Just a small place on your mountain then?

Previously it was Noboribetsu (onsen capital of Hokkaido),Jigokudanai
toasty warm in the winter time

As opposed to here (Shikotsu ko ice festival)

That one I'll cross on the way to Sweden....

The Flame Of The Forest © Mark Vincent Müller

Since we've already entered the Nobel Prize season...how about checking out some of the winners of the Praemium Imperiale...a kind of Nobel Prize in Art...and extension of the Literature Prize...


first stop: Loise Bourgeois (sculpture, 1999)


Maman


her spiders are all over the world...

Symphony in Red by John Henry with an after-war building, "neue sachlichkeit"? not sure about the style...

Niki de Saint Phalle....creator of the shooting paintings and the Nanas....this one is her mosaic Buddha:

Jeff Koons, hobglobin’s favourite artist, “presents works from his Popeye series, which he began in 2002 during his exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery. The works incorporate some of Koons’s signature ideas and motifs, including surreal combinations of everyday objects, cartoon imagery, art-historical references and children’s toys.” Let us be the judge….…




Popeye




Hook, oil on canvas




Moustache




Acrobat

But where are the works with Ilona Staller that you like so much?

Anyway here is the reply out of the lab:



a gfp-bunnny

hmm...I'm a shutter-happy fool, but here are 3 of my favorites. someday I want to get a REAL camera...

and I LOVE deviantart! that site is awesome

hey aimikins....long time, no hear.........nice to see you back here. Deviantart is really cool and you might wanna check out stumbleupon.com.....another awesome site....




move it...you runt....