MUTO - Graffiti Animation by BLU
MUTO An ambiguous animation painted on public walls Made in Buenos Aires and Baden Animation and Editing by Blu Assistant: Sibe Music by Andrea Martignoni Produced by Mercurio Films
OLIVIA - Ponytail Bow - Phase I
I’ve been going through the photos of the development of OLIVIA, the custom electric guitar, and thought I would post this one. This is the first shot of the little blue bow on the end of the very long ponytail going down the back of her neck.
Working wildly and rapidly to wind this project as it has become way to intimate and personal. She has become very much like my child
Breaking the Silence, Be Careful!
I’ve been deep in the trenches it seems lately, but yet have forcefully managed to get some work done. This week was interesting, I was able to collect some perfect square stones from a mansion in Leesburg, they’ll make perfect stands for my bottle paintings. ~~joey
My Alter Ego … or the struggle the find myself
| Alter Ego |
| 24″ x 24″ Oil on Masonite An alter ego (Latin, “the other I”) is a second self, a second personality or persona within a person. It was coined in the early nineteenth century when schizophrenia was first described by early psychologists.[1] The term alter ego is commonly used in literature analysis and comparison to describe characters who are psychologically identical, or sometimes to describe a character as an alter ego of the author, a fictional character whose behavior, speech or thoughts intentionally represent those of the author. The characters Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde in Robert Louis Stevenson’s thriller Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde represent an exploration of the concept that good and evil exist within one person, constantly at war. Edward Hyde literally represents the doctor’s other self, a psychopathic being unrestrained by the conventions of civilized society, who shares a body with the doctor. |
The Bartos Guitar, work in progress and the search for a title…
This is the most recent shot uploaded, this is the first layer of oil. Everything here is just sketched in with a thin layer of oil so that the final layer can be positioned. The horns have not been touched as of yet, they will be silver and will sparkle.
This was the head of this Dean Guitar before I did anything to it.
This was the head after I gave it an initial sanding so I could see the wood and what I was working with without the hardware.
This is the head after the wood sanding and with a first layer gesso applied. Final sanding and sketching of the face ideas are starting to be laid in.
This was a rough in for the face done in acrylics. I went back and forth many times to get the positioning right so that the hardware would interfere as little as possible with the final face.
I have recently been working on this commission project of a custom electric guitar. I just added some pictures into the gallery of some of the progress.
Though I am on the downhill slide with this work, which I must say I think is one of the best pieces I have ever worked on to date, I still have not decided on a title or name for the piece yet.
I purposely have not uploaded the most recent pictures because I dont want my collector to see the finished work online before experiencing her in person, but I will upload some additional shots as I go…
Isabella - The Painting … The Restaurant
Isabella, 18″ x 24″ x 2″, 2006, Oil on Canvas, Commissioned, Private Collection Kenyon Price, Isabella’s Frisco
ISABELLA’S
The Restaurant
Italy Today is a blend of old and new, traditional and modern. Isabella’s is a unique dining concept, featuring Italian Cuisine from four regions in Italy . Lombardia, Piemonte, Toscana & Veneto. Isabella’s delivers cuisine that is unique in preparation, modern in style, yet classic by foundation
1279 Legacy Drive at Suite 100 (at 121 Highway & Legacy Drive) Located at the New Stonebriar Commons on Legacy & 121, Frisco, TX
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Isabella’s Restaurant is OPEN for Lunch Dinner, & Sunday Brunch!
Man Ray forgeries exposed
by Walter Robinson, artnet.com editor
An imitation
Larmes
1930-33
A long-running art forgery operation, which produced high-quality “vintage” Man Ray photographs, has been uncovered by the German photographer and collector Werner Bokelberg. The fakes include Man Ray’s most famous images from the 1920s and ’30s, including La Marquise Casati (1922), Noire et blanche (1926) and Larmes (1930-33). Bokelberg, who has assembled a large collection of 19th- and early 20th-century photographs and began collecting Man Ray in the 1970s, became suspicious at the increasing availability of such an unusually large selection of classic, and rare, Man Ray images. “It was too good to be true,” he told ArtNet. “I could have any picture I wanted.”
A fake of
Man Ray’s
La Marquise Casati
1922
Full text article…
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/news/robinson/robinson12-2-97.asp
Mind Pathology 101
Originally uploaded by joeyhavlock
“The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created - created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making the, changes both the maker and the destination.” - John Schaar
