Monday, July 13, 2015

Art and Money

   Okay.  I don"t do this very often. In fact I've never done it.
But watch this link

 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hysm/have-you-seen-me-a-memorial-to-slavery

This is my buddy Lex.
He's a genius.
Not like when you say "Oh that's genius" when the guy at Best Buy tells you how to turn on your Direct TV or "What a genius!" when you see Rory McIlroy pitch out of the rough.
Nope. I mean GENIUS.
Like scary smart and skilled and driven and rare.
Way rare.
He builds, he paints, he sings, he draws, he writes, he throws, he prints, he plays, he can even dance pretty good.
He's the real deal.
And that's his latest project.
He's 1800 bucks away from his goal.
This is an easy one.
If you like art, if you give a shit about this country just about now trying to take its colonial, slave owner, indian killing past seriously, trying to fess up and own up and say, "Yes we're still a great nation but ....yeah we did this", then send my man some scratch. A little bit. The week's coffee allowance. Or share this with someone you think might dig it.
Or send a lot of money and get a bottle.
Take a gander, take a listen, pass it on.
Thanks

3 comments:

  1. Very well said and perfectly timed. Alexi is a genius. A big hearted, lovely, funny, smart, super talented - and now funded - genius. Updating the Kickstarter this morning was so much fun :)

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  3. Stumbled across this & was going to throw up a post on DailyKos to see if anyone wanted to kick in, but it looks like he hit his target & then some. Congrats

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