A fine art and cooking blog by Darren Daz Cox. I am the greatest artist in the world, next to my soulmate Holly (Chef Chauvinist Piglette). We are resident artist's at the Speakeasy Art Center in Pekin Illinois.
You might know me from
Keansburg, NJ - Dearborn, MI Peoria, IL - Carbondale, IL Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Columbus, MS Repulse Bay, HK - Exeter, UK
"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." Vincent Van Gogh
"Love is the answer" John Lennon
This site is also the digital home of Youdle the bear and GoBzine my free snail mail art zine company!
I am the blueberry that you saw
in that big old spiderweb
I dangle in random absurdity
like some strange poem you might have read...
My Best Poem
how precious are dreams
that logical themes
quote facts in attempt to deny you
that magical day, when you can say
I believed!
and that's why they ARE true!
Thesis Statement I like art, I do art,
I do art all the time,
I do alot of art
and when I'm not
sometimes I write a rhyme!
LOVE IT SO MUCH! Sand 'tween my toes
and minimal clothes
make for fun in the sun
yeah you know it!
but the seashore at night
is a sensual sight
as the moonbeams
sow love seeds for poets!
Time Time is a weird thing
goes sooo slow when yer
waiting for the bell to ring
goes fast on Christmas
and sunny days
and when you're in love
it compresses and strays,
time is elastic
and sometimes like glue
but it's never wasted
when I talk to you!
Artists
all great artists seem full of doubt
there is too much inside
and not enough out
but each piece of art
makes someones day,
perhaps our souls
need it that way.
kharmalade
Would this have made
a good last day?
did I accomplish
any kharmalade goal?
did I climb some sunsetted peak
by the bay
to placate my expectant soul?
no, but i did take a second
to look around
like that dude
with his own Iron Chefs,
and in that infinity portal
i'll go as a mortal
suspecting it's all for the best....
SOMETHING GOOD
I remember something good
back when days
unfolded like
a grand adventure should.
I don't want to just fit in
be functional like some machine,
I want a purpose
need the wind
to blow the scent of fortune
on my skin.
Are you of that small percent
who cannot fold
who will not bend
who takes a soul and strips it bare
not because you can
but because it's there... ?
You Is You
You are you and that is good
you may not be what they say you should
or be that which you cannot be
and you wouldn't want to be like me
but I see you as you and so
if you see me unmasked say "yo"
"what makes Me me is all unique
what makes us Us makes us complete"
I Artist i sometimes wonder
if it is so
that I am an artist
simply because i say so was I born with talent
to write or to paint?
a prodigy perhaps? there's no doubt that I aint not a leader or lackey no big money schemes but an artist resulting from having big dreams they say visualise what you want to be regardless of what people say and all will come true quite possibly maybe some happy day!!
THE DANDYLION STAR Amongst the speckled field of black
I saw the dandylion star
it winked at me and I winked back
and sent that wish up far,
the other stars looked more like gems
like diamonds stuck in tar,
but I liked the mellow
glow of the yellow
wonderful dandylion star.
like crystal fish the others sit
cold like a platinum bar,
but how can you miss when you make a wish upon the dandylion star?
WE TWO STARS We two stars
burn so intense
without pretence or fuss
and what would we say
if somewhere far away
someone made a wish upon us?
for the darker the night
the brighter the light
that shines for every face
so get up and stay
in the vast milky way
and add your light to the space!
- Blue Moonwritten by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934.
It’s a great song no matter which version you hear, and there are many many versions from The Marcels doo-wop classic to Biff Brown doing a trombone solo in the pop punk version in 3-Man (early 1990′s Carbondale Illinois band).
I put gold moon motif’s in my art, and people think it must be a sun motif, but the sun is not as poetic as a gold moon as the sun is a powerful constant but a gold moon happens after a blue moon morphs by some magical event!
If you don’t get it that’s ok, this blog is my auto-biography for when I become a famous artist and such things will be in used to fill up an art book and hopefully some kid in college will spontaneously decide to be a great artist too…
The Gold Moonoil glazes and gold leaf on canvas by Darren Daz Cox
Art isn’t just about the finished product it’s the thoughts that the artist puts into it…
It’s pretty funny how people have criticized social media guru Chris Brogan for writing a blog peice on KMart, after all his gig is all about building relationships you can use so why not bridge the gap between faceless corporation and people? Anyway, synchronicity and quantum intent has allowed me to have this classic pop punk Kmart song on youtube and on my art blog.
I wanted a simple way to quickly make Youtube videos from my stack of art and stack of MP3′s but I want to use my PC instead of my old Mac. I tried Windows movie maker, and it crashed every time! So I searched and found Pinnacle VideoSpin, a free simple video maker. You can upload directly to Youtube from the maker so it is pretty quick and clean. Here’s "K-Mart" by 3-Man, a pop punk band fronted by, and songs written by, Russell Biff Brown.
KMart by 3Man (Biff Brown) lyrics
Got three ninety nine in my pocket
going to kmart lookin’ for a bargin
kmart’s got lots of things
balls and hoops and Santo rings
well, I grabbed a cart and
started running down the aisles
in kmart no one goes in single file
I wasted two fatties at the deli stand
ran over two kids in toyland
(chorus)
kmart kmart ran my sister down with a shopping cart
kmart kmart looking for the blue light special
there was a sale i just couldn’t resist
but the light went out and i got pissed
It’s really gross the people pushing and shoving
to go through the place you gotta go num-chukking
it’s blood and guts and bombs and guns
(god, I just hope I didn’t hurt anyone)
(chorus)
(by the way, Alice from the Brady Bunch was the inspiration for the song haha!!)
3-Man rules! For a few months in 1991 they were the coolest band in the world, until Trevis got greedy and tried to sell the demo they recorded doh, Biff broke the band up right after they won the battle of the bands at the infamous Hanger 9 in Carbondale Illinois. Biff Brown of course formed Groove Swamp right after he broke up 3Man!
Here’s all the songs on the infamous demo!
It’s weird how quickly 3-Man morphed as they started playing Descendents covers (which Biff didn’t particularly enjoy, he heard me play the Descendents enough for me to know that he wasn’t a fan) and then they did all of Biff’s songs (including several from our days in Mississippi), then Biff started to collaborate with Jazz singer Nora, amazingly one of the rare ‘un-plugged’ gigs survived, and here it is…
~* all music by Biff Brown – singer/songwriter now in PA*~
I painted a huge mutant angel on unprimed canvas, similar to the style of the painting above (Biff and his Wife Julie), as a backdrop for 3-man, does anyone have a photograph of it? Trevis? Lumpy?
Gemini Illustration by Darren Daz Cox – former artist for 3Man, who did the pop punk classic song – KMart.
