Ironside Warehouse
7630 NE 4th Court
Miami, FL 33138-5032
Appointment: 786.315.8369
Postal carrier Bob McLean delivers mail, dressed as Santa, in Bellevue, Wash., in this 2009 file photo. (Chad Coleman/Bellevue Reporter)
The postal Santa has regained his wings.
Letter carrier Bob McLean had been donning a Saint Nick costume for the holiday season while on his route in Bellevue, Wash., for over a decade. But a supervisor earlier this week told him that he was no longer allowed to spread his brand of holiday cheer, alleging that a complaint was filed that he was not wearing official post office attire.
After a hearing yesterday, McLean was told he can wear the outfit again Friday when he delivers the mail.
"There will be a Santa in Bellevue," McLean told The Bellevue Reporter. "I'm just glad it's all resolved."
Earlier, he was pretty upset about being told not to wear the costume.
"The government is shutting me down because it's a non-postal regulation uniform," McLean, who has been working with the postal service since 1971, told The Bellevue Reporter.
McLean, who wears a white beard and has crisp white hair, said that he began wearing the costume when he was told that he looks a bit like Kris Kringle. Since then he has delighted residents while delivering the post, even causing traffic jams as motorists try to get a peek. He regularly visits the Aegis Living of Bellevue senior center as Santa, and at Bellevue's most popular Christmas attraction, Snowflake Lane, people lined up to take photos with him.
But this year when he was told that he must stop, he didn't take the news sitting down. USPS spokesman Ernie Swanson said the complaint came from a fellow carrier; McLean says that he believed it may be management's decision, but he is unable prove it. No one has come forward and said they had a problem with his costume, he told ABC News.
McLean said that the first reason that he was given for not being able to wear the suit was safety, followed by the fact that it was not a proper uniform. Finally a direct order came down, which he says he couldn't disobey.
"This was the first time; I don't know what happened. I don't step on anyone's toes," he said, adding that dressing as Santa isn't religious to him, "it's secular. It's about giving."
His union filed a grievance over the matter, and it was resolved in a meeting Thursday.
The Postal Service, which is losing billions of dollars each year, apparently decided that it was no use fighting Santa Clause with so much on its plate.
US POSTAL SERVICE CAN'T
SHUT DOWN SANTA!
US Postal Service tries to stop an employee from dressing like Santa on his route. What idiots.
Via: ABC News
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Santa Big Poppa
Ha, I hate the LMFAO version but I guess this is pretty funny. He's Santa and he knows it! I always had a feeling Santa got down like that. This video already has over 3 Million views. Holy Chest Nuts!
JAMES MURPHY DESIGNS
This is pretty dope. I discovered Jame Murphy's work on flickr. His artwork is really fun. It has a cartoon, hipster and tattoo fusion happening. Not sure what that means, but that's the only way I can describe it. He also designs Tee's. He has a bunch of stuff on his flickr page. He's designed a ton of shirts. Make sure to check it out. View more here
Thought of the day: Why do people that get beat up say, " I got my ass kicked?" Doesn't it make more sense to say "I got my face kicked"
Via: Petra
Muse of the photographer David Bailey, Penelope Tree was one of the most prominent models of the Sixties in London. A name and a face difficult to forget!
Only child of Marietta Peabody Tree, woman in the world and political activist Democrat and Ronald Tree, journalist, investor and Conservative MP, great-granddaughter of U.S. retailerMarshall Field and the Reverend Endicott Peabody educator, Penelope Tree was photographed by Diane Arbus at 13 years old. Continue reading
PENELOPE
TREE
THE MUSE OF DAVID BAILEY
Via: leblogdesovena
Penelope Tree, Richard Avedon, 1967
Penelope Tree, David Bailey
Penelope Tree, Vogue UK, 1968
Penelope Tree, David Bailey, Avril 1968
Have you missed Missy?
