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In A Metal Web: The Art of Michael Manning
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Hydrophidian - Designing the Serpentine Sisters 01
Currently listening to: SEEFEEL "Quique" (Too Pure/Astralwerks) | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment   |
| Opening reception for the Dirty Show - Los Angeles is tonight Friday, November 13, 2009 - 7-11 PM
at the City Center Motel, 1135 W. 7th Street in beautiful Downtown Los Angeles.
Ample Parking • No Cameras Allowed • 18+ with Valid Photo ID • $10.00
Featured Artists include:
Aaron Hawkes, Alex Aviles, Alva Bernadine (UK), Annie Sprinkle, April Segedi, Ashley (UK), Astrid Kuver, Barry Noland, Billy Ogawa, Billy Pacak, Bob Coulter, Brad Miller, Brian Viveros, Bruce La Bruce, Bryan Barnes, BT Charles, Bunny Yeager, Carolyn Weltman, Chad Michael Ward, Charly B, Charles Green, Chas Ray Krider, Chris Maher, Christine Kessler, Christopher Wright, Clive Barker, Colln Christian, Collin Rae, Corey Godfrey, Cory Marc, Damon Hill, Dan Armand, Dave Naz, Douglas Cason, Ed Fox, Elizabeth Stephens, Eric Kroll, Erin Frost, Eva Midgley, Francois Dubeau, Fredric Fontenoy (FR), Gary Breckheimer, Gary Lee, Geza X, Gina King, Glenn Barr, Gregory de la Haba, HR Giger, Harald Seiwert, Heidi Bluegirl, Hugo, J. L. Robbins, Jason Yates, Jeff Wack, Jeremy Harvey, Jeremy MF Thomson, Juan Martin Del Campo, Jill Greenberg, Jeff Faerber, John Santerineross, Julie Simone, Justice Howard, Keith Mueller, Ken Keirns, Kenny Scharf, Kurt Hernon, Lara Allport (AU), Lisa Boyle, Lisolette Gilcrest, Marc DeBauch, Marilyn Zimmerwoman, Mark Arminski, Mark Dancey, Marne Lucas, Michael Breyette, Michael Manning, Michael Rosen, Michael Siu, Mike Williams, Missy Suicide, Niagara, Nicole Steen (CA), Nina Friday, Pablo Davis, Passia Pandora, Paul Rumsey, Peter Keresztury, Pierre Radisic (Belg), Ken Josephson, R. Alan Warren, Renard Garr, Richard Avery, Rick Castro, Rick Morris, Rik Garret, Robert Rosenheck, Robyn Breen, Rod McDonald, Roger White, Ron Zakrin, Ronald Shelley, Ross Brownsdon, Ross Johnston, Sam Holden, Samarel (Israel), Simon Barret, Stacey Lande, Stan Konowitz, Steve Diet Goedde, Sue Rynski (FR) Taurus Burns, The Pizz, Theoni Sapounas, Tom Porta (italy), Tom Thewes, Tracee Mae Miller, Travis Jonk, Travis Shinn, Tristan Eaton, Tulip Enterprises (GE), Vato, Victor Lightworship, Viva Van Story, Yonilab (FR)... and more!
Currently listening to: KID LOCO "A Grand Love Story" (Yellow Productions/East West) | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| I've added nine original pieces to the Artwork For Sale section of my Spider Garden site.
http://www.thespidergarden.net/artforsale.php
Seven of these pieces originally appeared in Inamorata, the eighth is from In A Metal Web and the ninth, a Hydrophidian related piece, is currently unpublished. Framed pieces are in 3/4" matte black wood frames with spacers between the artwork and the glass.
Aurora & Sex Doll (2004) 12.75" x 13.75" framed: $450
Spider Garden character Reina Aurora receives some oral worship from a masked slave who's been transformed into her latex-clad sex doll.
http://www.thespidergarden.net/artforsale.php?img=2&s=76&cs=6&o=0
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Ballerinas 01 (2004) 18" x 18" framed: $600 Purchased as a set with Ballerinas 02: $1100
Two fetish ballerinas in latex masks and toe shoes prepare to have the limits of their flexibility tested.
http://www.thespidergarden.net/artforsale.php?img=3&s=76&cs=6&o=0
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Ballerinas 02 (2004) 18" x 18" framed: $600 Purchased as a set with Ballerinas 01: $1100
Two fetish ballerinas form a unique connection with the help of their piercings and a dildo gag.
http://www.thespidergarden.net/artforsale.php?img=4&s=76&cs=6&o=0
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Naiads 01 (2004) 12.75" x 13.75" $425
Latex naiads, voluptuous aquatic slaves from the world of the Spider Garden, swim in the depths of their kingdom, Hydrophidian.
