Adam

"Adam"
My latest painting is finally done.   I thought this was going to be the last piece I complete in Portland, but it look like that won't be true as I started another very special painting yesterday.   This giant piece was a really big project for me.  This is the biggest canvas I  have ever worked on.  I feel like this piece has a lot to offer and if you look at it up close you will have 20 faces, but if you look at it from far away you will have one face, Adam's... Abel's Dad.

Gracie

This is for Marcy. This is her Kitty. Marcy is my mom in law. She's the most amazing human being and this is going to be her 60th bday gift from moi. Gracie is mean, she gets really angry when Marcy gets on the phone. Its quite funny. Acrylic on canvas.
"Gracie"

Trial is set

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Mr. John Galliano will stand trial on June 22 in Paris for his drama throwing anti-Semitic insults at people in a Parisian bar which already cost him his job at the house of Dior.  Miss Galliano faces up to six months in prison and a fine of 22,500 euros ($31,430) if found guilty. His lawyer mentioned John will have to attend trials in person. One of the strongest forces in the fashion world just a few months ago, the British designer was terminated in March after a video online surfaced  where it shows him slurring bad bad things to some bitches at a trendy bar and saying he loved Hitler.  Everyone remembers the story well. Several people also claimed to be the victims of a similar outburst in the recent past. At the time Galliano issued an apology. Dior, one of the biggest brands within luxury giant LVMH, has yet to announce who will succeed him at the head of its creative operation. Chief Executive Sidney Toledano  said he was in no hurry to announce a name.  Fashion insiders believe this is a way for Dior to maintain the current line afloat.  My money still on Sara Burton or Riccardo Tisci.   I wonder what's going to happen to John Galliano next month, I wonder if they will give him probation? Maybe he'll be like Naomi Campbell and wear designer studs as he does his community service in a jewish neighborhood. Oh John, you crazy-psycho bitch you.

High Price

The new issue of Visionaire, a multi-format album of fashion & art  made exclusively in limited editions only. Published 3 times per year this is a collectors dream. Visionaire explores various themes along with innovative formats with every new issue.  Artists collaborate with Visionaire to achieve amazing Art moments.  Collaborators  are given unparalleled freedom to push Visionaire's original formats taking them to the next level.   I am really excited about the current  guest- editor  Riccardo Tisci, he is the creative director for the Givenchy label right now and he's rumored to be the chosen designer to continue as the head of the house of Dior.   Riccardo chose "religion" as its theme, fashion-worship, to be specific and has given us a great moment in Art and I will forever want it, and I say want it because I could never justify paying the high price.

Tisci convinced a few of his fashion pals to get to work for him  here we see Carine Roitfeld, for one, who let Karl Lagerfeld photograph her with lace over her mouth, there are reenactments of  various biblical scenes for photo spreads. Giovanna Battaglia styled Tisci's  muse Let T as a martyr , and  Lara Stone got lashed to a burning cross and photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. Finally, Tisci's own portrait shows him suckling at the breast of performance artist Marina Abramovic. This whole book comes bundled up in a wooden box, meant to evoke an altarpiece, and costs $495!!! Would you buy it for me?

forever & always

STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S PIEL from Die Antwoord on Vimeo.

I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Ninja & Yo-Landi

the BARRETTE!

I can't wait to try this. It's just amazing!

Guido (Redken): They’re Goody barrettes! They sent me 6,000 barrettes…we’re not using all of them. Sarah [Burton] showed me pictures of the past and pictures of the future, and I wanted it to be a head that wasn’t too big…I wanted it to be very modern and hard, but kind of soft at the same time. I was thinking of reflection—plastics and metals—and that movie Tron, the original and the remake. So all those kind of things. I’d done a ponytail covered in barrettes before, but here I flipped it up and did the whole head. So that’s how I got here. It’s amazing that something so inexpensive—these drugstore things that you get on a card—can be made into something so beautiful. I always say to people about hair accessories: it’s not what you spend, it’s what you do with them.

I was born today... this way

TRIMAPEE - BIRTH from TRIMAPEE on Vimeo.