complete with aliens and tomatoes.....

Labels: 3am-art, art, improved-photos, original-art

We're getting ready to get back on Ebay full time and SKinney is moving the galleries so that we can show the works as we complete them and I think we're going to start running the web cam now and then so you can watch us slopping de paint in real time!

Come visit us on the site (www.3amgallery.com) and also drop in on Ebay -

See you there and have a safe and wonderful New Years!

Labels: 3am-art, art, cartoons, ebay, improved-photos, martinis, olives, original-art, paintings, sheep

I got this from Matt Garrett of TopKeyword Lists (a great place to get your keywords for marketing) - Much like Matt- I have to admit I had to read their sign up page twice too - I kept thinking there was going to be an "enter your credit card or paypal information here" pop up - but no- I was wrong - it's free.

Read this information below :

Hi,

I must admit I've gone back and read the sign up page for this one several times, as it just seems to good to be true, but they've got some major players on board, like HBO, Taco Bell, and Harley Davidson.

it's called PayPerPlay.
it's free to join.
and you get paid for every visitor to your site!!!

yup, I told you it sounded to good to be true, but I'm sure not going to miss out on trying it out...

http://www.payperplayadverts.com

they also credit you for referrals on two levels, so this is going to spread like wildfire!
we're all going to be bombarded with promo emails about this from every side over the next few weeks, mark my words!

If you know anyone with a list of subscribers, or a site that gets ANY traffic, sign up now and send them a quick email telling them about it, you could end up earning a nice residual income from introducing just a few people...

I'm telling you first, but as soon as I've sent this email out to you I'm going to be getting in touch with everyone I know!

http://www.payperplayadverts.com

So what's it actually about?

Well, it's a new advertising system that plays a 5 second audio "advert" when someone visits your website.

It's got some very big players involved simply because big TV networks are losing their "market share" to websites hand over fist!

People are spending more and more time online and less watching TV, as well as watching less adverts on TV, especially as their are all these new bits of technology that allow us all to automatically record out favorite shows and fast forward through the adverts, thank god! :)

So PayPerPlay is seen as the way forward for putting ads bck in front of us all, but this time instead of the big TV networks getting the advertising revenue, any website owner can grab their share...

At last their seems to be a system that is a very REAL alternative to AdSense for a simple quick way of making money from any website, and people don't even need to click on the ads for you to get paid, it's automatic!

cool or what!
;]

go sign up now and get started on sending out some emails:

Labels: greed

Wow - I bet the ATA is red-faced from voting Aquadots the toy of the year for 2007. Actually SKinney and I thought they looked pretty cool - but we thought our boy was too young and of course our daughter is too old - but we wanted to get the word out and oh yeah, have a little fun with the Aquadot Box.

I wonder if those early a.m. informercials will still be rockin' the fun of Aquadots?

SKinney and I have been working on our house - we're having new windows put in - IN NOVEMBER in Ohio - what were we thinking? But we need 'em just the same. We also have a funny animation we've been working on of SKinney playing his bass and it's just funny. - We'll post that soon.

Also we have some new works coming out - I am not sure how we managed to do this but we actually managed to get some art done this past spring/summer and it's just been insane!

Peace!
J & SKinney

2 Children in U.S. Hospitalized

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7, 2007 - Millions of Chinese-made toys have been pulled from shelves in North America and Australia after scientists found they contain a chemical that converts into a powerful "date rape" drug when ingested. Two children in the U.S. and three in Australia were hospitalized after swallowing the beads.

With only seven weeks until Christmas, the recall is yet another blow to the toy industry - already bruised by a slew of recalls last summer.

In the United States, the toy goes by the name Aqua Dots, a highly popular holiday toy distributed by Toronto-based Spin Master Toys. It is called Bindeez in Australia, where it was named toy of the year at an industry function earlier this year.

Moose Enterprises said Bindeez and Aqua Dots are made at the same factory, which is located in Shenzhen in China's southern Guangdong province. Last week the Chinese government announced an export ban on more than 700 toy factories in the region because of shoddy products.

The company said that the product is distributed in 40 countries but that it was up to the individual countries and distributors to determine whether the product would be pulled.

The toy beads are sold in general merchandise stores and over the Internet for use in arts and crafts projects. They can be arranged into designs and fused when sprayed with water.

Scientists say a chemical coating on the beads, when ingested, metabolizes into the so-called date rape drug gamma hydroxy butyrate. When eaten, the compound - made from common and easily available ingredients - can induce unconsciousness, seizures, drowsiness, coma and death.

Naren Gunja from Australia's Poisons Information Center said the drug's effect on children was "quite serious ... and potentially life-threatening."

