Thomas Locke Hobbs
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Currently: Buenos Aires
New York, June 26-July4 Los Angeles, July 5-9 |
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| An oak tree on Mt. Tam that's half in the fog, half in the sun.
Thomas Kinkade & MySpace The LA Times published a negative piece on 'Painter of Light', Thomas Kinkade highlighting his boozing, boorishness, and rapacity towards his gallery owners. With gleeful schadenfreude this artice has been flung around the blogosphere. Felix Salmon in particular dissects the economic greed hangover at the heart of the franchisee's gripes. At the same time and completely unrelated, a number of old-school bloggers have been expressing their bewilderment at the rise of MySpace, pointing to it's crushing ubiquity inspite of it's horrible, geocities-era, anything-goes design. It's probably only coincidence but I can't helping thinking these two memes are connected somehow. In the spirit of the moment, I've customized my own MySpace profile with a Kinkade background. Update:I could never be a professional blogger because I can't write snarky paragraphs like this: Thomas Kinkaide, the painter of mega-kitschy religiously themed and militantly bourgeois schlock, tchotchkes and knickknacks bearing his imprimatur, may be a freakin’ dirty bastard.from Consumerist. |
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