cut-ups from digitalis

i keep getting these random emails that are amazing. i don't know what they are, who they are from, what they mean. but they are my new inspiration. they are like quips sent out from the underworld from william burroughs or brion gysin trying to communicate in some weird obscure cut-up language. poems that mean nothing but encapsulate everything! i've been collecting these for a while, trying to decipher hidden meaning...

Earth Map Bible Butterfly Dress Salt, Milk Nail Bathtub Skeleton Carpet Army Cappuccino, Album Feather God Chocolates Highway Ring Kaleidoscope Shoes Restaurant Feather Table Staircase Chief Airport. Junk Arm Hammer Magnet Bathtub Foot Map Computer Diamond Crystal Onion Snail Perfume Rocket. Navy Data Base Child Pants Cappuccino Dress Bathroom. Signature Sword Signature Sports-car Pendulum Bed Plane, Bridge Compass Cappuccino Printer Surveyor Nail Cup. Gas Chocolates Electricity Arm Record Apple Book. Ice-cream Rainbow Garden Highway Tapestry Flower Bible: Navy Shoes Rope Plane Feather Book Spiral? Ring Planet Brain Bible Ice Data Base Film, Bed Saddle Kitchen Drink Spiral Eraser Sun. Arm Foot Game Sandpaper Sunglasses Liquid Church. Clock Bed Boy Ring Bed Swimming Pool Spectrum!

i notice "cappuccino" is repeated a couple of times... random words from a sleepy spam program...

dopey guy with big third eye

DSCF0190, originally uploaded by Trouble Tease.

decided to post alot of my new drawings. thats right same theme, multiple eyeballs, ufos, flowers... i just can't stop! its what i like! i know i know, it would be nice to have some political statement coming out of my work but i really am yearning for something much simpler... i like mutants, not the kind that fly around like superheros, but more subtle mutants, the ones that attract mini flying saucers. the kind of mutant whos hands bend and twist like branches on a tree. a mutant who seems dopey but probably sees more than u and i. long live the mutant eyeball, i say! may it see a thousand stars that twinkle.

hey, trouble/tease on emergingthoughts.com

hey so trouble/tease tshirts are now being sold at this wonderful place called emerging thoughts. if you have a chance check it out, there are some great designers on there including Postlapsaria, our new friends... its a great site, spread the word.

little pettie and the kid that got ran over

very distrubing week! i was going to feed this cute little dog named pettie who is about the best dog ever. he is the coolest. anyway long story short i am on my way to feed the dog... i am crossing the street when i hear this screetch and a hollow thud. i have heard this before, so i was reluctant to turn to look. but when i did i saw a little kid sprawled out on the street with a motorcycle trying to maintain from crashing into a parked car. seems this kid ran out - got smashed. motorcycle parts flying. kid screaming. meanwhile i look and here is all this traffic moving in. so i run out and start making all the traffic stop because this kid was little for sure and he wasn't getting up.
now to describe this scene would be gnarly at best. i ran over to the kid and was like "you're gonna be ok kid, hold on" and he turns around screaming "look at my leg I AM NOT GOING TO BE OK!" and i look at his leg and i tell you, i have seen some busted up limbs before, but this one, (insert uncontrolable body shiver here) this one was baaaad. his foot which should have been pointed to right was all the way over pointing the other way. his leg kinda bent around like limp strand of linguini. not to mention the blood, and bone. and man i tell you what, it was ruff. the motorcyclist was in panic. i just held the kid there till the cops came. he kept screaming that his gramma was in White Castle and to go get his gramma, it was a crazy mess. so i have been a little out of it since then. he is going to be alright, at least it wasn't a mac truck. moral of the story... look both ways before u cross the street.
the best part of this horrible story is pettie, this is a picture of him. he has this crazy eye that makes me really fall in love. he is like my little marty feldman. some dogs can just be content with funny stuffed animals and a place to poop. one day i am going to have a dog, and i will love him and squeeze him and pet him and love him...

avazava

finally making some new stuff. really glad to be back, digging in.
i haven't got a name for this yet. i think i am going to call it
avazava...

warning: creepy creature

this clip seems like its from a bollywood-xfiles-reality tv show. the music fits the mood deliciously. it looks like a little deformed travelocity elf, dragged out of the depths of some creepy old sea. i guess they are gonna eat it, they've put a nice plastic tablecloth down. tasty alien ocean inhabitant!

dingo, his dog, and a milion dead cds

DSCF0185, originally uploaded by Trouble Tease.

yesterday i went through about a thousand untitled cds i have stacked in boxes, they have jpgs, wav's, tiffs, mpg, mp3s god knows what else. one by one figuring out what was on them, when they were made, and what to do with them. . . old depeche mode to kompakt comps to d'tachi to pictures of my trip to hawaii... now all of that information is saved and burned on dvd, so i have 3 dvds in exchange for 300 cds.
its quite fun to downsize. micropress everything down further and further. one day those dvds will be burned on one little tiny chip, then a few years later that chip will be compressed into a little nanobot-musicplayer and injected into my eardrum... and finally, when i have background music all of the time... i'll sell my soundtrack on itunes. i will become obsessed with reading my itunes reviews. "why is this 70 year old man listening to techno, thats wierd!"... or "ew ethiopian 70's rock music? that sucks, this is the worst soundtrack ever"...
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i like this drawing- kinda feel like i looked like that when i was a kid.

