Interview bye John Barry

article about 1000 for $10

The Underground

I varnished a new painting today. It is called

The Underground:

Key things of the underground r (in descending order):

Zombies

The subway

Pipes

The underground railroad

Fossils of various sorts

Hell

Here r sum close upps:

LIFE IS GRAND

My newest painting:

Sometimes @ work my bo$$ does this thing when he is

counting out the store's money: He kind of mumbles to

himself repeatedly, "Life is Grand? Life is Grand? Life

is Grand?" And then I began to ask myself the same

question, and this is the painting I came up with.

The Canadian thousand dollar bill is actually being

phased out by the banks because of money laundering,

but it might be good to bring it back again because of

what my friend, Ras John might say, "due to these

difficult economic times."

COSTA RICA

Hear R some O.K. PICS of me in costa rica:




This is the entrance way to a two hour hike to a waterfall.



This is me at the beginning of the trip. I'm all smiling and
happy here cause I have no idea how long and steep this
two hour hike actually is.



I finally got there. I actually thought of quitting and turning
back before we got there. If it weren't for my positive friend,
ANN, I don't think I would have made it. Glad I made it.



This is me in San Jose. Anyway I'm too lazy to scan and
upload all the pics so I'll just dish it out in a nutshell. Most
awesome moments include:

Partying with locals, hearing bob marley's " no woman no
cry" FOUR times: twice in a club, twice on acoustic guitar,
chillin' out by the bonfire, barfing on the bus ride there with
Ann, learning to surf at the beach, getting attacked by bugs,
seeing wild animals of various sorts including iguanas, trying
this weird sticky rice thing but instead of rice it was this salty
yellow bean paste thing, eating banana and bacon together, fishing
toilet paper out of toilets that don't flush toilet paper, hanging
out at the local bus stop trying to guess when the next bus is,
getting lost in the bad part of town without knowing it until
someone had to walk us to our hostel, going zip lining, and of
course, shitting my pants...

1000 FOR $10

jUst got back from costa rica. but i haven't picked up my photos from the developer's yet.. more on that later. anyhoo, my boss: ras john. has been talking about getting the art club together for a show for some time now. so he asked me to submit some drawings at $10 dollars in value. i had my name pledged down for 50. we'll see how many i can come up with. here are the deeeeets

Friday, March 20, 2009 at 8:00pm to
Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 1am (<-Show has been extended to this date, closing party on April 4, 2009 at 8pm)
Hotshot Gallery, Kensington Market (across the street from The Boat)
181 Augusta Avenue
Toronto, ON
Email: rasjohn@gmail.com for more info.

In response to the current economic recession, members of Art Club INTL are exhibiting one thousand works of art starting at the low price of ten dollars a work.Featured artists include:

John Colin Barry Irina Luca Bradford Wilson Pablo Jueves Rajni Perera Lisa Ng Julian Altrow Anam Ahmed

Private reception with alcohol on the evening of Friday, March 20th. Please RSVP for each person attending since they need to be on the guest list. Public opening on Saturday, March 21st.