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  • As a service to our community of talented and skilled creative individuals and local collaborations, imagine nation offers a product placement sponsorship program to make high quality promotional apparel affordable to artists that greatly need and deserve support and recognition.

    Interested parties contact us via email at Ulysses@in-artwear.com, please be detailed in explaining what you do and what kind of support you need (other than money! We all need some of that.) and we'll tell you exactly what we can do for you and what the requirements for your art will be. 
     
  • Untitled Post
    Posted May 21, 2010 2:41 PM by Ulysses Newkirk
  • TFP Test Shots Time For Pics Photo Sessions at Red Door Studio 2AMondays 3PM - 6PMStephen Boyle will be offering 15-30 Minute individual photo sessions for designers, stylists and makeup artists ...
    Posted Mar 28, 2010 1:19 AM by Ulysses Newkirk
  • Human Information Just say HI!
    Posted Mar 18, 2010 4:18 PM by Ulysses Newkirk
  • The Inevitable Beauty of Change It's been a long time, but it's here.You don't have a choice and that more than anything pisses you offYou don't have the will ...
    Posted Mar 13, 2010 7:33 PM by Ulysses Newkirk
  • Cootie Catcher Nonexistent Book of the Month: One of the major problems with being talented, skilled and having an overactive imagination is you're always making stuff or making stuff up. It ...
    Posted Jan 23, 2010 5:08 PM by Ulysses Newkirk
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Untitled Post

posted May 21, 2010 2:32 PM by Ulysses Newkirk   [ updated May 21, 2010 2:41 PM ]




TFP Test Shots

posted Mar 28, 2010 12:55 AM by Ulysses Newkirk

Time For Pics Photo Sessions at Red Door Studio 2A
Mondays 3PM - 6PM
Stephen Boyle will be offering 15-30 Minute individual photo sessions for designers, stylists and makeup artists

In exchange participants will recieve
  • Complete Session of raw images on CD
  • Selected images retouched, credited, branded with your business' logo and link placed on 
    • 313 FAD
    • Facebook
    • Red Door Real Time and 
      • RDRT members' blogs, sites and twitters
  • Selected images included in Red Door Real Time's Print Newsletter 'Studio 2A'
    • Pick up locations TBA
  • Selected Designers, Stylists, MUAs and Models will be invited to participate in 'Picture Day' our monthly online video broadcast
  • Models will receive
    • Studio 2A Gift Bag
    • Online Portfolio (your name.reddoordetroit.com)
    • Photo CD or USB Thumb drive
    • Picture Day Party Pass   


Human Information

posted Mar 18, 2010 4:12 PM by Ulysses Newkirk   [ updated Mar 18, 2010 4:18 PM ]

Just say HI!

The Inevitable Beauty of Change

posted Mar 10, 2010 9:42 AM by Ulysses Newkirk   [ updated Mar 13, 2010 7:33 PM ]

It's been a long time, but it's here.
You don't have a choice and that more than anything pisses you off
You don't have the will or knowledge to affect it and that enrages you
It's coming and it's going to affect your life.

Change
Makes You Wanna Hustle

And that is exactly what the creative faculty at Imagine Nation is doing
Changing
We're changing the way this site looks, works, feels, serves
We're changing ourselves and
We're changing the whole game

We're taking imagine nation to readers, so that readers become visitors and visitors become patrons.
Soon you'll look up and Imagine Nation will be in your email, in your traditional mail, on your walls, in your public transit hubs, in restaurants, in night clubs, in grocery bags.

And you'll be glad
because, it'll be filled with uncensored, intelligent, fun, slightly snarky, beneficial, encouraging news and entertainment about people you know and want to know. People who are in your area, doing the kind of good things you've always felt should be done where you live. 

We're Imagine Nation and 
we're ready to kick your ass all the way to a blissful state of being.

Ulysses: our resident jackass

Cootie Catcher

posted Jan 23, 2010 5:04 PM by Ulysses Newkirk

Nonexistent Book of the Month: 
One of the major problems with being talented, skilled and having an overactive imagination is you're always making stuff or making stuff up. 
It's great when it's a product to be sold, but when it has no purpose, it's just a sack of lies.
    Si Si is a witch of sorts, actually she's more of a grand prognosticator. She's spent most of her relatively short life hating something about her self to the point of indulging self destructive fantasies. She hates being half a head taller than the other girls, but she loves being able to buy liquor without being carded, she hates the unwarranted advances of older men and women, but loves her narrow waist and round hips, she loves her soft wooden flute smoky low toned voice, but hates her prematurely graying hair, she hates being smarter than most of her peers, she loves her family, especially their cooking, but hates being a multi-ethnic exception. Si Si loves knowing what people are thinking and feeling before they do, but she hates knowing what people are thinking and feeling. 

