JE N'AIME QUE TOI

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JE N'AIME QUE TOI for free if you like: AFFICHE/POSTER.

Shave Your Head : Skin Deep Advertising

Rita Thomas and Rob Powers were among 30 people who agreed to advertise Air New Zealand on their bald heads last November. They were paid in cash or free tickets to New Zealand.

MAI 68 AFFICHES

Keep Calm Gallery is celebrating revolution with a range of silk-screened street posters from May 1968.  Each poster is available for about 30 euros each. But hurry if you want one, many are already sold out.

To commemorate the revolutionary spirit of 1968 the Hayward Gallery is presenting the first major display in the UK of posters produced by students and workers in Paris during strikes of May 1968.

Produced anonymously by art students and striking workers, the posters were distributed for free. The bold graphic messages appeared on the barricades, were carried in demonstrations and plastered on walls across France. The exhibition at the Hayward Gallery will include 46 posters taken from the collection of the American writer and curator Johan Kugelberg.

The year of 1968 was one of great political and social upheaval in France. Anger and frustration over issues such as poverty and unemployment gave rise to a mass movement for social change. A wave of strikes, walkouts and demonstrations by students followed by a general strike, paralysed the French capital.

In the middle of May 1968 students and faculty took over the Ecole des Beaux Arts to form the Atelier Populaire (popular workshop), producing hundreds of silkscreen posters in an extraordinary outpouring of politically graphic art. Described as ‘weapons in the service of the struggle’ the purpose and intended locations for the posters were the streets and factories where the struggles were taking place. (Text from www.parismai68.net)

To coincide with the exhibition and to commemorate the 40 year anniversary of the Paris riots of 1968 a limited edition book has been produced by The Orange Dot. Each book contains hand screen printed reproductions of 40 original Mai 68 posters. Keep Calm Gallery are pleased to have been given the opportunity to offer a very limited number of printers proofs of these reproductions. Unlike the posters collated in the limited edition Mai 68 books, these printers proofs are available individually at Keep Calm Gallery for a short time only.

Bikini Dance

Fire : Cabinet Magazine

Years ago I wrote an article entitled Airport Disease for Cabinet magazine.  The piece, about an Iranian refugee living at the Paris airport for 14 years (more towards the end), proved bizarre enough to interest Steven Spielberg to lift the story for a film, The Terminal, starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones.  I wrote another piece for The New York Times Magazine about "Alfred," and yet another piece for Premiere, when the film came out.

Cabinet remains one of the finest and most compelling magazines around.  The newest issue is about "Fire."

Check out Cabinet here.
 

 

Obama Office : Kenya

A sign reading 'Official Obama Office' hangs outside a classroom of the Kogelo primary school, during celebrations ahead of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration in Washington D.C., in Kogelo, Kenya, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. Across Kenya, neighbors engulfed in political violence only a year ago came together Tuesday to celebrate the U.S. presidential inauguration of Kenya's favorite son, Barack Obama. (AP Photo / Riccardo Gangale)

Impossible Possibilities: 2009 Calendar (Free!)

Lalande Digital Art Press Paris is looking forward to another interesting year, and so we thought we'd offer you a digital gift : Impossible Possibilities, a free, downloadable A5-sized calendar you can print out at home – wherever that may be in the world.

The calendar comes with a cover and back page, and 12 months (in French) illustrated with the surreal art work from Matthew Rose.  Simply download the file (it's only 6 mb), print out on your home printer, cut the pages using the crop mark guides, staple up on top and tack to the wall. Interested? Hey, it's free.

DOWNLOAD IMPOSSIBILE POSSIBILITIES 2009 CALENDAR NOW.

Lalande Digital Art Press will print these calendars to order.  Each calendar is produced on 300 gram true card, in full color, shrink wrapped and signed by the artist.  For one: 12 euros.  For 10, 10 euros each. For orders of 50 or more contact us for prices.  We are happy to work with retail stores and businesses anywhere on the planet.  We can produce custom designed calendars, or customize Impossible Possibilities for your company and print your company logo. Or if you'd like to make a dozen or so using your own photographs or art work, we can help you with that, as well.

If you are interested in producing your own calendars, or you're a designer working on calendar projects for your client, we are very happy to work with you to produce the best looking calendar possible.  We can print up to A3-plus sizes, or as small as post card sizes.  Use your imagination and we'll help you put your ideas into print. Contact us for quantities and prices.  In the meantime, many thanks to our existing and future clients...and enjoy Impossible Possibilities 2009 – sure to make for a very Happy New Year.

