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We all knew it was coming… Monica Lewinsky’s new tell-all book that will reveal her secret love letters to Bill Clinton and his penchant for kinky sex. Lewinsky, who turns 40 next year, is out for “revenge” and ready to air bombshell details from her Oval Office trysts with the former Horndog-in-Chief in a $12 million memoir, according to friends.
In the 14 years since she became a national punch line, Lewinsky has gotten her master’s degree, worked briefly as a news correspondent and launched a failed handbag line.
“No one will hire her and she can’t get a job because of Clinton,” a sympathetic friend told The Post yesterday. “She needs to make money somehow.”
It was not announced who the publisher would be or when the book would be out. Lewinsky could not be reached and her reps didn’t return calls.
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/monica_on_bill_the_kink_and_a5gZIiDHRMxISyZvYcxsAI#ixzz27498pS00
Didja ever think Punk Rock would affect art as we know it? Be considered a “major influence” on how imagery evolved throughout the 70′s and 80′s? How could it not? Punk visual art can include anything from crudely scribbled letters to shockingly jarring figures drawn with sharp points everywhere. Often images and figures are cut and pasted from magazines to create a scene and the colors are often two tone and deeply contrasting.
The main aesthetic of punk art seems to be to either shock, create a sense of empathy or revulsion, make a grander point with an acidic or sarcastic wit, poke fun at politics, political factions, or social factions.
An upcoming exhibition at the Haywood Gallery in London titled “Someday All the Adults Will Die!” shows how the movement affected illustration, art and print just as much as sales of tartan trousers. The exhibit begins this weekend and runs through October.
Some of the pieces featured in this exhibit are shown here.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/09/11/punk-art_n_1873519.html?utm_hp_ref=arts&ir=Arts
Yes. It is. Fo sho. ART. Serious art connoisseurs have a vested interest in keeping stuff like this out of galleries and museums. It just doesn’t fit with their image of themselves as soldiers in the noble war against vulgarity and dumbed-down mainstream culture.
Richard Phillips is aware of this. He knows art critics find it hard to believe that his giant paintings of tabloid celebrity Lindsay Lohan, Victoria’s Secret model Adriana Lima, and former porn star Sasha Grey can actually be considered Art with a capital “A.”
Phillips’ latest show, “First Point,” opened at the Gagosian Gallery in London. A huge crowd, heavy on celebrities, art stars and Fashion Week refugees, jammed in to gawk at Phillips’ 11-foot-tall paintings of the aforementioned women, each notorious in her own way. The portraits of Lima were based on photographs Phillips shot forVisionaire magazine, and the paintings of Lohan and Grey were based on stills from three videos he made with the actresses, which were shown in two screening rooms at the gallery.
Phillips didn’t choose the stills themselves — they were selected by editors around the world, who pulled screen shots to illustrate their coverage of the videos when they were first released earlier this year.
The seriousness with which he treats Lohan, Lima and Grey prompts a series of uncomfortable questions: Why do I know who these women are? Why do so many of us care so much about them? What is it that makes millions of people love them, and millions of others hate them? If I do find them beautiful, why does that also make me feel guilty?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-hogan/lindsay-lohan-adriana-lima_b_1878572.html?utm_hp_ref=entertainment#slide=1511627
This dentist doesn’t take insurance. A 32-year-old man had a thriving dental practice operating out of a home near Melrose Park, but Cook County sheriff’s police said he lacked one important item: a medical license.
Special Ops Unit officers got a tip about the dental practice, but when they tried to set up an appointment, a receptionist said nothing was open for a week because of the full schedule of patients, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s office.
When an undercover officer was waiting for her appointment in the home, she saw a previous patient leave after getting a root canal procedure, the sheriff’s office said.
Officers then entered the home and found an entire dental office set up inside, with a chair, lights, tools, syringes, an X-ray machine and more.
The alleged dentist, Alberto Nunez, of Chicago, told officers that he had attended a dental school in Mexico City, but he could not provide documentation that he had completed the course and he was not licensed to practice dentistry in Illinois, according to the sheriff’s office. He was to appear in court the first week of September.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-sheriff-says-fraudulent-dentist-had-patients-no-license-20120831,0,7413580.story
Before you down that pint, check the shape of your glass—you might be drinking more beer than you realize. According to a new study of British beer drinkers, an optical illusion caused by the shape of a curved glass can dramatically increase the speed at which we swill.
Binge drinking is on the rise says experimental psychologist Angela Attwood of the University of Bristol. There is a proportionate rate in the increase of crime to alcohol consumption. Attwood suspected that the shape of a beer glass, which can give the appearance of different volumes to the same amount of liquid, might also distort perception of how much alcohol is being consumed.
