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About Me

I'M BOTH A LOYAL LOUNGEBAR EXISTENTIALIST AND A SOFTPORN SOFA SOCIALIST...!? (WORKS FOR ME!)WAS BORN IN THE COALMINING TOWN OF COLLIE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA....MY GRANDFATHER AT NITES PERFORMED WITH HIS OWN JAZZ-SWING BAND,PLAYING SAX,TRUMPET+CLARINET.I GREW UP LISTENING TO HIM, AND TO HIS COLLECTION OF 78 RECORDS,AND THE WARM TONES OF MILES DAVIS,WOODY HERMAN,LOIS ARMSTRONG,LOTS OF 40'S SWING MUSIC ETC.I SUSPECT MY GRANDMOTHER WAS THE EQUIVALENT OF A BANDMOLL FOR THOSE TIMES-SHE WAS A WILD REDHAIRED CELT WHO LOVED TO PARTY...I THINK I INHERITED THE PARTY TRAIT FROM HER? I AM MAINLY CELT,DANISH+CHINESE AUSTRALIAN. MY FATHER WAS A RACEHORSE TRAINER/AGISTER IN HONGKONG+AUSTRALIA .MY GRANDFATHER ON THAT SIDE WAS AN ARTIST-I USED TO VISIT HIS HOUSE BY THE RIVER,AND CAN STILL REMEMBER THE SMELL OF LINSEED OIL,TURPS+OILPAINT-AND THE MYSTERY OF IMAGES ON CANVAS. I AM AN ARTIST,DESIGNER,SOMETIME WRITER,AND LOUNGEBAR EXISTENTIALIST ???.. FINE ARTS BACKGROUND -W.A.INST.OF TECHNOLOGY..NOW WORK WITH DIGITAL MEDIA..MOVED AROUND A FAIR BIT,AUSTRALIA,UK,EUROPE,S.E.ASIA...WORKED AT MANY DIFFERENT JOBS WHEN I ROAMED,BUT MAINLY OVER THE YEARS WORKED AS A CARTOONIST,ILLUSTRATOR,VISUAL MERCHANDISER/DISPLAY ARTIST,SILKSCREENER (EARLY MAMBO),TEXTILE DESIGNER,FASHION DESIGNER/WHOLESALER+RETAILER FOR MANY YEARS...WAS INVOLVED IN A COUPLE OF PERTH FESTIVAL+FRINGE FESTIVAL EVENTS..HAD SOLO+JOINT PAINTING EXHIBITS OVER THE YEARS (AROUND PERTH+SYDNEY)...WON A REGIONAL STATE GALLERY ARTPRIZE..SHOW LOCALLY IN BALI,JAKARTA+PERTH..ARTWORKS COLLECT DUST ON PEOPLES WALLS IN SPAIN,FRANCE,ITALY,GERMANY,USA,JAPAN,BRAZIL,AUSTRALIA... POP ART TO ME IS ALWAYS ALIVE+EVOLVING-I DONT SEE IT AS A DEAD CHAPTER IN THE LINEAGE OF ART HISTORY- I PERSONALLY ASPIRE TO A SIMPLE LIFE,AND A MINIMALIST TASTE IN DECOR...MY PAINTINGS ARE NOT ABOUT GOOD TASTE OR "NICE PICTURES FOR DISCERNING HOMEMAKERS!?" (HOWEVER, I DO USE THAT GENERIC TITLE FOR SOME OF MY PAINTINGS) Layout Provided By CodeMyLayout.com - Myspace Layouts

