Miss Kitties

Femke Hiemstra

2011-02-27T15:06:00.001-08:00

http://www.femtasia.nl/Home.html

Yvonne Todd

2011-02-27T14:19:00.001-08:00

http://www.ervon.com/

Kevin Tong

2011-02-26T22:01:00.000-08:00

http://www.tragicsunshine.com/

Julian Callos

2011-02-26T21:45:00.000-08:00

Mine^

Self/Reflection^

under construction..kind of

2010-09-18T16:18:00.000-07:00

I am currently working on the layout for misskitties..

2010-09-18T16:12:00.000-07:00

Tuxedo Sam - 1976 - A clumsy little fellow who loves to eat. TuxedoSam has great fashion sense, he owns 365 bowties! He’s very good at speaking English too.

Yayoi Kusama

2010-09-18T09:54:00.001-07:00

Yayoi Kusama, b. 1929 in Nagano, Japan, worked during the Second World War in a factory that made parachutes. In 1957 Kusama went to the United States, where, in the late 1960s, she staged numerous happenings: body painting festivals, fashion shows and anti-war demonstrations. Donald Judd and Joseph Cornell were among her fellow companions. In 1973 she returned to Japan where she not only exhibited her works, but also published several novels and anthologies. Since 1974 her permanent, chosen place of residence has been a mental hospital in Tokyo; it is from here that she goes into her nearby studio every day.

Yayoi Kusama began to paint when she was about ten years old. Colored dots, the so-called polka dots, and nets were her motifs right from the beginning. Kusama initially created fantastic watercolor, pastel and oil paintings. Soon after her arrival in New York, she produced five, nearly monochromatic paintings: white grid structures on a white background. Rather than being repeated at regular intervals as with a pattern, Kusama's structures expanded like nets, without a beginning, end or center. Although they don't adhere to any established rules of order or symmetry, they nonetheless convey a certain balance. The artist herself has associated these structures with the terms "endlessness" and "nothingness" time and again. Soon her nets cover not just canvases but entire rooms. Phallus-shaped protuberances grow out of the ground and out of all possible objects: bulging cloth sacks, saturated with polka dots. Kusama has remained true to this form language throughout her life.

With Kusama's body paintings the object painted with dots loses its status of an adult, drifting back into a state of non- or pre-sexual innocence and anonymity. Kusama removes an individual's uniqueness by painting its body with polka dots, referring to this process as "obliteration." In an appeal very much in keeping with the spirit of the 1960s, she declares, "Burn Wall Street. Wall Street men must become farmers and fishermen... Obliterate the men of Wall Street with polka dots on their naked bodies." She believes that when individuality is obliterated, a fusion with the universe is possible. "Our earth is only one polka dot among millions of others. When Kusama paints your body with polka dots you become part of the unity of the universe," promises the artist in a press release from 1968.

Kusama's practice of self-obliteration using polka dots can also be seen as a Japanese variation of suicide: voluntary release from life at the right moment has a cultural-historical meaning in Japan and is considered to be a heroic act. One dies at the height of enthusiasm, losing oneself in a totality without contradictions and is united with a collective soul.

"Since my childhood, I have loved the round image of dots. Over several decades, dots have created, working together with net patterns, various types of paintings, sculptures, events and installations. They have indeed been moving freely about in the heaven of forms and shapes. Dots have taught me the proof of my existence. They scatter proliferating love in the universe and raise my mind to the height of the sky. This mysterious dots obsession. Dots even enter my dreams with art playing a trick on them, art which I love so deeply." (Yayoi Kusama 2006)

Several art movements tried to claim Yayoi Kusama as their own: her early works, the monochromatic paintings, were associated with Minimal Art; her more colorful works were seen as forerunners of Pop Art. Kusama's work was continually closely correlated to the mental-emotional state of the artist herself: objects covered in raw noodles became commentaries on eating disorders; the polka dotted, endless structures became pictorial expressions of hallucinations, which have afflicted Kusama since her childhood.

In the 1960s the media accused the artist of charlatanry because her happenings were often a combination of body painting, nude dances and orgiastic confusion. A vocabulary - roughly put, the conceptual instrument of gender studies - with which Yayoi Kusama's art might have been appropriately described, was not yet available. The fact that the numerous public actions in which the artist was involved, at the relentless expense of her own resources, should have led to an emotional breakdown in the early 1970s is usually ignored. The physical and emotional effort required of such performance artists did not yet command the respect it deserved.

