Carol Channing: Happy 92nd Birthday
Carol Channing performs for Her Majesty The Queen at the 1979 Royal Variety Performance, held at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.
Miss Channing is 92 today!
Carol Channing: Larger than Life documentary film opens in theaters this week...
Official Domus Launch
Last week saw the official launch (the earlier one was more of a late Christmas party) of the new Domus showroom at 50 Great Sutton Street in Clerkenwell, London.
In this i-phone snap taken by photographer, Rosie Mayell (ever vigilant for that potentially embarrassing photo op), you can see myself and fellow artist, Julian Wild, taking full advantage of a Domus spot light as we left the party. Julian and I both currently have sculptural work on display at Domus.
In this i-phone snap taken by photographer, Rosie Mayell (ever vigilant for that potentially embarrassing photo op), you can see myself and fellow artist, Julian Wild, taking full advantage of a Domus spot light as we left the party. Julian and I both currently have sculptural work on display at Domus.
A one-day return of whoa cool week
It's made of ice! Check out the full gallery to see what it looks like lit up at night
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/01/harbin_international_ice_and_s.html
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/01/harbin_international_ice_and_s.html
Test Tube Chandelier
As seen over on CRAFT where they also have one where the upper test tubes are used as as tiny vases.
Resident Evil: Revelations - 3DS Price Drop
Good News! Capcom has officially dropped the price of Resident Evil: Revelations - 3DS (Preorder) by $10 from $49.99 to a new lower price of $39.99. We have adjusted the price accordingly on our website.
We will be editing all existing pre-orders to the new lower price. Any customer who has prepaid for their pre-order will receive a $10 refund shortly.
We will be editing all existing pre-orders to the new lower price. Any customer who has prepaid for their pre-order will receive a $10 refund shortly.
Set the Tone: Control What Goes On Inside
"You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside."
-- Dr. Wayne Dyer
-- Dr. Wayne Dyer
Whoa cool week day 7 of 7
Guy paints super fast with his fingers.
It's like if Bob Ross had to fit a whole show into a commercial break.
City Crab With Comments
Had lunch the other day at City Crab.
The one down near Union Square...
All the drizzled sauces look mighty pretty but they mask the delicate crab natural flavor.
Sooo... Next time? I'd order no drizzling...
Also, next time, I'd smuggle in my own saltines.. Gotta have saltines with Maryland Crab cakes...
As for the Maryland Crab Soup? Perfect... Although, it could have arrived steamier...
Gotta say the service was excellent...
A big improvement to my last visit a while back...
SHOCK MATHS QUESTION!!
I'm so evil :D
Three ribbons of lengths 160cm, 192cm and 240cm respectively are to be cut into equal lengths without any leftovers. Find...
a) the greatest possible length of each piece and
b) the total number of pieces cut from the ribbons.
Well? SOLVE IT!!! And put your answer in the comments. Greetz
NeverDead XBOX 360 Region Free Test
We have region free tested NeverDead (Region Free) - 360 (In stock usually ships within 24hrs) on our PAL XBOX 360 console and can confirm it's PAL REGION FREE!
Look for more North American XBOX 360 game region free tests soon.
Whoa cool week day 6
There's a reddit post called "Today I Learned There is a Sculpture at the CIA Headquarters, Containing a Code which is yet to be Deciphered by Anyone, Including the Best CIA Cryptanalysts." and it links to this wikipedia article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos
Whoa cool week day 6 honorable mention
It looks like someone photoshopped and error message onto the sky, but it was just a foggy day and a digital billboard crashed.
From reddit. Best comment: "It's like the bat signal for tech support"
http://imgur.com/gallery/YdsAV
From reddit. Best comment: "It's like the bat signal for tech support"
http://imgur.com/gallery/YdsAV
Shut Up About That!
One Facebook fracker from high school days posted this week that he's gonna become a grandfather in August... We're the same age, for Chrissakes! Talk about a "Timeline"...
I prefer living in denial.
I've removed all the mirrors in my apartment... And no one can take a photo closer than 20 feet away.
On top of a dear friend dying suddenly last week I'm feeling very near my own expiration date lately...
Maybe its all a sign that I should get my Will together...
Day at a time, folks... Day at a time...
FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 / SOUL CALIBUR 5 XBOX360 REGION FREE TESTS
We have region free tested both Final Fantasy (13-2) XIII-2 - 360 (Preorder) and Soul Calibur V (5) - 360 (Region Free) (Preorder) on our PAL XBOX 360 and can confirm that Soul Calibur V is region free but unfortunately Final Fantasy XIII-2 is not.Also, still available for preorder with limited quantities is Soul Calibur V (5) Collector's Edition - 360 (Region Free) (Preorder) [LIMIT 1 PER CUSTOMER]
Look for more XBOX 360 PAL region free tests soon.