My Interests

ART,DESIGN,PHOTOGRAPHY,RETRO STUFF,SCOOTERS,CLASSIC MOTORBIKES,MOOD LIGHTING,INTERIOR DESIGN,TEXTILE DESIGN,SAKE, VELVET SUSHI, LOUNGECLUBS,MUSIC,FOOD,DIGICAMERAS,THE MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE..THE MYSTERIES OF TOPSHELF BOOZE..ANYTHING THAT RELEASES SERETONIN, PHEROMONES+ENDORPHINS...THE PROFIT+LOSS STATEMENTS OF GODS INC...EVOLUTION...THE COSMOS..TRUTH,LIES +DENIAL IN HISTORY...THE 20 YEAR SECRETS ACT...THE GENOCIDE CONVENTION...GLOBALWARMING (OTHERWISE KNOWN AS SHITTING IN YOUR OWN NEST!)...THE CONCEPT OF PARADISE AS A COMMODITY...CONSUMERISM+THE PROMISE OF ETERNAL HAPPINESS,THE ART OF PRODUCT BRANDING VIA ALLURE,DESIRE,SEX+HAPPINESS...CHINOSERIE+CHINA-FROM MAOISM TO NOWISM...ANCIENT EGYPT,ARCHEOLOGY,HISTORY,FASHION TV-LINGERIE,THE WEIGHT OF ETERNAL DUST...SPACEJUNK AND COSMIC DEBRIS...AND LOTS OF OTHER WHACK CRACK THAT MAKES UP A LIFE!? MAIN ARTISTS-FRANCIS BACON,TADANORI YAKOO,JEAN COCTEAU,HOKUSAI,MANRAY,DUCHAMP,PAUL DELVEAUX,GAUGUIN,ANDY WARHOL,WESSELMAN,LICHENSTEIN,ROSENQUEIST,DECHIRICO,PICABIA,M AGRITTE,FORNASETTI,ROBERT CRUMB,JEAN PAUL GAULTIER,VIVIENNE WESTWOOD,JOHN GALLIANO,HYSTERIC GLAMOUR,SELECTIVE PICASSO,CINDY SHERMAN,ERIC FISCHL,DAVID SALLE,BASQUIET,KEITH HARING,JEFF KOONS,PIERRE ET GILES,GILBERT+GEORGE,DAMIEN HIRST..BRETT WHITELEY,MARTIN SHARP,HOWARD ARKLEY,REG MOMBASA,LEUNIG,PETER BOOTH,JUAN DAVILA,GEOFFREY SMART.. COMIX, AND LOW ART STUFF LIKE HOTROD,WWII BOMBER ART,VINTAGE TATTOOS,PORN ART,STREET ART,KITSCH,BAD PACKAGING ART IN 3RD WORLD COUNTRIES,SUPERSLICK+SCARY DEMOGRAPHIC DRIVEN ADVERTISING ART IN 1ST WORLD COUNTRIES,BILLBOARDS,CIRCUS ART,ETC.. SPORT - AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL - AND THE WEST COAST EAGLES!!"...Smoot’s and Perlmutter’s work is part of a revolution that has forced their colleagues to confront a universe wholly unlike any they have ever known, one that is made of only 4 percent of the kind of matter we have always assumed it to be — the material that makes up you and me and this magazine and all the planets and stars in our galaxy and in all 125 billion galaxies beyond. The rest — 96 percent of the universe — is ... who knows? “Dark,” cosmologists call it, in what could go down in history as the ultimate semantic surrender. This is not “dark” as in distant or invisible. This is “dark” as in unknown for now, and possibly forever.If so, such a development would presumably not be without philosophical consequences of the civilization-altering variety. Cosmologists often refer to this possibility as “the ultimate Copernican revolution”: not only are we not at the center of anything; we’re not even made of the same stuff as most of the rest of everything. “We’re just a bit of pollution,” Lawrence M. Krauss, a theorist at Case Western Reserve, said not long ago at a public panel on cosmology in Chicago. “If you got rid of us, and all the stars and all the galaxies and all the planets and all the aliens and everybody, then the universe would be largely the same. We’re completely irrelevant.”