The displacement of psychic energy is a salient characteristic of the primary process, which governs the system of the unconsciousness. As a virtually objective correlative to this idea of the free displacement of psychic energies, the intense physicality of Cecily Brown’s paintings can be seen as emblematic of the exhibition’s theme. In this world of fragmented vitality, built of interleaving brushstrokes, Brown reserves an interior space for extravagance in opposition to repressive force. Sergej Jensen’s, Untitled (Bad Dreams), uses a similar density of layered figuration, only to reveal the dreamwork’s critical play in the substitution of a carpet fragment for the painter’s craft.
Wilhelm Sasnal, Thilo Heinzmann, and Eberhard Havekost all engage the inherent tensions between masking and revealing form as subject. Heinzman’s Heinze appropriates the naked form of the classic haystack armature as a standing sculpture, its spiked arms recalling the inherent dangers of support systems. Sasnal’s painting of strobe lights characteristically withholds in his search for a meaningful subject to paint. The surface of Havekost’s Minus 2 Meter 2, is unheimlich in its luxuriant depiction of a folded blanket that is also a veiled and masked surface.
In works by Charline von Heyl, Tom Burr, and Jacqueline Humphries, the specter of physicality is evoked through subtle reference to constraint, loss, and desire. Von Heyl, in the very title of her painting Idolores, achieves a Verschiebung that resounds throughout the formal dislocations of the object. Suggestions of confinement and loss echo through Burr’s triptych of pinned t-shirts.
If catastrophe and repressed passion operate in a space between the silence of disavowal and the trickery of disguise, they share with certain profound currents in contemporary art an abstraction of representation and an elision of mimetic didacticism. The German word “Verschiebungsersatz” conveys this sense of displacement—a postponement in time, a dislocation in space—with respect to the formation of a substitute.
(Verschiebung means displacement; ersatz, substitute.) Yoked together, the two sides of this term portray the often unstated value of works of art during times of instability by bringing expression to meanings and experiences that are not yet possible to state in more conventional language. As an exhibition, “Verschiebungsersatz” brings together a group of artists whose work transvalues those elements of psychic life which are otherwise prohibited expression. These artists find ways to introduce the work of art into the realm of primary processes associated with the unconscious and to elide the bar of censorship.
verschiebungsersatz
Via: Kimmerich
Curated by David Rimanelli
Do you want to swim like a dolphin?
Do you love Dolphins?
check the updates of "the Cove" in FB about dolphin slaughtering in my country, Japan. It's disturbing, but imporatant things to know.
thank to Renee for sharing this "cool gear" video in Fb.
This is another mind blowing piece of gear that I needed to post. As it says, "Flying Dolphin Water Jet Pack"
I am updating this post at 1/13/2012 now.
There are at least 2 companies already developed similer water jet pack products. I've seen the you tube video in Dec. 2011 the one built by water sports enthusiast Franky Zapata, from Marseille, France.
And this year, I found the higher end of jetpack, built by German company called MS watersports.
They are so great that not only will you be able to swim like a dolphin, but also you'll be flying like Astro Boy!!
This is dream gear for someone who's been wanting to swim and jump like a dolphin. you can watch the promotion videos and compare the products.
'THE OUTSIDERS'
Group Show at Ironside Warehouse
Opening: Saturday, January 7th 2012
Show runs for one week only
“A group show in a warehouse by some train tracks.”
Celebrating the bravery of the creative outsider. The individual artist can face an aspect of social and economical barriers of the art world that is obscurely outside of the art making process.
This show is about exhibiting the work of artists from the outside, figuratively or by dialogue and context. This grouping brings together a variety of artists from Miami and New York.
Ironside Warehouse
7630 NE 4th Court
Miami, FL 33138-5032
Appointment: 786.315.8369
JOHNNY ROBLES
ERIC TORRIENTE
KIKI VALDES
KRISTY LEIBOWITZ
DAVID MARSH
NICOLE SODEN
EDWARD CROWELL II
DAVID “UPNUP” CABRERA
DIANNE RADLER
Curator:
KIKI VALDES
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Kim Jong-il
North Korea’s neighbours and the United States were on high alert Monday after the death of leader Kim Jong-il plunged one of the world’s most heavily militarised regions into fresh uncertainty.
