Glenn Arthur - Amazing Artist who plays fun on Twitter!

Anyone who knows me knows that I live and breathe art. Since I stumbled upon Glenn Arthur several years ago on Myspace and fell heard over heels I've shown atleast 100 people his beautiful paintings. His muses are often an angst ridden beauties with a tarnished innocence or the devious grinning vixen with a playful malevolence that reaches into my gut and twists while making me breathe lustily. His colors are from my mind's palette, I've painted my home and bedrooms in these colors. Some of his themes include  mirrors, hummingbirds, calaveras, stripes, filigree, fluffy flowing hair, glistening beautifully made up eyes, streaky inky mascara tears, gingham patchwork hearts, raw bleeding hearts, anchors, booboos and bandages, needle and thread, chiffon and satin bows, stripes and beautiful damask patterns and lovely blossoms of all kinds, even origami Glenn holding my favorite painting. Click to LIKE his Facebook Art pageones.  

His work has a sweet macabre sensibility that I thoroughly backstroke in. PLUS! We have Alphonse Mucha, The Walking Dead, Amelie, green tea, weddings, steampunk, extra sleep, water colors and Betty White in common.

Yeah, he's for me. 

"Glenn Arthur is a self taught visual artist from Orange County, California. Born in February of 1979, he grew up in a conservative, religious household with little to no influence in art. Although he constantly doodled and sketched as a child, Glenn did not come into painting until later in life when a friend (God bless you, friend!) took him by the hand to a local art store, purchased him a canvas, some paints and a few brushes and told Glenn, “You need to do this!” 

Since then Glenn has been diligently working on creating his own brand of beautifully painted images. Using acrylic paints on wooden panels, he adds in elements and influential symbols of his past and present to each piece. Beyond the aesthetics of his artwork, Glenn brings an overwhelming sense of passion to his paintings. Touching on themes of love, death, conflict and duality, Glenn’s art tells stories of strength and hope through emotion and sentiment with his sensual beauties and signature hummingbirds." 

The other day I came across this Tweet:

@GlennArthurArt

TWITTER CONTEST! I'm giving away my 3 latest drawings! 

"What's this?", my eyes popped open, my jaw went slack, "I'm ALL over it!" Immediately tweeted back 

@BombaRose 

#GlennArthurArt OOooOOoOooooo purple <3

Today I received this Tweet: 

CONGRATS! You won the Purple give away piece! Please DM me your address and I'll send it out tomorrow! Thank you so much for participating!

SHUTTTUPPPPP!!!!!!! Look at her! She's mine! I've been doing cartwheels across his Facebook pages. Blue and Brown went to two other very excited people. 

MINE! @BombaRose: Heeeeeheeeheee! I won, I won, I won, I won the Purple steampunk beauty. I LOVE @GlennArthurArt ! U should too

@erikeddy hasn't replied yet

@dwalk888's @GlennArthurArt HOLY HELL!!! thank you soooooo much!!!! i totally cannot wait to really see and hold this!!! amazingness!!!! thank you! ;)He mails her home tomorrow. Pretty! Ok, it's 2am and my brain stopped working so it's time to clock out. Love ya, babies! 

Bomba y Plena's Labor Day Weekend

Facebook. Some people jumped in early, some only after even their grandmothers finally got a page. In many ways it's the glue that holds families and communities together even if people don't like to admit it, it's an important part of our lives. We cheer each other through births, new jobs and opportunities; support each other through deaths, losses and the blues. We find roomates, jobs and sometimes even spouses there! Our Facebook fam is pretty tight. In a lot of ways, we're closer to our Facebook friends than we are to our actual relatives. Who do you see more? Us or your second cousins? Exactly. When Lisa "La Boricua Goddess" posted that her annual Labor Day picnic was on the horizon many people became excited, me included. I haven't been out and about for some time and there was no way I was going to miss it.

Plena and I went to an early afternoon rehearsal for his part of our birthday tribute for Algarin that was as fun as could be! I'm so proud of how amazingly talented my love is. Plena  really tore it up with something fun and as is his usual way, very unique. Ya'll not ready! ;)

Then we hustled off to Orchard Beach in a gypsy cab trying to charge us pretty much what it would cost to get to the airport! We both started in and he relented to charging a decent amount of money. The NERVE! Literally highway robbery. Hmmmph!

