WANTED: NIKE AIR JORDAN RETRO/OG 3's

ok so if you know me you are probably aware of my stacks upon stacks of sneakers. with that being said i'm desperately trying to add to the collection, however i'm going through a pivotal stage in life right now where my style indeed is transforming. i'm getting older, getting rid of the helio & getting an iPhone, and getting a new style cuz i feel like i'm becoming average and it frightens me. most change is born out of fear but thats neither here nor there... i have a few more purchases to make before i enter a whole new style into my wardrobe. my main target? these bad boys right here....

 

any information about any of these suspects should be promptly reported to Artful C!.

-C! 

radio songs.

look @ the date. (go on look @ it) today almost every single song that came on any station had lil wayne on it. thats was the single most annoying thing i could have ever heard. now i'm not taking anything away from wayne. he nice as f**k. however, scroll thru my playlist, you'll find that he isn't the only talent in the industry.

i feel like there are soooooo many great EMCEES (not rappers) that just go under everyone's radar. i mean they get credit, but not as much as they really deserve.

support your local underdog.
if you know of an artist, big name or local emcee, who should get more shine that what he/she is receiving, drop the name on my comment wall over to the right. and let's start paying respects where respects are due and stop rerunning the same shit as if hip-hop is really dying.

-C!
P.S: i may fuck this quote up, but my favorite book the alchemist most definately states something like, "when you posess great power within you, and tell people about it; you are seldom believed" so instead of telling yall i am an emcee, just wait and imma show yall how i transform.....

XBOX 360 is a engine of hate.

i'm proud of my younger brother.
he's 11 years old b'day 3/23/97.
he managed to save up his christmas money, and his birthday money
& sold a few old games along the way to finally buy the XBOX 360
that santa forgot. for a lil kid to gain & understand the concept of
money & maintain it for that long is so impressive to me at this age.

it sucked so bad when some racist white dude & his chick playing
Gears of War on XBOX Live (the internet program on the system
for those that don't know) got on and started calling us niggers.
chris shurgged and continued to play unscathed, but i was more
than furious. as the game continued they gradually kept calling us
niggers and saying way more derrogatory commentary towards
black people.

he started catching on and constantly asking me, "carlos why are they
beasting? thats not hot".... obviously i made him turn off the xbox live
and play regularly, as the only answer i had for baby bro was,
"their just ignorant spineless snakes in the grass chris, these people
are gonna be wack to us cuz they're far away now - then go chill with
their black friends at school or work".

not exactly the experience he was looking forward
too and it hurt that i couldn't protect my brother from that.

-C!

P.S: its not every single day that you experience blatant racism, but when it happens its just a reminder that ignorance of that degree is still very prevalent in today's society. i could go on & on saying how & why this is so wrong, and how & why we should stop this but .... honestly ... you already know how and unfortunately, we all know why.

Bullpen Therapy

did you ever do something so completely out of your natural character that your actions even surprise yourself more than others? probably.....but did you ever have to go to jail for it? i stepped so far out of my zone that i had to pay the ultimate price.....well maybe not the ultimate price b/c i'm still alive but jail is just as good as being dead if your in that bitch too long. i just spent a weekend being transported from cell to cell in central bookings, to being transported to rikers island itself.

i had more than enough time to dwell on what got me there, and ample time to pray that i get out and never go back again. the fucking bullpen. as horrible as it was, i must honestly say, if you make the best of your time there it can be equally therapeutic.in that wack ass cell i slept on floors and benches with the worst of the worst. shooters, bums, drug fiends, roaches, pimps, dealers, piss, shit & vomit. in that time all i could imagine is the direction my life is turning in, and how i can deter from this path, back on to the one that everyone KNOWS i belong on; the straight and narrow one.

right now the worst thing that could possibly happen to a human being is happening to me. i'm waiting for someone else to dictate what THEY are going to do with MY life. my court date is thursday august 14th 2008. it is then and only then will i really know whats going to happen to me for the next few years. hopefully i don't ever have to go back to the bullpen; EVER, and the NEW plan that i have for MYSELF can roll into play. until then the only thing there is to do now is wait.

my very good friend justin bryan, was once an atheist and is not one anymore. he told me he believes God is time; the only thing that was always here for sure, and the only thing that will for sure remain....no matter what. if i were to take on his beliefs, or hold on to my own, either way i pray, that time/God is working in my favor and i will make the best of it that i possibly can.

never stray from what you HAVE planned for yourself.
never let go of what you believe in.
never put yourself in a situation that you haven't thought & planned out COMPLETELY.
and i pray that you NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER go to prison. no one is built for it and no one should ever have to experience this form of therapeutic experience.

-C!
oh & P.S: pray for me & don't ask me what i been in for.
......deadass.

How ya doing? Where ya been? Whachu up to?

