AND NOW OUR FEATURE PRESENTATION….

AND NOW OUR FEATURE PRESENTATION…
Social Media Art
2020

….featuring Marcel Marceau

FEAR , RICHARD ROSSETTO, CUZ HE DONT CARE BOUT YOU ?!?!

Fear, Richard Rossetto
Social Media Art
2020

FEAR is an infamous punk band from New York in the early 80’s. One I’ve never been too familiar with as what I had heard was self deprecating and silly, which wasnt really my thing. I can appreciate it and regardless their logo is celebrated piece of Hardcore history one must acknowledged. It is an icon for subculture and dissidence.

In the personal protection industry FEAR is used as an acronym for FALSE EVIDENCE APPEARING REAL. So when a PANDEMIC FEAR BREAKS OUT, I had to post it. Add a head shot as my profile pic and VOILA a digital work was born.
Add to that PANIC in the STREETS with ppl hoarding toilet paper and food supplies and we even have a political piece. You gotta believe I laughed a little. Especially at those living in first world countries… not only did I laugh… but I even found myself OFFENDED ! Middle class people FREAKING OUT as “perfect lives” get inconvenienced for a day or 2 or maybe even a month!!! FOR SURELY WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!! LORD FOR BID WE have to break our daily routine and look at things a little differently. From over here, its like a bunch of spoiled brats whining they dont have their luxuries…

WELL I HATE TO BUST YER BUBBLE but there are A WHOLE BUNCH of people In THE WORLD WITHOUT the CONVENIENCES WE HAVE (that includes the first world kids) and they are getting up and DOING WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE… LIKE WORKING JOBS and LIVING LIFE!!! Even for those inconvenienced by this truth there are solutions

Now I am not saying there is no issue and people arent at risk. JUST MAYBE THOUGH, THIS IS A WAKE UP CALL. MAYBE there is more to life then getting up everyday going to work going through your motions, getting PAID , coming home and watching porn. MAYBE ALL THAT COOL SHIT YOU LOVE IS CANCELED TO MAKE YOU REMEMBER A BUNCH OF SHIT YOU FORGOT. THINGS WE ALL FORGOT

MAYBE this is a small wake up call from the BIG GUY UPSTAIRS saying hey all the modernity in the world wont help you when the shit hits the fan!!! LIKE, do you remember when we were kids and you KNEW EVERYBODY ON YOUR BLOCK???? When was the last time you said hello to a neighbor. Even MORE OFFENSIVE is that ppl are freaking out over quarantine!!! Are you in your house right now???? LOOK AROUND YOU… there is more then ENOUGH to do for 100 years , especially with the internet!!!

Fer those who think I dont care bout you, you would be wrong, I have family at risk too… Just pointing out what I thought might be OBVIOUS. What I DONT CARE ABOUT is your need for COMFORT, your band wagon jumping , the fact your actions SHOW YOU DONT CARE ABOUT ME( your neighbor , your community, the family living in a shanty in a third world country you dont know) It is SOCIETIES VALUE SYSTEM THAT CAN TAKE A FLYING FUCK. AND THAT MY FRIEND IS PUNK ROCK!!! So you can take CONVENIENCE …. I WILL GLADLY TAKE DEATH!

ReAlity TeleVision PreZidDenT

ReAlity TeleVision PreZidDent
2020
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I tend to keep my politics out of my art and to myself. When I came across the Ozzy portrait and thought about the current state of affairs the work pretty much created itself. Personally I would rather have a man guilty of eating a handful of pills most his life,then a guy who pees on women running the free world. Call me old fashion if you got too , but hell what do I know. I just want to #MakeMetalGreatAgain !!! and lets be honest QZZY REALLY DOS KNOW BEST!!!! OH YEAH AND DONALD…. “YOUR FIRED!!!!!”

Join The Army…

Join The Army…
2020
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(photo cred Pep Williams)

There are those that will tell you they been HARDCORE since they wuz born. Truth is they a few and far between. MAAAYBEEE Harley Flanagan of the Cro-Mags MAAYBEE Flea of the Chili Peppers (dont care what you say he is hardcore) and MOST LIKELY MIKE MUIR of Suicidal Tendencies . I can say that with some authority knowing that while everyone else was a Vato in his neighborhood , which is hardcore on its own, him and his homies were breaking norms riding skates and making thrash psycho punk and Hardcore a way of life. Having an influence on both those around him and those afar.

