Fly the Friendly Sky United

GOBAMAIR! Get on board the sooouuul expresssss.
Ready or not, there is a change in the wind for the american working family.



We will roll with the punches... all the way to the white house.
Let the mud-slingin' clowns dig their own soul .

God Bless Art

Art is whatever you want it to be, but the art industry is a tightly structured fickle hierarchy of museums, collectors, galleries, dealers, art supply stores and of course the A R T I S T S.

Art is born in the artist studio, museums are the mausoleums.


This perfect Icicle sculpture will not fair well in miami. photo not relate

Art Basel Miami Beach is fast approaching and most of the local freaks are busy preparing for the annual circus of contemporary art to descend on the swamp. This year promises to be a real humdinger.


photo very related

Where there once was a charming grove of coconut palms is now this barren lot, the site for mega Design Miami.


What's in your head? It's Second Saturday Gallery Walk, again.
If you are out after dark:

SCHADENFREUDE at the Collins Bldg. Design District
a wunderkammer of voyeurism
curated by Daniel Newman

Hernan Bass Faytastics at Snitzer Gallery Wynwood

Betty Rosado photos of Donna at Steinbaum Wynwood

David Rohn Performance at Carol Jazzar Miami Shores

Harold Golen Gallery, always the best of LowBrow

Ricky Raynes VanishingMan at Luis Adelantado Gallery

Tons more stuff, get your own links...... see you around and please don't litter.


Artzy types can be found anywhere in the world.

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things that remind me of McCainPalin

The republican ticket as played by Danny Devito and Michele Phifer.



The governor/provocateur of Alaska is in a fluffing frenzy to rile up their base: aka bigots, haters n masturbators.

Worse, Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."

Chicken Scratch:
Original Debatin'Palin notes for all you hand-wringing analysts out there.



GOP game-plan:
Keep democrats away from the voting booths; using every trick in their cheaters bible.

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It's Lonely at the Top

The emperor has no Head; numbers cruncher Paulson spinning the Grande Socialist Bailout for the paparazzi. When is enough too much?



The mouth of the Miami river; Mary Brickel spinning in the Indian Circle.
View from the 47th floor of the Ian Pei BankAmerica building downtown miami.


"...builder of highly amenitized condos in Florida (no subprime purchasers welcome there), filed for bankruptcy in August. Very few of the tens of thousands of now-surplus condominiums in Miami were conceived to be marketed to subprime borrowers, or minorities—unless you count rich Venezuelans and Colombians as minorities. "



Urban romance. I always kinda wanted to live downtown... not anymore.



Go Tall and Sprawl. Steaming moist concrete swamp... as far as the eye on miami can see.



Charm with Alarm. Much of Miami (the silent tax base) looks like this.

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Swampland Insecurity

Newish Time Blog is named swampland... I must be doing something right.

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Who's Your Mummy

Back when Tom Brokaw was wet behind the microphone , it was called Meet the Press, today it is more like Press the Meat...



Talk about sound-bite society...
Brokaw, not only erroneously called the first debate for mcSame, he also looked bad last night pushing his dang 1 minute rule...



McCain looked even worse, he just had to remind us of his service...
No wonder he wants to "freeze all spending except defense and some other secret stuff".
He really took a beating, maybe this suit will help in the final debate.



"Nobody's gonna influence my vote! I'm gonna read all the papers; hear all the speeches; examine all the candidates- then draw my own confusions."



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Bombs or Butter

Cling to your gods, guns and gays - tap your heels and you're back in alaska.



What is with all the fuzz about Sour Sarah's shoes/cankles...



... while we are on the verge of another economic meltdown...



....engineered by maniacal-mavericks with an aversion to sunshine...



... and a bozo lust for the big bang zoom to the moon...



...instead of spreading the joy of real butter, of social equity.

The GOP cheerleaders go to war with the pair of boobs they have, not the ones they'd want.

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poppin' fresh palianation

mechanical bird by walt disney

Animatronics 101

Of the godzillion eligible/illegible voting americans, there may be way too many who are out there independently flirting with and inwardly pledging for SourSarahPalinator on the ill expected notion that Grandpy McSame will perish and expire, of natural causes of course, in the near certain predictable four years of hell on earth should the powers that be pull off one more caper in another un-presidential salvo on their assault on u.s. amusement.




Don't fall asleep on those beans.

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Miami Graffiti Police is Anti-Hope

This was bound to happen.... officials are hopeless authoritarian (insert-four-letter-word-here).



The City of Miami is Hopeless

"....What we never expected stuck to the mural was a notice of violation from the City of Miami claiming we were in violation of ordinances because of Grafitti on the property and that we erected, constructed or posted a sign without a finalized permit. I kid you not. The code inspector considered it graffiti and the erection, construction, posting etc., of a sign without a finalized permit. If it doesn't come down by the 6th, Simon gets fined up to $200 a day with threats of liens on the property. ..."


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Rock'em Sock'em Disenfranchis'em

Go to your local board of elections website and confirm the status of your registration, your vote-ability. Do it today!



Michael Moore said it clearly on Larry King. Republicans get up very early and quietly go on about the business of the party. What they do best? Why disenfranchise as many democratic voters as possible, of course. It's the Katherine Harris Way.

Voter Purges reveals that election officials across the country are routinely striking millions of voters from the rolls through a process that is shrouded in secrecy, prone to error, and vulnerable to manipulation.




Jumpin'Joe will have to keep his gloves ON while SourSarah will have to take hers OFF.



Any palm-reader out there can see this guy is no light-weight.
Count the votes and double high-fives for the Bidonator.

