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| Monday, August 25th, 2008 | | 8:27 pm |
| | Sunday, August 24th, 2008 | | 1:06 pm |
I got these vintage fashion illustration postcards for only 200 yen each! Neato.   | | Friday, August 22nd, 2008 | | 12:35 am |
 My current favorite comic (even though it's 50 years old), is Moomin. Moomin is the name of the hippo-like creature who stars in the comic, but my favorite is Mymble. She's a human character who is constantly falling in love with people who have no interest in her. Here are some scans from when she tries to win the affections of Mr. Brisk, a sort-of Jack Frost-type character.  P.S. The hippo-like creature in these panels in not Moomin, but a creature named Snorkmaiden. ( +3 ) | | Saturday, July 26th, 2008 | | 4:13 pm |
THE HIVE GALLERY- August 2008 Group Art Show & Performances
Opening: 08/02/08 8PM-12:30AM
The Hive Gallery and Studios
729 S. Spring St.
LA, CA 90014
www.thehivegallery.com
parking on Spring St.
Featured Artists:
Featured Artist 1: Tom Haubs
Featured Artist 2: Jophen Stein
Tall Wall Artist: Tony Philippou
Small Wall Artist: Miss Withers
Installation Artist: Ching Ching Cheng
AUGUST 2008 show
Asylm / Heidi Calvert / Adriana Garibay / Tony Koehl / Teresa Flowers / Randy Thurman /
Gregory Rodriguez / Prince of Cake / Sampson Martinez / Randy Horton / Shannon O' Connor /
Sean Anderson / Tavo Quiros / Alex Garcia / Yumiko Awae / Juice / Mallorie Freeman /
Megan Elizabeth Ford / Gilbert Oh (NYC) / Michael Pukac / Peter Gullerud / Andrew Paul /
Paul Whitehead / Juice Ink / Hannah Josepher / Darren Savaris / Kenji Tanaka / Jason Hadley /
Renee Lawter / Jose Lopes / Gabe Leonard / Ken Garduno / Nate Seubert / Kio Griffith /
James Malone / Paul Torres / Michael Pukac / Carol Powell / Patrick Haemmerlein / Airom Bleicher /
Michele Waterman / Mary Spring / Erin Lucia / Lindsay Riley / Dave Kawano / Taslimur /
Jenna Colby / Justin McInteer / Orion / Aglaia Mortcheva / Tom Haubs /Erick Rodriguez /
Alex Schaefer / Melissa Moss / Travis Morley / LD Grant / ZOSO / Walt Hall / Max Grundy /
Hembert Guardado / Haley Robinson / Danni Shinya Luo / Dan Bigelow / Mylan Nguyen /
Kim Zsebe / Ville Kansanen / Gentry / Randy Horton / Catherine Brooks / Tim Hooper / A
ndrew Paul / Douglas Alvarez / Ted Von Heiland / Eliza Frye / Erin Hernandez / Carl Lozada /
Alyce Harlequin / Steven Katz / Jessica Huang / Art Weeks / Jun Duras / 13:11 / Nick Wildermuth /
Dion Macellari / Teresa Flowers / Mickey Me / Christopher Valdes / Justin Schaefer / Yuki Miyazaki /
Alex Feliciano / Alex Freeman / Mike Bilz / Chris Donham / Carlos Castro / Asia / Steven Katz /
K.Y.Park / Emi Motokawa / Terry Kim / Gyorgy Szabo / Steven Sattler / Eric Davison /
Rebecca Hahn / zombienose /
$8 at door for night of performances and amazing art from around the country
all ages/ beverages available for 21+
Show runs August 2nd- 30th
For more info: www.thehivegallery.com
| | Friday, July 11th, 2008 | | 4:35 pm |
Here's an old(er) one:  | | Thursday, July 10th, 2008 | | 10:10 am |
 This is a painting I had to whip out really fast because I forgot about a group show I was supposed to be in. It took one day and two sequential viewings of Caligula. I didn't have time to scan it, because I had to rush it downtown before the paint was even dry, thinking I'd get a good scan after the show came down. But it sold HEY! Good news, but now all I have is this shitty photo. Oh well. It's acrylic and pen on the back of a huckleberry jam box. | | Friday, July 4th, 2008 | | 12:53 pm |
 This character, that I've been drawing alot, is Mymble from the Finnish comic strip, Moomin. I think she's really cute, and she's always falling in love with strange people, like Jack Frost, who never return her affections. ( More faces, shapes, and post-it's ) | | Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 | | 10:18 am |
Weee After I lost my sketchbook at that goth club, I wasn't sure if I was ready to sketch again. It would have been too soon. Then I found a lovely leather bound number and the pages don't even bleed sharpie! So I'm drawing again. Hooray!  | | Monday, June 23rd, 2008 | | 11:17 am |
| | Saturday, June 21st, 2008 | | 2:28 pm |
It's Saturday! That means it's time for ( MAN BABIES ) | | Friday, June 6th, 2008 | | 11:17 am |
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| | Friday, May 30th, 2008 | | 11:33 am |
Two shows you should go to.   | | Monday, May 19th, 2008 | | 9:13 am |
Finally, a new painting!  acrylic and pen, titleless it's not Untitled, it title less. I'm searching for a good one. Let me know if you have one. | | Sunday, May 11th, 2008 | | 11:22 am |
| | Sunday, April 6th, 2008 | | 10:32 am |
Cartoon
| | Thursday, March 20th, 2008 | | 10:53 am |
Tibetan fox He's not going to smile.   | | Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 | | 10:17 am |
Thanks for the beef, jerky. Friday night! I will be in a 3-person art show in Burbank. One of those three is the amazing Big Tasty who will be there only in a loin cloth!  Hyaena Gallery1928 W. Olive Ave. Burbank, CA 91506 Tel: 1-818-972-2448 8pm- Midnight FREE! | | 10:05 am |
" Gums", a painting I did for the Hyaena show that turned out looking WAY more hip than I hoped. Not even now hip. Like two years ago Urban Outfitters hip.  Ah well. | | Friday, February 8th, 2008 | | 11:19 am |
Federal Judge Overturns Bush Sonar Waiver
LOS ANGELES, California, February 4, 2008 (ENS) - A federal court today struck down a waiver issued by the White House that would exempt the U.S. Navy from complying with environmental law during sonar training exercises off southern California.
