How To Tell The Obama Story for Generations to Come

So, now history has been made. Barack Obama is President Elect. The new question is how do we save the mementos? The video, the individual stories of what this means? Should we interview neighbors and relatives? Should we clip paste into scrapbooks? What is the process of giving a public victory your own personal perspective so that your grandchildren and great grandchildren will know you were alive and apart of the history.

Say It Neat and With Style.

Why are so many Political signs so sloppily made? Splashed, unevenly painted letters, irregular font. As though the person who holds is angry and slightly unmedicated. Why would anyone join with a cause sloppily presented?

In the day of Obama why do so many people fail to see that if it worth saying it is worth saying neatly? With all the papercrafting tools that exist today, why is any sign made without care? Pazzle, cricut and all other provocraft products could make the debate more clearly stated.

Obama has the right idea. The O of Obama is a red white and blue logo, yes, logo, that emcompasses the stripes of the flag over slightly rolling plain toward the center of the circle implictly pointing to the future.

The perfect logo is shorthand of a brand that communicates wholeness, wholesomeness, with a gentle touch of change in the right direction. Look at the Obama logo today and ask yourself, do I represent the things that I stand for with that kind of respect and professionalism?

Signs of Hope-Crafts for Change

I have been phone banking, walking and calling swing states. Now I want to make a sign of Hope.

Layouts Made with the Cricut

Flower Embellishments and Layouts

This picture is a preview of a video I am doing. For no reason, without warning I need to draw. Not want, need to draw. Maybe what is drawing is not me. Maybe it needs to be drawn and I was there. And so, I can't stop, I know there is no purpose, no real talent and yet I am completely fulfilled when I am drawing. So I invite you to watch as I improve.

Paint Image Transfer

Here is a card that I love and recently gave to a friend. I am using the paint transfer techniquue which is so easy for a brillant professional look.
Here are the steps.

1. On a piece of thick paper, paint a generous layer of acrylic paint.
2. Take your photocopy image and place toner down on the wet paint.
3. Make sure there is contact of the entire on the image to the paint but do not press too hard. Try not to move the layer of paint
4. Allow to dry. This can take up to 6 hours
5. When dry peel the copy paper away.
6. To remove paper, dampen the remaining copy paper and peel away. Careful, don't make it too wet, too much water will make the paint run.
When the image is revealed, embellish and mount.

Video to SuziBlu on YouTube

Hey,
Heres is a new video that I decided to make after seeing a video that Suzi Blu cries in while telling about her eviction. Her video was sad, but smart and sincere so I did a response.

I Want More Feelings on YouTube

So, I started this HeartNote Series because I wanted to express the way some of the videos make me feel. When you go to a movie, you can go with a friend or even if you go without that friend you can call them and ask if they saw the movie and discuss how it makes you feel.

But not with YouTube. On YouTube I send videos to other friends but rarely do I follow-up with a conversation “How did it make you feel?” The type of discussions on YouTube are passionate, but rarely about feelings, they are about opinions. Even if someone starts a conversation with the words, “I feel…” they are not talking about feelings, they are talking about their opinion, which may not last as long as the life of the video posting.

Through art I can quickly, cheaply express something that is moving through me.
That strong reaction that could sit in my body and disturb me or I can grab the Derwent tin and some paper and go, go, go.

My youtube channel is JazznJava look for the HeartNotes Series

Hmm, Now I have a Blog

Is this just something else to procrastinate doing and feel guilty about?