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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well, mass transit at least

― double bird strike (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:39 (1 year 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 (1 year 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 (1 year ago) Permalink

shinorishoes:Asian women = gabbneb:NASCAR

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:28 (1 year 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 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

― Lord Infamous Epsilon (and what), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:39 (1 year 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 (1 year ago) Permalink

Painter of Light!
Awesome

― Øystein, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:42 (1 year 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 (1 year 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 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:35 (1 year 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 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― Derelict, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 07:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

Kinkade/KKK mash-up ftw.

― Originally opened in 1964 (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 08:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah that's the best one.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 10:06 (1 year 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 (9 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 (9 months ago) Permalink

― Meatcat (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 16:14 (9 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 (9 months ago) Permalink

as in alfred e?

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:56 (9 months ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

Painter of bankruptcy

A firm tied to artist Thomas Kinkade, whose light-filled paintings are equally loved and derided, filed for bankruptcy this week.
Kinkade production company Pacific Metro LLC of Morgan Hill, Calif., filed for Chapter 11 protection Wednesday in nearby San Jose, disclosing in court papers that it’s “in serious financial condition and is unable to continue without debt relief.” The filing came a day after Pacific Metro, formerly known as Thomas Kinkade Co. and Media Arts Group Inc., was supposed to make a $1 million payment to two former art gallery owners in connection with a lawsuit, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The filing will prevent Pacific Metro’s creditors, including Karen Hazlewood and Jeff Spinello, from demanding payment. Hazlewood and Spinello won a $3 million legal judgment against the company in a lawsuit they brought against Kinkade alleging that he used his Christian faith to fraudulently persuade them to open one of the artist’s “signature” galleries. As a result, Hazlewood and Spinello said they suffered such ills as being stuck with merchandise they couldn’t sell. In a long-running legal battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court, Hazlewood and Spinello won a $2.8 million legal judgment against Pacific Metro, some of which the company already paid off and another portion of which came due this week.

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 6 June 2010 03:49 (2 months ago) Permalink

Why you should buy Thomas Kinkade Paintings

"But a beautiful work of Art, a best seller Thomas Kinkade that actually goes up by 15% to 10% annually brings you beauty and pleasure and enjoyment all year round and goes up annually to boot."

― alimosina, Sunday, 6 June 2010 04:14 (2 months ago) Permalink

Every one of this guy's paintings looks to me like something absolutely horrible is happening just behind the creepily lit surface of the house... and they all look like that.

My insanely conservative, Michelle Bachmann-voting aunt has a couple of his prints in her house, though.

As for defending him... well, they look like exteriors of horror movie sets and some people like horror movies?

― Sara R-C, Sunday, 6 June 2010 06:20 (2 months ago) Permalink

Feels very appropriate to go straight from the David Lynch thread to this.
They need to work together.

― Øystein, Sunday, 6 June 2010 20:57 (2 months ago) Permalink

Thomas Kinkade has sold more canvases than any other painter in history--more than Picasso, Rembrandt, Gaughin, Monet, Manet, Renoir and Van Gogh combined.

lol this reminded me of:

― in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Sunday, 6 June 2010 22:28 (2 months ago) Permalink

alleging that he used his Christian faith to fraudulently persuade them to open one of the artist’s “signature” galleries

i wasn't aware christianity could be used like the force to control the weak minded. oh wait...

― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Sunday, 6 June 2010 22:31 (2 months ago) Permalink

~~ Do you know the Symbols? ~~

Thomas Kinkade includes a Bible reference John 3:16 on every painting and a fish (ichthus -a Christian symbol) with his signature

He imbeds The letter N on every canvas in honor of his wife's name, Nanette. The number of Ns is indicated below the original oil signature in the lower right or left hand corner of the painting. The painting with the most hidden Ns is Golden Gate Bridge (144) and the smallest is Silent Night (2).

Bird/Eagle = peace and freedom

The "light" in the paintings = "represents God's presence and influences". It also "illuminates and guides."

Smoke of a chimney = warmth of home

Lights on in the houses = family values

Any type of movement = constant changes in life

Lamp post/light post = Reminds us to share the light or to light our way. Also, welcoming friends and loved ones

Boat = adventure

Pathways, Trails & Tracks = path of life. Also the paths are lit so God can show us the way.

Stairways = Struggles through life

Bridges = Cross over from dark to light

Gates = many passages we face in our lives everyday and the many discoveries we have yet to make. It also can mean that heaven is open to all that is faithful. They are open to welcoming us in to a house or even heaven.

Windmills = biblical symbol for the untamed human spirit.

Clouds = represents the live that have passed

Dogwoods = There is a story that has been passed down for generation regarding this dogwood. Supposedly during Jesus' time, the dogwood was a strong, thick, and straight tree. When Jesus was crucified on this tree, God cursed it into a weak and crooked tree so that no man could ever be crucified on it. When the tree blossoms, there are five petals on the flower symbolizing the five piercing. The center of the flower is a red representing the blood of Jesus. Pink dogwood represents passion, white for purity.

