get it here: titus toledo’s “between”after t.s. eliot’s “the hollow men” (pen & ink: circa 2012)
between the idea
and the reality
between the motion
and the act
falls the shadow
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get it here: titus toledo’s “ilive”
in the age of iphones and ipods, an adbuster’s verbo-visual reworking of the psychedelic 60s’ classic counterculture slogan “turn on, tune in, drop out” (with apologies to mcluhan and leary).
digitally retooled acrylic/charcoal: circa 2012
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get it here: titus toledo’s “dip & draw”
there is a bottomless inkwell of creative energy from deep within our subconscious: dark, ancient, and primal— that is the source of all true art.
digitally retooled mixed media work (circa 2011)
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see it here: “libertado” by titus toledo
Can we really say “freedom is free” or to be more precise that we are free to be free when we very well know that freedom always comes at a price?
Or: has freedom, like most everything else in this day and age, been similarly commodified— the very principle and practice of which now processed and conveniently packaged as one might process and package, say, a bar of soap or a pack of fortune cigarettes?
Reduced to the level of a hypothetical product and seen in this light, are we not all, in a sense, shopping for freedom— whatever name that “freedom” might assume in shape, substance, color, and size?
Freedom from aging, freedom from pain, freedom from drudgery, freedom from toil, freedom from civic duty, freedom from personal responsibility, freedom from impotence, freedom from social obsolescence, freedom from boredom, freedom from fiefdom, freedom from oneself…
Here, finally, is freedom you can buy in varieties and verities of your own choosing and, by extension, freedom you can sell, too.
At what price, you ask? Well, depending on when and where you do your shopping, at prices also subject, I suppose, to the very same economic laws of supply and demand, which is to say (luxury or economy) some discounts may apply.
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for threadles “loves simple”, 2012: two-color print.
libertado estofado: dig or die…
source: http://www.threadless.com/submission/432879/libertado?streetteam=titus+toledo
see it here: “innerpeace” by titus toledo
everybody talks about peace like they talk about the weather, but this, we can believe:
“when the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
drawing after hendrix, ghose, and gladstone—in that order:
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for the threadless+gap “vote bright” challenge: digitally retooled ballpoint pen & ink, circa 2012 (two colors on darkness)
peace & power: dig or die.
source: http://www.threadless.com/submission/427910/innerpeace?streetteam=titus+toledo
this is not an actual paranormal manifestation caught on film.
there is no actual paranormal story behind it.
but i did enjoy cooking it up, in a paranormal manner of speaking.
here’s hoping you enjoy it too.
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“deus ex tee” is “god in the shirt” or “ghost in the shirt”, whichever suits you. it takes its name after the old literary greek tradition “deus ex machina”.
digitally retooled photographic art: circa 2012
alternate title: “U235 + n = fission + 2 or 3 n + 200 MeV”
because yes, there is a reason why it’s called nuclear family
(design study #2 on the subject of “dysfunctional family”)
digital vector art: circa 2011
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still life with punk.
digitally retooled pen & ink work: circa 2012
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we “r” family
(design study #1 on the subject of “dysfunctional family”)
digitally retooled pen & ink: circa 2011
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artpop for grandpop…
digital vector art: circa 2011
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alternate title: “the love song of felipe bukangliwayway”
there are love songs and there are songs of love and in between there is this:
“in a fever i
distinctly hear your
voice emerging
from a dream
the dream returns
how the heart
approaches
what it yearns”
(excerpted from “how the heart approaches what it yearns” by paul simon, 1980)
digitally retooled pen & ink work: circa 2011
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different color, same currency… different creature, same crisis…
alternate title: “the symbol of american political crisis”
digital vector art: circa 2011 (proudly salvaged from my “political parody” portfolio).
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of what use is democracy, when the sacred right to vote becomes merely an exercise engineered to sustain the national illusion that we, the people, are free… to choose our so-called leaders, create our so-called government, and chart our so-called future?
digitally retooled pen & ink: circa 2011 (proudly salvaged from my “political parody” portfolio)
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You can try to stop us— stab us,
shoot us, club us and gas us—
but we’ll just keep coming back.
We are a leaderless movement
but a movement no less.
We move… We just move.
We are the 99 percent.
We are the real 99 percent…
digital art: circa 2011 (proudly salvaged from my “political parody” portfolio)
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alternate title: “one nation under one shirt”
yes, thomas, there is a “tea” party and there is a “tee” party— now guess which one rocks?
digitally retooled mixed media collage: circa 2011 (proudly salvaged from my “political parody” portfolio)
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my take on hermen snellen’s original 1862 “eye chart” with a conceptual twist.
digital type art: circa 2012
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“let sleeping dogs lie…”
after the 1953 short story “tom edison’s shaggy dog” by kurt vonnegut (originally published in collier’s and later collected in the book “welcome to the monkeyhouse”
digital type art: circa 2011 (october)
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about what might pass off as humanity’s irreducible minimum constituent.
after ridley scott’s 1982 cyberpunk classic “bladerunner”
digital type art: circa 2011 (from the notebook “coat/uncoat” by titus toledo)
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something to wear on those not-so-rare occasions when you just sort of feel like “not yourself.”
for the absent-minded and the spaced-out: unite, you have nothing to lose but the news!
digital type art: circa 2012 (from the notebook “coat/uncoat” by titus toledo)
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because “godlike” it or not, nobody’s perfect. period.
digital type art: circa 2012 (from the notebook “coat/uncoat” by titus toledo)
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