Of course I know who it is!

Who in the heck is this guy? Guess correctly and recieve an ink jet version of a real painting by Toe Knee, signed , dated and wrapped in a Palo Alto Daily Newspaper of current issue!

Update!!!!!!

We have a winner... we have a winner... ELK RIDER WINS!!!!!!

However, this is your task, you too can win!!!!!!!

Yes you can!!!!!!

Here's a clue!

He's a well known member of the current faculty of the wonderland creative art life enhancing community of the ART ACADEMY of CINCINNATI. guiding future contributors of our next century's crop of beauty, thought provoking inventiveness and life quality expansion enhancing suppliers of ART- 3d, 2d and other dimensions found within the creative moment.

In other words, the oasis from the cold industrial grey and steel, also known as the ART ACADEMY of Cincinnati!

so... track it, search it... find it.... and find him in his similar but further advanced form... in that realm.... on that web site... it's your mission if you decide to accept it! certainly a mission possible.

or ask Elk Rider to tell you!

then e-mail toekneestanger@hotmail.com

...and let me know which of the jpgs (you can already download in less quality here) you want me to print in higher quality, signed on Costco's Kirkland (what a brand name!) heavy weight 8.5x11 paper, and mailed to your PO box, or any other willingly surprised repient....

your address will ABSOLUTELY NOT be shared, sold, or even e-mailed back unless you want a dialogue, which you'd better indicate, if you do... just rest asssured you'll get somehting you can feel and touch from my hands within a week or two... post marked with the estremely rare and highly collectible return address of somewhere in California... yeah. California... that mystery land we all heard about in Cincinnati... the same palce where some other people also live, including the folks who launched Gilligans Island and the light sabre!

Your prize needs to be sent, if you want it, or if you have the round trip plane fair, you can come and get a treat at Cafe Barone's in Menlo Park and think-tank arranging your own art launch their (this is a great spot to be seen in the background of some pretty amazing Californiteos.... ( is a sort of over giddy rendition an incredibly real option you might be able to snag if the owner likes your portfolio overview.... and, man this cafe has some fun people to watch... I'll tell you what.... in fact million dollar deals that affect the whole wide world happen there all the time, but who cares about that. The women are beauty, but sometimes a little to actressy for me to watch too close.... next door, is Kepler's books... and some folks like Joan baez walk through this territory if yoou sit around long enough.... on the other side of the outdoor cafe, is the cigar shop... I can show you which are the best 300 cigars for free) !


but back to your chance at winning.... could you get Elk Rider to contact me again with a mailing address....

Oh, there is another option... ship me to Cincy and I'll bring a whole batch and sing a 3 hour set of my original music in exchange for the ticket... you supply the location.




guess what I know....

Ok, I'll tell you anyway.

I'm also ready, willing and able to send to you, him, her and anybody responding to this offer ( package of prints portion that is...) , a few other trinkets from my bag, while I can afford the postage. .

Stuff like unreleased cd pressings of various live original music-sound paintings and story song-films ... home made movies... maybe even a copy of the Toeknee Show. Maybe even one with some other old time artist's interviewed by me, like Willie Nelson... John Trudell, Baez (audio only) or Kristofferson (audio only).... maybe even some like-minded artists around this California land you'll get to watch on your own Video player, or re-launch on your local cable station!

.... and maybe, since it's pretty cheap mailing a few extra and a cd, I'll use what stamps I have to fill everybody's mailboxes with a range of 3 to 6 ptints of original images as ink-jets, a cd or two and maybe even a dvd burn (if that part of the equation is up and running by then)...it all comes down to the change in my pockt to keep the postage handled... until I run out ,or if you boost the supply via donation, some more of a wider sample. Keep in mind, their is a choice range of 12 to 16 cds sspanning 25 years, 10 years of cable access 1 hour shows, and a couple thousand hours of source videos un edited, 3 to 5 raw feature length indy films of various subjects (documentaries of visitng touring bands, guests filmed for the tv show, and a range of approx 300 to 500 images (so far)... and other content in various forms ( a comic strip-zine, as yet unreleased, about a dozen albums shared with others over the years and the video documentaies of those journeys....

I gess this all sounds like a bragging diatribe. I am intentionally trying to tweak you to consider your own wide range of output beyond your traditional artforms... I bet you match me or urpass me if you count the wide range your life expresses... because we actually brathe creatively, isn't this true???

isn't it?....

..... supplies seemingly are unlimted, funds for stamps seem limited... no donation refused...., but none expected/or demanded. If you hesitate or thnk this is a joke, you may lose your chance to get a thrill ride, of sorts.

This offer won't be supported forever, unless you help the river flow in your direction.



It's a great idea to include a pledge that you will consider to move some of your own creative beauty to travel to others in similar ways, someday when you decide you want to, are ready, or to help us all share in your process by directing traffic to what you may have up already. .

Hey.... this is all about showcasing to each other, if you wanna, just how real, how alive and how true we all still are!

... yeah!.... and even though I will never be much of a joiner to the corporate yahoo or google blog versin of life as art, maybe you will still coonsider to take a trip like this blog featuring your process as a Blog....

Incidentally.... it's amazing I trusted Google this far... but it hsn't brokrn on me, and so fate it's fairly worry free.... Google, (who owns Blogger, this free start-up version of a Blog) has been around out here in the section of the Bay area where I currently reside... for a few years I road my bike the 45 minute ride from here onto Bayshore, in order to get to the cineplex, in order to get from my studio to the films at the century 16 and saw the Google sign and the small campus multipled in size each time I rode... I passed the little office that became Google one week, and then later it was growing and spreading out.
this blog is a sort of way to invest in myself, you, and us in an even bigger way than payback in the bank. And I am only just starting. We each have an bigger bank inside.

