Tattooed royalty by JJ Adams
CONTROVERSY IS GOOD
JJ Adams believes challenging people is important…
The art of HANDIEDAN
Dutch artist Handiedan creates beautiful hand-cut collages inspired by traditional imagery drawing upon vintage female pin-ups. Handiedan collects the vintage frames herself to house her computer montage and scuptural collages.
The classic pin-up body parts are collected from old playing cards, antique sheet music, stamps and ornaments and laid over baroque and Victorian backdrops.
View more artwork at www.handiedan.com
The Expose Project
Activist blogger Jes Baker creator of The Militant Baker teamed up with photographer Liora K to create The Expose Project. An incredible collection of photographs proudly showcasing women, as they really are. Un-Photoshoped, un-airbrushed and unbelievably beautiful.
Women you wouldn’t normally see on billboards or adverts. Women just like you, with bodies likes yours, with scars, stretch marks, cellulite- everything we are told to hide. Undressed and baring all these women showed the world that they are more than enough!
When was the last time you opened up your browser and saw a beautiful image of a body shape that looked just like yours?
Jes Baker
To see more photographs that celebrate the female body go to www.theexposeproject.com
Jes Baker quoted from her blog
Everyone Loves Someone
The Book of Everyone project allows you to create your own personal book for someone special of your choosing. Your one-of-a-kind booked is made by you – and creative and talented artists, illustrators and designers – and filled with interesting art work and imagery, including photos from your own collection.
Everyone deserves a book with their name on the cover
The Book of Everyone quoted from their Facebook
The short video tells the alternative love story behind tattooing. The film was made by Scottish photographer/director David Boni and was shot in Glasgow, hence the rainy street. The tattoo parlour featured in the film was Fleur De Lis and the soundtrack is by The Mostar Diving Club.
The Love Bomb
You have got just a few days left to see The “Love Bomb” at Pitfifield, London.
Help spread the love and be part of the ongoing struggle for peace!
We spoke with artist Daisuke Sakaguchi who has collaborated with Wendy Meakin, dealer on C4’s Four Rooms to create The “Love Bomb”. Daisuke painted The “Love Bomb” with traditional Japanese symbols of love.
Daisuke Sakaguchi, 33, Artist and Creative Director of THE 27 LIFE, London.
How do you know Wendy Meakin? why did you decide to work together on the project?
I graduated from Central Saint Martins University back in 2003. During my studies, one of my most influential lecturers was Wendy Meakin. I had the choice of having other lecturers, but I stuck with Wendy because I was really drawn to the topics that she covered, but I also loved the way she explained them and the style of her teaching. After I graduated, we stayed in touch and naturally became friends. We worked on a few very interesting projects together, but within the last 11 years we always said we’ll do something major together and the Love Bomb is the result – and just the beginning!
What inspired you to create the Love Bomb?
For me, three-dimensional objects are an extremely fun canvas to paint on. I enjoy studying the original shapes and seeing how I can camouflage certain areas of the object and sometimes enhance and highlight other areas. In my career I have painted on a variety of different objects and the bomb was a great challenge. It is almost like creating a massive back piece or a huge sleeve. Usually I embrace the object that I am painting, however in this case it was almost having have to do the opposite.
What is your motivation?
I am against war and that this bomb had no functional use other than a reminder of what it was once used for. Similar bombs like this one, 20,000 of them were dropped on Iraq in One night! Imagine the death count. We wanted to take a symbol of hate and turn into love. We wanted to give her a new life! As an artist I feel like I had the opportunity to resurrect it and turn in to something completely unique. I know that it is an inanimate object, but being a spiritual person I feel like it now has a life and a soul.
What do you hope people will take from this project?
Never stop creating!
What happens now? Is it for sale?
Yes, we’ve had high offers, but we would like it to go to the right buyer and home. Whether it is a single collector or a company, it will be awesome if the Love Bomb’s new placement allows it to be viewed and enjoyed by many others. So we think it will be amazing and look beautiful in an epic foyer of a hotel or office reception.
Will there be future collaborations?
Maybe “Wendy Meakin and Daisuke THE 27 LIFE Sakaguchi present Love Guns”, or “Love TANK”
It is my hope that one will stop and think about bombs, there indiscriminate power and what an efficient killing device humans’ have created, we are in this together. Love and peace require patience, empathy, and the ability to sit and talk with those who have diametrically opposed ideologies.
Wendy Meakin
WENDYMEAKIN.COM
THE27LIFE.COM
@wendyameakin
@the27life
Photography by William Nelson