But is it art?

Ok, it's an interesting "hotel room" but it's kind of creepy just sitting there on display in a museum.  As long as the exhibit is in town, people can stay overnight for 1,000 Euros ($1400) and they have the run of the museum the whole time.  I'd still feel strange as part of a museum display though.  I could see an entire hotel with rooms like these, maybe elevated on cylinders you go into at the bottom, an elevator takes you up about 100' to the room which is this, only under a clear dome.  The rotating disks the bed and tables are on would be cool in a setup like that.  Here, all you're going to see when the thing rotates is the other side of the room.  Imagine, high up in the air, at night in a raging thunderstorm... then at daylight, you look out at the ocean on one side, a jungle below, and mountains on the other side.  I should open a hotel like that.  I wonder if I could get a $10 million bank loan?  Anyway, read about this "art" by Carsten Holler here... Rotating Hotel Room

And on a sadder side of the news, this is from a few days ago.  The female version of "dead man walking".  Marisol Valles Garcia has taken over the job of police chief in a town in Mexico that's right in the middle of rival drug gangs.  She's only 20 and not even finished earning her degree in criminology.  I can't figure out why she's doing this, these drug gangs think nothing of taking out the police as well as their rivals.  They generally dismember bodies and leave the pieces piled up or scattered about.  Sometimes it's just the head delivered in a box.  The gangs have assault weapons, and the police force (of about a dozen illiterate men) has mostly shotguns, and a few pistols.  Her plan is to recruit more women to fill in the depleted force, and then go door to door educating people about the drug gangs and their effect on the community, as if it weren't already obvious.  Although I'm not part of any dead pools regarding this girl, I'm sure there are plenty.  I read about her first on the 20th.  I was predicting that she won't make it a month.

Brian's next tattoo...

I had this one in mind for a week or so, there's a tattoo place that just moved in recently a few stores down and the owner has been in to have several skull themed pieces framed... and there's something to do with roses in the business name.  I did this one in about 6 hours.  Probably a little slow but I did a pencil sketch first, then ink then the color.  So now I'm trying to do artwork specifically tailored to the people who frequent the stripmall.  I remember back when I ran a gallery in an actual mall, that was great.  Thousands of different tastes walking by every day.  Anyway I feel like I'm an artistic fisherman, baiting a hook and casting out right to that specific fish over in those weeds.  So Brian, hope you like it, I want to see it on your shoulder by this weekend.  And Jen, seriously, tell me what you want as specific as you can and I can make it for you.  Something with a faerie?  Some tribal shapes?  I saw the ones on your blog, so if you can, gimme a few more details to cruise on.  By the way, it's almost the weekend!

Ahhh, the future...

I smoked my first transparent joint tonight.  I keep telling myself that there will still be the occasional reason to live that pops up from time to time, and here's one.  Now if they could make these skins glow under a blacklight they'd really have something.  I totally felt like I had been cryogenically frozen and reawoken at some point in the future while smoking this.  Well, maybe it wasn't entirely the wrap.  I guess this fucked up retarded society isn't absolutely completely useless after all.  Woohoo!  Ok so I got some partying out of the way today so maybe I can put some time into my artwork this weekend as I'm on somewhat of a roll.  I'd like to request at least 2 days of solid rain, complete with furious thunder and lightning around the clock.  Yeah.  I can work to that. 

It's almost the weekend!

Well, I'm trying to spend my artistic time doing things I can finish more quickly lately.  Damn, I should have been banging these out back when the movie was hot!  I could have sold them like hotcakes.  I started this one this afternoon around 3.  I wonder if I'll get more than ol' Jack did for his... 10 cents would be a bit on the low side.  Click it for more detail.

So it looks like the Chilean miners are coming up starting late tomorrow.  And everyone up top has their entire future planned, including getting them back to "being themselves" and plans to administer the profits they might be offered for TV, books, movies and appearances.  Lest they squander their new found riches.  It's nauseating to read how these poor guys are going to be treated once they're up.  I hope it doesn't come out as bad as it sounds.  Read this nauseating garbage here

Waitress, I'd like some Deep Throat with a side of Tongue...

Reminds me a little of an ex-girlfriend of mine except hers wouldn't stop moving long enough for a decent picture.  Plus it wasn't quite like this babe, she could paint a house with this thing.  Speaking of babes, check out the optical illusion I added to the left side of the blog, below the blog archive.  Weirdest fucking illusion I've ever seen, seems that if you see her going clockwise you see her with your right brain (aesthetics, emotions, creativity) and if you see her going counter-clockwise you're using your left brain (logic, analytical and accuracy).  You should be able to make her change direction by concentrating... or try looking away just enough so that you can imagine her going the other way and then look back slowly.  In the beginning it took me 15 minutes to get her to change direction but now I can do it in a second or so.  Very cool illusion.  Ok, gonna go make a middle of the night cheeseburger, no salad... come to think of it, I don't think tongue girl up there is the salad type either.  She wants meat and in large quantities.  If ya know what I mean.  Here's something for you salad freaks.  Selah.