The recall was announced by the Consumer Product Safety Commission on Wednesday several hours after published reports about the recall in Australia.

The two U.S. children who swallowed Aqua Dot beads went into nonresponsive comas, commission spokesman Scott Wolfson said Wednesday. A 20-month-old has recovered completely while the other child, whose age was not known, has been released from a hospital after five days and is recovering, he said.

"To prevent any other child from being hurt, we are calling upon parents to take the product away immediately," Wolfson said.

In Australia, the toys were ordered off store shelves on Tuesday when officials learned that a 2-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl were hospitalized after swallowing the beads. A 19-month-old toddler also was being treated.

The news jolted the toy industry because Aqua Dots has been one of the few bright stars of the toy selling season, which, along with overall retailing, has gotten off to a sluggish start. The item, which had been heavily advertised, had appeared on many toy experts' list of must-have holiday toys, and toy sellers are now in the midst of canceling advertising and scrambling to figure out how to replace it.

Chris Byrne, a New York-based toy consultant, noted that the incidents could have been isolated, and Spin Master may be erring on the side of caution.

"This is something that they could not have foreseen. This is an extremely hot toy. ... It's a little scary," Byrne said.

In a statement, Toys "R" Us Inc., said that it issued on Tuesday a "stop sale" on the entire Spin Master Aqua Dots product line in its North American stores and on its Web site after it learned of the news. "We understand that Spin Master and U.S. regulatory authorities are investigating this product and we have asked Spin Master to fully explain what it believes happened," said the toy seller in a statement.

Meanwhile, a separate recall was announced for 405,000 children's products made in China, most of them toy cars, because of dangerous levels of lead.

The recall includes about 380,000 Pull-Back Action Toy Cars imported by Dollar General Merchandising Inc. of Goodlettsville, Tenn., and 7,500 Dragster and Funny Car toys imported by International Sourcing Ltd. of Springfield, Mo.

Four of the recalled products were imported by Schylling Associates Inc. of Rowley, Mass., including the items Duck Family Collectable Wind-Up Toy, Dizzy Ducks Music Box, "Robot 2000" collectable tin robot and Winnie-the-Pooh Spinning Top. The company recalled another 66,000 spinning tops Aug. 22.

Representatives from Schylling Associates Inc. were not immediately available for comment.

Wednesday's recalls include about 7,200 "Big Red" Wagons imported by Northern Tool & Equipment Co. of Burnsville, Minn. Totaling about 405,700, the recalled children's products all had excessive levels of lead in their surface paint.

Although no illnesses connected to the toy car recall have been reported, lead is toxic if ingested by young children. Children's products found to have more than 0.06 percent lead accessible to users are subject to a recall.

A spate of recalls of Chinese-manufactured toys this year was highlighted by U.S.-based Mattel Inc.'s recall of more than 21 million toys worldwide last summer.

Labels: 3am-art, art, original-art

Had to share this with you - I think it would make a great episode of "A Haunting".

The auction is here


This is a nesting set of 2 haunted pots. The story behind them before I found them is unknown but they have sure made my life interesting while they have been here!! 6 Years ago during October we moved to this house. During the winter months all was normal and fine. At spring time we decided to plant a tree and my daughter volunteered to go in the back and dig a good deep hole for it. Half way through she started yelling she found something and was leaning over the hole pulling up pieces of old pottery. We all went out and carefully dug all around the area. After a bit of time we pulled up these two pots intact with no cracks. I cleaned them up and put them on my table because they look primitive and the finish is just so pretty. That's when we started have a bit of trouble.

A few months later I walked past my coffee cup cabinet and my fave cup just fall out and smashed on the floor. I went out and got some new ones and one by one over the next few months the cabinet door would just fall open and out would tumble a cup sometimes within inches of me. NEVER did a cup I didn't like much fly out only the big expensive ones that I loved. All the glasses in the house broke and had to be replaced with plastic. My lights either turned on and off or dimmed. Our T.V started turning its self on and off so often that I was afraid it had a short so I bought another T.V and that one did it as well. Our stuff started disappearing too. Car keys, clothes, books. Then we would find money all over the place. Pennies, nickels and dimes everywhere. Our cats would sit and " watch " something move through our house like they were watching a tennis game with no players. While the cats were watching something our dogs would come and stand around us sometimes barking as if they were protecting us.I never connected the pots to any problems because until recently I didn't believe in any spirit world or ghosts

During that first year our dogs had to be removed from their night crates they were raised sleeping in because of the ALL NIGHT barking. They had slept in their crates from the time they were puppies until they were a year old and suddenly they couldn't be in them anymore without unending crying and barking. I would come let them out at 4 AM after a LONG night of no sleep and instead of going outside they would all split up and get in our beds. ( pics of dogs on my me page) The strange thing is our cats actually did that as well so each bed in our house had a big dog in it and a cat at the same time.

