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god, you are so square
6 February 2010 | crime, tb | 4 comments
as far as i can make out this is a new mexican designer brand making t-shirts of infamous t-shirts - this one is at least correctly and clearly attributed as a trevor brown t-shirt design - all mention of a certain immature pop band of yesteryear removed from the shirt, so i doubt they got permission from them? - and i like how the brand name seems to refer to the wearer of their design (”fail!”) - ha ha ha! - website (well, a blogspot)
more comix (and more crap)
24 December 2009 | comix, crime | 2 comments
some sophisticated comix reading - both much acclaimed for their storytelling and their “tintin” art - “exit wounds” (rutu modan) was picked up at the generally conservatively boring kinokuniya bookstore here last week - as (1) i was a little surprised to see it and (2) i was vexing about the non-arrival of the “berlin” (jason lutes) books ordered a month ago - happily i’ve now received those (these?), one of life’s needless little annoyances surmounted, but in the same post news of an even greater headache - my credit card statement shows someone has been using it for their christmas shopping - to the tune of about $900 - and of course the bank here are treating ME as culpable and refusing to cancel the payments until they’ve looked into the matter and satisfied i have a genuine dispute - hmm… - happy xmas, trevor
fantasy = reality ?!?
28 November 2009 | censorship, crime, game | 9 comments
just read this article re human rights groups condemning war games for violating the geneva convention by allowing gamers to wantonly destroy buildings and kill innocent people etc - personally i really dislike war games myself (beyond metal slug) but do feel there’s something seriously amiss here - a bewildering assumption that fantasy and reality are indistinguishable and should be treated the same - i’m also perplexed there’s a list of rules for the rightful way to conduct a war - if anything they are treating the real life killing of people as a game!…
as expected the uk has now enacted the laws incriminating pornographic cartoons and any other non-real images of child obscenity - little press fanfare regarding this it seems - no big matter
next up for the police state of uk is the formation of an internet militia and the burning at the stake anyone found file-sharing
fxck godaddy (again!)
12 November 2009 | crime | 5 comments
my wife paid no heed to my unpleasant ordeal with these crooks (sympathy stretched as far as “stop whining” as i recall) - now exactly the same crap has befallen her hippiecoco.net - despite her paying extra money for extra “security”, godaddy suddenly stole it away and sold it to some russian colleague in criminal activity: vyacheslav zubenko - but my wife has more sense than to argue with godaddy, she immediately put it behind her and bought a new domain in japan hippiecoco.jp which was up and running by the end of the day! - middle finger to the cyber-criminals - end of story…
…or so it should have been! - vyacheslav zubenko (fake name?) has now uploaded a fake site on hippiecoco.net - the fake site being a cached copy of my wife’s site (!) - copyright laws obviously don’t exist on the net - the only difference being a line of links to cheap meds/diet pills/teeth whitening/cheap drugs/online pharmacy on the bottom of each page - so, of course, visitors to the site are conned into believing it’s still my wife’s official site (no way of telling them the new url) - identity theft and cyber-squatting is alive and thriving - evidentially the world is still full of stupid people who answer spam mail and click on links for cheap meds
not the tate
24 October 2009 | art, censorship, crime | 12 comments
in a hypocritical u-turn the tate removed all graham ovenden images from their web site, supposedly “due to copyright restrictions” but the cynical among us have suspicions that it may actually have just had something to do with ovenden going on trial for possession of “kiddie porn” - in a less cowardly retaliatory move, persons unknown have replaced the deleted images in a “parody site” here
The real Tate not only caved in to state censorship over the picture of Brooke Shields without any court order, but it also censored itself in the case of Ovenden. Now the real Tate is the shame of the art world.
