10:59 pm - Updated info about the Hedonism event! I have been asked a lot of questions about the event tomorrow... Here is some new info from the newsletter...
Apache Cafe and Art Mondays invite you to our 7th annual Hedonism group art show, celebration and fund raise. And yes it's hot! This year we're expanding to include the patio where you'll want to check out the peep tent. Join us as we tastefully stimulate you the viewer and examine your perspective, that of the voyeur.
Participating Artists: Jenn Alexander, Audrey Albright, Bryant Baker,James Bassett, Martin Brown, Marilyn Chen, Thomas Dodd, Sean Drakes, Warren Fletcher, K. V. Herndon, James King, Malika, Rhea, Metcalfe, Michael Morgan, Suzanne Morgan, Natasha Pantelides, Neal Rue, Terry Scopelliti, Peter Seinen, Seven, Corey Shelton, Lauren Thie, Halima Washington.
Professional body painter. Pashur has been added to the lineup for Hedonism VII this Monday!
Performing Live on Stage The Kebbi Williams Project
08:45 am - Cyberaver/Rise of the Machines! Looking forward to another Cyberaver event! I'll be there along with Cyberaverdoll Skipper!
Also, be sure to give hugs and farewells to MZ Tantric Terrors! She is leaving for CA very soon!
Hosted By: Evil Empire / DV8 When: Friday Mar 30, 2007 at 10:00 PM Where: Spring 4th Center 728 Spring Street Atlanta, All 30144 United States Description: Evil Empire / DV8
08:49 am - Before the Aries Party... Before the Aries party tonight...Skipper and I will be attending an art show by H.C. Warner at the Alcove Gallery... This is the same gallery I exhibited a piece in several months back...
This Friday March 16th ONLY! AT THE REDCHAIR DINNERCLUB formerly Fusion, by shoemakers warehouse on Amsterdam Ave, off Monroe(between Piedmont+10th Street in Midtown.) This is a total last minute -1 time event- thanks to the owners for letting me host our Birthday Bash there!!! http://www.redchairatlanta.com off of monroe- and the address is 550-c amserdam avenue- in the amsterdam walk shopping area, an extremely nice venue. 3 louynges, 2 full bars.
No Guestlist- except for the Birthday Hosts, (Jsin, Karla, Pina, Omac-roy, Abe-313, Christa, Stacy, Todd, Joeee, Daniel, James King, Rob, Scott, Autumn) so start sucking up now!!! Special Suprise acts + much craziness guaranteed!!! Dresscode is whatever you want to wear to have fun in! Dance to 5 djs - 1 per hour including ; + (in no particular order) DJ 313 DJ ANDYREDRUM DJ ANTHONY DJ OMAC DJ VIXEN Current Mood: Flirty Kitty! Current Music: The Smiths ~ Queen is Dead
11:22 am - Hedonism VII The Peep Show! This April... In Atlanta... I have 5-6 pieces from a brand new series I'll be previewing at the "Hedonism VII...The Peep Show" art event (Apache Cafe...April 9, 2007)
New Years eve is at the Masquerade check out secretroom.net for details clubwide event 18+ $12 in advance at the Masquerade box office When: Sunday, December 31 at 10:30PM
Where: The Masquerade 695 North Ave NE Atlanta GA 30308 404-577-8178
4th Annual Last New Year's Eve Bash at the Masquerade!
Sunday December 31st 4th Annual Last New Year's Eve Bash at the Masquerade!
In Heaven A NYE Cock Tail Ball with LIVE music by City Sleeps,Novakayne, & Empire 44
In Purgatory Legion of Boom featuring: DJ Colby (Bootylicious) Clay Ivey (Guerillas of Soul), Ulises (Guerillas of Soul), & DJ Eclypse (former Outer Limits resident Trance DJ)
In Hell Secretroom.net will have Burlesque & Fetish with: Natalie Minx , The Sexual Surrealists, Music by DJ Jennocide / DJ313 / DJ Spider plus a CASH drop at midnight! Doors@8pm !!!! Current Mood: itty ready to party!
I had a really good time at the event! Thanks to everybody who came out and supported me!
James
Article:
Polynesian Rhapsody Riding the kitschy wave of the South Pacific
By Felicia Feaster Published 12/13/2006
Along with bowling, drive-ins, Vegas and roller derby, tiki culture is one of those old-school cultural phenomena that make hipsters wet themselves with ironic glee. What is it about the tiki? Maybe in our own PC and self-aware age, the idea of our ancestors captivated by the exotic thrills of Polynesian culture just tickles our funny bone.
Beginning in the 1930s with the debut of Hollywood's tiki-themed Don the Beachcomber restaurant and then Trader Vic's, tiki American-style was a convergence of stiff rum drinks such as the tiki-quintessential mai tai, the exotica strains of Martin Denny, kitschy decor and, voila!, superficial access to the "Other" the middle-class seems to continually crave. The trend crested in the 1950s following the return of soldiers from World War II whose travels in the South Pacific trickled down to the culture at large and with the publication of James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific in 1948, the Broadway musical version of Michener's book, South Pacific and Hawaii's entrance as the 50th state of the Union in 1959.
The whole trend died out in the '70s (though typically late-blooming Atlanta's Trader Vic's didn't open until 1976), only to be resurrected by "modern primitive" Gen X hipsters in the 1990s who also felt their ancestors' urge for cave-like watering holes and firewater served with paper umbrellas in hollowed-out coconuts.