Over the next few years other things started happening that upset us all. I woke up to a stale cherry tobacco smell. A couple times I woke up to a few drops of water being flicked in my face. My oldest daughter came racing down the stairs one night crying that there was a burned man in her room. She said he was burned all over his body and was standing in her room looking at her. This is rather WEIRD because the next week we were replacing drywall in the living room and found burned wood. When we had our furnace replaced the next month the man that put it in said our house had burned at some point. I guess it was before 1940 because that's when all the records to this house seem to end but it was built in 1920.

About a year after we moved in the knocking started. My daughters bed room is directly above ours. I would hear knocking like someone was actually knocking on the ceiling above my head. Unfortunately my daughter heard it too and said it was coming from her closet and it sounded to her like someone was knocking on the floor or wall in her closet. After a few nights of it my husband went looking for any explanation that could possibly be causing this annoying knocking. It would start at about 11 pm and go until about 3 AM. He couldn't find one.

Total we have 3 upstairs bed rooms. My youngest daughter will not sleep in her room or go upstairs alone. My middle daughter said she heard kids voices talking in her room one night but she couldn't make out what they were saying. Later she said she woke up and saw a little girl about 10 years old sitting in her room on the floor hiding by her desk. My daughter said she has seen her about 5 or 6 times. I believe I actually got a pic of the little girl in the very last pics of this auction (please see below). Tats when I felt like I couldn't handle anymore.

I found a guy that's supposed to be sensitive to this sort of thing. He went through our house and stayed for several hours. Asked a million questions and at the end pointed to the pots. He said 1 if not more spirits were attached to them. He picked them up and put them outside last month and this is the first time I have actually kept a coffee cup for more than 2 weeks.My lights and TV are not turning on and off anymore.Not all the problems have left since the pots went outside. Apparently we have at least 3 ghosts or what ever left but the problems in the living room and kitchen are gone with the pots. I have NO IDEA how there is room in this tiny house for anything but us!! If anyone has any suggestions about how to get rid of the rest of the the issues please feel free to let me know.

These pots will not come back in my house EVER. I thought of putting them back where I found them but I honestly want what ever this is OUT OUT OUT. If you are braver than me ( which isn't hard) you will enjoy them. They are heavy as heck!! There are no markings on them or stamps but they have been under 4 feet of soil for over 50 years too. There are no cracks so they can hold water. I used them for seasonal fruit and I liked the primitive look they gave my table scape. To me they resemble those Wats pots but I thought those had markings on the bottom.There are a couple chips but it adds to the charm in my opinion. The big one is 9 inches across and the little one is 7 inches across. Thanks so much for looking!!!!


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These pics made me freak out a bit. My daughter was just clipping down some flower heads. We were playing around being silly and having some fun.After I took the pics and was looking through them I noticed that behind my daughter in the morning glory vines appeared to be someone watching us. There is nothing structural behind the fence the only thing in the pic should be fence and more green flower vines. I zoomed the pic in and saw the face of a little girl. I called my middle daughter down and asked if she could see anything strange in the pic without drawing attention to the area where I believed there is a face. She said " Yes! That's the little girl in my room"!

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Man, it's been a crazy 2oo7 so far. My mother got ill and passed away - my sisters and I had to deal with settling the estate and then there were some other issues and holy Toledo it's been crazy!
SKinney and I were trying to get back going with the art stuff in the spring and it just didn't happen, we are finally in a position to start creating again and we're both so excited!

He's been dying from the heat here in Ohio, so we broke down and got some A/C going on- it will be here tomorrow - yay!

Thanks to everyone that has written asking what was up with he and I, we appreciate your concern and life just basically had other plans for the first part of this year - but now we are back to doing art!
Peace,
J & SKinney

Labels: 3am-art, art, cartoons, improved-photos, martinis, olives, original-art, paintings, sheep

This isn't a new idea by any means, however the fact that they have apparently perfected it is.
I am talking about Chocolate Stout - no not just a dark ale, I'm talking honest to goodness chocolate in the brew!

If you like a good hearty beer - you will love this. It seems to really go well with salty foods.
My partner totally quit alcohol of all types a couple of years ago and wouldn't even venture a taste, he thought the idea of chocolate in beer sounded sacrilegious anyway.

Check it out if you're the type that likes to experiment!

BISON BREWING