Corporate Welfare 1996

Spare change for the poor pitiful oligarch…. One of the most creative and just plain fun image mongering tasks I get to work on is illustrating political direct mail. I work only for Democrats, (I find one has to pick a side), so here in Texas my business has been ummmm shrinking. Never the less, there have been many opportunities to skewer the opposition in the past, and some of them are harmless enough to share, like this one.

Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic 1976

The name of the band is unimportant, although it was The Point. This shot was taken during the 3 day long celebration of our nation’s 200th anniversary in Gonzales, Texas. The Gonzales picnic was the wildest mass gathering of humans I’ve ever witnessed, contrary to the calmness illustrated here. This shot was taken near dusk on the first day. By the next sunset, the crowd was collectively shooting off barrages of Roman candles wildly at each other…. Anyway, I love this shot. It captures and illustrates the calming and evocative power of music over the multitude