Campy, yes, but there is an aesthetic charm to tiki, too -- those crazy totem-pole-like carved heads, the whole thatched-roof hut and Oceania-chic mutation of the mildly ethnic remains an appealing, fantastic break from the mundane.
Wherever tiki love -- old-style or newfangled -- comes from, it is here to stay and has found a new staging ground for its assault on our senses at Alcove Gallery. Owner Chris Warner mounts his exhibitions more like a consummate party boy than a conventional gallery director, bringing in bands and hanging art on every available surface like wallpaper. For his Holiday Tiki Show, Warner has brought the tropical indoors, with grass fronds ornamenting the walls and pedestals and a preponderance of artists getting their tiki on -- or encouraging viewers to -- as with Bryan Cunningham's small paintings offering drink recipes for the "Kon-tiki" and "Zombie." Cunningham's grog-art proves a nice matchup with Jay Rogers' charming digital print "Suffering Bastard" of another Trader Vic's drink giving off hallucinatory vapors like the reefer smoke in an exploitation film poster.
One of the most satisfying works is a girl-spin on the tiki mythos: Nina Friday's flirty, jocular, small paintings in her usual gothic, Margaret Keane style suggest that tikimania may actually be a case of some displaced fertility worship. In "Big Daddy," an outrageously phallic tiki is flanked by two topless hubba-hubba babes, like Hugh Hefner getting down at the Playboy Mansion. In "Tiki Baby," the same tiki icon shifts from boss-man to diapered dwarf, cradled in a pretty woman's arms.
For retro charm, it's hard to beat Derek Yaniger's "The Natives Are Restless," a scrupulously stylized image of a pith-helmeted colonialist being boiled in a primitive's cook pot. And Atlanta artist Joe Peery's large portrait of a bathing beauty on an ameboid-surfboard piece of wood, and smaller paintings of two mandolin-shaped nudes, mimic the kind of artwork you'd expect to find decorating some '50s ladykiller's bachelor pad or classing up a van mural.
Holiday Tiki Show is otherwise mildly disappointing, largely because while some of the artists have stuck closely to the theme, others give evidence common in such group shows -- of just throwing some of their pre-existing work into the mix.
Some definite non sequiturs result, illustrated by the scene, just hours before the show's Friday night opening, of Warner unpacking a box with a last-minute arrival of formerly Atlanta- now Richmond-based artist Matthew Lively's work. Warner wasn't the only one flummoxed by the sculptures of four bread-loaf-size woolly sheep and how to justify their presence amid the grinning wooden tikis and hula dancers.
Holiday Tiki Show
Through Jan. 15. Tues.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Alcove Gallery and Studio. 404-663-0159. www.alcovearts.com. Current Mood: Color Paws! Current Music: Trash - Lollypop
10:40 am - Tonight! The Holiday Tiki Show! (Atlanta) Tonight is the show! I have a piece on display! Went to gallery earlier this week and previewed all the art. It freakin' rocks! I am so honored to have my work showing with such a talented group of artists! Pretty excited about it!
Alcove Gallery is located at the top of the hill overlooking the Bennett Street Design District near Mick's Restaurant!
This will be a fun evening! I hope to see some of you there!
Hosted By: Alcove Gallery When: Friday Dec 08, 2006 at 7:00 PM Where: Alcove Gallery 2110 Peachtree Rd NW Atlanta, GA 30309 US Description: Alcove Gallery
12:10 pm - Miss Howard Stern on the Stern Show...(2 posters I shot) Someone told me that I could find this clip on youtube.com... Miss Howard Stern (Andrea Brooke) on the Stern show showing off her new breasts and 2 posters I shot of her back in 2005...
Oh my...Haha!
Well...back to Dragon Con! Current Mood: Mr. Kitty!
09:07 am - Pirate Party ! I hope to see some of you there! Hosts include my good Friends Michi and Asterid!
Sunday night September 3rd in the Regency Ballroom at Dragoncon, secretroom.net presents the second ever "Pirate Party"- featuring the BEST TREASURED CHEST contest!" the winner of which (female) wins a 4 day pass to next years Dragoncon.!
The Party starts at approximately midnight, or after the Last Dance Plays live, in the Regency Ballroom of the Hyatt in downtown Atlanta. Complete with Bellydancers , sword balancing, evil Pirates, fair maidens a plenty, and even dJ SPINMONKEY! SO COME HAVE A SWIG OR TWELVE, AND DANCE A JIG TO SOME GOOD STOMPY PIRATE MUSIC!!!!!
08:18 pm - Inspiring another artist... Images of Acid Pop Tart... I just discovered this LJ post from my good friend and crazy model Acid Pop Tart... The first image is an art piece inspired by an image I shot of her around 3 years ago...(Artist: Jay Fife) Enjoy!
"The Last Day - a tribute to those great anti-hero movies of the early 70's, based off a photo by James King, my cohort there is Marcus"
Photo from the same series by James King. (I miss you luv! We're coming to destroy your bathroom! Heh!)" - Acid Pop Tart... Current Mood: Happy Kitty!
07:46 pm - Blast from the past... I just found these articles online... Did not know they were still around... Both written several years ago so some of the info is outdated...
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