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Painter, Poet, Positive Soul
Darren Daz Cox, now in Pekin Illinois!
You might know me from
Keansburg, NJ - Dearborn, MI
Peoria, IL - Carbondale, IL
Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Columbus, MS
Repulse Bay, HK - Exeter, UK
"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." Vincent Van Gogh
My Best Poem
See my fine art on Flickr!
I am the blueberry that you saw
in that big old spiderweb
I dangle in random absurdity
like some strange poem
you might have read...
that logical themes
quote facts in attempt to deny you
that magical day, when you can say
I believed!
and that's why they ARE true!
Thesis Statement
I like art, I do art,
I do art all the time,
I do alot of art
and when I'm not
sometimes I write a rhyme!
"Love is the answer"
John Lennon
LOVE IT SO MUCH! but the seashore at night Time Artists kharmalade SOMETHING GOOD You Is You I Artist THE DANDYLION STAR WE TWO STARS "Five 46PM" acrylic on canvas 36x48 inches 2003.jpg)
Sand 'tween my toes
and minimal clothes
make for fun in the sun
yeah you know it!
is a sensual sight
as the moonbeams
sow love seeds for poets!
Time is a weird thing
goes sooo slow when yer
waiting for the bell to ring
goes fast on Christmas
and sunny days
and when you're in love
it compresses and strays,
time is elastic
and sometimes like glue
but it's never wasted
when I talk to you!
all great artists seem full of doubt
there is too much inside
and not enough out
but each piece of art
makes someones day,
perhaps our souls
need it that way.
Would this have made
a good last day?
did I accomplish
any kharmalade goal?
did I climb some sunsetted peak
by the bay
to placate my expectant soul?
no, but i did take a second
to look around
like that dude
with his own Iron Chefs,
and in that infinity portal
i'll go as a mortal
suspecting it's all for the best....
I remember something good
back when days
unfolded like
a grand adventure should.
I don't want to just fit in
be functional like some machine,
I want a purpose
need the wind
to blow the scent of fortune
on my skin.
Are you of that small percent
who cannot fold
who will not bend
who takes a soul and strips it bare
not because you can
but because it's there... ?
You are you and that is good
you may not be what they say you should
or be that which you cannot be
and you wouldn't want to be like me
but I see you as you and so
if you see me unmasked say "yo"
"what makes Me me is all unique
what makes us Us makes us complete"
i sometimes wonder
if it is so
that I am an artist
simply because i say so
was I born with talent
to write or to paint?
a prodigy perhaps?
there's no doubt that I aint
not a leader or lackey
no big money schemes
but an artist
resulting from having big dreams
they say visualise
what you want to be
regardless of what people say
and all will come true
quite possibly
maybe
some happy day!!
Amongst the speckled field of black
I saw the dandylion star
it winked at me
and I winked back
and sent that wish up far,
the other stars
looked more like gems
like diamonds stuck in tar,
but I liked the mellow
glow of the yellow
wonderful dandylion star.
like crystal fish the others sit
cold like a platinum bar,
but how can you miss
when you make a wish
upon the dandylion star?
We two stars
burn so intense
without pretence or fuss
and what would we say
if somewhere far away
someone made a wish upon us?
for the darker the night
the brighter the light
that shines for every face
so get up and stay
in the vast milky way
and add your light to the space!
January 29th, 2010 Darren Daz Cox Posted in Art in progress, Darren Cox, My Art, My life, Pekin Illinois, abstract art, creative energy, figure, fine art, long painting, my art studio, nude, oil painting, organic frame | 1 Comment »
It will be done soon! Sound like something Michelangelo said a lot.
Here are two of the latest phases of this almost completed masterpiece I have been working on.
