ARTIST PROFILE: RAY CAESAR
July 9, 2008
“The Atlas of Anatomy,” by Ray Caesar. Varnished Digital Ultrachrome on Panel, on view at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in NYC.
Caesar uses a 3-D modeling program called “Maya,” and has compared working with this software to “the experience of lucid dreaming, as in both situations, one has the ability to control and manipulate a simulated reality.”
(from Animal)
IT’S A PARTY, AND YOU’RE INVITED
July 8, 2008
ARTIST PROFILE: LIGHTMARK
July 6, 2008
OBAMA “HOPE,” MEET OBAMA “DOPE”… MEET OBAMA “NOPE”
July 2, 2008
Baxter Orr is a Texas based 26 year old freelance artist. He’s the person who gave us the Obama “DOPE” print, which drew heavily from Shepard Fairey’s famous Obama “HOPE” print.
Orr, who has licensed the DOPE print to right wing paraphernalia seller AuthenticGOP.com, said his intent here was to call attention to Bam’s human frailty, as well as his earlier, edgier days: “I wanted to do the other side of Obama, the young crazy kid that did coke and shit … the flawed human.”
Well, Orr is back with his latest piece of campaign art — Obama “NOPE” — which, to be honest, is kind of a let down for us here at Meaningful. We were hoping for more; this one seems like it required Orr to delve far less deep into the creative blood bank than he did while he was on DOPE.
Related: NEW JOHN MCCAIN CAMPAIGN POSTER!!
(from: Animal)
NOT FUNCTIONAL, VERY COOL: HAIR HATS
June 10, 2008
From Japanese artist Nagi Noda. Click through for more designs.
RE: MEET THE WORLD’S BIGGEST PHALLUS, HEAR IT SPEAK!
June 7, 2008
THIS, on the other hand, is art.
More images, including artist description, after the jump.
AIR FORCE BAMS
June 5, 2008
Consistent with my aforementioned shoe fetish, I bring you Air Force Barack. I saw these a few months ago online and spent the next couple days tracking down the person responsible.
He’s a 25 year old from Cincinnati named Van, myspace page here. Approachable and enormously talented, he designs custom shoes about everything from the Genocide in Darfur to San Francisco skylines. Next week around this time I’ll be up a few grand at the craps tables in Las Vegas; my second purchase (after a rib eye from Smith & Wollensky) will be a new pair of custom made kicks.
..Except I’m going to request a little something special. I want a pair of dunks featuring the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Black and Gold to match that infamous dashiki, the left foot should read: “God Bless America?” only to have the right foot counter: “Naw, Naw, Naw, Naw, GOD DAMN AMERICA!”
More pictures of Van’s work after the jump.
KASHI’S: THE SICKEST KICKS YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF
June 4, 2008
Growing up in the rural south, I had 2 pair of shoes as a child: a pair of brown boots for work and school, and a pair of black dress shoes for church. When I came of age I went north and discovered the splendor and decadance of urban living. Now I’m a bit of a shoe whore. Whatever self-consciousness I had about this faded to black the first time I noticed my footwear breaking necks on the street.
Meet the Kashi brand — hands down the dopest shoes you’ve probably never heard of. They were developed in the 412 (Pittsburgh, PA) by a young turk with a penchant for flamboyance and are slowly but steadily taking the underground kick culture by storm.
I rock mine to death but they’re not for everyone. It takes a certain amount of swagger to pull these motherfuckers off. But I kid you not, every single time I leave my house at least one person (read: woman) comments on my shoes.
So if you’re a dial tone in need of a conversation starter, throw on your Newbalances, run, don’t walk, to buy some Kashi’s, and watch your life get more interesting.
With styles for men and women, check out the website for more information.
Interview magazine, founded by the Prince of Pop, celebrates it’s 80th year by dishing dirty secrets on its creator in this June’s issue.
Some highlights:
-Ultra Violet tried to seduce him on a fire escape, but it didn’t go as planned. She thought he was afraid of heights, but he was really just scared of her.
-His Lonesome Cowboys Taylor Mead did the dirty with Montgomery Clift. But it was no big deal, literally. “He was nothing to go to bed with. He had a small [bleep],” says Mead.
-Andy was obsessed with the NY Post. Brigid Berlin recalls that “He’d say, ‘Well, isn’t this a great story. Why can’t Pat [Hackett make a script out of this? . . . This is a great murder. Why can’t we do this?’”
Wikipedia is having a major battle over whether this 1976 album cover for German metal band the Scorpions is porn or art. The feds are currently looking into it, because, obviously, if it’s porn, it has to be removed from the site.
So how do they decide? There is no answer. Just to make clear, I am not into porn, don’t care about porn or anything along those lines. What is fascinating is how we, as a culture, classify things. If you click here you can see the response this image has gotten with people calling it worthwhile and historical to blatant pedophilia.
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