In nullifying the waiver, U.S. District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper reaffirmed an injunction issued early in January, requiring the Navy to reduce harm to whales and other marine mammals from sonar training. The Navy has acknowledged that the high-intensity, mid-frequency sonar at issue can injure and kill whales and other marine mammals.
"The Court has affirmed that we do not live under an imperial presidency," said Joel Reynolds, director of the Marine Mammal Protection Project at the Natural Resources Defense Council, NRDC, which obtained the injunction against the Navy.
"It is a bedrock principle of our government that neither the military nor the president is above the law," said Richard Kendall, a senior partner at the Los Angeles law firm of Irell & Manella, and co-counsel with NRDC in the lawsuit. "Judge Cooper has upheld that fundamental doctrine."
On January 15, President Bush issued the Navy an unprecedented waiver under the Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA), and allowed the Navy an "emergency" waiver under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), for a series of training exercises involving high-intensity, mid-frequency sonar now underway.
Those statutes are the basis of a January 3 injunction issued by Judge Cooper, requiring the Navy to monitor for and avoid marine mammals while operating sonar during the SOCAL naval exercises.
Today, in rejecting the Bush administration’s waiver under NEPA, Judge Cooper wrote, "The Navy's current 'emergency' is simply a creature of its own making, i.e., its failure to prepare adequate environmental documentation in a timely fashion."
The judge said the Navy's position "produces the absurd result of permitting agencies to avoid their NEPA obligations by re- characterizing ordinary, planned activities as 'emergencies' in the interests of national security, economic stability, or other long-term policy goals."
"This cannot be consistent with Congressional intent," she ruled.
In addition, although Judge Cooper expressed "significant concerns about the constitutionality of the President’s exemption of the Navy from the requirements of the Coastal Zone Management Act," she wrote that no finding on the issue is necessary because the "Court is satisfied that its injunction stands firmly on NEPA grounds."
The judge reaffirmed the January 3 injunction, which requires the Navy to maintain a 12 nautical mile no-sonar buffer zone along the California coastline; to avoid other key whale habitat; to shut down sonar when marine mammals are spotted within 2,000 meters; and to monitor for marine mammals using various methods, among other measures.
"The Navy doesn’t need to harm whales to train effectively with sonar. By following the carefully crafted measures ordered by the court, the Navy can conduct its exercises without imperiling marine mammals," Reynolds said.
NRDC was joined in the lawsuit by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, Cetacean Society International, League for Coastal Protection, Ocean Futures Society, and Jean-Michel Cousteau.
The conservation groups warn that the high-intensity mid-frequency sonar systems can blast across large areas with levels of underwater noise loud enough to have killed marine mammals in incidents around the world.
The waters off Southern California have some of the richest marine habitat in the country, and include five endangered species of whales, a globally important population of blue whales, the largest animal ever to live on Earth, and seven species of beaked whales, which are known to be particularly vulnerable to underwater sound.
Rear Adm. Larry Rice, director of the Chief of Naval Operations Environmental Readiness Division defended the Navy's use of sonar in California coastal waters. He said sonar is essential to detect new, silent submarines and added that no marine mammal incidents have occurred in Southern California waters.
"The U.S. Navy has trained in Southern California for the past 40 years and they have had zero incidents with marine mammals - no strandings, no deaths, and no documented injuries," he said.
"We want to keep that up," said Rice. "In order to accomplish this, we have 29 protective measures that we already employ. The additional training restrictions that the court levied on us frankly don't help us take care of the environment - and it restricts our training."
Rice says worldwide naval use of active sonar has been correlated with the stranding of approximately 50 whales during the 10 year period from 1996-2006.
"Contrast that with over 3,500 marine mammal 'normal' strandings that occur on U.S. shores annually, and 600,000 marine mammal deaths each year by commercial fishing interests," Rice said.
Rice attributes the U.S. Navy's "success with sonar to the fleet operators who are paying attention to what is going on in the world with marine mammals and sonar, and they realize that this is really important."
"The ocean is a noisy place," said Rice, "not only are there submarines out there, but there is wave sound, rain sounds, there are other marine mammals, there are seismic sounds, earthquakes, volcanoes — a lot of sounds in the oceans, and they have to pick out that really quiet diesel electric submarine amongst all of those other sounds. That isn't something that we can simulate."
Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 2008. All rights reserved. |
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