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Up is Down Around the Corner

trick or treat? Paul Newman would never behave this way.

Black Jesus, Maury mother of Red Coral, if i see one more of these "another dem for McSame" signs, liable to blow a gasket. I assure you these neighbors are not blue. Devious Frontal Lawn Displays are on the rise as the enablers pull out all the trickery only the desperate do. With the much anticipated Wall Strut Bail Bond-fire, another curious neighbor managed to capture magically the likeness of W and Granda McSame using whatever was on hand like duct tape and hopefully recycled lawn signs.



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Newman's Home

In celebration of a fraternal foodie, a beautiful man.



To dominate physically is an art and a science, a healthy dose of beauty, brains and brawn.



People tell me I look like him.... what do you think.



Swampthing on the set of "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" 1970


Inimitable Dishes - Newman and Shirley McLaine at Miami Beach NATO awards.



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Post No Bills, Get No Thrills

sink or swim with swampstyle

As a young artist in the seventies, there was something about growing up in Miami that hounded me. Natural splendor aside, it was the blandness, it was that little voice in my head that kept saying, "get the heck out of the swamp". So I moved away and in visiting mayor metropolitan cities soon realized how deficient my hometown was with regard to the substance of urban life. There was little diversity of people, little access to cultural material, isolation for fringe thinkers, and no people nor art in the streets. For me, graffiti and even posting of bills is synonymous with a healthy substantial visual culture of our modern urban society. Sure there are aspects of the phenomenon that are cause for pause, but counterculture style has been appropriated and commercialized for mass consumption, wildstyle sells. From Paris to NY to Minneapolis and Mexico City, from Bombay India to Bogota Colombia, most mayor world-class urban centers are rich with unsanctioned visual manifestations of their inhabitants aesthetic. But not Miami of 2008. We still have this backward notion that the cityscape must be greige and void of visual vitality. Officials have a long standing disdain for anything resembling graffiti. But they have no problem with the visual pollution resulting from too many billboards street-signs and Brittos.


Another new billboard frame completed.

It is perfectly lucrative to capitalize on prime real estate by leasing the side of your building to the billboard people like media hog ClearChannel. The county is ok with that because it adds to the revenue stream. They are not so concerned with the changing content of the ads.

But if you allow some enthusiastic young artist to paint murals on your building without compliance with the county Sign Ordinance, and if the style of the work is urban inspired, then you can expect a visit from the local anti-graffiti task force. According to one source from the writers community, the county is spending big bucks to go after all non-permitted public works of expression with a vengeance for anything that even resembles graffiti.
One artist said if you can't finish a mural in one day, don't even start it because you get busted when you go back to finish.


Art Rumor #1:
Shed a Tear for Krylon
Marti Margulies local giant in the art world is battling with officials over the murals painted by young artists including his son. The county wants him to get rid of this amazing artwork because of some imaginary anonymous complaints. The building that houses his collection is very visible from I-95. The commission does not appreciate Margulies vocal/failed opposition to another taxpayer funded mega-museum. If they are in court, I hope Marti' lawyers open up a can of whoopasskrylon.

Murals at the Margulies building



Metro-Dade lists reasons to battle graffiti and any mural that does not comply with the Sign Ordinance. Controlling graffiti is necessary since it has been proven to:

Cause a decline in property values. Attract criminals into the neighboring areas. Discourage businesses from relocating into areas. Cause residents to hesitate about moving into areas. Costs to the County, residents, and businesses are extremely high. Property owners are responsible for maintaining their residential property or common area graffiti free, including walls and fences that are visible from the public right-of-way, mailboxes, etc. Property owners must remove graffiti from commercial buildings, vehicles, trash dumpsters, and other commercial property. Miami-Dade County has the authority to paint over graffiti that is on a wall or fence that abuts the right-of-way without prior notice to the property owner.

I guess the housing market crash, ballooning property taxes, corrupt gov, jeb's cronies, guzzlin hummers and buses plastered with ads don't have the same effect.


An unfinished mural....ooooh creepy, but cool.


Another unfinished mural.... props to Miller Machinery.

When you have an hour to kill:
Miami Graffiti has the definitive comprehensive list of writers, tagers, bombers and wanabees.


Art Rumor #2:
Kaws for Alarm
It appears that they disappeared.. that two small painting by graffiti artist Kaws aka Brian Donnelly were stolen from his current show at Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery. The perps will not be able to sell them and have attracted the attention of the FBI as it is a federal offense to peddle stolen artworks. If you have any information, post a comment.





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License to Hate

When a team of divers recovered this 2 ton bronze Nazi Eagle from the wreck of the Graf Spee of the coast of Uruguay, they decided to cover the swastika so as not to offend the public.

After the Dem convention in Denver, the Rove appointed Colorado state attorney Roy Eid dropped the charges against the three would-be self-confessed Obama assassins, the patsy dumb-ass swastika sporting meth-heads. With one stroke of his pen, Eid not only politicized law enforcement, he gave the green-light to all homegrown haters that it is ok to act on their despicable emotions. The crazies get the message, but most other americans really aren't paying too much attention.
To contrast the aftermath of the conventions, the repug in St.Paul brought us images of their police state jack boot thugs detaining college kids, grandmas, journalists Amy Goodman and about 400 regular folk for "conspiring to riot".


See Evil, Hear Evil, Speak Evil.
These are the faces of the children of the conservative media agenda, theRush Limpbaugh, O'Reilly, GlenBeck haters cult.


Count me out of that "we".
The haters are working over-time to further their racist ideals.
Where is the outrage?
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