hey i want an invisible suit!

so there was news today about new cloaking devices, wonderful sheaths of invisibility! oh how i want one this chrismas! the fun you could have! sneak around unnoticed, get into movies free... so i decided to find some information about exactly how these invisible cloaks werk. what exactly makes them tick? plasma mirrors? tiny microscopic lenses? my mind was buzzing with excitement. i read and i read but i soon got bogged down in the schematics of the whole thing. it became painfully obvious an average run-of-the-mill son of a taxidermist from middle alabama would never be able to understand todays fancy new cloaking devices, nor will i ever be able to have one... or will i? this guy has one...

how do you feel?

this is one reason i love u tube. it is an android that has been developed to emulate sf writer philip k dick.
my favorite part of the clip is where a woman asks it/him " how do you feel" and just like a line from one of his books, the android replies..." it's a ritual i do the same way everytime."

it was kinda awesome the first time i saw it, then a couple of weeks later i found out that this android's head had disappeared. it had been placed in a box by the owner, and somehow stolen on a crosscountry flight. amazingly even in postlife pkd still can develop such a weird storyline.

in da club

tired after a day of surfing (the internet of course) i wasn't sure if i felt like moving, but i was pressed to go into the city. and it was fun enough - we were whisked thru lines and ended up in a couple of dark dancing holes. when i am out i only want to take pictures, and i sometimes feel that is kind of obnoxious. so i justify my behavior with snapping away. i guess foto taking is better than my other bad habit, dragging out an easel and canvas, and start painting everyone one dancefloor. i just wish the digital cameras just had an instant flash when you press the button. there is this huge lag time between the pushing of the button and the actual flashphoto, some times those seconds can turn from a euphoric expression of this is the best moment ever, to take the damn picture already.

he never quite had his finger on the ufo situation (new trouble/tease tshirt!)

this one i love. the colors are amazing and i think its real purdy. it was drawn while i was down in alabama think think thinking about 2012, the hollow earth, time travels, mini ufos, and hipsters. i can't tell which me he is looking at...

dee d jackson and her automatic lover

see me feel me love me touch me, i really like this. its like the who meets dr who meets solid gold meets too much cocaine and im not sure why i feel like going "danger will robinson danger" when i that robot starts to get down. it seems pretty genuine tho. is the singer a vampire? a slutty version of buck rogers gf Col. Wilma Deering ? i wonder what that robot thought of her. was she too prudish? he was, after all, the automatic lover. maybe he dumped her and now is hanging out with twiggy.

yawn, i took another picture of a ufo

i just ran up to the roof to take some pitcures of these amazing clouds and as usual i find a weird flying object in the photos afterwards, now granted i live near the airport but i always lean towards the idea of a silvery disc floating around with free energy and some hip looking multiple eyeball fluttering humanoids zipping around...

ha, its gonna be here before we know it...

i guess this is to be expected. i am ready for androids really. i feel like its all rushing forward and i am quite interested to see what this robotic world will be like. i have a feeling i will dig the robot conversation, i imagine they will be amazing with words, descriptions, facts, knowledge. maybe depending on the kind of robot, but imagine if you purchased one who could sing every song you love from david bowie or give every lecture by mark pesce then you really would have a cool companion. when they attain real consciousness, what will they will think of your individually slightly narrow realm of knowledge? can my robot girlfriend become bored with me? will she seek a higher form of intellect? will people get dumped by their robots? why not? seems plausible. maybe there will be a facebook for droids, droidbook. yeah DROIDBOOK! i think i am on to something! they all hook up via Internet and make cyberlove instantaneously, that is until one gets a virus, then it of course becomes a million dead androids, and now everyone is lonely.

flying saucer / flying solo

we are really digging this one, it is called flying saucer/flying solo . one thing in noticed when i was watching cnn in alabama is that larry king has been just talking about ufos all the time. are they preparing the mainstream for some sort of contact? as nutty as it sounds, its even nuttier to think that larry king is the biggest lid blower. the skeptics on the show are kind of annoying, they are usually scientists and science is great if you believe in the big bang, but i am skeptical of that whole premise, so i tend to hang with the ufo spotters. at least they base it on what they see, not what they know. because when u get down to it, what do you really really know?

this is our fist attempt at a making a toy. i think its cute, but it is a little scrawny. might need to work on this a little more. i call him tony. he sleeps in my bed.

father and son

DSCF0188, originally uploaded by Trouble Tease.

i spent alot of time with my dad last month, so i drew this one with us in mind. we don't look as mopey but we are pretty connected. he seems to believe, just like terrence mckenna, that the end is near.