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Obamination

David Waterston — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:38:30 +0000

As the irrational wave of false-idol worship continues to sweep the U.S., Dutch newspaper De Pers peers into it’s crystal ball and sees nothing but violent death in the future of President Obama…

Illustration by Pluis Producties

‘Lone wolf’ loert op Obama (depers.nl) – original Dutch
‘Lone wolf’ lurks on Obama (depers.nl) – Google translation to English
Nation’s Presidential Assassins Still Undecided (theonion.com)

100 photographs you didn’t know were great #12: David Lynch

David Waterston — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:01:35 +0000

David Lynch by Jean Baptiste Mondino

“I love to translate ideas. If you are true to the ideas that you love and never walk away from any element until it’s correct, then there’s a chance others will feel it’s correct and go into that world and have an experience. Hopefully a good experience.”
David Lynch

The official Mondino website (mondino-update.net)
Mondino at Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
The official David Lynch website (davidlynch.com)
David Lynch filmography (imdb.com)
The Universe of David Lynch (davidlynch.de)
A very comprehensive fan site with lots of links to other Lynch related resources.
The David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace (davidlynchfoundation.org)
“Provides funds for in-school ‘Quiet Time’ programs utilizing the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation technique…”

Infrequent “Quote of the Day” #18

David Waterston — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:27:46 +0000

“Every morning, to earn my bread,
I go to the market where lies are bought.
Hopefully
I take up my place among the sellers.”

Bertolt Brecht – “Hollywood” from “Poems in Exile” (1942)

I feel a headache coming on / my first time (delete as appropriate)

David Waterston — Thu, 17 May 2007 23:32:41 +0000

Those nice people at Condomania now have a blog dedicated to their growing range of artist-designed condoms and related stuff. They also took me totally by surprise recently by commenting on this blog!

“We recently got the bright idea to gather together a bunch of working artists and ask them to design packaging for condoms which will both interest and excite our customers. This website is our attempt to document that process while also pointing out where others in the condom industry are doing things right, and where they are doing things wrong from our perspective.”

Art Condoms (artcondoms.com)
Condomania (condomania.com)

Previously:

Finally, a reason to have sex

Infrequent “Quote of the Day” #14

David Waterston — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:01:19 +0000

“My biggest problem with the phrase ‘white power’ is my distaste for redundancy.”

Merkley

Three Question Marks – the official Merkley site (threequestionmarks.com)
Photos by Merkley on Flickr (flickr.com)
Merkley on MySpace (myspace.com)

This is the truth

David Waterston — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:17:30 +0000

Despite having “a new found faith in Christianity” (generally the kiss of death to any kind of creativity), Peter Howson, “Scotland’s greatest living painter” ™ has now managed to produce a triumvirate of highly pleasing paintings of my favourite celebrity idiot and orphan botherer, the graceless Madonna. As can be seen from the extract above, also featuring her equally boorish husband (referred to here by Howson as ‘Ogre’), he has succinctly and expertly captured the repulsive allure of the “golden couple”.

“Madonna has bad brush with artist” (timesonline.co.uk)
Peter Howson Official Website (peterhowson.net)
“Howson slams ‘conveyor belt’ artists” (scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com)
Flowers East Gallery, London (flowerseast.com)
Features images of all paintings in the collection “Acheron and other works”.

Previously:

Constant shallowness leads to evil

Historical note: “Scotland’s greatest living painter” was actually born in England.

We are fam-i-lee

David Waterston — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:02:55 +0000

“You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something.
Nowadays everybody’s crazy.”
Charles Manson

Image source: Nick Bougas (unpopart.org)

No, please, no more.

An interesting island

David Waterston — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:20:00 +0000

“Did you know there’s a girls’ school with 400 girls just round the corner? Very nice, I’ll tell you, it really is lovely. I mean they’re so beautiful those little girls are. My conscience won’t let me tamper – feel I might damage their lives if I do anything.”

A short, but unusual, 1974 interview with Brian Eno. Conducted by then journalist Chrissie Hynde.

Everything you’d rather not have known about Brian Eno (hyperreal.org)
EnoWeb (hyperreal.org)
Brian Eno at Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
Brian Eno Official Store (enoshop.co.uk)
Brian Eno official site (brianeno.com)
“Experiment appearing shortly”

100 photographs you didn’t know were great #10: Gene Tierney

David Waterston — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:38:33 +0000

“Gene Tierney” by George Hurrell (1944)

The Hollywood Photography of George Hurrell (hurrellphotography.com)
George Hurrell Photos and Prints (hurrellphotos.com)
Buy prints of Hurrell photographs, including recent prints made under Hurrel’s supervision.
Hurrel: The Estate of George Hurrell (hurrellestate.com)
George Hurrell Obituary (nytimes.com)
Hurrell related books at Amazon (amazon.com)
Gene Tierney (geocities.com)
“Unquestionably the most beautiful woman in movie history”.
Gene Tierney filmography (imdb.com)
Self Portrait: Gene Tierney’s autobiography (amazon.com)
Gene Tierney in the news (time.com)
A small but fascinating collection of contemporary news articles about or related to Gene Tierney at the height of her celebrity.

Delivery

David Waterston — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:51:53 +0000

I have absolutely no idea who or what a “Lindsay Lohan” is (and no interest in finding out) but this recent quote from her brought a ray of sunshine into my life:

“So . . . 3 hours of pole dancing and bruised. everywhere . . . I mean we’re talkin’ like, UPPER AND INNER THIGH ACTION-bruised . . . like a walking black-and-blue mark.

“I mean really though, really, I didn’t know it was actually possible to have bruises in such areas of the body. Strippers dude, I tell you, I really respect the cunts now“.

“Pole pulverises Lohan thighs” (nypost.com)