I am not here to get you hooked on google, (who own's Blogger.com (this free site opportunity) but I am here to help you see you can reach each other, me, the world from where you stand sit, smoke or eat pizza... How bout a slice???

I believe that we can boost belief that the intentions inside of creative motion through intention, reflection, hand and heart get furthered towards our deserving audience that, may , in some cases wait for what you have already known you can send !!!

... just thin about that.

who knows what tomorrow may soon bring ....we all have terminal illness called life...

is there a possibilty that you too may see your desgn on a shopping bag like Picasso??? (that's not a joke folks!). If you go to the academy site, they have a link there to CafePress.com, where you can send data via the web, and get paid for each mug, print, t-shirt you send to the world on the head of an collector that may just walk right past me out here, as mine may walk past you there... it's available for no up-front costs... anything you painted, it's up to you! with or without me or anyone, it's right there ready and powered up ....

today.... let me tell you about today.

I went to Arastradero Preserve to do a ceremony, to get ready for speaking some truth at a trial (police abuse out here) for whcih I filmed/secured the visual evidence as part of the art I live, I express/serve in this way... by donation. I step in where needed.

I cut my hair. to be presentable and better to showcase the truth I will say in a few days on behalf of a friend.

When I walked back from my sacred tree spot, I saw a Mini cooper with a bike rack, and a hipster getting his 2 thousand dollar bike rady for trail ride (live mountain lions spotted frequently all aound there... but that's another story).

Guess who is general managerm suplier of that rack design/product (which the enduser tells me is a great and secure rack?

John Fitzsimmons..... yeah, and you met him right there, during our 4 year stint at the Academy.

You'll see his face a few blog entries back, right here.

that's an example of outcome meeting audience and enrichment right here seen first hand, with testimonials to boot.

Same thing can happen if you supply us with your creative flow, by letting it fly.

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Go to Minifini.com.... and find out, or just believe me... none other than our friend/fellow Art Academy classmate.

That was perfect timing.

someday I want a minicooper.

an old girl friend bought one a couple years back... came to my studio and took me for a ride up on skyline... I've been a believer ever since. fun to drive... easy on the gas, safe and roomy.

and somebosy I know supplies the custome designed bike rack.

there you go.

what more can I say.

YOU do influence all of us, by what your send forth.


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this entry written on 3 hours sleep as I prepare to get ready to help a local friend via filmed evidence in his police abuse case here in Cali- for- NI- aye! I am influencing a discussion of civil rights right here, right now, out here, by intuition I stepped in and did for him what he couldn't afford to pay anyone to do. And it will show up, in theory as one of those cases that reflects on lost protective constitutional rights.

Art is life.... Life is art.

We ain't dead yet!

right on.

Now... you gonna follow through or what?

Hey... I have another announcement.

If you check previous blog entries from time to time that contain pictures of classmates, associates on my journies you'll notice that I willexpand and speak what I was blessed with by association with these various friends. I intend to thank them fo rhow they inspired me by being who they already are. I learned/learn a lot and it's a great time for me to testify for all the friends. It shouldn't have to be a court case. Would we bring our shared inspirations (belief IN) each other's contributions to wa forum here or elsewhere and combine it to mutiply and expand our fuel inside of whre we now stand/sit paint/create?

You Betcha... by golly.

......these folks kept my eyes on the prize by what they created and reflected back and it's a good time for me to remind them of how they inspired me to keep going... and still do.

.....distance means NADA.

If you are beginning in the Art Study realm, I'll tell you what I learned most while at the oais of the ART Academy of Cincinnati... that being an artist is a good thing for me to be, via direct experience while sharing 4 years with these life-long friends......osmosis by being in the company of these great talents.

If you get to sit at a cafe between classes and philosophy catches your whimsy like it did mine with folks similar, you'll later know how much , as years fly, it fuels your journey. Irrefutable.

You get to capture those ideas, smiles, inspirations and even rivalries.... like snapshots in consiousness expansion...and to carry them forward in your own unique way/style ..... your journey will then be in process of surpassing all expectations.

It will keep the candle lit so you can find your way home long distance style, if you ever hit a rough patch... but it's really up to you, how deeply you participate.

for me, it's truly like a very, very nutricious "meal"...yeah..


The world needs your sparkle.

Your style will enhance all of us.

What you bring back makes us all better.

If you haven't used lingo this way....

then use it your way.

but it's gonna reach the people anyway.

through your brush, breath, step, beauty.... life.

Yeah... and holding your kids is the best of all.

..........holding each other in this kind of outcome is beyond war.

Not my idea.

Just announcing what you already know.

.......more real that the challenge,
definitely merged with the outcome while also simultaneoously headed beyond that... in it's own way.

none like which is instant enrichment.


the machinations of the power brokers may slice us to a thousand physical miles apart... but no such thng can interfere with what's already true.


Your offerings reach me.

Mine reach you.


PROOF of the concept.
Did yo know, that the "Lucy show" tv programs boasdcast in the 50's are now at the edge of our universe as waves embarking on a journey to other solar systems as we speak? this is scientific fact.


anyway.... we don't need me telling you or anybody something as if it's mine.

yeah yeah yeah.

I don't want start the tributes quite yet. Let's let this soak in

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