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East Timor Sept 2000: A young boy sells hard boiled eggs to UN staff outside the ‘Hello Mister’ supermarket in Dili, East Timor after the UN sponsored referendum.
Coloured pencils and water coloured paint on paper. / Mister Gangley’s hands grasped around his son’s tiny skull. Such an unfortunate series of events. / 22×44cm / 2007 Original work has been sold.
Early morning / On the Camino de Santiago / Galicia / Espana Taken a while ago with an old sony 4meg camera. Featured in Shots in the fog
Current competetion: kingdom1 Looking at you! Used: Pencil, colours on normal paper. Mister frog is a exotic red eye tree frog. Mr. Frog made it in the groups: Reptiles and Amphibians (aug), Animal Kingdom (may) to be featured, so many thanks to the host of this groups and the people who favour and takt time to place positive comments!
Indeed. It’s a long infamous history. From the dark ages of bubbledom there has been much rumour surrounding the identity of the artist often known as Khan. His associations have been lucrative, and some may say he rides the waves of foam and fame on the backs of t-shirt greats. His sheer abrasiveness, tainted with the eloquence of an editorial commentator is littered throughout the village, emanating with the stench of revolution while the carcasses of his former parodies lie around the old town hall of the Parody and Satire and Lampoon Group, seized and overrun by the extreme ideas of a sociopath. Q. What is the object of your ARSE initiative, and what is in it for you? A simple jaunt through the colourful halls of RedBubble will soon tell you that there is a lot of seriously fucking boring shit going on. I mean really bad. Take the Fungilicious group for example. They should be eating them, not taking photos. And then there is the RPA, which is drier than a nun’s knickers and twice as starchy. I shan’t say anything about ‘Living Christianity’ apart from my understanding of the word ‘living’ is, well, a little bit more alive. When RedBubble was but a little bubbling, things were looking much more optimistic. There is also quite a lot of whining and quite a lot of mutual masturbation. Nothing wrong with that, but you shouldn’t do it in public. To be fair it’s not big bubble’s fault it turned out this way. The square world is just a reflection of the round one, but I’d like to see more groups called ‘crazy shit i saw on holiday last year’ (I know Ms. Pryor would also), and less ‘panoramic views’, and I’d be really chuffed to see ‘fundamentally Islamic’ up on the board. In essence the ARSE movement is a reaction- an attempt to unite similarly ironically minded people and mobilize their collective power for whatever purpose their collective power is needed. to yell, as opposed to whine. it’s been riding on the back of Danny’s lampoon and parody group for the best part of a week, causing confusion, mayhem and disruption, but… we’ve just received news from big bubble of official recognition which may or may not change things, ‘cos I might fall off a cliff tomorrow, and everybody would have forgotten about it all by next Wednesday. What’s in it for me? I’m just trying to restock the rabbitollah’s harem, and make sure that when I log on to RedBubble i don’t get assaulted by pictures of llamas and short stories with punch lines. Q. Do you steal other people’s ideas, as has been suggested in the past? If not, why? Like anyone I take inspiration from anything I see. Occasionally other people’s work- if that’s the case I normally turn it on its head. I like playing with other people’s ideas or images, with the intent of changing their meaning entirely through some simple modification. to my mind that’s not really copying. That [expletive starting with c], who used to sit next to me in my Latin tests, looking over my shoulder, was copying. [Expletive starting with c] copy and I’m not a [expletive starting with c]. Q. As a creative soul, how do you find outlets for expression in Russia? What opportunities are there for exposure? In the ‘real world’ I work with pre-school children, specifically – the richest children in Russia. I’ve had 2 of the richest 10 families in Russia as my clients, and countless politicians, business leader etc in the last 5 years. i make materials for teaching the children- songs, animations, stories, plays etc- this year I recorded an album of educational kids hip hop for using in English lessons, and I’m submitting a picture book for publication with Egmont, who’ve just opened offices here. If I can add anything positive to the idea-base