Carl Bond’s plan
for Covid-19 relief;
the Thurston County edition
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Hello and Welcome!
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I am a photographer and I am looking for people to hire, $50 an hour for one hour of labor.
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Please see the form at the bottom of this page
and fill it out completely
if you are interested in
joining this revolution.
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Please do not fill out my contract if you are not a resident of Olympia, Lacey or Tumwater.
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Due to the ongoing concerns of Covid-19,
I will not be accepting applications from those who live outside of Thurston County.
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I guarantee that I will be methodical in finding the appropriate people for this job.
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The only requirements for qualifying
are that you must live within
Olympia, Lacey or Tumwater
and you must have some sort of ID
(it can be expired, I don't care), beyond completing the contract completely.
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Why I am doing this:
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I am in the #YangGang.
I've been a huge supporter of Andrew Yang, supporting him even before Covid-19 had struck the world.
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And his idea of a
is the most serious policy idea that we must implement for
all Americans!
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Now, more than ever,
people should be getting a
“stimulus check”
of at least
$2,000 a month.
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True, some people are working...
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But not everyone is working in this crisis!
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THAT is WHY
I put the above method of payment
in quotation marks!
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So, for the people who cannot work in this pandemic...
...a check is much more than some “stimulus” to them...
...where isn’t just about
ANY MONEY
is practically
a subject of
LIFE or DEATH
to them...
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And because
not everyone is working,
it is hard to support an economy
like the United States
on just the
limited amount of working employees currently available...
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This. Is.
NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!
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Hello! HELLLLLLOOO...!!!
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At no point, under no circumstances of any kind, does there seem to be any measure
of sustainability...!
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I mean, WAKE UP, people...!
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It really is
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obscene that,
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since the pandemic started,
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there has been only
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*three payments*
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delivered to Americans!
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Hence, that is
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why this page was created.
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It is for you to learn about me, about how we might be able to
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solve the challenges
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we face in America,
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together.
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All I offer are ideas, a concept of sustainability.
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Whether or not there is something that can be gained from my ideas of sustainability, a common, shared goal, this is something that remains to be seen.
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If this page generates a dialogue of ideas for the representatives of our great nation of ours, this page will have served the highest possible purpose.
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What I will do:
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After taking pictures of you,
I will seek your direction,
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even as we socially distance ourselves from one another through a Zoom call,
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in manipulating those photos I took of you.
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You will be able to see what I see on my screen.
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I have more than enough artistic programs on
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my computer for me to use
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as you direct me on the style you want to be seen in.
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What I have done:
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You might have already seen my home page before.
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You might be asking yourself what else can I do.
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“What does art look like as a finished item?”
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Well, here are some photos of my art on Facebook, in a gallery I participated in, back in 2015:
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Those canvas prints
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are ones that
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I still have today:
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As in Facebook gallery video above, notice my sense of humor with my facial expressions in these photos here...
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In 2016, I recorded myself and put those videos on YouTube and TV.
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I was volunteering at TCTV (Thurston County Television) at the time, which was becoming TCM (Thurston County Media).
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I wanted digital art to become understood and accessible to anyone that wanted to play around with it.
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This is why the videos were recorded, that is why the videos are still available today.
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The frustrating thing about this was that I wanted this to be an ongoing thing on the television channels of TCM...
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...but they wouldn't broadcast video that they had already broadcast, they always wanted fresh, new video to present.
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Even on a weekly or monthly scale, to keep creating video like this seemed to be an arduous process to me...
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...where I would be constantly reinventing the wheel.
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Over and over, I would demonstrate digital art?
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Sorry, it just seemed to be more and more a waste of time, the more I thought about doing such a thing.
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Well, in 2017, I felt particularly bold.
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I wanted to do a big piece of art,
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the biggest size that I could order from Costco.
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For those who don't know, Costco is a bulk shopping warehouse center, a place that can be a place for many people’s shopping needs.
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This is what I came up with, a size that Costco, sadly, no longer offers:
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Fans of the Superman movies may recognize the colorful illustration immediately above.
