LA LUZ de JESUS GALLERY and CENTURY GUILD present

Voluptuaries & Vivisections:
A Celebration of Depravity

Guest Curator: Thomas Negovan

August 14 - 30
Opens Friday, August 14, 2009
8 - 11 PM

These are images that burned themselves into the minds and hearts of unwitting late 19th/early 20th century citizens, inciting unparalleled controversy all over Europe and beyond... and promise those same reactions in those who cross paths with them today. Decadence, dandyism, sex, and murder: more than mere posters, these are windows into the darkest corners of human compulsion.

In an event curated by Thomas Negovan and Century Guild, a Chicago gallery known for museum quality Art Nouveau and Symbolist Art, La Luz de Jesus invites you to be a part of an unprecedented event that explores the taboos that have titillated and tormented since the turn of the century. Masterpieces of lithographed poster art from 1880-1940 illustrating subjects ranging from seminal S&M literature to STD warnings to serial killers will be shown, all of which shall be sure to incite reactions of lust, terror, anger, nausea, and inspiration.
NOT TO BE MISSED!





http://www.laluzdejesus.com/shows/currentshow/Voluptuaries/Voluptuaries.htm

holy crap!

if you want to freak people out beyond belief, and quite possibly lose some friends, for your next party order one of these!!

puppets made of your likeness!





http://puppetartists.com/PortraitPuppets/tabid/447/Default.aspx

i <333 bagels.

http://www.wikihow.com/Serve-a-Bagel-Breakfast

8 different ways to serve your bagel!!! yummmmy!!!

sometimes you just need to dance

lately the shows i have been attending, all great, have been more melodic... sway back and forth type of music.


sunday night it was rather a treat to be attending a good old fashioned dance show.


it rekindled my love for dance bands. not dj's spinning music they could never imagine creating on their own. but good old fashioned percussion instruments galore and horns... OH, THE HORNS!!

if you are unfamiliar with friendly fires. get familiar.

Call of the Wild - SF

interesting show going on in SF right now... not sure how this piece relates but i dig it.



Gideon Boomer
This is where they put Lakers after basketball season.
watercolor on paper
16 x 12 inches
21 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches framed
$388.00


view more from the show here
http://g1988callofthewild.blogspot.com/

Morbid? or Good to Know?

costco is in the funeral business. i went on their website tonight to look something up and noticed a tab that read "Funeral."

Intrigued i clicked on it and found that they not only offer human caskets but animal urns as well.


kinda creepy

i found the above photo with this description:

{Display your favorite photo of your cat or dog in this cherry finished urn and memory box. Opening holds a 5-1/4" x 7-3/8" photo of your pet.

An elegant crushed velvet tray on the top stores those significant mementos including items such as, their collar, tags and special photos. Keep them safe in this elegant display and keep their memory alive. Top stays closed with a strong magnet closure.}


weeeeeird.

Burger & Babes? really? hasn't this been done?

i'm curious... i'll try it.

i'm not gonna lie. i like burgers.

SAKE FESTIVAL?! say whhhhaaaat?

siiiiiick.

will someone "loan" me $50 bucks?!!!

http://www.examiner.com/x-5200-LA-Cocktails-Examiner~y2009m8d14-Los-Angeles-Sake-Festival

Intimately Wilde.

I was able to catch a preview performance last night of Intimately Wilde written & directed by Long Beach, Cali native Terra Taylor Knudson. Having to admit before coming into this performance I was only aware of Mr. Wilde, knowing the simple basics of this man. Fortunately this did not hinder my enjoyment of the 2 hr play. Intimately Wilde is running for one month @ The Lyric Theatre in Los Angeles/Hancock Park area. Before or after you should skip across the street for some PINKS hot dogs (or veggie dog!) mmmmmm.

Intimately Wilde is an original look at the trials of love and the triumph of the human spirit under extreme public scrutiny. Oscar Wilde, famed poet and playwright, is the central figure in a turbulent love affair with the young and rebellious aristocrat Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, and as a result is thrown into the center of three highly publicized trials during the height of the Victorian era in London.