as this site potentially may also get deleted by tate’s lawyers i’ve decided to run a few more images on my blog (also due to the lack of images elsewhere and the price of graham’s monographs rising out of reach of anyone)
and the “kiddie porn” graham was busted for?: well, an inside source tells me it didn’t even include any nude images of children…
graham ovenden on trial
22 October 2009 | crime | 15 comments
police raided his “gothic mansion” in cornwall, uk, and found 137 indecent images (and “psuedo images”) of children, allegedly in a folder called “destroy it” in his computer’s cache - the intended inference here being the images were child pornography but that is unlikely the case - “indecent” merely means nude (or not even that), according to the “experts”- the artist pleads not guilty and “claims” they were work-in-progress for an artwork - ovenden is a reputed artist active since the seventies whose work is in major collections worldwide
read more here
and here a wonderful piece re his previous run-in with the kp goon squad
air pirates
20 October 2009 | bedtime stories, comix, crime | 4 comments
scruffy hippies vs stuffy disney
exploding heads
9 October 2009 | bedtime stories, crime | 8 comments
The climatic shift in attitudes toward child abuse […] seemed to have been effectuated less by studied logic, scrupulous research, and patient wisdom than by a combination of crusader spirit, self-righteous zeal, blind-eyed stupidity, steel-knuckled meanness, inquisition-strength intolerance, star shine idealism, teeth-chattering terror, and bugfuck looniness. It was also unclear how much it accomplished.
It may be that one of the nobler - and more courageous - functions of art and artists is the probing of societies for tender points. Does it bother you here, such art asks. What about here, it inquires. When society yelps, the artist may have found an area that warrants further exploration. For art is only words and pictures; and if it causes discomfort, those areas may benefit from open airings. What are you hiding, the artist asks. Why are you hiding it? Would you care to discuss it.
ha ha ha! - this bob levin guy is great! - he’s positioned himself as a champion of “outlaws, rebels, freethinkers and pirates” in the field of comix - my only previous encounter with him was an excellent in-depth piece on vaughn bode he wrote for “the comics journal” - but he’s also written a couple of other associated books i’ll now be sure to be getting - anyway, i’m halfway thru this particular book telling the story of dwaine tinsley, offensive-for-the-hell-of-it cartoonist for hustler magazine, accused by his drug-addled daughter for sexually molesting her “at least 100, 000 times” - yeah, altho bob is sympathetic from page one, it all looks decidedly dysfunctional to me - they’re all as bad as each other - from what i’ve read so far, dwaine seems clearly as guilty as fxck, so i’m curious to see how the tale unfolds (knowing nothing about the case myself) and if bob can convince me otherwise - what is kinda disturbing is that his own art was used as “evidence” against him - in particular the unfortunate invention of a character named “chester the molester” specialising in little girls - but, hey, it’s only lines on paper! (no little girls harmed, or even depicted as being harmed, in the creation of these cartoons)
That’s the job of art. Show things that have never been seen. Say things that have never been heard. Explode people’s heads.
new reading matter
22 July 2009 | bedtime stories, crime | 8 comments
as above, these two books blind grasping at some better-than-nothing reading matter to fulfill my requisite daily word intake quota (ie bedtime reading!) - so not exactly baby art blog recommendations or anything to put undue significance upon - nevertheless, the child pornography book looks quite good - full of facts and figures but written in non-academic plain readable english - (probably) no annoying belaboured “agenda” from the author, a professor of criminology - (best avoid any cop-written books on topics like this as they typically are little more than uninformative self-adulation re “the lads on the team”) - the other book here written by an “investigative journalist” - potentially worse than obnoxious cop writers - but can be good in their sensationalistic badness (to wit: tim tates’s “child pornography” and yaron svoray’s “gods of death”) - nothing to say yet re this particular book…
rubber duck dub
18 June 2009 | crime, tribute | 19 comments
Rubber Duck is the newest collection of works by Karen Hsiao. Brightly lit and highly stylized, each piece features a girl sitting in a bathtub with a rubber duck incorporated into the composition.
The first series in the Rubber Duck collection, The Black Ducks, debuted in May 2008 at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, CA. The show garnered Hsiao a book deal with Babytattoo Publishing. Her first book is set for release sometime in spring 2010.
“wtf” says suzanne taking the words out of my mouth in (once again) exposing certain suspect slight similarities to a trevor brown painting, namely “rubber duck” - also li’l miss sticky kiss in the above “piece”, just for good measure - kinda amazing that someone can take the idea from just one of my paintings and make a whole book out of it - but of course that’s the typical tenuousity of “fine art photography” (especially the proliferation of self-nominated amateur fine art photographers) - and similarly typically, i doubt i will be acknowledged as the source inspiration - but whatever, why should i care?, i should be happy my work is so incredibly brilliant everybody can’t stop swiping my ideas
