olyclimber

maybe we can chat about politics! i have some opinions i could share with you.

that was good. but there was some meaning behind your emoticon, and that was clearly uncalled for. think outside the box.

just keep it within the realm of inanity. talk to me. speak the language.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2245165,00.html LULZ

now this is funny, speaking of scapegoats

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

so you finally admit that your personal savior and hero is a complete failure. i'm locking this thread.

so do you refute what that report says?

Bush era...ah...the Bush legacy. what a legacy he will leave.

once more for good measure

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080123/ap_on_go_pr_wh/misinformation_study nonprofit journalism organizations = not capitalist journalism organizations = the commies the beauty of our current situation is that whomever wins will win a lose-lose proposition thanks to the incredible job that was done before them.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080123/ap_on_go_pr_wh/misinformation_study nonprofit journalism organizations = not capitalist journalism organizations = the commies the beauty is of our current situation is that whomever wins wins a lose-lose proposition.

Coming up on six years already. It seems like just yesterday we were mission accomplishing.

“Delightfully absurd...” -Steven Heller, The New York Times I think these photographs might mean happiness. They are made by softness and cotton." -Nicholas, 3th grade student, PS84 NY If Hannibal Lecter, Martin Margiela and a blind speed freak had a three-way in a Build-A-Bear workshop, these creatures would be their mutant offspring. -Sarah Verdone, Paper Magazine "130+ years after Thomas Eakins portrayed a group of bloody surgeons removing a tumor from a patient's thigh in The Gross Clinic (oil on canvas), Kent Rogowski turns our emblems of childhood comfort inside out. One of Eakins most famous and successful paintings, The Gross Clinic was rejected by the jury of the 1876 Centennial exhibition as 'unsightly' and eventually sold to a medical school for the paltry sum of $200. Perhaps Mr. Rogowski should sell his pictures to a day care center." -Alec Soth, photographer “Though the subjects of these portraits...aren’t human, they seem to exude as much personality and feeling as any living, breathing thing.” Jen Trolio, Readymade Magazine "Each of these pieces speaks of another place in the psyche... I wonder how much these pieces have been transformed by the person they stayed with." -Roger Ballen, photographer "soft and fierce" -Calvin Tsao, Architect Rife with nostalgia and allusions to consumerism, childhood and sentimentality, among other heady topics, Bears... becomes a meditation on its subject. -Ami Kealoha, Cool Hunting “Mr Rogowski has become the Damien Hirst of the toy cupboard...” Brian Sibley, Writer “Part scientist, part sorcerer, Rogowski re-animates the bears as haunting reminders of childhood’s complexities.” -Blyth Sheldon, V Magazine "Bears is a strange book... Kent Rogowski and powerHouse Books have combined to create what might be the nightmare of any child under eight." -Andrew Kozma, Arts Houston "downright terrifying.” -Gwynne Watkins, Babble

Bears, is a series of portraits of the most unusual sort: ordinary teddy bears that have been turned inside out and restuffed. Each animal's appearance is determined by the necessities of the manufacturing process. Simple patterns and devices never meant to be seen are now prominent physical characteristics, giving each one a distinctly quirky personality: their fasteners become eyes, their seams become scars, and their stuffing creeps out in the most unexpected places. Together these images form a topology of strange yet oddly familiar creatures. They are at once hideous yet cuddly, disturbing yet endearing, absurd yet adorable, while offering a metaphor for us all to consider. These bears, which have lived and loved and lost as much as their owners, have suffered and endured through it all. It is by virtue of revealing their inner core might we better understand our own.

http://www.kentrogowski.com/index.html

Well I learned something new today! Behold the technical scarf: chutzpah!!!!!

By the looks of your pic, you are a lady! Can you post a pic of you wearing it?

I misplaced it, I didn't "lose" it. What is real fun is dialysis, which I had the opportunity to have last year. Loads of fun, complete with new plumbing.

That was a fun trip Kat. We were young and wild and free.

This year I promise to make Kids Ropeup happen. And it will be FUN.

Great thread! I'm pulling from the archives here.

too bad, one of the better actors out there

Are those pizza panties he's eating?