Whoa cool week day 5
Did you know that one day, there was a NYTimes Crossword Puzzle that had two correct solutions? The clue itself read "Lead story in tomorrow's newspaper (!), with 43A:" At the time, of course the election wasn't decided yet, so you could fill out the crossword depending on who you thought would win and and still fit with all the other clues.
See more about what the other clues were: http://www.crosswordunclued.com/2009/01/nyt-election-day-crossword.html
See more about what the other clues were: http://www.crosswordunclued.com/2009/01/nyt-election-day-crossword.html
MAINTENANCE NOTICE
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Happy National Peanut Butter Day!
Happy National Peanut Butter Day!
Here's five reasons why Peanut Butter is healthy, too!
1. It's Heart Healthy
2. It's High In Potassium, The 'Good' Salt
3. It Keeps You Full To Prevent Weight Gain
4. It's A Cheap Source of Good Calories
5. It Could Keep You Sharp (Peanut butter has about 4.3 milligrams of niacin per two-tablespoon serving, noted for preventing cognitive delay!)
Read the entire article.
Planetoid 210
For a few years now I've been toying with the idea of using soil in some of my sculptures. This is my first foray into that particular area - I had to resist the urge to say 'field'. I'm not sure how I feel about this new piece (maybe it'll work as part of a larger group of similar sculptures) but that's okay because it was my first attempt at working with soil and I just wanted to see what would happen.
I'm actually pleased with the physical results, as the soil mixture has set hard and doesn't show any signs of flaking. As you can see from the work in progress shot below, I built a plywood armature first. Then I covered it in a soil, wood chip and glue mixture.
'Planetoid 210' is a realisation of one of a series of sketches that I've been working on for some time. These sketches all involve architectural structures or towers sitting atop planetoids or spherical bodies that are obviously too small to realistically support them. The original drawing was inspired by something that happened to me whilst I was in Goa, India. I was swimming in the sea and noticed an interesting seed pod floating towards me. And as I picked it up to investigate further a small colony of tiny crabs decided that they must have hit dry land and proceeded to disembark onto my hand. I don't think that I'll ever forget those curious little seafarers and I often wonder how far and long they must have been travelling in that manner.
Whoa cool week day 2
Made up of 365 pictures all put into one image.
http://soup.c3o.org/post/202888346/This-picture-is-made-of-365-pictures
Set the Tone: Everything You Want
“Everything you want in life is right outside your comfort zone”
~ Robert Allen
Reflections on Paul Cadmus
I went out to see the following three events/exhibits (and a few old friends) at the Brooklyn Museum yesterday...Discussion: "Reflections on Paul Cadmus"
Jon Andersson, longtime partner of Paul Cadmus, whose work is included in the exhibition HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, spoke to scholar and author Philip Eliasoph about Cadmus’s life and work.
Jon recalled meeting Cadmus for the first time in Nantucket and how their relationship developed over the 35 years that they were in partnership.
Afterward I visited the following exhibitions at the museum:
Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties
HIDE/SEEK: Difference in Desire and American Portraiture
(Luigi Lucioni (American, 1900–1988). Paul Cadmus, 1928. Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 1/8 in. (40.6 x 30.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 2007.28)
Caught up with many old friends that were in attendance including: Jon Andersson, Philis Raskind, Sue Renee Bernstein and Eric Stephen Jacobs.
Below is one of the Cadmus drawings of Jon that was discussed in the afternoon interview:
Snowy Saturday Morning
No bigee. A light dusty snow was still falling at 6am when I went out for coffee... The kind that, with a little wind, stings when it hits your face. And it's still dark at this hour. And one of Hell's Kitchen's sidestreets still has their seasonal night lights up... So I snapped this shot with my smartphone... Actually, am posting this to Blogger using apps on my smartphone too. Such is the smartphone on a snowy Saturday morning....
New Prints Coming Soon
In the next few weeks I'll be bringing out a limited edition box set of nine screen prints in collaboration with the very talented and hard working street artist (I'm still not sure if he likes being referred to as a street artist but what the hell - it's a tag that he keeps getting stuck with), Mister Remi Rough. The plan is that each box will contain four, nine by nine inch, signed and numbered screen prints designed by myself, four designed by Remi and a ninth one by the both of us. We have also talked about the possibility of producing a very limited edition version (of five boxes) where each box contains an additional four original works - maybe paintings or drawings.