of the kids I teach, who will doubtlessly come to hold the reigns of the nation and their fortunes in the next couple of decades, then that is my outlet. For exposure there are galleries and magazines- the best English language magazine here is ‘the exile’ (exile.ru) fucking hilarious, and deeply disturbing at the same time. The only example of free press in Russia- (because it’s in English). And it’s very free. Never tried submitting anything to them due to the fact they seem to be doing quite a good job by themselves. Q. To be observant, you have done some travel around the place, how does this shape your expressive presentation of ideas? The world is round, not square. If you see something with your eyes, and not on a screen, you can understand it, not just observe it. This is one of the reasons that religion plays a big part in my work- i go to a Hindu temple, or an orthodox church, or a mosque, and i feel the same connection with the earth, with nature. Doesn’t matter what clothes it’s wearing, or what clothes I’m wearing. I also understood that the way people live is different. The philosophies, ideals, and morals by which they live, are different. There is no right or wrong. There is diversity, and that diversity exists only because it’s what people want. Do you think Islamic countries want democratic leaders, or strong military rulers? As my grandfather quoted from someone I’ve totally forgotten- ‘every country has the government it deserves’ (Joseph de Meistre). You think in India they want beef stroganoff on the menu. Different strokes for different folks. That understanding gives me the ability to happily include symbols from different places and cultures in my work that possibly might not be orthodox in its employment, but which I think is valid. I’ve never been to America; that is my mistake. / To my mind this travel is not just physical but psychedelic also. I probably did too much acid, about twice when I was out in Goa in my ‘formative years’, tripping for a couple of months at a time. Real flying in the heavens talking to trees shit. When I came back, I sort of discovered I was in Russia. Not the sort of thing you can book from a travel agent. it’s just like in the matrix with the blue pill or the red pill. Those that have understand what a fucking joke everything really is. Q. How do you expect you will revolutionize Russian in the next 5-10 years? I think my results will begin to kick in through the next 20-30.
Like a homage to Magritte….
a stylish leopard that momentarily allows us to bathe in his suave
SEE THE CAROUSEL IMAGE COLLECTION RIDE THE CAROUSEL FOR 25 CENTS! No, that is not a price from yesteryear but the price today for a ride on the Kit Carson County Carousel in Burlington, Colorado which is located just off Interstate 70 on the Colorado/Kansas border. Although there were nearly 4,000 wooden carousels carved in the U.S. between 1885 and 1930, there are fewer than 150 still in existence. The one in Burlington is a magnificent example of the menegerie carousel which includes other animals in addition to horses. There are 46 hand-carved animals mounted on a 45-foot diameter platform. The largest animals are on the outside row, each with intricate carvings ranging from a giraffe with a snake twined around its neck to a armed gnome perched behind the saddle of a zebra! This carousel was manufactured in 1905 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company (PTC). Carousels made by PTC are identified by numbers in the order they were made. Therefore, the one in Burlington is identified as the PTC No. 6 which indicates that it was the sixth (of 74) manufactured. The PTC No. 6 is a 3-row ride and the animals do not move up and down. Currently housed in a 12-sided wooden building, this 100+ year old carousel has been completely restored and still has original paint on both the cotton muslin scenery panels and on the animals. The PTC No. 6 was originally run by the 1902 General Electric Induction Motor. Amazingly this motor has never been rebuilt and still powers the carousel on special occasions at more than 10-12 miles per hour! The average carousel has a speed of 8 mph. The PTC No. 6 was designated a National Historic Site in 1979, then designed a National Historic Landmark in l987, and is the only one in Colorado that you can ride! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Please don’t copy or download this image. My photos may NOT be reproduced and/or used in any form without my written permission. If you want this photograph, I would be honored for you to purchase it.
