Studio/STYLE
This Celeb brought his style A-game while watching the awards show & receives surprise congratulations.
So it’s no surprise that this art celebrity always dresses to impress himself for the grand event.
Galleries
Elephant in the Room
LATEST EPISODE The Gun Problem No One Wants to Talk About
It was a week of whiplash in the U.S.national fight over gun control. First, major retailers like Dick’s and Walmart raised the gun-buying age from 18 to 21, and companies like Delta dropped their NRA discounts. But then pro-gun rights legislatures pushed back. Vox’s German Lopez walks Sean Rameswaram through the many debates. He says the reason the country is stalled is because we haven’t begun to have the right conversation about guns. Sean and Vox’s Dylan Matthews talk about the elephant in the room.
2/3 of U.S. Gun Deaths are SUICIDES
96 % success rate for suicides using hand guns
More Hand Guns = More Suicides
Status Symbol
Court Painter has a life that stands out even among Calgary's portrait painter elite: He’s the studio Master painter, a job that keeps him glued to sweeping canvases and fixated on future sales.
Excelling at his work requires an obsessive focus on it. But maintaining that passion — especially with his advanced deficit disorder — means knowing when to detach. Court Painter's secret to success: relaxing with a glass of contraband B.C. wine in the back alley alongside his ever present Press Attache and 13 chickens which he calls "my baker's dozen".
"It’s mindless,which I am used to, " he clucked," but far from banal." Tucking his hands in his armpits and makin' like a creature most foul! “It’s a fascinating thing to sit and watch the little peckers because instead of looking at a blank canvas, you’re looking at the life cycle and maybe tonights dinner,” Court Painter said. “It’s very different from the precious odourless artistic work that I do.”
In true Inglewood hipster fashion, Court Painter approaches his birds as any savvy venture capitalist might: By throwing lots of money at a promising flock (spending as much as $20,000 for high-tech coops). By charting their productivity (number and colour of eggs). And by finding new ways to optimize their birds’ happiness — as well as his own. Like any successful start-up, broods aren’t built so much as reverse engineered. Decisions about breed selection are resolved by using engineering matrices and spreadsheets that capture “maximum growth.” Court Painter talks about his increasingly extravagant birds with painter references , referring to them as “Sketch 1,” “Sketch 2,” “Sketch 3” and so on.
Press Attache A Hardon MacKay in deep background explained , "Whenever Court Painter undertakes a commission I write the press release first and he makes the finished work fit the description and we bring the same mentality to the backyard chicken breeding process. Even with our present 13 chickens we are already “succession planning” for the next “refresh" and I am busy writing the press release to attract potential chicken collectors. We’re moving toward a more sustainable cost structure,” he noted breathlessly — zeroing in on the chickens that produce the most colourful eggs with the least feed.
While the hipsters of Inglewood spends $15 on an ordinary chicken at their organic local feed store, Court Painter might spend more than $350 for one heritage breed, a designation for rare, nonindustrial birds with genetic lines that can be traced back generations. He selects each one for desirable personality traits (such as being affectionate and calm — the lap chickens that are gentle enough for him to cuddle), rarity, beauty,artistic ability and the ability to produce highly coveted, coloured eggs keyed to the historical art movements listed in Wikileaks.
“It’s really nice to have this tactile feel of filling the alley with chicken food, filling their water, reading to them and petting them,” said Court Painter, who was introduced to chickens as an additional income stream for the cash strapped studio by his Press Attache & KFC affectionado A Hardon MacKay. “Experiencing the little peckers is a way of getting away from the smell of paint fumes and mice waste matter discharged from their bowels after food scraps have been digested .....that is my present studio life so much of the time.”
The Fabulist
I ran in, bone spurs and all! I was unarmed! Screeching to a halt I faced the shooter squarely! In my mind I had no other choice! My heroic mind was racing! Everyone said it had never been done before like I did it! The End
UPDATE: His Middle Name Is Bruce
Doug Ford named new Ontario PC leader after chaotic convention day
Doug Bruce Ford reportedly became an "ethical vegetarian" after working in a meatpacking plant as a teenager and while this is no longer the case, he still doesn't eat red meat. Court Painter found this insight on the internet.
Doug Bruce Ford (the one on the right) is 1 of 4 running for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.The other 3 names don't really matter.
More Spilled Ink
Any resemblance to people presently living in the Great Dominion is intentional
Danseur
Danseur – a male dancer in a ballet company.
Taking a break from behind the easel Court Painter often puts on his tan silk ballet slippers to skip the light fandango and occasionally turn cartwheels cross the floor.
There’s plenty of visual whimsy in the early 21-century dance setting – Court Painter renders a gorgeous figure in flowing gossamer while enthusiastic dance sequences and comic beats balance out melodrama. Even if he never quite takes the risks implied by its exclamatory title … “Leapin Lizards!” he follows the established steps with general grace and good humour At one point, Court Painter has “the energy of a bullet” but no technique or focus; the same can be said for the entire performance. The leapin’ sequences remain curiously earthbound, untethered from physical reality that can’t compete with the dazzling, gravity-defying dance-offs often seen in line dancing or the Highland Fling. The profound weaknesses of the performance are manifested in Court Painter’s movements that don’t evoke the grace of classical dance and, on the other hand, evidence the limitations of a master painter turned modernish dancer. The out of control yet soaring dance choreography may not satisfy purists, but presents a joyously liberating take on The Dying Swan that is sure to thrill youngsters.
The murmured question lingering from Court Painter’s leap into a new art form: was he attempting a Grande Jeté, a Plié ,a Turn-out,a Pirouette or as many remarked in admiration, a Tour en l’air !
Yesterday’s Man Today
In Court Painter World, every day is the day before yesterday
When it comes to Court Painter — and his trickle-down moods that drive his studio and Calgary art politics — February 2018 is no different than February 2017: he’s still stuck on the exact same internal fights about his reputation, the same complaints about his studio staff, the same obsessive gripes about media coverage and the simmering feud with his nemesis ; artist CC (name available upon request).
The big picture: The episodic drama is almost impossible to cover accurately, because the views reflected in the art press and gossip mill often depend partly on which characters in the drama are most aggrieved at the moment, and which faction they belong to. Remember that Court Painter thinks of each day as a new episode in a sprawling masterpiece, with him as the star painter, master visionary, chic magnet and critic all rolled into one.
chic magnet
Fash·ion·is·tas
fash·ion·is·tas
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Devoted followers of fashion.
