GREENSHINES IS A MAGAZINE FOR CITY BOYS AND A GENTLEMEN'S CLUB.
GREENSHINES.COM is written from Hong Kong by Israel Greenshines, the last hero of the Internet. GREENSHINES is a publication for gentlemen, and it has been online since 1998. GREENSHINES receives between 120,000 and 150,000 visits every day. If you don't want to miss anything I publish, you can receive Greenshines in your email. I would do so if I weren't the one writing here. I mean, if I weren't the one writing and sending the newsletters and I came across this website, I would want to receive whatever they were going to send me.
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20.04.2014 Before Greenshines
Before I had the brilliant idea of creating Greenshines, I painted and drew all day long, and when I say before Greenshines, I mean pretty much since I can remember. When I launched the website in 2001, the internet basically took up 100% of my time for at least the first six years. Those of you who were there know what it was like. It was a battle to the death on "the Spanish Internet" between five or six websites to stay at the top. I'm sure you can name the other five websites.
During those years, painting was put aside. This is a photo of what I was painting at the time; I never touched it again.
I've been able to afford to paint again for some time now. The battle on the Internet ended years ago, and I've had all the time in the world to do what I wanted. Those of us who won, "divided the spoils," and it's a war that ended, as I say, a long time ago. When it all ended, around 2006 or 2007, everyone went their separate ways. Some website owners hired people to update their pages and left their websites on autopilot, others let their websites slowly die, my friend Torbe (the only friend/ally I made at that time) fulfilled his dream, became a porn actor, and today is the king of the Spanish-language Internet. I invested my money outside the Internet, continued updating the website more out of affection than anything else, and since then I've been traveling around the world. I've spent a lot of time in Miami, and this year I decided to come to Vancouver with the idea of returning to New York after a month and moving there permanently, to settle down, as they say.
I had never been to Vancouver before and had no idea what to expect. After the first month, I decided to stay here for a year instead of going back to New York. I've been putting off moving to New York for years, perhaps because I'm still reluctant to settle down. What am I going to do this year in Vancouver? I'm going to go back to doing what I was doing just one day before opening Greenshines. I'm going to paint huge pictures again. This morning, some of the things I'll need arrived. I've been drawing and painting all my life and haven't stopped doing so in recent years, but painting large-format pictures like I used to before 2001 is basically impossible if you're constantly on the move. If you're going to take it seriously, you need to be in one place for several months.
During those years before Greenshines, I painted a lot, but I don't have photos of everything; in fact, I hardly have any photos at all. It seems unbelievable, but a few years ago, cell phones didn't have cameras, digital cameras weren't as common as they are now, and people didn't spend their days taking photos of everything, unfortunately. Even so, I still have some photos, some better than others. The paintings were quite large (most were over 2 meters on each side), and to take good photos I needed a medium-format camera, which I didn't have. These are (rather poor) photos of what I was painting at the time.
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