Julie Bell

Art Appreciation

Born in Texas, Julie Bell is best recognized as a former body builder and fantasy model for her husband Boris Vallejo. But Bell is also a very talented illustrator and painter.

You can see more of her beautiful work HERE.

Shadows via artodyssey1

Silver Surfer via mariaxhe

Tempest via mariaxhe

Sources:
http://www.juliebell.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Bell
http://www.imaginistix.com/
http://insideyourart.com/artists/Julie-Bell
http://fantasy.art.passion.free.fr/news.php
http://archivesofkhazad-dum.blogspot.com/2011/05/julie-bell-hobgoblin.html#.VFU27PnF8xE
http://mike-destasio.blogspot.com/2011/01/julie-julie-julie.html
http://artodyssey1.blogspot.com/2013/08/boris-vallejo-and-julie-bell.html
http://mariaxhe.blogspot.com/2009/11/julie-bell_08.html
http://centaurican.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/best-of-the-bunch-6-from-various-media/centaur-by-julie-bell/

Dan Eldon

Photography Appreciation

Recently, our society has seen images that have triggered international response, such as the image of the young Syrian refugee boy whose dead body washed up on the Turkey coast.

I came across a story of an extraordinary human being whose life was taken too early. Dan Eldon was a English-born Kenyan photojournalist and activist who was one of the youngest Reuters photojournalist known for his photographs that covered the war and famine in Somalia. His photographs, which were published in international periodicals, brought attention to Somalia.

On July 12, 1993, he and three colleagues were stoned to death by an angry mob in Mogadishu. What he left behind were his journals filled with collages, photographs, and drawings of his life experiences and his thoughts.

You can learn more about this incredible person HERE.

via thealteredpage

via blakemycoskie

via howtorideagiraffe

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Eldon
http://www.daneldon.org/
http://blakemycoskie.blogspot.com/2011/01/journey-is-destination-being-inspired.html
http://thealteredpage.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-journey-is-inspiration-call-for.html
https://howtorideagiraffe.wordpress.com/inspiration-2/inspiration/

My Old Comic Book Collection

COMIC	NO.	DATE	PRICE	APPROX. VALUE
FLASH	53	Aug-91	$1.00	$9.99
SUPERMAN	82	Oct-93	$2.00	$5.99
WAR OF THE GODS	1	Sep-91	$1.75	$4.99
DAREDEVIL	295	Aug-91	$1.00	$3.00
DAREDEVIL	297	Oct-91	$1.00	$4.00
DEATHLOK VS. DOOM	3	Sep-91	$1.75	$2.00
GHOST RIDER	17	Sep-91	$1.75	$4.00
SLEEPWALKER	3	Aug-91	$1.00	$5.00
SPIDER-MAN	14	Sep-91	$1.75	$5.95
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN	352	Oct-91	$1.00	$2.00
THE INFINITY GAUNTLET	2	Aug-91	$6.00	$8.00
THE INFINITY GAUNTLET	3	Sep-91	$2.50	$4.99
THE INFINITY GAUNTLET	4	Oct-91	$2.50	$6.00
THE INFINITY GAUNTLET	5	Nov-91	$2.50	$20.00
THE INFINITY GAUNTLET	6	Dec-91	$2.50	$5.00
THE INFINITY WAR	3	Aug-92	$2.50	$2.99
THE LETHAL FOES OF SPIDER-MAN	1	Sep-93	$1.75	$2.00
THE SILVER SURFER	60	Dec-91	$1.00	$3.00
THE SILVER SURFER	58	Nov-91	$1.00	$2.00
THE SILVER SURFER	55	Sep-91	$1.00	$10.00
THE SILVER SURFER	57	Oct-91	$1.00	$2.00
WEAPON X	84	Sep-91	$1.25	$5.75
WHAT IF… SPIDERMAN	31	Nov-91	$1.25	$4.50
WOLVERINE	46	Sep-91	$1.75	$5.50
WOLVERINE	45	Sep-91	$1.75	$5.50
X-FORCE	1	Aug-91	$1.50	$4.00
X-MEN	1	Oct-91	$1.50	$15.00
X-MEN ADVETURES	1	Nov-92	$1.25	$19.00

Cosplay...Is An Art: DragonCon 2014

via MLZStudios

Joel Peter Witkin

Photography Appreciation

Welcome to The Freak Show. The place you'd probably hear Nine Inch Nails in the background as you walk through a dark gallery with Joel Peter Witkin's work hanging along the walls. There you would see two decapitated heads kissing or photos of a hermaphrodite Venus.

Joel Peter Witkin is an American photographer best known for his subjects which are either corpses, cadaver pieces, or live individuals who are either malformed or have sexual oddities. The technique used in developing the photos adds to the troubling and disturbing images.

Untitled via stufftoblowyourmind

The Kiss (1982) via mathilda-herve

Venus Preferred to Christ, Paris (1997) via artnet

Sources:

http://v1.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/witkin2/
http://www.art-forum.org/z_Witkin/gallery.htm
http://www.emptykingdom.com/featured/joel-peter-witkin/
http://mathilda-herve.blogspot.com/2009/12/transgressive-art-why-are-we-as-society.html
http://www.kenweingart.com/blog/interview-joel-peter-witkin/
http://blog.art21.org/2011/10/06/on-view-now-the-curious-case-of-night-scented-stock/witkin_lebaiser/
http://www.ateliervagabond.com/blog/2012/06/29/the-moral-questions-ofwitkins-photographs/#.VUGO8PnF-So
http://newanalogue.blogspot.com/2011/05/joel-peter-witkin.html
http://www.artnet.com/artists/joel-peter-witkin/
http://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/blog/artatomical-joel-peter-witkins-harvest/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel-Peter_Witkin

Josie and the Pussycats

On September 12, 1970, Josie and the Pussycats premiered on CBS. The 16 episode cartoon series was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions.

Characters included Josie (the redhead), Valerie (the blonde), and Melody (the first regularly appearing black character in a Saturday morning cartoon show).

Other characters included Alexander Cabot III (a Shaggy-like manager), Alexandra Cabot, Alan (the roadie, who looks likes Fred from Scooby-Doo), and Sebastian the cat.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josie_and_the_Pussycats_(TV_series)
http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/music/sep12.htm

Bill Biggart: September 11th

Photography Appreciation

On my old blog, I wrote about my September 11th experience. 

As I mentioned before, my girlfriend at the time and I were seriously considering flying to the Big Apple from Buffalo the day before. Had we made the trip, we would have found ourselves deep in the middle of the chaos.

One photographer was deep in the middle of everything. Bill Biggart was an Irish-American freelance photojournalist best known for capturing the events that followed the attack on the World Trade Center. He was killed by falling debris from the World Trade Center North Tower.

Four days later, his remains along with this cameras and flash cards were discovered. His photos were used in the October 2001 issue of Newsweek.

You can read more about his story HERE.

via boonsborohsart

Sources:

http://www.billbiggart.com/911.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Biggart
https://boonsborohsart.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/bill-biggart-an-inspiration/