Bah-Humbug !

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving friends.  Hope you all have a wonderful day.

Big news:  David "Big Dutch" Nally and Wm.B. Nally (that's me) will have a showing of our work in 2012 at the gallery at Albright College in Reading.  Details are being taken care of by the Outsider Gallery and the College so I don't know dates yet.  As plans are developed I'll post them here. Dutch and I will be showing a lot of new work, drawings, paintings and constructions.  This winter I'll be in my studio with my cats painting, sipping espresso and enjoying the views ...... let it snow, let it snow.

                           Daybreak view from my studio.

The time allotted Herman Cain has expired.

Add Herman to the list with Rick Perry.  Nice try guys send your audition tapes to Fox news...good pay and a swell bunch to work with. Good Luck !

Penn State cover-up years in the making

No one knows anything.  Records are missing.  Police have no record of interviews or reports.  Joe Paterno did what the law required.  Coach Sandusky was just “horsing around” with the boys.  Penn State is exempt from public information disclosure requirements. The Judge that released Sandusky on bail  has been removed from the case.  The District Attorney of Center County vanishes without a trace.  The State Police can’t (or won’t) comment

                                                        Joe Pa Pope of Pennsylvania by Wm. B. Nally
And on and on it goes.  We can look forward to years of this.  Joe Paterno  ruled Penn State with God like influence for decades. The lawyers are lining up on both sides.  The alleged crimes as bad as they are can’t be allowed to interfere with Penn State football and the millions of dollars it generates.

Justice for the victims of this sick culture of football and money is years away and might never be served.

Pennsylvania…..safe haven for perverts?

By now news of the child sex scandal at Penn State has made the front pages across the country.  Add this grim news to the still boiling scandals in the Philadelphia area Catholic church and you might wonder if Pa is a pervert friendly environment. 

This fiddling with and fondling of children is not a new problem.  In the Church is has been going on for centuries.  Penn State’s problems are part of the football program that is at least 11 years in the making.
 

                                              Very Rev. James Thomas by Wm. B. Nally 2011

                                                     Father Mike by Wm. B. Nally 2011
                                                      (Mike is out on bail, awaiting trial)


The remedy for the Catholics is simple and could yield almost instant results.  My advise to the faithful is to go to mass…..go to confession…..say your prayers and  put empty envelopes  in the plate when offerings are gathered.  Trust me, even the Pope will notice.  Within weeks you will have the Pope’s attention and he will be asking the faithful what to do.

The remedy for Penn State is complicated by the politics of big time college football. Football in the Keystone state is even more powerful than the Catholic church.  The remedy however is simple.  First off…..Joe Paterno gets fired…..today.  Then cancel the rest of the football season, forfeit the remaining games and fire all the coaches, trainers and the athletic director. Honor the scholarships and get down to the biz of education.  The players can stay or transfer to a school  with a football program.  We will all be better off without the burden of training future NFL players.  Alabama is a much better place to train big guys how to play football. The weather is better down there…..and Football is one of the few things that people in Alabama have been able to figure out.

Power restored in Mohnton

Hi all............been in the dark since the storm.  New work will be posted in the next couple days.  Don't forget to turn the clock back this weekend.....once a year we get the chance to go back in time.  Sadly we only get to go back one hour, a five year reset would be nice but that ain't how it works.

OWS…What do they want ?

             "Know your role"        instructions for the working class.       by Wm.B. Nally 2011

OWS…What do they want ? 

Round 1:
Critics of the OWS protests are baffled.  The dumb questions they are asking is proof positive that they have no clue what is going on. A phrase bikers coined a few years back explains today’s situation.  “If I have to explain, you wouldn’t understand”  Amen to that.  If you are so out of touch, so brainwashed or so stupid that you don’t know what the protests are about you have my sympathy.  I might add that you are going to hate the next part.

