"Ah.....Gee......thanks.."

The master of irony, and his vapid, gorgeous icon of the '60's.

I can't think of anything that epitomizes 'cool' more than Andy and Edie.

More important than Picasso, or Marcel Duchamp? I think so. And more relevant and 'timeless' 

Yep, another crazy Jetson's lamp

I've found tons of 'eames era' lamps, but this one, is one of those design objects, that looks as if it landed on Earth from a distant planet. Streamlined / Atomic / somewhat silly.....all the ingredients that make for a good looking lamp.

A delicious, bleary-eyed utopia!

Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia. As I've posted before, I love his architectural vision.

This creative confection of buildings can reside quite nicely along side 'Falling Water' or Gehry's Bilbao building

Tomorrow's Bathroom Today

Sculptural, without looking silly. I love these fixtures. Anytime a toilet looks like a piece of art, is a good thing. Studies show we spend 1/3 of our lives in bed....I wonder how much time we spend in the salle de bain?

Happy Easter Weekend!

Not to offend, but here's a painting from the 30's-40's obscure surrealist Clovis Trouille (see previous post) It's all about love, right??

Want to feel protected?

Maybe this J.P. Gaultier outfit would provide the much needed comfort, as you hit the insane and dangerous urban street?

YSL Auction / Ingo Maurer Floor lamp / Alexander McQueen

.....took in nearly $300 Million. Nice Mondrian painting!

....gorgeous, sinister retro floor lamp by Maurer

....McQueen couture.....all of this quite random, all of this striking and nice in an odd paranoid way.

Don't mess with......

...a 'gal' in vintage Thierry Mugler. Confidence + tailoring + Innovation + Art = Power.

Speaking of David Bowie.....

Bowie's neighbor in Switzerland, was the primo, surrealist/modernist artist Balthus.

His 30's painting 'The Street' (in the MoMA collection) visually outlines thbe perverse, dangerous, strange and 'odd' scenario of what we face everyday. I think I read a Bowie/Balthus interview a few years ago.

Time Warp

I have fond memories, as a kid, watching David Bowie on the 'Midnight Special' show. And my mother saying "Oh my, he is gross!" Funny.

Zaha Hadid Paintings

She creates images digitally, photographs the output, and paints the images in Acrylic and Chinese lacquer. 

At Galerie Buchmann, Berlin.

Mark Tansey part 2

'Doubting Thomas' painting. Inept, Insipid, 'simple' guy behavior?

Mark Tansey

Art

My favorite 'contemporary artist' is Mark Tansey. Sort of an updated 'thinking-man's' Magritte.

Depictions of the complete absurdity of 'modern life' always appeal. 

Also, scan back 50 years. Somewhat oblique/obscure, Belgian Surrealist Clovis Trouille (aside from having a wonderful name) provoked many debates with his images.

Hellish Times

Times are tough, and some people/governments appear to be evil to the core. I always liked Dali's 'Soft construction with boiled beans/premonition of civil war' from 1936.

Dali always seems to hover between 'in and out of fashion', but I think he 'got' the pain and carnage we inflict upon ourselves on a daily basis, in this surrealist masterpiece.