― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Sunday, 26 March 2006 00:52 (7 years ago) Permalink
― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 19 June 2006 10:54 (7 years ago) Permalink
The FBI is investigating allegations that self-styled "Painter of Light" Thomas Kinkade and some of his top executives fraudulently induced investors to open galleries and then ruined them financially, former dealers contacted by agents said.
Investigators are focusing on issues raised in civil litigation by at least six former Thomas Kinkade Signature Gallery owners, people who have been contacted by the FBI said. Among other things, the ex-owners alleged in arbitration claims that the artist known for his dreamily luminous landscapes and street scenes used his Christian faith to persuade them to invest in the independently owned stores, which must sell Kinkade's work exclusively.
Oh please let this go to court, please please please...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 03:29 (6 years ago) Permalink
this is an odd bit of writing. "The power of Christ compels you!"
― kingfish high command (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 05:56 (6 years ago) Permalink
― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 06:15 (6 years ago) Permalink
He is like some sort of bad delillo-esqe near-future satire of american society.this is a good comment.
i'm sad to hear that the empire is crumbling because it changes the context. there's incredible schadenfreude, naturally, and i don't begrudge such a horribly smug man this wonderful comeuppance, but his continued success is an important part of what he is and represents. i guess i'm generally sad about the end of the myth. thomas kinkaide, painter of light big jerk.
― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 06:26 (6 years ago) Permalink
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:11 (6 years ago) Permalink
― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 02:25 (6 years ago) Permalink
― and what (ooo), Saturday, 28 October 2006 21:42 (6 years ago) Permalink
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 28 October 2006 23:30 (6 years ago) Permalink
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 28 October 2006 23:32 (6 years ago) Permalink
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 28 October 2006 23:33 (6 years ago) Permalink
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 28 October 2006 23:34 (6 years ago) Permalink
"All of the attention has caught us off guard," York said. "We didn't set out to build a show house, but we consider it a compliment that people consider it interesting."
York has been the general contractor on small apartment projects and single-family homes throughout Whatcom County for more than 15 years. When the Yorks decided to build a home for themselves, they bought six acres on east Axton Road.
They built a 3,100-square-foot stone house with a thatched roof, a swooping roofline, cobblestone pavers for the driveway, and garage doors decorated with handles and strap hinges to give the illusion of opening out like carriage doors.
Question: What inspired the design?
Answer: I've always wanted to build a stone house, and Linda has always wanted a thatched roof. We both loved the painter Thomas Kinkade. We were looking at one of his paintings one day and we thought it would be great to live in a place like that. It's so homey and inviting.
Q: Was it hard to figure out how to build it?
A: We hired Mark Ouellette, a Lynden-based building designer. We supplied him with a number of Thomas Kinkade pictures and a sketch of the floor plan on a piece of notebook paper. It took about three months of trading ideas back and forth because it was an unusual design. We got so much help that we really appreciated from so many people along the way. I'm not a custom-home builder - this is my first - and I understand the value of listening to people's ideas. I worked with some contractors who were used to working on million-dollar homes, and they came with a wealth of ideas that I was able to tap into. We built this house to last a couple hundred years.
― gear (gear), Sunday, 29 October 2006 01:54 (6 years ago) Permalink
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 29 October 2006 01:57 (6 years ago) Permalink
he's everywhere you want to be.
― am0n (am0n), Sunday, 29 October 2006 02:02 (6 years ago) Permalink
-- derrick (briochesqu...), October 28th, 2006 9:57 PM. (derrick)
they say "east Axton Road", looks like it might be bellingham?http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=E+Axton+Rd,+Bellingham,+WA&ie=UTF8&z=14&ll=48.850428,-122.433872&spn=0.024286,0.083342&om=1&iwloc=addr
― am0n (am0n), Sunday, 29 October 2006 02:09 (6 years ago) Permalink
― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 29 October 2006 11:05 (6 years ago) Permalink
Roffle.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 19:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
This is one of my favorite threads.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 19:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
In his memo to the film crew, Kinkade twice cites Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon as a working template and volunteers an idea for keeping spirits high during the shoot: “Perhaps we could make large posters that simply say ‘Love this movie’ and post them about.”To get an expert opinion on Kinkade’s manifesto, I showed it to cinematographer Ellen Kuras, best known for her work with director Spike Lee. She points out that he confuses focal length and depth of field, and questions his overall approach. “I’ve never seen any of his paintings, but I have to say, he’s very cheesy in his descriptions,” Kuras says. “The whole gauzy, cozy feeling, darkening the edges to make your vision more myopic, I think is about trying to draw the larger metaphor for the way to heaven. But reading all of this, it’s a prescription for a bad ’60s porn movie.”
To get an expert opinion on Kinkade’s manifesto, I showed it to cinematographer Ellen Kuras, best known for her work with director Spike Lee. She points out that he confuses focal length and depth of field, and questions his overall approach.
“I’ve never seen any of his paintings, but I have to say, he’s very cheesy in his descriptions,” Kuras says. “The whole gauzy, cozy feeling, darkening the edges to make your vision more myopic, I think is about trying to draw the larger metaphor for the way to heaven. But reading all of this, it’s a prescription for a bad ’60s porn movie.”
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 19:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
6) Hidden details whenever possible, References to my children (from youngest to oldest as follows): Evie, Winsor, Chandler and Merritt. References to my anniversary date, the number 52, the number 82, and the number 5282 (for fun, notice how many times this appears in my major published works). Hidden N's throughout -- preferably thirty N's, commemorating one N for each year since the events happened.
Weird. Maybe he's a numerologist? That's disturbing that he has a movie..
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
I like O'Toole's expression. "I'm in this movie? Really?"
― Shacknasty (Frogman Henry), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
oh marcia gay, hope you got something nice
― goole, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
loooooooooooool
― most important concept of all -- THE CONCEPT OF LOVE (donna rouge), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
“In the age of Photoshop, anybody can do this kind of crap.”
― ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
trailer!
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
holy shit it's got Chris Elliott!
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:40 (4 years 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 (4 years 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 (4 years 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 (4 years ago) Permalink
Kinkade Kills
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 01:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
― the head werewolf's girlfriend (latebloomer), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 03:46 (4 years 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 (4 years ago) Permalink
― the head werewolf's girlfriend (latebloomer), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 03:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
Would hang
― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 04:02 (4 years 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 (4 years ago) Permalink
― the head werewolf's girlfriend (latebloomer), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 03:48 (3 months agoyour 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 (4 years 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 (4 years ago) Permalink
the planes are flying out of the fireworks!
― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 13:36 (4 years 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 (4 years ago) Permalink
wow.
― double bird strike (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
― 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 (4 years ago) Permalink
I almost want to see a Kinkade illustration of 9/11 now.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
those aren't fireworks they're bombs the jets just deployed
― abominable spirit (latebloomer), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:25 (4 years 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 (4 years ago) Permalink
Poll
Kid getting piggyback ride to win.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
there may be one too many planes there
― double bird strike (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:31 (4 years 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 (4 years 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 (4 years ago) Permalink