Upon arrival we were struck by how truly beautiful the day was. Here we were all awaiting Hurricane Earl's wrath and the day was mild and beautiful.  It was sunny, but not beaming, and there was a delicious breeze. Con besitos y abrazos Bomba y Plena joined the fray finding ourselves amidst our poetry family and friends. I was so excited to see my girls! I immediately saw our hostess, la bella, Lisa "La Boricua Goddess" busy as a honey bee & mis adoraciones, author and host of the fabulous "La Loba" poetry series, Vanessa Martir and activist poet "Simply Rob" Vassilarakis . I was so glad we'd been able to make it out to the last outdoor "Wepa!" of the summer. Here we could chill with the homies from Brooklyn, a powerful boricua couple making moves with us, the ubiquitous MC Papo Swiggity, host of our afore mentioned 9/11 tribute & the brilliant Olalana Sasu (we just call her Sue), his better half como se dice.  They're the bomb and she had on a Jack Skellington t-shirt to prove it. Georgie Acevedo made sure that we were all comfy and that no one was thirsty - Peach Schnapps & ginger ale? Yes please! The talented sisters & I had a refreshing convo about business, poetry, the state of our community. We welcomed Nia Siacara Andino back home from the motherland after a nice vacay in Spain. A wonderful surprise! Miguel Algarín, next weekend's special guest of honor was "in the house" relaxing and sharing words with the people who have come to see him as a mentor and friend. All the while Sandra Guzman, our highly esteemed and much loved archivist snapped away, even lying down in the grass and sand to get the perfect shot.

Georgie & Goddess! Vaya, Boricua!

Papo Swiggity and the Master, Algarín

"La Loba" Vanessa Martir, Sue "Skellington" & Sandra Guzman of 2DreamArtists.com

Us! Bomba y Plena relaxing in the sun, listening to our talented friends. Must've been a deep poem!

La Boricua Goddess, Lisa. You did good, babes!

The much anticipated entertainment began with poetry and the rhythms of Machete Movement and Certified Master Drummer Juan Cartagena of Segunda Quimbamba.

NeNe Ali spits like no other 12 year old I've ever seen

Members of Grito - True Poetess, Tito Luna and Simply Rob tearing our ears and hearts openVanessa "La Loba" Martir acknowledging love for her mother Yemaya

El Chulito Carlito - Carlos Manuel Rivera sharing a poem "del pelo alisado"

Roberto Plena Irizarry schooling people with the piece "Rockin' to the Greatest"

Lyrical poet Blaze A Page reps The Babble[O]nianz

Once Blaze A Page of the The Babble[O]nianz graced the grass we were ready to run to hustle "Simply" to his next event when "SURPRISE!!!" Once everyone had their say, Goddess and Simply got down to the tambores while we sang a flavorful version of "Happy Birthday" for him accompanied by the Machete Movement! It was awesome! 

VAYA! Happy Birthday, Simply!

There were over a 100 of us at the picnic! The music, poetry and the sense of community was thick. She was excited and knew it would be fun but once people started getting amped Goddess was overwhelmed by the love and response. She wanted so much to please us all, to make it wonderful for us and she did. We are thankful to our beloved chula for bringing us together and look forward to the next one and the next one and the next one. Y seguimos pa'lante!

Well done! WE LOVE YOU, LISA!!!!

Technology - Very fun, not for the stupid

Here! A blog.

I had one. It got lost somewhere's in the interwebs. I tried to log in and got a whole brand new one. I wonder if I lost any good poems on the other one? :(

I love Facebook, Myspace still feels like a comfy pair of old sneakers. I don't understand Twitter but I have an account. I have a LinkedIn account, with no connections, YET! (OH! someone added me, woohoo!) I have a Lost Taino Tribe account. My MiGente and Crushspot and I'm sure there are a few others buried. My Paxed and LocalHookupz accounts I cancelled, I have 2 Photobucket accounts, one personal, one for work. A Kodak Gallery. Hmmmm, a Youtube account, an iTunes account, a Zune account, I have a website that's all my own, with an email address that's connected to it! My business has a Facebook page too. Let's see what else is there? Anything else?

It'll come to me while I'm typing I'm sure. oh yeah, Ebay, Etsy, DIY because I'm a home decoratin' foo', Make-up Alley, blah blah blah blah. etc. and another one. I have no idea how but I usually even remember the passwords for all of them!

Why do we need to be all over the place? It's like the grow-up equivalent of not wanting to leave the stoop or the playground so that we don't miss anything "good".

Do we really need to know what's going on all the time? And how do you get foloowers? Do I drop the link on people's Facebook pages and say, "Hi, please pay attention to my everythought." I'm pretty serious on posting all day while I'm working, cleaning and thinking random thoughts. It's becoming more acceptable to be an internet addict! YAY for me!

Ok, so this here and Twitter, I will make them my own! buahahahahaha! i! shall conquer them yet. Jeeez, I need to go to sleep.

See you at a social network near us...
Jani Rose, La Coqui