Round 2:
The bell for the second round rang when police began arresting protestors.  Charges range from disorderly conduct to arson and several other crimes designed to limit protesters rights are being dusted off and enforced.  The law enforcement action tells us that the protestors are starting to threaten business as usual.  Philadelphia protests have so far been orderly, peaceful and less than massive.  Even under these cupcake conditions the city claims the protests cost $15,000 a day in Police overtime. That bill will grow if the protests continue to grow.

Round 3:
The third round will be a test for the protestors.  Can they take the heat ?  Back in the day there were protests your parents and grandparents can tell you about.  They can tell you about snarling dogs, tear gas, formations of Police in riot gear, fire hoses and mass arrests.  It does not matter how peaceful and orderly the protests are, the more they disrupt daily life the more force will be used to control and end them. Nothing scares the powers that be the way people in the street can.

New weapons for modern times. The WWW, twitter, tweet, face book, blog, text, instant message, video, digital cameras, live feeds and cell phones allow for all manner of civil disobedience and social mischief.  Even Rupert Murdoch and his gang won’t be able deal with a few million pissed off people with smart phones.  Will the protesters take full advantage of these new weapons ?  And I wonder how the Tea Party crowd will react if  they ever discover they are being screwed just like everyone else.

Final Round:
How will this end?  Are the protesters tough enough and determined enough to really change anything. or are they just pissed off?  Time will tell.
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Herman Cain’s 999 plan.

Folks long for simple and easy solutions to complicated problems.  Herman’s 999 plan is simple but it is also stupid and won’t work.  But it does have the support of simple minded Republicans that can’t do arithmetic, and of course the support of well to do voters with  superior math skills looking for a tax cut they could only dream about before Herman came on the scene.   

All Roads Lead to Rome

That didn’t take long.  Only a few days since my post for “ready made art” a few of my Catholic friends are objecting to images of the Pope being disrespectful, unfair and etc.  First off the post and the images in question have nothing to do with religion.  What you believe or don’t believe is up to you .  Second…unlike the Bishops, Cardinals and Priests who have been issuing  meaningless apologies  for the abuse that has been covered up for generations there will be no apology from The Nally Boys.

                                  Pope on wheels by Big Dutch  Nally

                           The little Pope by Big Dutch Nally

The Catholic Church has provided a perfect model for the establishment and maintenance of a “Good Old Boy” network.  Frankly I don’t care if it is in Mississippi, New York, Boston, Philadelphia or Rome,  protecting the guilty  to maintain power  is wrong and all the prayers and promises don’t make it right.  Below are links to a few of the news stories reporting on the issue, 
Far from being a local issue the abuse of children by the Church is a world wide problem that is finally being given the attention it deserves.  


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8059826.stm

http://www.cinews.ie/article.php?artid=9073


http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2011/09/22/irish-catholic-church-may-tap-parishes-for-pay-for-sexual-abuse-claims/


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30838320/#.Tn847uxqEgs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10407559


The Pope and other new images will be posted and available in the Nally Boys shop on October 1st.

Ready made art

Ready made art for Christmas

                                  Small prints ready for clear coat.

 The past few weeks have been playing with  my new printer and camera. What fun  new hardware is….and,  by the first of October we will have a shop full of  new Nally Boys stuff .  We call it the new stuff “ready made art”.  Art you can afford,  delivered ready to hang on the wall or display.  You don’t have to  buy a frame….just put a nail in the wall and you are done. 

                                  "The Fireman" by Wm B. Nally.....mounted on wood panel.

The images are printed using Epson  Claria inks on premium presentation paper., glued to a wood block and protected with  two coats of clear acrylic.  These little beauties will last a long time. Larger prints  will be mounted on wood panels with a clear acrylic protective coat. 

More pictures in a couple days.

God, please get off the phone !!

                                                      God "making the call" by Big Dutch Nally


God…….please shut up !

Sorry, I don’t mean to be rude but this talking to God thing is getting out of hand.  It started off with all the TV preachers claiming they had gods ear telling us to send them money.  Who can forget Jim and Tammy and their amusement park for the Lord…..that didn’t turn out so good.

