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Politics / Re: Hoodlums Fight For Money Found On Crash Victims by Gigastar(m): 9:38am On Oct 04, 2013 |
Ag@gu don vex o 4 Likes
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Phones / Re: Please Convince Me To Hate Blackberry by Gigastar(m): 9:07am On Oct 04, 2013 |
Don't be stubborn, there are no much amazing things about blackberry. Go 4 android. 1 Like |
Romance / Re: Why Do Ladies Adjust When They See Me? by Gigastar(m): 1:27pm On Oct 02, 2013 |
@ op, I also notice this, thank God it is not only me. Anytime I pass female side, they always adjust. It's no joke at all |
Romance / Re: Has Anyone Done This Before by Gigastar(m): 7:57pm On Oct 01, 2013 |
Ma guy, givers never ever lack, shebi it's just 1500, send it. |
Phones / Re: Radio Uses Human Blood by Gigastar(m): 7:43pm On Oct 01, 2013 |
Don't u know that human body is a conductor of electricity? 1 Like |
Phones / Re: Tecno N3 Discussion Thread by Gigastar(m): 3:32pm On Sep 24, 2013 |
damatolnew:Guy just relink library files in link2sd options |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Is Cristiano Ronaldo The Most Complete Player In The Planet? by Gigastar(m): 6:17pm On Sep 20, 2013 |
If Messi leaves barca, he is still going to outshine his colleagues but he can't leave now due to the condition on ground, u understand 2 Likes |
Phones / Re: Tecno N3 Discussion Thread by Gigastar(m): 2:25pm On Aug 31, 2013 |
Thanks @ all, hav got mine working |
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 2:24pm On Aug 31, 2013 |
All ma brothers who haven't got it, u just av 2 use ur brain. Have got mine, all wat they posted, sent are rubbish, just go to n3 thread and use ur brain. Peace. |
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 10:41am On Aug 31, 2013 |
@namzy pls email me dat urfreedom cheat tmighty180@gmail.com |
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 8:51am On Aug 31, 2013 |
@debulous, upload ur terminal emulator 4 us now |
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 8:48am On Aug 31, 2013 |
sheelay:when u browse with ur droidvpn, does it disconnect when u reach 2mb and reconnect again? |
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 8:42am On Aug 31, 2013 |
lordsbiz: i got alot of thank you message in ma inbox alreadyU b comedian o, but y not on nairaland |
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 7:01pm On Aug 30, 2013 |
lordsbiz:yeah we have it but the terminal emulator is not workn making it look lik we receive nothing |
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 3:20pm On Aug 30, 2013 |
uche715: hello guruz,this is h@ck for DROID VPN to After 2mb, it disconnect , after some minutes it reconnect, which is somehow frustrating. Pls are u people really making use of this thing |
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 3:09pm On Aug 30, 2013 |
It did not even ask for permission |
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 2:54pm On Aug 30, 2013 |
sheelay:it shows force close |
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 1:56pm On Aug 30, 2013 |
lordsbiz:Babooo! the emulator dey ask me 2 download something and it's showing error wen downloading and also are we connecting to free servers or premium servers |
Phones / Re: MTN BIS No Longer Work On Android? by Gigastar(m): 12:56pm On Aug 30, 2013 |
Pls, o tmighty180@gmail.com |
Romance / Re: Guys Opinion On Stretchmarks by Gigastar(m): 3:09pm On Aug 25, 2013 |
OceaneKhadija80: I take it you are not aware that men also have stretch marks??I agree |
Romance / Re: Guys Opinion On Stretchmarks by Gigastar(m): 2:39pm On Aug 25, 2013 |
Yeah, am listening |
Romance / Guys Opinion On Stretchmarks by Gigastar(m): 2:38pm On Aug 25, 2013 |
Guys, how would u feel going down there and u realised that her bu*t and b**bs are stretchmarked badly. Will u continue or stop? |
Phones / Re: Have You Seen This Picture And What Does It Depict On ANDROID 2.3.5 GINGERBREAD? by Gigastar(m): 2:42pm On Aug 23, 2013 |
This 1 looks like heaven |
Phones / Re: Have You Seen This Picture And What Does It Depict On ANDROID 2.3.5 GINGERBREAD? by Gigastar(m): 11:49am On Aug 23, 2013 |
A Zombie Examiner vs jack larson Denver Zombie Examiner: First of all, how does one fall into the zombie portrait business ? Jack Larson: I started painting zombies last summer almost exclusively. At first they weren’t necessarily the undead, but I was trying to come up with the concept of collectivism gone bad. The idea of how when people start competing or they join some group, they trade in their mind, their individuality, and become extensions of the herd. The consequences are abundant. If you look at all forms of collectivism, be it communism or fascism, people are reduced to animals. And it’s such a re-occurring theme, I could explore it endlessly. I really thought this particular theme of painting people as zombies would’ve faded after Halloween, or that the interest would’ve waned, but it has surprised me. DZE: How did you get your start as an artist? JL: I was really into artwork in high school and my art teacher made it clear to me that it’s not really a career. She insisted that if I wanted to make a living this way, I would have to find a career that might actually reward me for the artwork. I was already painting headlines at the time— I’ve always been obsessed with the news, especially bad news—which kind of had this morbid aesthetic to it. So anyway, she suggested I become a mortician. She said it would be a good way for me to explore my fascination with the macabre or death and she considered it to be kind of an artistic profession. I don’t know if she was joking or not. However, I took her advice and I went into the army, into what was Graves Registration --or today they call it Mortuary Affairs-- and it put my education on hold, but it got me into the mortuary field, and then shortly after that I started painting again. DZE: That is quite the unique path... But why zombies? JL: I have seen so many dead bodies working as a