Banksy

Grand Canyon

I just returned from the Grand Canyon.  Artist's renderings can not capture the awesome beauty of it.  First time I was proud of my country in years.

Robert Crumb, illustration work

Geek Pants

Oriental Women

Brazil!

Sao Paulo, Brazil
Alexandre Orion

This graffiti was created in reverse - by cleaning grimy city surfaces. It’s sort of a lift-and-scrub technique in which the dark areas are old, crusted pollutants. Authorities didn’t know how to charge the Brazilian graffiti artist responsible, Alexandre Orion:

'The authorities were certainly miffed but could find nothing to charge him with. They had no other recourse but to clean the tunnel — but only the parts Alexandre had already cleaned. The artist merely continued his campaign on the other side of traffic. The utterly flummoxed city officials then decided to take drastic action. Not only did they clean the entire tunnel but also every other tunnel in Sao Paulo.'

Link Here

HAHA!

I am so in love with Stephen Colbert

His GQ pic.

HAHA!

AMEN! Poems are SUPPOSSED to Rhyme!

A very interesting debate, either way.

Why Don't Poems Rhyme Anymore?



I believe they should rhyme. Otherwise it is not freaking poetry.

The Ostlers Fate

for Obamafarians

Why?

I know, this is an art blog. But these photos are art. And they are terribly tragic in contrast.

At first it looks like so many pics of widows crying for their brave loved ones....

Until you see the pic taken right before it.

This soldier hugged his little brother tearfully as he set off to Iraq.

And this is his brother kissing him when he returned, for the last time.

My God.

WHY?

Great Sculpture

Anne of Cleves

I am about to do 2 very large canvases with these basic colors. Love them!

As we all know, King Henry the 8th had many wives, and Anne of Cleves was one of them.

Henry had heard all about the 'beautiful princess' so he sent a portrait artist to her and he returned with this portrait. She was so beautiful, King Henry decided to marry her on the spot.

Unfortunately, the portrait artist was a very good artist. Too good. When Henry saw her in real life for the first time he was seriously disappointed, and enraged, because apparently she was actually quite ugly.

The marriage proceeded even though Henry knew he wanted out. Fortunately Anne agreed to a annulment 6 months later, depriving the king yet another opportunity to behead another spouse.

No matter what she really looked like, it is still a great painting.

Expected to bring 16 million pounds at auction - by Lucien Freud

Fitz Lane

Boston Harbor

Sad

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur

Flowers for Veritas

Here is to a speedy recovery!

Blvd Street Art Gallery, Seattle (upcoming show)

One for the dancers!

Aztec

Jewish Paper Cut

Augustus

Hey everyone,

We have created a new blog that holds a private chatroom for anyone who wants to help us sort out a murder. Or, two. Or 3.

Or just to say hi to each other in real time...

Anyways, look us up in here

http://summerdetectives.blogspot.com/

Over the next few days we will be working the kinks out, but if you want to hook up with Karrie and can not catch her in chat, please look to your right at our links and click on Forever Faye or just click here. She can answer any questions you have about the case so far.

As always, I love yall and party on!

My newest work...

This man is being sought by my family, and maybe some cops, depends on the cop I guess...

This composite is for a man named 'Younger', who was introduced by Faye Aline Self to family members as her 'new boyfriend' on the day she disappeared. I drew it based upon my own 24 year old memories of a man I met once. I am as certain as I can be at this point without being hypno-regressed myself.

In this composite, it was how he looked in 1983, aged between 25 and 35 years. Approximately 6 ft tall and slender built. His eyes were bright, bright blue and his hair and moustache a dirty blonde.

We have reason to believe he may have worked in Shreveport, in some sort of mechanical or oil field position.





Age progressed......

If by some miracle you know who this man is, please help my family.

S/T Michael D. Allen with the Louisiana State Police may be contacted at: 318-862-9728.

Make Believe

My latest photo essay

Batman is the sexiest comic book hero. Ever.