There was a multiple sale of this image in November 2008. SEE THE CAROUSEL IMAGE COLLECTION RIDE THE CAROUSEL FOR 25 CENTS! No, that is not a price from yesteryear but the price today for a ride on the Kit Carson County Carousel in Burlington, Colorado which is located just off Interstate 70 on the Colorado/Kansas border. Although there were nearly 4,000 wooden carousels carved in the U.S. between 1885 and 1930, there are fewer than 150 still in existence. The one in Burlington is a magnificent example of the menegerie carousel which includes other animals in addition to horses. There are 46 hand-carved animals mounted on a 45-foot diameter platform. The largest animals are on the outside row, each with intricate carvings ranging from a giraffe with a snake twined around its neck to a armed gnome perched behind the saddle of a zebra! This carousel was manufactured in 1905 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company (PTC). Carousels made by PTC are identified by numbers in the order they were made. Therefore, the one in Burlington is identified as the PTC No. 6 which indicates that it was the sixth (of 74) manufactured. The PTC No. 6 is a 3-row ride and the animals do not move up and down. Currently housed in a 12-sided wooden building, this 100+ year old carousel has been completely restored and still has original paint on both the cotton muslin scenery panels and on the animals. This carousel was originally run by the 1902 General Electric Induction Motor. Amazingly this motor has never been rebuilt and still powers the carousel on special occasions at more than 10-12 miles per hour! The average carousel has a speed of 8 mph. The PTC No. 6 was designated a National Historic Site in 1979, then designed a National Historic Landmark in l987, and is the only one in Colorado that you can ride! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Please don’t copy or download this image. My photos may NOT be reproduced and/or used in any form without my written permission. If you want this photograph, I would be honored for you to purchase it.
There was a sale of this image in November 2008. SEE THE CAROUSEL IMAGE COLLECTION RIDE THE CAROUSEL FOR 25 CENTS! No, that is not a price from yesteryear but the price today for a ride on the Kit Carson County Carousel in Burlington, Colorado which is located just off Interstate 70 on the Colorado/Kansas border. Although there were nearly 4,000 wooden carousels carved in the U.S. between 1885 and 1930, there are fewer than 150 still in existence. The one in Burlington is a magnificent example of the menegerie carousel which includes other animals in addition to horses. There are 46 hand-carved animals mounted on a 45-foot diameter platform. The largest animals are on the outside row, each with intricate carvings ranging from a giraffe with a snake twined around its neck to a armed gnome perched behind the saddle of a zebra! This carousel was manufactured in 1905 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company (PTC). Carousels made by PTC are identified by numbers in the order they were made. Therefore, the one in Burlington is identified as the PTC No. 6 which indicates that it was the sixth (of 74) manufactured. The PTC No. 6 is a 3-row ride and the animals do not move up and down. Currently housed in a 12-sided wooden building, this 100+ year old carousel has been completely restored and still has original paint on both the cotton muslin scenery panels and on the animals. This carousel was originally run by the 1902 General Electric Induction Motor. Amazingly this motor has never been rebuilt and still powers the carousel on special occasions at more than 10-12 miles per hour! The average carousel has a speed of 8 mph. The PTC No. 6 was designated a National Historic Site in 1979, then designed a National Historic Landmark in l987, and is the only one in Colorado that you can ride! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Please don’t copy or download this image. My photos may NOT be reproduced and/or used in any form without my written permission. If you want this photograph, I would be honored for you to purchase it.
Routemaster / Route 15 / july 2008 / Canon EOS5D / © christophe carlinet 2008
aquarelle on paper
For sjem – Little mister needs nappy noos coz he’s all gwumpy whumpy. Oddly, I was listening to X.Y.U. by the Smashing Pumpkins whilst scribbling out this. Just an inconsequential notation. La! Check it out! /
A young caracal cub just sitting around looking like he’s thinking of mischief.