I'd like to meet:

AM SEEKING A GALLERY/AGENT/DEALER TO REPRESENT ME OUTSIDE OF BALI...BUYERS,COLLECTORS..I WOULD LOVE TO EXHIBIT IN JAPAN....ANYONE INTERESTED IN CONTEMPORARY ART-NEW MEDIA- DIGITAL ART+PHOTOGRAPHY,OPENMINDS..NO RELIGION PLEASE,I'M AN EVOLUTIONIST..OKAY,I'LL GET REAL-I'D LIKE TO MEET BAMBI,SANTA CLAUS,STALIN,THE TOOTH FAIRY,THE EASTER BUNNY,POL POT,MOTHER THERESA,THE VON TRAPP FAMILY,PAMELA ANDERSON,THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS,MADAME LASH,GOD,SATAN,THE MARQUISE DE SADE, HEIDI FLEISS,HITLER,THE BRADY BUNCH AND NELSON MANDALA. I'M HAPPY TO MEET ANYONE WHO'S HAPPY TO MEET ME!? ;)="http://www.maploco.com/view.php?id=7833"
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Music:

LOVE ALL TYPES OF MUSIC- YMA SUMAC,COLE PORTER, NAT KING COLE,MILES DAVIS,DEAN MARTIN,NANCY SINATRA,BILLIE HOLIDAY,CAB CALLOWAY,THE CARTER FAMILY,TAJ MAHAL,BOB+ZIGGY MARLEY, ENNIO MORRICONE,LITTLE AXE,STEREO MC'S,GORILLAZ,RADIOHEAD,NIRVANA,JAPANESE POP MUSIC+ACID JAZZ,BLACKEYED PEAS,TOM WAITS,LEONARD COHEN,THE CLASH,FRANK ZAPPA,COLDPLAY,IGGY POP,BURT BACHARACH,ROXY MUSIC,SERGIO MENDES,AL GREEN,JAMIROQUAI,MOBY,THE SUPREMES,MOTOWN,PARLIAMENT-FUNKADELIC,STEVIE WONDER(TO MID 70'S),SPENCER DAVIS GROUP,THE KINKS,THE ZOMBIES,THE SMALL FACES,THE FLAMIN GROOVIES,THE TROGGS,MARIANNE FAITHFUL,GRACE JONES,DONOVAN,PATSY CLINE,THE FUGGS,THE YARDBIRDS,CREAM,BLIND FAITH,TRAFFIC,DOORS,JANIS JOPLIN,LED ZEPPELIN,PINK FLOYD,THE IMMORTAL JIMI HENDRIX,THE STONES(60'S-70'S),BEATLES(RUBBER SOUL-ABBEY ROAD),EARLY BOWIE,LOU REED,CAPT.BEEFHEART,US3,NINA SIMONE,ASTRID GILBERTO,JOHN COLTRANE,MARVIN GAYE,GIL SCOTT HERON,CURTIS MAYFIELD,HERBIE HANCOCK,ELVIS COSTELLO,TALKING HEADS,PATTI SMITH,JOHN CALE, JJ CALE,ENO,B-52'S,GRAM PARSONS,KRAFTWERK,THE HOLMES BROS,GATO BARBEIRI,STYLE COUNCIL,THE THE,STEELY DAN,THEIVERY CORP,GOLDFRAPP,FRANZ FERDINAND,TEARS FOR FEARS,SLY+FAMILY STONE,TOM JONES,THE BLACK KEYS,SHIRLEY BASSEY,HANK WILLIAMS,DWIGHT YOAKIM- --AUSTRALIA-THE EASYBEATS,THE LOVED ONES,THE MASTERS APPRENTICES,THE SUNNYBOYS,MENTAL AS ANYTHING,THE CHURCH,CROWDED HOUSE,THE SAINTS,HUNTERS+COLLECTORS,RADIO BIRDMAN, THE BOYS NEXT DOOR,SACRED COWBOYS,THE SARDINES,THE BEASTS OF BOURBON,TEX PERKINS AND THE CRUEL SEA,LIMESPIDERS,THE WHITLAMS,YOU AM I,DM3,THE SPORTS,NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS,THE BIRTHDAY PARTY,THE DIVYNLS,THE BLACK SORROWS,THE BADLOVES,ED KUEPPER,THE LAUGHING CLOWNS,THE SUBLIME DAVE GRANEY,PROFESSOR RATBAGGY, DIRTY THREE,KIM SALMON+THE SCIENTISTS/THE SURREALISTS,THE VINES,KARMA COUNTY,FRANK BENNETT,DORIAN MODE,MACHINATIONS,DIG,GADFLYS,DO-RE-MI,,JOHNNYS,STEMS,JACKSO N CODE,+SO MUCH MORE.........RESIDENTS,DR.JOHN,SCREAMING JAY HAWKINS,TOM JONES,EARTHA KITT,K.D.LANG,RAY CHARLES,NEW YORK DOLLS,THE CRAMPS,JOY DIVISION,NEW ORDER,REDHOTCHILLIPEPPERS,THE SMITHS,MORRISSEY,PAVAROTTI,THE CURE,DEPECHE MODE,MACY GRAY,THE BUENOVISTA SOCIAL CLUB,ERYKAH BADU,JAMES BROWN,---THE FABULOUS TIM BUCKLEY---,MORCHEEBA,SONIC YOUTH,FATBOY SLIM,PORTISHEAD,MASSIVE ATTACK,GROOVE ARMADA,GNARLS BARKLEY,DAFT PUNK,BARRY WHITE!...AND JOHN LENNON,AND THE PLASTIC ONO BAND.

