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Discussing My Artwork, “An American Classic, Revisited…”

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The following correspondence originally took place on my Facebook wall, upon my artwork, “An American Classic, Revisited…“…

Rayn: Follow the Yellow Brick Road…

My artwork was featured on both Infowars.com and PrisonPlanet.com in June of 2007:

http://www.infowars.com/cartoons_10.htm#wiz

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2007/250607pers.htm

“An American Classic, Revisited After September 11, 2001” (by Rayn)

“An American Classic, Revisited After September 11, 2001”
(Artwork by Rayn)

Sara: I love this piece. You really touched on the entire 9-11-01 conspiracy while accurately depicting every key player in the scandal, creatively!

Recreating Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo’s Cira-1759 “Gateposts and Outbuildings of a Villa”

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I originally posted the following artwork I created, along with comment, onto my Facebook wall…

(Artwork by Rayn, and originally located here)

My Commentary: Created in Spring 2000 for art class at Stony Brook University.

The assignment was to recreate an illustration of Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo‘s cira-1759 “Gateposts and Outbuildings of a Villa” using black ink, a dip pen, water and a paint brush on white 8×10 paper.

Recreating Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo’s Circa-1759 “Roofs and Chimneys of Country Houses”

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I originally posted the following artwork I created, along with comment, onto my Facebook wall…

(Artwork by Rayn, and originally located here)

My Commentary: Created in Spring 2000 for art class at Stony Brook University.

The assignment was to recreate an illustration of Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo‘s circa-1759 “Roofs and Chimneys of Country Houses” using black ink, a dip pen, water and a paint brush on white 8×10 paper.

Feedback on My Poem, “The Slave-State of Corporate Capitalism”

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The following correspondence originally took place on my Facebook wall, upon my poem, “The Slave-State of Corporate Capitalism“…

2009-02-11-feedback-on-my-poem-the-slave-state-of-corporate-capitalism

Rayn: I’ve witnessed the underclass and understood its necessary permanence in a capitalistic world where commercialism and technology are the new imperialisms, and the race to manufacture and sell has caused America to declare a war on poverty and ignorance, and punish those assumed guilty with life-sentences of servitude to dead-end jobs that trickle down minimum wages and allow the rich to get richer, while the rest get deceived into thinking that they, too, can one day become the next John D. Rockefeller, yet, never do, because the fruits of labor have been replaced with high-tech paper, suitable to be used for the purchase of the same illusions of necessity and convenience that they’ve spent their work day creating…

Keith M.: Thank you!

Rayn: You’re most welcome!

Thomas Pr.: There is this guy James at work. He graduated Duke on Scholarship. He works for me. I tell him how it is with the back of my hand upside his head.