Junichi Miyamto probably makes the best coffee in all of Tokyo. Well, maybe there is no such thing at “the best coffee” because it depends on individual taste, doesn’t it? He made me two cups of coffee that morning and one tasted better than the other. So let me re-phrase that… Junichi Miyamoto probably makes coffee in the best possible way in all of Tokyo. He makes it the traditional way, using a glass percolator and a gas burner that reminds me of the chemistry lab during my school days. He is probably the only cafe owner who makes coffee this way in the whole of Tokyo – in this case, in the district of Kita Senju in the North Eastern part of Tokyo. I need to qualify with the word ‘probably’ because who knows? Tokyo is such a huge place. But then, people who do things the traditional way are a rarity, in any city. So it’s quite a safe bet to say that nobody else makes coffee the way he does, probably not in Tokyo or even in most other parts of Asia. Miyamoto-san is a jolly man who wear a bow tie, metal-rimmed spectacles, a moustache and a ready smile. His favorite music is jazz and his favorite singer is Ella Fitzgerald. My friend and guide used to visit the small “Coffee Shanty” – that’s what Miyamoto-san calls his cafe – everyday. “He doesn’t normally speak English, I was surprised,” he tells me on the day I visited. As is the Japanese custom, Miyamoto-san gives me his business card. But unlike the boringly-designed cards of large Japanese corporations, his is colorful – with a drawing of a pair of spectacles, a set of moustache and a cup of coffee. Yet the card does not even state his name and he had to write it down. In fact, he gave me two cards – a peach colored one titled Autumn and an olive-green one titled Happy Winter. “My daughter designed them,” he says proudly, adding that I would get different cards next Spring and Summer. At ¥400 a cuppa, such excellent brew might be considered cheap by Tokyo standards, where regular coffee-chain coffee might cost anywhere from ¥170 to more than ¥400. I asked Miyamoto-san what got him into the coffee business. He gave a very, very long pause that could have lasted 5 minutes, before he finally replied: “C’est la vie!“ — Taken in Natural Light, ISO 2000, 1/20sec f5, exp bias -0.33
Mister Crow. Doesn’t he look dashing?
This saddens me more than many a thing in life has of late: Mr. Sir and his owner moved from my apartment complex. I got to know this cat better than his owner because he came to me and accepted me as who I am. Not that his owner wouldn’t have as well but I was… Well, she was human and that made it a LOT tougher for me to bond with her. Her cat was truly a ‘love junkie’ and spent time in every apartment where the door opened and he could slip in fast enough. He was readily evicted from a couple but welcomed with open arms at many more. I like to think he enjoyed visiting me the best because I had so many interesting things everywhere, all the wrong places, disorganized and fun to explore each visit. Mr. Sir didn’t move far but it moved further than I can comfortably go to visit him. Being in an all new neighbourhood and spending time there to play with him would be almost impossible for me. His new home is well within walking distance and I may wander by there sometime but I don’t visit people so sadly, I can’t visit their Masters. Mr. Sir’s human was a wonderful soul and the best friend a cat could have so I will not worry for him a heartbeat. But he was also the best friend I had and his departure hurts deeper than I have words to explain. This is the rock outside my apartment door and the one he snoozed on in the summer to be close when I came home. There are plenty cooler places and more rocks that stay cool out of the sun but he chose ‘mine’. There was no finer place for him to pose one last time and let me enjoy his beauty in a portrait. If you know where to look, you can see this rock using Google Earth, albeit sans the best cat in the world. Hmmm, wow. It will always be sans the best cat in the world now. This shot is a gift to anyone who would like it. There is no mark up. This shot is also a gift to myself. Odds are good I won’t reply to anything posted here. Nothing said could match the feelings I’m experiencing right now. In a while I’ll probably be able to read your comments if they come but not today, not too soon. So, enjoy this peek at my last time seeing Mr. Sir outside my door. Say what you’d like or say nothing. Neither way really matters. It’s what lies in the heart that matters. Hearts need no words. Goodbye, my friend.
Not the most brilliant invention of earth, but there you go. Like a cross between that Mr Potato and those little Mr Men. Remember those days? Well, now you do. Buy it, be a mister (or missus…) and contribute to the battle against the poverty of Leaping Pig.
Mister is one of the kittens that I’m currently kitty sitting. He’s got so much purr-sonality! lol He can often be seen sleeping layed flat out! This is just one of his many hilarious positions that he tends to favor. Truth be known it’s one that I seem to favor as well! ha ha ha FEATURED in the group You Big Softy / FEATURED in the group Tabby Time / FEATURED KITTY OF THE WEEK in the group Tabby Time
Cartoon illustration of an owl.
Drew holding Mister Big Stuff, my 6 month old ‘kitten’
Cartoon owl sitting in a tree with scared squirrel behind him..
This is a head shot of an all white horse with blue eyes that I see on a wonderful back road near where I live in Amherst, Virginia. Some people tell me he is considered to be an albino…but to me he is just beautiful!! I was glad I saw him again and was able to get a few more shots of him. Taken with my Canon Powershot SX110 IS TOP 10 PLACEMENT- WHITE, WHITE, WHITE ANIMALS CHALLENGE- GOOD NEW GROUP / /
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