Artist/Designer Friend in Prison
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- Peter0
Bake a crowbar into a cake, and give it to him next time on visiting hours.
- juhls0
I don't advocate what he did at all, but some of you need to calm down.
- <<bigtrick
- indeedfugged
- 100% agree..some real holier-than-thou types around here....exador1
- <<This! Im appalled by the nasty attitudes of some peeps here.twistedfork
- Douglas0
Maybe he can help curate a prisoner's art show for a local gallery. Proceeds going toward something good, etc.
- bigtrick0
dude is already doing time for his crimes. no need to advocate for his death. jesus.
- Douglas0
The thing I've been thinking about is the actual talent as an artist your buddy might have. Is he technically good, but low-brow like a David Choe? If so, he might be a dime-a-dozen. If he has the ability to think as a rebelious "fine artist" like a Dash Snow or a Dan Colen, he could maybe use this jail time to his advantage/credibility, much like a rapper would. If that's case, you could suggest he make some bold moves with his art. Start challenging gun laws through art or exploring himself and his decisions conceptually. Or if he's just a normal dude, who's pretty level minded, but just made some bad life moves, maybe he can just spin some clay pots or something.
- Anders0
Bring him a camera = pics or it didn't happen
- dMullins0
I'm still trying to figure out why you think this "friend" needs some sort of creative outlet while he's serving hard time FOR ILLEGALLY SELLING GUNS WHILE ON PROBATION FOR ANOTHER FELONY CRIME.
A cyanide cocktail should do wonders, for him and the rest of us.
- bumdrizzle0
lockem up and throw away the key.
no good criminals.
- thebottlerocket0
I am surprised that in your hand-wringing middle-class concern for criminals you've not spared any thought for the people who have be killed and injured by the guns he has helped supply.
Perhaps you should try to 'channel a creative support group' for those who have been subjected either directly or indirectly to the guns he's smuggled or the other felonies he's committed rather than acting like some painfull group therapy session to make you friends time, go just a little bit faster and lift his spirits.
What surprises the most though me is how, in your original post, you seem to dismiss the choices he has made and trivialise them with terms like 'fell in with some shady characters' and 'doing some off colour things'.
Honestly.....
- hey, fuck off - he's a friend. that's what friends do - stick by each other thru tough timeshans_glib
- so he's a nno good drug dealing gun runner, but he's still a good friend. that shouldn't stop just cos the guy's a crim...hans_glib
- LOL @ this response. The point = over your head.dMullins
- (not a friend of mine, i should add.)hans_glib
- maybe as a friend you should give him a dose of reality and not trivialise his misdemeanoursthebottlerocket
- if i was his friend i would. but he ain't so i won't. i'll just hate him like the rest of you :)hans_glib
- my point was that there's nothing wrong with whatthefunk sticking by his mate.hans_glib
- point to me where i said 'don't stick by your mates...'thebottlerocket
- cannonball19780
THE CHAIR...
give him the chair...
>.>
- meffid0
David Choe?
- hah
Man, that guy is sick. But hilarious.juhls - ironic cuz they have a very similar stylewhatthefunk
- i love david choe.isakosmo
- lol, I met David once, the nicest guy too.monoblanco
- hah
- RW0
Have him use Tumblr to map a route out of prison piece by piece ala' Prison Break. This tale of using a web 2.0 social media platform to escape will make him infamous and he'll forever have work in the creative industries...
- capn_ron0
is he able to send you sculptures? If that's the case, you could organize a show of his work somehow and then let him know you did that. I bet he would be excited to finish some pieces and have them shown while he's in there. Then you could shoot some photos of the show and send them to him.
- beautiful0
send smokes.
- d_rek0
Sell his works and create a fund that benefits the victims of his crimes.
- Douglas0
i had an art friend who spent a few days in the slammer. said he made loads of cigarettes by drawing naked ladies for the other guys to wank to. you're buddy should be fine.
- IRS0
You could work on a time machine together. The welding skills will come in handy.
- ali0
I'd start with a Big Stan ass tattoo.
Just kidding... I'm not sure what the project could be but if it somehow related to a charity for victims of gun or drug related crime it would be a step towards redemption and maybe points to him for an early release.