And the classic Jimmy boo hoo “my bad’ and blah sob blah.   Lately with Facebook and Twitter etal the God talk is almost nonstop ….. With all the conversations with Sarah, and Bachman and of course Rick Perry (exposed here on the Nally Boys) it’s a wonder God has time to rule over the universe and fight the evil doers.

There is even a dating service advertising on TV that God wants you to pay them to find your perfect Christian mate.
It’s only a matter of time until the Lawyers get in on the act and tell us to sue for Jesus and get our share of the money God wants us to have.

Folks snap out of it …… these people are not talking to god, it’s all made up.  They are just trying to get your money, with the economy as weak as it is these days the “God Talkers” are working overtime to get the few bucks you have left.

So…..when you go to church this week and say your prayers, tell God what these creepy scammers are doing and ask God to take their voices away.  There is no shortage of serious good works that need to be done and these folks are getting in the way of all us well intentioned citizens.

The Fireweed is getting near the top.

                                              One of the last of the lazy hazy days of Summer in Mohnton.

With Summer winding down I was thinking about my years in Alaska.  Summer there does not exist, a few warm days and it’s over.  In Florida it never ends, and here in the hills of Eastern Pennsylvania it comes and goes.  This morning it was 56 degrees, a sure sign that the hazy lazy days are on the way out. 

                                              Looking ahead to a long winter in the hills.

With the season in mind I’m taking a few days off to celebrate my birthday and prepare my studio for a long productive winter.  A little furniture to move around and a trip to the flea market to get a table for my kitchen and I’ll be ready.


Free Graphics Program
My Photo Shop program is sleeping in my dead computer in the closet and I have missed it …. A lot.  But being a cheapskate I was not about to cash out to replace it and have been trying to get by with a variety of free programs.
Happy to say I have found a good replacement, and it was a free download.  It is called Paint.NET.  I spent three days playing with it and so far it can do everything I need.  So….if you need a good graphics program and don’t want to spend any money you should give it a try.  You could save a few hundred bucks.  The download is on the Cnet site.

The News:
TV talking heads are stressing about the Mustard Gas said to be stockpiled in Libya.  They are concerned it could fall into the “wrong hands”.  Mustard Gas……are you kidding me?  There are  “right hands” for this stuff??  How did people get so stupid?  We had such a good start, fire, the wheel, growing food and lots of cool stuff.  But over time we have got to the point where there are actual “right hands” for stuff like Mustard Gas and atomic bombs. 

Earthquake !
Yikes!  We have just had a small earthquake here…..a minor wiggle but it gets your attention.  The cats did not notice, it takes more than a tremor to wake these guys.


I’ll post pictures of the newly rearranged studio in a couple days.

                                              Getting near the top in Mohnton, Pa.  (not fireweed)
Fireweed

Regards the “fireweed”.  It is a tall flowering plant common in Alaska toward the end of summer.  It blooms for weeks, from bottom to top on a long single stalk.  As the blooms reach the top you start to notice the snow line on the mountains moving down.  The locals call the snow “termination dust”.  Tis the season, the fireweed is near the top and termination dust is on the mountain. I have a line of 10 foot plants in front of my studio that bloom like the fire weed.  Not sure what they are called but they reminded me of the last days of summer in Alaska.

Enjoy my Birthday.  Have a Yuengling.  See you in a couple days.

“It wasn’t me “ …….. God says.

Since posting details of Gov. Rick Perry’s  phone conversation with God some of the Gov.’s supporters have complained that The Nally Boys’ reporters have violated his privacy rights.  The claim is that conversations with God are confidential and blah blah. 

Well pardon me, l but I think every word God ever spoke has been reported and written down somewhere, and in every language on earth.  So sorry Gov., if you are going to talk to God, and talk about talking to God, folks are going to talk about you talking to God.  Cripes, you are as dumb as George.

Anyway I got to thinking about the whole thing and decided to check it out.  Since Gov Perry is what I would call an unreliable witness I decided I would have to talk to God myself.

                                              The "talking hat" by Wm.B.

