Do you remember the first time you drew or painted a cat?
When I was 13 or so and saw what Picasso had painted when he was my age, I decided I really needed to get good fast. So I started by drawing seven things over and over again: crumpled up hand towels, flowers, myself, my parents, the beach, the alleys around town, and cats. I have pages and pages in notebooks, hundreds of cat drawings. In my later teenage years I moved to mushrooms, dancers, medieval castles, psychedelic abstractions, and sexy superhero cat-women. So I always was working with cats, I guess. And I never stopped drawing and painting cats from life.
What drew you so strongly to your feline subjects?
I liked that they constantly moved, so it was always a game to get this quick little gesture in the right way. Plus they are so elegant and mysterious, and gracious like dancers. There is always so much twist and bend in their positions. It's like they were made to be placed in an image. My house was a bit of a cat crack house. They moved in and out, usually based on how much bacon and cheese they got, which was a lot. So there were always new ones to draw. They squatted where they pleased, and never really got kicked out. Sometimes their family members would come looking for them there, only to be turned away by the head of the house. They definitely own the house to this day.
The 21st-century belongs to the cat. They already own the Internet and its lolz, an entire subdivision of street art is devoted to their graphic representation (with or without lasers shooting out of their eyes), and now felines seem to be colonizing contemporary art galleries as well. Recently a flurry of New York shows have celebrated the cat, including Urs Fischer andCassandra MacLeod’s familial turn at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Kristen Schiele at Freight + Volume.
And then there is Allison Schulnik’s oil-thick exhibition at ZieherSmith Gallery, which features multiple paintings of felines (and one sculpture.) We spoke with the Los Angeles-based artist about her artistic cat fancy.
Allison Schulnik's Obession with
Felines
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Cat Head (Miggy Littleton), 24" x 24", oil on linen, 201
A 56-foot, 60-ton sperm whale died on a beach in Taiwan in January, 2004. Researchers wanted the carcass to perform an autopsy and for research, so they loaded the whale onto a tractor-trailer and set out through the city of Tainan, heading for the Shi-Tsau Natural Preserve. It took 13 hours, three cranes and 50 workers to get the whale loaded on the truck.
Unfortunately, on the way through the city, gasses built up to a critical level in the whale and it exploded, spewing whale guts in the street, on the cars and over pedestrians. According to witnesses, the smell was pretty bad. Residents and shop owners put on masks and tried to clean up the mess. Eventually the whale continued its journey to the research center.
Gross: Dead Sperm Whale Explodes on Busy Street.
Crazy things can happen when a giant sea creature is already dead, like explode bloody guts all over the place.
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Guys, listen up. A study says it is actually healthy to stare at a woman's breasts.
Five-hundred men participated in the German study. Half were told to refrain from looking at breasts for five years, the other half were told to ogle them daily.
The study found the men who stared at breasts more often showed lower rates of heart problems, a lower resting heart rate and lower blood pressure.
The authors of the study recommend that men stare at breasts for 10 minutes a day.
Study: Stare at Boobies, Live longer.
Hoax or not a hoax… Do you agree with this ‘study’?
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KISSIN' BABIES
AND KICKIN' ASS
The Seven Deadly Websites
Just a little something to think about next time you tweet, like, stream, bid...and procrastinate. Ha
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Snooping:
So, I was snooping around Flickr like I usually do and came across some pictures with Isa Guana's account and these are just some of the pictures I enjoyed.
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Diggin' this sweater. Everybody loves Spider-Man...I mean girl.
Not sure if this is Disneyland or Disney World. Pretty cool set up for a Mickey Halloween.
I'm not from the westcoast, but to me this looks like In N Out Burger? Correct me if I'm wrong!?
LOL
The genre began in ancient Egypt, when a bunch of people said to themselves "Hey, those mummified corpses we keep around everywhere are actually kind of creepy," and performed a play about them coming to life and killing ancient Egyptian teenagers.
Unfortunately, the performers were then put to death for blasphemy, and the horror movie genre went underground until the beginning of the 20th Century. Since then it has diversified into many different subgenres. The popularity of these subgenres often reflects contemporary issues in society (see The Real World Fears Behind 8 Popular Movie Monsters.)
HISTORY OF
HORROR
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JASON FREENY
Jason created his first fictional anatomy in 2000 with his depiction of the mythological "Incubus".
Armed with a youthful, overactive imagination, Jason creates smart, intricate illustrations that tickle the deviant intellect through a mix of hard graphics, pop iconography and wit.
During the day, Jason works in Manhattan as a mild mannered interface designer. At night, after the kids go to sleep, he can be found hunched over his computer developing works of candy colored madness.
Jason aspires to one day drop the daytime gig...
INSIDE OUT, OUTSIDE IN
Jason Freeny is a skillful beast. These mini sculptures are of the famous cartoons and toys we grew up with. Freeny twists the outcome of his subjects by making them look like old school 8th grade science classroom. Watching him work is like watching an actual hospital surgery or important experiment. Dope!
From Jason's Bio:
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What was going on in Zuccotti Park?
Some of the activity that went down there was well documented. There were allegations of sexual assault. There were the growing health concerns. And CBS 2 cameras caught topless women dancing there. (Awesome)
But what else may have been cooking? CBS 2 has learned about some of the items that were removed from the park during yesterday’s raid.
Among the items found during the scouring of the park: At least two dozen hypodermic needles.
Numerous tents, books and other possessions were also recovered by sanitation workers and police officers during the raid.
Julie Wood with the Mayor’s Press Office said several truck loads of items had been removed from the park.
Dozens of Hypodermic Needles discovered as officials need several trucks to remove waste from #OWS Camping site at Zuccotti Park.
WTF?
HYPODERMIC NEEDLES
FOUND AT OCCUPY WS
Note: I'm all for protests. If you got a vision, run with it. If you have an army of people that believe in what you do...go out and share your frustration. There's no doubt DC is broken. But, when I heard about this it only added to my skeptism. Is this a serious movement or what? Blah.
Via: The Gateway Pundit.
From: CBS2
We have a thing for getting sideways with classic cocktails and then turning them into poptails. This week the classic rum and coke has been flipped to a Dirty Pirate.
That’s rum and coke with a some Kahlua. While we’d love to take credit for this awesomely named cocktail, we can’t, but we are taking credit for turning it into a poptail ,at the suggestion of a co-worker. Pirates, Coke and booze, yeah, Thursday is getting better already. And just in case you need a variation, replace the Kahlua with peach schnapps for a Dirty Pirate Hooker. Play nice and play safe. Happy Pirating this Thursday.
Instructions:
*Slightly flat Coke will produce a popsicle that stays frozen longer. To quickly and manually flatten out the carbonation, empty out enough Coke from a 2-liter bottle to leave a 3-inch space from top of bottle to top of coke. Place cap back on and shake vigorously for 10 seconds. Set aside to leave bubbles to subside.
Wow! Coke, Captain Morgan spiced rum and Kahlua.
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Please, try unhating your enemies in a less disturbing way?
DON'T COPY.
JUST BE YOURSELF