body transporter or embalmer or crime scene responder. I’ve come across so many cadavers at various stages of decomposition. I’ve handled so many that drawing these things is very intuitive. I know the textures. Why I do it? It’s not very macabre necessarily. I think that this fascination with zombies is so huge. The people who are buying these paintings from me aren’t horror movie fans. I think the spirit of it is more the spirit of levity. It’s sort of like the Mexican Day of the Dead, where death is charicaturized and made fun of in a sense, in a light-hearted way. And the Day of the Dead artwork, they’re always brightly colored and smiling and celebrating. I see the same spirit in the way that most people are taking to the zombie thing. It’s not so much horror as making social commentary about human beings becoming like zombies. DZE: I definitely agree. It's a pop culture phenomenon, and I'm not quite sure myself where it came from, but your Day of the Dead theory is one of the better ones I've heard. JL: One woman who emailed me had a son who was turning 4 and they were having a zombie-themed birthday party. I’d never questioned it, but I thought, that’s very enlightening! I never would’ve thought! But I did the painting, the kid loved it, and it was the centerpiece of the party. At that time I thought, maybe we’re witnessing here an emerging cultural phenomenon here in America, a new tradition, analogous to the Mexican Day of the Dead. I don’t know what brought it on, but it’s definitely not going away, and it has nothing to do with Halloween. DZE: When I first looked at the cover of Brian’s book [Dead Beyond the Fence by Brian Kaufman ], it reminded me of “The Scream” by Munch. Is he one of your influences? JL: I definitely like that particular painting.* As far as my influences: I’ve always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented. Basically, religious iconography, anybody illustrating stuff from Dante’s Inferno …It’s funny: We have the modern surrealists, but you look back at a lot of the artwork inspired by stories of hell, and a lot of that stuff is pretty surreal. When I was growing up I used to look at album covers all the time. One artist, Wes Benscoter paints album covers for heavy metal bands. I think the most famous band he did was Slayer. When I was learning to paint I used to copy his CDs. Another influence would be this guy Joe Coleman. His work is kind of an amalgamation of surreal and hyper- detailed comic book art. DZE: This sounds weird, even to me, but tell me more about your experiences with the dead. JL: Not at all. I was stationed in Fort Lee, Viriginia, which is the Army Mortuary College. That’s where I got my training. The actual training that we did was conducted at the Richmond morgue. After that I became an embalmer as a civilian. I took a job with a morgue, and my job there was picking up bodies from scenes of death, accident sites, murder even, or decomposition. After awhile, if someone dies in a house, they’re left there to rot and if there’s no one to claim them... So I started a business on the side. My night job was picking up bodies, and I’d come across scenes where there’s blood on the walls or blood seeping into the floors, and then on my own time I would clean up the remains and bill the insurer. It was lucrative for awhile, but there came a time when I stopped working for the morgue. DZE: Why did you quit? JL: Not because I couldn’t handle it anymore, but because I was pretty sick of it. It wasn’t just the bodies, it was being on call. Sleep got interrupted. I would wake up with panic attacks, because you never know what’s going to happen. Some weekends I would have 2 or 3 bodies to pick up, other weekends it would be 15 or 20. So I decided to go back to what I was doing before the army, which was the artwork. And I got right into selling murals. And I tried to do custom portraits, but I found that to do a portrait right, it takes a lot of time and people can be very fickle, so it wasn’t very lucrative. It’s a lot easier to do a charicature or a zombie of someone than a final, polished painting. It was like serendipity, I just stumbled into this niche. DZE: What's the strangest portrait request you've ever gotten? JL: I get cats, I get dogs. One person specifically wanted his cat to be eating someone’s brain. One guy said, “I want to have a portrait of me eating my girlfriend’s brains, and I want my guts hanging out.” I would say the strangest ones I get are when people ask me for political figures or celebrities, because I’m not sure what their position is. Someone asked me for Nancy Pelosi, and I don’t know if that person was liberal or conservative. I did a Sarah Palin, which I’m pretty sure was for a democrat. I do get a lot from the military actually. I’ve had 4 of those so far. Sometimes they get them for their friends, sometimes in uniform. The strangest one I think was this guy had me paint his baby, crawling across the floor. DZE: Have you ever done a self-portrait as a zombie? JL: I haven’t yet, although I’ve been told many of the generic zombies that I just sort of paint in the background kind of look like me. I haven’t yet, though I probably should. I think it might be a good piece. I mean, you know your own face, so I think you kind of do it subconsciously. DZE: Or you could just keep putting yourself in the background of everyone else's portraits . What's next for you? JL: That reminds me: I loved your column about the zombieness of Jesus . You know the whole South Park fiasco with drawing the Prophet Muhammed? I’m almost done with a zombie Muhammed. *A week after our interview, Larson sent me a picture of his most recent creation, titled "Something to Scream About", inspired by Edvard Munch's "The Scream" and our conversation. Stay informed, stay alive: Check out more of Jack Larson's zombie artwork on his website, and order an undead portrait of your own! You can also follow Jack on Twitter for instant updates on new portraits. |
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