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Trevor Blake
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Trevor Blake: Flowers
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 Flowers by Trevor Blake. Portland Oregon USA. 25 July 2008. Labels: art, portland, trevorblake
Trevor Blake: Steamagineer
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 An enraged steamagineer gives the business to a robot president. Public domain, as has been most of my work for more that twenty years. The difference between this idea / image and most of my work is that the option exists to purchase it on a mug or t-shirt. Labels: art, commerce, fight, transportation, trevorblake Trevor Blake: Who Gets to be Kitsch, Who Doesn't
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Che Guevara ordered the execution of at least fifty and perhaps more than two hundred people while serving as a prison warden in 1959. All your revolutionary needs can be purchased at The Che Store. Joseph Stalin managed to murder or starve five to ten million Russians. There's a flocked plastic statue of Uncle Joe with your name on it. Mao Zedong is responsible for the death of seventy-seven million of his commrades. Sign up now for your plastic Mao bust.
I can think of another political leader who killed more than two hundred people, less than seventy-seven million people, and around the lower amount of five to ten million. But that political leader doesn't get to be kitsch. Perhaps the difference is that you have kill some people for the betterment of all people, not just your people. Then you get to be kitsch a generation or two later. Trevor Blake: The Bleeding Head of Arnold Palmer
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Entartete Kunts
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"Entartete Kunts" is a playful bastardization of the German term "degenerate art" and a snide reference to the 1937 Nazi purging of all art deemed objectionable by "Der Fuhrer." This unfortunate pun seems somehow appropriate for a bunch of drooling degenerates that consistently crank out uncompromising eyesores with seemingly little regard for commercial viability or good taste. As it turns out, the title also insures that many local businesses will refuse to display the flyer or otherwise promote this annual optic apocalypse. Entartete Kunts is in fact a very special exhibition that assembles some of the most devoted artists from around the world for a rare glimpse into a thriving and still largely renegade culture!
Featuring J. Petagno, Chris Reifert, Drew Elliott, Rev. Kriss Hades, Conny Cobra, Mannuel Tinnemans, Nor Prego, Glenn Smith, Strephon Taylor, T. Ketola, Joseph A. Smith, French, Musta Aurinko, Paul "Unhinged" McCarroll, Bobby BeauSoleil and Dennis Dread. OPENING RECEPTION Friday JUNE 20 2008 7pm-10pm OPTIC NERVE ARTS [All text from press release. Dennis Dread is well known to readers of OVO as the cover artist for OVO 16 ANTICHRIST. See press release for remarkable biography of each artist. - Trevor Blake] Trevor Blake: Metal Men
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 Trevor Blake, April 2008. Starting to frame some of my metal men, which I've been making for over a decade. This is the first one I made. Labels: art, trevorblake Trevor Blake: Flower
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 Flower, Portland Oregon USA, 12 May 2005. Labels: art, portland, trevorblake
Trevor Blake: OVO 18 Money
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 OVO 18 Money has been published. Featuring the work of Anonymous, Dmitry Babenko, Johnny Brainwash, Klint Finley, Witta Kelssling-Jensen, Vincent Al Ken, Ruggero Maggi, Mail Art Paul, Willi Melnikov, Thom Metzger, Emilio Morandi, No Institute, Wes Unruh, Carlos Valdez and Edward Wilson. Download as PDF here. Using OVO (public domain since 1987) in your own projects is encouraged, thus each page of each issue is available as a separate downloadable free image file here. Labels: art, money, ovo, periodical, trevorblake, zine Trevor Blake: Paper
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One of the many fortunate experiences I've had in my life was learning a little origami when I was very young. Making things out of paper has been a favorite hobby ever since. Here are some interesting paper projects and products I've noted lately...
Build your own Cardiac computer. Print your own temporary tattoos. Fold a functional pinhole camera. Paper made from soldier's uniforms. Room dividers made from cardboard here and here. Watch some movies here and here made from paper props. Trevor Blake: Bird Nest
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 This sign, photographed on 11 July 2007 in Portland OR, is no longer there. Labels: art, commerce, portland, transportation, trevorblake Trevor Blake: Fitna and the United Nations
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From Wikipedia: "Fitna is a film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Dutch parliament. The movie offers his views on Islam and the Qur'an." The film is available online from Wikileaks, Google Video, and via bittorrent.
