My favorite surrealist painter H.R. Giger turns 70 years old today! His Alien stuff was OK, but I always preferred his magickal dark fantasy and abstract post-apocalyptic erotica.
Here is a painting of his early muse Li Tobler, who tragically blew her brains out in 1975 (after dating Giger—who woulda thunk it?)
At Giger’s museum you can buy snowboards and skateboards with his artwork:
MUSEUM HR GIGER
Château St. Germain
1663 Gruyères
Tel.: +41 26 9212200
Fax: +41 26 9212211
E-Mail: info@hrgigermuseum.com
http://www.hrgiger.com/boards.htm
Here is Giger’s Baphomet after the original Elphias Levi engraving.
The Blondie video below is quite the oddity, having been shot in Giger’s studio and staring Debbie Harry herself. The music is so completely opposite of what one thinks of when looking at Giger that it makes the video that much more surreal. (She reminds me of early Kate Bush in this.)
"Did Giger actually paint your face?"
"Yes," Debbie Harry says. "For some things he painted on photographs, but for the video he used different stencils and an airbrush and he painted my face. I wore a painted body suit. So, yes, I was airbrushed by Giger!"
Giger in 2008:
We love you Hansruedi! We wish you 70 more!
xoxo,
IZabael
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Been working on the blog as you guys noticed and now I’m attempting to integrate my blog better with Facebook. This post is basically a test to help me do that.
But while I’m here I may as well give a kiss out to all my loyal fans, and I have the most loyal ones. *smooch*
xoxox
Izabael
My source says Natalie Portman will be starring in a girl stoner movie called “Best Buds.” Hope to hear more soon. With “Best Buds” and “Her Highness,” she is making the choice to fully delve into stoner films. Good for her.
xoxo,
Izabael
Welcome to my blog just moved to WordPress from Typepad.
Read these posts here if you want to see how AWFUL it is to try and export from Typepad. They even jumble up filenames and exclude extensions and yet leave no easy way to download file or change permalinks. I gave up even trying to get the permalinks to come along. I was happy enough just to get images back.
http://foliovision.com/2008/11/17/typepad-to-wordpress
“Typepad Export Options: Congenial Lies from SixApart’s Anil Dash”
I haven’t even started on the design yet, but I’m happy with the process of installing new themes with WordPress.
My suggestion is to never ever start a blog on anything other than WordPress because if you stay with blogging long enough that’s where you’ll end up. And my other suggestion is never EVER use TypePad because they make it too hard to leave deliberately.
xoxo,
Izabael
If any of you WordPress gurus have suggestions for me on anything, I’m happy to listen.
Seasonal floods transform the large, dry surfaces of the world’s largest salt flat into one of the biggest mirrors on Earth.
Salar de Uyuni, near the crest of the Andes in Bolivia, is made up of the remains of dried-up prehistoric lakes. The unusually flat and reflective salt crust gives visitors the illusion they are walking on.( Tomas Rawski )
The Venus symbol is meant to symbolize a hand mirror because the Goddess of Love is vain and imperishable.
For all you with hangovers, all I can say is haha, you should have stuck to the weed.
