Growing Up Heroes is a very sweet and nostalgic photoblog. The website says, “A pretty emotive and reflective look on how heroes affected many of us when we were growing up (1960-1990).”
Growing Up Heroes
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Gallery1988, Ronnie Midfew Arts and DamonCarltonAndAPolarBear.com presents The LOST Underground Art Show. DamonCarltonAndAPolarBear.com:
In celebration of LOST’s final season and as a project of fan appreciation, 16 top designers and artists, who are also fans of the show, were commissioned to create artwork celebrating one of the series’ most memorable, and unforgettable, “water cooler” moments. This ultimate “fan art” was then turned into labor intensive, hand-pulled screen prints, limited to an edition of just 300, with less than 200 available to the public through our websites. Each beautiful poster tells its own different story, allowing the fan to relive memorable and influential moments in an artistic manner, as the show’s storied run comes to a close. Once this limited edition print has sold out, they will never be printed again. Celebrate the fandom, community and family created by one of televisions’ greatest shows by hanging a little part of it’s history, inspiration and influence on your wall.
The LOST Underground Art Show
Ronnie Midfew Arts and DamonCarltonAndAPolarBear.com Presents…
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A Taunton father is outraged after his 8-year-old son was sent home from school and required to undergo a psychological evaluation after drawing a stick-figure picture of Jesus Christ on the cross.
The father said he got a call earlier this month from Maxham Elementary School informing him that his son, a second-grade student, had created a violent drawing. The image in question depicted a crucified Jesus with Xs covering his eyes to signify that he had died on the cross. The boy wrote his name above the cross.
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Sister Wendy
Clever (slightly constipated looking) upside down portraits by photographer Brandon Voges.
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Pittsburgh-based tattoo artist Cliff Maynard has an unusual medium that he works with: used joint ends!
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What if Pasolini’s Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom was performed by The Three Stooges? Well, it might come out looking something like the work of L.A.-based artist, Paul McCarthy. Although he probably first captured national attention with MOCA’s infamous Helter Skelter show in ‘92, McCarthy’s been working with “the primal substances of life—blood, pus, urine, feces, sperm, milk, sweat,” ever since the ‘70s.
Below is a more recent work from ‘03, WGG (Wild Gone Girls). Ubu describes it thusly: “Depicting a sailing party gone wrong, McCarthy questions the effects that violence and mutilation, both real and simulated, have on the viewer in contemporary culture.” Maybe so. But strip away the cozy, art-speak contextualizing. Couldn’t that be said, too, for something like, oh…Wes Craven’s, Last House On The Left from ‘72? WARNING: McCarthy’s WGG = not for the squeamish!
In the NYT: Fairy Tales, But Strictly Adults-Only