In the final hours of his imprisonment for gross indecency, this play follows Wilde as he examines the choices he made for love, the destruction of his fragile egg-shell world, and the reality of what one will do when he becomes a "slave to love".

But Intimately Wilde is not a story of punishment or regret. Rather, it celebrates the force of Wilde's spirit and his determination to remain true to himself, his art, and the two people he cherishes above all else: his wife and his lover.

Location:
Lyric Theatre
520 North La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Box Office/Info:
(323) 939-9220

Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays @ 8pm
Sundays @ 2pm

Aug 13 - Sept 13, 2009

Music Boxes for the Mini Cinema

is the current exhibit at the Billy Shire gallery



unfortunately this piece is sold. otherwise i definitely would have purchased it. i mean come on it was only selling for $5,400. that is chump change. chump i say.



http://billyshirefinearts.com/

MONSTERS OF POP

current exhibition @ gallery 1988 on melrose in LALA land.

my favorite?



titled "When Yoko Ate Ringo"

yesssss.



http://www.nineteeneightyeight.com/entry/home.html

this would be perfect for the hollywood bowl.

doesn't get much better; chair, cooler, utensil set and a radio on your ass.

http://www.picnic-basket.com/Cooladio-Chair-Cooler-Radio-Combo-Picnic-Plus-ID-PSR-151_p_33-1948.html

rub a dub dub

who wouldn't want to wash themselves with vegan cupcake(soap bars)?!! who?! WHO I TELL YOU WHO?!!!


http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5111675

when you're bored at work.

really no rhyme or reason for this. a website all about animals with casts? ok.

http://animalswithcasts.com/

Bugg Out!

"Scratch DJ Coffee Table" photo transfer on knotty pine clear pine construction, brushed aluminum legs poly-resin coating approx. 44" X 21" X 12" $895.00USD Email for purchase and shipping.!!!

http://www.bughouse.com/index.cfm?pID=66&n=1&p=2&all=1
Located in Eagle Rock.

more fine art in long beach.

Long Beach, CA, August 3, 2009 - DDR Projects welcomes twelve emerging American contemporary artists to the gallery for the group exhibit entitled "Fragments". Co-curated by Damion Silver, the exhibit will showcase some of our country's brightest and most creative artists that have yet to be tapped. Please join us for an evening of exciting art.

Fragments; to break or separate, or to reduce or become reduced to pieces or components. Residual matter? The exhibit can go either way depending on the individual viewer and how they ultimately define our newest exhibit and the body of work. Like aesthetic archaeologists, these twelve artists dig beneath the surface of their engaging and visually complex works to expose their emotional and thematic foundations. The modern world with all its beauty and grotesque seen threw the eyes of twelve American artists.


3403 East Broadway (at Redondo)
Long Beach, California 90803

562.434.8480

www.ddrprojects.com

Tuesday-Friday :: 3-9pm
Saturday :: 12-6pm
Closed Sunday-Monday

i'm ready for my close up.

EOE's an award-winning, mixed media UCLA art student who's home for the summer, sick of working construction, and ready to earn some extra scratch by painting affordable portraits of you, your girl, your dog, or whoever else in his raw, contemporary street art steez that'll be well out of your price range once Andy Warhol starts hitting on him. How it works: EOE paints from snapshots, so simply email him your high quality pic and he'll go to work; though you're free to include specifics re: sizing (30x30" is standard but he'll work in other dimensions), colors, and materials, your best bet's to let the man do his thing unfettered

portraits start @$150

link up here for more examples of his work:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33168034@N05/sets/72157621956387646/

or email him:

eelliott035@gmail.com

SF mayor is coming to town.

(is this the next leader of california? i kind of hope so. what? the current leader is so much better?!)

Love him or Leave him Gavin Newsom is coming to the LBC.

Share you views or just listen to the man speak:

What: Long Beach Conversation about California’s Future with Gavin Newsom

Where:Cesar Chavez Elementary School
730 W 3rd St
Long Beach, CA

When:Monday, August 10 at 6:00 pm

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106366319524&ref=nf