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For those who do not know, that image on the canvas is pulled directly from a frame in the film Superman, made back in 1978.
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I wanted to
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go HUGE
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in 2017 because of
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my confidence
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in producing canvas art.
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I wondered what would
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it be like to create
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such a large picture.
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I wondered what would
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it be like to see
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such a large picture.
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So, for the biggest picture that I could make from Costco at the time,
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...I thought the idea of a “larger than life” event,
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of a life being saved by
some flying, mystery man...
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...THIS was something to see.
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And it still is!
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With the art that you saw in the seconds long video above, the gallery on Facebook from 2015,
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I also ordered this artwork of Superman in 2017 from Costco...
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...and I am still amazed at how it has turned out, like it really is having a super man be as real as me...!
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The frame from the 1978 movie is contained in this 47 second clip of the film:
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I want to be transparent as much as possible.
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I don't just do this to show you what I can do.
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I also want to give you an idea on the conversations I’ve had with people as I tried to generate interest
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before this public release of my contract, which you can find at the end of this page.
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On the shipping box label of the 40 x 60 art piece,
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you can clearly see the price I paid for it,
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basically $280.
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One person was inspired to ask me to be paid that much, $280, since I had afforded that before.
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No problem, right?
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WRONG.
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This is a BIG problem.
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Not only will doing these kinds of things result in the automatic removal of me working with you,
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I will keep a record of such communication coming from you, for my future reference.
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I do NOT have time
for such games.
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I am not your personal bank.
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I am not your personal lender.
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I am one person.
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But with this page,
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can I change the world?
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Yes, for some people,
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money is scarce.
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Meanwhile,
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I have a job.
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But that doesn't mean I will freely dispense $50 to whomever requests the money from me.
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What I’m doing is trying to
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change one wallet at a time.
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What this page is doing is
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changing one mind at a time.
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The idea “a rising tide lifts all boats”
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could be another way of explaining
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this philosophy of work and life.
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Do you get it now ?
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If we all need money to survive,
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A policy of UBI
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should be
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around the corner.
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Anyway,
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I wonder who this
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page might inspire.
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Not just in my city.
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Not just in my county.
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But I hope, throughout
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the entire United States.
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Consider the population of just one locality in America at 6,200 people, according to one website.
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In the pie charts above and below, look at the difference between two people
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(me helping one other person) from 6,200 others above and from 62 others below.
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This is the reason for the pie chart above and the pie chart below, to show these perspectives.
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The pie chart below offers a different ratio, to show how immense the pie chart above is.
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The pie chart below shows two people out of 62 others.
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So even trying to serve 62 people in one year would be impossible for me.
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Why?
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Well, there are 52 weeks in a year, so I am unable to serve more people than 52 in one year,
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as I can only serve one person per week.
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But *ANY* ratio of people
is sized perfectly,
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for many American citizens to contact their elected representation in the U.S. Congress.
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Whether or not that you believe that your representative does not listen to you or care about your needs,
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if you don't speak up,
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you are probably right in your negative view of government...
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...because you DON’T speak up!
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Nobody has the capacity
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to read minds.
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Not even you, yourself,
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have this ability.
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But there are enough of us, however, that are optimistic and that are willing to see things through, because we can.
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As humans, we have the right and the ability to change minds,
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change hearts, to do the impossible,
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simply because we can.
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Here, let this story of one man,
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a man formerly from Olympia,
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prove this ALL to you,
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that change isn't just possible,
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it is necessary for
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personal development.
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Regardless,
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whether he paid for the ticket
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entirely by himself
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or his family in Hawaii helped him,
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this is the point...
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He got
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the opportunity
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to go
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to his family in
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Hawaii
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even while being
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homeless!
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And to be this productive
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while homeless
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is some serious
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personal development!
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If you do things,
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if you create,
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there is no limit
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to your potential...!
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When you create things,
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...you will be wanted...
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...you will be needed.
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Creation.
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It is the solution
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to our lives.