In the meantime here's some info on three screen print designs that I still have available for purchase.
These hand-pulled, screen prints are in a limited edition of 50 - a much smaller edition than my Spidey Pods prints and each one is signed, titled, dated and editioned. I have cropped the prints down from the 70 x 50 cm paper, on which they were printed, to 60 x 45 cm as this size works best with the image. However, I have keep a couple back, un-cropped, just in case anyone would like to frame them in a larger frame with a wide mount. I know that Ikea do a nice 70 x 50 cm plain black or white wood frame, with a mount, for about £20 but I’ve not tried a print in one of these frames yet so can’t comment on how they look.
If you would like to get your hands on one of the black and white Swirly Skull prints at my special, commission-free price (usually 30-50% less than in shops and galleries) feel free to get in touch. I'm selling them for £50 each. So if you fancy buying one just drop me a line at waynechisnall@yahoo.co.uk.
However, for those of you who love skulls but also like a little bit of colour - here’s my 2 colour, ‘Swirly Skulls on Pink’ screen prints. They come in a strictly limited edition of 50 and each print is signed, titled, editioned and dated. The paper dimensions are 70 x 50 cm (larger than the new, single colour, ‘Swirly Skulls’ prints which are 60 x 45 cm). And as with the black and white Swirly Skull prints, these are also available for a super low, commission-free price (£60 each if bought directly from my good self). If you would like one just drop me an email at waynechisnall@yahoo.co.uk .
But if you fancy something with even more colour then how about one of my Spidey Pods prints? The most famous person, so far, to own one of these prints is the actor Andrew Garfield, who will be playing Peter Parker/Spiderman in the new Spiderman movie. Now if that’s not a good endorsement I don’t know what is.
The prints are all hand pulled, 3 colour, screen prints on acid-free, archival paper. The paper size is 58.6 cm x 54.2 cm (image 38.7 x 39.4 cm). Every print is signed and numbered (being from a maximum edition of 300). And if you would like to get your hands on one, my ‘commission-free’ price is £100 (around 33-50%off the usual gallery and shop price), just get in touch at waynechisnall@yahoo.co.uk.
To find out about the inspiration behind the print check out the original Spidey Pods sketch further down the blog.
Everything I touch must be name brand
Have too much money to spend? Why not buy a leather Jimmy Choo sleeve for your coffee for $165?
Karen sent me this through a forwarded nylon post
Karen sent me this through a forwarded nylon post
Oppose SOPA and PIPA
Tell your Representatives that you oppose SOPA and PIPA.
Why? SOPA and PIPA would put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won't have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn't being infringed. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won't show up in major search engines. SOPA and PIPA would build a framework for future restrictions and suppression.
In a world in which politicians regulate the Internet based on the influence of big money, Wikipedia — and sites like it — cannot survive.
Congress says it's trying to protect the rights of copyright owners, but the "cure" that SOPA and PIPA represent is worse than the disease. SOPA and PIPA are not the answer: they would fatally damage the free and open Internet.
Why? SOPA and PIPA would put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won't have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn't being infringed. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won't show up in major search engines. SOPA and PIPA would build a framework for future restrictions and suppression.
In a world in which politicians regulate the Internet based on the influence of big money, Wikipedia — and sites like it — cannot survive.
Congress says it's trying to protect the rights of copyright owners, but the "cure" that SOPA and PIPA represent is worse than the disease. SOPA and PIPA are not the answer: they would fatally damage the free and open Internet.
I HAZ FACEBOOK ACCOUNT!!
Picture says it all. Now would someone please lead me to this 6-8 2011 group Wen Qi told me about on the last day of school?
Set the Tone: Say What You Want
"You say potato, I say whatever the hell I want"
-- Darth Vadar, @darthvadar on Twitter
All to the Good
Halfway through the Three Day Weekend...
It's a cold one...
I'm snug inside in a sweatsuit, drinking hot coffee, scented candles fired up, warm music on the Bose Wave.
All to the good...
Just changed my Desktop Theme to Ice Water... Ice and water go together like Astaire and Rogers, cookies and milk, and all the other great teams: beautifully. Each on its own is nice, but together they create something with extra sparkle. Add glamorous images of this all-time great team for free to your Windows 7 desktop.
Clearing off icons...
Need to fire up the iPad they gave me for work...
Pruning more apps on the Android...
