Artists

“Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. ” ― William S. Burroughs

but the asshole would eat its way through

his pants and start talking on the street... 

shouting out it wanted equal rights.~William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

Bunny

It was 60 years ago this month that Yeager took her first pictures of Bettie Page, the model and muse whose confident, sexually charged portraits, some of the best known shot in Key Biscayne and Boca Raton, have left an indelible mark on art and fashion, from the pages of Playboy to museum walls.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2014-05-25/news/fl-bunny-yeager-obituary-20140525_1_miami-beach-bettie-page-art-basel

Nobody dared to touch them

“Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health.However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?"Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.” ― Salvador Dalí, Dalí's Mustache

“I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ” 

― Allen Ginsberg

constant habit of awareness

No man can roan or inhabit the Canadian North without it affecting him, and the artist, because of his constant habit of awareness and his discipline in expression, is perhaps more understanding of its moods and spirit than others are. He is thus better equipped to interpret it to others, and then, when her has become one with its spirit, to create living works in their own right, by using forms, colors, rhythms and moods, to make a harmonious home for the imaginative and spiritual meaning it has evoked in him.~~~ Lawren Harris

I know karate, Voodoo too-I'm gonna make myself available to you

I don't need no make up-I got real scars

I got hair on my chest-I look good without a shirt

 Well I don't lose my composure_In a high speed chase
Well my friends think I'm ugly_I got a masculine face

who will risk

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” - T. S. Eliot. 

Home seet home

Overgrown with weeds

“Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

Mmmm. Big city. Overgrown with weeds, but flowering weeds. On every corner a wrecking crew and something new and crooked going up catty corner to that. Windows missing in every edifice like broken teeth, gritty wind, and a gray high sky full of ravens.
Prophet birds, Roy. Piles of trash, but lapidary like rubies and obsidian, and diamond-colored cowspit streamers in the wind. And voting booths. And everyone in Balenciaga gowns with red corsages, and big dance palaces full of music and lights and racial impurity and gender confusion. And all the deities are creole, mulatto, brown as the mouths of rivers. Race, taste and history finally overcome. And you ain't there.

it’s born with us the day

“Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.” ― Homer, The Iliad

pik; Wien, Austria

back from Europa-2014

BACK FROM TRIP TO EUROPA- Venice Italy, and wien, austria

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

Venice

“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.” ― Truman Capote

will be there Monday

This was Venice, the flattering and suspect beauty - this city, half fairy tale and half tourist trap, in whose insalubrious air the arts once rankly and voluptuously blossomed, where composers have been inspired to lulling tones of somniferous eroticism.~Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

Good taste is fascism. "Either all are special or none."---France is heading to the far right
Western art has been stupefying its audience into taking the position of an admiring doormat. We, at Group Hangman however, intend to wipe our mud-encrusted boots on the face of conceptual balderdash.put the boots to uz

picture to cure

“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.” ― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall

My
Friends toast project, i defaced it...............................................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0odaG9qi818

purely descriptive

"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is given to the less talented as a consolation prize."-Robert Hughes

“Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre” ― Robert Hughes

“Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing the explanation of natural phenomena to the smallest possible number of primitive natural laws; and, in mathematics, of unifying the treatment of different topics by using a generalization. Philosophers constantly see the method of science before their eyes, and are irresistibly tempted to ask and answer in the way science does. This tendency is the real source of metaphysics, and leads the philosopher into complete darkness. I want to say here that it can never be our job to reduce anything to anything, or to explain anything. Philosophy really is “purely descriptive.” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein

Write and wrong

“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” ― C.G. Jung

The feeble-minded

“The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.”― Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

“Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.” ― R.D. Laing,

 The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise

17,000 views

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.” ― Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

eaten up by nothing=black holes

BOOyahs-“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” ― Charles Bukowski

the reality- worms enfold

“Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow” ― T.S. Eliot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_7loz-HWUM

“All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.” 
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

HEY we kan still B friends

Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.~STEVE ALTEN, The Loch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTSUwIZdMk

Perverse or Preverse

Richard Burton~ (about being an actor): Actors are poor, abject, disagreeable, perverse, ill-minded, slightly malicious creatures. And of that august company of idiots, I'm afraid I'm a member.

“1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.” 
― Mark Bittman, Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes

im a Vild one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srvCyIlLxF4

“Keynes declared capitalism the best system ever devised to achieve a civilized economic society. But he recognized in it two major faults—“its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.”― Robert B. Reich, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future

“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara

 “Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness 
of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.” ― Coco Chanel

weakling and the neurotic

“The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners of their psychology.” ― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams