Artwork (mine)

This is one of mine, approx a A2 size with aluminum frame.

I will be exhibiting this one (and others) at some point in the future.

Price (current) is $450.00AUD

Please email: sheolonearth@gmail.com for info

Creative Destruction mini reviews (update 3) El Senrio Mezcal

This is nice, smooth with that distinct Mezcal smoky flavour, or as some mixologists like to say 'herbaceous'. Mezcal is a different from Tequila (although both come from the Agave plant) in the sense the very strong smoke flavour renders the drink almost useless for cocktails. As the Tequila has a smooth (better quality Tequila's) and more palatable as a cocktail base (re: Margarita). But, Mescal can be mixed, you just have to use your brain (not in the the cocktail!) and some creative ideas.

Remember the worm in the bottle is a Mezcal not Tequila.

Blondie: One Way or Another (1979)

This is a song about seduction right? Then rejection.... moving on etc. Suffice to say, damn great song from the late 70's

Creative Destruction Store - The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction

Despite the heading of the book, this isn't some doomsday advocate (or warning) manual, or even a representation of an 'end of the world fetish (ok...maybe a little)'. It is however a book that looks at the popular culture idea or the epicenter of destruction; that being New York City. Whether that destruction be from tidal waves, nuclear bombs, biological attack, aliens attacking, virus/plagues and even zombies. "The City's End" is a pop culture analysis of NYC and it's destruction.

from The NEW YORKER review (exhert)

"Max Page, a professor of architecture and history, charts the evolution of popular fears in films, drawings, literature, video games, and amusement-park rides. His argument that “each era has found it useful to destroy New York in its own particular way” draws on theorists like Spengler and Sontag, but they are less illuminating than the gleeful illustrations, which attest to the notion that “no place looks better destroyed than New York.”

D.L. & Co. - Black Wax Skull Candle

I guess you could say there is a running theme with the Creative Destruction Store - Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America and the Misplaced optimism is deadly - Alain de Botton, since this collection of wax candles are titled "Momento Mori" or "Remember your mortality"

Varoom Magazine #12

Very good art/culture magazine

Max Beckmann - 1919 Borneplatz Synagogue

If you ever get a chance to see the European masters whilst the exhibition is in Melbourne/Australian at the National Galley, see it! Of course the standpoint for me was Max Beckmann paintings, which I feel represents some of the best post modernism/cubisms style (German/ European) art you'll ever see.

The one painting that stood out for me, and there were many striking paintings, was the Borneplatz Synagogue pic painted in 1919 by Max Beckmann. The symbolism and his forecast of the destruction of the Borneplatz Synagogue in Frankfurt that occured in 1938 by the Nazi's who burnt the Synagogue to the ground. Beckmann was an artist that knew trouble was brewing, the painting was a symbolized forecast that the Jewish persecution in German was just beginning, thus the painting showing the sloping section where the Synagogue stands, with the wise cat looking in that direction; as if to know about the future. An outstanding modern artist.

Incredible.