Jorge Sampaio is the UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations. Mr. Sampiao issues a call for respect and calm: The recent release of an insulting film on the Holy Qur'an seems to serve no other purpose than to cause offence. The film may provoke and prompt social unrest, and encourage extremist groups within European societies whose agenda is to discriminate against and marginalize Muslim immigrants. Similarly, this offensive film may add to tensions between different cultures and may give rise to the idea that Europe or the West as a whole are hostile to Islam. So let us always remember that misrepresentation fuels extremism and extremism appears to validate misrepresentation. That is the vicious circle we have to firmly oppose and avoid. We will all be the losers if we fail to immediately defuse this potential crisis, which will only serve to entrench already polarized opinions and to feed stereotypes and misconceptions that deepen patterns of hostility and mistrust among peoples and societies. At the core of this situation is a trend towards extremism in many of our societies. We should indeed beware of overemphasizing it, because extremism anywhere is extremism everywhere, thanks to new media technologies. Few people think of themselves as extremists, but many can be pushed towards an extreme point of view, almost without noticing it, when they feel that the behavior or language of others is extreme. We therefore deeply regret this offensive film. Mr. Sampaio's statement continues and may be read in full here. Fitna presents the words of the Qur'an as text, then shows Muslims and Muslim leaders reading that text and explaining what it means, then shows Muslims and Muslim leaders acting on that explanation. If the words, explanation and acts are murderous, it is not the fault of a film that reports such murders that is to blame. The tension between different cultures presented in the film are as follows. In the West there is a pluralism in which filmmakers can make films and cartoonists can make cartoons without the threat of State-sanctioned death; a pluralism in which homosexuals can be homosexuals without the threat of State-sanctioned death; a pluralism in which women can be women without the threat of genitals mutilation. In the Muslim world, there is a monoculture in which filmmakers and cartoonists and authors and people in buildings and people on buses and people on trains and people just about anywhere can be put to death; a monoculture in which homosexuals can be put to death; a monoculture in which women can have their genitals mutilated. The pluralism of the West tries to include the monoculture of the Muslim world, tries to greet as friends those who are murdering them. The Muslim world contains no such contradiction. Mr. Sampaio uses ideas of culture, race and religion interchangeably. To condemn Islam is to be racist, he seems to say. It is not the case that culture, race and religion are so interchangeable, and to make that claim is deceptive. This film may cause offense. The ten thousand men, women and children killed by Muslims since 11 September 2001 causes me more offense. How can it be that murder is a matter of culture while art is a criminal offense? The pluralism of the West has been perverted into cultural relativism. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has made the following statement about Fitna: I condemn, in the strongest terms, the airing of Geert Wilders' offensively anti-Islamic film. There is no justification for hate speech or incitement to violence. The right of free expression is not at stake here. I acknowledge the efforts of the Government of the Netherlands to stop the broadcast of this film, and appeal for calm to those understandably offended by it. Freedom must always be accompanied by social responsibility. The United Nations is the centre of the world's efforts to advance mutual respect, understanding and dialogue. We must also recognize that the real fault line is not between Muslim and Western societies, as some would have us believe, but between small minorities of extremists on different sides with a vested interest in stirring hostility and conflict. This reads to me like nothing so much as a man encouraging his neighbors to continue paying 'protection money' to the gang that controls his neighborhood. The plain words of the Qur'an, the recorded speeches of Muslims and Muslim leaders, the video of Muslims using a hand knife to saw off the head of kidnap victims... somehow these are worthy of mutual respect, understanding and dialogue. It is a film that accurately portrays these that is hateful, not the acts themselves. It is a film that is to blame for inciting violence, not what the film portrays. This film should be banned by law, but somehow that is not a violation of the right of free expression. And once again we are offered the claim that the pluralism of the West is to be found in the Muslim world if the West will only keep quiet about the Muslim world's vested interest in stirring hostility and conflict. Once again we are told that the extremists are to found on both sides. But from where I'm sitting one side made films and cartoons and books, the other side kills people. I am disappointed by these two statements by United Nations representatives regarding the film Fitna and regarding Islam. Trevor Blake: Art Exhibit April 2008 Portland OR
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 April 2008 Coffee Plant 724 SW Washington Labels: art, comics, portland, trevorblake
CNN: Body of model found in Paris river
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The body of Katoucha Niane, one of the first African women to attain international stardom as a model and a vocal opponent of female genital mutilation, was found in the Seine River, police said Friday. Known simply as Katoucha, the former top model for Yves Saint Laurent and other top designers was found Thursday near the Garigliano bridge in Paris, judicial police in Paris said.
