Defend the indefensible - Thomas Kinkade

They had these things not for any kitsch value, but because it was pretty stuff. While their appreciation of good food seemed geniune and refined, their concept of art was based in its being a commodity, another decorative aspect of their home, like wall paper.

Bleh.

http://www.highlandarts.co.uk/cjohntaylor/paintings/girlsth.jpg

I think his style is really neat & i would for sure want to live in one of them villagez.

Lovely parodies. Metafilter had TK as a subject today. Weird?

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...

this is an odd bit of writing. "The power of Christ compels you!"

http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~bmauer/PARTFAM1.JPG

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.

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.

he's everywhere you want to be.

-- 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

Roffle.

This is one of my favorite threads.

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.”

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..

http://mtblog.vanityfair.com/online/culture/2008/11/14/christmascottage.jpg

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

oh marcia gay, hope you got something nice

loooooooooooool

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

trailer!

holy shit it's got Chris Elliott!

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

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

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?

Kinkade Kills

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

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

http://www.thomaskinkade.com/htmlroot/tk/images/daytona/daytona_500_painting.jpg
Would hang

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.

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..

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!
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