Now back to the 1970's kitch/porno/grindhouse shock posters

I love this one...the poster that is, movie I haven't seen.

Nature's symbol - Spiral (Galaxy's)

Stunning.

Please go here for the set

"The Prey" Vase, Art Nouveau by Auguste Ledru (1860-1902)

I love this, it is symbolic and suggestive erotic art from the pre Art Deco, or Art Nouveau peroid.

She awaits the conquest...the final seduction.

Melbourne (Australia), Brunswick St, Fitzroy

Taken with a crappy Nokia phone, with pixelation charm...

But damn I love the gothic influenced facade (the lion head)

Art: Photo (5)

Union Lane Melbourne City Australia. Artist (unknown)

Purple Diary Blog

I like Purple Magazine it's bible thick, nice and decadent with it's anti (anti?) fashion vibe, ego driven, sexual tantalization. A good coffee table mag. Olivier Zahm is the editor and he has his own blog, with contributory photos via Rachel Chandler a sexy girl that takes ok photos

Purple Diary

Artwork (mine) - update 1

This is another one from a set, A1 (roughly) aluminum framed. Current price at $650.00

Please email for inquiry: sheolonearth@gmail.com

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

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.

Street Art/Stencil Art

For a spur of the moment on a bored Saturday night. Not bad. The breasts had a hell of lot of contrast detail (don't worry some nice naked stencils are coming), for the sake of a spontaneous stencil were removed. The face came out really well considering, as did the arms and hands above the head (hair). All and all the stencil works against a rough sand-plastered finish on a subway pass-way; kinda stands out with the red. 1st glance it looks like a women (as mentioned) stroking her hair, 2nd glance it looks like decapitation (arm, head) and blood.

stencil art - Buenos Aires Argentina

from: http://www.cambsas.blogspot.com/ (all photo credit)

I am a big fan of street art, my brother was/is a famed graffiti artist of Melbourne (Australia) and I like stencil art. It all mergers together: graffiti, the modern, the decay and imprint of the ambiguous. There is something exciting and striking about an image that has been improvised (it's not supposed to be there) onto a building or structure, but it is now part of the building/structure. I like that.

Anyway there is a club in Buenos Ares I don't know the name but apparently it's facade is covered in stencil/graffiti art. You know the name? Send me an email

Above is a stencil art from the streets of Buenos Aires Argentina

Melbourne City 'laneway' street art has peaked 2010

photo: C.D blog

A rough guess is the boom in street art on Melbourne's lane ways lasted form 2000 to 2008.

The local city council caught a wift of the boom (?) of street art and in 2008 decided to create a panel (street art assessment panel or if you prefer: SAAP) to judge street art as a protected 'tourist' resource. Hence in 2008 renown UK street artist 'Banksy' work was protected by a clear plexiglass sheet. Of course the irony is that until recently in April 2010, one of Banksy's other works was destroyed by council cleaners, doing what they do best; cleaning. But with council/gov interest you also get low level commercial interest. Which would be the clubs, bars, cafes that have sprung up around and inside these 'laneways', not to forget the development of apartments and refurbishment of various decrepit buildings (slightly above low level commercialization).

Similar to the now defunct 'hells kitchen' CBGB's (NYC) club and it's infamous laneway at the back of the club, which now has new apartments blocks at both ends.

So a seeping commercial presence has inevitably dulled the 'edginess' of Melbourne lane way street art, that and also the hundreds of 'bill board' posters (selling/promoting everything from shows, clubs, DJ's, hair products etc) that have sprung up in all of the laneways. To the extent that the Melbourne City council has erected frames on the side of lane way walls dedicated to billboards.

After recently visiting some of the laneways on Saturday 10th July 2010, it felt banal, boring and safe. With literally most of the art covered up by bill boards and council paint jobs.

We all just have to wait for the decay to set back in with the crazies, druggies, muggers returning in the near future...and of course the street artists.

Duckboard place Melbourne City. From here