China and Russia offered condolences and support for their ally nation’s new leaders, while Western states expressed hope that a change in leadership could ease North Korea out of decades of extreme isolation and better the lives of its long suffering people.
Kim suffered a heart attack while travelling on a train, North Korean state media said, setting up the autocratic, well-armed and nuclear-ambitious state for only its second leadership change since the Korean war ended in an uneasy truce in 1953.
Many experts have warned that a transition could lead to a period of instability. In a reminder of the permanent volatility on the divided peninsula, South Korean media reported that the North test fired a short-range missile off its eastern coast.
The North’s biggest ally, China, expressed official grief over Kim’s sudden death and, in an important signal, threw its weight behind his apparent successor, Kim Jung-un.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper urged North Korea to “close this sad chapter in its history” and called on it new leadership to promote “the well-being of its people and stability on the Korean peninsula.”
“Kim Jong-il will be remembered as the leader of a totalitarian regime who violated the basic rights of the North Korean people for nearly two decades,” Mr Harper said in a statement.
“We hope his passing brings positive change allowing the people of North Korea to emerge from six decades of isolation, oppression and misery. The regime’s reckless decisions have resulted in North Korea being an impoverished nation and a country isolated from the international community because of its dangerous nuclear proliferation and ballistic missile programs,” Mr Harper added.
is hanging out with Satan
Source: National Post
By Tracy Lee Stum
3D STREET ART
Visual Artist, born in Pennsylvania
“ I’m a street painter – I draw things with chalk pastels on pavement; streets, plazas or sidewalks in urban public areas. I have a passion for manipulating 2D surfaces to reveal an unlikely alternative in 3D, typically designing and creating interactive images which invite the viewer to become part of my imagined world. As a result, communicating through this manner of direct participation has certainly become the keystone of my philosophy on being a visual artist.
Street painting :aka Madonnari (Italian) WIKIPEDIA
actually has been recorded throughout Europe since the 16th century. Tracy Lee Stum is a American Street Painter, who is recognized as one of the most talented 3D chalk artist/painter internationally. Her imagination world she creates are just STUNNING!!
If you happened to see her work in person, consider yourself lucky. just saying...
HONGKIAT.COM-for more Stunning Street Paintings,
When you double click this text box you can change the text, style, color and fonts.
thanks to 'Raze013' for showing me her works.
3D STREET ART
I'm No Clone Bitches.
DID YOU KNOW: Marvel, as trying to increase sales, created a "Clone Story", in which Peter found out that he was a clone of the real Spider-Man and that the real Spidey was "Ben Reilly", a guy created partly for recapturing the old Spidey Spirit, which had partially changed during the decades.
The idea backfired, People got mad finding out that they had read about a fake, started boycotting and Marvel desperately had to change Pete back
as the Original Spidey. Now the clone story is for most fansthe most hated story of decades of Spider-writing.
Olek now must remain in London and will return to court on December 22, after which she may be able to speak more openly about the case. In the meantime the artist is preparing for her show at Tony’s Gallery in London scheduled to open on January 26 (updated date),'12. Olek is asking for donations to help pay her mounting lawyer bills. you can donate to the artist though this web site- Olek’s Appeal by purchasing photographs of her crocheted creations. source: HYPERALLERGIC
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thanks to 'Raze 013' for showing me her works.
The sickest!! knitter I have ever seen... for more
A D B U S T ING
by eyesaw. - london, UK
HAPPY CHRISTMAS
UNHEALTHY BALANCE
BURGER KING
THE LAST CAPITALIST
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click this --->>>WHY?
You've been working on this unauthorized street project this year of 2011,
Targeting prime advertisement spaces like these bus stops,
Replacing the major ads to your bold and strong images you created that can be also controversial.
What is your thought, and
eyesaw. WHY
NOTE: This You tube video was uploaded on Feb 2011
great concept a r t
What is the concept?
Don't you realize? The next time you see sky, it'll be over another town. The next time you take a test, it'll be in some other school. Our parents, they want the best of stuff for us. But right now, they got to do what's right for them. Because it's their time. Their time! Up there! Down here, it's our time. It's our time down here. That's all over the second we ride up Troy's bucket.