That title is a Woodrow Wilson Quote. Ironically, he’s the same dude who presided over the Sedition Act of 1918, the Palmer Raids and the First Red Scare of 1919–1920. Humans are complicated, I guess.
…to protect the guilty.
I grew up before the internet. If you’re old enough to say that then I’ll bet you occasionally Google old friends names to see what’s up with lost connections.
That’s precisely what I was doing back in 2005 when I found the Department Of Corrections website and inmate locator feature.
Most of the folks I used to run with are dead or in prison so I decided to enter some names in the search box.
There are more than 2.2 million people incarcerated in US prisons right now. Some of them are my oldest friends.
The honkies in this little painting are three of my earliest stoner buddies. The youngest bro on the right I met in 1975 when we were both 11 years old. The oldest is on the left. He sold me my first ounce of weed in 1976. It was ‘Columbian Gold’ and cost $35.
These dudes are bad-ass but they’re not bad people. They were poor and had more challenges than opportunities. Now they’re casualties of the stupid fucking drug war and their lives have been wasted.
Left and middle brothers have been serving 25 years to life (since the mid 1980’s) as habitual felons because the drug game was all they ever knew.
I used the inmate mugshots from the DOC website to make this painting.
More sketches from the Star Trek game (Star Trek: The Next Generation: Klingon Honor Guard) I worked on in the mid 90’s. Captain Picard with a peeping klingon:
Two of the earliest video games I worked on were Civilization II and CivNet. I was hired at Microprose Software mostly for my drawing skills. It was the mid 90’s. I was so new to the industry they would only let me draw concept art and make texture maps. Here’s some randomness from one of my early game dev sketchbooks. The drawing above the logo is from the back cover of CivNet’s game manual.
Enjoy galloping around on expensive thoroughbreds running packs of top breed dogs to terrorize and murder helpless foxes? You are a cowardly piece of shit. What I mean is you’re a human fecal smear and hopefully you’re thrown from your mount and shoot yourself in the face. Get over yourself, baby dick; you’re a despicable animal abuser.
3.5 Inch round vinyl coming your way. I like drawing these raccoon characters. They’re a visual indulgence of high mischief which I can’t resist. This dude’s name is Smiley J. Black and he’s the worst of the bunch. Never let him hold the money or the dope.[twitter_follow username=”@hungryknife” language=”en”]
From my senior year art school sketchbook.
I scribbled this with a ballpoint pen. I believe in the importance of fucking around.