"The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, 'Hey – don't worry, don't be afraid ever, because this is just a ride ...' And we ... kill those people. Ha ha, 'Shut him up. We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real.' It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because – it's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead, spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace. Thank you very much, you've been great."

[several gunshots ring out, Bill mimes being hit and falls to floor, motionless.]

(Onstage closing comments of Bill Hicks Revelations special from 1993)

This is an example of a set of wooden knuckles (or wooden knuckle dusters) made out of cherry. They look like the real thing but aren’t. They're available in other wood and can be made to order

This is a piece of art and is not intended for any other purpose.

For more info go to www.etsy.com

A printer’s nightmare - even the cover is expensive to produce… but a fantastic result - I really want a copy! I need a copy!!
Available from Roaring Brook Press, they don't have a web site yet so try Amazon or something.

Owned by Yorgo Tloupas, built by Max Knight and photographed by Thomas Brown - That's all we know!

Go watch it in action here...

This photographer's life work is documenting his mysterious love/hate relationship with the sea. Corey spends 3-4 months of the year working as an Alaskian Crab fisherman all the while documenting it and his ship he works on was featured in the popular Discovery Channel show, Deadliest Catch...

Corey's work has been featured in Rolling Stone, RE:UP, Juxtapoz, Artweek, Giant Robot, Fortune, FHM UK, Humble Arts Foundation, National Fisherman and Popular Photography. He just wrapped up a solo show in 2007 at Richard Heller Gallery in Los Angeles. Corey Arnold has now taken up permanent residency in humble city of Portland, Oregon.

coreyfishes.com

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If the answer is 'yes absolutely' you go to sleeveface.com

José Parlá is back in Europe.

Born in Miami into a family of Cuban exiles, José Parlá moved to Puerto Rico at a very early age before returning to Miami again when he was nine. He currently lives and works in New York, and only recently traveled to Cuba for the first time. His life, like his work, is therefore at once extremely particular and generally reflective of the wanderings of today's urban populations.

Galleria Il Trifoglio Nero in Genova will open on March 29th with the show Memory Documents.

"I call my works 'Memory Documents' because they become fragments of places I've been through. I am not only using paint to create my paintings, but I am also collecting bits of paper from walls, old newspapers, chunks of materials from the street or subway stations to reuse as collage onto my own surfaces and rework them until the colours of mould, rust and deterioration are right for the composition. The process may take weeks or months." - José Parlá.

Autumn in New York, 2 x 4 feet, mixed media and collage on wood.

Via di San Lorenzo, 2 x 3 feet, plaster, acrylic, oil and enamel paint on canvas

The New Grand Tour Manifesto, 4 x 6 feet, collage, ink, oil, polyurethane and enamel on wood.

World's Smallest Gun

The SwissMiniGun is two inches long and fires bullets at 270 mph. Perfect for killing baby bunnies. They're delicious!