Defend the indefensible - Thomas Kinkade

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Or don't. You know, whatever.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 12 September 2005 23:25 (4 years ago) Permalink

I actually kind of like the fact that he's making people who otherwise would have no use for art of any kind aware that there is contemporary painting, and even more so attepting to make painting into something like a mass medium that could have the kind of cultural significance that pop music or TV do. If only the stuff he was using to do it wasn't so fucking trite and godawful.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 12 September 2005 23:28 (4 years ago) Permalink

Defense: he's got a great scam going.

― President Busch (dr g), Monday, 12 September 2005 23:33 (4 years ago) Permalink

Painter of Shite

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 12 September 2005 23:49 (4 years ago) Permalink

I think my mother hates him more than she hates the president

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 12 September 2005 23:50 (4 years ago) Permalink

"he's got a great scam going."

Certainly true, but I still think possibly there might be an unintended good effect that comes from the scam.

Maybe.

Kinda.

Probably not.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 12 September 2005 23:52 (4 years ago) Permalink

It's definitely a great scam. You can buy a print for X$, then you can have a Kinkade-approved painter add "additional highlights" for XX$. Or, you can buy one "enhanced" by Kinkade himself for XX+$ and it will be signed with a DNA matrixed (i.e. blood or something) signature. And what other ~~artist~~ art personality going has approved the design of an entire gated community?

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 12 September 2005 23:58 (4 years ago) Permalink

On a plane I once chatted with a "Thomas Kinkade Highlight Artist"; he said that he flew all over the country for one-day highlighting sessions, where people queued up and paid untold sums for twenty minutes of Kinkade-approved paint-dabbing by him. He seemed like a very nice man, and agreed that it was a sweet, sweet gig.

I'd never heard of Kinkade, but my prairie relatives reacted like I'd shaken hands with Elvis' personal syringe-filler.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 01:21 (4 years ago) Permalink

Trite trite trite banal kitschy. Ugh.

Jaq, I've read about that community that he designed- it's in CA, right? It sounds so weird.

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 01:28 (4 years ago) Permalink

That's not art, it's paint by numbres for chissakes!

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 01:31 (4 years ago) Permalink

Rockist!

(tee hee!)

― pr00de, where's my car? (pr00de), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 01:33 (4 years ago) Permalink

that community that he designed

Yeah, something like "Kinderbrooke", outside SF I think.

(post-google) - It's Hiddenbrooke, here's a Salon article: http://www.salon.com/mwt/style/2002/03/18/kinkade_village/

I did some work for a guy who collected Kinkade - it was very unnerving to be in their house with all those light-filled pieces.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 01:58 (4 years ago) Permalink

Event: Disneyland 50th Anniversary Product Release & Signing with Thomas Kinkade
Event Date: Saturday, September 10, 2005
Event Time: 3:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Location: The Disney Gallery, New Orleans Square, DisneylandÒ park

Event Information:
As part of our Disneyland® Resort 50th Anniversary Celebration, we are honored to unveil a breathtaking rendering of our transformed Sleeping Beauty Castle by famed “Painter of Light,”TM Thomas Kinkade. One of the most collected and beloved artists of our day, Thomas Kinkade emphasizes simple pleasures and inspirational messages through his paintings. Disney and Thomas Kinkade collectors alike will be enchanted and engaged by the luminous light and tranquil mood of this delightful release: Disneyland 50th Anniversary.

Limit TWO (2) Disneyland 50th Anniversary items per Guest. Special Guest Artist will only sign their respective item. We ask that you bring no personal items to be signed.

― President Busch (dr g), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:14 (4 years ago) Permalink

In his defense, he meekly calls himself "America's most collected living artist". I think of his stuff as modern day Norman Rockwell. Only with fewer puppies.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:22 (4 years ago) Permalink

"Art is meant to disturb" - Georges Braque

I find that Disney thing very disturbing. Also the DNA signature business; that is very ick.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:27 (4 years ago) Permalink

I think of his stuff as modern day Norman Rockwell. Only with fewer puppies.

and more garish color schemes? i find his work looks very similar to a lot of fantasy art style-wise. if it weren't for the dull subject matter, he'd be airbrushed on the side of every other ford van. his "collectors" should share the blame equally.

