new blog

for those of you following this blog (which aren't many), i've decided to start a new blog. one where i can start promoting my knowledge about the art world on.. for now, the blog is located at krupy.wordpress.com

see you there..

seeing the world a little closer

oh man, since we moved into this place with it's amazing view, i've been wanting some binoculars. well i finally bought some off amazon.com.



i mean for $23 you can't really complain, and the great thing is i don't have too! they're awesome! i even recognize the cool 'wave' house boat - and it's right across the river from me... check out this cool posting about it here.



i bet my friend Chirs Lundy would LOVE to live here... if only it was in Hawaii!



for now tho, i'll just have to stare at it from across the river and dream....

the alterac valley slaughter..

just thought i'd share a couple of screenshots from a battle i just fought.... and lost horribly!



3 seconds later..



i'm having fun?

My Girls

just a couple of shots of my ladies in bed..

Pinky - the licky one..



Brain - the stinky one..



Cassie - the lovely one..



and me? i'm the luck one!

the cloud shroud

woke up this morning and the mountain view looked kind of funny.. like a blanket of softness covering up the sharp peak of Mt. Hood. Beautiful.

you got my attention

being a former art gallery owner, i still get hit with tons of emails about artists, openings, and toys - some of them i really enjoy checking out. like the latest and greatest from DKE toys or the lovely folks over at StrangeCo. - suppliers of some of my favorites from Tokidoki.



this morning however, i got an email from Contemporary Art News in London - not sure how i got on their mailing list, but i'm glad i am! anyway, they are promoting a show for "a major retrospective of the work of Glenn Brown to be presented from 20 February to 10 May 2009 in Liverpool and from 28 May until 4 October 2009 in Turin" and the image they sent over you really got my attention.



Glenn Brown - Hunky Dory 2005 © The Artist courtesy of Tate Liverpool

i really enjoy how rich and saturated the muted color pallet is - it's as if it's really a painting of a clown disguised as an old man. here's what they had to say about the artist:

"One of the most revered painters of his generation, this exhibition will bring together the largest selection of the artist’s work to date. Brown borrows from art history and popular culture, working from the images of Dalí, Auerbach, Rembrandt, science fiction illustrators and many others to investigate the languages of painting and how images are read by the viewer. Brown is fascinated by how reproductions of paintings distort the qualities of their originals. Size, colour, surface texture and brushwork are elements by which original works are transformed from the familiar into the alien. Working from books or projecting reproductions onto a blank picture surface, Brown wildly embellishes his source material. Naturalistic colour becomes putrid or kitsch, figures are elongated or enlarged into the grotesque and heavy impasto, although painstakingly copied, is rendered entirely flat."

i only wish i could see this piece in person as i'm sure it represents much better in real life - sadly, i don't think i'll be jetting off to London anytime soon. for now tho, i'll just enjoy the pic.

European... ima poopin'

one of my favorite lunches is a nice anti-pasta plate.

My friend Simon from Leeds used to always come into my office (when i had one back in the day) he'd bring in salami, bread, sardines and a bottle of wine... aside from the sardines, i just thought how cool it was that he could eat all these delicious treats for lunch. so from there on out, it became the "European Lunch".

Cassie made us our Euro lunch yesterday and we had the remainder just now.



perfect with a french potato salad and a nice simple table red.