New: www.SupportFirstResponders.com is up!
Hey there, got my new website www.SupportFirstResponders.com up and running.
When I lived in Santa Cruz I had the honor of training to work at their 911 center there. I passed the background check, the training and things were going swimmingly but it turns out a visual person shouldn’t do an auditory job. I was too slow. Slow by seconds, which in another job would be fine, but too slow when people are in trouble (not fine).
So I didn’t make it. I was sad at the time but happy that I got to meet so many really neat people. There were hardworking, honorable men and women there at the center as well as all the firefighters, police officers and paramedics that stopped by. I felt grateful that I got to meet them. While I was there there was also a controversy in Santa Cruz about people not wanting to pay a little extra on their phone bills to make sure 911 was fully funded.
To me that was the ultimate in stupidity. We all want 911 to be answered when we call! That is a no-brainer.
So I thought about what if anything I could do to help. I am an artist, and clearly not cut out for actual call taking. (Though I did get some great stories out of it.) So I came up with this shirt design.
And I will give 60% 100% of the profit from these shirts to my local first responders-San Jose.
(I still have some details to work out about to whom to give the money exactly. I don’t want to mug firefighters in reverse… knock em down and throw money at them. 
but I will put it aside until I can get that figured out. I will post the details of who will get the money as soon as I figure it out. Since I JUST launched this and have no money yet, I figure I have a little time.
—MoGo (Maureen on the Go)
UPDATE: I thought about it some more and I am gonna DONATE 100% of the profits.
Submitted my “Road Less Traveled” design for review to Threadless.com
Once I get feedback if it is good enough I will submit it to the Threadless.com ongoing contest.
Unfortunately I think you have to be a member of Threadless to vote on a shirt but if you don’t and you would like to comment, please go to http://www.threadless.com/critique/19458/The_Road_Less_Traveled and vote.
—MoGo (Maureen on the Go)
Starting up my Zazzle shop
I am just starting up my new zazzle shop. I will have it up and running soon.
Tasty but messy redneck art
why not? made me chuckle
Apparently there is a whole speed painting phenom I didn’t know about…
—Maureen on the Go (MoGo)
Dumbofounded! Elephant self portrait
A group I am part of had this in a thread. WOW. No, let me say that again.
I knew elephants were smart but this is a whole level of magnitude different than what I thought they were.
Consider that the elephant has taken in composition, line, shading, is making it 3D (other legs behind and shadowed) and to make a flower to boot, then showing it grasped in a trunk. Also, being able to go over the same line more than once to make it darker. This just blows my mind away!
She or he is better than a lot of humans I know, well at painting. I doubt she could play world of warcraft. But WOW!
—Maureen on the Go (MoGo)
