Although I was never a fan of the tattooists on Miami Ink, I always thought their work was kinda on the ordinary side (Kat Von D excluded of course) - its sad to see that the show is coming to a close.
Ami James said he and co-star Chris Nuñez declined to extend Discovery Communications’ option to order more episodes of the TLC show after the network delayed signing them on for another season. He said no talks are under way to shoot more episodes of their lives as South Beach tattoo artists.
Spin-off series LA Ink is still going strong, largely due to the appeal of main-babe Kat Von D. There is also a London Ink show about to hit the airwaves.
Now if only we could get a weekly series based on Paul Booth and the Last Rites Tattoo studio…
I thought it would be cool to highlight some of my fave photos I have taken over the course of the past week. So every Thursday, or thereabouts, I’ll share some of my faves right here on this blog. If you wanna see more of my stuff, I’m pretty prolific on Flickr so see you there…
When the street artist and guerrilla marketer Shepard Fairey got word from the Obama people that they would welcome his contribution to the campaign, he knew what he wanted to create: a phenomenon.
All political art is propaganda (that is the point), but most political posters are bland, forgettable, wallpaper, like Fred Thompson on an off day. Fairey wanted something more iconic — aspirational, inspirational — and cool. In other words, he wanted to make posters that the cool cats would want. The 2008 Democratic primary season equivalent of the Che poster (with all that implies). More Mao, more right now. The kind of poster that might make its way onto dorm room walls of fanboys. The kind of poster that might sell on eBay, as a signed Fairey Obama recently did, for $5,900. He wanted his posters to go viral.
Korn frontman Jonathan Davis confirmed during an online chat on Korn Korner, the group’s official chat room, that Korn’s forthcoming album will be produced by Ross Robinson, the man behind the band’s first two releases, ‘Korn’ (1994) and ‘Life is Peachy’ (1996). Davis also addressed the persistent rumors that KORN’s original lineup could be reuniting later this year.
Korn’s lineup was stable for the first 12 years and six albums of the band’s existence, until guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Welch left in 2005 to devote his life to Christianity and drummer David Silveria took a ‘temporary hiatus’ in 2006 to spend time with his family and restaurant business.
Davis, guitarist James ‘Munky’ Shaffer and bassist Reginald ‘Fieldy’ Arvizu have carried on with a revolving cast of touring and studio musicians in the interim.
Writing on Korn Korner this past Saturday (May 17), Davis said, “Head doesn’t want to come back yet. I miss him sooooo fuckin’ bad, but I don’t think he is ready to be put back in the element he ran from. Drugs are everywere, and I think he’s not ready to be around it yet. I think Fieldy can help him a lot because he’s Christian [too] and sober and does fine. Now David, I don’t know what’s gonna happen there. I just think he is done with music; it not his passion anymore. It sucks, but hey, he has to be happy, right?! We are very happy with [current Korn touring drummer] Ray [Luzier]. Every time I see him, he’s got a drum magazine or a drumstick in his hands. It pumps me and Fieldy and Munk up. So maybe one day you will see Head up there with us, I hope.”
A new Korn collection, titled ‘Playlist: The Very Best of Korn’, was released on April 29. The compilation came two weeks ahead of the May 13 arrival of a DVD called “Live in Montreaux 2004″. That disc features a full concert by the original lineup of the band, before the departures of guitarist Welch and Silveria.
It seems there is plenty of movement in the world of Giger and video because the following DVD H.R. Giger’s Sanctuary is now available for sale.
H.R. Giger’s Sanctuary explores the treasures of the H.R. Giger Museum & Giger Bar at the Chateau St. Germain in beautiful Gruyeres, Switzerland. The documentary features an interview and a museum tour with the master of the airbrush, the inventor of ‘biomechanics’, and the creator of the Academy Award winning ‘Alien’. The artist talks openly about his fascination with the morbid, his fame and cult following, his fears and nightmares, and about his visions of the future.
Specifications:
- Running time of short film: 19 minutes
- Anamorphic widescreen
- Stereo sound
- German language
- English subtitles
Over 20 minutes of Special Features:
- Deleted Scenes
- Analysis of “The Spell”
- Trailers
- Museum Visitors
- Gallery
- An Evening with Giger
DVD is code-free, playable all over the world! To purchase, click here.
Here’s a slab of ultra-rare KISS from the band’s absolute musical peak… the ‘Destroyer’ era. At this point in the band’s career it was practically impossible to see them made-up like this at a record store signing but the band made a successful appearance at the Peaches Record Store for the Muscular Dystrophy charity.
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