I created a social network type thing for Art4TheHomeless where anyone can join, upload art, videos, pics, etc! I want to invite you to join! The site features everything that Art4Th does--the Zine, the Homeless Network, art, and a feed from the Nutang blog.

Benefits from joining the community include learning the latest editions of the Zine, latest additions to The Homeless Network, keeping up with Art4TH Twitter feeds, my latest art added to the Zazzle Gallery, and the feed from the Nutang blog are the major points.

You can also upload your own art, videos, feeds, and Art4TH will support your art as well. We are in the process of adding a feature artists per week to the main page to promote your art/music/or writings! So come on and join the new community!

http://art4thehomeless.ning.com

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My boo and I made up and I am at his place chillin now. We will head over to Lenox to check out the fireworks later on tonight. I may take pics and upload them here. He is just going through some things. I hope he can get through them. I will try my best to help him.

We got help from FEMA to pay rent for a month and I start a temp job so I can get a Marta card for a month and have extra money for food and needs and save some for rent.

I am still searching for work. Meanwhile, I have some new art up on my Zazzle page. Here is a preview


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I posted a forum on Myspace challenging people to just pass the word along that the average age of a homeless American is only 9 years old and also that if they needed help, that help was out there. Do you know I got so many negative replies? This one really pissed me off, stupid ingnorant American:

How can the homeless check out the website since comcast does not come out to their cardboard boxes?

First of all, not every homeless person lives in a card board box. I didn't. I slept out on the concrete.

Second of all, for those of you who are uneducated, ALL public libraries have FREE internet and a lot of homeless Americans ACUTALLY USE THAT FREE INTERNET.

Ugh, I hate some Americans. They are so fucking stupid, ignorant, and I hope they get sued for something! If they ever became homeless, I would still help them though, I just hope they go through hardships like most of the homeless who are trying to help themselves do.

No wonder the MidEast and some Europeans hate Americans. We are so rude and dumb and base our rudeness and stupidity on ignorant facts that don't even exist!

Now, not all Americans are like that.

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Wednesday is the 2 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I can not believe another year has already gone so quickly.



There have been millions of lives devastated and changed forever because of Katrina and I have come across people who have said, "Katrina is over with, just forget about it" which really pisses me off. I hope that their loved ones die in a horrible manner and someone comes to them and say just get over it.

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yaaaaaa.. so bored waiting to go to work.

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I am glad I have a job, though it is not enough to pay my rent. My mother and I are on the streets, though I am trying to stay positive. I am focusing on work, and Art4TheHomeless. In fact, the new webzine is up for the next editon!

Due to the amount of folks wanting to help, I am upping the ad-space from 4 to 6 after September 1st.

You can see it at

http://art4thehomeless.nutang.com

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I have been soooo busy recovering, doing two different art shows, working and going to school that sleep has become nonexistant. Today is my last day at my part time job--I made good friends and contacts, but its time to move on. I am finishing up school and am looking for full time work. I just put up links to homeless shelters in the States of Connecticut, Delaware, and Florida. you can see them on the right side of this blog under my Zazzle.com art flash media panel.I have some pics from 2 different art shows--the one at Cafe Nico's and the one at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for United Way of Atlanta. Here they are:

Me with two pieces at the AJC/United Way show--the top two are mine, though you can barely see the one on the right. It is of a flower done with Chinese brushes and acrylics.


This is one of the donated pieces to United Way--it is an ocean sunset scene. It was really dark so the lighting is not all that great.


This piece--the one on the left, is Lady Mioux and is also donated.



This one is called Seperated. I did it when Tom dumped me. He claimed that he was going against God while dating me and my slow butt thought he was super religious when he was really cheating on his wife with me--but it never got sexual thank GOD!



Here are some photos from the Cafe Nico's show. This is where I set up. The wall was already done--by another artist but it complimented my work :)


Here are some up close pics of my art.

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Did you know that the average age of a homeless person is 9 years old?

Did you know that 31,000,000 Americans go hungry every night?

Did you know that over 40% of the men and women who fought for our freedom are sleeping in cardboard boxes and alleys of our cities?

Do you even care? What if that was you? You just lost your job and you've got one day to pay the rent. You can't afford to have gas because the bill is too high and you have to take cold showers just to get clean. When you do have food, you have to use an electric burner---if you are fortunate enough to have electricity.

In a country that prides itself on a culture of rugged individualism, hard work and self-sufficiency, it is no surprise that poverty and the poor do not have a central place in America's cultural psyche. It's no surprise that the average middle-class American doesn't give a shit about the homeless.

For those of you that do care, however, there is something you can do. I am not personally asking for money, in fact I don't want your money. I only want America to be better. I only want homes for the homeless, love for the homeless children whose parents are too busy working trying to make ends meet.

Here are some things you can do to help:

There are many ways to help the homeless but the best ways are to look up LOCAL shelters in your city, parish, county, or state and donate at least $10.00 to the shelter.That little bit of money can go a long ways at the dollar store—toilet paper, diapers, paper towels, cleaning supplies, soap, a towel, etc. It takes a lot to run a homeless shelter—you have to keep it clean for the residents, then you have to help the residents get on their feet—all the while you feed them and give them means to stay clean. Also, transportation costs. Most shelters in the metro Atlanta area give out Marta tokens.

Other ways to help are to go online and donate money to national homeless sites—but beware of frauds. You can buy food, blankets, clothes, to donate to shelters. Also, if you want to give to people on the streets, it is best to give them food, water, blankets, etc. Give them things, not money so you won’t have to worry if they used that money to get their next fix.

Another way is to take the petition and get many people to sign it and send it to the address on the form. You can access the petition at http://www.housingaright.org/Petition.html

So, America, do you want to step up to the plate and prove that you care about your fellow Americans?


Colors of Ink 2, as you can see, is still in progress. There are links to the right of this post that will help people find homeless shelters in the state they are in. I also have a small list of Federal organizations and I plan on adding to it websites with homeless shelter directories. I want to have the larges list of U. S. homeless shelters on the Web.

I am also selling my art to help the homeless. I have helped United Way of Atlanta, Atlanta Children's Shelter, and Calvary Refuge Center. I want to do more. One of my friends mentioned to me that since my background is purple that we should make purple the official color for Poverty Awareness in America. I personally think its a great idea!

Also, I am blogging with Nutang, a revune sharing site. In other words, I get paid for this. I plan to raise money using this blog to help homeless shelters. So if you leave comments and come and visit often, you are helping out without paying a single dime. So leave me a note!

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