Wednesday is here. This past week has been...i would say....choatic..in a beautiful way though... My life goes up and down and up and down...no limit :D

Well I went to see Mado Dioas last tuesday and the show was great. I love them even more. Coma was fun and I think I need to pick up some money in my piggy bank and go buy their cds..They have so many and I did not have enough money...so i did not buy any of their cds at the show. Lame me always.

I can't believe that Las Vegas trip is next week. I have not really ready for the trip...have not asked my boss for the day off and no clothes to way...no motivation to be wild...where's all my energy!?

Well Friday was pretty short..we were supposed to leave LA at 2 pm and get to San Diego on time to walk around and chill but knowing us..we did not leave the house until 4 pm and we hit the jackpot..Traffic and that took us 3 hrs to get to San Diego..

Cool link!!

How the ef did i miss this...i blame everything on my stupid me...


In the Realms of the Unreal (2004): Henry Darger was a janitor who lived as a recluse in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. He was inaugurated into the annals of outsider art in 1972, when his landlord discovered his life's work: a 15,000-page illustrated novel. Darger's tome tells of the conflict between horned, hermaphrodite girl-slaves and their sadistic overlords, the Glandelinians. With In the Realms of the Unreal, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jessica Yu documents Darger's life through interviews with the handful of people who knew him, supplemented by animations of his artwork. Yu appears for a Q&A following the screening. (DC)


Book to check out

Henry Darger: Art and Selected Writings
by Michael Bonesteel

Synopsis

An introduction to the disturbing, beautiful, and complicated world of Henry Darger.

Review
When Henry Darger's unsuspecting landlord cleaned out his deceased tenant's cluttered apartment in 1973, he was greeted by the reclusive janitor's dizzying and terrifying 15,000-page illustrated epic, In the Realms of the Unreal. Orphaned and institutionalized as a child, Darger spent nearly every waking moment on his masterwork. In his complex and violent world, he chronicled the adventures of the Vivian Sisters — master spies in an imaginary but minutely detailed war between the child-enslaving Glandelinians and the Christian nation of Abbiennia. With Henry Darger: Art and Selected Writings, Outsider art expert Michael Bonestreet attempts to shed light on the man behind this startling oeuvre.

Darger's prose is repetitive at best: to fill his countless volumes, he leans heavily on florid battle scenes and lengthy descriptions of typhoons and thunderstorms. However, his true genius lies in his paintings. The vast majority are ornate watercolors of naked little girls with penises fighting battles against their terrible enslavers. The disturbing imagery seems to leap straight from the most scarred recesses of the man's unconscious. Yet the works are formulaic as well: to create the eerily identical Vivian Sisters, Darger traced magazine ads and cartoon characters, prefiguring the repetitive, commercial imagery of Pop Art by as much as 20 years. Nevertheless, he demonstrates wildly original flights of fancy: the Blengiglomenean Serpents, for instance, first appear in the early paintings as part reptile, animal, and human but in the later images these strange creatures become human children with wings and horns.

While Darger's output is extraordinary, his subject matter — the brutalization of naked female children, — remains troubling. Even Bonesteel acknowledges that he can't fathom the true depths of his subject, but this collection does serve as a stunning testament to the extremes one man resorted to in order to quiet the raging beast of a muse within. Despite Bonesteel's eventual exhaustion, he does manage to reveal that Darger's driving impulse was self-preservation and redemption. By immersion in his alternate reality, he could correct a childhood full of wrongs. (BB)


Art: Mel Kadel : The Park

where: Jeff Electric Gallery (3022 W Sunset Blvd, 323.664.8580)


The Park is inspired by a Pennsylvania amusement park, Knoebel's Grove, where artist Mel Kadel's family owned and operated an on-site arcade. Drawing from the fantasy dimension of this place, her hand-drawn images evoke simple, yet eery childhood images. A longtime fixture of the Silverlake/Echo Park art scene, Kadel has been both a collaborator and a solo artist, with work featured in PUTA magazine, on record sleeves, and in various celebs' collections. While it's still early in her career, Kadel has moved quietly and organically towards becoming a hot-ticket artist. (TCR)


If you had wings, how would you use them?

my answer..i would use my gifted wings to create the wind..strong enough to blow away all the evil energy from this planet... all the bad vibe, greed, jealousy,