    As a young teen Si Si was given charge of keeping a powerful device safe from the hands of adults that might use it's terrible power to shape the world's events. As she matures into a woman the device, that for all intents looks like a child's origami toy, affects her life in amazing ways, willing her to seek experiences and peek into near futures. 

    Si Si spends most of her time wishing to meet and fall in love with someone that knows all these things about her but doesn't really care and loves her regardless. That is until she meets up with him. Then all Heaven and Hell is set loose in her real world, his studio and her imagination. She finds herself from time to time reading words that she is assured that she has written, first hand accounts of experiences that she knows have occurred but not to her. 
    At least not in this life.


Cootie Catcher
80 pages

Red Door Digital/Exotic Zone Gallery

posted Jan 10, 2010 4:24 PM by Ulysses Newkirk

2009 was a quick rough ride on like being shoved onto a rickety roller coaster next to the fat stinky kid after eating way too much. I felt much better after I let it all go. Unfortunately the baboochka behind me in the flower print baboochka didn't appreciate the results much. 

Still the year ended with all hands on deck, relatively in tact and still begging for a hand out, hook up or stimulus package, bail out, depending on personal income and effect on the personal finances of the masses around them. And me still seeking opportunity in places where my talent and skills can be of benefit to the venue operator and me. 
Click the photo above and get a look at Red Door Digital's public gathering space, the Exotic Zone Galley. Although the walls are decorated by the "curator" to resemble a second rate swap meet that's been hastily erected after the collective of artists that established it in the open area of the gas station across the street after having their work rejected by the 4H club that was throwing the country fair art show said, "This is just crap!", and walked away. The space is magnificent, well appointed, detailed with excellent craftsmanship by local artisan that seem to love what they do and do it well. I thought it be a good thing to try creating my Internet TV show there. Pray for the blessing of the owner.  

This Music: Malik Alston Project

posted Dec 21, 2009 9:42 PM by Ulysses Newkirk   [ updated Dec 21, 2009 9:53 PM ]



First Draft of cover for up coming EP by Malik Alston

Limited Edition Giglee Print
by Ulysses Newkirk 

Image Size 11x17
$45

Poster 22 x 34
$20

price includes shipping and handling via 
USPS to any city in US

It Really Moved Me

posted Dec 13, 2009 3:14 PM by Ulysses Newkirk   [ updated Dec 28, 2009 3:27 AM ]

My favorite pen. I found it after months of hiding, picked it up &
scrambled through the room for paper
sat and closed my eyes
I always close my eyes before
letting the point fall on the paper like a needle into the grooves of a record and 
words flowed out
words, letters, symbols, ideas, emotions
I scratched them out and smiled, 
I thought of you and enjoyed
the experience and knew
it best to put it out and into
the universe
I wrote without trying, 
I just wrote
images of Arabian jasmine
cloud forests
sweat stained collars
pink factory light
the familiar scent of sulfur
hovering over I-75 that reminds me of home.
Live jazz between the walls of Eastern market holes where
stars form constellations but have no names and
Yes, it really moved me.


A Brother at the Top of the World

posted Dec 9, 2009 4:33 AM by Ulysses Newkirk   [ updated Dec 9, 2009 5:12 AM ]

Volcano Above the Clouds
Explore Kilimanjaro—the breathtaking island in the sky.At 20,000 feet, Mount Kilimanjaro

60 min on 1 DVD
click image for larger view

I Create Reality for

posted Dec 5, 2009 12:56 AM by Ulysses Newkirk   [ updated Dec 5, 2009 1:39 AM ]

those who know what they want and can afford it.

Art: the intentional process of manipulating materials to express an idea
Artisan: one that practices the arts of expressing ideas as their craft
Artifact: evidence of art having been expressed

I don't give birth
I create
Intentionally acting to organize chaos
elemental substance of all things
subatomic particles, atoms, elements, gases, molecules, cells, fluids, liquids, crystals, minerals, stones, metals, soils, plants, animals, ideas, locations  
No thing becomes some thing, every thing, all things
return to dust
elemental substance of all things
tangible
material
desirable
sold, bought, bartered and traded

I defy & manipulate nature
define & manifest concepts
desire & manufacture structures
detail & mandate events
dominate & manhandle resources
do & mankind awes

You 
manage
confusion
tasks
people
give birth to and
are honored with expressions of gratitude,
inspire and 
are honored in degrees of memento,
labor to replicate, possess and 
consume all
that is created for those who know what they want and
can afford it and
are honored to be beneficiary
customer or
critic

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