Showing posts with label jeff koons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jeff koons. Show all posts

Friday, January 9, 2009

GUILTY.


Greek Cypriot industrialist and heavyweight European contemporary art collector Dakis Joannou has brought together an all-star team to create one of the most unique watercrafts on the sea. Named “Guilty”, the 35 meter long yacht is decked out with sleek, artistic interiors by Ivana Porfiri and a pop-art exterior camouflage design by Jeff Koons. This design experiment injects a dose of eccentric fun and innovation into the traditional design language of classic nautical architecture.

Click HERE to see the inside and all the details. It must feel good to be ballin.

Damn.

Friday, September 26, 2008

The Incredible Hulk Hogan..

We decided....



The Incredible Hulk is awesome, and so is Hulk Hogan. Well, the old Hulkster.

They share quite the similarities, and not much differences. Both are very strong and both are really into their clothes ripping in some way. In fact, they both make the same faces. One is angry when he fights (The Incredible Hulk, obviously), and the other is really sweet (Hulk Hogan turns somewhat lovable, sympathized, and audience friendly, giving high fives to everyone). One also is sweet and nice when he's not fighting (Bruce Banner aka The Hulk) , and the other is usually angry-ish when he's not (Hulk Hogan usually goes in a rage-roid-filled speech before he goes into battle) stating "Watcha gonna do when Hulkamania runs wild on you!." They are both symbols of some sort of unstoppable american heroic power.

Both somewhat unnatural super beings: The Incredible Hulk with intense gamma ray infused powers, and the Hulkster with his 24-inch pythons, and unreal amazing perfect hair and mustache. Another thing that's strange is their relationship to war and the american government, weapons and politics and how they serve as these possible analogies or metaphors for the previous mentioned about America. In a sense, The Hulk (Bruce Banner) is the result of every reason why the war, secret weapons and testing is wrong. He was a product of the American government's testing gone wrong, in which he then became the target and was betrayed by his own country. While Hulk Hogan is this american republican poster-boy of why war, weapons testing, government experiments, etc. is justifiable. He is a result of physical exertion to a certain extreme to where it is being put to good use (leg drops and choke slams) to stop evil, in this case the Ultimate Warrior (when he was bad), Sgt. Slaughter (when he seemed like a possible replacement for Sadaam Hussein), and the obvious Iron Shiek. He is (according to his theme song "the real American" who "fights for what's right, American", which is a very Republican point of view.

They are each other's doppelgangers and if they somehow hybridized, they would be either the perfect species, or the ultimate wrecking machine, which could be put into current socio-political conditions which can kind of say that if the Republicans and Democrats got together, everything would be perfect. Or would it? You can't have one without the other, so this is certainly a Marxist perspective, which only works on paper...or for our case, only works on canvas:



There's probably alot more to this that we can discuss. A "connect the dots" of some sort. But we'll do that later. As for now, we have to go to bed.

Art's the shit.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

SHANGHAI SUPER GIRL.

Super Girl is the rough Chinese equivalent of American Idol but a billion times larger and more intense. Its season finale drew in over 420 million viewers, making it not only the most-watched TV program in the history of ever, but one with an audience larger than the populations of the US and Great Britain combined.

In this series, Yang Lei leads on a little tour of her country as we try to wrap our minds around the insanity that is 21st century China.




This was from VBS.TV. If you guys don't know about vbs.tv, you should check it out. it has all these great video features and tv shows only on the site, but dealing with all the things you guys like (and what we like): art, music, politics, girls, film, etc. But this is what we were watching recently. You can GO HERE to see the rest of it.

Speaking of super girls, these girls are the best artists ever:







god we love them. more to come! brb!