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I’m showing you
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the path to
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free your
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own mind,
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but you need to
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take the first step
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yourself.
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Doing things of quality
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in your Life
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is important,
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and when you do those things,
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you have less interest
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in what $50
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actually means.
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Do you wish to have
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that mindset?
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Then fill out my contract
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at the bottom of this page.
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Let’s see how art can
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change your
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LIFE.
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that your income
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cannot
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start at $0,
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that your income
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must start at
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$2,000
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per month.
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If every single American can get a monthly “stimulus” of even $1.5k per month by the end of 2021,
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we are well on our way to addressing the problems in our own homes, in our cities...
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...in our entire nation.
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Can I get you
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to stand up for yourself...?
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Can I get you
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to stand up for your community...?
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Can I get you
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to stand up for your entire world,
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however you define
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your entire world
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to be...?
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It starts today, it starts
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NOW.
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Fill out my contract
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NOW.
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NOW.
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“But Carl,” I hear some of you cry. “Please, one more thing...!”
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“Carl, please tell us what kinds of apps you used to get those effects on your artwork!?”
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Yes, this is a good idea to begin to end this page with, as I cannot be everywhere at once, even in Thurston County.
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You may think I am Superman, But I assure you, I am NOT Superman.
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***Insert two full minutes of my nonstop belly laughter here, complete with gushing tears.***
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*sigh* Anywhooo...
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Perhaps, by listing off the software I use, other people will notice that list,
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what I use to create art with and how painfully easy it can be to get this
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beautiful Earth started on a new way of thinking!
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Not only that, but they could use that same kind of software to help other people as how I want to help people.
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Well, I can only hope that would be the case...
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...even while living through a pandemic, there is still more to Earth than to experience just grief and isolation alone!
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Yes. I am going to list off the software that you can use on new Mac computers AND on Windows 10 computers.
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And there are other programs being made, as you read this, being developed right now...
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Anyway, however you choose to go about finding what works for you is also something I leave for you to decide.
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And whatever means of online demonstration, online sales, online distribution, online research that you discover, that’s also for you to decide.
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Even for you to use something like bitcoin or not, this is all really is up for your decision to use as promotion.
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Here are the applications I use:
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With Mac, I have the following apps:
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And with Windows 10, I have the software I demoed, back in 2016,
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which you saw on YouTube!
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But unfortunately...
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Free to download, free to use.
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If you ARE using a platform that can support GIMP and G'MIC, why NOT download them and play with this free software?
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At any rate, I made more videos on both platforms to show that I do have these types of software installed as we create a sustainable future
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TOGETHER!
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Here, check out these clips:
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(...with apologies to you, if this is your photo of the State Capitol in Olympia...)
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Once again,
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And now, with Windows 10:
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AI Adjust and Topaz Studio:
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And since this is the first Windows computer I have bought, I thought I would also install Painnt on it.
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Painnt is an app that I know well from the Mac, also from my demonstrations on public access TV in 2016, video that you saw at the top of the page.
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Other applications:
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(Only Affinity Photo is NOT Mac only in the list directly above.)
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Take note of the next set of links.
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While it may be cheaper and easier to use art created from a mobile or an online interface, the image quality can also be poor.
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Yes, I use online and mobile artificial intelligence programs.
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Artistic exploration is what is all about in being an artist...
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...I don't just rely on the desktop applications like Topaz Studio and Studio Artist to get a “painted look.”
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I use the above programs (either GIMP or Pixelmator) to sharpen and smooth the pixels on the images I am working on,
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so they are not fuzzy, washed out or distorted in any way when I enlarge the image,
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as the art made by online or mobile artificial intelligence would shrink the image more than what I want it to be.
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Any image on Mac and Windows would stay the same size, once I use the programs listed above.
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This is not true with all of the programs below. Some of them will reduce the size of the image automatically...
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...so I may use these following links
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FIRST, THEN
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I would enlarge the images and
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distort them, perhaps enhance them with
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LuminarAI, Topaz Studio, GIMP, etc.