....well i guess i've been on what some in hollywood would call a hiatus. i guess i've been laying quite low lately. not necessarily ducking anyone or anything, simply put; summer just isn't my season. so to all who wish to know whats been the happenings as of late with me, how i've been, where i've been, and what i've been up to....i shall inform you.
i've been fine. i be in the hood. i've been busy getting famous..
details coming soon.........

- C!

Artful C!'s Nintendo Appreciation Blog

some may call me a geek, nerd, dork etc....
i've been labeled my whole life, and this company may very well take the blame for it all. i honestly wouldn't have it any other way. from but a young young boy @ age 4 or 5 i remember sitting in front of a big ass tv planing for hours on end, my classic NES (nintendo entertainment system). nothing made me happier. period. now that i am older and i have a little brother i see him growing in the same fashion, on the same tv, however his first brush with nintendo was the gamecube.

everyone knows by now that video games can help sculpt a childhood. think about it. they keep you inside & out of trouble, they excercise your hand/eye coordination, they test your patience (especially games like mega man 3 & the legend of zelda: a link to the past), and a whole laundry list of skills that nintendo has helped me personally acquire over the years can be named but i don't feel like it. i wanna take this moment to show my thanks and pay homage to a company that i'm sure all my wii sports players out there are well familiar with.








NINTENDO WE LOVE YOU! shouts out to Super Mario, Luigi, BOWSER & Samus Aran (Metroid)*
-C!

oh & P.S: now that i'm a grown man with ideas of my own i've got some great ones for the future of this company as far as character development & new game ideas & prospects. anyone who knows any higher ups might wanna contact me. like....ASAP.

nothing else to do ....

the title pretty much spells out the meaning of this post.
a meaning less blog by a meaningful host.
here's a bunch of random pix to view.
cuz i'm home alone & i ran out of shit to do.
i guess you can read my other blogs if you want to...
its not much to read b/c i only wrote two.
the next blog post, will be better, i promise
but read again, this one has promising contents.


Artful C.

no pretty pictures, no images, just words & sense.

my last blog post was may 26, 2007.
i lost interest in blogging on may 26, 2007..... wait, wait thats a bit harsh.
let's start from the ending.....

i'm a simple person. doesn't take much to please me or occupy my time. never did, never really will. in all my simplicity i have a slight, complex. i'm not afraid to try anything and i am MORE than open minded however, anything that requires more than my minimal efforts not only bores me, but infuriates me. why can't everything be as simple as i? an artistic fellow indeed i am, all you gotta do is put a pencil to a paper & BOOM! art....... an athletic lad at times, all you gotta do is catch the ball & run it & BOOM! score...... so why can't everything be that easy?

i've become known amongst many as an artist. i would more than love to incorporate art into every medium possible. so i got my lil space here on blogspot.com & my intentions on it were to indeed do just that; incorporate artistic worths from my photography, graphic images, words, & songs or whatever else i've been inspired to make, then display it all here for you to see. but i've run into so much difficulty in conveying my messages that i stopped trying. my last blog post was may 26, 2007. i lost interest in blogging on may 26, 2007.

i find it difficult to try to penetrate layers upon layers of frauds to bring forth whats real within me. the fight has been faught by many before me, won & lost by equal amounts. am i the spartan writer of 300 words who'll convince you all of my truths? or the persian scholastic bully who berates the masses with further perversions & falsehoods? who's to say? and will i find satisfaction in either of the two evils? i don't even know.

so how's this for a comfortable inbetween.... i'll cook up your food for thought, if you think its poison don't eat, if you think its cake, indulge yourself, and i'll take my satisfaction in knowing i gave you all an option. simple as that. i'm a simple person. doesn't take much to please me or occupy my time. never did, never really will.

Artful C


nods to Quintin Tarrantino.....now read it again. Peace.

A Formal Introduction of Sorts....

Name: Carlos "Artful C~" Thom, JR.
Age: 22 & a Half
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York
M.O.: Cool Photography, Modeling, Graphic Art, Music, Computer Games, and SNEAKERS.

Now that you know who I am, (for visuals, look left), lets skip the pleasantries & get right to business. I'll keep it light, after all this is my first post, in any case...I grow weary of all the Facebookery & MySpacery so to voice my poetic heart I turn no further than this here blogspot. What I do here is.....show some of my lil modeling pix, tell you about some of my songs i record (www.myspace.com/artful_carlito, for a listen), but more importantly show off my graphics. I pretty much taught myself how to use photoshop like.....2 years ago and it seems I've gotten quite adept with the art. there will be more blogs to follow about this obsession of mine but for now lets move on.

My Blogspot coming attractions......
*My Girlfriend > Yours. I'm a good look but she is most certainly my better half.......
*In all modesty, I am everyones favorite person. Here's why......
*The definitions of the terms and the differences between wack & crack: A delve into urban slang......
*So your a rapper/designer too ay??? here's the reasons why you suck.....
*Random Spring/Summer time thoughts......

Im a weirdo with a nice vocabulary, great grammer & I hate being wrong...you may want to stay tuned.

Artful~