Thursday, September 19, 2013

hails engrave brindisi



If consideration is given to where a work is sited then the work cannot be moved... 
(it must) perish once the exhibit is over.  Daniel Buren


A rant by me:   Kim Kardashian.  Who gives a crap?  I was in the local Publix yesterday waiting in line where the magazines are stacked up and she was on the cover of four magazines with headlines about everything from her kid to her house to her relationship and (of course) to her weight.  Then I looked at the rack behind me and wouldn't you know, there is a now whole magazine titled with her name talking about her rise to 'superstar', like she's Oprah and has a magazine-worth of advice to dole out.  Of course it promises secret pictures of Kim and her new 10,000 foot house currently under renovation.  WTF?  How is this woman a role model for sitting around like Gabba the Hut being stroked by her keepers and lauded for a decades old sex tape?  And meanwhile chooses to go back to her mom's to live under her iron rule so she wouldn't be taxed with actually taking care of a baby and has time to 'recover'.  This could go on for years to come too, with two more teenagers ready to quit high school for the high life in their $100,000 gigantic SUVs, and yes, a couple of grandchildren who will be ready to exploit real soon.  I am appalled that the show keeps referring back to their father who was a defense attorney for OJ and died years ago.  We are subjected to old home movies of kids running around dad and so many claims that dad changed his mind about OJ before he died to show him in a better light.  I won't go on any further, let's just say that I thought this train would have wrecked by now and I am getting pissed at how many hours a day that show is on.  I'm doing a one woman boycott of the Kardashians until I read something socially positive about any one of them.  And not being arrested is NOT socially positive. 

I opened email this morning trying to sell me these:


Bet you don't know what they are, and especially I bet you did't know you needed them...  they are BRA CASES.  They come in all sorts of patterns and colors but for the life of me I don't see the need to spend $18 on each one.   Was I born yesterday?  Or more likely, was I born so long ago that I don't see the need for these at all since I have a drawer.
 * I am exempt from criticism for my rants because I hear voices. Ohh-  here goes one now, I think it's Clarabelle.  Seems to work these days to excuse a myriad of behavioral anomalies.

And here's my disclaimer-  I have not been in the studio for a couple of days.  I dropped stuff off, I picked stuff up, but didn't do anything that involved putting something next to something else to proclaim it art.  I can't start anything knowing I have a finite time to work on it then take a week off.  I'm in art purgatory.

**************oh thanksgod, just in time, a new subject  **************

But on to other things-  DOGGIES!  I just found a pheremone spray that is supposed to calm down anxious dogs so I bit the bullet and ordered some for Pepper so maybe he can ride in the car more successfully.  I'll let you know how it works.  The company is the one who does the Thundershirts which saved Molly from imploding in thunder storms, so my hopes are up for it.  Here they are, as close as they ever get.
 And here is the poster that my friend sent me this morning-  looks just like them, but there is no cat in their lives, just squirrels.  They really do laugh like this.  Really.  






Italian artist Willy Verginer creates surreal wooden figure sculptures with bold sections of color and pattern, and curious juxtapositions of humans and nature.






What do you get for that comic book enthusiast who has everything? Mike Alcantara has the answer. The master collage artist has been creating bad a$$ images of all the best Marvel and DC Comics characters out of nothing but recycled comic books and glue. It’s almost unfathomable that these images are entirely collage- without any drawing or painting utensils, but it’s true. Alcantara finds the perfect pieces of comic book for every section of his awesome work.


not a squirrel in sight.

2 comments :

Sandy said...

I fell about laughing at the two dogs telling cat stories!
So, funny.
Sandy

mary beth frezon said...

even when you're having a stressed moment you're still inspirational and funny. Thanks Sandy!