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“I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.”- Peter Max

 "America  is the canvas, throw up as much paint as you can. We are  just the middlemen"-Ed Reif

The Power of Myth

The myth that  REAL artists don’t make money is the wrong myth. Pop Artist Peter Max is no miraculous exception--He  is having his 70 something-ith  birthday this week onboard the Celebrity Solstice.

Optimistic, generous, and naive, that's the German-American Dreamer  in a nutshell. He isn't the industry standard- He's industrial painting; churning and burning cotton-candy, Art-Nouveau-ish  limited  editions---the inedible raised to the unspeakable, funk and Junk.

The copies are  better than the originals.... from Xerox to Infinity.The man who mass-produced the decade(s)  even has Cosmic iPhone Aps, Max  has more game than Milton Bradley.
 
I had a conference call with The Max two weeks ago, and I cannot help be reminded of what his friend Andy Warhol said--- "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet".
Holy Cow!
The coolest things I can think of about him is that  he doesn't eat his friends-Peter is a vegetarian. Noteworthy is his  cow rescue-- a $180,000 barter deal ) at a  Cincinnati slaughterhouse,  and  a 1984 Statue of Liberty extreme makeover  with with then Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca, and Nancy and Ronald Reagan's blessing and clout.

His paint is on  a Boeing 777 Continental fuselage,  the 1999 Woodstock stage, The Beatles Yellow Submarine Album cover, a giant mural at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.  Max has been designated as the Official Artist of five Super Bowls, five Grammy Awards, World Cup USA, The World Series, and the United Nations Earth Summit.

"Sometimes you fantasize that people who are really up there and rich and living it up have something you don't have, and their things must be better than your things because they have more money than you. But they drink the same Coke and eat the same hot dogs and wear the same clothes and see the same TV and the same movies. . . You can get just as revolted as they can -- you can have the same nightmares. All this is really American -Andy Warhol

So

Everyone Will Be famous for 15 Minutes

“I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.”- Peter Max

 "America  is the canvas, throw up as much paint as you can. We are  just the middlemen"-Ed Reif

The Power of Myth

The myth that  REAL artists don’t make money is the wrong myth. Pop Artist Peter Max is no miraculous exception--He  is having his 70 something-ith  birthday this week onboard the Celebrity Solstice.

Optimistic, generous, and naive, that's the German-American Dreamer  in a nutshell. He isn't the industry standard- He's industrial painting; churning and burning cotton-candy, Art-Nouveau-ish  limited  editions---the inedible raised to the unspeakable, funk and Junk.

The copies are  better than the originals.... from Xerox to Infinity.The man who mass-produced the decade(s)  even has Cosmic iPhone Aps, Max  has more game than Milton Bradley.
 
I had a conference call with The Max two weeks ago, and I cannot help be reminded of what his friend Andy Warhol said--- "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet".
Holy Cow!
The coolest things I can think of about him is that  he doesn't eat his friends-Peter is a vegetarian. Noteworthy is his  cow rescue-- a $180,000 barter deal ) at a  Cincinnati slaughterhouse,  and  a 1984 Statue of Liberty extreme makeover  with with then Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca, and Nancy and Ronald Reagan's blessing and clout.

His paint is on  a Boeing 777 Continental fuselage,  the 1999 Woodstock stage, The Beatles Yellow Submarine Album cover, a giant mural at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.  Max has been designated as the Official Artist of five Super Bowls, five Grammy Awards, World Cup USA, The World Series, and the United Nations Earth Summit.

"Sometimes you fantasize that people who are really up there and rich and living it up have something you don't have, and their things must be better than your things because they have more money than you. But they drink the same Coke and eat the same hot dogs and wear the same clothes and see the same TV and the same movies. . . You can get just as revolted as they can -- you can have the same nightmares. All this is really American -Andy Warhol

So

Wake up kids/ We've got the dreamers disease.



You've got a reason to live / Can't forget you only get what you give New Radicals- You Get What You Give

Cruise Ships are the new Golden Gate Bridges
Putting the SIN in the sincerest form of criticism life can get- Why kill yourself? Life will do it for you
 The earth school kills all of its students, eh? Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit..."  so is jumping off the Carnival Splendor.

