Living off the land 100%

[Cid]

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...

Er... I hope the next 6 months are equally benzo free, but I suppose you might as well enjoy it now.

 

[Cid]

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.

What's he esplaning?

<oh my poor sides, they are splitting>

 

[phillm]

Thanks -they work so well at the beggining don't they. Anxiety - begone - sleep like a log and get up singing with the larks.

 

[Corax]

I had to google 'Quixotic'.

Fucking pleb.



Standards on here are well slipping.

 

[Corax]

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

My toenail smells weird.

 

[phillm]

What's he esplaning?

<oh my poor sides, they are splitting>

he has persuaded some young impressionable down at the seas edge (espalanade) to tarry with him for a while and chew over what it all means. Picasso (or at least his itchy piles) is in there somehow , and a moon of some sort. The rest needs working on as do I.

 

[phillm]

My toenail smells weird.

Are you sampling and sniffing or is a.n.other giving you a toe job ?

 

[existentialist]

Very few artists are fully appreciated in their lifetime.

There are times, when I read of some of Stan's planned escapades, when I wonder if he is trying to hasten the onset of that appreciation...

 

[kabbes]

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 was awoken by a stamping foot in a small town in Extremadura. My instinctive reaction was to throw a punch hard and firm in the direction of the noise that woke me.

.

 

[existentialist]

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.

I'm quite impressed by his art - it's certainly far better than anything I could manage. But yes, the self-aggrandising wears a bit, and...well, he's quite fun to tease, and the threads are regularly and spectacularly car-crashy enough to provide plenty of teaseworthy material.

 

[kabbes]

This is one of the most brutally honest things I've read on here, regarding a poster appraising theirself.

You have to be kidding me. I've come across few people ever with less self-awareness than our Stanley.

 

[Cid]

I'm quite impressed by his art - it's certainly far better than anything I could manage. But yes, the self-aggrandising wears a bit, and...well, he's quite fun to tease, and the threads are regularly and spectacularly car-crashy enough to provide plenty of teaseworthy material.

You probably couldn't jump like Eddie the eagle either.

 

[Corax]

Are you sampling and sniffing or is a.n.other giving you a toe job ?

Forsooth.

And quite possibly, verily.

 

[existentialist]

You probably couldn't jump like Eddie the eagle either.

Only during certain blues solos.

 

[phillm]

You have to be kidding me. I've come across few people ever with less self-awareness than our Stanley.

He is a magickian with powers it would seem. You maybe in possesion of kryptomite but we have not this wondrous substance.

(thinks ...like Shit Faced Shakespeare) there should be a late night thread where only wankered posters could post - could be wondrous to behold what magic could be told...

 

[phillm]

You have to be kidding me. I've come across few people ever with less self-awareness than our Stanley.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

This is all very flattering, but I am off to bed. Hotel prices are OK for a holiday. This is not my holiday, it is my life. Has been for many years now. I make it work - I am a realist before I am an artist. Can't afford hotels every night, so like to make the most of them when I can afford them.

Tomorrow is relatively easy.

1. Source paper.
2. Climb hill to castle.
3. Sketch castle.
4. Search for wild forest food.
5. Return to village to meet client and collect payment.
6. Fuck off to next destination.

I may just hike through the night until I find a cafe open. In Aveiro I should make €150/day and comfortably cover a decent bed and shower. You can't do that in small villages and the countryside. I love to hike, but the cows and sheep don't seem to care about buying my art. I don't know any artist who really thinks they're good. I certainly don't think I am good enough to warrant any greater financial return than I manage to live on now. I live happily and contently most of the time. Other than a couple of years without a passport, it has been relatively easy, because I know how to sell. Unfortunately, if you can't sell you don't stand a chance. Your art does not have to be good if you can sell it and pay for an artist's lifestyle. I have to travel to manage that for all sorts of reasons. Outgoings are very high. Hiking is the most expensive way to travel. I enjoy it a great deal, so am happy to make the sacrifices I have to make.

It is my lifestyle choice. However, without the belief that eventually I will be good enough to find a bit more financial freedom simply by living the way I love to live, I would probably just sell real shit stuff to people instead. It is far easier, but far less rewarding in all other ways than financial returns.

I'm not trying to sell art to anyone here. Just simply participating in a weird phenomenon of our times. Communicating this way all goes wrong more often than not. People think they have mastered it, then realise they haven't expressed anything like what they meant to convey. It is interesting and often messy.

Very possible I won't post here again until I reach Aveiro. I will be there within a couple of days though. Enjoying it. Mixing with people. Creating and selling art as successfully as any other artist I know personally.

