Jelaine Faunce: Pick A Style, Any Style.

I first stumbled upon artist Jelaine Faunce's work on her page on the daily painters site. Her charming collage-like layered paintings caught my eye. They were unusual, had a sense of humor and were being sold in her etsy store for a more than reasonable price.



Well, this of course led me to further links and further exposure to this artist's gamut of work. And what a range she has!
I was surprised to see that the same artist who created the semi-allegorical sushi paintings also created realism paintings of striking photographic quality and interesting composition. These and many more are visible on her website. A far cry from her 'sushi' paintings but equally captivating.

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On her website she also has some mixed media work. Two examples are below.



She even has a photography section on her site as well.

With an ebay store, an etsy store, a cafe press store, selling original paintings and prints on Imagekind, even a blog, she's one busy artist. Her prices are still 'affordable' but I bet they won't be for long, So keep an eye out on this prolific artist because you never know what she'll be doing next!

It's A Sculpture. It's Art. No, It's A Radiator.

Maybe it's because I'm a native Californian, but I've never really given radiators a lot of thought. That is not until I started coming across some of these in my dutiful quest for what's hip. Did you all know that so many unusual radiators were out there?

Hans Wegner Dies at 92; Danish Furniture Designer

Hans Wegner at his home in 1997.

By DAVID COLMAN
reprinted from the NY Times, February 6, 2007 [ABRIDGED VERSION]

Hans Wegner, whose Danish Modern furniture — most famously his chairs — helped change the course of design history in the 1950s and ’60s by sanding modernism’s sharp edges and giving aesthetes a comfortable seat, died on Jan. 26 in Copenhagen. He was 92.

Associated Press

For the entire obituary from the New York Times, click here.

Mr. Wegner (pronounced VEG-ner in English and VAY-ner in Danish) was one of a small group of Danish furniture designers whose elegant but comfortable creations made Danish Modern all the rage among cosmopolitan Americans of the ’50s and ’60s.

Their works, often made in warm blond wood, domesticated the cold chrome shine of the Bauhaus-influenced International style. In the process, they found a way to dovetail the words “Danish” and “modern” for the first time, joining cabinetmaker-guild traditions of high craftsmanship, quality and comfort with modernist principles of simplicity and graphic beauty.

Over the last decade he was able to witness a surge of renewed interest in his work. Mid-century Modern furniture is again in high demand, according to spokesmen for P P Mobler and Carl Hansen. What was a chic look a half-century ago has today joined the pantheon of mainstream style, perhaps a fitting tribute to a man who believed that a chair should be made well enough to last at least 50 years.

Below are just a few of his chairs (click on pic to enlarge)

Anna Nicole Smith, the pneumatic blonde whose life played out as an extraordinary tabloid tale -- jeans model, Playboy centerfold, widow of an octogenarian billionaire, reality-show subject, tragic mother -- died on February 8, 2007 after collapsing at a hotel. She was 39.