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NASCAR Guitars! NASCAR Guitars!
- From: paintoutloud
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Neal working on guitars for Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt jr. for this up-coming Indy 500. Guitars sponsored by Fender Guitar Corp.
- 3 weeks ago
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Riding The Wave Riding The Wave
- From: ArtistDouglasG
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These were both digitally extracted from another acrylic piece that I was creating. I wasn't entirely happy with the big pic but I did like certain elements of it so I scanned it and then extracted the pieces out so that they could stand on their own.
- 4 months ago
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Georgia Georgia
- From: ArtistDouglasG
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These were both digitally extracted from another acrylic piece that I was creating. I wasn't entirely happy with the big pic but I did like certain elements of it so I scanned it and then extracted the pieces out so that they could stand on their own.
- 4 months ago
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Descant Vs. DiNOLA Descant Vs. DiNOLA
- From: JimmyDescant
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I started doing instant assemblages a coup[le years ago to further my talents of instant inspiration. From small sculptures and collages, I have worked up to live assemblage performances mostly with the end result for charitfy. In this video, I am working with the newly formed rock band DiNOLA from New Orleans, and their recent album "I Want To Die In New Orleans". The event was held at Raphael Academy in an effort to raise funds for a 2nd school for autistic kids. From my performance and donations of food, drink, and other art, they raised $10,000 that night!!!! You can see all my art and performance videos at my site, www.deluxerocketships.com
Enjoy! and let me know what you think.
Jimmy Descant
- 4 months ago
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3 Graces in Bondage - Zig 3 Graces in Bondage - Zig
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- 6 months ago
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'a Long Time Ago' 'a Long Time Ago'
- From: ArtistDouglasG
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There are two reasons for the title of this piece:
1) the stone Masonary, at the old Amtrak station in Pittsburgh, was created a long time ago and still exists.
2) Prior to this trip to Pittsburgh, I had not shot any night time film photography since the late 80's. I am pretty pleased with the results and I am inspired to do some more.
Tech details: it was shot on a Ricoh XR1, 1 second at f2:8 50mm lens 400 ISO film
My next rebirthing challenge is to use my old twin lens reflex with some Black and White HP5 120 film. Looking forward to it.
- 8 months ago
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Prayer and a Haircut Prayer and a Haircut
- From: ArtistDouglasG
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It's amazing the places you can find and the shots you can get when you wander around town. Found this great shot on E.Ohio near Bernie's Photo so I had to take it and then give it the black and white treatment.
- 8 months ago
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'Biting the Bullet 'Biting the Bullet
- From: ArtistDouglasG
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A digital creation. All sorts of things go on in life and sometimes you have to accept the fact that what you want just is not going to happen. Sad as it may be.
- 8 months ago
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"Poe's Last Supper" close up "Poe's Last Supper" close up
- From: LynnBarnes
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I began the painting in 1991. It’s gone through three phases, but I also thought each one might be the end of it (although I was never convinced). It couldn’t have been painted for a commission or for a grant, taking twenty-plus years. No patron or organization could wait that long, since it wasn’t part of a cathedral. This time, the end might be in 2013 (not the world) because it’s getting to the point I can’t do any more to it. Then they are actually done; the saying paintings “are never done,” including mine, isn’t always true.
Poe is four-foot-high and six-foot-wide (add one and a half feet with the frame). It’s on quarter-inch untempered Masonite. It’s primed with chalk and rabbit glue. The painting, with the frame, weighs around 100 pounds. It’s murder for me to move it around without help. Plus, during the act of painting itself, I have back problems and I can’t stand for hours, although sitting and being comfortable can produce marathons. This, and the seven-foot Joan of Arc will be the last big paintings I do.
