New York-based artist Michael Mararian has a rep for turning cheerful images into frightening—yet still oddly funny—narratives about the darker side of growing up. His new show, Youth Parade, the artist’s second solo exhibition with the Corey Helford Gallery, is, according to Mararian, ?
What if you took Angelina Jolie, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron, Elizabeth Cuthbert, Hilary Duff, Jennifer Love Hewitt. Jessica Alba, Jennifer Biel, Kiera Knightly, Kate Bosworth, Kristin Kreuk, Mandy Moore, Megan Fox, Monica Belluci, Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson, put them in some kind of a sci-fi DNA blender and mixed them altogether? Her, apparently, the winner of the genetic sweepstakes. You can see all the intermediate steps to creating the most beautiful girl in the world here.
James St. James on a roll today! Via World of Wonder/The WOW Report
Here’s a collection of photos (which are for the most part new to me) of our beloved early 80’s Los Angeles punk rock heroes by one Vincent Ramirez.
I was born and raised in Los Angeles California, living mostly in the San Fernando Valley. My first exposure to punk rock came about in the late 1970?
Opening this weekend in Frankfurt, Germany, the new musical, Hope: The Obama Musical Story. A bilingual production, H:TOMS features the characters of Barack Obama, John McCain and Sarah Palin, who apparently belts out a number accompanied by a bevy of scantily clad go-go dancers. She’s matched up, I suppose, against a hot-looking Hillary Clinton.
Germany’s Der Spiegel reports that the plot follows a group of residents in an apartment-sharing community—a disillusioned and unemployed Puerto Rican, an ultraconservative widow of German heritage and an African American political activist. Gradually, the characters become galvanized by Obama’s message of hope and change.
Some highlights (?) from H:TOMS follow below:
Enjoying the hell out of this Goblin-style freakout via Antoni Maiovvi. From the artist’s site (which features pinups of Patrick Cowley everywhere?
Have you seen this man? The above, digitally enhanced photos of Osama bin-Laden were just published by the FBI and the US Department of Defense:
In a first “aged progressed” mugshot, he is portrayed in Western clothes with wavy grey and black hair and a trimmed beard; a second shows the terrorist leader in his traditional outfit, with a white turban and a flowing, but greyer, beard. Forensic artists used digital enhancement to modify Bin Laden’s features in an attempt to show what he might now look like.
FBI Issues Digital Mug Shot Of An Aged Osama bin Laden
Amazing Bibliodyssey post on folk art from India. Loads of folk art depicting trees of various psychological proportions. My favorite is “The Tree of Intoxication,” shown above.
Tara Books from Chennai (Tamil Nadu, India) very kindly sent me a few of their books, not for review, but as thanks following their contacting for some advice. After I saw the books, I asked - would have begged - if it was ok to scan some samples. Illustrations from three books appear below.
I’m afraid these images hardly do proper justice to the textural wonder of the handmade paper and crisp, silkscreened illustrations. The scans themselves could only have been improved by breaking the books which wasn’t even a consideration: these glorious books are treasured works of art that I’ll not be destroying or parting with in this lifetime.
Humor via Punchbaby:
Just think of this as a guide to modern life, having an orgy is a great way to meet people, have some fun and let off some steam after a busy week in the office. The end result is a culmination of careful planning and of course inviting the right people ?