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A Little Blue In The Tooth (June 2020)Making old phonograph players into amplifiers got me trying to make a portable blue tooth player. The record players were too small for good stereo separation, so I bought an old portable stereo on eBay, which I'm trying to adapt to better quality sound. |
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Practice Amp (April/May2020)Turning an old record player into a small practice amp. |
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Speaker Upper (April 2020)Building stands for my speakers during the Covid 19 isolation era. |
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Amped-Up (April 27th-2020)Building a guitar amp from a kit |
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Jammin'OnTheMountain'19 (Mountain Jam)Every year in June, a music festival known as Mountain Jam comes to New York. In previous years it was held at the Hunter Mountain ski resort. This year it took residence at Bethel Woods, the site of the iconic 1969 Woodstock Music & Arts Exposition. |
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Amp It Up (4/11/2019)Converting an old portable record player into a guitar practice amp. |
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Don'tLetItGoToYourBed (building a new bed frame)I want to build a bed with speakers built into it. I haven't seen any models manufactured that I could easily adapt, so I'm starting from scratch. |
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TV or not TV (1/13/19)My flat screen TV is precariously balanced on a space that is way too small for it. I bought some lumber in an effort to make it more stable. |
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Harbor Fright Tools (1/1/19)Something to be wary of when buying from Harbor Freight Tools |
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CD way it goes... (December 1, 2018)Building shelves to store the hundreds of CDs I own |
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PumpkinJunkin' (10/30-31 2018)Every year I attempt to carve an extreme pumpkin. The first year was my best effort, they've gone steadily downhill ever since. Waiting until the last minute doesn't help. |
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Oct 7th 2018 Sea Cliff, Mini Mart (Sunday Oct. 7th 2018)This is an annual event started in the 1970s, several of the streets of this quaint village are shut down and given to vendors, artisans, craftspeople to sell and display their wares. It now draws people from all over the tri-state area. |
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radio Radio An old cool looking radio, I'm not sure if it works or not, but because it looks so kitschy, I'd like to upgrade it to play FM and have digital tuning. |
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Bay-O-Net (Trying to find the source of)My father served in The Korean war, his father and grandfather were also in the armed forces. He has a couple of bayonets that I am unsure of where they came from. I'm hoping somebody who knows about arms can point me in the right direction. Are they U.S ordnance, or captured souvenirs? |
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EdgerAllenPoe (another home made project)I work as a painter, and frequently use pieces of junk mail to edge lines in tight spots. I decided to make something a bit more permanent. |
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2018GoldCoastCruisersCarShow (06/24/2018)Every Year The Gold Coast Cruisers Car Club puts on a terrific car show at beautiful Morgan park in Garvies Point, Glen Cove, New York. I got to photograph the whole thing |
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Can It! (June 14, 2018)A watering can used to be a staple of just about every household in suburbia. Now they're not so common. I found an old one in our garage and it had a leak on the bottom. Rather than repairing it, I decided to paint it qand use it as a planter. |
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Boxed Out In the process of cleaning out our house, I came across and old shipping crate that had a hinged lid and some old writing on the sides. It has a kind of funky retro look to it, so I will try and neaten it up a bit and see if it can be sold. |
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Shine A Light (Restoring an old outdoor light)While cleaning out our garage, I came across an outdoor light, that I like. So I decided to trry and clean it up and make it useable or marketable. |
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Bathroom with a view (remodel)Our bathroom was in sad shape. There were holes in the ceiling, the wallpaper had started peeling and the floor was buckled. |
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Looking Back (Replacing my father's handiwor)My father had the mirror knocked off his 1992 Toyota Corolla. In order to pass inspection, he needed it. So he jammed a piece of wood inside and screwed it back in place. This allowed him to pass inspection, but it couldn't be adjusted to view at the proper angle. I ordered a new one and replaced his improvised repair. |
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Reviving chisels (February 17, 2018)While cleaning our basement, I came acxross a set of chisels that have never been used, but were in nasty condition. How I made them look repectable. |
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AMonumentalTask (12/11/2017)My dad died unexpectedly. He was a hoarder and cleaning up the junk he left behind is a nightmare. |
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Xtreme Pumpkinex (10/31/17)I've gotten into the habit of trying to carve Extreme Jack-O-Lanterns for Halloween. This year I got behind in my attempts and I ended up trying to cut corners. The results are less than spectacular. |
