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Jay DeFeo - The Rose (1958-69)

“The story of Jay DeFeo and The Rose is both a cautionary tale of obsession and an inspiring tale of determination and belief. She began working on The Rose in 1958. She was 29 years old and for the next eight years, she did little else but sit on a stool in her studio, smoking cigarettes, drinking Christian bothers brandy while she painted and scraped away at her vision.

First titled The Deathrose, then The White Rose and finally just The Rose, DeFeo only stopped working on the painting when an increase in rent forced her from her studio. By then it was 1966, her marriage was ending, she was in fragile physical and mental health, and The Rose had become too large to fit out the door.

At nearly 12 feet high and in places eight inches thick, The Rose was constructed from layer upon layer of built up and scraped away black and white paint. DeFeo added mica chips to the paint and so The Rose has its own interior light.”

dropanchors: Ezra Caldwell

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Ezra Caldwell

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dstore: Designed by Rael San Fratello Architects

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dstore:

Designed by Rael San Fratello Architects

thingsorganizedneatly: SUBMISSION: Lightsabers from Star Wars:...

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:54:36 -0700

thingsorganizedneatly:

SUBMISSION: Lightsabers from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

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"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?"

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:45:32 -0700

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”

- Ernest Hemingway (via likeafieldmouse)

likeafieldmouse: Caterina Silenzi “Silenzi’s sculpture moves...

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:44:40 -0700

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Caterina Silenzi

“Silenzi’s sculpture moves along the dimension of the encounter, the expectation, the creation as vital ritual. …A hybrid gallery of characters: animals speaking humans’ body language and humans who show themselves under animal semblance. Where does the former start and the latter end?”

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thedailywhat: Meanwhile in London of the Day: Bluth’s Banana...

Thu, 09 May 2013 15:52:20 -0700

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Meanwhile in London of the Day: Bluth’s Banana Stand is Going On Tour

To promote the upcoming season premiere of Arrested Development on May 26th, Netflix has launched a pop-up shop tour of Bluth’s Original Frozen Banana Stand, which will serve up real frozen bananas and photo ops with cast members in various locations across Great Britain and the United States, starting with London (as seen in the picture) this week and a few more pit stops in New York and Los Angeles in the following week. Is there any money in it? Perhaps you should find out!

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