Tarot Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 Hi. My names Tarot.(Hi Tarot) I'm a nova.(Nova) I'm the latest object of fascination in the heart and minds of everyone. Erupted two weeks ago. LA's been home for a while. Thinking of the places I can go now that the world loves me. Looks like I got life by the short and curlies.(Yay...) So how you all doing?Oh yeah, I use to be what's known as an aspiring artist. That means starving and my shit wasn't selling. Now that's all changed. One gallery even tried to pimped out their secretary to get my attention. Pretty twisted.Cute girl though.Some very cool shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stigmata Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 Hello Tarot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted October 29, 2004 Author Share Posted October 29, 2004 Hi. Saw an N! special with your stuff in it. The stuff you did on the Crypts was nice. Spooky but really cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwriter Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 Hello!I'm curious - do you accept commissions from other novas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted October 30, 2004 Author Share Posted October 30, 2004 Sure. The check always clears with novas. Either the piece or the conversation has to be interesting but that's pretty much a given with novas. I did a cameo for one in Spain last week and I might do a mural in Ibiza. If they can stop screwing around making "suggestions" and just let me concept the piece.Did you have something in mind? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preston Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 Greetings, Tarot.Who do you consider your greatest influences to be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwriter Posted October 31, 2004 Share Posted October 31, 2004 Portait. I have to admit that I've become rather fond of myself, plus the last one I had done was shortly before I left Utopia.The mood swings are a bitch, but I can't say I'm not happy to be finally acting like I'm a woman, not a glorified book.Trust me, sweetheart. Developing a node is the best thing that'll ever happen to you. Be nice to the baselines, but don't let 'em cramp your style, okay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted October 31, 2004 Author Share Posted October 31, 2004 Preston;Henri Matisse, Alex Ross and Leonardo da Vinci.Regan 'Saimhe' McLachlan;I'm interested. South central LA is where my studio is. Its private. Let me know when you're ready and I'll pass the word around to clear the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted November 1, 2004 Share Posted November 1, 2004 Greetings and salutations Tarot I understand you can animate your images and make them 'real' enough to do stuff. Wow. Cool.Forgive me if missed some interview where you explained this, why the name Tarot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted November 1, 2004 Author Share Posted November 1, 2004 Very cool. The name "Tarot" tested very positively for consumer groups ages 16-35... Nah, just kidding. When I was sitting in the emergency room I read this article about some rabbis trying to figure out which novas correspond to which angels in kabbalistic lore. That got me thinking about doing a tarot deck so I snagged a pencil and started sketching it out. Which scared the schnizzits out of the nurses. Me and a pencil. Anyway, during the ride it hit me that carrying a deck of images instead of just my sketch book might be pretty useful, so...Tarot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmy Chillmeister Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 Well hey hey Tarot ol buddy ol pal. Diggin' life as one of The Few, The Proud, The Fucking Walkin, Talkin, Always Rockin Gods of New Earth?Fuckin A.So, business business business, it's all about the duckets and I gots buckets. After you're done slapping down the pretty colors for Sweet Mama Featherduster, how about you putting that quantum fueled wonder shit to work for me and the Princess? She'd be diggin' a family portrait. You up for it stud? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted November 2, 2004 Author Share Posted November 2, 2004 I'm loving it and always up to add a little color to the world. One masterpiece at a time like you said though. You got the next spot. We'll talk money later. I don't sweat the cash until you've seen the gash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 Tarot Ahh, I see, Thanks for answering the question, I did suspect something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Preston Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 Hey, Tarot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted November 3, 2004 Author Share Posted November 3, 2004 Hey Neil.Hey, I was talking to a nova named Preston the other day about influences. You? Or someone else?They had a different avatar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kestrel404 Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 Preston is Neil's father. FYI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted November 3, 2004 Author Share Posted November 3, 2004 That would explain it.Weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Preston Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 Yeah, "Preston" is my dad. Everybody calls him by his last name. Neither one of us are into the "name game".He's a hometown-staying, law-and-order, tote-the-line, 24 hour-a-day workaholic. I'm a world-traveling, backpacking-carrying, beatnik free-thinker.To erupt, my dad chased a nova criminal into a warehouse that then blew up. Too bad he didn't develop fire-resistance or regeneration as QE. (something I still tease him about)I went to the funeral of an Elite that I had never met and the outpouring of quantum by the mass of attending novas brought about my rather peaceful eruption.We aren't that much alike, but I like to think we are both decent people were it counts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted November 5, 2004 Author Share Posted November 5, 2004 He seems like an alright guy.Do you always describe you and your family like you were writing a 'date wanted' ad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Preston Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 Quote:Originally posted by Tarot: Do you always describe you and your family like you were writing a 'date wanted' ad? OH NO! You did not just say that! I don't sound that bad, do I? Well, I have been working awful hard recently. Maybe I do need a good unwind somewhere.Quote:Originally posted by Tarot: He seems like an alright guy.Yeah, he comes off pretty harsh, but he really does give a damn. Better, he requires other cops to give a damn