I don’t know how Gov. Perry does it but when I want to talk to God I put on a big hat, a large sombrero I bought in Juarez years ago. I call it “the talking hat“.  If you don’t believe me ask Monsignor Timmy  in Daytona Beach…..he knows about my hat, has seen me wear it, and knows how it works.   And in fact, the Monsignor also has a special hat of his own.
 I won’t tell you everything God and I talked about but I did ask about the Gov Perry situation. When I asked if he told Rick to be President God said he didn’t doubt that Gov Perry was hearing voices in his head  but said “It wasn’t me talking.”

I for one am relieved, I would hate to have to vote for Rick Perry, and I would really hate to have to disobey God.  


Note:  God did say that the last conversation he had with any American public official was with Harry S. Truman.  If you don’t know who that is check Google there is lots about Truman online.
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PRINTS SOON:

Fans of Big Dutch will be happy to know that several of his most popular works will soon be available as prints.  The Nally Boys have invested in a large format Epson printer and are printing tests now.  All prints will be printed on high quality matte paper with archival inks.  Acid free mattes and backing board will be furnished with each print with the option of adding a frame to make the print ready to hang right out of the box or present as a gift.

We will also be offering several Christmas cards, and studio décor.
If your Christmas budget is tight this year we have what you need this Holiday season,  Forget the gift cards and sweaters.  Knock their sox off with a gift from The Nally Boys. Christmas cards and prints will be ready to ship by the middle of September. 


vist our shop:    
http://www.etsy.com/shop/thenallyboys

And now for something completely different.

I am pleased to introduce our artist friend  Peter Moha Meszaros   of Budapest Hungary.  Moha is a full time artist, making photographs, videos and drawings in a style that is both unique and exotic.  His characters are not from my neighborhood but somehow remind me of  the people I see every day. 

  



















If your senses are worn down by the redundant “same old, same old” fine art being offered in galleries Moha’s work is the refreshment you need.  Rather than another boring  gallery opening or Hollywood movie, grab your favorite beverage and bowl of treats and spend a few hours enjoying something completely different.


























Ideas seem to be tied to dreams.........                        Heart replantation......a sure cure.

Dr. Alfalfa,  city doctor.  Watch the video of the hanging shoes.......the Doctor did it.


The few pieces  posted here are but a small preview of what awaits on the net.  I spent several enjoyable hours the other day clicking around the www starting with the links posted here.  I was not able to read all of it as some of the pages are not in English  but the images and smiles provided need no translation.

                   
A Sunday afternoon arts and crafts show in Budapest




To my artist friends……Please take the time and look at Moha’s work, you will be richly inspired and  entertained.  You will easily feel a connection to the artist and his characters.


Enjoy the trip……..start here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3zet666J_c

http://mohadesign.blogspot.com/

www.facebook.com/mohadesign

http://www.etsy.com/shop/mohadesign

Gov. Perry's Phone Hacked

Here is the transcript  of a recently hacked phone conversation from Gov. Rick Perry of Texas. 

Austin Texas……June 03/2011 0513 hours ST
Sn. 987654301347650fa00g    RD Sat 60666
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Gov. Perry:     Hello this is the Gov……..

God:    This is your God calling.

Gov. Perry:   Hi God, praise be and how are you doing?

God:    I’m high up and doing well, thank you

Gov. Perry:  What’s up God ? 
  
God:     I am calling you to serve me

Gov. Perry:   Oh my god, you mean I am being “called”?

God:     Yes, this is THE call.

 

                        God making "the call" by Big Dutch

Gov. Perry:   I am ready to serve you God ….what must I do ?

God:     You must be President of the United States.

Gov. Perry:   But God I thought  you were done president calling after Brother Bush.

God:    Well, you thought wrong sonny.  Now shut up and listen….We have a special situation. No way I’m going to lay around  up here in heavenly bliss and let George Romney get elected.  He’s a Mormon, are you kidding me ?

Gov. Perry:   What about one of the girls?  Mrs. Bachman is already in the race and I’m sure Sarah would be happy to do it.

