Obama graciously accepts the Noble Peace Prize

To whom much is given, much is expected



Michelle LaVaughn, dem sending we free again to where Harald V of N does live, Abba neighbor. I is lucky meh fadder black like tar, dem still feel dem owe we when is only ten month reach and is b mobile dynamite prize I win. Lawd is free minutes till meh term end, me ain't have to text message meh card partners and you like before. I better call Shepard and tell he I flammin, I "hope" he ain't go vex I reach so far.

Obamsee, Hillary calling on de red telephone, I never see dem light bling bright so, like is war , yuh better forget winning dem boobe dynamite prize early and get to she Oval office in mintues before yuh niggarritis take yuh and yuh call in sick.



Listen, just hold one second, its me ho, you've made it already, I've got to kick his ass, Korea. Hold one moment, you're messing with Michelle ho, I'll like Bill to stick it in ho, pot smoker geek pus. No, no, no, you can't hold me on that,it was for the Guinness world record, you step back. I made it fine on that shoot. So what it cost them millions, the most expensive photo, you'll never match that ho....its a good thing we did sign or did we?

Message in a bottle found - Richard Bolai - Feinin

Ten years ago, I threw a bottle with a message off a cliff. It contained a message, It says, "By the time you read this, I would known my purpose" - What I've being saying all this time...

I believe it to be true, may you rejoice

Saints - Mug Shot Studies

Mug Shot 1- Piero Della Francesca

The human spirit projecting the remorse and power of forgiveness captured during a series of Mug Shots.

Rejoice! Jesus Has Risen

Mug Shot 1


Mug Shot 2


Specimens

Continuing with the study of the Mug Shot, these three compositions gives a canny likeness to the resurrection of Jesus through the very perception he is believed to look like. There is no doubt that many individuals who are rooming the jails as with these subjects, their heart and remorse are at hand.

kanye West outdoes Jeff Koons

Why collect contemporary art when I can manufacture it myself


Scanning imaging clay model technology projects a composite mold of kanye West

The American rapper kanye West has focused his attention on producing a fabrication of himself using a photographic device that can mold the entire body by the process of scanning. The computer generated image can simulate the likeness of the subject as it passes over the contour of the model. The results is art in itself, more poetic then Jeff Koons' Micheal Jackson statue. These photographic compositions are likely to set the boundaries of the art of the self with the art of technology.


kanye West holograms himself in clay is far better than Damien Hirst's medical cabinet

West should toy further with the idea of erotic imagery with whoever or whoever he desires, or that of self masturbation. Madonna would be deeply pissed. Nevertheless, it has been done before in its primitive colour photographic genre by his predecessor Jeff Koon having sex with his wife, Ilona Staller, but West wins over with the photographic concept that places himself in the position of mortality and leads him straight into the Museum of Modern Art. What possibilities for the future.....

FACEBOOK - Wonders never cease

Because I want to exist. Because I am part of the global community. Because willingly I want people to know all about me. Because I know people like to spy.

Facebook - I know everything about you without lifting a finger. I see my dream of being God, I know what is needed to fulfill my wants of global domination.......

Questions for a country

The small island of Trinidad on the tip of South American.

In one word what best describes Trinidad and Tobago?

Blessed

How should Trinidad and Tobago be viewed in the World?

With respect.

How would you best describe them as a people?

Unfocused, caring, independent in their little world, trickery, flaming, skillful and religious.

What attributes does this country have?

Freedom

What is the country mission?

To be truly prosperously, to be a leader in the region, to show the modern world that we can make it no matter our ills.

What feeling do you get from Trinidad?

Hot, bustling, laughter, prayers, music.

What feeling do you have of Tobago?

Black, community, growth, submission, proud, fighters.

What steps can Trinidad and Tobago take to achieve what it truly wants?

Forgive themselves for who they are and trust themselves to change their cause.

In a decade, how do you see this place as ?

Lovely, calm, grounded, suspicious, robust yet truly caring

A pedestrian pondering over this sign, Made In China, Port of Spain, Trinidad

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1. Flaming: a local vernacular meaning showoff, knowing all or in the know

Michel de Nostredame - Self portrait series

I gone off, oui


A study of illusion and reality, parody, humour and humanity

To begin with, I found myself liking this feinin very much. In it I saw a man who loved the mystery of (time travel). A poet in his thinking, and a visionary in thought, like a playground where clues could be unlocked in places hidden. (cupboards, draws and bureaus) This was a spirit, gentle at heart, and an instigator willingly and trusting. Alone, penance, genius, success, beauty, teaching, courage...