Woolworths in London : Closing

Photo: Andrew Parsons/Reuters. Woolworths announced last week that it was shutting down its 807 stores in Britain for good, with the last one to close on Jan. 5.

John F. Kennedy : ICH BIN EIN BERLINER 1963 Book On eBAY

 

Bernard Matussière : Nudes At Wm Turner Gallery

Bernard Matussière's nudes, flowers and cotton workers at Wm Turner Gallery in Atlanta. These black and white photographs from the Paris-based photographer are knock out gorgeous. Matussière, famous for his Aubade lingerie series in Paris, makes his mark in the the capital of the South with this compelling exhibition.

Patch - E-mail Scam

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Recession!

The Bestest Christmas Gift: The ABC Book For Kids

MISTER ROSE'S ABC BOOK is back! The hit book has been republished with a new cover for Christmas 2008. Full color, saddled stitched, the ABC Book is for kids of all ages and replete with the funny stories of Karl the curious kitten, Nero the most nervous nail and Romney's rain among other wonderfully nutty and deliriously delightful characters. Each book is meticulously printed on thick recycled paper (keep our world green) and signed by MISTER ROSE himself.

Well A...it's AMAZING and not expensive at ALL! And B the BOOK is only 10 euros, plus postage. And C... MISTER ROSE'S ABC BOOK is ready for CHRISTMAS. We will send your ABC anywhere in the world. (Pay with PayPal. It's EASY).

LALANDE DIGITAL ART PRESS PARIS is taking orders now! So avoid the Christmas rush and save a buck. Teach your kids to read even if your kids are Chinese or Russian or French or German or Italian or Brazilian or from Spain! And once you have MISTER ROSE'S ABC BOOK, you can read along with MISTER ROSE on his YouTube Video.

CLICK HERE : TO ORDER YOUR OWN SIGNED COPY (or your own many copies) of MISTER ROSE'S ABC BOOK. Get 10 of them and spread them around to all your friends and your friends' kids and your kid's friends. Want to offer MISTER ROSE'S ABC BOOK in your boutique or bookstore? Well, we do that too!

French Cafés in Free Fall

Steven Erlanger in today's New York Times reports a frightening statistic : "In 1960, France had 200,000 cafes," said Bernard Quartier, president of the National Federation of Cafes, Brasseries and Discotheques. "Now it has fewer than 41,500, with an average of two closing every day."

The culprits are largely the ban on smoking in cafés and restaurants, and of course the hellish descent into economic depression. Oh, yes, young people go to the supermarket, get a 3 euro bottle of plonque and sit at home with their cigarettes and get loaded while watching reality tee vee.

Andy Warhol By Mark Sink

The exhibition will opening your eyes: Light and Time - Warhol to Wet Plates By Mark Sink and Kristen Hatgi at Rule Gallery. Opening 14 November : Rule Gallery 227 Broadway Denver Co. 80203

THE END OF THE WORLD

CLICK TO READ: Article from WHITE HOT MAGAZINE on MATTHEW ROSE'S THE END OF THE WORLD.

Image: THE END OF THE WORLD (REALLY BUILT TO LAST), 2008. Collage on canvas; 50 cm x 50 cm. $5500. Prints in production.

Barack Obama : American President

 

A Letter from Keith Donovan, Artist living in France, arrived this morning :

You'll no doubt laugh at this story, but yesterday I went as usual on my bike to the vegetable farmer a few miles away, around 4:30. It'd been a lovely day but some dark gray clouds were blowing up in the eastern sky. The sun was low in the west and lit up an immense rainbow that went in a full arc, touching the ground on both ends. It was full, vibrant and bright and, after going through a long field with it on my left I turned into it, driving my bicycle into the rainbow. Such a strange, lovely thing to drive into a rainbow. I thought to DH Lawrence of course, the bible of course, and even Jesse Jackson of all people. But I thought mostly of "Hopey" and his campaign symbol and couldn't help laughing and thinking how did David Plouffe do that! – Best, Keith

Obama's Loss Traced To Matthew Rose

Boy oh boy did I fuk up.

Livin' Large in Alaska

Click the image to read the sign!

Sarah Palin Field Dresses Lady Liberty

Famous artist Zina Saunders takes on Famous Snowbilly Sarah Palin as the Alaskan wrestles the Statue of Liberty in the snowy tundra, and shows off her skills! Sarah Palin, painted for Women's Work, an online gallery exhibit of women's political art. 

Zina routinely paints zingers for The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine and other newspapers. We'd love to see her take on Anne Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Palin cheerleader, William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard. Maybe a group portrait in the nursery?

See more of Zina's artwork here :  © Zina Saunders 2008. All rights reserved.