The Mystic Eye Time: 5 hours for outline, 2 hours for color. Tweet Photos by Reviewer Rob “Mandala” a spiritual and ritual symbol in traditional Hinduism and Buddhism, representing the universe. The basic form of most mandalas is a square with four gates containing a circle with a center point. Each gate is in the general shape of a T. […]
skin art: the mystic eye
Can Art Give Us Hope?
[Art Scene] A Recent Event in Connecticut Tweet By Jason Stoneking I didn’t realize until quite recently that on some level I am actively looking for hope. If you would have asked me a few years ago, I might well have said that the portrayal of hope was somehow sappy or pedestrian, something better left to the realm of Disney […]
novella excerpt: The Luminous Memories of Alexander Vile
[Excerpt] The Luminous Memories of Alexander Vile Tweet by Natasha Jones The Beginning of the End This is the beginning of my vile story. It centres on a proud, life-long hero. He was no hero for ‘simpletons’ but he was mine. He was her hero too, Joanna’s. His wife and child he loved and lost in a flash, his passions […]
Mayan Funeral Procession
[Travel] First Time Mayan Funeral Procession Tweet by Tim Sheepy (Sheep McSheepy) [Editor’s Note: Recently back in Ocean Beach from a life changing trip abroad to Central America as a wandering gringo hippy, Tim Sheepy recounts one of his experiences when he witnessed a tribal funeral procession in a small town near Antigua, Guatemala.] Just got out of casa Pirata […]
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Tim Bessell and his Warhol Series
Surfboard Art, Andy Warhol And Standing Nudes Tweet Tim Bessell Talks Pop words and cell phone pics by Rob Rowsey Tim Bessell is building a number of Limited Edition surfboards inspired by the art of the pop icon Andy Warhol. They’re not cheap, either. The tall, blue “Dance Steps” longboard pictured below goes for $8,000. It’s one of ten of […]
movie: CHILDREN OF THE STARS, a documentary
[Film] Children Of The Stars Tweet Backyard Green Films, a film by Bill Perrine billingsgate.com, billbillingsgate.com DVD review by Lev Six Nearly 25 years ago, I was skateboarding through the bitter heat of El Cajon when I spotted a ‘69 Cadillac crowned with a silver alien saucer traveling down Main Street. I theorized that the spacecraft was a prop from […]
book review: Reaching Out With No Hands: Reconsidering Yoko Ono, by Lisa Carver
[Books] Reaching Out With No Hands: Reconsidering Yoko Ono Tweet by Lisa Carver, from Backbeat Books, $18.99, biography, 5×7″ (approx) hardcover with dust jacket, 154 pages, 2012, backbeatbooks.com book review by Reviewer Rob In 1994 or 95 was weaning off of being the drunk nightclub photographer at Revolt in Style magazine because I had a habit of shooting nude photos […]
dvd review: NERDY GIRLS by Mister E
NERDY GIRLS Tweet from Mr.E, Mongolian Barbeque, directed by Ramzi Abed, starring Sybil Hawthorne, Sophia Jade, Mary Jane DVD review by Polly Amiry It’s enlightening to see Ramzi Abed, under his erotic nom de guerre Mr. E, branching out as expected into soft core erotica. It’s mild porn, to be sure, yet it’s of a sufficiently experimental nature to be […]