Bristol Palin-Celebrity culture

She so obviously wants to be a celebrity, much more than she cares about being a spokespers­on to prevent teen pregnancy.
It is lost on Bristol that to a lot of teen girls, her life seems great and like it improved because she became a teen Mother. She sure got rewarded for it. That's what they SEE, They don't listen to the shallow words she sprouts forth at fundraiser­s and paid appearance­s. About how "hard" teen Motherhood is and how it ruins your life. All they see is that Bristol made over 100k last year doing just that.
So how exactly is that modeling abstinence to teen girls?

Famous Artists You've Never Heard of Series: Eva Zeisel

Artists You've Never Heard of Series

Eva Zeisel is remarkable at 104 years old. To make it to that age is remarkable enough in itself but Zeisel continues to create and sell ceramic art as she did at 94 years old and at 84 years old. And decades before that.

Eva Striker was born in early in the 20th century, 1906, in Budapest. Her family was wealthy, educated and intellectual. Her Mother Laura was the first woman to graduate from the University of Budapest. Eva, long attracted to the arts, enrolled in the Budapest Royal Academy of Fine Arts at age 17 hoping to study painting. Mother Laura encouraged Eva to pursue a craft in order to obtain a marketable skill, and so she changed from painting to pottery. She began learning the craft of ceramics and went to work for a German manufacturer where she proved adept at design and was influenced by the Bauhaus art movement. Modern decorative arts including ceramic dishes, tea sets etc. were beginning to be produced for the masses and Zeisel was a pioneer in this movement.

In 1934 Zeisel began another remarkable part of her long life by joining her brother in Stalinist Russia. By 1935 she was appointed Artistic Director for the Soviet Ceramic Industry. In 1936 she was arrested and imprisoned for being involved in a plot to assassinate Stalin. Zeisal spent 16 months in prison, 12 in solitary confinement, and was subject to torture and attempts at brainwashing. After the 16 months she was mysteriously boarded on a train to Vienna, probably due to her Mother's tireless efforts, but no official explanation was ever given. Eva immediately went to England where she married Hans Zeisel, a childhood friend. They immigrated permanently to America in 1938, showing up in New York with $64 to their name. A year later Zeisel had founded the Ceramic Arts Industrial Design Department of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She continued to teach there until 1952.

Through the 1940s and 1950s, Zeisler designed ceramic ware and even glass ware for many of the popular mass manufacturers like Red Wing and Fenton. Her style, with its distinctly round, fluid, sensual flowing lines, was a hit. This was a time when what came to be known as the Decorative Arts; ceramics, glass ware, pottery and furniture were designed by some of the most gifted artists, yet was targeted at the growing middle class.

Still working today at 104 yearls old, Zeisal is designing ceramic dinner sets for Crate and Barrel and Bloomingdale's.

Kodachrome Fades—Out: But the Afterglow Lingers

Kodachrome Fades—Out: But the Afterglow Lingers

The last photo ever taken on Kodachrome film.

Helena Bonham Carter comments on her eccentric non-traditional style.

The King’s Speech star — and Oscar nominee for Best Supporting Actress — Helena Bonham Carter is the first to admit she’s made a few fashion mistakes on the red carpet but that’s not stopping her from dressing up in non-traditional styles. “Sometimes I get it right and I sometimes I get it wrong,” Bonham Carter, 44, tells PEOPLE. “But fashion is all about having fun. I think fashion has been hijacked by the fashion industry creating rules on what one should wear and I feel like breaking the mold and seeing that the world won’t crumble.” Known for her eclectic fashion choices, Bonham Carter raised a few eyebrows by attending the Golden Globe Awards wearing one red and one green shoe simply because she wanted to. “Why not wear mismatching shoes? Who says we can’t? I was just having fun,” says Bonham Carter. “For me, fashion is all about fantasy and putting unlikely things together. That’s what I love. I genuinely love dressing up.” One person Bonham Carter praises is Lady Gaga for her daring fashion choices. “I love the way she dresses. She’s like a work of art,” she says. “Anybody who is inventive, different or has fun like her, I love and admire. I’m amazed that she’s able to stand up in some of those shoes she wears.” When asked what it’s like to be compared to the “Bad Romance” singer, Bonham Carter demurs, saying “I feel honored to be compared to her but I would probably be called Lady Haha. She’s fantastic.” So what can we expect on the red carpet at the Kodak Theatre come Feb. 27? “Maybe I will wear the exact same [Vivienne Westwood] dress I wore at the Golden Globes but with matching shoes,” she says with a big laugh. “Or put the shoes on my head!” – Paul Chi

Dennis Hopper's Vast Art Collection up for Auction

I was wondering about the fate of Hopper's art collection when he died.

NEW YORK - Dennis Hopper shot two bullet holes through an Andy Warhol portrait of Mao Zedong, but instead of getting mad, Warhol called the "Easy Rider" star a collaborator.

Warhol's "Mao" is among 300 works of fine art and memorabilia owned by the late actor-director of the 1969 counterculture film up for auction at Christie's next week. The 1972 colored screenprint is expected to bring $20,000 to $30,000.

