Jack Kirby's "Storyteller" Documentary

  

This hour long documentary showcases 

the artwork and life 

of truly legendary comic artist 

Jack "The King" Kirby.

Frank Frazetta - R.I.P.

Frank Frazetta
9 February 1928 – 10 May 2010

nsfw selections from Pierre Molinier

Working mainly in photography, collage and painting, Pierre Molinier (1900 - 1976) revealed a world in which he persistently played out his fantasies through his surreal and sexually compulsive artwork.


Using himself and a select few other models, he often pursued sexually charged themes involving cross dressing, androgyny and the repeating images of favorite body parts - especially stocking clad legs. André Breton was an early supporter of Molinier, getting his work into exhibitions in Paris and encouraging him through correspondence.

Pierre Molinier was a man who not only recognized, but celebrated his deviance from conventional society through his charged and unapologetic oeuvre. In 1950, not long after his wife had divorced him due to his constant infidelities and controversial conduct, Molinier constructed what he described as his "Premature tomb" filled with photographs of himself in dark situations, such as being crucified, staging his own deathbed scenarios or suicide. Placed atop this "tomb" was a black cross engraved with the following:
"Here lies
Pierre MOLINIER
Born on 13 April 1900 died around 1950
He was a man without morals
He was proud of it and gloried in it
No need to pray for him."

Molinier's influence can be seen in the works of many contemporary artists such as Philippe Pissier for example.

Happy Birthday to Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger

H.R. Giger
born 5 February 1940

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Robert Williams art and interviews

Robert Williams is an incredible artist working a hyper colorful palette of fluid surrealism. I've enjoyed his artwork for years, although I could never afford an original painting the closest I've reached is having a framed print of a January 1987 exhibition at New York City's Psychedelic Solution. He is a contemporary of other mind blowing underground artist's such as R. Crumb, Spain and S. Clay Wilson.

Working in oil painting, comics and other mediums, Robert Williams has published many trade paperbacks of his extensive selections. Titles such as: The Lowbrow Art of Robt. Williams, Tortured Libido, Visual Addiction and Zombie Mystery Paintings are a few of these collections and feature introductions from twisted notables like Lydia Lunch, R. Crumb and Dr. Timothy Leary. His artwork has also graced cd and record covers of multiple musical acts, most notably the original cover to Guns'n Roses Appetite for Destruction or Ludichrist's Powertrip.




Below are two interviews with the man himself, the first from 1987 and the other more recent but of unknown date.

from Impact Video zine #1 - 1987



interview from sunsetstrip.com

The Confessions of Robert Crumb (1987)

This 1987 BBC program on Robert Crumb mines similar subject matter also covered in Terry Zwigoff's later documentary Crumb. Robert Crumb describes his background, neuroses, turn-ons and artwork with a reflective and self deprecating attitude. He also wrote the script.

Survival Research Laboratories

For over thirty years Survival Research Laboratories have been creating incredible "machine performances" that are both visually enthralling as well thought provoking. Included below are just a few briefs clips of their intricately fashioned handiwork.


SRL Survival Research Labs



from A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief



from The Virtue of Negative Fascination