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oil painting by Darren daz Cox Jan 25 2010
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oil painting by Darren daz Cox Jan 26 2010
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January 13th, 2010 Darren Daz Cox Posted in Art in progress, Beff, Darren Cox, My Art, My life, Peoria Illinois, Photoshop, Quantum Intent, abstract art, adobe photoshop, bird, bunny, creative energy, digital art, digital paint, fine art, happyness, heart, liquify filter art, pyschedelic art, quantum-art, random art, swirly art, trippy art, writing on art | 1 Comment »
I love art and I love to make people inspired and happy, it is what I was put on Earth to do. I have always been an artist and I always will be.
All art on this bog post by Darren Daz Cox world’s greatest artist in the world!
People often ask me to draw things for them but don’t realize that their casual demands leave me puzzled and will most likely not be fulfilled any quicker than it took Michelangelo to finish the Medici chapel.
People are rarely shy about asking me to do something for them that requires me to draw power from God and inspiration from the world. Sometimes they’ll just open a conversation by asking if i’ll draw them something specific, an angel with a camera for a logo the lovely photographer Tina T-Pain’s business and a dragon for Skinhead Linda’s business, a piece of tattoo flash (cherubs holding a banner) for C-Charles and another (shooting stars) for one of my art models, Beff.
But you would never go up to Stephanie Sugarcookie and say "I’d like you to bake me a dozen chocolate chip cookies" or to Monstertruck Rick and say "I’d like you to adjust my Gran Torino’s carbourator" or ask Dave Omega to write you a song on his banjo about skipping merrily down the f*ing lane with your one eyed cat.
I know you guys do it out of love and that it’s a compliment and even though I really would like to please you, even if I thought it would make me happy by making you happy or get me material goods and/or services rendered or even to score points with a girl I want to get to know better, the fact is I can’t draw on demand, and If I’m not drawing on demand for them I most likely will not do so for you.
Don’t bother to bring money into the equation as yes, given enough money I’d draw you something but as we know from quantum physics, intention is key, and my intention would be to get the money not to stretch my creative powers. If you paid me to do art you’d get faux-art but a machine might not be able to recognize the difference since the same hand made it.
Writer John "Mr. T Experience" Phillips said I could paint the cover to his new book, and gave me some specific things he wants and I really want to, and I will try, but……
Anyway, here’s my latest random digital piece of art, the Magic Snail, all hail the magic snail!
Click this one for my flickr account where the huge version lives and is ready to download. Feel free to use the liquify filter on it to make your own swirly trippy pyschedelic art!
The Magic Snail by Darren Daz Cox coolest artist in the universe.
Here are some detail jpgs to add more awesome art to the search engines and the word "zing" so when ever you search for that word you have a chance to see my cool art too.
Pyschedelic bunny artwork baby! We need more of this!!!
I really like this magic indian totem looking mask that randomly appeared in my artistic randoming.
I have some awesome awesome pencil sketches I’m dying to show you but I don’t have electricity in my house anymore to make the scanner work, it’s been a week and no word on when it will return but yea for Copper River Coffee shop and it’s free WI-Fi, awesome staff and yummy green tea and muffins.
Have an awesome day my friends and remember to be creative!
Originally posted 2009-07-28 11:13:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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January 13th, 2010 Darren Daz Cox Posted in Jay-Z, Minutemen, My life, Nena, Screeching Weasel, Social Distortion, Sonny Boy Williamson, about music, angel, audio, blonde | 1 Comment »
If you don’t like my post you can press fast forward… (interpolating 99 Problems by Jay-Z)
So why is my blog 99daz.com and not 88daz or 45daz or any other combination of two digits?
First of all 99 is a penultimate number, it’s one away from 100 which in terms of percent is perfect or at least complete.
I’m not trying to be humble by saying I’m not perfect, far from it, 99 is a metaphor for being one step away from God, as all of us mortal souls are.
"You asked me for one hundred dollars but I didn’t have but 99" Sonny Boy Williamson
99 happens to appear more often on my I-tunes playlist than any other combination of two digit numbers, some of my all time favorite songs are "99" songs and many of my favorite bands have excellent songs with 99 in the title too!
No, the Toto song isn’t in my playlist, I don’t hate it or anything negative, it just doesn’t make the cut, considering how many songs I’ve heard and the availability of music these days I don’t have to listen to anything but the best!
