"Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius. And it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." ~Marilyn Monroe
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5191694This is the beautiful top by Louise Black that I am wearing to my opening at Billy Shire on June 13th.
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UP Coming Shows!
Music
ghostland observatory, death from above, wolfsheim, bauhaus, daftpunk, Rasputina, White Stripes, Bowie, Dixieland, Big Band, Ella-Etta-n-Billy, Beatles after drugs, the Stones before '85, Covenant, VNV Nation, Chopin, Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, Ani DiFranco, Sugar Cubes, Explosions in the Sky, Sigor Ross, Godspeed You Black Emperor, The Faint, Peggy Lee's verson of "Fever" and the PIXIES.....Je deteste Belle and Sebastian.
Television
All hail the screen!!! and mourn all the imaginations it has wasted in hours of it's perfect changing pictures....I hate TV! This is my proof that there are demons on earth, they made this monster. (oh shit....I am on the computer again....)
Books
Jon Bienart, of the Surrealist Art Forum, has published METAMORPHOSIS! To purchase:
http://beinart.org/shop/metamorphosis.phpThis book features 50 visionary and surrealist painters including Hussar, Chet Zar, Alex Grey, and little 'ol me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Metamorphosis" ....everyone looks good holding this book.
Heroes
All PROGENITORS!! Terry Gilliam,C S Lewis,Dr. Seuss,Oscar Wilde, George Sands,Jim Henson, J.M. Barry,Cervantes,Poe,HP Lovecraft, Di Vinci,Elizabeth McGrath!!!,JUDITH SCHAECTER,Camille Claudel,Charlotte Perkins,Cara Walker, the founding fathers of this nation and their mission against tyranny,the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus and their mission of lunacy, Douglas Adams (I LOVE and miss him horribly), Mark Twain, Hemmingway, Virginia Wolf, Napolean, Queen Elizabeth I, ORson Wells, Van Gogh, Jules Verne, and Madeline L'Engle....J.K. Rowling, Marcel du Champ,and Georgia O'Keefe and Stieglitz, Anias Nin and Henry Miller, Hunter S. Thompson, Slyvia Plath,Nicola Tesla,Emily Dickinson, Christ, and all rebelling angels....
"Imagination is the greatest of man's single working powers - and the trickiest; as the intellect is the frailest, the most subject to derangement, the the most given to cowardice and betrayal, unless it be held steady and sane by the power of Instinct." - Louis Sullivan (also my hero!)
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About me: I'm an internationally emerging artist and professor of painting at Florida State University. You can see my work in "Gothic Art Now" and Jon Beinart's "Metamorphosis."
My website: http://www.carrieannbaade.com"The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity." Abraham Lincoln
To purchase prints of my work: http://www. CarrieAnnBaade.etsy.com~~~~~~~~~~~
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Mad Girl's Love Song
"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)"
- Sylvia Plath
Who I'd like to meet: I would especially like to meet: Terry Gilliam!!! If you know how to put me in contact...well, let me know.
Things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them~Isak Dinesen
On my page there are Azure,
Rose, Magenta…from “Sustanza di Cose
Sperata” my new cd cd with Joachim
Roedelius! …and three other tracks from my cd dedicated to Baldassarre Galuppi.
I hope that you will enjoy this cds
produced by Transparency!
kisses
Alessandra
I’m so happy because all my cds are now available also on itunes
Greetings from Versailles and the Queen's retreat at Petit Trianon.
Hope you are having a great 4th of July!
If you get a chance, please do visit my pics - I've added new ones to my gallery in homage to Marie Antoinette. Love to get comments on images of The Queen :)
Have a nice weekend and hope to hear from you soon. Best wishes, Axel
Dear friend, I will soon have a new computer, so, I will be able to keep in touch with you more often on Myspace. I am at last saying goodbye to my very old 1998 PC! See you soon...
Thanks for the ADD. Have fun with the FIRST OFFICIAL TRAILER of the Rose/Schnaas production we co-produced with LASER PARADISE in 2009, called UNRATED - The Movie and our latest Trailer of our UNDERGROUND Zombie Splatter Movie called GRAVEYARD OF THE LIVING DEAD. Please vote and quote!
Enter to win 2 free tickets to Kid Kudi and Asher Roth at the Ogden in Denver AND download Denver's newest dance artist's, Option4's, debut single "Sunset Blvd." for FREE! Cheers!
You should seriously make your own tarot deck. I went through your paintings and I found a bunch that already look like tarot cards! haha
Death and the Maiden can be your Death card obviously, The Red Queen could be your ace of swords, The ecstasy of Madam Dolorosa could be your 2 of swords, The passion of lovers could obviously again be the lovers card, The teachings of Lilith could be your moon card, The happy whore of Babylon could be The Tower, The Devil is in the details could be your devil card, and the Perilous compassion of the honey queen could be your 7 of swords :D
Yes, I do not have any time on my hands. haha
But there are places you can have your own deck made, you send them the cards you've designed and they'll print them really nice for you :)
YOU SHOULD DO IT! haha I want a new deck! lol
OO! you could even collaborate with other surreal artists to make a deck! haha Come on, don't let all my investigating go to waste! haha
Or you could just make your own oracle deck, with each card meaning whatever you meant for the painting to say. Like if they draw a card with The supposedly shared sorrow of Magdalene and the crocodile it could mean something like "Someone in your life is trying to deceive you. Faking empathy" things like that.