Ride of my Life

Mick Hagen’s ride of through life

 
 
 
Monthly Archive *July, 2008*
This is mean, I know

I was going through Google Reader (my rss feed reader) and i came across these two pics, one after the other. They come from two completely different blogs…and have absolutely nothing to do with the other.  But i’m not gonna lie…I chuckled.

 
The Ghetto Blaster

This looks like my cousin, Miguel. I love that ghetto-blaster boom box.

 
Elegance Redefined
Catching the Wild Coat Stand

It’s a coat stand made of steel and polyester rope that looks just like a lasso. It’d work great for a cowboy bar. That’s about it.  I’m not sure where else it’d go.  Ask my wife.  The only reason I posted this though was because i’m a cowboy at heart. :)

Designed by Stolenwood Studio

Ancestory…

I thought this was pretty interesting. Click on it to see the full image.

 
Elegance Redefined
Banksy the Street Artist

Banksy is by far my favorite Street Artist.  For the longest time, no one knew who he really was.  Well…a couple of weeks ago, that all changed.  Mail on Sunday broke the story and revealed who Banksy really was.  I’ve been meaning to highlight some of his work for awhile now.  But first an excerpt from the story. There was also a good piece done on Banksy in Time and also Gawker.

He is perhaps the most famous, or infamous, artist alive. To some a genius, to others a vandal. Always controversial, he inspires admiration and provokes outrage in equal measure.

Since Banksy made his name with his trademark stencil-style ‘guerrilla’ art in public spaces – on walls in London, Brighton, Bristol and even on the West Bank barrier separating Israelis and Palestinians – his works have sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds.

He has dozens of celebrity collectors including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Christina Aguilera.

After Harvard, what’s next?

This is admirable I suppose.

 
You’re kidding me.

 
Elegance Redefined
Lila Jang

I can appreciate chair art.

Currently part of this show.

Elegance Redefined
Poladoodles by Lilacmoon Studio

Some interesting work at Poladoodles.

The idea formed when I started exercising spontaneous drawing and found that I had a bunch of less than perfect Polaroid shots that I couldn’t let go to waste. Each of these photographs became a tiny canvas for me to doodle, and Poladoodles were born!

Man on Wire

This looks really, really good.