William Shakespeare - Self portrait series

A study of illusion and reality, parody, humour and humanity

In this Self portrait, a single vision entered my mind, and it was an enclosure that housed a wooden stage. In this feinin, I felt as if this man was mad but also a thief. And that his life was revered in secrecy. Like a dream, I felt as if I was mounted on a bow of a vessel, and heading off to the land, rich in mythology, a place of the Argonauts. Patience, laughter, muse, puzzle, remember me...

John Lennon - Self portrait series

A study of illusion and reality, parody, humour and humanity

Here is a self portrait, so daunting and so prophetical in its meaning. A feinin I didn't expect of a young singer who dreamed the impossible and triumphed over a disability. A writer who transformed the music world, lifted the hearts of many through his words, softy reminding how wonderful, how truly superb, life, living, God, sex...In this work, I saw myself in reflection, as a man in eternal grief, proud, troubled and statuesque.

My decision to feinin myself as John Lennon was far from my thoughts. It was by chance, and I use this term quite loosely. What makes this astonishing is that he was born on this day, 9th, October.

Albert Einstein - Self portrait series

A study of illusion and reality, parody, humour and humanity

In this portrait study, here was an inventor, a magician with his brew. A pot in which he stirred all of life's mysteries. jokily, he added a few of his own. What intrigue. And for who he was, I searched to seek what was inside his head, alas, there was nothing, void, and vacuum of space. As if his prophesies were true, in that he took it all with him, everything, his existence, empty, finito, kiss.....

María Callas - Self portrait series

A study of illusion and reality, parody, humour and humanity

In this feinin,I found myself faced with a legend, a goddess if you like. A spirit that was encased in a nest of gems, gold, platinum and rubies, yet was as fragile as glass. In this self portrait, I saw the footing of a (stone) presence, a moving force where I could flick away my admirers. (And a voice, not of me), but a voice that could capacitive, screeching, epic, so soft.

It's funny and so revealing, I primmed just before this work was devised.

Francisco de Goya - Self portrait series

A study of illusion and reality, parody, humour and humanity

This was an artist who at first wanted to taste blood, and a man who thought the very ills of society. In dreams, he languished over his civil obligation. In this self portrait, I felt a man who knew who he was going to be. Determined, fierce and sensual in his ways. But in a way, I was locked in time, unable to see past what I saw. Myself, so matched, so permanent, so frightening.

Edvard Munch - Self portrait series

A study of illusion and reality, parody, humour and humanity

In my silence, in my attempt to feinin myself as Edvard Munch, I felt an over sense of an inner insanity, a stark reflection of a man still, self-possessed, cultured but empty. Void of his existence, afraid of his shadow, ominous, heart wrenched, jealous and mysterious. Lost and drowned in his self-worth, in his erratic behavior. A painter who brewed over his purpose, his enigma for living.

Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) - Self portrait series

A study of illusion and reality, parody, humour and humanity

In this study, I had doubt a work so famous, so interpreted and debated that I wondered could there be anymore added to its mystery. But yet, in this self portrait, I felt lost again as I had with the Michelangelo study to the point I could not see myself. And then, I felt, a (lady) short, plumply, fidgety and excitable to be in the presence of a (master) who she greatly admired. Although my portrait had aged her, this was a hearty character who through her (flirtation), commented on da Vinci's wishy hands, his hooked nose and beautiful teeth. And during the sittings, they laughed, they gossiped.....

And in this moment, the intrigued over her smile may just have been her idiosyncrasies, her underlay of smirks which the painter captured so teasingly, so subtle, resonating her beauty, coy and tempting.

The Madonna - Self portrait series

A study of illusion and reality, parody, humour and humanity .

So far in my study portraits, I have never been touched by a feeling that represented a mother's love for her infant. In this work, I searched to verify its meaning, and its truth in the abstraction and of its nonexistence, but it did not matter, its omnipresence of what it meant was overpowering, impacting and so (real). What I can tell you that it led me to an (epiphany) about inherently wanting, subconsciously. This was what love really means.

