23.9.10

Seraphina turns 2 she is soooooo cute!!

Happy birthday little lady **********************

Mark FAst colours it up to end with an amzing WHITE dress!!

One Hundred Dollar Bill Cuff, Laser Cut and Engraved Hand Painted Acrylic

Always have a hundred dollars at hand;)

I can add Swarovski Crystals for a small charge, let me know.

I created these cuffs by designing them on my computer. Then engraved and cut them with a laser from 1/8 in crystal clear acrylic. Next I hand paint them. I can make variations of the designs, color, and add names or almost any thing. They are all made to order, so slight color variations will happen. I make them in a size to custom fit you, so just send the measurement of the circumference of your wrist, they will be a little larger than the measurement. If you have a color preference, just let me know. The bracelet that is ordered from this listing will be made as close to the photo listed as possible, if you would like more than a color change, it may have to be a custom order. (Please allow at least one week for me to make it after I have your size).

Lara jensen says ..............................i think it would look epic over the cuff of a shirt

Blow people away with a game of conkers with Mr Julian Roberts!!!

Conkers come from the Horsechestnut tree and are smooth and round and bitter tasting/ inedible. We have Chestnuts too, they come from the Spanish or Sweet Chestnut trees and are pointy at one end and eaten at xmas. Do yanks play conkers? Wise words of MR Julian Roberts Super STar!!

22.9.10

Fashion week Highlight Meadham Kirchhoff

Colour opulence and too much of everything MY FASHION WEEK FAVOURITE!! ;)

James Long Mens Wear 'they died too young'

Colourful, textured and with a punky twist, I am loving James longs collection!!

Classic, Beauitful, modern yet with an Air of traditional Class!! John A Harris Furniture Designer

Designer John A Harris, is exhibiting his beautifully crafted furniture in the savile Row shop of Mr Ozwald Boetang, English Spalted beech crafted to perfection. Worth a look you bet ya!!!

Classic, Beautiful, modern yet with an Air of traditional Class!!

In his own words

“I start off with a clear idea of what I am about to make but I am easily swayed”, he says “I let the wood express itself. Sometimes it feels like all I have to do is bring out the hidden beauty” As each piece can take from 1 month to 1 year to make, this is as far from mass-production as you can get. Giving uniqueness to a one off creation.
'Visually remarkable and immaculately crafted, the merit of these objects is that they tell us about their maker. They are the fruit of a great number of lived experiences, and their perfection is the result of first-hand knowledge, passion and a real engagement with the material. Today, after years of deprecation, skill and technique are making a comeback'. Patrick Favardin Critic - Paris, Nov 2007.

'Through my work I aim to have a lasting impact on the way in which people view old and unusable timber and to make a more creative and ecological contribution to the major issue of recycling, deforestation and the future preservation of the planet'. John Alfredo Harris

My designs merge the classic traditions of the cabinet making craft with a freedom of visual expression. I try to emphasize the prehistory of the wood in the pieces I create by leaving clues as to their origin. This makes for strong debate and discussion for the public or client, and is a major factor in all my work. I design furniture, tableware, interior accessories, and interior space. I work on one-off commission project as well as editions.

Ben Frost super star painter!! Exhibits in Australia whoop!

Ben Frost

The Art of Noise

Exhibition Dates 23 September - 23 October 2010
Opening Thursday 23 September 6-8 pm

Like the buzz on a telephone or the snow on a television screen, our urban environment is filled with visual 'noise', that is for the most part extraneous and meaningless interference. From advertising on endless billboards that litter our highways, to the torrents of television commercials and pop-up ads on our computer screens - our identities have become defined by the logos and products that we associate ourselves with.

In the 'Art of Noise' I have continued to explore my own love/hate relationship with the visual signifiers of consumerism that we are bombarded with every day. By subverting and juxtaposing these logos, slogans, characters and motifs, I serve to objectify and recontextualize them into alternative dialogues. This objectification extends into the use of the curved edges on some of the artworks, which reinterprets the normal square-edged, 'window view' of the picture plane that we are normally presented with in painting. The logos and characters are overlaid and juxtaposed in these works to create linear dialogues - (snow white interacts with Ren and Stimpy, Batman punches small children, and the heavy metal band Slipknot's logo sits below Subway fast food text).

This is in opposition to the non-linear fashion we normally experience the 'noise' of our 'Ad-vironment': (Snow White interacts with the characters in her specific fairy tale, Batman punches bad guys, and Subway and metal bands certainly don't go together). These subversions attempt to bring to light the oppositions inherent in advertising - that of attraction and repulsion between the smiling face of a corporate mascot and the product and associated social/moral impacts consumerism entails.

Influenced by a recent trip to Mongolia, I spent a lot of time photographing and investigating the way logos and signage are interpreted in what is a bizarre fusion between Capitalism and Russian and Chinese Communism. The mistranslations of partial English phrases mixed with the Russian Cyrillic alphabet on billboards and on the sides of buildings and stores, ranged from disturbing to hilarious. Mongolia being a location that is an emerging capitalist democracy with a Russian communist hangover creates an interesting nexus between two opposing ideologies that from the perspective of someone investigating visual consumerist signifiers is fascinating.

The signage teeters between the banal and the ironic in this context, which in turn forces a re-evaluation of our own local framework of communication via advertising. This observation is that the 'noise' of commercialism is constant on a global scale and that through the re-evaluation of its signifiers we can question our identities and how we identify with each other in this mediated world.

Ben Frost, September 2010