http://www.thespidergarden.net/artforsale.php?img=55&s=76&cs=6&o=3
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Pet: Lick (2003) 20.5" x 11.5" unframed: $650 framed: $675
From the "Pet" illustration series. These large-scale pieces feature dynamic multi-panel layouts similar to my comix pages. In "Lick", an androgynous dominatrix enjoys her pretty female pet's pierced tongue in a variety of ways.
http://www.thespidergarden.net/artforsale.php?img=58&s=76&o=3
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Pet: Mounted (2003) 20.75" x 14".5" unframed: $700 framed: $725
From the "Pet" illustration series. These large-scale pieces feature dynamic multi-panel layouts similar to my comix pages. In "Mounted", the pet girl submits to sweat-drenched coupling with her mistress.
http://www.thespidergarden.net/artforsale.php?img=59&s=76&cs=6&o=3
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Pet: Exchange (2003) 16.75" x 13.75" unframed: $600 framed: $625
From the "Pet" illustration series. These large-scale pieces feature dynamic multi-panel layouts similar to my comix pages. In "Exchange", the excited dominatrix finds an alternate use for her pet girl's tail dildo.
http://www.thespidergarden.net/artforsale.php?img=57&s=76&cs=6&o=3
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The Sacred Androgyne (1999) 24" x 16" unframed: $750 framed: $775
A large-scale portrait of Shaalis The Sacred Androgyne, Mastress of the Spider Garden flanked by a pair of male and female slaves who've been specially outfitted for Hir pleasure.
http://www.thespidergarden.net/artforsale.php?img=64&s=76&cs=6&o=4
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Trotter (2003) 17" x 12" framed: $475
A gorgeous tattooed pony girl feels the sting of her trainer's hip.
http://www.thespidergarden.net/artforsale.php?img=73&s=76&cs=6&o=4
Currently listening to: DATACIDE "Datacide II" (Fax) | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| Look what I found in the discard pile next to our recycle bins. I almost shit myself. It's weird. Just a week or two ago I was just talking with a fellow 16mm aficionado about how nice it would be to own one of these and low and behold...
Currently listening to: HARMONIA 76 "Tracks & Traces" (Rykodisc) | | comments: 18 comments or Leave a comment |
| So you think that badly animated piece-of-crap robot show from the mid-'80's is the OG transformers? Guess again, my friend. The REAL transformers are right down the block from me and all over my 'hood. Probably all over yours too. Personally, I find them fascinating. They come in all different configurations, my favorite being the three-phase step-down version below. They've crept into the architecture of my illustrations in the past (along with another perennial favorite: trolley cables) and I'm certain you'll be seeing more of them in the future.
Currently listening to: V/A "100% Dynamite!" (Soul Jazz Records) | | comments: 12 comments or Leave a comment |
| My cover paintings and Blood Ceremony illustration for K. McVey's Antrana Trilogy matted and framed in their home environment. Photos courtesy of K. McVey.
Currently listening to: KID LOCO "DJ-Kicks" (!K7) | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| Color version of a tattoo design based on one of my cover paintings for the Erskan Chronicles. This piece incorporates the elements of Earth & Water to balance the client's existing tattoo of a geisha with Wind & Water elements.
Currently listening to: THE TEARDROP EXPLODES "Kilamanjaro" (Mercury) | | comments: 8 comments or Leave a comment |
| Line art for a back piece that will eventually be in color. The blank areas will incorporate pre-existing tattoo work.
Currently listening to: KING LOSER "Sonic Super Free Hi-Fi" (Turbulence Records) | | comments: 14 comments or Leave a comment |
| As of today, October 1st, I've been living in Los Angeles for four years.
The past week's flurry of people moving out of our building has been an interesting reminder of where things were at for me four years ago. I remember waking up that morning in a vast empty space, thinking about the fires we had seen in the Hollywood Hills the night before, wondering if the movers had managed to make it over the Grapevine with our stuff. After 14 years in SF's Mission District, we had re-entered the industrial zone with a live-work space. The sounds, the smells, the people were all different and LA felt like a giant undrawn map that I was trying to fill in a fraction at a time.
Four years later (and currently, after a week of being sick), I don't really know if I have any great personal insights into it all. As an artist, I'm still facing a lot of the same challenges I was when I was in SF - still struggling to make ends meet, still trying to figure out where I fit into it all - but as a person, I honestly can't think of any place I'd rather be. I love being here with Lyn, I love the friends we've made and I love my studio. Downtown and the greater LA area continue to be a great source of inspiration for me. There's a lot more of everything here, both good and bad, and if that means taking longer to sort it all out (another four years?), I feel like I'm still up for it.