In the portrait of the Madonna, I felt the presence of a (blinding love), a bonding, and a child that was clingy, but mine altogether. But I knew that I was giving him up. His fragility, his inquisitiveness, his innocence. And I thought to myself, take good care of him, treat him well with respect and dignity, as he is my only. The (love) that I felt was the maternal bond.

It should be noted that this experience is not within a religious context.

Jesus of Nazareth ? - Self portrait series

A study of illusion and reality, parody, humour and humanity .

In this self portrait, I was puzzled, more so by what I thought I believed to be true. In this mosaic, the (Messiah) is not that of Jesus of Nazareth, but rather of one of his ( Apostles). In this work, I felt encased in stone, mammoth, a presence of a law, a teaching and a permanent reminder of, under a political regime. Grand, powerful and far reaching.

Diana Spencer - Self portrait series

A study of illusion and reality, parody, humour and humanity .

The layering of the self portrait had an ominous sense of sadness, I felt still, trapped in a body that kept shedding, like a reptile. In this portrait, I felt alone, neglected, spied upon and trapped. And to top it all, my existence had a grandeur where I could not dream, trapped, isolated, Now I realized what went wrong, and why this turned out this way, my tragic end, so sudden, so frightening....

Vincent Van Gogh - Self portrait series

A man who painted for companionship to combat his loneliness

In this portrait, I felt, stiff, cold, small framed, agitated and troubled as I longed for recognition. I could no longer continue to bear my insecurities as a painter, and as an artist who was tormented in every way. My life spent in shambles. (At this moment I felt a connection, eerie, prophetical)

Vincent Van Gogh's heart was immense, yet he (foolishly) give it up to his love of painting, forever forgotten. His soul is protected.

What ever this means to you, I want to say thank you, thank you for your courage, for your motherland, and to your art, unknowingly, yet foretelling (to the world)

Carlisle Chang - Self portrait series

The Inherent Nobility of Man - A study of illusion and reality, parody, humour and humanity

In this self study, I felt free, free in my will to bask in the sun's rays and to be free from the ropes of my past. This was a new beginning, a rebirth if you will, from a place I treasured very dearly. A place bountiful and tropic. I saw a new adventure, I saw the uncharted waters and the foreseen horizon. I was excited, but also afraid in my wake.

And where I could shine, I felt as if I was playing in an individual carnival costume, covered with glitter and in high boots. Centre stage for the Queen to see, the spotlight was on me. Yet, my wings could not make me fly. I should be noted that the character from this work took on the likeness of the mythical Icarus.

In this composition, I captured a man who was fussy, flamboyant in his ways, but a man who loved the possibilities of a nation, independent and free. Carlisle Chang's heart was suppressed, his (loves) were lost.
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The Artist Carlisle Chang was a national treasure, 1921-2001, and he really did not get the credit he deserved. He took on the task of creating a modern vision for an island state that had no idea where it was going in 1962. He sought to look at our culture and our past and meld these forms of iconography together to create the Inherent Nobility of Man.

This masterwork was one that was meant to stand for the ages for our country. It was the equivalent in some ways to Picasso's Guernica. Not for being a representation of war and a hope for peace in a literal way, but of an idea and ideal of nationhood.

We take his work completely for granted, thinking that he was simply an artist of a period. Maybe it is the fact that the work of the time and the work of today do not seek to express such high ideals for any reason, as his clearly did then. Mr. Chang has left a remarkable legacy, but can we read about him freely in our libraries? Is his work preserved enough? Luckily there are a few pieces in very good condition that are still around.

In 'Nobility', Mr.Chang was embarking on a type of painting that was unprecedented at that time, to create a mural with specific overtones to nationalism, patriotism and statehood.
Mr.Chang's painting of the warrior looking up to the sun with the wings of the Humming Bird, yet still earth bound suggests our own inability to sour within the easily won freedom of our age. When Nobility was made, he was looking at an uncharted horizon of a new born country, with all the hope and heart filled love of the idealist. To have that hope destroyed by his own people years later, certainly broke him and it arguably remains as the single worst case of conscious art vandalism and destruction in Trinidad and Tobago.

This work was lovingly attempted by his protégé,in his own humble attempt to right the wrong done. However, it is the original that holds the truth of an expectation that should touch us still today. - Adele