I originally thought it was a cool idea to have Poe on his deathbed, propped up in the hospital, hallucinating he was in a Fells Point bar drinking with his characters. He died right down the street from my house in Baltimore, at Washington Hospital (now Church Home Hospital, currently closed but owned by Johns Hopkins), on the corner of Broadway and Fayette. I could picture the scene. The funny thing is, as I found out later; there were some accounts from nurses that he did talk to some characters (one was J. N. Reynolds, who Arthur Gordon Pym was based on). It’s hard to tell if it was true; but when I found it out, I thought my cool idea was turning into something I began to take a little more seriously.
This will be on my book, "The Last Exit Before the Toll: Art, DEath, Asperger's, and Dreams," due out in September 2012
- 10 months ago
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A Headful of Nonsense A Headful of Nonsense
- From: ArtistDouglasG
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what we all sometimes have in our heads. this is digitally created
- 1 year ago
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Embryonic Kiss Embryonic Kiss
- From: ArtistDouglasG
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life begins in colour; so let's run with it. A digital creation
- 1 year ago
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Coquette Coquette
- From: ArtistDouglasG
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flirting with your eyes, this mided media piece incorporates an acrylic painting scanned and blended with a seperate digital creation. size 9 by 12"
- 1 year ago
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Barstool Prophets: bok release Barstool Prophets: bok release party
- From: Ethan
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New Book Exposes What Really Goes on Behind the Scenes in New York Bars
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SOURCE Antagonist Movement, Inc.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Barstool Prophets is a unique, fresh account of New York City's bar scene, one told from the other side of the bar: the bartender's side.
The New York bar scene is usually told from the customer, mingling and drinking point of view, often glamorized and exaggerated. This witty novel exposes the drug-fueled, low-life secrets of Manhattan's bar scene through the eyes of a young bartender. Humor and melancholy collide to showcase a brutally honest narrative of this seemingly private world.
Written by Ethan H. Minsker, Barstool Prophets shows how bartenders are the rock stars of the Lower East Side. When people say New York City is the cultural center of the universe, they actually mean a barstool in an unknown bar. Readers entertainingly learn what bartenders think about their patrons and what really happens when the sun sets.
"The book follows the lives of a wild spectrum of characters in the 1990s and early 2000s, all of whom become the bartender's family, for good or bad," said Mr. Minsker. "As the characters grow and change, so does the Lower East Side. The narrator takes you through this evolution with frank humility and sympathy for the characters."
Barstool Prophets is self-published by Mr. Minsker and the Antagonist Movement, Inc. (antagovision.com). The book is now available on Amazon.com (tinyurl.com/7jjjr2j) and St. Mark's Book Store and McNally Jackson Book Store in Manhattan. An e-book version will be available in the near future on B&N Pubit and the Google e-bookstore.
find the book here
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mcnallyjackson.com/
Want to know more about Ethan try here - 1 year ago
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Velvet kisses Velvet kisses
- From: ArtistDouglasG
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Just in time for Valentines Day, Kisses so smooth and curvey Just for you. 13" by 19" digital creation.
- 1 year ago
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Love Totem #1 Love Totem #1
- From: ArtistDouglasG
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Totem poles in the land of passion
- 1 year ago
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The Creepy Kids Forget their M The Creepy Kids Forget their Meds
- From: Gremlin517
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The streets of Seattle at midnight are an amazing place, teeming with artists roaming the urban landscape. In Seattle, every artist worth paying any attention to is born with wheatpaste, spray paint and a brush in hand. Home to such artistic luminaries as Ego, Ryan Henry Ward and Weirdo—Seattle has an incredible art scene that has been growing exponentially over the past several years. In the thick of it is Xavier Lopez Jr. “Cool,” “Urban,” “Goth,” “Kawaii,” “Pop Surrealist” or whatever definition you might want to come up with, Lopez’ artistic style crosses over many boundaries and unsettles them all. Most recently, Lopez’ work has been described as “gleefully disturbing,” a cross between very old Fleischer cartoons and their animated nightmares, giving us a glimpse into the disquieting world that we all invent for ourselves before we have a chance to make sense of the universe and its vast contradictions.