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Banging my head to make a boom box I had taken this week off so I could tidy up the wiring and finish off the details of my interior. The weather is working against me, so I had to find other projects to keep me occupied. |
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June25th2017GoldCoastCruisersCarShow (6/25/2017)Every year The Gold Coast Cruisers throw a car show. here are so,me photos from this year's outing |
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Pumked-Out (10/29/16)Every year I try carving an extreme pumpkin. Here is this years' installment. |
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2016SearsCarShow (7/17/16)Sears has been hosting a car show for a few years now, and I went to check it out. |
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DesertinGlenCove (July 15th, 2016)Eagles Tribute band in Glen Cove |
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2016 Gold Coast Cruisers Show (6/26/16)I recently joined a car club and they put on a car show every summer. This is my first time doing this. It was a lot of work, and a lot of fun. |
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2016GoodGuysCarShow (6/11/16)The GoodGuys car show is a big one. For years it was held at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, NY. A few years ago they moved it to Springfield Massachusetts. Now it's back so I headed up there. I think I canb do some pretty clever and innovative things to modify cars. I've had an S10 pickup which I had hopes of doing a complete custom on. The problem is that I live with my Dad, who is a compulsive hoarder. He is incapable of throwing anything away, leaving virtually no room for me to build custom speaker cabinets, center consoles, seat frames and anything else I want to do. He says that I'm being a baby, and that I'll find a way to do the things I want. I just need to find the place to do it. I get a thrill seeing what other people have done to their rides to make them stand apart from the crowd. Since I'm not getting any younger, I have doubts that I'll ever be able to complete a build, simply because I lack the place to do it. |
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Jammin' On The Mountain (6/3/16-6/5/16)My first excursion to the legendary outdoor concert festival Mountain Jam |
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Tiki-It-Out (2016)Creating a tiki head out of a chunk of scrap wood. |
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Pumpkin'UpTheJamz (halloween2015)Last year I tried my hand at extreme pumpkin carving. This year I'm seeing if I can do better. |
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2015EisenhowerParkCarShow (September 26, 2015)This is a two day event, I figured I'd hit the scene on Saturday to leave Sunday free to watch football.Little did I know that today was the Mopar portion and the full show is tomorrow, so who needs to see football anyway? |
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CruizinCarShow (Sept.20, 2015)Every year Winthrop University Hospital holds a Cruizin' For a Cure car show at Sears In Hicksville to raise money and awareness for Prostate cancer. |
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FirstCarShowOf2015, NYIT (Sunday April 26th, 2015)I missed a bunch of car shows last summer, so this year I'm going to try and reverse that trend. I was eating at my favorite Ihop on Saturday evening, when the waiter spotted me reading Street Rodder magazine. He told me that New York Institute Of Technology was having a car show, that I might be interested in. Naturally I was, NYIT is my alma mater, and it's close to home, two good reasons for me to attend. |
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Pumpkarve (October 31, 2014)I started on Thursday but finished after the witching hour. My first stab at extreme pumpkin carving |
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First Car Show of 2014 (August 9, 2014)My Truck took a dump before Easter. I had hopes of having it back by the first day of summer, and certainly by the Fourth Of July. Welllll...It's August and I'm still a prisoner to the bus. The Car show season is petering out and the only one I made it to is in the parking lot where I work Monday to Friday. |
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Nov2ndBelmontCarShow (November 2, 2013)Probably the last show of this season that I'll be getting to and it just happens to be where I work. Hardly the place I want to spend my days off! |
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Oct.20TappansBeachCarShow (October 20, 2013)Only by sifting through the morning newpaper did I stumble across a car show less than a mile from home. |
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Sept8thSearsCarShow (September 8, 2013)The "Official" end of summer has passed, but the weather doesn't know that. The local Sears had a car show in their parking lot, so naturally I went... |
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Auto-Mat-IcCarshow (June 15, 2013)A local auto reupholsterer has acar show. This is the second one I've attended, but I got there a bit too late to see all there was. |
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Truck Stop (June 2, 2013)A friend at work is into scuba diving and does a lot of traveling. He had a wooden divider made to keep his stuff seperated in the bed of his truck. I offered to pinstripe it for him. He puts stickers from the places he's been on it. I am no pinstriper, but you have to start somewhere... |
