Inauguration Day Photos!

Yesterday, my special ladyfriend, our dog Yoshimi, and I walked to Civic Center Park, across from San Francisco's City Hall. About two thirds of the way there, the Hall's bright blue and gold-trimmed dome popped out from behind the other buildings. It was like an architectural siren, calling one and all to come watch history in the making.

By the time we reached it, the tree-lined green of the Park was covered with spectators of every race, creed, and color. And we were all there to watch the Inauguration of our 44th President, via projection screen. Now, I'm not going to bore you with all sorts of reflective babble. To be honest, I don't think I can type anything here that hasn't been typed on a billion other blogs around the world.


But I will tell you that, watching the Inauguration Ceremony out there with all those people was amazing. The crowd was so diverse, from race to age. The feeling from everybody there was so positive. And seeing that scene repeated in cities & towns across the United States was like this continued unfolding of feelings that I think we (as a country) had forgotten for awhile there. Maybe it was the veil of shit that Bush/Cheney shrouded us in to keep the wealthy rich, and the terrorists terrorized. And, now that it's been lifted, we can all start seeing each other as friends, neighbors, and countrymen, again. Maybe that's it.

And it's not like things have been magically corrected, overnight. On my walk home, I passed plenty of homeless people sleeping under carts and in doorways, all too real reminders that we've got a lot more stops to hit before Utopia. But notwithstanding poverty, wars, and crisis, I think a juggernaut movement has been stirred in the hearts of this country. Now I just pray that, as we get further away from the history we made and deeper into the future, we don't lose sight of what's been done, and what we've yet to accomplish.

Oops! Guess I got reflective anyway, huh? Oh well, enjoy this cute pic of my two favorite ladies. Does that puppy love democracy or what?!


-Bunker, out.

"Sender/Receiver" Art Book now available (but not for long)!

Hey out there! First and foremost, HELL SHIT YEEEEAAAAAH!!! OBAMA!!! I know there's a still lot of work to be done in the USA. But for the first time in a long while, I feel like Americans are really about to come together and make a concentrated push to turn this ship around... to keep us from launching off that cliff it's felt like we've been driving toward for so damn long.

And talk about true democracy in action. Big ups to everyone who voted yesterday, both the winners and the losers. It's about time we all washed that bad 2000 Presidential Election taste out of our mouths.


On a less political note, thanks to everyone who came and showed myself, Deadbeatsister, Food One, and Scott Morse love during APE weekend in SF. And much gratitude to the people who made it out to the Live Art Party at Space Gallery. I'll be popping photos from the night up here ASAP.


In the meantime, I wanted to let everyone know that I've still got a few copies of "Sender/Receiver" left. It's a super-limited edition (Seriously, I've got about ten copies left!), mini-art book that debuted at APE. It's the next step in my progression of self-published minis, featuring 32-pages of drawings, black & white versions of paintings, commissioned works, and stream-of-consciousness sketch pages. The whole thing comes packaged in a hand-printed, silk-screened manilla envelope. Both the books and envelopes are signed and numbered in editions of 25.
They're $10 each, plus $5 for shipping in the USA. Hit me up to ask about International shipping.

Much love,
-Bunker, out.