tree graffiti

[rayiluq]

My name is Raymond Illuqeska. I’m located in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories in Canada. I was born in the Beaufort Sea off the coast of Tuktoyaktuk and where I picked up the art form of graffitti..I taught myself through old spray paint cans I stumbled across in village. I use tree stumps for a canvas because well out here there isn’t anything else that I can use. There isn’t an art store near round or a populated city where I can produce my work. I was wondering if anyone else has unique ways of doing their work like me and if so…can I see some of it ?rayiluqeffy

[B u r l]

I wont get around to it any time soon, but I had an idea to strip a tree of it's bark and smooth down the surface, then add a layer or 2 of primer over it all, then paint it head to toe in flowers. I thought it could look quite interesting amongst the rest of nature.

[rayiluq]

Yes, well there are very interesting tree's out here in the northwest territories especially because to get your canvas you must chip at thick glacier ice, because everything is frozen (it is the arctic circle). I accidently punctured a spray can with an ice pick that I bought at a hardware store called tuktyoak hardware it was big in there..also had a small spray paint section. Do you know of anyone else that does the type of work I do?rayiluqeffy

[mandrach]

this is a strange posting rayiluq
there are no trees near tuktoyaktuk. as you pointed out, it is well above the arctic circle and no large vegetation grows up there. the biggest thing you may find growing there would be about an inch in diameter. pretty small canvass to work on... you obviously have never been to tuktoyaktuk because you could have easily said that you use driftwood as a canvas because there is lots of that around. and beyond all that, there aren't any 'glaciers' around tuktoyaktuk, especially not the kind that are engulfing the big trees you have made up. the odd iceberg may be in the nearby beaufort sea in the summer months but that's about it.

there are a lot of really nice people that live in tuktoyaktuk and their lives aren't anything like what you have described here. your story represents a scary part of the internet - the ability of people to spread false information for no apparent reason. i actually do enjoy storytelling very much, but please be honest and tell people what is fact and what is fiction.

[Sady]

That was odd.

[Elwell]

Not nearly as odd as this: http://www.webmaster-talk.com/forum-success-stories/145012-survival.html
My name is Raymond Illuqeska. I am currently reporting from a rotting cabin on a 1992 ibm laptop somehow picking up a satellite wirelss signal from space. I’m located in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories in Canada. I’m here trying to contact anyone I can to tell them my survival story that I’ve gone through. I’m a 23 year old male that has been surviving off of wild berries and bark for my whole life, (I weigh only 80 pounds, tattered skin, and aging at rapid rates), on the odd occasion capturing seals and drinking their blood for nourishment. I was born in the Beaufort Sea off the coast of Tuktoyaktuk and raised by penguins and seals. I was raised speaking penguin tongue and eventually I taught myself english once I started living amongst humans. I’ve been told that at the age of 10 I was attacked by my seal and penguin family later being found on a glacier missing both my legs. The reprucussions of them finding out I ate there own kind in a raging black out experience due to starvation my whole life. I somehow have managed to use branches from tree’s for legs. Im wondering if anyone could somehow help me? Has anyone experienced the same thing?rayiluq

[amakanuun]

hey boy! yes you mandrach...I am amakanuun from yellowknife. I doesn't know where tis you come from but me myself heave lived in Tuktoyaktuk..there is trees there. I do glacier artwork in beaufort sea. You musn't talk against rayiluq's message. tis true.

[Elwell]

amakanuun, it's interesting how you and rayiluq both showed up here (http://www.artprimo.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=12182&sid=3cb2aeab71e0efbbd33b9183cf22049d), too.
I'm not sure exactly what's going on here, but I think it's time to say goodbye to you two, and to mandrach while we're at it, since you all seem to share a rather specific set of interests, as well as a distinctive writing and punctuation style.

[CCThrom]

Has my vote for "wierdest thread evar"

[Wooly ESS]

Someone left the gate open again.

[Kehai]

I wont get around to it any time soon, but I had an idea to strip a tree of it's bark and smooth down the surface, then add a layer or 2 of primer over it all, then paint it head to toe in flowers. I thought it could look quite interesting amongst the rest of nature.

you do realize that would kill the tree, right? what you've described is called girdling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girdling). akin to stripping a human of their flesh and slathering toxic primers all over their raw subcutaneous pulp. might look pretty cool though...

[crumpy]

Wow, how sad must your life be.....?

Seriously, what is the motivation for this? And for all we know you've done this all over the net judging by Elwells links. You make a weird first post and then argue with yourself as someone else? :jawdrop:

lol

Seriously, I'd love to hear an honest explanation of all this, but somehow I doubt that'll ever happen.

[Vhan Juju]

Ok, this is totally random I know, but you guys gotta look up Tuktoyaktuk on google earth...

I mean, its a really strange town...gives me the creeps.