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 6 June 2010 22:48 (2 months ago) Permalink

God cursed it into a weak and crooked tree

what an arsehole

― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Sunday, 6 June 2010 23:41 (2 months ago) Permalink

i mean it didn't even have a choice...

"so what tree shall we build this cross to crucify the son of god out of?"
"oooh pick me pick me!"

― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Sunday, 6 June 2010 23:43 (2 months ago) Permalink

I believe The Dream of the Rood has a different story. I'm with ledge, here – God shouldn't curse a tree for the work of "fiends" that it had no say in.

― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Sunday, 6 June 2010 23:47 (2 months ago) Permalink

I can't hate Thomas Kinkade – without him, the world would never have had "The Christmas Cottage," his insanely bad/entertaining Christmas/biopic movie. I just imagined, in every seen, the director yelling at Peter O'Toole, "Dodder harder! You're 76, I know you have more doddering in you!" He dodders so hardcore.

― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Sunday, 6 June 2010 23:54 (2 months ago) Permalink

'nother good reason not to hate this guy:

In 2006 John Dandois, Media Arts Group executive, recounted a story that on one occasion Kinkade became drunk at a Siegfried & Roy magic show in Las Vegas and began shouting "Codpiece! Codpiece!" at the performers. Eventually he was calmed by his mother.

― not having a luxury watch is terrible (unregistered), Monday, 7 June 2010 00:09 (2 months ago) Permalink

Thomas Kinkade has found his niche in life, bringing joy into the lives of millions, and in the process sucking so hard that a permanent low pressure area is created anywhere within 100 yards of him.

― Aimless, Monday, 7 June 2010 00:21 (2 months ago) Permalink

― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Sunday, June 6, 2010 11:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

― punperson (latebloomer), Monday, 7 June 2010 00:23 (2 months ago) Permalink

Ladies and gentlemen... SCHADENFREUDE

MONTEREY, Calif. – Authorities say California artist Thomas Kinkade spent a night in jail after being arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.
California Highway Patrol officials said Monday that Kinkade was pulled over outside Carmel and arrested by a CHP officer just after 10 p.m. Friday
CHP Officer Robert Lehman says the 52-year-old Kinkade was booked into the Monterey County Jail on suspicion of misdemeanor drunken driving. He was released Saturday morning.
Kinkade is famous for his paintings of cottages, country gardens and churches in dewy morning light.
The Thomas Kinkade Co. said in a statement it was reviewing the allegation. The company noted it wasn't speaking on behalf of the artist, and said Kinkade has been advised by his lawyer not to comment.

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 07:22 (2 months ago) Permalink

...and the mugshot!

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 07:23 (2 months ago) Permalink

otherworldly soulpatch.

― bold storks (Pillbox), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 09:15 (2 months ago) Permalink

eagerly anticipating the 'shops coming out of this story

― an indie-rock microgenre (dyao), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 09:23 (2 months ago) Permalink

kinkade prison-tats

― bold storks (Pillbox), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 09:25 (2 months ago) Permalink

tiny sliver of dewy morning soft light coming in through prison bars

― an indie-rock microgenre (dyao), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 09:27 (2 months ago) Permalink

the celestial blaze of christ's love

― bold storks (Pillbox), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 09:35 (2 months ago) Permalink

In 2006 John Dandois, Media Arts Group executive, recounted a story that on one occasion ("about six years ago") Kinkade became drunk at a Siegfried & Roy magic show in Las Vegas and began shouting "Codpiece! Codpiece!" at the performers. Eventually he was calmed by his mother.[26] Dandois also said of Kinkade, "Thom would be fine, he would be drinking, and then all of a sudden, you couldn't tell where the boundary was, and then he became very incoherent, and he would start cussing and doing a lot of weird stuff."[26]

― how do i spud webb (am0n), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:38 (2 months ago) Permalink

Kinkade is famous for his paintings of cottages, country gardens and churches in dewy morning light.

something about this sentence is hilarious to me

― goole, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:41 (2 months ago) Permalink

nice mugshot. i seriously would never have imagined he looked like that.

people interested in the dogwoods story should listen to "three dogwoods" by nick charles, on stax volt weirdly enough. it's sung from the POINT OF VIEW OF THE DOGWOOD.

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:45 (2 months ago) Permalink

I'm amazed he was able to pull off a double life as lead singer of Smash Mouth for this long without anyone noticing.

― I guess for copraphiles this is gonna be awesome (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:21 (2 months ago) Permalink

That SHIRT

― Save Ferris' It Means Everything knocked my socks off (latebloomer), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:04 (2 months ago) Permalink

Button-Down of Light

― I guess for copraphiles this is gonna be awesome (Pancakes Hackman), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:00 (2 months ago) Permalink

he looks like he should be managing a boy band or something

― Save Ferris' It Means Everything knocked my socks off (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:11 (2 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

so for some reason Kinkade reminds me of my friend's father, who is a weirdo hippie Christian dude who writes speciality inspirational poems. http://poemsbydanny.com/index.php

― a repulsive person and/or a repulsive sphincter (the table is the table), Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:36 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

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