― amon (eman), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:31 (4 years ago) Permalink

me and Beth were wandering around Palm Springs about midnight and came upon a Kinkade shop, with a lit painting in the window of a birds-view of lower Manhatten, with a huge billowing American flag in the foreground, like a birthday cake that Miss America was about to burst out of. It was so shamelessly patriotic, and the sugary colors so fetching, I couldn't decide what I felt-- a mixture of disgust, longing (or something), giggles, and wanting to smash the window. It uccurs to me now that he and Jeff Koons are like soul brothers of kitsch-- one is commenting on it, the other embodies it. Two sides of the same coin. Kinkade is heads to Koons tail.

― donald nitchie (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:34 (4 years ago) Permalink

Perhaps this is because Kinkade did not actually design the homes himself -- instead, he licensed his name and artistic sensibilities to a development firm called Taylor Woodrow, which designed the homes but submitted all plans to Kinkade for approval. (Kinkade has declined to comment on Hiddenbrooke, and referred calls about the homes to the developer.)

― amon (eman), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:36 (4 years ago) Permalink

Like many people of faith, I have often contemplated the glories of heaven. Christ said he would prepare a mansion for us - could he also prepare a divine garden setting where in we might pursue a recreational game or two? (Or two or three thousand?)
Imagine the possibilities: not a care to interrupt the stroll through the verdant grounds, not a deadline to interfere, not an interruption to beckon. Bliss, pure and simple, and a fragrant walk through the morning light as one pursues the perfect round.

-See you on the links! Thomas Kinkade

― President Busch (dr g), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:36 (4 years ago) Permalink

"Painter of Pies In the Sky"

― amon (eman), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:40 (4 years ago) Permalink

airbrushed on the side of every other ford van

I know I've seen Kinkade-like scenes on several RVs on the freeway.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:43 (4 years ago) Permalink

he's completely indefensible

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:45 (4 years ago) Permalink

he makes the whaling wall guy look good. sort of.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:45 (4 years ago) Permalink

I saw a John Currin retrospective once and kept thinking of Kinkade, some of Currin's women were luminous like that I guess.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:46 (4 years ago) Permalink

from one trend to another

― President Busch (dr g), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:47 (4 years ago) Permalink

FWIW, I don't like Currin either, but for very different reasons. Or maybe not so different. Currin really seems to despise and condescend to his subjects; Kinkade appears to sympathize with them, but his subjects are the same as his audience (or at least I suspect that his audience imagines so) but in fact he's just taking them for all that he can.

Hmmm...

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:49 (4 years ago) Permalink

― President Busch (dr g), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:51 (4 years ago) Permalink

I mean, I know that Kinkade seldom does figures, but his landscapes seem to invite identification by the viewer. Isn't that the point of them, that they represent some idealized place where the viewer is comforted and safe and at home?

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:51 (4 years ago) Permalink

Pres. Anheuser -

I think a lot of the people who like Kinkade would probably consider Warhol just a homo junkie scumbag. Not that the Kinkade audience is the only wider audience art could and should be pitched to, or that Warhol is (in the work you're referencing, at least) about as accessible as Kinkade is. The thing is, I think since Pop Art's heyday the art scene has become even more insular and less a mass medium than it was before. So in that sense, Pop Art failed and Kinkade seems to be the only one taking painting to the mainstream. I happen to give the mainstream a lot of credit in terms of what they can handle. I think the (previously) experimental techniques used in music video and film attest to that. Why not take GOOD art to the mainstream? When Andy Goldsworthy's show came here to Austin last spring, I dragged as many people as I could to it, and every one of them loved it.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:59 (4 years ago) Permalink

The set design on Rivendell in the Peter Jackson movies looked like it was done by Kinkade.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 03:33 (4 years ago) Permalink

(Actually, Orlando Bloom in the Peter Jackson movies looked like he was done by Kinkade.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 03:33 (4 years ago) Permalink

I think of his stuff as modern day Norman Rockwell. Only with fewer puppies.