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Fiel Of Wheels 2 (May 18, 2013)For the second time, I'm attending the car show puit on by the Long Island Newspaper, Newsday. |
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First Car Show Of 2013 (April 21, 2013)Hitting car shows is one of my passions. This is the first of 2013, and it happens to be where I work...Belmont Park. |
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JockShock (March 20, 2013)For the second year in a row, I've been saddled with the task of painting Lawn Jockeys for NYRA. Things could be worse... |
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BOCESCarShow6/2/12 (June 2, 2012)The third Show I've hit this year. I'm going into it not knowing what to expect. |
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FieldOfWheels (May 12, 2012)The local newspaper sponsors a car show every year. This is the first time I'm attending. |
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1st Car Show 2012 (April 21, 2012)I'm an avid custom car afficiando, so I look forward to warm weather on Long Island, which welcomes car shows to this area. New York is hardly a hotbed of Kustom Kulture, but it isn't devoid of it either. Here's what was on parade on April 21st 2012. |
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Revell-ry (April 7, 2012)The televsion show, "Gearz" featured a model building contest last year. The response was amazing so Revell is sponsoring it again. This years' subject is Muscle Cars. I figure if I can't work on my real car, I might as well build a model and see how I do. |
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November 2011 Belmont Car Show (November 5, 2011)Long Island is hardly primo car-show country. Here's one of the last of the season. |
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2011 Syracuse Nationals (July 17, 2011)One of the biggest car shows on the East Coast, and I was there. My random observations and unwanted commentary. |
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Goodguys 20th anniversary carshow (July 1, 2011)Every June the Goodguys car club throws the East Coast Nationals custom car show in scenic Rhinebeck, N.Y. Here're the photos of my third visit to this event. |
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'VegasGetaway (October 3, 2010)My first trip to "Sin City" and the classes I took there... |
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August Belmont Park Car Show & Swap Meet (August 21, 2010)This is a small show even by Long Island standards. There are "Cruise Nights" that generate more activity here on the east coast. There was one in June which wasn't bad, so I went again on August 21st. I kinda wish I'd posted the pix I took in JUne. There was another show at The Cradle Of Aviation Museum, and most of the really tricked-out cars were there, tomorrow the turn-out will be better, but I won't be there to shoot it. So it goes... |
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August 2010 Carlisle Truck Show (August 8, 2010)Carlisle Pennsylvania is famous for it's car shows. I used to own several Opel GTs and I had to get parts from a place in California. They used to haul stuff across the country to vend at the Carlisle Sports Car show. Although I'd never been there, I'd read about it in reputable magazines, Like Hemmings Motor News, and Sports Car Graphic, so I decided that I should attend the Truckin' Nationals. This was a good decision on my part... |
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2010 Rhinebeck GoodGuys car show (June 30, 2010)Since I don'tlive in California, the majority of the car shows I attend are either lame or a rehash of stuff I've seen a million times before. Last year I attended the GoodGuys show in Rhinebeck, NY. It was so good, I've made it a yearly destination. Here's a small sample of the wheels that can be seen there. |
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June 13th 2010 Eisenhower Park Car Show (June 13, 2010)The start of the car show season is upon us, and here's the first of many that I plan on attending...weather permitting. |
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'Niuther sign (May 22, 2010)My boss has asked me to make another sign..during working hours naturally... here's what I came up with... |
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Jockeying for shorts (April 18, 2010)One of the supervisors got me a gig doing an aluminum "lawn Jockey" for one of the racing stables. I think his motive was to make some points with the female trainer. No matter why, it's an extra projct to add tomy resume and hopefully plant a few bills in my pockets. |
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Plumb loco (January 30, 2010)After my first sign, my supervisor asked me to make another... |
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Sign of my times (October 5, 2009)I work in the paint crew, so I decided to show off my artistic side by making a new sign for our shop area. |
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No Cash 4 Clunkers... (September 25, 2009)Giving automotive lettering a try |
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Good Guys Rhinebeck Show (June 27, 2009)The Good Guys Car Show is one of the biggest in the Country. The Shows in California and Columbus Ohio being the monsters, but upstate New York gets their share every June. This year I got to go and got some shots of the entries. |
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Ess Ten (June 7, 2009)I finally dug myself out of the financial hole I'd been living in, purchased a '94 Chevy S-10 pickup and immediately began thinking of ways to Kustomize it. Since I' moved in with my father who's an obsessive packrat, there's virtually no place for me to work on this project, making the job doubly tough. |