I was just getting out of my Maiden phase and had started listening to “punk rock”. It musta been the summer of grade 8. Me and Kevin Wallace were rolling up and down driveways in the hood as we learned to skate. The Suburbs of Edmonton Alberta could be a mean place for a skater… I think there was 4 of us in about 100 blocks. 1 of em could really skate and well it wasnt us. Between the FUNKERS, THE METALHEADS and REDSNECKS we stuck out like sore thumbs and dealt with a lot of heat. It was a great way to spend them summer days though. An even better way to find our voice as individuals. AND THEN IT HAPPENED !!!

Kevin’s folks were a lot more liberal then mine, my dad was a military man. He got to stay up A LOT later then me. It was a sunny afternoon when I stopped by his place and he told me he had something I had to see. He pulled out a VHS , which atthe time was state of the art for recording television you didn’t wanna miss. This one featured his favs from Good Rocking Tonight. He had something special on it for me this time!!! He showed me the Bad Brains , which I didnt really get, something like the Sex Pistols which I had already seen and then hit me with SUCIDAL!!! I had NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT and WAS HOOKED! they were saying everything I ever wanted to say in a way I wanted to say it. That Day I joined the army !! THE SUICIDAL ARMY!!!

Not only did they have a bad ass sound, it was smart, funny, and their merch was off the hook. In those days you couldn’t walk into a headshop downtown and find an ST shirt. Hell even the skate shop on the other side of town didnt have it and they sure as hell weren’t touring our way anytime soon! The only way to get a shirt was 19.99 american plus 14$ s/h from the back of a Thrasher mag and well that just wasnt happening. So we had to be content with living vicariously through the music and on our decks and that we did. And when we got it into playing music (Walrus was the roadie) it came through again (safe free download)That carried us through most of our teens and into our 20’s. in my mid 20s ART became my primary focus and music was mostly background.

My 30s were spent raising my kid and working… it wouldnt be till my 40’s when I caught them live. And sometimes little boys dreams come true as we were all invited up on stage. yeah thats me living a memory of a lifetime!!!I can honestly admit it also wasnt till my 40 I understood what it meant to join the SUICIDAL ARMY…It wasnt bout being SUICIDAL!?! It was bout being down for life with your beliefs and dreams and being willing to die for em. Age as a funny way of changing you, you could probably never meet a more polite guy then Mike Muir,the fact he is still kicking it old school styles proves you can be SUICIDAL FOR LIFEEE!!!! So JOIN THE ARMY!!!! Thanx Mike!!!

I AM MY FATHER’S SON !!!!

I AM MY FATHER’S SON!!!
2020
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Most people wouldn’t get because we are on the surface so radically different. Many of my best qualities I got from this guy. Not taking way anything my mother gave or did for me… this is just a shout out to all the qualities and ticks that makes me think of him.

70’S CHILD, 2000 MAN!!!

70’s CHILD, 2000 MAN!!!
2020
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Being born in the early part of the 70’s I got the best of just about everything the decades had to offer. Having lived the better part of 5 decades I’ve got to see a lot change. We went from pinball, to video games to home consoles to virtual reality. There was vinyl, 8 track, cassette, CD, digital downloads then streaming. Movies, television, Netflix. Computers, home computers the world wide web, smart phones then tablets. We even saw Kiss go from makeup to no make up and back to make up again… WHO WOULDA THUNK!!!! Hell the thing you are holding in your hand has an app more powerful then most of the technology used to make first season of Buck Rogers!! One could never believe how far we have come. I wonder if every person from from every era feels like that.

In many ways it the world we all imagined it would be. In the ways it has “failed” we are not so far off. Lets face it with the launch of Tesla and Virgin Galactic hovering cars are just around the corner. Its been a hell of a trip, I didn’t expect to make it this far. Looking back though I think Kiss got right in the 70’s with their cover of 2000 man (sure it’s a stones song , but space freaks, explosions and fire guitars were way cooler, more inspiring and accurate then hippies droping lsd…. at least when I was 7 it was). Even some of the issues humanity faces these day and the solutions we are pretty accurate.(The Buck Roger’s dome)

The best thing about being born in 72 was being conscious enough to have caught the tail end of the spirit of the 70’s(mmmm…them 70’s babes), the rebellion against the conservatism of the 80’s, the rise of subculture and it’s becoming main stream in the 90’s, the technological advances of the 2000’s and the expectations of possibilities for future in the 2020’s. I bought the ticket, took the ride and some how still managed to take the best of each decade.

