67 days down, 297 go.
It has been brought to my attention that I am four weeks into making my major career decision. However like Obama I like to examine all the options available and come up with an educated and informed decision. But I can sense that anticipation fatigue is beginning to dawn on those waiting on me for my decision. But like my mother always told me, surround yourself with people smarter than you and you will never make a bad decision. So that I have done and I await the final word from my advisers.

I acknowledge that time is of the essence and thus my painting is going to again reflect this. Today I will be painting a clock unto the circle at the bottom of my 'music behind bars' addition originally from day 25. As time is almost running out on my, I will paint a clock that is almost out of time into the circle thus liberating the last item from day 25 and expressing two distinct but complementary themes as follows: TIME to make my very important decision about my MUSIC is running out.

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66 days down, 298 go.
YEEEESSSS!!! At least one of my predictions came true...Mo'Nique won 'Best Supporting Actress. Although it rained on and off, she still shined in all her Oscar gold. So today as a tribute to both the rain and Mo'Nique winning Oscar gold, I will be painting a golden raindrop.

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65 days down, 299 go.
You know me and the rain...when it rains, I essentially shut down for business. I seldom feel motivated to to anything even getting out of bed when it rains. I am this way for two main reasons' the first being that it hardly ever rains in LA so people are not used to driving in the rain. Thus accidents litter the roads when it rains in LA. I'd like to stay away from all that skid-alicious craziness. Secondly, the rain brings with it a darkish view outside due to the low rain filled clouds. Thus my primal instincts make me want to cuddle up in bed and take a nap. So when you bring these two things together, it is no wonder I lack motivation to do anything when it rains.

So not wanting to do much on my painting today because I wanna get back to bed, I will just be adding another raindrop to my rain cluster.

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64 days down, 300 go.
Unless you've been under a rock for the past ween you are aware that the Oscars are this weekend. Every news channel and entertainment media has been touting the impending gala for the past few days now. And regardless of whether you are gonna be watching or not, you are probably gonna be or should be rooting for Avatar. So Im just gonna go ahead and call it right now. I hereby predict that James Cameron's Avatar will take the most awards by the end of the night. I'm also predicting Monique will take one home for her role in 'Precious'. That's as far as my predictions go…as for the other contenders, I don;t really care much.

If you live in Hollywood like me, the epicenter of the entertainment industry, you probably have been dealing with the massive traffic jams on Hollywood streets due to the closing of the main boulevard that ha been shut down for the Oscars. Living with this nightmare, it's a wonder I even bother to leave the house in the last few days. It's important to understand that blocking off this vital section of Hollywood boulevard which covers about 3 blocks in fron of the Kodak theater where the awards will be taking place, essentially chokes off the main transportation artery for Hollywood commuters. It's so bad that a trip that normally takes 5min now takes about 30min. Thank heavens it's for only one week but still I don't see how this benefits me or other regular Hollywood residents who have nothing to do with the Oscars. I guess the only way to make Hollywood can make it up to us is toT give us more movies like Avatar this year.

So today's painting is gonna be influenced by all this…Oscars and traffic congestion. Now since I already have traffic congestion depicted on my painting, I will add something to give it that Oscar touch. I will be painting one of the traffic blobs in gold to represent Oscar gold.

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63 days down, 301 go.
Got really involved with a musical concept I've been toiling with for a while and before I knew it, I had been in the studio for over 12 hours without a break or sleep. So the only thing I can think of to paint as I struggle to keep awake is the final liberation if my musical waves that were once behind bars. Here is is...

62 days down, 302 go.
Any geek out there knows that RGB is the building block of anything presented in the visual spectrum for electronics. Wikipedia defines the RGB color model is an additive color model in which red, green, and blue light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors. But little know that this also represents the foundation of every color we see with the naked eye. Now what does RGB have to do with anything you might ask, well I'm glad you did.

First of all let me tell you about my day. I engaged in a double dose of cardio today, the first on an elliptical machine at my gym, and the second by taking a run in the park on my way home. My trainer always encourages me to take a run in the park every now and then to complement my cardio routine. And if you remember, the last time I took a run in the 'Cardio In Nature' park was on day 52's after which I painted a green triangle at the bottom of my painting. So it was logical to add my strength triangle of today next to it. However since today featured a double dose of exercise, I decided to add a second triangle, one on both sides of Day 52's triangle painted in one blue and the other red.

Now that brings me to the RGB title. Since I had already used green in to represent the previous cardio in the park session with all the beautiful array of color of foliage I got to experience, I decided to take it a little deeper. Since RGB is the basis for every color in the visual spectrum, I decided to paint the additional triangles in red and blue to complete the RGB trinity. This perfectly represents all the beauty in color that nature has to offer. You should take a run in the park sometime...you might be inspired too.

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61 days down, 303 go.
I spent the better part of today in very extensive meetings with my lawyers about the state of my affairs and plans for the future. Believe me when I say life in this business without a good lawyer is a life of misery. Lawyers are very important to every entertainer and the better your lawyer, the better opportunities you will have for your career to soar to greater heights. I have to give a shout out to my lawyer for doing a great and terrific job in making sure I am fairly taken care of in everything I do. Again I cannot stress it enough, a good lawyer is as important as a good manager. And when you have em working is perfect sync, its a beautiful thing.

So as a tribute to my lawyers and all the amazing lawyers out there (in all fields of law), I have decided to paint the quintessential symbol for justice which is a weighing scale. However I decided to paint a one sided weighing scale (a scale with only one arm) because to be honest, I am not concerned about my interest as the other side is about theirs. So the one arm of justice represents my side of the table.

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60 days down, 304 go.
After catching up on some much needed sleep in my own bed after a 3 day hiatus, I decided to hit the gym for some cardio. That's it...nothing exciting happened today just woke up and headed to the gym. However later on tonight, I have an all night recording session. So that will be exciting.

So as usual, I painted a triangle but this time I switched it up a little bit and painted it around the top hat. To me this represents elegant endurance because there was an air of elegance in today's cardio session. i was still feeling high and good about myself after giving my fans a tremendous show over the weekend. So what better way to express that than my strength triangle over the very definition of Victorian elegance i.e. the top hat.

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59 days down, 305 go.
After a job well done as you can see from the pics below, I gat to head back to home base and prepare for the next. So another day another flight but I'm happy to be going back to clear skies and sunshine. Well maybe not clear skies but you get my drift.



Now that you have had your fill of the pics, here is my idea for today's painting. If you look at any map that depicts the California Republic, you will see a bear (the state animal) and a red star. So seeing that I already have a star within my celestial cluster, I will simply be turning it from yellow to red to represent California. That's where I'm heading today and I couldn't be happier.

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58 days down, 306 go.
Tonight is the reason for my trip to Chicago...it's the night of my concert in Downtown Chicago and Im all psyched up. This is what I do for a living and everyday I have to pinch myself. I still can't believe people pay me to do this...but I'm not complaining.

So for today's addition, I freed another musical wave from behind bars because this is my exercising my music in it's purest form to a live audience as opposed to a studio. This is the end user experience so it definition deserves notice on my painting. There is no better place to represent this that at the gradual liberation of my music from behind bars.

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