Movies:

THE 39 STEPS,THE CRYING GAME,HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR,THE TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE,DAS BOOT,SUBWAY,LAST YEAR IN MARIANBAD,SATURDAY NIGHT SUNDAY MORNING,THE DRAUGHTSMANS CONTRACT,THE COOK HIS WIFE THE THIEF AND LOVER,SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY,LANTANA,HEAD,DONNIE DARCO,DOGS IN SPACE,METROPOLIS,SUNSET BOULEVARD,CASABLANCA,THE MALTESE FALCON,THE BIG SLEEP,ONE EYED JACKS,GIANT,HUD,COOLHAND LUKE,MISFITS,IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT,TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD,THE GRADUATE,PSYCHO,BREAKFAST AT TIFFANYS,THE HUSTLER, TAXI DRIVER,RAGING BULL,THE LAST DETAIL,LAST TANGO IN PARIS,DEERHUNTER,5 EASY PIECES,EASYRIDER,CRASH,MYSTERY TRAIN,CAPOTE,2001-SPACE ODYSSEY,CLOCKWORK ORANGE,ALIEN,THE THIRD MAN,CITIZEN KANE,SEVEN SAMURAI,LA DOLCE VITA,ARMACORD,SATYRICON,ROMA,SCENT OF THE GREEN PAPAYA,DR.STRANGELOVE,GOLDFINGER,BLOW UP,PERFORMANCE,BRAZIL,APOCALYPSE NOW,PLATOON,SOYLENT GREEN,SILENT RUNNING,MIDNIGHT COWBOY,CATCH 22,CLOSER,FARGO,BARBARELLA,POWAQAATSI,THE PARTY,CAPE FEAR,CHINATOWN,CABARET,CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF,THE LAST METRO,THE NIGHT PORTER,THE SERVANT,DEATH IN VENICE,DOG DAY AFTERNOON,DELIVERANCE,HEAT,HAROLD+MAUDE,CITY OF LOST CHILDREN,ERASERHEAD,BETTY BLUE,RADIO ON,THE BIG CHILL,BLUE VELVET,LOST IN TRANSLATION,FEAR+LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS,LEAVING LAS VEGAS,WOMEN ON VERGE OF NERVOUS BREAKDOWN,TRAINSPOTTING,LAWRENCE OF ARABIA,ENGLISH PATIENT,BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN,REAR WINDOW,NORTH BY NORTHWEST,CHINATOWN,BLADERUNNER,ONE FROM THE HEART,STRANGER THAN PARADISE,DOWN BY LAW,RUMBLEFISH,THE BIG LEBOWSKI,ICE STORM,MYSTIC RIVER,21 GRAMS,PULP FICTION,JACKIE BROWN,KILL BILL,HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS,KUNGFU HUSTLE,O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU,ADAPTATION,ONE NIGHT ON EARTH,THE GOOD,THE BAD THE UGLY,ENTER THE DRAGON,PERFUME,BREATHLESS,ALPHAVILLE,THE APARTMENT,IRREVERSIBLE,CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER,B+W 50'S FILMS(SCIFI,GANGSTERS+COWBOYS)60'S FILMS FOR THE COLOR STOCK,FILM NOIR,MARX BROS,JACQUES TATI FILMS,PETER SELLERS FILMS,FELLINI,JEAN LUC GODARD,HITCHCOCK,COEN BROS,JIM JARMUSCH,TIM BURTON,PEDRO AMALVADOR,WARHOL,TARANTINO,KUROSAWA,JOHN WOO,JOHN FORD,WOODY ALLEN, JEAN COCTEAU,DAVID LYNCH,FASSBINDER,POLANSKI..HIGH ART,LOW ART,ITS ALL GOOD!