The coupling of biographical background and psychological orientation with artistic work has seemed legitimate since 1974, the year Kusama chose a mental hospital as her permanent place of residence. It is, however, absolutely plausible that Kusama intentionally sets her viewers on the wrong track with her numerous references to the psychological content of her work. Perhaps her work is far less formed by obsession, phallus and trauma than is generally assumed; perhaps the artist is primarily concerned with the pleasure of play and the obvious craving for bulges, dots and mirrors - and, thus, concerned with drawing attention to the biased structure employed by many art critics and with luring such critics into the traps of their own laws.

In the 1990s the artist receives the overdue recognition she deserves. In 1993, Kusama is the only artist to be invited to design the Japanese pavillon at the Venice Biennale. She is awarded the prize for the best gallery exhibition in both 1995/96 and 1996/97 by the International Association of Art Critics. In 1998 the Los Angeles County Museum of Art mounts a large retrospective, which travels on to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2006 Yayoi Kusama is recognized with the Praemium Imperiale.

Yoyoi Kusama's Website

Paul Blow

2010-09-17T22:05:00.000-07:00

Paul Blow gained an MA in Narrative Illustration from the University of Brighton and in 2006 was presented with the gold award for editorial illustration by the Association of Illustrators. Much of his commissioned work is editorial and he finds creating complex, compelling imagery within a narrative context to be immensely rewarding. His initial artwork is drawn by hand, but he works mainly on computer, appreciating its ability to allow him to change his mind about a colour scheme quickly.

Clients include The Guardian, The FT, New Scientist, Harvard Business Review, Carter Wong & Tomlin and Saatchi & Saatchi. Awards: Silver in the 3x3 Pro Show No.5, Second prize in The V&A 2007 Illustration Awards, Gold and Bronze Awards from the Association of Illustrators, Transport for London Silver Award and Glenfiddich Food and Drink Award Nominee.

Lee Misenheimer

2010-09-17T21:48:00.001-07:00

Shohei Otomo

2010-09-17T20:55:00.000-07:00

Jason Levesque

2010-09-17T20:18:00.000-07:00

All My Friends Are Dead

2010-09-17T19:41:00.001-07:00

http://www.nomorefriends.net

Get it from Amazon to read the other 93 pages !

Erwin Olaf

2010-09-17T19:20:00.000-07:00

Contraomnes

2010-09-17T19:08:00.000-07:00

KMR

2010-09-17T17:40:00.000-07:00

Andrew Archer [ designer & illustrator ]

2010-09-17T16:29:00.000-07:00

Ray Caesar

2010-09-17T15:59:00.000-07:00

Jill Greenberg photography

2010-09-17T15:37:00.000-07:00

BLANQ

2010-08-10T11:28:00.000-07:00

http://www.behance.net/BLANQ
http://www.blanqworld.com/

Matt Armstrong

2010-08-10T11:01:00.000-07:00

Natalia Fabia

2010-07-13T17:27:00.000-07:00

yummm

2010-05-25T20:58:00.000-07:00

http://www.etsy.com/shop/kjoo

Berkley Illustrations!

2010-05-25T20:33:00.000-07:00

2010-05-25T17:02:00.002-07:00

2010-05-25T17:02:00.001-07:00

Hair Bow!

2010-05-25T16:59:00.000-07:00

NANA movie

2010-05-22T19:14:00.000-07:00

NANA
Click ^^ & watch this movie online for free!

This movie is based on a manga series & anime.

GAGA in NEO2 with Philip Treacy headpieces

2010-05-21T20:19:00.000-07:00

Philip Treacy, AMAZING head wear!

2010-05-21T19:55:00.000-07:00

http://www.philiptreacy.co.uk/

hmmm gaga

2010-05-21T19:54:00.001-07:00

SWEET GAGA

2010-05-21T19:49:00.001-07:00

http://fuckyeahladygaga.tumblr.com/

OLD AS SHIT CARS

2010-05-21T19:47:00.001-07:00

http://www.earlyamericanautomobiles.com/autos8.htm

some of my childhood memories..

2010-05-21T19:24:00.001-07:00

DSQUARED2

2010-05-21T19:17:00.000-07:00

I have no idea what this stuff smells like... i just like the men's and women's fragrance packaging!

Gaga

2010-04-07T17:30:00.001-07:00

Lady Gaga Pics

Pineberries?

2010-04-06T23:42:00.000-07:00

Glen Jones

2010-03-28T19:31:00.000-07:00

Found this guy on Behance <-
Glennz Store

Behance Network

2010-03-28T19:14:00.000-07:00

"The Behance Network is the world's leading platform for creative professionals across all industries. Members build multi-media portfolios that display their work. Millions of visitors - including recruiters, top creative companies, editors, and more - come to Behance to see the incredible content and find talent to hire."

