Yoko
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Two hippies who started a revolution to spread love and peace through music during difficult times.
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...Is a great woman. Or, in this case, four. I originally made this t-shirt (a satire on the Experimental Jetset tee, “John& Paul& Ringo& George.”) with iron-on letters, as some kind of “f-ck you” to the tiresome musical snobs who fawn over male deities like The Beatles and forget the numerous women in rock – and also as an in-joke between my partner and I, who both always say “Yoko was the best Beatle”. So many people asked me where I got the tee that I decided to make a finished version for you lovely RedBubble types. And no, it’s not Helvetica, but just like we don’t really need another t-shirt glorifying The Beatles, do we really need to let Helvetica get any more out of control than it already is? ;-)
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Sam’s gone back to his acting – where he belongs. _if I’ve worked miracles and you’ve actually considered changing to a vegetarian diet, make sure you get it right. Here’s one website among many , that will get you started.
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Yoko
by ClintCearleyThis is a digital piece I did for fun, really just a bringing together several different elements of design that I’d been thinking about. Though borrowing inspiration from multiple sources the character is original and not someone in particular and unlike other images I’ve done, I wasn’t wanting something exciting or flashy but just a “honest” and somewhat candid image.
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“The Ballad of John and Yoko” charcoal on mylar, 30×25” John and Yoko meet “American Gothic” :D I worked on this latest piece “The Ballad of John and Yoko” on December 8th, the anniversary of John Lennon’s death, and wanted to finish it for Christmas, “WAR IS OVER! if you want it Happy Christmas”. Another charcoal on mylar work, this one was kind of fun, and it’s been so dark in the studio this past couple of weeks now that winter’s set in, it was nice to come in and see it on the easel and smile. This is another portrait of my oldest son and his girl, my models for “Oh My Love”. She was in town over the summer and I took this snap when we were heading to downtown Chicago on the train one day. I was going to my studio, they were heading to sightsee, including the Art Institute of Chicago. Carrie is an artist, and Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” is part of the AIOC collection. Not sure if they saw the work that day, but this photo struck me double, because they look to me like both John and Yoko (so in love, those sunglasses!) and also so similar in pose and setting to “American Gothic”. That made me smile and while I know that the Grant Wood piece is the most highly spoofed artwork of all time, I just couldn’t resist this one. I took another reference of the train station in my neighborhood and used it in the background, only changing the dormer window to a gothic style window and adding the peace sign. Since I already painted the Let It Be shirt Alex is wearing in the photo, I decided to change the logo to a John Lennon drawing of John and Yoko. I kept the stylized rounded tree shapes of the Wood painting, he was inspired by Memling. I also kept the potted plants on the steps of the building, in Wood’s painting these were meant to indicate the farmer’s daughter’s domesticity. My drawing is showing a committed couple, not yet married, but possibly moving in that direction. The Celtic knotwork pendants were my gift to them the first time I met Carrie, the day I took the photo for “Oh My Love”. Wood’s piece was painted in 1930 but depicted the Victorian era. Mine depicts a contemporary couple, but harks back to the Beatles hippie days. I replaced the pitchfork with the carnation John was holding in the famous John and Yoko photo of the Bed In. I used the same scale as the Grant wood original, and took the walk two blocks from my studio to see the painting in person, up close. I also wanted to take a look at the frame, and plan to frame my drawing as similar as possible. It’s a rustic looking distressed frame. I guess that’s all. Fun one, on to the next!
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Couple I introduced to Senor Mescalito in the Mexican desert called Wirikuta by the Huicholes.
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What can be said about the green apple? I know for a fact that it’s green pigment is what makes it’s green exterior. If your going to be making Key Lime Pie this is not going to be one of it’s ingredients no matter how well you try to take it off as a Lime. The apple has been a symbol for reinvention and also for demise. One famous band had it high, real high. Then lost it or did they? The fans, the so called maniacs that had followed them to the end of the earth had literally pushed them off the cliffs. The fans, hungry, rabid and uncompromising. The utter thought of their favourate band disbanding lead to rumours, no I am not talking about Fleetwood Mac here ladies and gentlemen. The band so holy that they had no equivalent. The rotting apple of history will show that we as humans are the reason why we help the band but are also the reason why we kill the favouite thing we love to listen to. The mob mentality. Mania strikes at the ones least likely to go cold at the thought. Fame and the cult of celebrity is the curse of the human race. Why care where Osama Bin Laden is? The one truly missing is yourself. Think about it for one second. So a rich rock star sings about finacial and conceptual abstanence, so what?! It’s not your responsability to go blow his brains out. I will bet you all the bullets in the world that you are not the world’s bigest saint. That you haven’t done any wrong. That you are without fault. I guess the true meaning of this piece is to show that the perception of the warped is one thing yet the perception of the world and it’s people is somthing far scarier. How many of you want to aggress? Get one over like the simple (and often predictable) characters that Adam Sandler plays in his cheap and nasty movies that he stars in? So many do. So many lose out. All you need is love. Love is all you need. The Dali Lama teaches that within Buddist teachings aggresion only hurts the soul within. Yet so many get stuck in that rut that gets them in, so many times a rut will get you stuck for far longer than is really neccesary. Even ater you have dealt your cards you are still left playing solitare. / So we are left with the apple. What is that all about? It would be cliched if I had red splattered to “symbolise” blood, murder, death. So let’s do what the widow requested and remember him for his life.
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A piece from the Yoko Ono chess set at Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY
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These are two characters from my latest graphic novel “Xoth – the unspeakable city” in a position that is a tribute to the Foto taken of Yoko Ono and John Lennon fotographed by Annie Leibovitz.
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I prefer the original. Please enlarge to see full effect.
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A Lego recreation of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 “Bed-In” in Amsterdam.
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Digital Illustration
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Taken at the Imagine: The Peace Ballad of John and Yoko exhibit in Montreal, Quebec. This exhibit was held to mark the 40th anniversary of John and Yoko’s bed-in at the Reine Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. This particular room was lined with map upon map where you could use the stamps to put the words “Imagine Peace”. In the end after stamping each one country, we both decided that North Korea needed a little inspiration sent their way.
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Unlike the Montreal bed in / this scene is about displaying the desire to be like Yoko Ono for her avant-garde art and eccentricity.
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One of several sunflowers, laid out on Yoko Ono’s memorial to John Lennon, in Central Park, New York. Taken with a Canon EOS 450D.
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words of freedom
by Jordan Bussonwe all have passed through / the shadows of hate, abuse / and strife / again and again
words of freedom, and perhaps hope. / for every one – there is no easy walk to freedom. jordan busson. september 2009. for yoko ono. add elucidate on: /
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Taken on West Kirby beach on the Wirral Peninsula just across from Liverpool. i just had to laugh at how “yoko” seems so left out while still being watched by “the boys.” My little homage to the musical tsunami that began only a couple of miles from where this shot was taken, i am of course talking about THE BEATLES.
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NOT YOKO
by raymondoantonioI LOVE VIETNAMESE, JAPANESE,CHINESE. / I’M AN EASTERN LOVING MALTESE! / I LOVE SAKI AND SUSHI AND SONY. / I LOVE BRUCE LEE / AND THE…
INSPIRED BY YOKO AND ASIAN CULTURE!! AND BEFORE ANYONE THINKS I BLAME HER FOR THE BEATLES BREAK UP….NO!!!!
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for yoko ono. / i hope that one day she will read it. / jordan busson. 26 november 2009.
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