any posts from certain posters. As someone who fairly regularly has to deal with drug and alcohol crazed schizophrenics, and murderers on the streets of strange foreign cities, I don't lose any sleep over it, but wouldn't say I enjoy it. In over 10 years of travelling as an artist reliant purely on income from art, I have never had to throw a single punch. I am extremely proud of that fact - very few people could manage it. Perhaps those knowing that this is the sort of guy I actually am think it is an invitation to hurl cheap jibes?

All that is a bit shit here is far outweighed by the support and friendship U75 as a whole offers me when I am in a strange place where I know nobody it is very easy to find comfort from the internet, especially here.

All is good really

I am an artist. I sulk if I don't get attention. Far to willing to put myself on a pedestal, so don't complain when people inevitably try to knock me down. Rock and roll!

This is one of the most brutally honest things I've read on here, regarding a poster appraising theirself. And it is undeniably a "thing"... artists need attention. It's how it works.

 

[cupid_stunt]

The childish shit that always comes my way from certain posters always comes unprovoked.

TBF, judging from the link about your actions in that supermarket, I am thinking you have history, and the shit you are getting is far from unprovoked TBH.

That is the difference between what I write and what the usual bunch write. I can only conclude they are jealous.

Or perhaps you are delusional?

No more pointless retaliation from me.

Didn't you say that back on page 2 or 3?

 

[phillm]

You lot are easily impressed...

He is creating drama and fake news with his exploits with seemingly resolvable problems. Which makes a change from all the bigger shit up the line. And all of us have nothing better to do than to cower round Stan's fragile flickering candle of fame. Plus there is no end in sight - just a journey yet untold involving found root vegetables on foreign soils.

​

 

[Cid]

I do kind of like Stan's Quixotic (never has that word been more appropriate) missions, I wouldn't be here if I didn't. But he's a mediocre artist and comes across as a bit of a shit.

 

[phillm]

This is one of the most brutally honest things I've read on here, regarding a poster appraising theirself. And it is undeniably a "thing"... artists need attention. It's how it works.

I have met , lived with and had / have many artists as friends over the years. Most are narcisstic , driven , jealous of fellow artists , broken , unable to make a living at their chosen profession so eake out an existence at the periphery. Males I have known are often dissolute , and either social inverts of sexual predators with a arty pick-up shctick - that will no doubt involving some life-studies naked musing back in the garett......and these are their postive attributes. I don'y know Stan yet but I suspect he has a few of these arty skeletons rattling in his hale hearty well-met persona.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I had to google 'Quixotic'.

 

[alan_]

I had to google 'Quixotic'.

theres a whole book about it

 

[cupid_stunt]

theres a whole book about it

I am sure there's plenty of books about it.

 

[alan_]

I am sure there's plenty of books about it.

No, theres A whole book about it

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I have met , lived with and had / have many artists as friends over the years. Most are narcisstic , driven , jealous of fellow artists , broken , unable to make a living at their chosen profession so eake out an existence at the periphery. Males I have known are often dissolute , and either social inverts of sexual predators with a arty pick-up shctick - that will no doubt involving some life-studies naked musing back in the garett......and these are their postive attributes. I don'y know Stan yet but I suspect he has a few of these arty skeletons rattling in his hale hearty well-met persona.

 

[phillm]

Anyway this is an immersive piece which I'm sure beats Love Island and in our communictions with you and around you we feel connected and Stan is truly living in the moment. And for making this happen Stan I indefagitably salute you !

 

[mrs quoad]

He "redesigned" large parts of Europe with tanks.

Feng Shuiviet Union.

 

[phillm]

need to check that one out.

 

[phillm]

Feng Shuiviet Union.

see he has inspired us to be more than we are , to dream , to create , to joke and celebrate - never mind that ultimately he will be some Wizard of Oz fraud , or have feet of clay. He can draw , he can paint , he can inspire and tell tales of modest derring-do. All has been Stan and an amorphous seemingly hostile world up till now. Will interaction occur along the way with fellow humans. I do hope so....

For some reason I'm getting a soundtrack of(to mix start them both off together and put the Benny Hill on half volume)



mixed with

 

[Cid]

see he has inspired us to be more than we are , to dream , to create , to joke and celebrate - never mind that ultimately he will be some Wizard of Oz fraud , or have feet of clay. He can draw , he can paint , he can inspire and tell tales of modest derring-do. All has been Stan and an amorphous seemingly hostile world up till now. Will interaction occur along the way with fellow humans. I do hope so....

Have you been drinking phil?

 

[phillm]

Have you been drinking phil?

yup - plus I found half a 2mg diclazepam at the bottom of a drawer which I was cleaning out having been benzo free for 6 months. Am in my cups now and laughing like a drain...

 

[phillm]

He 's either in the midst of full on life-drawing action down at t'esplanade or slumped for a second night in the church porch stinking of cervezas and Lenor. May the Engel watch over him and his wood thieving ways.