as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted November 5, 2004 Author Share Posted November 5, 2004 Quote:Originally posted by Neil Preston:Well, I have been working awful hard recently. Maybe I do need a good unwind somewhere.Don't change your life on my account, Doc. It just struck me as a funny way to describe you and your Dad.Yeah, your old man really does seem okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 I find Preston senior to be that rarest of creatures, a good policeman. As they say in England, he might be a copper but he ain't filth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 Hello Tarot. How's Life in LA treating you? The locals treating you well? If yer looking to do some charity work on the Southside head to city hall. I was told there's gonna be a major restoration effort about to start up. It's all done for Free, but it's a pie that Utopia doesn't have its fingers in. I figure since my crew and I were part of the rumbel we should help out so I'm askin all that can to give em a hand. I always clean up my messes, just this one got out of hand. If the Michealites hate us so much why do they use weapons designed by us?"Ryu, are we gonna die?" "Probably." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kestrel404 Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 It's a bit out of my area, and we're pretty close to a contract wrap. Otherwise I'd be there. Maybe next time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted November 9, 2004 Author Share Posted November 9, 2004 LA got weird and tense so I took a working vacation in Ibiza. Can't help you since I've way outside of the ol' US of A but if I come back I'll take a look at where you guys are with your renovation.If I come back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 Don't go "All-Hemingway" on us now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted November 9, 2004 Author Share Posted November 9, 2004 It's a big world, man.I want to get lost in it for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juri 'Salamander' McClendon Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Hi Tarot. If you're in Alabama and want a scarification, I can hook ya up. One artist's treat to another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machina Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Wonderful. Not only is he a nova, but he's an art fag nova. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted November 11, 2004 Author Share Posted November 11, 2004 Thanks Juri.Machina; actually I'm the art fag nova. Best in the world, dude. Accept no substitutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machina Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Cocky little turd, aren't you?That, at least, I can respect. From the most brilliant mechanical mind to ever exist to the greatest art fag every to grace the planet, welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted November 11, 2004 Author Share Posted November 11, 2004 Got to play to your strengths. I've seen Artifax' stuff. Not bad if you like the draftsman with a lot of time utilitarian approach. Prodigy is flexible plus he's done some really outstanding work especially with light and shading. I can still pick out the ones he was just punching the clock on.Leonardo was good. They're fantastic. I'm better.Good to meet you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugin Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Quote:Originally posted by Tarot: I'm better.And you've only just begun. How does that feel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephanie 'Holocaust' Hu Zhan Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Hi there, Tarot! Glad you found us!Lately it seems I've got a lot more money than I could hope to ever use. As it is, I get rid of a lot of it by just giving it away (I'm not one who usually believes in throwing money at problems, but charities need to keep running), but even after setting my family up for life, I've got a little bit of walking around money.Would you be at all interested in doing a sculpture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted November 12, 2004 Author Share Posted November 12, 2004 Hiya Stephanie. I've had a little practice doing a sculture of you already. Originally it was a drawing of you, DreamState and Sin. My version of the three muses. The drawing wasn't all that because I hadn't erupted yet but when I did my sketch book sort of took on a life of its own. The drawings got real. I don't want to put Saimhe and Lemmy off, but since I've sort of done this already I wouldn't mind trying it again deliberately. Can you get to Ibiza? We'll knock it before you head out to Gudalajara. The money isn't that big a thing since this is something unfinished and hanging out there. Also, if you're still looking around you might want to see about throwing some coin at independent music and film. People got to eat but everyone needs a little something for the soul.Prodigy, when I look at a blank surface with a pencil in my hand I know exactly how G_d felt looking at the void. Just before he said "Let there be light". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archon Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 Quote:Originally posted by Machina:Wonderful. Not only is he a nova, but he's an art fag nova.Machina good-buddy.I'm jealous... i though you saved your acid tinged insults for the likes of me. and now you're insulting others again..Way to go, Forge.if you don't catch the reference...maybe you should read some Pre- N-day "literature" Uncanny X-men.So tarot, you're into art. You'll have to forgive my ignorance of your exploits, but i've recently been on a trip to "discover myself."actually i got bored. and wanted to sit some where no one would think to look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted December 17, 2004 Author Share Posted December 17, 2004 I wouldn't really call them exploits yet. Except for the night Valkyry snatched me up and dared me to paint a nude of her that wouldn't make her want to smash my skull. Very nice girl to have breakfast with. Lots of funny stories when you get past the gruff exterior.Just living the dream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archon Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 living the life!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted December 17, 2004 Author Share Posted December 17, 2004 ... and experiencing total chill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 Quote:Originally posted by Tarot: ... and experiencing total chill.Still?....Maybe you should try hunting other grounds, or try different bait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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