#art#history: she was my britney spears - &, in spite of her sneers, her arrests for obscenity & her nipple-taped bravado, wendy o williams (born #otd in 1949) was a remarkably sensitive, intelligent & brave individual. once she'd had enough of the plasmatics theatrics, long-term #vegetarian, wendy, made haste to connecticut to work in animal rescue & rehab. that's also where, in 1998, she left us: on her own terms, world-weary, with dignity. #wendyOWilliams#plasmatics#illustration#punk#sXe
Here's a painting (acrylic on card) of a Carboniferous coal forest, for a publisher back in 2008. Apart from the Hibbertopterus, which is wrong in a variety of ways, I think it still works okay.
@shqm2 And fear serves different roles, too. Here in the US, we have a couple of would-be dictators who want it both ways: feared by their enemies, loved by people who fear everyone else and see them as protectors.
I read Machiavelli a while ago, and I remember that in its day, it was considered an evil book; this deeply cynical handbook on humanity. Honestly, I wish more people read it. It's harder for stage magicians to claim they're gods when everyone knows how the tricks work.
#art#history: he was horror’s adonis with a wicked wit; a ‘muppet show’ favourite, a culinary whiz & an artist. alice cooper’s ‘welcome to my nightmare’ wouldn’t have achieved such iconic heights had it not included vincent price’s 'black widow' soliloquy. but his dramatic socio-political conclusion to the radio programme, ‘the saint’, which aired on 30 july, 1950,may come as a surprise to anyone who thought of him as merely a panto character. #vincentPrice#horror#illustration#film#cinema
in honour of vincent’s birth #otd in 1911, i’m leaving this part of the text:
‘ladies & gentlemen, poison doesn’t always come in bottles. & it isn’t always marked with the skull and crossbones of danger. poison can take the form of words & phrases & acts: the venom of racial & religious hatred. here in the United States, perhaps more than ever before, we must learn to recognise the poison of prejudice & to discover the antidote to its dangerous effects.’
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