Lopez’ paintings are a foray into this other world. As if tumbling through a wormhole, the viewer is disoriented and while seeking to make sense of the images before him, emotions quickly override any single interpretation. When I came upon Mr. Lopez, he was setting up an exhibition as part of a group show at the Greenwood Collective. Mr. Lopez’ work is very haunting, but at the same time very playful, even disarming. He actually began as a conceptualist, minimalist sculptor. Graduating from the University of California, Davis, which is well known for such artists as Bruce Nauman, Lynn Herschmann and Robert Arneson, as well as a lot of the Funk artists like Jim Nutt and Bill T. Wiley. Lopez is an affable, almost shy, man, but with a quick smile and a devious gleam in his eyes which speaks to the creative world that he carries within him. “I think I got a lot of my sense of the absurd and playfulness from not only their spirit,” he says, speaking of the Northern California artists, “but also from meeting and getting to know a few of them. I can tell you that Wayne Theibaud has a very, very wicked, naughty sense of humor—which is surprising, because he looks like such an innocent, like your grandfather and then he comes out with the dirtiest jokes you’ve ever heard. You really can never judge a book by its cover.”
Lopez considered himself to be primarily a sculptor until he spent several years living in Europe, where he would often take canvases to the Bordeaux Art Museum and study the painterly styles of the mannerists. He adds, “I hated painters, it seemed to me in grad school that they were trained monkeys and that the real creation was happening from the sculptors—everything else was just craft. Then I moved to Europe and I saw what could actually be done with paint! I saw my first true Rubens, not in a book, but right in front of me and not just one—but many, and constantly, and then more and more artists, Fragonard, Raphael, Tintoretto, all of the artists that had left me cold in art classes, suddenly came alive and I began to paint and paint and paint—again, for the first time since I used to draw my superheroes as a kid—and nothing was ever the same from there.”
Within Lopez’ world there are many landscapes: caves, a vast ocean, snowscapes, living trees, and always the sense that one has crossed over into the deep end. “I want viewers of my work to feel as they do just before going over the cliff at Splash Mountain, or to feel the way they did as a child when they found out that Bambi’s mother was about to die. That moment of extreme consciousness, when everything is so precious and one realizes something very important—which is different for everybody, and which according to Kierkegaard you cannot realize fully and take with you, because to do so would lead to madness.”
It is this madness that one can see in the wild-eyed stare that is such a part of Xavier Lopez’ work and permeates the insane smile that sets it apart and draws so many to it, while scaring the hell out of many others. “That smile,” he adds, “that is the void, that is the power-punch that tells the viewer that there is something else going on here.” It is the smile of the Muse and the multi-armed skeleton and it is the darkness behind the Kawaii. Xavier Lopez’ work is not just cute, there is a darkness to it that is as vast as this thing called life and as complex as its obverse. His dreamscapes are filled with pain and wonder, innocence and perversity, but mostly a sense of fun that keeps drawing more and more viewers to play in the “Deep End” of his imagination.
Continually, growing and evolving, fans of his work never know what to expect from the artist. “I love testing myself, teasing and trying new things, most recently I have been doing a lot of Murals in the Seattle Area with a group of very talented, young artists and I have begun plans to work on a not-so children’s book and even a cartoon based on the Muse and her adventures. This is an amazing time in which it feels as though anything is possible and an artist just needs to put his mind and his imagination into motion to see it through.”
Xavier Lopez’ work can be found at various art galleries in the Seattle area, including the Twilight Collective, as well as on many murals, posters and prints. He is also the author of a blog that covers the Alternative to Alternative Art Scene in Seattle for the online “zombie newspaper,” the Seattle Post Intelligencer.
- 2 years ago
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Gremlin517
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Just One of Those Days Just One of Those Days
- From: ArtistDouglasG
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digital creation
- 2 years ago
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