This does a grave disservice to Rockwell!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 03:50 (4 years ago) Permalink

That's funny, gypsy mothra. One of the people I took to the Goldsworthy is a LOTR nut and said he kinda wished that the elf architecture in the movies was more like Goldsworthy's stuff.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 04:00 (4 years ago) Permalink

Vomitous.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 04:56 (4 years ago) Permalink

I think my mother hates him more than she hates the president
Mine too! AND Currin also is Marked for Death by Mom. We've had endless debates over it. I just think it's kicky that an "artist" OF ANY KIND can make himself a household word. As if any of Kinkade's fans are going to buy my mother's weird paintings instead, in the event that the P of L is assassinated and all his paintings burned. I'm sure they're flame-retardant. Those people are never ever ever gonna go for anything else. The paintings reinforce their pot-of-gold-at-the-end-of-the-rainbow delusions. "Honey, this is our little cottage!!!" Fine. I just can't get worked up about it.
But I actually want that Disneyland painting! I guess I could replicate it, in a fashion. Actually, everyone on this thread should paint a Thomas Kinkade painting!!!
C'mon, folks! Get cracking!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 13:02 (4 years ago) Permalink

Sniffle - I don't have a place to do oil painting right now. Maybe I could do it in prismacolor.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 13:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

I think a lot of the people who like Kinkade would probably consider Warhol just a homo junkie scumbag.

Kinkade yaoi, now there's a whole new market. I like the Disneyland picture, I confess, partly because it's the best giggly kitsch ever, partly because it really does exhibit what "Disneyland" signifies to many Americans in the 20th/1st century, partly because it looks like an Alma-Tadema painting (whom I love for his giggly kitsch).

― Paul Ess (Paul Ess), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 13:46 (4 years ago) Permalink

To hate the Disneyland picture is to hate LIFE!!!!
Maybe I could do it in prismacolor.
I think a wide variety of media should be encouraged. It's funny, I did a series of paintings of little shacks, most of them nightscapes, with lots of multicolored stars and smudges and reflections, and sometimes even flowers. They don't look like Kinkades, my painting is a little too brutish. I could push them into Kinkadism if I just took a little more care, but I'm a slob. Beth Parker, Painter of Blight.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 13:50 (4 years ago) Permalink

Aaaaaaaaah! Thomas Kinkade on QVC is one of the most terrifying and entertaining ways of spending an hour you could wish for.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 13:53 (4 years ago) Permalink

Serious question: what is BAD about Kinkade?

I admire Kinkade on a conceptual level, on the level where what he's doing becomes pure modern art. You may argue that this is accidental, that's he's not self-aware, but I don't see how it COULDN'T be self-aware. He's the bastard son of PT Barnum and Andy Warhol. And actually Warhol is the perfec comparison: an emphasis on flash over depth, the use of multiple prints that are only different enough to make them "unique," the creation of a place that identifies with his artistic vision (TS: Hiddenbrooke vs. the Factory), etc.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 14:15 (4 years ago) Permalink

For me it's the gooey sentiment and the smug 'I'm special'-ness that seem to permeate his (and his fans') worldview that make him so bad and hated. Although as I mentioned upthread, I'm suspicious that he's cynically pulling one over on his customer base.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 14:21 (4 years ago) Permalink

How is he pulling one over on his customers? Most likely, they are looking for: a) art that they enjoy looking at, and/or b) art that is an "investment." They presumably are getting both when they buy a Kinkade piece.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 14:59 (4 years ago) Permalink

I love him in a Salute to PT Barnum kind of way. I wish I had that idea first.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:10 (4 years ago) Permalink

n/a -

Well, I meant in the sense that he's just 'giving the suckers what they want' and not neccesarily painting what he'd like to do most. You know, that he wants most is their money, not to paint gloopy scenes of candle-lit cottages in snowy forests.

