Aloha uke dreamers…
Virginal beauties and melting melodies are things out of playboy dreams. They are also the romantic image built around Ukulele’s. A Hawaiian trademark, the musical instrument is said to have been introduced into Hawaiian culture by the ‘pleasure loving’ King Kalākaua. He had a soft spot for music and culture.
The Ukulele is still celebrated as such. Amy Crehore from the US will be holding an art exhibition of her new series of oil paintings titled Dreamgirls and Ukes. Like the ideal it features playful, iconic nudes with and has a ‘musical ambiance’ offered by Ukulele’s.
To get in on the Uke revolution see this.
Filed Under Events
Goodbye television bourgeoisie
Whether as characters on television or as themselves on the numerous celebrity events (including tabloids), Hollywood’s personalities are openly wealthy, filled with complex issues, and are always attaching to the next big social issue. This time it’s the recession. The banks are failing, unemployment statistics growing. The crisis is bringing hollywood to rethink their plots, story lines and characters. This might might mean (temporary) death to shows in the genre of The Hills, Desparate Housewives, Niptuck et al.
Filed Under Art, Media & Society
When bad sex becomes good money
Writer Rachel Johnson just got the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer are some of the writers who have had the same luck in the past. But while Wolfe was quite upset about it, back in 2004, Rachel is honored.
She swears not to be even a little bit grumpy about the prize and stated that for an author any attention is welcome in the year a new book comes out.
Well, she did make it to this blog, so I guess she has a point.
Filed Under Art
How many fingers can you see?
Drinking season is ahead and there’s no telling what is in store. Most people will be looking forward to it. Read more
Filed Under Wondering, World Health
Art and Culture for Guantànamo residents
Guantànamo prison camp staff will soon start offering art and geology classes to long-held war on terror detainees. English is also being taught as the jailers find more ways to distract the “captured jihadists”. And that’s the big news for today; give the dog a bone! It’s hard not to remember this story and the few lines at the bottom, drawn from Moazzem Begg a former gauntànamo detainee; ”Dreams are shattered, hopes are battered, Yet with new status one is flattered!”
Filed Under Art, Human Rights, Politics
Green for a darker shade
Dear Mr Berlusconi,
You are such a great guy. Your honesty is an unmatched phenomenon for a politician. Read more
Filed Under Media & Society, Politics
Mother Nature scores again…
No matter how much we try to remove traces of nature, in our quest for the good life, it still creeps up on us when we least expect it. Read more
Filed Under Art, Environment