Television:

77 SUNSET STRIP-DR.WHO-HAWAII 5-0-AVENGERS-SHINTARO/SAMURAI-THE OUTER LIMITS-THE TWILIGHT ZONE-BATMAN-THE JETSONS-THE MONKEES-THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW-BEVERLEY HILLBILLIES-I SPY-THE AVENGERS-THE YOUNG ONES-FAWLTY TOWERS-MONTY PYTHON-AUNTY JACK-NORMAN GUNSTON-DAME EDNA EVERIDGE-COUNTDOWN-ADDAMS FAMILY-GET SMART-HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO GALAXY-RED DWARF-STAR TREK-ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS-SIX FEET UNDER-DEADWOOD-A TOUCH OF FROST-TWIN PEAKS-ENTOURAGE-PARKINSON-SOUTH PARK..AMAZING ALL THE TV DROSS I'VE WATCHED OVER THE YEARS,AND I CANT REMEMBER ANY OF IT!-IS THAT WHAT IT DOES TO YOU?

Books:

RIMBAUD,BEAUDELAIRE,JEAN GENET, CATCHER IN THE RYE,JACK KEROUAC,LESS THAN ZERO-BRET EASTON ELLIS,PAUL THEROUX BOOKS ESP.HOTEL HONOLULU+THE PILLARS OF HERCULES,BILL BRYSON BOOKS ESP.A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING,1481?-THE YEAR CHINA DISCOVERED THE WORLD,CAMUS,RAYMOND CHANDLER,J.G.BALLARD,PHILLIP K.DICK,WILLIAM BURROUGHS,JAMES ELLROY,DASHIELL HAMNETT,TIM WINTON,SOMERSET MAUGHAM,CHARLES BUKOWSKI BOOKS,HUNTER S. THOMPSONS WRITINGS,BOOKS AND ARTICLES,YUKIO MISHIMA,HAWKINGS,PAUL BOWLES,..ENDLESS?? a href="http://www.msplinks.com/

Heroes:

PEOPLE WHO ENDURE+SURVIVE GREAT ADVERSITY,WHO ARENT AFRAID TO SHOW THEIR HUMAN FRAILTIES,WHO PUT THEIR CONSCIENCE BEFORE THEIR CAREER.PEOPLE IN POWER WHO'VE STEPPED DOWN BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY BELIEVE IN.PEOPLE WITH WARMTH,HUMANITY,COMPASSION,EMPATHY.PEOPLE WHO CAN THINK OR STEP OUTSIDE OF THE SQUARE,PEOPLE WHO RUN AGAINST HERD MENTALITY,ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO BY THEIR ACTIONS SHOW OTHERS A GLIMMER OF TRUTH,HOPE,GRACE+DIGNITY - KENNY(DVD).

My Blog

BIG EARS DU + POCKMARK WONG - A SHANGHAI STORY.

"BIG EARS' DU WAS BORN:DOU YU SENG DU;IN 1887;IN A SLUM IN PUDONG,ACROSS THE HANGOU RIVER FROM THE FABOULOUSLY HEARTBREAKING CITY OF SHANGHAI,CHINA. AS A FAMISHED CHILD BIG EARS DU JOINED A FIERCE CRI...
Posted by bret on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:19:00 PST