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Ken Smith
First the driver trashes it, then the tow truck finishes the job.
Owner and IDOT Trash C5 Corvette, 2:00am, 3/18/11
I heard the screeching tires and the impact from my office, and grabbed the camcorder. Day-amn! This graduate of the Lance Briggs School of Hi-Performance Dr...
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- MS INdependent2 years ago
thanx 4/adding me keep intouch.
- 3 years ago
- * yAnid a ZoMbie KiLLA3 years ago
I admire your work man. I am going to school at the Art Institute of Dallas for a Bachelors degree in Graphic Design. It gets stressful, but I love it so much.
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Painting custom sneakers, mostly Vans and Converse All-Stars. Keeping my '79 Caprice Coupe and '84 Fiero on the road. Battling to keep the forces of evil from swallowing up my neighborhood (it ain't easy).Music
Movies
49UP (and the other Michael Apted documentaries in this series) Roger and Me, The Smartest Guys in the Room, Bowling for Columbine, Tales of the Rat Fink, This Film is Not Yet Rated
Crash on Dan Ryan Expy., 5:00a.m., 5/2/08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORhbMFSoPycThey rebuilt the Dan Ryan Expressway at this curve specifically to keep this from happening. So much for that plan.
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Books
Official Negligence and Reagan: Role of a Lifetime, both by Lou Cannon, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Bonfire of the Vanities, a Walk in the Woods, Art for the London Underground, Travel by Train: American Railroad Posters from the 19th and 20th CenturiesHeroes
Paul R. Williams. A black architect, in Los Angeles, during the 1920's through the 1960's? Astounding! Lowell Thompson, the artist and former adman. Georg Olden, art director at CBS Television during the '50's. Commemorative plate artist Thomas Blackshear. (My buddy Manny was a classmate of his at Chicago's American Academy of Art.) They all made it possible for me to be where I am.
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About me:
....I live on the south side of Chicago, an achievement in itself, since no one north of Cermak Road seems to know we're even here.I'm a freelance illustrator; been one since 1983, both freelance and on staff. My specialties are editorial and technical illustration, and in my spare time I love to do automotive illustration. I started out using airbrush and pen-and-ink. Sat down in front of a Macintosh SE in 1988, and my life hasn't been the same since, at least where illustration is concerned. 90% of my work these days is vector illustration in Adobe Illustrator (yes, I can work in Photoshop and Flash.) Currently, I work on a G4.
You can see samples of my work at my website, home.earthlink.net/~smithster and www.coroflot.com. I've also got a collection of stock illustration at www.stockart.com.
Last year, I went over to the dark side and bought a Dell Inspiron laptop; it's... not half bad;-)
Around that same time, I decided to go back to my airbrushing roots; it took a few weeks to relearn everything after 18 years, but it was pretty much like riding a bicycle. Right now, I'm painting flames on Vans slip-ons. Want to see what they look like? Just go to my website on earthlink and click on "Sneaker Design". If you're ready to buy, go to eBay and search on the seller name "artistmac". I'm going to try to keep a few pairs up for auction all the time.
A word of warning to those of you who spend all your free time in front of the computer. When I started working in front of a flickering screen, I had 20/20 vision. 10 years later, my vision had gotten so bad I needed bifocals. ....
Who I'd like to meet:
Van Kaufman and Arthur Fitzpatrick(the guys who painted all those cool Pontiac print ads in the 60's), Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell, George Petty, Alberto Vargas, Leslie Ragan, John Hassall, Mad Magazine's Mort Drucker and Angelo Torres,Paul R. Williams (the late architect, not the singer), any of the Wyeths, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Frank Frazetta, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Chip Foose, Al Hirschfeld, Ralph Gilles(who styled the current Chrysler 300). Seeing a pattern here? In the animation field, Chuck Jones and Tex Avery.Details
- Status: Single
- Here for: Networking
- Hometown: Chicago
- Zodiac Sign: Cancer
- Children: Undecided
- Smoke / Drink: No / Yes
- Education: College graduate
- Occupation: Illustrator