But on the subject of b) I doubt very much that his paintings will continue to be good investments. There are simply too many of them and they're too much alike. What we've got here is a speculative bubble based on fiendishly clever marketing.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:11 (4 years ago) Permalink

Kinkade doesn't seem to have much in common w/ Warhol at all (ie i think we're still waiting for Kinkaid's death row or car crash pics)

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:16 (4 years ago) Permalink

It's beanie babies for the "art" world. I find TK disgusting. It's taking manufactured art to a new level & it feeds on consumer consumption. although, if they're stupid enough to buy it, so be it. TK has never come off as genuine to me & I presume that a lot of his fans think he is. I also hate idyllic life in easter colors.

I don't think that the Warhol comparison is totally fair. Warhol was smarter about his art in a different way. TK comes off as a business more than an artist. He uses gimmicks to increase value & sell more crap. Warhol seems to me more like a running commentary.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:20 (4 years ago) Permalink

All the xtian kitsch and patriotic schtick that's marketed under his brand is more insidious than the large-scale paintings, IMO. So his stuff is fluffy and froufrou and twee and mass-produced - his followers want that, for now. Not much different from R.C. Gorman, or Bev Doolittle, or Patrick Nagel. But the onslaught of furniture, shower curtains, calendars, knick-knacks, screensavers, etc. all in the name of making his "vision" affordable for the masses is a bit much.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:29 (4 years ago) Permalink

How come no one understands "DEFEND THE INDEFENSIBLE" threads but me?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:35 (4 years ago) Permalink

Note that a Patrick Nagel/Kinkade collaboration would be the end-all/be-all.

also, my parents buy the Kinkade.

and they buy books advertised on the radio.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

He has a luxurious moustache?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:40 (4 years ago) Permalink

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I like O'Toole's expression. "I'm in this movie? Really?"

― Shacknasty (Frogman Henry), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh marcia gay, hope you got something nice

― goole, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

loooooooooooool

― most important concept of all -- THE CONCEPT OF LOVE (donna rouge), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

“In the age of Photoshop, anybody can do this kind of crap.”

― ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

trailer!

― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

holy shit it's got Chris Elliott!

― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

Kinkade twice cites Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon as a working template
Kinkade twice cites Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon as a working template
Kinkade twice cites Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon as a working template
Kinkade twice cites Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon as a working template
Kinkade twice cites Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon as a working template
Kinkade twice cites Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon as a working template

― The Five-Dollar Footlong Song (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

Gyah! The only possible redemption would be a remixed trailer ala "Shining" right?

― There is no Grodd but Mallah and Congorilla is His Prophet. (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 01:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

This thread is supposed to be "defend the indefensible" so let me just say that as terrible as Kinkade's 16 directions sound in general, they seem perfectly appropriate for the kind of movie this obviously is. They're selling the movie with Kinkade's name on the front -- what, you thought he was going to reboot the franchise and make it look like Eraserhead?

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 01:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

Kinkade Kills

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 01:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

I like O'Toole's expression. "I'm in this movie? Really?"

― the head werewolf's girlfriend (latebloomer), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 03:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh shit that was supposed to be the phantoms trailer, fuck

― the head werewolf's girlfriend (latebloomer), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 03:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

― the head werewolf's girlfriend (latebloomer), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 03:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

Would hang

― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 04:02 (11 months ago) Permalink

I mean yeah it'd be really predictable "irony" but come on, it's like a highlights for children "spot the popular subject matter" game.

― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 04:03 (11 months ago) Permalink

oh shit that was supposed to be the phantoms trailer, fuck

― the head werewolf's girlfriend (latebloomer), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 03:48 (3 months ago
your text

Well frankly I'm in your debt for introducing me to SHAKMAAAAAAAAAA, and of couse the respected actor bemused to find himself in this picture theme could apply to Roddy McDowell, so..

― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 05:13 (11 months ago) Permalink

Haha, I kind of love that image.
So he's painted a view from the crowd at a Nascar event.
But the image still needs some pizazz. Ah! Add FIREWORKS!
No, still not good enough, still not fast enough! JET PLANES!
<3

― Øystein, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 09:39 (11 months ago) Permalink

the planes are flying out of the fireworks!

― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 13:36 (11 months ago) Permalink

I mean yeah it'd be really predictable "irony" but come on

He has to be on to this. How do you paint a cultural artifact like that and say, Oh How No One Shall Ever *Roll Their Damn Eyes* at This?

