Fragile, delicate environs
Worlds unto themselves
Trample or foster?
Pass by or notice?
Step on or elevate?
Category Archives: abstract
Dirty V-word
Why is it that speaking about kindness toward animals generates so much backlash and vitriol?
Why is it that we so easily overlook suffering if it is not right in front of our faces?
How can we expect to expect justice and non-violence when we put violence and injustice in our mouths three times a day?
Why are we living in the past when we can be living in the future!? All it takes is starting to live with compassion and awareness for all life on Earth. That’s all. It just means we have to stop causing suffering for others, in order to drastically lessen the suffering of all. Either we end the anthropocentric causation of the Earth’s current mass extinction event, or it ends us. If we can’t be compassionate with each other, we don’t deserve longevity as a species.
Distortion is not death
the instance
it comes again
and again
always the same
always different
every flower, every petal
fallen, how so
but never forgotten
Pretend the woods, are an art gallery
force your own perspective to change
grab control of your own thoughts
for just a second
guide yourself
down
up
see the canopy
let the light come down to you
hear the hustle and bustle of life
watch the art
listen to its message
it’s whispering something
what did it tell you?
what will you take away?
how has it made you grow?
clothed in a state of undress
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Don’t normally post works in progress.
Then again, I’m definitely not normal.
In order to create something from myself
I must be clothed in a state of undress.
Couldn’t ever paint on the street.
Don’t like people looking over my shoulder.
Too many greedy eyes smiling waiting for it. So GO!
Into the public, the masses are laden with wolves.
Look yourself in the eye, then die. Admit defeat.
Walk into your fear, conquer the beast within
Choke on it and recover. Did you ever almost die?
Times are changing, life is upgraded dreams
The mind’s eye, will find itself (and wink)
at center with it all, all of it with the one
showing off, bouncing, dancing, singing out
louder until someone finally sees the whisper
shhh.
markw8-8-14
Just thought I’d share. Let me know what you think!
Also this, just because.
Thanks for read/watch/skim/eat/absorb/ing! 😀
Winning the dolarttry
Lottery: win a lot of money
DIY: do it yourself
Moneytree: doesn’t exist
Wishtree: tree with handwritten notes of well wishing tied to it with colorful yarn.
Oh I’m sorry. Have you already won? You already hold your winning ticket? 🙂
winning the lottery
diy lottery
winning the dollertry
This is a day by day guide to help you EVEN BEGIN to think about actually winning the lottery. I’m talking about the mega-million-bazillions here.
Day#1: BOOM Bitches! Yeah!
You won. Holy-Shit-Moment, yada-yada-yada. Write down the exact amount you won.
EZPZ right?
Well. Think about it and be realistic.
Seriously do this. I know you have a pen and paper nearby. This is going to be worth it, trust me. What do you have to lose? (only a true fortune, comfort, happiness, wealth, legacy, etcetera)
Done early? It’s ok move on to the next day ahead of time if you are ready to advance. Hurry up!!!
Day#2: Shit gets real.
Before everyone you have ever known finds out you won, you must figure out what-the-muther-fucking-hell are you supposed to do with all that money. Collect over the course of all those years? Or you take the money all upfront with the penalty? What will you invest into? What are your ideal dream life scenarios, where are your homes and what do you do? How much will you give to charity? How much to your Mother/Father/etc? How much to your closest friends? How will you spend your time once you’ve sobered up and gotten bored? Write it all down below the amount.
Day#4: It will have taken this long to have figured it out and to have perfected your exact plan. If you have written down, in real life, exactly what you would do, then you are serious about this and possess the will to succeed and achieve your dreams. Now with your original list at home and a copy with you, you go to cash in your ticket. Your plan goes to shit because as soon as you redeem your ticket in the store, you are shot by the clerk as you hand over the ticket. You never saw the gun, it looked exactly like a camera.
Day#37: you wake up.
All of your family is dead.
After the news story on Fox5, your place was filled with all your friends and family having a get together when the news helicopter backed into a cellphone tower and landed on your front lawn, sliding into your living room and exploding.
Day#42: you leave the hospital.
You find a place and immediately eat a hamburger.
You go to the bathroom and immediately throw up.
There is a lottery ticket behind the toilet and you can tell some dumbass dropped a winning ticket. You wretch again and again. You wash up and walk straight-the-fuck out.
Day#42.5: you find a pencil with an eraser and some fresh paper.
You write down your ideas for a business. Exactly how you’ll earn cash on day number forty-three. Exactly what supplies you’ll need. The exact location. How much food and water you will need, and transportation. Everything can be written down. Anything can be written down and sketched out.
Day#43: you liquidate everything you needed to (including the winning ticket from behind the toilet that you put into a ziplock baggie because you never pass up a little help even if it is from your enemies. fuck them, take their shit.) And you get the sum you need to buy your business’s name and for your own two feet to hit the pavement.
You make your money, not as much as you hoped. But you have the peoples contact info and a few other people that traded info.
Day#365: One year will have past from the time you read about day one.
You will own your own business. You will have a ton of new friends and fellow business-compatriots. Enough to bounce ideas off of and start new collaborations, as well as continue earning money doing your day job which is your own business which your new friends and customers are helping you to carry on with.
Day #366: You notice that actually all your family and friends are not dead and that you never won the original sum you wrote down. But you find that only certain friends and family members are really worth spending time with and all the rest you have kindly ignored. You see the value in always being polite, to kill them with kindness. You see how doing so can reveal their true intentions. You can see how some of them still struggle and pay hard earned money for a rigged game they do not fully understand.
We all have the dream. We don’t all have a custom plan, that’s been revised counted less times and is still not perfect even now at day number, today’s date.
On what day will you realize you don’t need all your copies of your business model and you hand it to a homeless person on the same street you started out on…
On what day will you realize you don’t need to seek money, that instead money finds you because you do what you love doing so well because you’ve done it long enough to become a master. A student and a master, practicing all the various things there are to do and love.
-Mark Weathers 2014-07-31-23:17
Golden Orange Sunset Landscape from Crecent Beach Florida
The Golden Orange sunset, moody and majestic it leaves us with a gradual explosion of color and inspires us to appreciate the present moment for its beauty and splendor. Each sunrise and sunset marks the median between our two well known daily time periods of night and day. And each time we spin around on this big ball shaped rock, we are treated again and again with wonders of light and the mysteries of midnight. A good vantage point, a few clouds and a rich sky full of shifting color is worth taking advantage of ever time the opportunity presents itself.
And now with the help of my friends at Zazzle, this golden scene will set forever!
Soft phantom lights glowing in the cold, dark night
Today I designed a moody cosmetics bag over at Zazzle. I’m not sure if anyone will ever buy the thing and make the design come into actual existence as a product, but even if that never happens it is still really cool to see my artsy photographs come to life on a random little bag. I’m looking forward to doing a whole bunch more of these babies so stay tuned!
The soft glowing ebbs flowingly
through the cold, dark night
rivers flow, the moon shines
light dances and fades knowingly
shapeshifting to our delight.-Mark Weathers, January 4th 2014
November 1st FAFATL
Sharing these tonight with the universe. #fafatl
“Unknown Energy Mass”
2013
Acrylic on wood, 4″ x 4″
“Castle Void Skull”
2013
Acrylic on wood, 4″ x 4″
“You Are Here”
2013
Acrylic on wood, 4″ x 4″
so where do I go from here…
I’m working on a series of small pieces with smalt blue or phthalo blue colored backgrounds and am undecided on where to go from here. I like the atmosphere I’ve created in the little pieces but I feel like there needs to be more that just this back ground. Needs more elements!