[Article continues at link. Official Web site. Quote from Wikipedia: "She said she saw her career as a top model as a form of 'revenge' for the horror of excision. 'I embodied the most arrogant and admired kind of femininity, I who was supposed to be diminished.'" Eternal damnation to all practitioners of female genital mutilation and the superstitions that embolden them. - Trevor Blake] Labels: art, biographic, islam Trevor Blake: Buckminster Fuller Play in Portland
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 Portland Center Stage will be presenting R. Buckminster Fuller: The History [and Mystery] of the Universe October 14 - December 7, 2008. "An engineer, architect, mathematician, designer, poet, philosopher, motivational speaker, major utopian thinker and inventor of the geodesic dome, Buckminster Fuller was one of the most remarkable minds of the 20th century. Born in 1895, Bucky was way ahead of his time. Refusing to think in conventional ways, he was an innovator, a futurist, and one of the first true global thinkers. This tour-de-force, one-man performance explores Bucky's life and work through a blend of testimony, lecture, autobiography, poetry, comic antics and video imagery. The play spirals and spins through ideas and experiences as Bucky escorts you on an unforgettable journey." I saw this play in Seattle (with a different actor as Fuller) and it is very worth attending. View a commercial from a recent presentation of this play in California. Labels: art, portland, synergetics, video Trevor Blake: Women Dressed as Alex from Stanley Kubrick's Film A Clockwork Orange
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Trevor Blake: ID This Art
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Dennis Dread Original Art for Sale
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A rare oportunity to own original art by Dennis Dread.
In the late 1980s / early 1990s I lived in Knoxville TN and Dennis lived in New York state. I traded copies of my zine OVO for a t-shirt produced by Mutilation Graphics, and the t-shirt I got was almost certainly screen printed by Dennis. More than ten years later we found ourselves working at the same job, amazed that our paths had crossed years before. Dennis did the cover art work for OVO 16 AntiChrist. I have attended a number of art shows produced by or including Mr. Dread's work, but this is the first time I've seen original works (rather than high-quality prints) for sale. Recommended! Trevor Blake: Gallery and Museum updated.
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 The OVO Gallery and Museum have been updated. Labels: art, fight, trevorblake Trevor Blake: Art Exhibit February 2008
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Sound Grounds Coffee House
3711 Belmont St Portland OR Thirteen original works by Trevor Blake February 2008 About Trevor Blake: Born 1 May 1966 Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. Since 1992, living in Portland, Oregon USA. Book including work by Trevor Blake: * The SubGenius Psychlopaedia of Slack. New York, Thunder's Mouth Press 2006. * The Journal of Ride Theory Omnibus. Portland, JORT 2003. * Strange Creations. Los Angeles, Feral House 2001. * Revelation X. New York, Simon & Schuster 1994. * Kooks. Portland, Feral House 1994. * In Extremis. Athens Greece, Survival Kit 1994. * Killing for Culture. London, Creation Books 1994. * Anarchy and the End of History. Willimantic, Lysander Spooner 1991. * Killer Fiction. Atlanta, Media Queen 1991. * Three-Fisted Tales of "Bob". New York, Simon & Schuster 1990. * Pozdravi iz Babilona. Ljubljana, KRT 1987. Books including work about Trevor Blake: * As a character in 'Zine by Pagan Kennedy. * As a character in High Weirdness by Mail by Ivan Stang. * In the acknowledgement to T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone by Hakim Bey. * As a character in Loompanics Greatest Hits by Michael Hoy. Also appearing in periodicals such as ReadyMade, Whole Earth Review, semiotext(e) and Maximum Rocknroll among many others. Labels: art, portland, trevorblake
Stewart Home: The Assault on Culture
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The Assault on Culture by Stewart Home (1987) is a book I have recommended to many people for many years. It is well-researched while clearly-written, brief while informative. The Assault on Culture describes 'utopian currents from Lettrism to Class War.' Some of the more familiar names in this current might include the Situationists, Fluxus, mail art and punk rock. Stewart Home went on to write Neoism, Plagiarism and Praxis, which includes descriptions of his performance art / magick attacks on agents of conformity in a psychogeographically mapped England. Not only does the character King Mob in Grant Morrison's Invisibles act like Stewart Home, he looks like him. Read up on the real thing.
The entire text of The Assault on Culture is now online for free. Trevor Blake: Out of the Strong Came Forth Sweetness
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 A sluggish golden river, a sickly golden treacle, a golden sticky trickle. Labels: art, christianity, food, music Trevor Blake: Self Portrait
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 Photograph of three of the larger fragments of a kidney stone I passed on 27 December 2007. Labels: art, science, trevorblake Trevor Blake: Iconoclasts
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Those who destroy or harm the artwork of others are sometimes called iconoclasts. The term is also used to describe those who destroy or harm religious artwork. The great majority of religious iconoclasts are, themselves, religious. The sort of iconoclasts I am interested in are trying to make something new happen, not replace one old idea with another old idea.
