words of the day: mad season

Wake up young man, it's time to wake up
Your love affair has got to go
For 10 long years, for 10 long years
The leaves to rake up
Slow suicide's no way to go, oh
Blue, clouded grey
You're not a crack up
Dizzy and weakened by the haze
Moving onward
So an infection not a phase
Yeah, oh

The cracks and lines from where you gave up
They make an easy man to read, oh
For all the times you let them bleed you
For little peace from God you plead, and beg
For little peace from God you plead
Ahhaahh, Yeah, Ahhaahh, Yeah, Ahhaahh, Yeah

Wake up young man, wake up, wake up
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up
Oh, yeah

Wake up young man, it's time to wake up
Your love affair has got to go, yeah
For 10 long years, for 10 long years,
The leaves to rake up
Slow suicide's no way to go, oh
Slow suicide's no way to go
Wake up, wake up, wake up
Wake up, wake up, wake up

the bogmen

my friend's great band.

the artist at work

If you look closely my lift is what mausoleums use to slide caskets into walls up high. creepy.

update

almost done with all my side projects, my comments on the scourge of modern art! Chocoladen is done and soon the tiger woods will be done! Soon alex will put on his classical shoes and hang up his soiled-modernist coat which brings me world wide press and I will make beautiful classical art which will probably get less press.

choco laden

I have finished a new piece of food- based art. Here is a hand carved white chocolate 12 inch bin laden. As usual I cant photograph well..

In my mind fear is a controlling and damaging element of human behavior. It is a left over vestige from our cave days (like an emotional gall bladder) yet today it still controls many peoples lives. In the end, fear often turns out to be nothing more than an apparition created by our own minds. It is both harmless and edible. The media preys on our fears and many people are afraid of the specter of their own dreams. It is far better to eat our fears than be eaten alive by them. My fears are edible, they are around all the time but they mean little to me. They are the easter bunny or the terrorist you never see. I carry on with my life focused only on my dreams.


12 inch hand-carved chocolate bin laden by alex gardega.

Edition of 100. Each signed and numbered at $500.00 per piece.

Also offering smaller cast pieces (not hand carved) at $100.00 per piece.

if you want to buy one email me, I will set up paypal tomorrow as well.

alexgardega@gmail.com

sea critter found

A submarine exploring the ocean's depths recently returned with an unexpected visitor: a crablike critter that has left many readers startled and horrified.

In a posting to social bookmarking site Reddit, a deep-sea technician detailed the finding, asking the site's readers to help identify what exactly the bizarre looking creature was.

The post reads, "I work for a Sub-sea Survey Company, recently this beast came up attached to one of our ROVs. It measures a wee bit over 2.5 feet head to tail, and we expect it latched onto the ROV at roughly 8,500 feet depth. Unfortunately, the e-mail that these pictures were attached to came from a contractor, and the ship he was operating from (and therefore location) is unknown, so I can't tell you what part of the Earth this beast was living."

The pictures reveal the creature to be a giant isopod, a large crustacean that dwells in deep Atlantic and Pacific waters. This particular creature is a Bathynomus giganteus, a deep-sea scavenger that feeds on dead whales, fish and squid.

Scientists have long remarked on the massive scale of this creature. C.R. McClain wrote on ScienceBlogs explained one theory for the size, that "deep-sea gigantism, for all crustaceans, is a consequence of larger cells sizes obtained under cold temperatures," citing a research paper from 1996.

new mausoleum commision

I have a new/ large commission coming from a mausoleum. I have done many projects for them over years. Will document project.