Way into these Biker Orgy oil paintings from John Copeland. I like the Time cover alterations also so I posted those too. John is a capable draftsmen as well and he's got some rad pencil drawings on his website. He rolls with Wes Lang from time to time and I'm sure drinking whiskey with the two of them in a dark dive bar somewhere would prove enlightening.
VEA was a weekly pulp periodical which ran for years throughout the 50's & 60's but was apparently often in trouble with the law, largely due to censorship issues of the times. The magazine was a menudo of news, bullfighting reports, pulp fiction (with illustrations that look like Charles Burns on peyote) and breasts. There is really nothing to compare the magazine to in the states then or now, but it was similar to the Folies De Paris et de Holllywood magazine from France which was running the same time. Some of the Harrison mags like Whisper maybe. Large format, large on style and striking today.
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I got really drunk at the bar the other night and scribbled down a bunch of nonsense. It's hardly legible. Don't remember writing any of it. Josiah is my good friend. He's the bartender too and I kinda hold him partly responsible. However, he did get me home safe so I guess that evens things out. Plus I still had the napkins some some how.
I came across this exhibition catalog at LACMA the other day and was thouroghly inspired. It can artist quicksand to work within the shadow of another and Pablo Pacasso arguably casts quite the shadow. None the less, Richard Prince does an admirable job with his exploration of Pacasso and the female form.
Nearly two years after the start of Syria's popular uprising, the conflict has evolved into a slow-moving, brutal civil war with many players and no clear end in sight. Multiple rebel groups across the country continue to fight President Bashar al-Assad's forces, using any weapons they can get their hands on. While the rebels are using many modern weapons, they've also come up with their own makeshift solutions. In these weapons workshops, anti-aircraft guns are welded to pickup trucks and armor shields are attached to machine guns and cars. Mortar shell nose cones are turned on lathes and explosives are mixed by hand. Homemade grenades are launched by jury-rigged shotguns or giant slingshots in the urban battlefields of Aleppo and Damascus. Gathered here are a few examples of the hand-built munitions of the Syrian rebels.
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