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Eugene for Messy Issue 4 : Jawbreaker, shot by Sham Shawan

2000 copies, 416 pages, 54 interviews. get your copy.

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“A Clear Day on Titak”

Ron Miller from Future Life magazine 14, 1979

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When the going gets weird..the weird turn pro

From Ralph Steadman's 2006 book THE JOKE'S OVER, a memoir of his friendship and collaboration with Hunter S. Thompson

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Japanese Poster: Image and Environment. Masao Shirasawa. 2012

#masaoshirasawa

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Free Chelsea

Chelsea Manning sent this photograph of herself in a wig and makeup to her supervisor in April 2010.  She is America’s most famous convicted leaker and is serving 35 years. This is the longest sentence ever imposed for disclosing government secrets. Chelsea was an Army intelligence analyst known as Bradley Manning when she disclosed archives of secret military and diplomatic files to WikiLeaks back in 2010. Since then, she has become a symbol for transgender rights and antisecrecy. This picture of herself wearing a woman’s wig was emailed to her supervisor in 2010, a few months before her leaks and subsequent arrest. Tens of thousands have urged President Obama to pardon her or commute her sentence. Manning has become a symbol of the trans movement as she went public on her sexual identification and fought for her medical and personal rights while incarcerated by the military.

#free chelsea manning

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Adolescent Crisis

Photographs, like wine, often get better with age. This holds true for the work of Joseph Szabo, whose images are often classic black-and-white photographs in the tradition of social documentary.  Szabo’s subjects feel like characters from “Dazed & Confused” the infamous 1993 teen-movie directed by Richard Linklater.  He is most notable for his photographs of American youth taken during the 1970s and collected in the books Almost Grown and Teenage.

#joseph szabo

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'Bombhead' (2002) 

“I know it when I see it”, these are Bruce Conner’s thoughts when it comes to the ultimate definition of art. I have to say it might be the most accurate definition I’ve ever read. What I admire most about this prolific artist is his fearlessness to experiment with a variety of different of different mediums raging from video art to sculpture and assemblages, among many others. Conner  has also delved into the world of cinema, completely changing the cinematic equation with his project ‘A Movie’, a twelve minute assemblage of found footage. It was initially screened as part of Conner’s first one-man show at the East and West Gallery in San Francisco in 1958.

#bruceconner #bombhead

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When artists make holiday cards....

Kay Sage, “Holiday card to Eleanor Howland Bunce” (1958), Typescript, Eleanor Howland Bunce papers, 1935–1982, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.  

The story behind this inventive and original holiday card goes like this: When Kay Sage met her husband, the French Surrealist Yves Tanguy, in Paris, they decided to move to New York with the onset of World War II. Once they settled in the States, they collaborated on creating annual holiday cards for close friends until her husband’s sudden death in 1955. Sage continued the practice in the following years. This card was created by Sage for her friend, Eleanor Howland Bunce, in 1958 with the aid of a typewriter and different color ribbons.

#kay sage #holidaycards #women's art

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“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art” - Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol’s offset lithograph Absolut Vodka (1985)

Warhol was first and foremost a commercial entity, having created a legacy that reaches far beyond the art world. He managed to create the most recognizable and reproduced brand in the world by mixing together high art and popular culture. Whhat is fascinating, is how relevant his work remains in today’s commercial environment.  His obsession with celebrity, collaboration with commercial brands and dissolving the boundary between public and private are key factors in today’s marketing world particularly in the online environment.  In 1985, Andy Warhol became the first artist who was commissioned to design a portrait of the Absolut bottle as an advertising campaign. The company recently released a limited edition Andy Warhol Absolut bottle, paying homage to the iconic artist. 

#andy warhol #absolut vodka #popart #marketing #advertising #celebrity cultur #lithography

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Andy Warhol (1970) by Alice Neel -  Whitney Museum

Born in 1900 in Pennsylvania, Neel led a troubled and interesting life. Following the death of her young daughter in 1930, Neel began a series of disturbing and scandalous -particularly for the times- portraits. 

Everything one needs to know about Alice Neel’s art is here in this portrait. The painter famously focused on her subject’s vanities and vulnerabilities, taking them as they come with all their external and internal flaws. Alice Neel captured Andy Warhol after his shooting. He is at his most vulnerable state, eyes closed, hands clasped, absorbed in his own silence. 

#alice neel #andy warhol #whitneymuseum

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 Advertising & Art

The Dole Company paid Georgia O'Keeffe to travel to Hawaii from NY in 1939, in return for two paintings that it could use in its advertisements for Dole Pineapple Juice.

In the 1930s and ’40s, many of America’s best-known corporations arranged for highly respected artists to paint canvases relating in some way to their product line, including Coca-Cola, International Business Machines, Steinway & Sons, and Caterpillar Tractor. Among the artists who rendered works through such commissions were Picasso, Dalí, Dufy, and Léger.

#georgia o'keeffe #dole pineapple juice

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Mood.

Illustration by Ruby Elliot.

http://rubyetc.tumblr.com/

These cartoons by Ruby Elliot that depict what it is like living with a mental illness in the most heart-breakingly honest and emotional way. Elliot adresses the strugles of everyday life and the frustrating misconcpetions surrounding mental illness by drawing the most clever, liberating and hilarious cartoons. In an interview with Buzzfeed sha stated:”  “When I was struggling with frequent and intense urges to hurt myself or worse, drawing was one of the only nondestructive ways I could express the overwhelming distress that was behind them.”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVSRm80WzZk

Second best theme-song of all time!

One of the greatest theme songs of al time along with Delia Derbyshire’s Dr Who theme song.  My favorite episode of Twilgiht Zone is called “To Serve Man” where an alien race comes to earth, promising peace and sharing technology. A linguist and his team set out to translate the alien's language, using a book whose title they deduce is "To Serve Man".  It starts with the end, and does a flashback to what got the main character there. It is one of the funiest and cleverest episodesof the series even for people who are good at guessing twists!  I could go on and on about this episode...There are so many nuances Serling threw in that are so relevant nowadays!

#GoodNightMrSerling!

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Les chats

Leonor Fini was an Argentinian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author, known for her depictions of powerful women. Fini achieved fame by translating her dreams into paintings. Julian Levy, her New York dealer, famously wrote: “Her parts did not fit well together: head of a lioness, mind of a man, bust of a woman, torso of a child, grace of an angel, discourse of the Devil…Her allure was an ability to dominate her mis-fitted parts so that they merged into whatever shape her fantasy wished to present from one moment to the next.” Her art depicted her sexually liberated and communal lifestyle as well as her inner thoughts and ideals, blurring the division between dreams and reality.

http://www.leonor-fini.com/en/

#leonor fini #leschats #catsoftumbl #painters

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Wany Thiebaud is an American painter from California, born in 1920. Associated with the pop art movement and new realism. Widely known for his colorful paintings of cakes, pies, lipsticks and toys.

I love how this painting has no colors, yet it makes you think of summer. The sun is present through the shadows. 

Wayne Thiebaud (American, b. 1920), Palm Trees, 1966. Ink on paper, 26.3 x 35.2 cm.

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Edvard Munch in his study at Ekely (Norway), 1943.

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Let’s Talk About Vanishing Point..

“ Let me explain. Vanishing Point, for the uninitiated, is a film about a man driving a car. It was 1971. You could make a film like that. "Man drives car around a lot for 90 minutes" was a legitimate pitch.”

Hands down, the funniest piece of writing I have ever come across. You can read this awesome review for this equally awesome movie, here:

http://www.vice.com/read/vanishing-point-joel-golby-273

#joel golby #vanishing point #1970's #moviereview