All Photos By Gail
When it comes to one-stop shopping for tacky holiday decorations, Lot Less Closeouts has all the bases covered. Bonus: many of these things are Pink! Look at these tiny Pink Christmas Tree-shaped ornaments I spotted on my most recent hunt for Pink Things! Just look at them!
Continue reading Pink Thing Of The Day: Pink Christmas Tree-Shaped Ornaments
Photos By Gail
In the midst of Black Friday bargain-hunting, I passed by this pair of large Silver Ears attached to the glass doors of a not-yet-opened business called, as the sign on the left door would indicate, Inked. A little Googling reveals that the ears belong to the future home of a retail shop and tattoo parlor affiliated with Inked tattoo lifestyle magazine. Originally scheduled to open its doors in October, Inked will inhabit an 8,500-square-foot space for an art gallery, tattoo studio” in this ground floor space in Chelsea. Inked will be the first retail location for the tattoo lifestyle company. The magazine was launched in 2004, reaching some 1.2 million readers, according to a press release.
The Inked Retail Store is (or will soon be) Located at 150 West 22nd Street Between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan.
“Can You Hear Me Now?”
All Photos By Gail
Not to be confused with the popular Pool Cleaner device, I Am Lil’ Shark finds its way into this week’s Shark Attack featurette for being a hyper-realist Shark-Shaped Jigsaw Puzzle! It’s totally Jawsome!
Continue reading Shark Attack Jigsaw Puzzle!
Photo By Gail
In 1978, Elizabeth Murray (1940 – 2007) made a series of irregular, star-shaped paintings with the aim, she said, of “trying to complicate and obfuscate the edges” of her medium. Indeed, the jostling contours and vivid colors of Once appear to explode outward, as if pressing the very form on the canvas into new arrangements. Murray’s dynamic compositions, charged brush strokes, and radical disruption of the frame transform the picture plane into both surface and object. While these paintings appear purely abstract, hints of imagery and reference return in subsequent works. Drawing on Cubism, Surrealism and Minimalism, Murray’s fragmented geometries and biomorphic shapes reinvigorated formalist painting in the 1970s and 1980s.
Photographed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.
All Photos By Gail
Ah, California at Christmastime is a singular experience, filled with visions of kidney-shaped swimming pools and, of course, oversized Pink Flamingo statues.
Continue reading Pink Thing Of The Day: Pink Flamingo Pool Statue