Rindy Sam kissed a solid-white painting by Cy Twombly, leaving lipstick traces that will never come off. Laszlo Toth rained down hammer blows on Michelangelo's statue Pieta. Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi jumped on My Bed, an art installation by Tracey Emin. Chai and Xi tried to urinate on Duchamp's sculpture The Fountain but failed. Pierre Pinoncelli, however, both urinated on The Fountain and knocked chips off of it with a hammer. Mary Richardson took a butcher's knife to the painting Venus in the Mirror by Rokeby Valasquez (this act seems to have been done for a 'cause,' but I'll give it an honorable mention). Wilhelmus de Rijk took a knife to Night Watch by Rembrandt. William Lloyd destroyed the Portland Vase. DaVinci's The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist was subject to a shotgun blast, Danae by Rembrandt got a splash of sulfuric acid, and Michelangelo's David also got the hammer. Tony Shafrazi spray-painted "KILL LIES ALL" onto Pablo Picasso's Guernica. The Little Mermaid is subject to ongoing acts of iconoclasm. And oh my, there are more, many more, iconoclasts... Labels: art Trevor Blake: Lunar Landing
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 Lunar Landing. Digital photograph. Portland Oregon USA, 29 November 2005. Trevor Blake: Lobby
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 Lobby. Portland Oregon USA. 25 December 2006.Labels: architecture, art Trevor Blake: Stumptown
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 Portland Oregon USA. 10 March 2006. Stumptown is a Portland-area coffee company. Trevor Blake: Pirate's Cove
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 Pirate's Cove, Portland Oregon USA, 29 November 2005. This is the 127th post to OVO blog. Labels: architecture, art Trevor Blake: "For Religious Purposes"
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WSOC: Shannon Whisnant found a human foot inside a cooker he bought at an auction. Police say Mini Warehouse Rentals held the auction because the man renting the storage unit didn't pay. Police discovered that man had his foot amputated in 2004 after a plane crash, and he kept it in the cooker that was sold on Tuesday. Whisnant said he hasn't decided what to do with the cooker. Police say you can legally keep amputated body parts as long as it's for religious purposes.
Hickory Daily Record: It is legal to keep amputated body parts as long as it's for religious reasons, police say. WYFF: Officials said that it is not illegal to keep body parts as long as it is for religious purposes. 49 ABC News: Police say it is legal to keep amputated body parts if it is for religious purposes. [Articles continue at link. If keeping an amputated body part is legal as long as it is for religious purposes, would a court forbid an atheist from owning his or her amputated body parts? What about someone keeping their amputated body part for aesthetic reasons? Why does superstition get a free ride when reason and art do not? - Trevor Blake]
Oliver and Ruiz: the eBay Banksy print fraud
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Unauthorised prints by the anonymous graffiti artist Banksy have been sold on eBay as limited edition, signed works, by employees of the company which publishes and authenticates the artist's works on paper, Pictures on Walls (POW). These have been stamped with a replica of the POW blindstamp and some of them carry forged signatures. The prices for the prints have then been raised by an illegal practice known as shill bidding in which sellers or their associates make offers for goods to inflate the price artificially. [...] In a statement Banksy, his dealer Steve Lazarides, and the directors of POW, confirmed that unauthorised prints "have been sold on eBay" and stressed that they along with members of the public "have been victims of criminal behaviour." The company has launched a full-scale investigation and is inviting concerned collectors wanting to reauthenticate their Banksy prints to come forward.
[Article continues at link. Where is the art, where is the crime? - Trevor Blake] Trevor Blake: Twenty Recommended Art Links
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When I worked in used and rare bookstores I would sometimes buy art books. That occurs less often now that I do not have an employee's discount. Here are twenty wonderful art links that compensate for that loss, grouped by general themes...
Books and Paper: BibliOdyssey, I Love Typography, Joseph Wu's Origami Page, notebookism, Paper Forest and Stains on Paper. Old: Art Deco, Beautiful Century, The Boat Lullabies, Modern Mechanix, Posters of Cuba, Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood, Shorpy, and A Soviet Poster A Day. Random: A Best Truth, Dark Roasted Blend, Everlasting Blort, FFFFound!, flickr and riot rite right clit clip click. media tags
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architecture art blog books comic comics film flash mac music palm periodical podcasts sewing spoken television ubuntu video zine
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Gum Totem. 22 August 2007. Portland, Oregon USA.
