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Entries from December 31st, 2011

Happy 2012

December 31st, 2011 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized

Thank you to Keith Jenson at Brainwomb for making this gothtastic sendoff to 2011. Happy fucking 2012, comrades.

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GENLUX Magazine

December 28th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Press

Part of a four page spread in GenLux, were they put me in this stunning, fragile Valentino dress I kept thinking I was going to tear with my monkey paws

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2011 Year in Review

December 26th, 2011 · 13 Comments · Uncategorized

2011 was one of the best years of my life. Often being an artist is a trudge where you slog through making things and punch your hand to make it stop hurting and pray that people won’t notice your self-plagiarism. But sometimes, so rarely, you’re a conduit. You work constantly, brutally, effortlessly. Inspiration comes. 2011 [...]

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RIP George Whitman

December 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Art

On December 14, George Whitman, the proprietor of Paris’s Shakespeare and Company bookstore, died. He was 98. I was 17 and sitting under a cherry tree when we met, and he invited me to live at the shop. He changed my life that day. George had written over the doorway of the upstairs library “Be [...]

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Update- I Have Your Heart

December 16th, 2011 · No Comments · Art

Mad Aussie genius Jim Batt has sent more photos from the set of I Have Your Heart, where he is toiling away cutting out individual leaves of ivy for your amusement. Jim, I speak for us all when I say, “Goddamn” Follow the progress of I Have Your Heart, a short film by Crabapple, Boekbinder [...]

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Rest in Peace Hitch

December 16th, 2011 · No Comments · Art

Rest in peace, Christopher Hitchens. So brilliant, so lacerating, so wrong, so right.

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New Print: Porphyria’s Lover

December 10th, 2011 · No Comments · Art

Based on the poem by Robert Browning- because who doesn’t love long golden hair and a fundamentally indifferent universe. 17″ x 22″, on Canson fine art rag paper, in archival inks. Signed and numbers, limited edition of 25 Available HERE

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Occupy! Anthology

December 10th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Honored to have art in this amazing anthology from N+1 (alongside contributors like Angela Davis and Slavoj Zizek).  All royalties are donated to Occupy Wall Street.

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New York City

December 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Art

My art for Kim Boekbinder’s new song New York City. She wrote it for me, and my hometown.  I love it very much You can buy the art, song, and even a t-shirt here.

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Compleat Holiday Gift Guide

December 6th, 2011 · No Comments · Art

Private commission.  Portrait of Catherine Deneuve Tomorrow is the last day to commission a piece in time for Christmas I’m still accepting commissions for Christmas.  I’ve had an almost insanely varied career that’s involved everything from children’s books to perverse nightclub murals, and I’m available for portraits, tattoo designs, and really, most things your brain [...]

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