Postal carrier Bob McLean delivers mail, dressed as Santa, in Bellevue, Wash., in this 2009 file photo. (Chad Coleman/Bellevue Reporter)
Inspired as much by dreams as by chance encounters with complete strangers, his beautiful creatures with their pensive and melancholy expressions, evoke feelings of love, sadness and longing. Dark-haired figures dominate sparse backgrounds giving the impression of characters alone in the desert or even outer space. Spanning time as well as space, Rubino draws on sepia toned paper and attires his subjects in anything from Victorian dresses to S&M spiked heel black leather boots. These juxtapositions give his works a timeless quality that adds to the eeriness and universality of their appeal.
No matter their attire, the figures are stoically composed; whether they look ahead at the viewer or off into the distance their gaze is of such intensity the viewer can only begin to imagine what memory or daydream consumes them. The black graphite and the restraint Rubino employs to make the drawings reveal a dark undertone to the work that addresses the human capacity for evil and destruction in the face of beauty.
With his artwork, Rubino creates an elaborate cosmology that encapsulates his views on the interconnectivity of individuals throughout history and his belief in karma and an ever-flowing energy through which everything is bound.
Rubino, is a self-taught Argentinean, first known by local police and the admiring public for his exquisite graffiti paintings, is successfully channeling his energies and gaining attention in the art world.
SANTIAGO
RUBINO
VICTORIAN VIXENS
I've been following Santiago Rubino's work for years. His drawings have crazy detail and the narratives tap into a place we can all connect with. His murals are just like his paper drawings. Check him out.
Via: Santiago Rubino
The chairs that Jimmie Martin Ltd. designs are surely part of the Slow Home movement – it basically “benefits the planet without sacrificing quality of life” – and display a cool and urban print combined with sophisticated shapes. The creativity of the designers also leaves room for their client’s own visions: “All pieces are individually finished off to either the customer’s personal taste, or to the ideas of the founders, Jimmie and Martin.”
Take a look at each of the chairs – they all have something amazing to show off, whether it’s words, colours or dog illustrations. They play with different colours and symbols, like the Union Jack inspired upholstery, the neon green sausage dog upholstery or the classy commisioned chairs with words written on their earth-coloured upholstery. The colourful designs can bright up the atmosphere in an urban apartment or even give a sophisticated artistic vibe in a club. We found them on ChairBlog and it’s up to you and the interior designers to place the right chair in the right setting – and trust me, there are a lot of designs to choose from.
Jimmie Martin Ltd - Chairs
Via: Freshome
Tim Burton with Paul Reubens during the filming of Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985)
I gotta say, I'm a huge Peewee's Big Adventure fan, and Tim Burton fan at that. I have never seen this awesome photo!
I'm a part of
(Come at me bro!)
THE ONE PERCENT
Q + A with organizer Kiki Valdes
Conducted by: M.A. Macias
WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE THE TITLE FOR THE SHOW "THE OUTSIDERS"?
KV: I think most artists in general at some point or another in their careers can feel like outsiders. If you achieve a certain amount of success you can feel alienated at times from your peers. You can also feel like an outsider from the art world in general if you don't like to be social all of the time. The warehouse where we are doing this show is called Ironside. It's a property close to some train tracks. The street kids always throw rocks from the train tracks at us. I just felt it connected so much of how people feel lately.
HOW DID YOU PICK THE ARTISTS INVOLVED?
KV: Everyone in the show is my friend. I've been following everyones work for years. Dianne Radler is no longer with us but I am so happy to show her work for this. She took photos of so many iconic people in Miami and New York during the 1980's. People that were considered outsiders at one point, but now are really legends of our time. I respect everyone involved. Everyone brings something different. It sounds cliche but it's true and I think that's the only way I find this fun to do.
HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE ART WORLD IN GENERAL, IS THIS SHOW A REBELLION AGAINST IT?
KV: I don't know. I just want to do a show and open doors for my friends. We all want to show what we are doing and I think sometimes we have to do it ourselves. Everyone is really great and I think this show will help people notice that more. This show is about doing it ourselves. None of us are represented. We can make work and do shows and have fun. It was really important for me to do this show in Miami a month after Art Basel. This is how we live. We don't live for Dec.
YOU LIVE IN NEW YORK STILL? ARE YOU ARE LIVING IN MIAMI NOW?
KV: I don't live in Miami year round anymore. I am doing New York and Miami. I think it's something I needed to do. I want to keep doing shows like this one in Miami and New York. We will see how that goes. It's a lot of fun to do. I call it cultural diplomacy. I like to interact with artists. It makes you learn more about art and about what you look for. It helps me grow as an artist too. I like learning the whole process of how to pick art and when everyone is happy with the outcome. It makes me happy too.
THE
OUTSIDERS
JOHNNY ROBLES
ERIC TORRIENTE
KIKI VALDES
GEORGE SANCHEZ-CALDERON
KRISTY LEIBOWITZ
DAVID MARSH
NICOLE SODEN
EDWARD CROWELL
DAVID CABRERA
DIANNE RADLER
ROLLIN STIRMAN
Ironside Warehouse: 7630 NE 4th Court
Miami, FL 33138-5032/ Learn more: TheOutsidersExhibition.com
The Outsiders (Group Show) opens Saturday, Jan. 7th 2012
Works by:
NEOZOON Paris, France
Street Installation Artists crew
NEOZOON is a collective of female street artists that use re-porposed fur materials and create wall art.
What do these image do to you? When I saw these images in my Fb friend's wall, I started to automatically re-connect to the Universal Intelligence that is usually hidden below my conciousness during my daily life in the city. I took some time picturing the scene of animals were living wild in nature before human civilization a long long time ago. Ecologically it was a perfect world...... This fur belonged to living creatures once, then used for human adornment and now it almost looks like they are back to life again with the brilliant touch of the NEOZOON's visions, collaborating with urban elements. This is one of my favorite street art moments of all time.
ZOO
GERMANY
Step 1: Place a dot of glue in the middle of a Styrofoam ball. Place the end of yarn in the middle of glue dot to secure and wrap the yarn around the Styrofoam ball several times through glue dot.
The beauty about working with yarn and Styrofoam is that the yarn "clings" to the Styrofoam texture, making it easy to wrap the yarn around the ball and not worry about the yarn slipping from place.
Step 2: Wrap yarn around Styrofoam ball several times in the same direction, then switch directions. Keep wrapping yarn around ball in alternating directions to get a "yarn ball" effect, as seen above.
Keep wrapping yarn around until Styrofoam no longer shows through. Doesn't that look pretty?
Step 3: When the ball is wrapped to your liking, place a dot of glue next to the most recently wrapped area of yarn. Continue to wrap yarn over glue dot to secure yarn in place.
The yarn ball should look like this afterwards, the glue is covered by yarn wrapped over it. Cut yarn, leaving a long tail for weaving in the end.
Step 4: Thread a needle with the yarn end and pass needle underneath several sections of wrapped yarn. Repeat a few times to secure, then trim yarn end close to ball.
Step 5: To make a hanger for the ornament, use a needle and thread a length of yarn underneath a section of wrapped yarn. Tie ends into a knot at desired length and hide knot underneath wrapped yarn section.
Repeat for lots of yarn ball goodness to hang on your tree this year! So much cuter than store-bought ornaments.
Via: Sew Wrong
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.