So here are my favorite songs with 99 in the title. Perhaps you can suggest some I might have missed?
99 Luft Ballons and the English version (99 Red Balloons) by Nena totally rock and the 80’s punk cover by 7-Seconds and, this took me by surprise, the best (in my opinion) version of the song appeared in the 90’s by Goldfinger.
99 Problems by Jay-Z is one of few new school rap tunes I really really love.
One of my favorite bands Social Distortion did 99 To Life which is a brilliant tune that is an homage to the darker side of those home grown American blue grass tunes. "lonely weekends lonely nights the judge he gave me 99 to life"
Sony Boy Williamson uses 99 as a metaphor for the blues in his classic song 99. After all, what is the blues if it’s not a dollar short?
Two more of my favorite punk bands have songs with the title 99 (weirdly enough), The Minutemen and Screeching Weasel, both songs are excellent.
The last song on my 99 list is a cover sung by a local Central Illinios favorite country rock performer Simon Webb. 99.9% Sure, I don’t know who does the original, maybe I should check it out but I really enjoy Simon Webb’s cover!
Originally posted 2009-01-08 09:47:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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January 13th, 2010 Darren Daz Cox Posted in Art in progress, Darren Cox, My Art, My life, Peoria Illinois, Project Camelot, Quantum Intent, abstract art, figure, fine art, medium canvas, oil glaze, oil painting, punk, punk rock, quantum-art, synchronicity, zines | 4 Comments »
The Inspirational Beam oil painting by Darren Daz Cox – the greatest artist in the world!
Here’s the current phase of my latest hit single oil painting! 
and this one is coming along too! Looks like the Riverfront Media color lazer printer is up and ready and so I’ll be printing off my latest zine soon!
That’s it, happy thanksgiving!
and this is a random old art file from a punk zine I made a while back!
"Punk- I have purpose. Change the world through positive action. Personal Responsibility Statement" – Daz Cox
"I’m not on a giog or a good time, I’m on a mission" – Henry Rollins in Black Flag Armageddon Man
"the real test of strength is caring, not the war toys we sell the world" Jello Biafra in Dead Kennedys Stars and Stripes of Corruption
**BONUS THRILL***
And here’s a note on where I stand on the whole punk rock thing, since many of you might know me from my punk rock days.
I was wrong about hating the things I did. My hate, though justified on some level, just made things worse, hate does not cancel out hate, only love can replace hate.
Originally posted 2008-11-27 18:44:31. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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January 13th, 2010 Darren Daz Cox Posted in Darren Cox, Lake of the Woods, Liquify Filter, Morgan, My Art, My life, Peoria Illinois, Photoshop, abstract art, bawwoon, bear, digital paint, drawing, figure, fine art, pencil sketch, photography, purple squirrel, youdle | 3 Comments »
Youdle is over 30 years old, which makes him a senior citizen in terms of the life of a teddy bear, oh sure there are antique bears but most of them are not alive with the magic that only a child can animate them with. Once the child stops believing then the bear becomes just a pile of stuffing and fabric ready for another person to give him life. Youdle was brought to life in the UK then shipped to Hong Kong in a packing crate and again, years later in a box to Peoria USA, he has had a lot of surgery’s and his ears have holes where Sonja, well, I don’t even want to know what she did to his ears but they are worn clean through.
Youdle is my sister’s bear, the last surviving member of the time when there were many animals that had personalities, and while she is very much a responsible grown up she still has that connection with her childhood when Youdle was born. Now her daughter is enjoying the magic of Youdle!
I’ve owned Youdle.com since 2004 and this is it. Youdle doesn’t mind. This post is dedicated to Jean aka Cheerful Monk as I think she understands, at least her recent blog post made me think so!
And Youdle believes that the purple squirrel is a miracle rather than a freak of nature as miracles are more fun!
Youdle Bear – Youdle.com "love is the answer!"
Originally posted 2008-05-08 17:42:06. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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