Monthly Archives: February 2009

Kilroy Was Here and never left

During ww2 thousands of American soldiers risked their lives to tag ”Kilroy was Here” in some dangerous situations behind enemy lines.I first heard of Kilroy from an old movie called Kelly’s Heroes featuring some unhinged GI’s most notably Donald Sutherland … Continue reading

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Jo Sonja Varnish Shampoo & Conditioner

Few products incite such passion,authenticity, radical and sometimes dysfunctional behavior as the quality paints and mediums from Jo Sonja’s.There was the lady several years ago who sat in the aisle pounding her fists into the carpet because we had not … Continue reading

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Van Gogh Garage Sale ( without permit )

In doing research on  the Van Gogh counterfeit market, I stumbled onto a web site called Art Conversation Forum. Reality is better than fiction This morning, I was cleaning out a corner in the basement of a rental unit in … Continue reading

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Dali and his bread penny loafers

I was chatting with indy filmaker Mike Lewis last week at Studio Backstage on the subject of  what at the time seemed to be incoherent and bizarre Dada influenced offshoots of the pre-war period.The list included Robert Johnson and Franz … Continue reading

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Cabaret Voltaire

The Cabaret Voltaire was an avant-garde group of artist/intellectuals who performed at a bar of the same name in Zurich at the height of the Great War. I viewed some images of anti-Hitler artwork produced by the Berlin school so … Continue reading

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Body Painting

Watching airbrush maestro Alex Hansen at work bodypainting two females at once and seeing the finished product led me to conlude in part that the thrill of being a human canvas must go far back in time to a form … Continue reading

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