Day 176: Outside August

originally published June 24, 2012 I love art. Not only does art enrich one’s soul and expand the boundaries of one’s imagination, it’s also a terrific way to look at boobs without the stigma of internet pornography. And of course, second to boob art is the fantastic realm of work by visionaries such as August […]

Day 170: Pop Goes The Art

originally published June 18, 2012 Pop art is a wonderful thing. Because of its nature, it can be a field so wide and vague that acceptance within its community can appear arbitrary to the outside observer. I would be one such observer. Don’t get me wrong – I can appreciate Warhol’s alternate perceptions of Campbell’s […]

Day 157: Outside The Magic Circle, Looking In

originally published June 5, 2012 Regular readers of this site (both of us) know how much I love to piss off the magic community. It’s not that I have a problem with magicians – I’ve always been a huge fan of illusionists, and even took a magic class after school for short spell when I […]

Day 86: The Legend Of The Haunted Painting

originally published March 26, 2012 Bill Stoneham was just an artist. Just an artist trying to make a living in the early 1970s in Los Angeles, painting mostly surrealist stuff he’d hoped people might want to hang on their walls. He didn’t invite evil spirits into his work, but they did him a fair bit […]

Day 84: Wikipedia Pulls The Magic Castle Out Of Her Hat

originally published March 24, 2012 Once again I find myself thrust into travel mode by my lovely Wikipedian ticket agent, and once again she has directed me to sunny Los Angeles. Maybe it’s the three inches of snow nature dumped upon us yesterday, but I’m downright giggly at the thought of heading here again. On […]

Day 79: Send In The Dead Clowns

originally published March 19, 2012 Every so often, we here at 1000 Words, 1000 Days like to touch upon the issues. We feel that, as a popular website with dozens of readers (projected annually), we have an obligation to lend a voice to the issues that touch us all. Of course, I’m talking about suicidal […]

Day 65: Decapitation & Destruction – Art Has A Bad Day

originally published March 5, 2012 Today we’ll be looking at what happens when art gets an unwanted makeover. The Wiki-spear of destiny impaled this gem of an article for me today: Decapitation of a Statue of Margaret Thatcher. Paul Kelleher wandered into the Guildhall Art Gallery in central London one sunny Wednesday in July of […]

Day 6: Anti-Art – Art’s Middle Finger To Itself

originally published January 6, 2012 For every great piece of art, there is a piece of anti-art. For every bold statement, scraped from the most tender and painful wound on an artist’s soul and splattered desperately upon a canvas or shaped into clay, there’s someone else who says, “You know what? Fuck art.” And so […]