Currently listening to: YO LA TENGO "Popular Songs" (Matador) | | comments: 13 comments or Leave a comment |
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I took these photos in the Baldwin Coach Barn in the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden - originally part of the 46,000 acre Baldwin Ranch. Constructed in the late 1800's, the outside of the building has an ornate Victorian-era red & white Candy Land kind of feel to it but the inside is even more interesting.
The interior walls and ceiling are made of alternating slats of cedar and redwood and in the back of the ground floor behind the carriage area, there are four horse stalls separated by cast iron grillwork with pillar-like hay and grain chutes that are fed from the loft on the second floor.
All of the coach house's wood and metal work is beautifully crafted and considering that it had been a working stable for at least half a century, in amazingly good shape and meticulously clean. There was even an adjoining Victorian-style dog house for the ranch's bull mastiffs. It was - in short - a very VERY sexy environment.
With the afternoon light glowing on the dark varnished wood and antique metalwork, I felt like I was in the stable of some Tranceptor outpost or on the grounds of the Spider Garden and it really didn't take much effort to imagine some human ponies in those stalls being groomed, saddled and served by their androgynous Mastress...
Currently listening to: NOBODY PRESENTS BLANK BLUE "Western Water Music Volume II" (Ubiquity) | | comments: 13 comments or Leave a comment |
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The Little Sister's Classics Edition of Patrick Califia's "Macho Sluts" can be purchased here:
http://www.arsenalpulp.com/bookinfo.php?index=301
I've said this before but it's worth saying again: if you have even a vague interest in well-written boundary-breaking erotica and you haven't already read "Macho Sluts", please do yourself a favor and order a copy now. For those of you who already own one, Patrick's new introduction alone mandates a purchase. The cover art is just icing on the cake (for me, anyway).
Currently listening to: MARK STEWART + MAFFIA "Learning to Cope With Cowardice" (Plexus/On-U Sound) | | comments: 8 comments or Leave a comment |
| Happy Labor Day, fellow labors. Especially all you freelancers & small business owners. I'm going to celebrate the way I usually do: by working - and maybe a drink and some volleyball after quitting time. Na zdrowie!
Currently listening to: AFRICAN DUB ALL-MIGHTY "Solid Gold" (Rocky One) | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| I've added six new pieces to the Artwork For Sale section of my Spider Garden site.
http://www.thespidergarden.net/artforsale.php
Two new black & white Spider Garden illustrations on the theme of the latex concubine. Both pieces can be purchased as is or in a 3/4" matte black wood frame.
"Concubine + Tengu 02" features a gagged & corseted beauty in a passionate embrace with a Tengu client.
Concubine + Tengu 02 (2009) 7" x 7.5" unframed: $350 framed: $375
http://www.thespidergarden.net/artforsale.php?img=8&s=67&cs=5&o=0
"Oral Concubine 01" provides her own special brand of lip service to a well-heeled partner (possibly the Sacred Androgyne?) from a POV angle. Her shape of her wig is based on the head of a dragonfly I found recently.
Oral Concubine 01 (2009) 8.5" x 7.5" unframed: $375 framed: $400
http://www.thespidergarden.net/artforsale.php?img=52&s=67&cs=5&o=3
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"Latex Pony" is a new color painting of a human mount being offered up for inspection to a crop-wielding equestrian.
Latex Pony (2009) Ink & acrylic paint on illustration board. 8.75" x 9" $450
http://www.thespidergarden.net/artforsale.php?img=41&s=67&cs=5&o=2
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"Futanari Mistress 02" part of the Futanari Maids & Mistress series - a revealing portrait of the shemale maids' hermaphroditic mistress. It probably won't come as a surprise to know that one of her favorite hobbies is horse-breeding...
Futanari Mistress 02 (2009) Ink & pencil on bristol. 10.5" x 7.75" $325
http://www.thespidergarden.net/artforsale.php?img=34&s=67&cs=5&o=2
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"Futanari Bride 05" - a new image in the Futanari Wedding series - has the buxom & well-hung bride giving out oral favors to the wedding party.
Unlike the other drawings in this series which are marker on bond, "Futanari Bride 05" was drawn and inked with a combination of pen & brush on vellum surface bristol but I've included it in the Sketch section with the rest of the Wedding images to keep things simple.
Futanari Bride 05 (2009) Ink & pencil on bristol. 11.5" x 8.5" $250
http://www.thespidergarden.net/sketchforsale.php?img=7&s=18&cs=2&o=0
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"Masque 06" is a new addition to the Masque color painting series in which a collared hooded submissive applies some natural lubrication to the hand of a latex-gloved dominant.
Masque 06 (2009) 6" x 6" Ink & acrylic paint on illustration board. $250
http://www.thespidergarden.net/artforsale.php?img=50&s=67&cs=5&o=3
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Currently listening to: ANIMAL COLLECTIVE "Feels" (Fat Cat) | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
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