Check my blog. A 10 year history of life as a travelling artist. It is worth a fucking fortune

Next time.

 

[tim]

You have to be kidding me. I've come across few people ever with less self-awareness than our Stanley.

Haven't you realised that he's a Sacha Baron Cohen creation, designed to wind up the folk who post here.

 

[Corax]

The first time it's read one of Stan's many ImGonnas I was quite taken by the ten-bob romance of it admittedly. I'm rather surprised that some fairly long time posters are being duped here though.

Tis all ultimately for naught though eh? Stan, you're entertaining me no end with this... thing, whatever it is - so all power to your Portuguese escapade of thievery!

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[Corax]

Fucking tapatalk, grr. Please ignore... Stuff. Bah.

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[spanglechick]

You have to be kidding me. I've come across few people ever with less self-awareness than our Stanley.

Well, I fully agree with that too. It's just that in amongst the braggadocio and obnoxiously fluid relationship with objective reality, that stood out. I've spent the last 25 years with performing and visual artists... each their own version of an attention whore. It's rare for anyone to admit to it so nakedly.

Of course, even a stopped clock...

 

[Corax]

You have to be kidding me. I've come across few people ever with less self-awareness than our Stanley.

This is all very flattering, but I am off to bed.

 

[Saul Goodman]

... a person with Down Syndrome

Cutting a longish story shortish. I was using the auto checkout whilst fully laden with backpacks and arms loaded with rolls of paper when I felt someone trying to barge past me without even a courteous whisper. "Un moment siv u play" (in my best French). Then they just barge me out of the way.

"FFS! You ignorant cunt". I turn around and see a woman who looks as though she has Down Syndrome. Fuck it. No excuses. When I leave and she's checking out at the auto checkout in front of me I give a full on trun of my backpacks and watch all her shopping drop to the floor

We then have a bit of a conflab with fellow shoppers looking at me in disgust.

Am I going to hell? How much 'allowance' should I make. Fuck it - I'm tired. She knew what she was doing. She got a reaction

You fucking horrible cunt!
I hope someone catches you 'foraging' and takes exception with a 12 gauge!

 

[Calamity1971]

Piss poor excuse for a human who treats anyone with learning disabilities like that. I wonder if the pacifist, 'never thrown a punch' would have acted the same way confronted with a male equal to himself?

 

[phillm]

Curently best live thread IMO and one that I am excited to come back to. So artist beret cap off to Stan and his travails...

His next stop is the 'Venice' of Portugal so should be interesting. After his last post I'm thinking maybe Simon Pegg to play Stan....in the movie that's never getting made. There's also a frenchie artists who's also doing a Stan......

A conversation with Lapin from “An Illustrated Journey”

 

[existentialist]

The first time it's read one of Stan's many ImGonnas I was quite taken by the ten-bob romance of it admittedly. I'm rather surprised that some fairly long time posters are being duped here though.

Tis all ultimately for naught though eh? Stan, you're entertaining me no end with this... thing, whatever it is - so all power to your Portuguese escapade of thievery!

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"ImGonna" I like that.

 

[Siouxsie]

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..

That was my request, Stanley ....thank you for sharing, your artwork is lovely. You are very talented, please carry on posting them

 

[phillm]

I'm just getting up to speed with the 'Tell me about Stanley Edwards' U75 homework. Stan you are obviously like so many of us a curate's egg of a man. And I'm sure some of the un-PC bluster is just trolling the good citizens to get a reaction - which obviously seems to work. And in the absence of old 'heroes' such METH_LAB and Jazzz I'd hazard a guess you just about have the well tramped field to yourself....

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Piss poor excuse for a human who treats anyone with learning disabilities like that. I wonder if the pacifist, 'never thrown a punch' would have acted the same way confronted with a male equal to himself?

I missed that post earlier....
He's obviously got more in common with Hitler than an ability to draw.
Shit thing to do to someone with learning difficulties, especially Downs syndrome. I work with kids and young people with DS and have a cousin with DS.....they are the most sensitive people you can meet.... I can picture the scene...and the woman trying to pick up her bits and pieces after fuckwit Stanley knocks her stuff. She'd have found it physically difficult and very confusing and would probably not have understood fully what happened or even why...she would have been deeply sensitive to the atmosphere and feelings around her though and she'd have felt your anger and dislike Stanley. It will have effected her more than your pathetic vengeance for a perceived insult on your person....

I hope you fucking starve ....

 

[Supine]

If you don't like Stan fair enough but go start your own thread. This is a thread for his adventures and it only gets spoilt by the haters.