And hopefully will hopefully really, really, really make my way to the hardwood surface of my Great Grandfather's Writing table... Through all the tear sheets and paper scraps...
Wish me luck...
Now where's that second coffee that just beeped off in the microwave?
This has ruined my amazon recommendations forever
Every time I see one of these, I have to click on it to see it up close, so now Amazon is like "Wow, you sure like looking at these shirts. Why don't you buy yourself something nice?"
You've likely already seen the three wolf moon shirt (if you haven't, catch up with how it became a known thing), but it turns out they make all sorts of shirts. The company is "The Mountain" if you want to look them up, but these are ones that seem to have the most narrow market possible.
You've likely already seen the three wolf moon shirt (if you haven't, catch up with how it became a known thing), but it turns out they make all sorts of shirts. The company is "The Mountain" if you want to look them up, but these are ones that seem to have the most narrow market possible.
Nail Heart
It's been a few weeks now since I last posted anything on my blog (partly due to excesses of the festive season and partly due to with me having to deal with an unusually large accumulation of boringly non-arty grown-up things – oh, if only I could just spend the rest of my life in a big, purely creative bubble) so I thought it about time that put up something new.
I've recently been tinkering with a few new sculptures - this being the smallest, which I made as a present for the photographer Rosie Mayell (who kindly photographed it for me). I'll post some pics of the others at a later date. As you can see, the piece is a wooden heart and much like my Nail Box sculpture, it's pierced with rusty nails and the odd screw here and there. Both pieces are heavily influenced by the minkisi carvings of the Congo.
Being a big fan of the immediacy of power tools, I carved the body of the Nail Heart on a band-saw which greatly sped up the carving process. The band-saw proved surprisingly versatile as a carving tool, if not a little scary – luckily I managed to finish the job with the same amount of fingers with which I started.
Before I added all the nails I let a few friends handle the lightly sanded and waxed wooden heart as it had a very tactile quality. And more than one person put this down to the fact that part of it looked and felt like a bottom. What can I say - maybe something subconscious filtered through during the production stage.
I've recently been tinkering with a few new sculptures - this being the smallest, which I made as a present for the photographer Rosie Mayell (who kindly photographed it for me). I'll post some pics of the others at a later date. As you can see, the piece is a wooden heart and much like my Nail Box sculpture, it's pierced with rusty nails and the odd screw here and there. Both pieces are heavily influenced by the minkisi carvings of the Congo.
Being a big fan of the immediacy of power tools, I carved the body of the Nail Heart on a band-saw which greatly sped up the carving process. The band-saw proved surprisingly versatile as a carving tool, if not a little scary – luckily I managed to finish the job with the same amount of fingers with which I started.
Before I added all the nails I let a few friends handle the lightly sanded and waxed wooden heart as it had a very tactile quality. And more than one person put this down to the fact that part of it looked and felt like a bottom. What can I say - maybe something subconscious filtered through during the production stage.
So, this exists: teen zombie romance.
From the amazon description:"R is a young man with an existential crisis--he is a zombie. He shuffles through an America destroyed by war, social collapse, and the mindless hunger of his undead comrades, but he craves something more than blood and brains. He can speak just a few grunted syllables, but his inner life is deep, full of wonder and longing. He has no memories, noidentity, and no pulse, but he has dreams.Oh and this is also becoming a movie. Movie reviewers, get your "trying to get warm bodies into movie theater seats" puns ready.
After experiencing a teenage boy's memories while consuming his brain, R makes an unexpected choice that begins a tense, awkward, and stragely sweet relationship with the victim's human girlfriend. Julie is a blast of color in the otherwise dreary and gray landscape that surrounds R. His decision to protect her will transform not only R, but his fellow Dead, and perhaps their whole lifeless world."
NO MOM, HE'S DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER ZOMBIES! YOU CAN'T KEEP ME FROM HIM, I LOVE HIM!
INVASION OF THE HOMEWORK BOT!!!
Haha. Weird title.
Anyways, school curriculum has started, which means... we're going to learn new stuff again! And that means... *gasp* HOMEWORK!!! (Well, at least for me. But most likely you'll have homework as well.
...
SURPRISE QUESTION!!!!!
Which measurement cannot be taken by vernier calipers?
A. Measurement of a ball
B. Measurement of an apple
C. Measurement of your eraser
D. Measurement of a room
(Don't worry -- if you don't know what vernier calipers are, you will find out in Physics.)
So you get the gist. Time to start being focused.
Oh, and because I can... SCREWATTACK!!!!
Sorry if I insulted any Pokemon fans by attacking Pikachu so much.
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