Cheeky Art History

http://vimeo.com/9752986

In Celebration of the Day

you may want to check out these tribute collages...
http://molldoll.etsy.com/

This thing with the Pufferfishes and the Jackals

just goes on and on, and now Fidel has gotten himself involved.

http://molldoll.etsy.com/

Denise has some awesome ideas

While we were at the craft show at Dinosaur World she suggested to our neighbors who had fingerpuppets amoungst their wares that we have a puppet show. It was a lot of fun, and it broke the ice with our neighbors. After several takes, we just visited for awhile, then we then told them how they should make a blog of all puppet shows to help sell their finger puppets, but then I think they started thinking we were crazy.

C'mon Amoeba

This is the story of a cowboy and an amoeba. They are sort of a crime-fighting team, only sometimes the amoeba is kinda lazy and just wants to sit in his easy chair. Amoeba! quit being so lazy.

http://molldoll.etsy.com/

there is some new art

http://www.molldoll.etsy.com/

Meet Secret Agent Spindleshanks

She is a saucy little minx, she knows stuff.

New Art Update

Pufferfishes VS Jackals ..

http://www.molldoll.etsy.com/

and to think...

I used to just give this away.

http://www.molldoll.etsy.com/

Art! Since Everyone Loves It So. It is time for another board Dinner at The River, so here for your enjoyment A few of my latest floral creations.

I'm Just a Sunny Little Squirrel(don't worry about me)

Why do you Have To Get So...Owly?

Les Petits Chous

E.T. Brings Buddha a Nice Potted Plant

A Pensive Panda

Young Love (awww, ain't it sweet)

Silly Rabbit (Trix are not exclusively for kids)

Ashley Grigg Wins "Best of the West - Painting" Award

Ashley poses in front of her winning painting with its subject, her uncle Willy Grigg. The piece was selected, along with others, from the West River Art Festival held in April at the Pennington County Fairgrounds to show in "The Best of the West" exhibit of High School art at the Dahl Fine Arts Center. In May she was awarded "Best Painting" and $25.
More of Ashley's art can be seen at a web page created by her sister, Kathy Grigg found at
www.d.umn.edu/~grigg034/5230/client/

HIA Cartoonist Reveals Latest Work's Brilliance, Meanness

HIA Cartoonist R. Abeln has recently unveiled her latest work on her MySpace page. According to Abeln, her latest visual piece is remarkable in both it's sheer genius and also it's utter cruelty - to the artist herself.

"Sure it's mean - but that's what artists do, right? They suffer for their art. In my case literally. Because I view my whole life as a piece of performance art. As do others. Well. At least I assume so by their reactions to me."

Abeln's revolutionary work can be seen at myspace.com/suspiciouslypleased

'Artist's Way' Group Meets, Discusses Vaginas and Monkey Sex

Julia Cameron (author of 'The Artist's Way') would be thrilled to know that her book has inspired local creative types to not only form their own support network, but also not limit their discussions strictly to 'art'.

After finishing their discussion on this weeks excercises, the group moved on to discuss gender roles and relationships, body imagine, hetrosexual porn, plastic-y poo, prolapsed anuses, vaginas and monkey sex.

"The crucial moment when we all had this intense epiphany, was when Krista was able to merge two separate streams of consciousness by bringing up the 'pussy-faced monkey' from National Geographic . . . we were all, like . . . wow. . . . you know. Brilliant. Simply brilliant. I think she going to be branching out doing monkey-faced vaginas. Just turning that shit on it's HEAD!" said, participant R. Abeln.

"I think this is gonna be the best "Artist's Way group ever!!"

Ikebana, by World Famous Ikebana Designers(for Denise)

World Famous Ikebana Designers do not have to follow all of the ikebana rules.

Clutter-Nut Seeks Help from Friends

Rapid City, SD-Trapped between an overwhelming desire to unclutter her life and a pathological inability to throw anything away, woman turns to friends for help.

Inspired by an "art happening" of an earlier decade, Denise Hardesty has begun putting her unwanted items into envelopes addressed to friends with the intention of mailing them.

"Granted it's more of a 'junk happening' and I'm not mailing to total strangers, but to people who know and love me, or at least talked to me in a coffee shop. After all if strangers call the cops because they receive really cool handmade original postcards from an unknown source, imagine what they'd do if they got an envelope full of broken jewellery or loose nuts and bolts? Not to mention all those used earplugs. No, I think I'm better off calling on the help of friends."

Underemployed Sculptor Whores Himself Out-Again

Yeah, I herd there was a chance to design the commemorative center for a bunch of Wads. Whads. Whatever. So I whipped up these drawings to show to my potential clients the proposed designs for their center. Initially the concept revolved around a snowshovel design-the scoop making a nice graceful arc to shade a person from the weather. I was thinking along the lines of the Sydney Opera house except with tin sheeting instead of stainless steel.
One of them, I think it was Nee said it looked like a halfassed homeless shelter. The other one-The Blonde says "Homeless "shed" Nee"- then they both started cackling-you know how they are...
The next designs worked around the forms they are accustomed to -themselves-"Now you're getting somewhere" one of them said excitedly. So I went with a sunglass motif-The front of the lenses would be an observation deck, while on the "inside" there would be huge projected images of Nee and Mully. One image per lense. Cool. they really liked that one.
The one that looks like the profile of the two is what I think they will settle on. They liked the idea of it being carved out of carera marble and trimmed out in formica banding. A nice touch I have to add. Mully expressed an interest at this point and recomended they forget about the WADS and just have a martini and sushi bar inside instead.

Macbeth + The Simpsons = MacHomer

What is one to make of this?:

This one-man vocal spectacular features impressions of over 50 voices from TV`s The Simpsons in a hilarious performance of Shakespeare`s Macbeth! With a script which remains 85% Shakespeare, MacHomer will leave you "exhausted with laughter" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).

It's coming to St. Paul, and Tris thinks we should go see it. Is the potential for disaster too great? What would you advise?

Learn More About Swiss People

The Swiss, well known for chocolate, bank accounts, and their precious neutrality can now add fabulous taste in art to that list.
A Swiss stranger known only as Ramses, recently walked into the Melvin Gallery at Florida Southern College. There he become enthralled by the genius of the sculptures of Gregory Wortham. This led him to gaze upon them longingly, which then led him to purchase 2 sculptures for his private collection in Geneva. This led the Hia News to declare the Swiss the coolest ever.