Most of the items adorned the actor's Venice Beach, Calif., home.

Hopper, who was twice nominated for Oscars and earned a star last year on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, died of prostate cancer at his home in May. He was 74.

The actor/director was already stricken with cancer when he attended the ceremony for the unveiling of his commemorative star. The framed plaque of the star that Hopper received as a memento of the event is being sold next week for an estimated $1,000 to $1,500.

Hopper began collecting in the 1960s after the venerable actor, Vincent Price, himself an avid collector of Impressionist art, told him: "You need to collect, this is where you need to put your money," said Cathy Elkies, Christie's director of iconic collections. "This really was his calling."

Hopper, a photographer and painter himself, became immersed in the West Coast artist scene and pop art movement, becoming close friends with Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and many of the other artists he collected.

While eclectic, "there is some depth of certain artists" among the fine art works in the collection, including those by Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner and George Herms.

Conner's "Picnic on the Grass" and Warhol's "Mao" are the highest priced items in the sale. "Picnic on the Grass" also is expected to bring between $20,000 to $30,000.

The shooting incident involving "Mao" occurred sometime in the early 1970s at Hopper's Los Angeles home, said Alex Hitz, a family friend and a trustee of the estate.

"One night in the shadows, Dennis, out of the corner of his eyes, saw the Mao and he was so spooked by it that he got up and shot at it, twice, putting two bullet holes in it," Hitz told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Los Angeles. "Andy saw it, loved it and annotated those holes" labeling them "warning shot" and "bullet hole."

Hopper's four children are selling the collection because "it was Dennis' wish to sell everything," said Hitz.

"How do you cut a Warhol and all those other wonderful pieces by four," he added.

Elkies said Hopper's Venice Beach house was filled "literally from floor to ceiling with art, and realistically they (the children) couldn't take that on."

She said the family was holding on to the more sentimental pieces, including Hopper's own photography and paintings.

Posters from the movies he starred in, including "Apocalypse Now," "Blue Velvet" and "Speed," are estimated to sell for $200 to $500.

A 158-page unbound "Easy Rider" script, with extensive handwritten notes on the back of two pages is being offered at a pre-sale estimate of $2,000-$3,000. A three-sheet poster from the film, which also starred the then unknown actor Jack Nicholson, is estimated at $1,000-$1,500.

Andy Warhol's Brother John dies.

Obituary: John Warhola, arts administrator


Published Date: 30 December 2010
John Warhola, arts administrator.

Born: 31 May, 1925, in Pittsburgh, USA.

Died: 24 December, 2010, in Freedom, Pennsylvania, aged 85.
John Warhola was an older brother of the Pop artist Andy Warhol and one of the original three trustees of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Although Warhola was only three years older than Andy, the youngest of three brothers,
he assumed a parental role after the death of their father in 1942. With Paul, the oldest brother, about to get married, their father, Andrej Warhola, called his middle son to his bedside and instructed him to take charge of Andy and make sure Andy attended college, for which he had set aside enough post office savings to cover two years of education.

Victor Bockris, in his book Warhol: The Biography, quoted Warhola as recalling that his father had said, "You're going to be real proud of him, he's going to be highly educated, he's going to college."

John Warhola scraped together money to help Andy finish his education at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University). After his younger brother left for New York in 1949, he called him every Sunday for the next 38 years to keep tabs on him.

Andy Warhol, who dropped the final "a" from the family name, died in 1987 and left instructions that his estate be used to create a foundation for the support of the visual arts and that his brother John be made a trustee. Warhola served as a vice president of the foundation for 20 years, playing an important role in establishing the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and creating a Warhol museum near the village in Slovakia where their parents were born.

John Warhola was born in 1925. After college, he worked in a machine shop and drove an ice cream van before going to work in 1966 for Sears, where he installed television antennas and sold appliance parts in a warehouse.

One of Warhola's first initiatives as a trustee of the Warhol Foundation was to give several Warhol drawings to the town of Medzilaborce in Slovakia, near Mikova. More artworks followed, and the foundation donated the money to open a museum there in 1991. The Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art, as it is now known, has 20 Warhols in its permanent collection, which consists entirely of works by Warhol and other family members, notably his brother Paul, a scrap dealer and chicken farmer who took up art late in life.

John Warhola was a strong, persistent voice arguing that Pittsburgh, too, should have a museum dedicated to his brother's work.

Andy with Wig

God Andy
Originally uploaded by Alegraa

Original My Little Pony (photo at bottom) and MLP with a Makeover

DLR in the snow

DLR in the snow
Originally uploaded by Last Rounds

This must be a long exposure time given the ghost affect of a couple of autos.

Eddie Munster/Butch Patrick in Rehab.

“God I loved the Munsters and I loved it that Eddie/Butch-- had married a fan. Now, everything has gone to shit--divorce and rehab for serious drug addiction.
When I see Eddie Munster I can't help but think about the time I saw "Grandpa" wandering around a department store in Austin while smoking a stinky stogie. NO one recognized him but me-- all these women fanned themselves as they walked by him.”