Filed under: Deeds Of Wardrobery, Inspirations | Tags: Empress Mess, etsy, Gaga, gaga in meat, gaga meat, gaga steak, Lady Gaga, meat, meat bikini, meat bra, meat purse, messydress, steak, steak bra, steak purse
Meat my living billboard!
Just weeks after I’ve posted some choice faux meat accessories for sale in my etsy shop, my clothing kindred Gaga appears at multiple events wearing – nothing but meat!
And yes.. a meat purse!!
I’m loving the free advertisement! I’ve got a meat bra & purse (faux, of course) for sale right now on Messydress Etsy!
Thanks for the promo, Gaga!
Filed under: Deeds Of Wardrobery, Inspirations, Messydress Designs | Tags: Alexander McQueen, alt NOIR, alt NOIR Magazine, Candylust, Empress Mess, Helen Yakir, McQueen, messydress, Nori Zay
Here’s the fashion I chose to recreate for the Alexander McQueen tribute spread in alt NOIR! Left image is what was published, right are the inspiration looks by McQueen.
Above is the wing dress. I made the wing!
Woman in the Iron Mask look – including bauble eyelashes! I set every link in the chain mask BY HAND!
Op art avant-guarde suit with veil. The tipsy tri-corner with veiled bouquet was made by me with a nod to Philip Treacy!
The full tribute, titled Long Live McQueen, can be seen in the latest issue of alt NOIR Magazine! Order it here!
You can crush the flowers but you can’t stop the spring! Dance the blooming garden dance with me!
Filed under: Inspirations | Tags: Du Yang, Du Yang Fashion, knits, winter clothes, Yang Du
I have decided that all I want to wear this winter is Du Yang!
I want this sweater ..
.. and these hats ..
.. and this, whatever it is ..
.. and this giraffe suit ( although I’d have to wear a coat on top but that’s ok because I can still show it off indoors)!
Please buy me all of these for xmas, k? THX!!
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Filed under: Inspirations | Tags: Art-O-Matic, Artomatic, Artomatic 2009, macro photography
Art-O-Matic, ah! How fondly I remember thee .. Your narrow halls, your open doors – like classrooms, rowed, chocked-full of lessons! ..
I still recall the astro-turf laid space where bunnies, different colours, endured the nearing onslaught of the great & ridged cardboard monsters!
Who could forget the smell of crayons around them from the wax exhibit? Each Room a different universe, like Farnsworth’s Parabox!It’s different now, though justly so! .. as many more do seek asylum ( for what is art, not for the eyeless struggle towards Capacity? )
Instead of Rooms, we all contribute to a sea of endless bounty! I gravitate by instinct toward the pieces I find most enchanting!
On smaller scale the Rooms remain, but so that I can barely count them! Here’s the ones I photographed (thank heavens for the macro setting) !
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*All photography is from Artomatic 2009 ~ If you’re responsible for these installations please contact me for credits!
Filed under: Inspirations | Tags: Art, Camilla d'Errico, canvas, Deborah Rose Guterbock, painting, surreal, surreality, Yosuke Ueno
Yosuke Ueno’s Forestia ~ 2008
I ask a lot out of art! Hope, capacity, space, Astoundment … a glimpse into real & welcoming surreality … That’s a hefty order, especially for 2D! Here are three wonderful artists I’ve found this month, who’s collective medium of expression happens to be canvas!
The 1st two were featured in the latest edition of Hi-Fructose magazine. The 3rd is a local artist who’s installation is on display at GMU until February 7th… I strongly recommend a visit in person!
Sleepy House ~ 2007
“For me, my art is a significant tool for communication… I am not interested in violence. My art is a language and with it, I hope to create a world of peace, contrasting the violence. So I show Love, Space, and Positive Energy as my themes.”
Scissors & Butterfly ~ 2008
“I get that reference often, the Tank Girl look … She isn’t anything like Tank Girl. In fact, all my Helmetgirls are unique characters that are very fragile and maybe even tragic.”
Traveling Nomad ~ 2007
Prophecy In Pink ~ 2008
“[My themes are] cyberpunk.. and feminism. I think everyone these days, man or woman, is a feminist. Who doesn’t want to be considered pro-woman?”
Prophecy In Pink (center canvas) ~2008
Super Favourite 2D Dream-Painters of All-Time
..& of course… Dali!
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Filed under: Inspirations | Tags: 3-D, blow-up, Christmas, decor, decoration, fantasy, inflatables, large-scale art, lawn ornaments, whimsy, Xmas
Over the years, we’d developed a route that hit all the best and biggest lawn displays. There was the all-white house done-up like gingerbread, the living doll house full of moving stuffed bears, and best of all: an entire yard-full of mechanical animation featuring my favourite cartoon characters, all built by hand and moving together like clockwork!
I believed at the time that it was the colours, the blinking lights, the imposing bigness of it all that left me giddy and awed. But then the inflatables began to appear. One by one, those yards that dutifully hosted makeshift nativities and snowmen each year now showcased the same… but blown-up.
Now, I’m not one to knock inflatables. As someone who tivos Macy’s parade, and nearly causes several accidents a year due to off-road hot-air balloon sightings, I appreciate the value of inflatables as a less expensive means of large-scale art exhibition. But something is missing from the friendly faces of these blow-up Santas, elves, and Snoopys: innovation. They weren’t built, they were bought.
“But Mess”, you say, “people have been incorporating pre-lit deer and spiral trees into their decor for many years!” Fine, if you don’t have an exorbitant amount of time to spend re-creating Santa’s Workshop on your lawn. It’s when I drive by what was once known to be a grand example of pre-meditated, hand-strung craftsmanship, only to find it reduced to a pile of Kmart crap, when I really feel the blow to the ol’ Xmas spirit!
So what’s you’re opinion? Does Christmas come only from the temporary facade of large-scale lawn ornaments, in the form of festive content and chubby, inflated reindeer cheeks? Or, is the lost art of taking time to lovingly place twinkling bulbs hand-to-siding truly robbing us of what was once a cathartic holiday ritual? What does the Christmas tradition of lawn expression mean to you?