Life is going to have it’s ups and downs kids, you really don’t know where you will end up or how the world will change during your lifetime.So enjoy it. Looking back I wouldn’t trade it for the world!!! \m/ Here is some Kiss to blow your mind!!!
#WhyIsItArt #DownTheRabbitHole

What Little Boys Dream Of…

What Little Boys Dream Of
2020
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“Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling?”…well this guy right WATCHES WRESTLING !!! ALWAYS HAVE ALWAYS WILL!I think I knew it was predetermined since I was about age six. It always filled my imagination. In fact, if I hadnt been born a runt I probably woulda become a wrestler. I think the first 7 minutes of Beyond the Mat one of my favorite movies, says it all. Here are some extra clips from through out the eras I have enjoyed wrestling for your enjoyment!

#downTheRabbitHole #WhyItsArt

1st wrestling I ever saw

Stampede from Alberta

College

What I am watching now

Give a Monkey a Brain….

Give A Monkey A Brain….
2020
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Titled after a Fishbone album, with the concept being we think we are so far removed from the animal kingdom. Due to our conscious minds yet forget how easily can slip into our primal state at a moments notice. Our base emotions lay not much beneath what we call “civilized”. Underneath the suits and jobs I dont think we are too far removed from our primate ancestors. Nor are they to far from us. At least judging from the gorilla using sign language and chimps making tools anyways. Even watching chimps function in a society doesnt seem that far off.

The original idea I had was and angry monkey juxtaposed on a serene sky from a screen shot of the throat signing video. As I was picking images I realized I had covered that idea.

I wanted to be angry today. not because I was because I felt I had to be. It is one of my go to emotions having felt “wronged” for years. I have been learning to deal with it the past few weeks. Learning what sets you off helps you learn what brings you peace. So here is what brings me peace. Meditation, art(as it can therapeutic),families, happy children, cheeseburgers(although a monkey eating a cheeseburger would be the perfect addition to this post #downtheRabbitHole ),and animal documentaries.

Please believe me I am not judging!!! Here I think I am some great artist but still delve into them base emotions most of the time. So Give a Monkey a Brian was made for the creation of a higher state and you know what… it worked!

The Only Good Artist Is A….

The Only Good Artist Is A….
2020
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I think we can all fill in the blank here. Morose?!?! Kinda , I think its kinda funny. Dark but funny. This work is a shout out to limiting belief’s. Through most of my career as an artist I struggled with “depression”, you can ask anyone who ever met me. Most ppl would say I was “bipolar”…That’s an easy fucking way out … I hate labels, so you better believe you could get the best or worse of me on any given day, dependent on others judgments It wasnt being “bipolar”, I was being human. It was the visceral energy of being a creating artist.

I LIVED ON PURE EMOTION. I thought that’s what artist were suppose to do. EXPESS THEMSELVES!!! Be a conduit for OTHERS and HELP them EXPRESS THEMSELVES. That might mean going into uncomfortable areas and confronting emotions others might not. Even if it was scary. Sure I thought of suicide, who hasn’t. The broke med student who isn’t going to pass, the banker who just lost a hedge fund, the McDonalds worker who thinks life is never going to change. I just had a creative outlet. The COMFORT of expressing emotion (It is a gift both my folks gave me) Add to that a love for the tragic artists, such as Van Gogh , Modigliani,and Norval Morrisseau and that is one hell of a lifestyle. And if you ask me…IT WORKED!!!! CAUSE LOVE HIM OR HATE HIM there is only one ROSSETTO!!!There is only ONE of YOU TOO!!! that’s not the point.

The point is that the lifestyle created the art and the art stands alone so I got no beef with my creative endeavors. That goes with my creative expression on my social media as well. Which then become… well.. ART!!!! Did I hurt myself, at times. Did I hurt my family, for sure. that doesnt change that ART was my life calling

So how am I still standing??? I always believe in ART and MUSIC. The music helped created emotional states which produce the emotions to help create the art! So lets listen to some NO MEANS NO and boys,thanx fer helping me LEARN to express myself!!! Both the good and bad!

Mother Goddess of the Universe

Mother Goddess Of The Universe
2020
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Women were and always have been the MOST POWERFUL force in the universe. Seductress, Giver of life , care of children and there is SHIVA in her female form

Nuff said!!!!