James Jean, Spread from Sketchbook- Sasha Grey, Ink and Acrylic, 9 x 10”, 2009.

Very shmood work by James Jean.
An artist  who has done a lot of traditional comic/graphic illustration work; recently though, I have been attracted to his less illustrative more expressive paintings.


Sink II. Acrylic on Wood Panel, 12 x 12”, 2010


PR3 LE Slipcase. Acrylic & Digital on Paper, 10 x 14.5”, 2009


Phillip Lim. Acrylic & Pastel on Wood, 24 x 24”, 2010


Singers. Acrylic on Wood Panels, 18 x 47”, 2010


Tango. Oil on Two Canvases, 60 x 96”, 2009


Rickshaw. Acrylic, Oil, & Pastel on Two Canvases, 60 x 96”, 2009

I also found this interesting collaborative project between James Jean and Kenichi Hoshine whose work I also like: A Polite Winter 

James is immensely talented, with an amazing range.  
Definitely go trough his site completely if you have a minute or thirty.  

I have always been fascinated by Andy Goldsworthy’s work.

It has attracted me as it is at the confluence of some of my most ardent interests; conceptualism, environmentalism, naturalism and to a certain extant modernist thought.

Here are some of his older pieces, I found them on the flickr stream Old Chum which has pretty random great stuff on it. 

I can’t seem to find the pieces names/dates for some reason, so please comment names if you know them. 




Wow is all I can say about the above, the reflection and setting are magical.
 

 

The following pieces from sculpture.org.uk







 

The suckiest thing about being a Man who likes to dress well is that you risk looking like a Wanker.  
In fact I can say with assurance that this is the case. In the US dressing well with get you identified as an “asshole”, “a fag” (not my word), or more consistently “an uppity wanna be”.

Even so, the dandy in me says fuck you to all the lazy mother fuckers who for the past 4 decades have reduced male style to 3 options:

• “giant boy in tennies” 
• “metrosexual/dandy/gay” 
• “asshole guido business douche”.

I want to say clearly and loudly, fuck you, useless baby boomers who felt that hats where too formal, traditional and reactionary; who feel that baseball caps are acceptable head gear for men past the age of 15.

Fuck the lazy tards, who believe(d) that putting on a nice suit, and looking like a suave finely dressed man is too much work.

fuck em.

Even in the poorest hood of the poorest town of Haiti; the sketchiest corner of Kinshasa/Dakar/Yaoundé/Cape Town; the smallest town in India; men try their hardest to look and dress with an assurance and style reflecting their self worth.

Some pushing it to the bionic extreme, such as “Les Sapeur”* in Africa and the Caribbean.
 

Sadly the homogenization of style that has been occurring with the domination of hip-hop “culture” since the 80s has also made its mark the world over.

Baggie droopy, and otherwise unflattering jeans dominate the male ‘fashion’, with T-shirts, hoodies, construction worker boots, basketball shoes, and baseball caps further destroying any hope of a real revival of style around the world.

What can you do? 
Well I for one call bullshit. 
I don’t mind becoming even more of a dandy as I grow older, because in the end only you decide how to present yourself to the world.

Here are some western men, in western clothing, the super wanker metrosexual dandies for you.  
Not all are greatly attired necessarily, but all have elements of goodness and fine style, and have at least TRIED! 








 

*I am working on a post on the ‘Sapeur’ very excited about them.

Blu + Os Gêmeos, make some beautiful and amazing street art.  Blu is responsible for one of the most amazing stop animation paint movies ever, and Os Gemeos are just plain wonderful.
Everywhere I have seen their work, I have loved it.

This Giant piece in Lisbon, wraps around an abandoned building.