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smirk (smûrk)
intr.v. smirked, smirk·ing, smirks
To smile in an affected, often offensively self-satisfied manner.
n.
An affected, often offensively self-satisfied smile.
devilish [ˈdɛvəlɪʃ ˈdɛvlɪʃ]
adj
of, resembling, or befitting a devil; diabolic; fiendish
© David K. Edwards. The pelican is facing away from the camera, which is slightly a pity. Two other birds at least are also in the frame. The pelican sits atop what appears to be wreckage, or a pile of junk abandoned in the water. The location is Bolinas Lagoon or thereabouts. The inhabitants of Bolinas are so exclusive that they destroy all highway signs that indicate directions to their precious community. A feeling for this place may be found in the "Ecotopia" fiction, in which Bolinas plays a substantial role, stretching our willing suspension of disbelief. Or waste your time in minimally less nauseating ways.
There is, at least to this observer, a certain predatory aspect to this photo. Perhaps it's true love---our perhaps its the size of his wallet (and not the size of his waistband). Let's hope it's the former and not the latter.
Note the flower she's holding---she's about to be plucked.
We went to see the D. J. Hall retrospective at the Palm Springs Museum. Hall is a Southern California artist with a home in Palm Desert. She does large-scale paintings of women seated in or near swimming pools. Her women are described as smug, self-satisfied and privileged, and her work is seen as a commentary on wealth, aging and beauty. One review described her paintings as "where trophy wives go to die."
Early in her career Hall painted older women, showing all their wrinkles and veins. The skin had blue/purple/grey tones, as if they were already dead. In the 1980s she painted women with "hysterical smiles." They wear big shoulder pads, mirrored sunglasses and outsized jackets. They look a little stretched, like women who spend way too much time at the gym.
Now that Hall is 57, she's somewhat kinder towards her subjects. The light is softer and her treatment gentler. But critics still gleefully emphasize the edginess, saying that "all is not right" in these worlds. Judging by the comments in the museum's guestbook, viewers like to buy into this idea. They want to project their own fears and insecurities onto Hall's women.
There's a killer irony that she's become a successful artist by painting critiques of the wealthy -- that only the wealthy can afford to buy. I guess people like to show that they can be self-aware and self-deprecating in their choice of art.
The retrospective explains the roots of Hall's ambivalence towards her subject. She had a troubled childhood, growing up with a mother who had severe mental illness. The only time she felt safe was playing in the pool at her grandmother's house in Palm Desert. So the work is about trying to return to a happy time that never really existed. She's angry at her mother because her parents' divorce and her mother's mental illness were taboo, not acknowledged in the family. She transfers that anger onto the rich, creating scenes where we're supposed to look for the flaws. We're supposed to assume that these women aren't as happy as they would like us to believe.
Hall often puts herself in her paintings, usually with her back to the viewer. Although she unflinchingly shows the sagging necks of her models, she paints herself with a firm butt and taut skin. Yet she thinks that these later works are "a visual diary of my journey towards maturity and self-acceptance."
I love her technique and use of color. I could look at this painting for hours. It's one of the few that conveys hope and optimism.
I had a problem with the commentary -- especially what the critics like to think she's saying about women and aging. This is a topic that's close to my heart. It stares back at me every time I look in the mirror, every time I hear a woman being ridiculed for having Botox or plastic surgery. Reviewers like to mention how the women in Hall's paintings show the effects of time "despite their best efforts to the contrary."
As a woman who's showing the effects of time, comments like that make me want to shout back, "What exactly is it I'm supposed to do, then?" But I know the answer. I'm supposed to look good, but not look like I'm trying. It's just supposed to naturally happen -- y'know, the whole "aging gracefully" thing. God forbid I should let on that I care; that would indicate that I'm vain and pathetically trying to hold onto my youth. No, I'm supposed to go along with the deception and play the game. La-de-da, no worries here, nothing a little moisturizer can't fix. If we all look good to each other, we all feel better.
There's such a narrow range of acceptability. If we let ourselves go, that's depressing. If we try too hard, that's desperate. As Mary McNamara, Television Critic for the Los Angeles Times, said, “If women look old, we criticize, and if they try to fix it, we criticize more snidely.”
I'm glad I went to see that art. It gave me a lot to think about. I admire her for turning her pain into something marketable.
Now I'm going to go swim in my pool.
She does make me laugh!! She was actually just preparing for yet another yawn, as you can see in the image below.
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Best compliment I've ever gotten as an artist. It's amazing enough that someone would get a tattoo of my art, let alone one so frickin' huge. Awesome.
Here is the original:
fountain landscape in ryoanji Temple. carving the words on stone : WEI, WU, ZHI, ZU. Mean: Because Satisfaction, I am very happy.
Finally finished the expansion of the master bedroom closet into what was once just dead space behind the walls of the second floor.
Once we constructed the space I had a devil of a time figuring out how to hand closet rods to make maximum use of the new space. Then I designed these shelves hanging on lengths of chain with these nifty pull out wardrobe dealies I found at Ikea.
Here's a link to a photo of the space when I first knocked the walls out.
As I always say, if women don't find you handsome.....