God:   Damn Rick…..you are as dumb as George.  NO girls…..forget it. Don’t worry about a thing just do it.  I’ll take care of everything and guide your every step.  And when you are President I’ll be with you 24/7 telling you what to do.  So there won’t be any screw ups this time.

Gov. Perry:   Oh thank you God……I am blessed.

God:   You sure are Rick.
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This is a Nally Boys exclusive (don’t even ask how we got hold of this conversation)

Other breaking news:  The Mohnton Football Club awarded the “Dick of the Month” award for July to House Speaker John Boehner. 

Big money in peanuts, pillows and extra bags

American Airlines lost $286 million in the second quarter this year.  No problem, like they say you gotta spend money to make money. So to break out of the red AA ordered 460 new planes with options to buy 465 more.  Price tag for the new equipment ?  A little more than $38 Billion.  For a company that is losing $3 million a day that is a leap of faith.

                                              Available at the Outsider Folk Art Gallery in Reading, Pa.


In the meanwhile…….folks are still getting kicked out of their homes because they can't pay their mortgage. Strange how credit works in the US.

I guess the $$$ AA makes selling the bags of peanuts they used to give away will help them pay for the planes.  No way I’ll get on one of those planes, I can’t afford the peanuts.  Big Dutch got it right…….”You better Pray”

Where did the money go ?

There is a shortage of money spreading across the US and much of the world.  What is going on?  Everyone is complaining…..even the millionaires are bitching.  Almost everyone I know says they are broke,  the banks are raising fees because they are having trouble, airlines charging for pillows and peanuts and biz is bitching (as always) that wages and taxes are killing them.

Even the NFL is having trouble trying to divvy up the BILLIONS they earn in a season.  There just isn’t enough to go around the team owners say.  The players say they are getting screwed. 

 A big bill from the old days, now a collectors item you can buy at http://www.kdcurrency.com/
for a little more than $1000.


It’s no surprise the government is broke, all the dead beats on Social Security, teachers getting paid huge salaries, all the cops and fireman getting fat retirement packages, and the Republicans are ready to declare civil war at the mention of paying taxes of any kind.

All this is happening while the govt is printing money by the truck load.  So where is the cash?  Does China have it all?  Maybe the drug dealers got it.  Did we spend all the dollars to bomb folks over the last ten years?

There are a few basic problems that we refuse to fix….we have a consumer based economy, and the consumer is working more hours for a shrinking slice of the pie.  Once again the answer is DUH!  The consumer can’t borrow more and can’t earn more and can’t spend more.  Folks are spending every dime they can but it just isn’t enough.

I say crank up the press and start printing money till there is enough to go around.  And quit screwing around printing one dollar bills.  Print thousand dollar bills.  Print 500 dollar bills, put George Bush on the bill if you want.  Why not a 10,000 dollar Ron Regan bill,  that would be a popular number.  And then spread the money around…..Just like we drop food to starving  folks when floods and earthquake strike we could drop cash by the plane load on poor areas.  Drop a few billion on Detroit and watch the results ...Walmart would be jumpin’ and the car dealers and dept. stores would be jamming.

Sure, sure there are all kinds of rules that say we can’t just print money and hand it out but that’s what we are doing now, but we aren’t printing enough and we aren’t giving it to the right people.
It will take years and years for the economy to recover the way things are going….or we can use the “print and deal” system and fix the problem is a few weeks.

Print Baby Print !

Debt limit……..so what !

Oh no the sky is falling……the US wont be able to pay the bills…..the country will default and boo hoo and blah blah.  Who gives a shit?  Get real, lots of us already have bills we can’t pay.  I got a bill the other day that will take months to pay in spite of the notice that says I must pay in full within the next 10 days.  I am not going to lose any sleep over it.

                                           the details are in the Devil by Wm B.


On the positive side if China does not want to loan us any more money to keep all our wars going how is that a bad thing?  Can’t borrow money to go to school……big deal, the job you are training for is in India.


