The Starving Striving Artist

Joshua McCray, fellow Red Devil, is an aspiring art and graphic design student at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. 

Editor's Note: Apparently Josh eats regularly, no worries.

Aliases: JMcCray, Jmac, JrainalldayMCray, Mi (yes, he tried posing as me once..see for yourself --->)

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Mi: Josh, thanks for taking the time to answer a couple questions for the MoT nation. Not posessing much artistic talent myself, such vivid pieces always awe me. It is incredible how you convey your creative imagination to paper (or other medium). What's your secret?

JM: All it takes is a good dose of boredom, a set of Faber-Castell pens, and a nice piece of paper.

Mi: I don't think i'm treating my looseleaf well enough, my blobs are blobs my stick people..yeah.blobs..anyways Have you always wanted to be a graphic designer, or in some artistic field?

JM: Ever since I came in contact with Threadless.com.

Mi: Hah yeah, you and your crazy threadless shirts, I see you're wearing one now. That pink one you always tried to hide under your polos was great. Onwards...When I write a blog post, I draw my inspiration from random events that I muse about that day, and then build off of it. What inspires your work?

JM: Fairy Tales, the Bible.. I like [to] manipulate stories.. Add my own twist.

Little Red- Joshua McCray

Mi: Yeah, there's a lot of vivid stories to draw from there, and obviously it wouldn't be you if you didn't add your own somethin somethin. If you were to try to pindown your artwork into one of those mystical categries, which would it be?

JM: Graphic Illustration. I like to find a combination between easy to read story telling and detailed illustration.

Mi: Hahah, dude sometimes, I have no clue what your goats are doing in your drawings,

 but it's alright you're telling the story of your craziness. And by the way, amazing job at McCrayfish.com. Did you create the site yourself, code and such?

JM: Well, she's currently under construction. I'm working on building McCrayfish.com using Wordpress as a CMS.

Mi: Aha, I've dabbled in HTML and such, and that's just not me, too tedious. Maybe if this she takes off. Could you tell us which piece your most proud of over at McCrayfish.com?

JM: Being an artist, my "favorite" piece is ever changing. Never content.

Mi: Well, I think DeMi agree that this is our favorite piece. Have you done any freelance work?

Goat's Vengeance- Joshua McCray

JM:I've done work for The Wisconsin Juniors Volleyball club, and Revolution student ministries, to name a few.

Mi: Nice eclectic mix of freelancing stuff, Mrs. Neimi would be proud. Thanks for letting us showcase some of your artwork and skill. We certainly like all things creative here at Musings. Good luck on your ventures!

JM: Anytime my fine feathered friends.

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Note: as McCrayfish.com is under construction you can locate a lot of Josh's work over at his DeviantArt page: http://thelastsoldierofgndr.deviantart.com/gallery/

-Mi

Musingsontap's Hotline

I set up various ads around UNC's dining hall featuring our blog and it's phone number, so people could call/text in utterly ridiculous things, and well, we were lucky enough to be graced by a patron from Charlotte, NC.

The following conversation is unaltered in anyway except to hide the person's phone number (for obvious reasons...)
Moving forward like Toyota. (I'd like one Avalon please)

Inbox

Charlotte Girl (see gender neutral Musingsontap policy): Obama told me to text you? 9:55 AM Mi: Naturally 10:03 AM CG: How many of these have you gotten? 10:09 AM Mi: Enough to report back to Obama 10:10 AM Mi: DeMi, More kindly invites you to peruse www.musingsontap.blogspot.com 10:14 AM CG: Wait. Is this just advertising for your blog? 10:14 AM CG: That would be ridiculous, this is me advertising for a blog Obama would like  if he happened to have enough free time and happened to stumble upon it. 10:15 AM CG: Golly! If Obama would like it, I sure would too! 10:16 AM Mi: Golly gee, but of course, random patron with Charlotte area code 10:17 AM (At this point De noticed his phone a-buzzin' and decided to jump in the conversation) De: Our blog was also ordained by the popes secret hot daughter 10:19 AM CG: Our blog? What sort of underground collective is this? 10:20 AM CG: Also I don't recognize 312.... Ah well. 10:20 AM CG: And how do you about the pope's daughter? I thought they killed everyone that knew....  Everyone but me... 10:21 AM De: Read the blog and you will find out! 10:21 AM Mi: Chi town, represet 10:22 AM Mi: Popes daughter was just a postulation that you proved correct! Thank you good sirpersonmam 10:24 AM CG: Shit. I'ma have to find and kill you. 1:33 PM Me: Shit ima have to have the secret service come in. Somehow 1:40 PM CG: Nope. They don't want people to know either. They'll probably get to you soon 1:42 PM Mi: Kidnap the hot daughter it is. 1:43 PM CG: With you on that. 1:56 PM Mi: Meet you at the Vatican 330am holy time. 2:04 PM CG: Yes ma'am/sir. Hold on, what is holy time 2:05 PM Mi: Whatever time zone the Vatican is in. Plus a little something. If you were holier you'd know. 3:20 PM CG: Hey. I'm holier than thou 3:53 PM De: Then you should know whats up 3:54 PM CG: You right, you right. 4:46 PM Mi: Siempre 11:09 AM 312-899-MUSE text us -Mi

The packers are still #1

Yes it is quite marvelous. So marvelous I must blog whilst listening to some foreign guy lecture on economic multipliers. This guys 2's look like an @ sign. I am giving him an honorary mention in our poll for fav guy with accent this guy just informed us that beer never gets exported. Cool.
Anywho I'm off to study ancient cities.

Gnight taiwan!
-mi

Green and Gold Glory

Good Morning Packer Nation!,

An enthusiastic right on to the one and only Mi! Normally, driving in circles look for a half hour looking for a parking space and missing my second marketing class of the semester (the first due to an untimely yet punctual infection of the sinuses) would be things that would dampen my natural............optimism? But my most beloved Green Bay Packers are World Champions, and today is a good day. I, like many of the Packers players and personnel stated during last night's chaotically beautiful celebration, am not sure how to describe the post-game emotions. Maybe it's complete satisfaction, and maybe most people aren't used to experiencing that, but like so many other times, I think Tom Delonge might have the perfect thing to say:

I think I like today, I think it's good, it's something I can't get my head around.

-De

Green Bay Packers

The Packers are the National Football League Champions! Today is a good day in sports history, the Lombardi trophy is back where it belongs!
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Hell Yeah-GO PACK GO!