Special packaging for the Self-Satisfied release of "FRANK" by Swellzombie catalog 040
This packaging is made of two pieces of vinyl, cut into circles with holes cut into them that are off center. The protective masking has been mostly left on. At the bottom there is a piece of wood holding the two pieces together and acting like a hinge. The two piece spread apart to reveal the CD envelope that has a hand drawn design. Inside is a CD-R with another hand drawn design.
Bilbo's self-satisfied morning yawn.
The Bergamasco is a breed of dog with its origins in the Italian Alps near Bergamo, where it was originally used as a herding dog.
Special packaging for the Self-Satisfied release of "FRANK" by Swellzombie catalog 040
This packaging is made of two pieces of vinyl, cut into circles with holes cut into them that are off center. The protective masking has been mostly left on. At the bottom there is a piece of wood holding the two pieces together and acting like a hinge. The two piece spread apart to reveal the CD envelope that has a hand drawn design. Inside is a CD-R with another hand drawn design.
Special packaging for the Self-Satisfied release of "FRANK" by Swellzombie catalog 040
This packaging is made of two pieces of vinyl, cut into circles with holes cut into them that are off center. The protective masking has been mostly left on. At the bottom there is a piece of wood holding the two pieces together and acting like a hinge.
Special packaging for the Self-Satisfied release of "FRANK" by Swellzombie catalog 040
This packaging is made of two pieces of vinyl, cut into circles with holes cut into them that are off center. The protective masking has been mostly left on. At the bottom there is a piece of wood holding the two pieces together and acting like a hinge.
Not. being a restaurant, Giraffe is safe from takeover by Tesco.
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/14/tesco-giraff...
i'm not gonna lie--this might be one of my favorite expressions ever.
ribbon was left over from some grade school function, though i don't remember what.
Chimpanzee in a jacket and trousers in front of a mirror; Shutterstock ID 99664574; ISBN: 9781256874430; for: Queens University
Statue of a Cougar lying down, looking quite pleased with itself. It has the same look of innocence on it face that our cat, Comfort, has after jumping our other cat, Kachina.
Sculpture, Cougar, Statue. Bronze, Powder Coat
A photo-a-day for a Hobbling A Day - sheltering in place.
Black-Capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) testing out the new seed cylinder.
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian, 1682-1754
Oil on Canvas, undated
Portrait Of A Young Man is characteristic of Piazzetta's work. The dark, almost smoky color palette and heavy chiaroscuro creates an intimate space in which the vitality and youthful temperament of the boy shines through.
Francesco Guardi, Italian, 1712-1793
Oil on Canvas, undated
Francesco Guardi worked in the Guardi family workshop. Most of his works were landscapes, but he did do an occasional portrait. The boy in the painting was the son of Senator Gradenigo, a prominent Venetian and known patron of Guardi. He is obviously quite self-satisfied and Guardi catches it beautifully.
by Iris Murdoch.
New York (NY/USA), The Viking Press Incorporated, 197o.
i first learned of Iris Murdoch by finding a copy of A Severed Head in the garbage in Toronto. a 2nd reading of it sent me after more of her material & i've since come to both appreciate the intelligence at work & be entirely tediated by the garish displaying of it, her tendency to the faux-Socratic dialogue as a device a case in point (it often occupies lengthy stretches).
A Fairly Honourable Defeat is not a fairly honourable fail atall but a catalogue of her pretensions at their heights, all in service to her musings on "love".
the particular ways in which she deployed this love business began to be linguistically-challenged after a short while & it was a grind to get through its 436 pages. it ended up feeling so oppressive at the end that i flipped through & did a count: the word "love" occurs 365 times, with a further 65 occasions in 1o other forms ("loved" (26), "loving" (19), "loves" (11), "lovely" (6), "home-lover" (1), etcet). that's 43o repetitions in 436 pages. this averages out to one "love" per page (though there're stretches without it that're almost over-eliminated in effect by, for instance, p.348, which has 13 (in 3 forms) crammed into it).
i know this is just bean-counting but izzit really? i wasn't looking to be offended by her intellectual sentimentalism; it was the oppressive presence of a particular word almost mindlessly repeated so as to become meaningless that made me question "did that really just happen?" & rerun it to see (i may've missed some).
there's more to offend in this (her smarmy characterizations for starters) than her empurpled prose but noöne should have to read such selfsatisfied drivel.
by Adeena Karasick. Vancouver, Talonbooks, 2o12.
as if selfreferentiality isn't bad enough in even small doses of its usual blatancy, herein -- no, "hereon" -- it starts on the cover & drags one screaming through the whole of it, a neverending parade of selfsatisfied audience abuse.
one can just hear her giggling at her tiny clevernesses (as she consistently does "in performance") as "this poem" blathers on & on about herself (Betty Cooper would say "How cunning!!").
what a weenie!
101/365: These things seem totally reasonable when I am a bit drunk and rapidly running out of brain-power and waking hours in which to post a self-portrait. Here is me, a few drinks worse for wear, and a grainy shot of myself in the photobooth screen. Like I said, seemed a good idea at the time. I cannot be held responsible for Friday night SPs.
Reminder. 🙇 #12am #thoughts #deep #otherpeople #medicine #quotes #lifequotes #thinkaboutit #selfsatisfied #life #happy #smile #goodnight - hadzzmeowx
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