These are amazing websites for "creative professionals"!

Valistika Studio

2010-03-28T18:59:00.001-07:00

http://www.valistika.com/

Sebastian Preschoux

2010-03-28T18:46:00.000-07:00

http://www.m-vs-m.com/

Julien Vallee

2010-03-28T18:43:00.001-07:00

http://www.jvallee.com/index_jvallee.html

Yuta Onoda

2010-03-28T18:36:00.000-07:00

http://yutaonoda.com/

Christian Montenegro

2010-03-28T16:44:00.000-07:00

^ Seven Deadly Sins ^

http://www.christianmontenegro.com.ar/

Chris Brett

2010-03-28T16:42:00.001-07:00

http://www.chrisbrett.ca/

Julien Pacaud

2010-03-28T16:34:00.001-07:00

http://www.julienpacaud.com/

Alex Trochut

2010-03-28T16:26:00.001-07:00

http://www.alextrochut.com/

Morten Iveland

2010-03-28T16:19:00.001-07:00

Morten Iveland

Serge Birault

2010-03-28T16:11:00.000-07:00

Serge Birault on DeviantArt

Simon Duhamel

2010-03-28T16:00:00.000-07:00

http://www.simonduhamel.com/

Stuntkid

2010-03-28T15:45:00.000-07:00

Stuntkid on DeviantArt
Stuntkid.com

Mateusz Kolek

2010-03-28T15:37:00.001-07:00

http://mateuszkolek.com/

Plasticbionic

2010-03-28T13:18:00.000-07:00

http://www.plasticbionic.com/

Richard Wilkinson

2010-03-28T12:04:00.000-07:00

Richard Wilkinson's Website

David Lanham

2010-03-28T12:00:00.001-07:00

David Lanham's website

Nathan Fox

2010-03-28T11:51:00.001-07:00

Nathan Fox's website

More Workerman

2010-03-28T11:25:00.001-07:00

http://cargocollective.com/workerman

Workerman Gaga Poster

2010-03-28T11:17:00.000-07:00

Workerman's website

100 days 100 songs 100 dances

2010-03-27T00:03:00.001-07:00

BOOMBOX from Ely Kim on Vimeo.

Jimmy Brooks

2010-03-26T18:26:00.000-07:00

Telephone

2010-03-26T18:07:00.000-07:00

Watch the Video!

Gaga

2010-03-26T18:01:00.001-07:00

Kenneth Willardt for Cosmopolitan

2010-03-26T17:58:00.001-07:00

MAC VIVA GLAM

2010-03-26T17:49:00.000-07:00

MAC AIDS FUND

oh Gaga

2010-03-26T17:45:00.001-07:00

Hello Kitty

2010-03-26T16:48:00.001-07:00

"Evil Kitty"

"Hello Kitty Note"

"Hello Kitty Saves The Day"

"Imposter"

CC Skye

2010-03-26T00:17:00.000-07:00

CC Skye

Dominic Jones gloves..

2010-03-26T00:13:00.001-07:00

Luisaviaroma

Gaga & Barbie

2010-03-25T23:59:00.000-07:00

Oh Chanel

2010-03-25T23:56:00.002-07:00

lovely runways and more!

Nina Hjorth

2010-03-25T23:52:00.001-07:00

LaRare Shoes

2010-03-25T23:43:00.001-07:00

shoes my love

2010-03-25T23:33:00.000-07:00

Alexander McQueen

Its the Po'

The mysterious sailing stones of Death Valley

2010-03-25T23:21:00.000-07:00

Look this up.

Olsenhaus Eco-Chic Vegan Shoes Made From Recycled TVs

2010-03-25T23:11:00.000-07:00

"With the transition to all-digital broadcasts, the planet isn’t exactly hurting for obsolete TV sets. Which is why vegan footwear purveyor Olsenhaus is making a switch of its own—by cladding Its entire Fall/Winter 2010 collection of pumps, wedges, stiletto booties, and knee-highs in an innovative polyester microfiber made from trashed television screens."
(Jasmin Malik Chua, 02/26/10)
Ecouterre

Virtual Shoe Museum

2010-03-25T18:46:00.000-07:00

Virtual Shoe Museum

openingceremony.us

2010-03-23T20:33:00.001-07:00

I just randomly happened upon this website! Cool things..

Hello!

2010-03-23T15:24:00.000-07:00

I am a mean kitty who loves fashion, art, nature, and humor!