A few political sketches took a 15-year-old Prosser boy from his art class to questioning by the Secret Service — and thrust him into a debate over free speech
I got an unexpected shiny thing in my e-mail this week. Greg Brotherton has a luscious new creation available that I desperately want: the Brotron Hamilton D-6.
The lightest of the rapid fire pulse cannons, this compact power house turns you from a tank commander into an actual tank. Choose from a range of antipersonnel and armor shredding settings for the variable auto-feed. Repeated firing can damage internal organs so be sure to add a rapid fire recoil vest before hitting the field as one man wrecking crew.
Art alert!
This looks like it’s going to be very cool indeed: www.resistcrew.com
Sydney Exhibition:
29th April 2004
Galeries Victoria
Level 2, Shop 4
500 George Street
Sydney
A very nice example of public art.
Several beautiful examples of trompe l’oeil paintjobs on streetside utility boxes, either traffic light switching boxes or telephone punch-down racks.
No idea where they come from, although the text on the books suggests Israel.
A gallery full of photographs of wonderfully ornate French manhole covers.
Some amazing metalwork from a time where the simple things in life were created with great beauty.
It seems a shame that since these photos were taken some of the manhole covers have been removed.
Michael McDonough’s Top Ten Things They Never Taught Me in Design School
Nuff said. Good article. You can even just read the sub heads and you get the idea. Some of my fave sub heads from this are:
- 1. Talent is one-third of the success equation
- 2. 95 percent of any creative profession is shit work
- 3. If everything is equally important, then nothing is very important
- 7. When you throw your weight around, you usually fall off balance
- 10. The rest of the world counts
Some entries so far in The Iconfactorys annual Pixelpalooza Contest.
My favourites so far are ‘Geezers’, however ‘One Of These Days’ is not without it’s charm. ‘Baggies’ and ‘Reenex’ are also kinda cool, and ‘Paperface’ has a very cool simple anime-stationery cuteness about it. I can see plush talking dolls made out of this set.
Speaking of plush talking dolls, go buy a Cheat from Homestar Runner, or at least checkout the demo.
At the same time The Unstrung Harp was being published, Gorey was embarking on another project, one which turned out to be part and parcel of a major change occurring in the paperback book industry: designing the covers for the new Anchor Books.
Looky-looky! Online postings of covers by Edward Gorey. Check out Those Gorey Covers!
Sigh! The Shag exhibition wraps up this weekend in Sydney. Josh Agle aka Shag
will be at The Studio for Official Book Signing, 2-4pm this saturday aka tomorrow.
If you haven’t checked out this exhibition, do it! You have to see a Shag painting in real life to truly appreciate the actual colours and textures. The only downer, was that a few paintings weren’t finished in time for the Sydney show. These are going to be shipped directly to Melbourne damn it! But they will be in the catalogue at least.
Bye, bye Shag.
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I received an email from someone in California about some stationary they bought while in Australia a year ago, with some black and white Australian animal sketches that I did apparently. They wanted to know if there was anywhere in California they could get some more of these items.
I was dumbfounded. Huh? Then I cast my mind back to when I was in high school, there was a teacher who asked if I’d do some sketches for him to print out onto stationary and sell at the markets. I was of course going to get a fee, although undecided at the time. I did the sketches but the teacher then informed me he wasn’t going to go ahead with them after all.
At least that’s what he told ME…
This had to be what the Californians were talking about. My name must be on the pieces some where, so they’ve done a web search and come up with my website and email. I replied asking if they could remember where they got them from, “Paddy’s Markets”.
I’m not quite sure what pisses me off more, the fact that I’m being ripped of by a teacher (whose name I can’t remember), or that very shitty artwork can be traced back to me. Like I said, I did these when I was in high school, they’re crap!
If anyone else seems to have purchased any of these items with said artwork could you please email me with info on where you bought them. I’m not going to blow your head off or sue you, hey you didn’t do anything wrong. I just need more info. Maybe even a scan of the actual item so I can see where my name is or something.
Guess where I’m going this Saturday…
The Nathan J exhibition, Girls and Other Scary Things, has been posted online at the Outré Gallery web site. I would link straight to the appropriate page, but the site uses frames and some annoying javascript that takes you back to the home page with frames even after you open just the content frame in a new window. GGRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
Any way, it’s accessable from the exhibitions link. There are some nice prints and with some equally nice price tags. I also reccommend the blind boxed mini tree house figures. Their cute factor is very high!
David Hart was cleaning out the garage when he discovered what looks like a dragon in a jar.
Speculation is that the dragon is a 19th century hoax by German scientists aimed at their English counterparts. Documents suggest that the Natural History Museum turned the dragon away, possibly because they suspected it was a trick, and sent it to be destroyed. But it appears a porter, Hart’s grandfather, intercepted the jar and took it home
The Nathan J exhibition is only on in Melbourne. That sucks pretty darn hard, but hey, us Sydney siders get to swoop down and gorge ourselves silly on the Shag exhibit and Shag related goodies first, so that’s pretty cool. You know what enhances the coolness of the impending Shag exhibition? The fact that you can buy the Nathan J book/catalogue of the Melbourne show, you know, the book I said “I fucking want” in this entry here. That’s pretty fucking nice of those wonderful Outré Gallery keepers.
On a totally unrelated note, I finally succumbed and bought myself a graphics tablet. How the hell could I resist? I mean they come in deep purple these days. The theory is it will be delivered to my place of employment tomorrowish.
What would you do if you found an old abandoned tank in the London suburbs?
The Cubitt Artists happened upon just such a tank, so they painted it pink.
Isn’t it pretty, Sergeant Oddball would be so proud — via Beyond the Beyond
Online gallery of super-geeky lego sculpture, from artist Nathan Sawaya:
I decided to make Han Solo frozen in carbonite. Life size. It took about 10,000 bricks, almost all dark gray, and about three months of on and off building. I built the sculpture so it can break down easily into smaller parts, thus making it mobile. Because, like most people, I like to take large sculptures of people frozen in carbonite with me whenever I travel.
As you do.
Straight outta the Outré Gallery‘s newsletter:
Outré will be publishing a full-colour 48 page book on the work of Nathan entitled “Scarygirl: Art by Nathan”. This will be one of the very first monographs in the world focussing on vinyl as a new artistic medium. It will include reproductions of Nathan’s working sketches, illustrations and beautiful, detailed photographs of his vinyl work.
I want this fucking book. I want this exhibition to come to Sydney but alas it appears that this is not the case. Nathan J will only be available for Melbournians viewing pleasure, damn it!
HEROES AND MONSTERS: NEW WORKS BY SHAG, Sydney Opera House: 30 January – 24 February 2004.
Meet Shag in Sydney:
- Saturday 21 February at The Studio for Official Book signing, 2-4pm
- Sunday 22 February at The Studio for Closing Celebration, 6:30-8:30pm, and then following for DJs and dancing at The Opera bar until late (free admission)
Of course many Shaggy related items will be available for all your impulsive Shag needs. If you want to buy original paintings you are too late. There was a list, you could’ve joined the list, but it’s closed and the paintings are spoken for. Sigh!
The countdown is on!
Nice Mazda Flash animation showing one of their cars turning into an Autobot
Don’t know who or what Alpen is, but I love that they use studded, leather clad, masked, whip-wielding, bondage loving teddy bears as an advertising campaign.
I wonder if there are plans to merchandise the bears with the product. The NRMA had costumed teddy bears available, but they run more along the lines of aviatrix — Royal Flying Doctor fundraiser — than dominatrix — via Forget to Remember
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