And the real truth is that when the walls come tumbling’ down some real smart guy on Wall Street will figure a way to make money out of the situation and we will have a brand new scheme to suck any remaining cash  out of the system.


The “Tea Party” remedy to cut funding for poor folks to reduce their taxes will only create problems for the Tea Party that they will not be able to deal with.  So it ain’t my problem and I don’t care.  This is a problem reserved for the folks that have the money.


Relax, have a cool beverage and forget about it.  Really friends, if you owe the bank money you don’t have it is the bank that has the problem, since the banks already have all the money let them figure it out.  As soon as they figure out a way to make a profit out of the situation the problem will go away.


Meanwhile I would suggest you all zip over to the Nally Boys shop and spend a little of the money you have, I promise if you do I will not use the money to pay any past due debts.

Summer is here

The winner(s) of our first day of summer free stuff is Billy & Cyndi.  Let me know where to send your goods. Wm B.

And the answer is ………DUH !

There was a program on TV the other night about so-called “black holes”.  A place where gravity is so great that even light can’t escape.  But, that is the easy part, looking inside the black hole  suddenly  math doesn’t work.  Try as they might scientists can’t use what they know to figure out what is happening in there.  So a new set of rules is being developed to do the job.  This is were the language gets as confusing as the math (that doesn’t work) quantum this and quantum that and reference to the “singularity” insure that not only agreement of what is happening impossible, but there are no tools to figure it out. 

"Quarks and Quirks"  by Big Dutch Nally    14 x 22.5   available at the Yard Dog Gallery in Austin Texas


Well not to worry…….not only has the mystery been solved but also clearly explained by “Big Dutch” in a piece he titled Quarks and Quirks.  So, if the string of infinities you get when you try to write the equation to explain it all are driving you crazy forget about it.  Study Big Dutch’s Quarks and quirks and it becomes quite clear.  Strange the way artists can figure things out that continue to puzzle science.  Perhaps with a little more art education we would all be better off.

outsider artist Murphy Mae Adams.

Outsider art ?  I can’t give you a precise definition but I know it when I see it.  If you really must know  what  “outsider art” is Google it  and  you find  hundreds of pages of “expert” opinions explaining what it is and what it is not.   In my view “Art” experts, either know everything there is to know, or know more than everyone else. So, I’ll let the “experts” fight it out, meanwhile…………….

How about what our guest, Murphy Mae calls “a healthy dose of snarky irony”…….not sure I can define that either but it is what she aims for in her paintings, and who can argue.  Painting and drawing with both hands to get the perfect imperfection she wants the rules of “fine” art melt away.  Look at the skin tones of her subjects,  and again you see that perfect imperfection that makes her work so cool.   Painting about  issues we face  in our every day life her paintings make you smile and realize your secret thoughts may not be so secret after all. Here are few of my favorites from this California artist.

The captions with the paintings are from Murphy Mae.

 Tart - Tarts know they're tarts, they work at it, its an art in and of itself, and should be respected as such. Dark roots, week old waterproof fly leg mascara and one too many blouse buttons undone. I wish I could be so brave.

      Going to Hell - I was going to call this "Republican", but buckled at the thought of being too offensive.

The Best Kind of Boyfriend - He doesn't leave the seat up, or stay out all night drinking and he says everything you want to hear...what could be better?

 In Case of Emergency  .Always keep a bottle of wine on hand, because when the shizit hits the fan, you're going to need it.

You Kids  Everybody's got one of these old codgers in their neighborhood! Turning the hose on all the kids , flipping the bird and using fowl language, you know that guy!

Memories of Our Brief Encounter  Like a hummingbird spending just a brief moment at each flower...

I Like to Imagine Bad Things
Do you ever imagine horrible things happening to people that you just don't care for so much? You know like an arrow through their head, or a baseball bat to their teeth, or a hand grenade launched at them while they're playing tennis?   No, me neither.

"I'll Rip Your Head Off," is actually about an acquaintance who shamelessly flirts with my husband, over and over again. So, in my head... You probably have your own reasons for wanting to rip someone's head off.