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Kitchen Pegboard (March 15, 2008)Since I'm vacating my apartment, I've decided to fix it up, rather than leave it a complete wreck. For years I stared at an ugly pegborad that I put up, now I'm doing something about it. |
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Bathroom makeover (March 6, 2008)A couple of years ago I had a my bathroom redone. Unfortunately the painters never heard of masking tape, screwdrivers, drop cloths or rags to wipe up spills. I had intended to redo the bathroom when I had some spare cash. That time never arrived, now that I've run out ofmoney and can no longer afford to live here, I'll leave the landlords with a gift by painting the bathroom myself. |
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What's up door? (February 21, 2008)A couple of summers ago, my landlord informed me that he wanted to redo my bathroom and it would take several days. I told him that I could not be without the use of a toilet for several days, and the only time the work could be done was when the Racing Season was in Saratoga. When I returned, the bathroom was completed, but the painters did a hatchet job. I decided to try and hide some of their blunders by painting over the drips and smears. This is my first attempt at creating a faux window. |
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Honda tank (February 12, 2008)I get to work on the second tank that I started ages ago |
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Kawasaki Tank (January 27, 2008)A project I started a while ago but never had the time to devote to it. Now I'm getting back on track. |
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Old car sketch (January 18, 2008)I saw an old coupe that I'd love to customize. Since that's not in my present capabilities, here's some artwork to represent the hot rod I'd convert it into. |
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A Seedy Tiki (December 13, 2007)After giving notice at a job I detested, I broke my ankle and was laid-up for eight weeks. I got the cast off right at the heart of the holiday season, and having been out of work, I decided to take the old adage about, "It's The Thought That Counts" to heart. My ssiter has expressed an interest in Tikis, so I'm building her a CD rack with a Tiki theme. |
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Tuner Tee (December 10, 2007)Creating a T-shirt for a hot rodder who drives a Honda |
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One Good Hoot Deserves Another (May 14, 2007)It was about a year ago that I goaded the Hooter girl who serves me about the lack of space to keep menus, so I made one for her. I was then hit with requests by other Hooterettes to create one for them. It's a time consuming endeavor, but I have the wood lying around so... |
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The Eyes have it (February 21, 2007)Every Feb. the airbrush mesage board I belong to sponsors a competition. This year the subject is EYES. Last year my entry received zero votes, so this year I'm tyring to see if I can up my standing. |
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Guit-Art (February 5, 2007)Taking a piece of shit guitar and making it look better than it is |
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Hot Air (December 20, 2006)putting a graphic on a portable air tank |
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KMD Tee (October 11, 2006)Another tee shirt for a Hooter girl... |
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Horsin' around (July 23, 2006)Airbrushing a hoodie for an unknown recipient |
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Hoot at the moon (May 23, 2006)A project for a hooter girl |
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Eddie Tee (May 1, 2006)I was asked if I could airbrush the Iron Maiden signature character, Eddie on the back of a Buick. I'm sure the car won't see the light of day soon, so I'll see if I can create it on a t-shirt first |
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Project Skull (February 22, 2006)The airbrush message board that I am a member of is sponsoring a contest for the month of February. These are the steps leading up to my submission. |
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NoseArt (December 22, 2005)Painting a faded denim shirt to look like a WW II fighter |
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AmodelA (December 6, 2005)Comemorating a car my Dad had to get rid of |
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Semper Fi (October 14, 2005)A Tribute to my Dad who served in Korea |
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Travers Tee (July 21, 2005)A T-shirt giveaway is becoming a tradition |
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GT Tee (July 6, 2005)A little too little too late... Airbrushing a tee shirt for a job application |
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Tribute to Les Paul (June 14, 2005)A clock you wont see everywhere |
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Bass Case (June 7, 2005)airbrushing the case my bass came in |
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Lennon-ade (May 26, 2005) | 2494 Visits 15 Images Shared Album | |
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V Twin (April 11, 2005)Airbrushing a leather jacket |
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Mega-Brush (March 2001- March 15, 2005)I always wanted to do an album cover. This is what I would have done if I had the chance... |
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Squirt-A-Shirt (January 23, 2005) | 10550 Visits 33 Images Gallery Album | |
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