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today... no fear. none. for Bowie. The man who announces his own death with an album release two days before and makes it to his 69th birthday through an 18 month battle with cancer. the man who finds out he's dying and stages a music video for it. the man who outlives all of his personas and still has one in the attic. the man who wants to wear something on stage so he designs it his self, the man who doesn't take anything from the limitations of this reality short of his own mortality and then DECIDES to prolong the inevitable. The man who can make light, make beauty out of oblivion, and chance. the most honest act ever performed, and the most dramatic reality to have ever graced the stage with grace.

I don't want to see anyone in drab uniform unless you'd wear that suit to your own wedding. He inspired me and I didn't even know Ziggy, that was before my time. I hope the whiteboard marks in the halls at CCA haunt the place from how many times he inspired a student enough to be featured as subject. part of me doesn't want to move today, wants to grieve a little. part of me knows that I barely knew the man other than a phantom of a shocking decade, so shocking that the essence lingered into future generations. part of me knows both these are irrelevant.

I won't be drawing bowie for a few months at-least because I don't want to capitalize on a death. I drew robin williams, another inspiration, out of a knee jerk reaction from the sudden violent nature of his passing and I wish I had waited. Bowie slowed his and tried to help us understand it and I thank him for that. if I find time in the future I want it to be because of my fond memories of him and my debt of inspired courage, irrelevant of his passing.

I know many of you might not read this, but I feel it needed to be said. I can't be at his funeral and classes start soon, but I hope for the sake of all artists, that we treat this man's death with the same respects we would expect of our own someday. for now, I must go get dressed. goodbye hero.

if you want to join me take a pic in your funeral clothes, your most extravagant, or comment below with your thoughts. 

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