Another stroll down memory lane, this was when I was starting to get bored with painting the same ol’ letters and wanted to experiment with another name. Obviously I like the letter S.
Tag: los angeles
bookmark_borderTarot and Oracle Card Pulls // Sunday May 3rd 2026
In order to make magic happen, we HAVE to act. We can’t just sit around and wish for shit to happen. Today is a good day to be around friends, and to be truthful when something doesn’t feel right. As we age over time, lying to make yourself or others feel comfortable is more exhausting. It’s just better to be truthful and honest, even if the truth hurts. It’s better to be yourself. Yes it’s uncomfortable but not telling the truth becomes a burden on your mind, body, soul and spirit after a while.
Lots of wands action today; wands = fire, creativity, passion, action.
Go forth and make magic with your friends. If you have no friends, then be a friend to yourself – especially the parts you don’t like. People in your life will come and go, but the only person you’re going to be with for the rest of your life is YOU. So learn to love yourself each and every day and ALL parts of you.
bookmark_borderMixed Media Drawings * Smile Now Cry Later * Lost in Time * 2008
Title: Smile Now, Cry Later
Description: Framed 11″x14″ black & white, mixed media drawing
Saturday, May 2nd 2026: I dug up a photo of this old, framed drawing I did. I feel that it pairs well with the Raiders chola girl; as a matter of fact I think I did these two based on a black and white themed art show. Anyways, “Smile Now, Cry Later” is an oldies song, inspired by gang culture in Los Angeles in the 90’s. I have to admit, as a young artist I romanticized it a bit, even the graffiti writers took part in the subculture of tagbanging around that time. I was just the outsider looking in, observing everything around me.
Oh btw, I just realized I edited this post exactly 10 years later! OMG. Time is wild and synchronicity never ceases to amaze me.
May 2, 2016
Title: Lost in Time
Description: Framed 11″x14″ black & white, mixed media drawing
If you grew up sometime between the 1980’s and 1990’s, were influenced by gang culture and watched Mi Vida Loca, then this mixed media drawing would be the end result. This is pretty much a throwback to those times.
Echo Park wasn’t a safe place back then. I’m sort of amazed at how much the city of Los Angeles has changed, for better or for worse.
bookmark_borderTarot Wisdom and Encouragement // Full Moon in Scorpio // May 2, 2026
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My favorite crystal shop owners whose shop has relocated from Los Angeles to Palm Springs – Mark & Martin from Spellbound Sky – have some words of wisdom and encouragement for you, my dear readers of this blog. The tarot deck Mark uses frequently in his reels is Aleister Crowley’s Thoth – the artwork on the cards is a lot darker, also some people discovered later on that Aleister Crowley was a racist. I’ll leave that up to you to research & decide for yourself, but for now I just wanted to share this.
As always, take what resonates with you, leave the rest behind.
bookmark_borderGraffiti Art Appreciation from the Year 2006 – 043026
Another stroll down memory lane, 2006 I believe…20 freakin years ago, omg. I love Vyal’s green daemon character, the way our pieces flow in between and the color combos we used. So much motion and flow on a wall. In so much gratitude that I got to paint right next to a living legend – a Capricorn god of the earth and an aerosol master. This wall was Tibetan / Buddhist inspired. If you happen to see this Vyal, hi! Let’s go eat and see one another before we grow any older and die, okay? We love and miss you!👁️🖤🩶🤍
bookmark_borderMetaphysical Vibes Website Screenshots 2017-2020
Man, I really liked the designs here, I always liked things to match you know? It’s too bad – I got DDoS attacked / receiving fake orders / repeatedly spammed by bots til my hosting resources ran out. It was all too much since I was the only person running it so I had to take it down. I used WooCommerce. I even got to use one of my graffiti artist friend’s images, Vyal One – here with his famous ‘el ojo’ signature and layered style technique that you might’ve have seen around the outskirts of downtown LA; you can’t miss his work.
Am I idiotic enough to do it again? I’m half pondering the idea as I still love crystals and stones…but maybe I’ll go with Shopify this time? Idk. Shopfiy isn’t known for blogging the way WordPress is. Just writing it down for now.
My crystal shop’s Instagram is still there if you’d like to take a look: Metaphysical Vibes and my shop on Etsy: Metaphysical Vibes LA
Edit: I just stumbled upon an old photo I took of my crystals and stones. In this photo: Smoky Quartz cluster, Selenite, Optical Calcite, Fluorite, Lepidolite, Pyrite in Quartz cluster, Moss Agate, Labradorite, Seraphinite, Green Aventurine, Eudialyte, Bloodstone, Tiger Eye, Aura Rose Quartz, Rhodochrosite and 3 Pink Lemurian Quartz crystals.
bookmark_borderOld Relics from the Past
People search for old stuff from the past and since I’ve had to redo this blog a couple of times, a handful of images are missing or coming up as ‘a page not found’ url. So anyways, this is a screenshot of Mister Cartoon’s blog post from when I got tattooed by him in 2008. It was the most expensive tattoo I’ve ever gotten (2K) because well duh…it’s Mister Cartoon. IYKYK.
I gave him a composite drawing and he gave it his own interpretation. My mom’s nickname was Tita Terri or ‘Terri’ for short. “Tita” means aunt or auntie in Tagalog but we can also call any middle-aged woman “Tita” even though we’re not related.
bookmark_borderVideo: Just Driving To DTLA from the 6th Street Viaduct
While listening to Duran Duran. Filmed a few years ago by @planetarynothingness
bookmark_borderSherm & Skypager – 2010 – Los Angeles
Tuesday Feb 3, 2026 – was just going through some photos when I ran into this one. It’s from 2013, I added stars on the corner because other people were tagging on it:
Painted this using a U-Haul and a folding ladder in 2010.
bookmark_borderReminiscing Over An Old Identity
This video was filmed 13 years ago – the year was 2011, when I was still painting graffiti. I was pretty chunky too, haha. I like how my piece came out btw. Oh and the comments are funny now that I look back at it; I actually avoided reading them for a long time because feelings or whatever or even watching the video because of my weight. Of course most guys always have something gross to say.
Time is so wild.
Painted with WINK and Angel179 for Art Primo.