To test the hypothesis, she and her colleagues randomly divided 160 young, healthy people—students and faculty members of the University of Bristol, as well as some members of the general public—into eight groups. Volunteers were easy to get. FREE BEER AND LEMONADE tends to convince persons to be guinea pigs. They were then video recorded drinking. They assigned each group to drink either lager or soft drink from straight or curved glasses. While the participants drank, they watched a nature documentary deemed emotionally neutral, so that they wouldn’t be “sitting there with nothing to do but drink,” Attwood says.
After watching video of both sessions and recording how much time it took for the drinkers to finish their beer or sodas, Attwood’s team found that one group consistently drank much faster than the others: the group drinking a full glass of lager out of curved flute glasses.
Attwood believes that the reason for the increase in speed is that the halfway point in a curved glass is ambiguous. Social beer drinkers, she says, naturally tend to pace themselves when drinking alcohol, judging their speed by how fast they reach half-full. Another experiment in which participants were asked to judge different levels of fluid in photographs of straight and curved glasses showed that people consistently misjudge the volume in fluted glasses, Attwood says.
Not included in the study? Drinking from cans. Drinking from bottles. Drinking from Red Solo Cups at parties.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/02/beer-drinkers-curved-glasses_n_1850203.html
Illustrator Niege Borges loves Bill Murray. Who doesn’t? Well this artist created a Murray paper doll with a collection of outfits and accessories from Murray’s leading roles. It’s the perfect companion for when you play with your Bill Murray coloring book, or assemble them all and embark on a Bill Murray party crashing tour.
Borges put together each outfit on the Paper Murray for the “Bill Wearing Socks” video below, edited by Vinicius Perez, to show the proper assembly of each character and to thank Murray for the laughs.
SEE IT HERE
http://chicagoist.com/2012/08/28/bill_murray_paper_dolls.php
A self portrait EVERY DAY for 17 straight years. On March 30, 1995, Bryan Lewis Saunders embarked on an art project that he planned to continue for the rest of his life — to create a new self-portrait every single day. Intrigued by how our environments can shape our self-perception, the artist has created thousands of portraits since he began his project.
He has organized his portraits into various series reflecting his mental states at the time, touching on everything from anxiety to love.
Huffington Post found the series “Drugs,” the most intriguing of all. In it, Saunders took a different narcotic everyday and drew himself under the influence of the particular substance. He dosed himself with just about everything imaginable, from huffing lighter fluid to taking psychedelic mushrooms — there was nothing he wouldn’t try. The artist admitted to Fast Company, “I think drugs make me look really ugly.”
There’s also a video montage with a collection of over 3,000 of his portraits.
SEE IT
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/24/bryan-lewis-saunders-has-_n_1825467.html?ir=Arts#slide=1421101
CBGB (full name is CBGB & OMFUG which stands for “Country. BlueGrass Blues and Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers”) was a music club in Manhattan in New York City.
Founded by Hilly Kristal in 1973, CBGB was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles, but became a forum in the 1970′s for American Punk and New Wave bands like Ramones, Misfits, the B-52s, to name just a few.
From the early 80′s until its later years, it mainly became known for Hardcore Punk.
CBGB closed in 2006 and Kristal died from complications from lung cancer in August of 2007.
So what happened to CBGB’s? In November 2007, it was announced that high-end men’s fashion designer John Varvatos would open a store at CBGB’s former space. Varvatos expressed a desire to “do justice” to CBGB’s legacy. Much of the graffiti covering the toilets was preserved, along with some playbills from the club’s 10th anniversary shows in 1983.
This year, CBGB Festival 2012 was held for four days in July in New York City and Brooklyn. The fest included emerging artist showcases, music business conferences, rock and roll film screenings and industry panel discussions, plus a whiskey fest.
What’s CBGB look like now? Disappointing.
But seriously. There are a million of them out there, how does someone choose the “perfect” DVD to shape their body into the ideal shape and BMI?
Maxim takes a look at several options and totally judges the workout by the cover. One of them is bound to be just for you…
http://www.maxim.com/fitness/judging-workout-dvd-its-cover
Asian character tattoos on English-speaking people are nothing new, with phrases like “hope,” “dream”, and “love” adorning many an ankle or lower back.
But unless you know the language, you could be getting a tattoo that says “I’m a dumbass” and not be the wiser.
Tian Tang over at Hanzi Smatter has been chronicling the “misuse of Chinese characters in Western culture” for quite some time, and trust us: he’s translated some doozies.
SEE THEM HERE
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/18/asian-tattoo-fails_n_1796981.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
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