“ Rocket takes off, usually for a whole day. After I spend much time fretting, calling the pound, and copying signs to put up in the neighborhood, Rocket saunters back home as if nothing has happened. "You had me so worried!" I cry and he looks back at me as if to say "What? I just needed a break, that’s all".

The devil is my playmate  Maybe you or your kid always finds the worse person to play with...or perhaps you or your child is the worst person to play with.

 “Shit sandwich”  Does your man ever infuriate you so much that in an effort to kill him with kindness you're tempted to do something just a little evil? OK so I've got some issues. Warning! Sorry kids, this piece includes some bad words.

 To learn more about Murphy Mae and  see pieces available to purchase visit her shop and web site.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/murphymae

http://www.etsy.com/shop/murphymae

www.murphyadams.net

www.murphyadams.net

Artist's tender feelings.......boo hoo.

Recently in  conversation with a couple artist friends the subject of dealing with critics came up, again.  Of all the people on earth artists are the most...."sensitive".  Somehow a bunch of plumbers having a beer and crying that their customers don't appreciate how hard they work and blah blah seems silly, but artists....oh boy,pass the tissues.  Lots of artists have anxiety attacks if someone watches them work, a know a few that even lock their studio door when they paint.

Outsiders, folk artists....(use your own label) are much different.  Come on....look at what we do, any outsider that has been doing art for more than a week has critics.  But unlike what I call "fine" artists the outsiders I have met just laugh at their critics and tell stories about it. This is a happy bunch. If you ever have the chance to visit the Kentuck Festival in Northport Alabama you will see what I mean ... this show is like a convention of outsiders. Walk around and talk to few of the artists,  you will soon realize not only is the art different, but the artists are different.  They are happy people and if you ask most will tell you they are delighted to do what they do.

I have had a version of this sign in every shop and studio I have worked in for many years.  It keeps conversation with visitors proper and polite.


Next week we will introduce you to one of our favorite artists.  Murphy Mae......you will love her stuff!


Now rush right over to the Nally boys shop, feel free to buy something. 

http://www.etsy.com/shop/thenallyboys 

Run Sarah Run…..

I need to quit watching the news…..I mean how much can an old guy take?  Last week the world is going to come to an end, for some rapture or something,  and then at the last moment it gets canceled.  Then, just as I start to relax I tune in and they are saying Sarah Palin is going to run for president.  Oh boy ….. Here we go… Drill Baby Drill.

Palin in the White House…..Does that mean we get the daughter and all the guns or ????  What happens if she gets a better offer from Fox News and quits half way through her term…..would her dancing daughter take over?  I guess I wouldn’t mind so much except that Sarah is as dumb as a pizza.  She may be the only politician on the planet that is dumber than Rick Santorum and YIKES !  he is running.

The drawing is by Big Dutch and is available at the Yard Dog gallery in Austin Texas…..see if you can find Sarah in the art work.

Get Lucky This Spring

Well, we are still here…I saw in the news the world was going to end today but I think it was delayed or something as I’m here in Mohnton bashing away on my keyboard and Big Dutch is working overtime in the mill making steel.

To celebrate our close call with doomsday we are going to give away some stuff.  On the first day of Summer we will have a drawing and the lucky art lover will get a pair of Big Dutch earrings and a “Time is Short” t-shirt.

To enter just sign up as a follower of the blog and you are in.  And just in case lots and lots of folks sign up (25 or more) we will add more prizes and draw more names. 



Machine #21 finally finished.

 

I started working on this machine while I was in Florida and have finally gotten around to finishing it.  This is an all purpose unit sending and receiving positive energy and also protecting from the ill winds than blow through our life from time to time. 

  


The lights are a string of mini lights, easily replaceable.  I expect the lights will last a couple years but you never know.  However the piece is made so the lights can be removed and replaced with a new string without any trouble.  You could easily use another color for a completely different look
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To see what Big Dutch and I currently have for sale visit our shop.  

http://www.etsy.com/shop/thenallyboys