Is there really even an argument?

Batman Rules.

Oskar Kokoschka

The Duomo, Florence 1948 oil

Ships in Distress in a Heavy Storm 1690

Ludolf Backhuysen, oil on canvas

I have finally decided.

My 2 big canvases.. I will start fresh on them very soon. I am very excited about them again.

My final choice is fixed now, it will be ....Petra.

We will see if I can do a decent landscape. But, first I have to figure out how to paint a baby though.

Not as easy as it sounds.

Anyways, I love yalls posts, keep em coming!

Political Art of Shepard Fairey

Snide Philadelphia Inquirer story about the scary Big Brother poster says:
Apparently, it makes Barack Obama look like a totalitarian leader to people over the age of 35 or so, since they are not familiar Shepard Fairey's Obey posters, what this is obviously a total homage to. It's more than an homage - you can buy a print at the Obey Giant site or Obama's site. It's art they sanction. I'd seen it around, admired it but didn't know the story. We've shown it at Silenced Majority Portal, from an image at Cafe Press.

Here is what Shepard himself said at his Obey Giant Worldwide Propaganda Delivery site:
Sales of the Obama T-shirts through Upper Playground funded these bus shelter ads in Philly. You might be saying… “supporting a political candidate, paying for ads, what is Obey thinking?” Well, we’re thinking that helping to put Obama in office is one of the most subversive things we could be doing. To see for yourself, check out his policies at BarackObama.com









Make Art Not War - read more about this artist - the history, the progation method, the madness. Fairey started as a skater and graffiti artist and finished Rhode Island School of Design. I just read a very nice thesis from St. Mary's in London about art and propaganda with alot of Fairey. He is from the tradition that goes back to "Kilroy was Here" in WW2.

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Fairey is one of today's best known street artists. The "Obey Giant" campaign has grown via an international network of collaborators. His manifesto links the art with Heidegger's phenomenology. The "Obey" campaign draws from the movie "They Live" (which starred a pro-wrestler) from which come slogans, as from McLuhan's work, such as "The Medium is the Message." Fairey has specialized in silkscreens and there is an Obey clothing line. He also has a film degree and has done documentaries, album cover art (as for the Black Eyed Peas and Smashing Pumpkins, and Led Zeppelin.) He has joined with other artists to create antiwar-antiBush posters and has collaborated with DJ Shadow, Mission of Burma, Interpol AND founded Swindle magazine as well as written a book, "Supply and Demand." He also DJs as DJ Diabetic and Emcee Insulin. His political art sets a high standard. He has also designed an electric guitar with a Big Brother logo and did the loading screen for Guitar Hero. I am just scratching the surface. Slugbug

My lifelong friend Karen Sasine is a mosaic artist. This is some of her work! Rainbow Mosaics is the name of her website.

Am working on links

If your link disappeared, I am working on it.

Mosaic Fun

An amazing revival

In the beginning of the last century, the Native American Indians were a defeated race. But their defeat was not defined at any of the famous 'Last stands' nor was it signaled by a single treaty or act. However there was something that more than anything finalized the subjugation of their race.. It was 'schools' like this one.

This school, in Guthrie Oklahoma was used to house 'Indian children', who once removed from their people had little choice but to be integrated into white society. They shaved their braids, taught them white mans games and language. Most of these children were forbidden from speaking in their native tounge, and the penalties for doing so usually included severe beatings and starvation until they were less 'savage'.

But, by the time I lived by the school it had long been abandoned. It looked like this...

Like with most spooky old buildings, it was rumored to be haunted. The ones who dared to go in there would claim to hear the wailing screams of children throughout the entire building. It just sat there, and rotted, an unwanted reminder of the not so distant past.

And then someone with millions of dollars to spend bought it, and decided to turn it into a single home for himself and his family.

And this is what it looks like now.

When I first saw it again, after all these years, I literally quit breathing.

It is so beautiful I could not help but think even the ghosts could appreciate it.