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:13 (11 months ago) Permalink

wow.

― double bird strike (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:16 (11 months ago) Permalink

the planes are flying out of the fireworks!

― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:36 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

maybe those are exploding planes :(

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:18 (11 months ago) Permalink

I almost want to see a Kinkade illustration of 9/11 now.

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:24 (11 months ago) Permalink

those aren't fireworks they're bombs the jets just deployed

― abominable spirit (latebloomer), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:25 (11 months ago) Permalink

xpost oh god...i can almost picture it

― He grew in Pussyville. Population: him. (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:25 (11 months ago) Permalink

Poll

Kid getting piggyback ride to win.

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:30 (11 months ago) Permalink

there may be one too many planes there

― double bird strike (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:31 (11 months ago) Permalink

That's the trifecta of panem et circences gratuitous air pollution!

― It is not enough to love mankind – you must be able to stand (Michael White), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:33 (11 months ago) Permalink

i like how Jimmie's leading them down in historically-accurate fashion with the yellow just right

― double bird strike (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:34 (11 months ago) Permalink

the most air pollution comes from the fans getting to and from, as is true of a lot of exurban concerts and festivals. i'm planning to take public transportation to my first race.

― double bird strike (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:36 (11 months ago) Permalink

well, mass transit at least

― double bird strike (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:39 (11 months ago) Permalink

the planes are flying out of the fireworks!

― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:36 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

maybe those are exploding planes :(

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:18 (20 minutes ago)

Or perhaps the planes have just time-traveled into the scene.

― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:40 (11 months ago) Permalink

the sky sequence is like an uncle duke drug episode by someone who can draw

― double bird strike (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:41 (11 months ago) Permalink

shinorishoes:Asian women = gabbneb:NASCAR

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:28 (11 months ago) Permalink

the dad appears to be wearing a stars n bars bandanna

everyone appears to have hearing protection except the child and the old man (who looks wistfully on at the father and son)

― JtM Is Ruled By A Black Man (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:32 (11 months ago) Permalink

It looks like it says "500 YEARS" on the field.

― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:35 (11 months ago) Permalink

― Lord Infamous Epsilon (and what), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:39 (11 months ago) Permalink

TALKING TOO FAST

― JtM Is Ruled By A Black Man (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:40 (11 months ago) Permalink

Painter of Light!
Awesome

― Øystein, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:42 (11 months ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

Painter of fraud

Schadenfreude, they name is me.

― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Friday, 19 June 2009 16:33 (7 months ago) Permalink

I'd rather Shane Carwin worked his gut for a few rounds, but that's a reasonable start.

― For other uses, see Cornhole (disambiguation). (Oilyrags), Friday, 19 June 2009 18:44 (7 months ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:35 (7 months ago) Permalink

i follow the l.a. times architecture critic on twitter and roffled when he wrote this about the late king o' pop's ranch:

"Neverland is equal parts Walt Disney, Willy Wonka & Thomas Kinkade"

― mollie sugban (get bent), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:48 (7 months ago) Permalink

Borrowed from a fine man who goes by the name of Yip.

― Derelict, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 07:04 (7 months ago) Permalink

Kinkade/KKK mash-up ftw.

― Originally opened in 1964 (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 08:28 (7 months ago) Permalink

Yeah that's the best one.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 10:06 (7 months ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/17/DDI11AL7RR.DTL

― l'homme moderne: il forniquait et lisait des journaux (Michael White), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 16:04 (2 months ago) Permalink

I admit I was more hoping this was him being locked up for that fraud stuff.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 16:13 (2 months ago) Permalink

― Meatcat (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 16:14 (2 months ago) Permalink

My friend teaches some art 101 class at the university...she had a student, on his final, try and write his essay (on a major art movement & some of its members) on "Newmanism," the movement of "light painting" as founded by T. Kinkade.

Newmanism!

― mascara and ties (Abbott), Thursday, 19 November 2009 20:51 (2 months ago) Permalink

as in alfred e?

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:56 (2 months ago) Permalink

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