ha! i know the woodland theme is long since tired and hopefully i’ve weathered the storm, or continue to do so. i didn’t even wear antlers to bike kill this year! nonetheless, a social document using the antler metaphor is timeless if not overly confusing. i’m totally going to make a post about how “bobble-bee” girls are so five minutes ago. or how this post is so two years ago. he he.
Antlered Girls
For some reason antlers are a constant theme both in Fashion and Art/Design. Even a quite known girl in the New York social art world named her blog as The Secret Life of Antlered Girls.
Placing antlers in people gives the subject certain modernity that i didn’t understand why yet, although i am the first one to recognize such.
This year Banana Republic Christmas ad is a girl with, ehem, antlers. I’m sure when publicists were thinking about an idea for the new campaign they did about Santa’s reindeers but never before an antler tiara has meant “cool” as it does now; I can’t imagine a label as Banana Republic placing this accessory in a pretty girl for a Christmas ad before.
Even though this topic is already a little over it seems it’s still creating some attraction in people.
Viktor & Rolf RTW Fall/Winter 2004-05 collection.
Antler Chandelier by New York based designer Jason Miller
French artist Dorothee Sorbier drawing
Alexander McQueen Fall 2006
This kid named “giggles” asked about the piece here thinking i might know something about it because i like art and antlers. He said:
i’m working on an english paper to evaluate a piece of art. The painting is from Michael McConnell, and it has a woman with antlers on her head. I wanted to know what that meant in the art world. When I typed in antlers art this website came up twice. When I found antler girls artist statement for this site, she said she love a lot of the nice things in NY and her antlers. I was hoping antlers in art expression meant the same to you all as it does to this painter. Most of my evaluation so far as been wrong about the painting. The painting is called What I’m Capable Of. I thought it was a playful fun picture because the woman has on the antlers. One of our writing center people said it was anything but a fun picture. Please help me figure it out. Thanks Giggles
Interesting question. I don’t think there’s much continuity between people who use antlers in their art, and I have my own explanation which almost certainly differs from that of the painting.
I think on face value that the woman in the painting is bleeding the drippy bloody green mess from her heart and her feet are ground into the place where they stand indicating that she is stuck. I wonder if the title tells us soemthing about the restraint shown in the picture as well. Just a thought. Good luck Giggles!
So I went halfway home to learn I was coming back to a job I had actually been laid off from! Whoa. So I’m home and that’s cool and now I’m gonna chill out and see how long I can do odd jobs for. Need a professional toenail or apartment painter? Need someone to update your blog while you’re at work totally not blogging? Professional afternoon bloody mary drinker? How about a style consultant or someone who knows a lot about the coast guard? I’m here for you.
Bike Film Fest Art Show was rad, mostly. See pics below, or skip straight to the wackest thing in the room. I am giving it the wackest thing in the room prize.
Whoa.
Doyle, Conrad, Porkchop & co showed up all super bloody. Was awesome.
The Fray.
The Antlerbike Craze that’s sweeping the nation has led to poaching.
Wild dude.
Hangy sculpture thing.
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And now I talk I talk some shit about the wackest thing in the room. This girls on bikes project has been featured at the last 2 BFF’s. Can we talk about how dumb this shit is? I really like the fellow who did this project. He’s a nice guy. Still, would you look at this crap? Someone had the brilliant idea of putting up a sign next to this which said ‘bikes are objects, women are not,’ though you wouldn’t know it from the confusion this project produces. With its sultry subjects, the women pictured in most of these images could be in any crap women’s magazine. Way to push the status quo. I think this project ought to be scrapped. It reminds me of the last onion that came out with the brilliant article “Women now empowered by everything a woman does” I know that SOMEONE who will go unmentioned claimed, insultingly, that this project was a way to include women in the festival. That’s like saying the oiled up babes at car shows are a way to include women in the fun of the car show. Rad. Go feminist car shows!
Ed Zipco took this pic at his photo party thingy last week
oh hell yeah. come get the Miss Rockaway Armada down the river. This Thursday!!! Also, catch up with us on flickr and read about us in the new york times.
Rolling on the River:
Art Exhibit to Benefit the Miss Rockaway Armada
Ad Hoc Art, 49 Bogart St. in Bushwick, Brooklyn
Opening reception on Thursday March 29th at 6 pm
Exhibition runs March 28th - April 1st
Open 12 - 6 pm
New York (March 26, 2007) - The Miss Rockaway Armada will host a benefit art exhibit in New York City on the evening of March 29, 2007 at 6pm. The group is calling on artists and art enthusiasts for their support to send this scrap-raft flotilla down the Mississippi River. Currently docked for the winter at a biker bar in Illinois, this group of artists, performers, dreamers and doers from all over the country will get back on the water in June. The group hopes to raise funds for much needed motors, fuel, nautical equipment and transportation.
The auction will feature performances by members of the Armada and art from the river itself including a life-sized story booth decorated by David Ellis & Swoon. The benefit show
will feature work from dozens of artists, including:*Swoon
*Elbow-Toe
*The Barnstormers
*Dennis McNett
*Gore B
*Visual Resistance
*The 62
*Tod Seelie
*Space 1026
*and many more!The Armada project was conceived by street artist Swoon, and has been built and organized by a collective of 25 artists, performers and activists from New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Wisconsin. The collective floats down the Mississippi River on a 110 foot raft made of scrap materials. Last year they spent months gathering resources to build this floating home/art project, then floated from Minneapolis to Andalusia, Illinois; all the while stopping to meet people, share skills, perform, swap stories, and otherwise engage in cultural exchange. However, they have many miles to go before they reach New Orleans. The Armada is gearing up to tackle the Big Muddy again and are eager to see who and what they will encounter as they continue the impossible experience that characterizes Miss Rockaway.The group is creating a mobile cultural center that embodies their search for creative and sustainable ways of living.
For information contact A’yen Tran, ayen@missrockaway.org. Ad Hoc Art is located at 49 Bogart St. in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
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seen at the Rich Jacobs curated show at cinders gallery.
OH WOWOWOWOWOWWOW! This is amazing. Thanks to a commenter I discovered this rad bike.
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