One of the Assistant Waiters, 27 years old,  was seen shouting into a cell phone, throwing it overboard in disgust, then jumping to his death. Ouch. Taking your own life really kills 2 ppl's souls in this case, the chick he was arguing with too.

I just couldn’t live with myself knowing I had just killed myself. Sure, 9 out of 10 ppl are would-be suicidal maniacs.But, it's the  permanent solution to  temporary problems.

Wake up kids/ We've got the dreamers disease.



You've got a reason to live / Can't forget you only get what you give New Radicals- You Get What You Give

Cruise Ships are the new Golden Gate Bridges
Putting the SIN in the sincerest form of criticism life can get- Why kill yourself? Life will do it for you
 The earth school kills all of its students, eh? Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit..."  so is jumping off the Carnival Splendor.

One of the Assistant Waiters, 27 years old,  was seen shouting into a cell phone, throwing it overboard in disgust, then jumping to his death. Ouch. Taking your own life really kills 2 ppl's souls in this case, the chick he was arguing with too.

I just couldn’t live with myself knowing I had just killed myself. Sure, 9 out of 10 ppl are would-be suicidal maniacs.But, it's the  permanent solution to  temporary problems.

I'm stuck in the 1980's with Phil Collins "Oh, think twice, 'cause it's another day / For you, you and me in paradise" resonating against , Neil Young's Cortez "He came dancing across the water/With his galleons and guns/Looking for the new world/In that palace in the sun"

Hate was just a legend
And war was never known
The people worked together
And they lifted many stones.

I'm stuck in the 1980's with Phil Collins "Oh, think twice, 'cause it's another day / For you, you and me in paradise" resonating against , Neil Young's Cortez "He came dancing across the water/With his galleons and guns/Looking for the new world/In that palace in the sun"

Hate was just a legend And war was never known The people worked together And they lifted many stones.

And I know she's living there And she loves me to this day I still can't remember when Or how I lost my way.

Malibu is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Talk may be cheap but intelligent conversation is very expensive these days. Ask anyone with a kid in college.Here at Pepperdine,a  dry campus-no one is maintaining a perfect 4.0 blood alchol level, or majoring in Beer. The only thing that interferes with student's learning is their education.

Malibu is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Talk may be cheap but intelligent conversation is very expensive these days. Ask anyone with a kid in college.Here at Pepperdine,a  dry campus-no one is maintaining a perfect 4.0 blood alchol level, or majoring in Beer. The only thing that interferes with student's learning is their education.

Das Boot

 The power of (my) intention to have a good time is the lyrics for the Beatle's song---Yellow Submarine "Embracing the life forced upon me" to stay in hotel rooms and live under pressure = Submarine. Because I have been  having a great time it is  Yellow (friends are all aboard). Sea of green = money.

So we sailed on to the sun / Till we found a sea of green / And we lived beneath the waves / In our yellow submarine ...

Das Boot

 The power of (my) intention to have a good time is the lyrics for the Beatle's song---Yellow Submarine "Embracing the life forced upon me" to stay in hotel rooms and live under pressure = Submarine. Because I have been  having a great time it is  Yellow (friends are all aboard). Sea of green = money.

So we sailed on to the sun / Till we found a sea of green / And we lived beneath the waves / In our yellow submarine ...

“There must be some kind of way out of here,”
Said the joker to the thief. 

Now that 10.10.10 is just a 2 days  away-looking forward to the cataclysm! and  Second Coming.

Reinventing The Wheel

“There must be some kind of way out of here,”
Said the joker to the thief. 

Now that 10.10.10 is just a 2 days  away-looking forward to the cataclysm! and  Second Coming.

Reinventing The Wheel

Art Auction On Board The Carnival Splendor

The Mother Teresa of the Cruise Ship Art Auction World--turning water into wine, The Ed Reif brand, handing out the sacrement of faith--, and as M. T.  said herself" My wish is that everyone that meets me, leaves a little bit happier". Props to Gary Glitter, for "Hey Hey" song

Art Auction On Board The Carnival Splendor

The Mother Teresa of the Cruise Ship Art Auction World--turning water into wine, The Ed Reif brand, handing out the sacrement of faith--, and as M. T.  said herself" My wish is that everyone that meets me, leaves a little bit happier". Props to Gary Glitter, for "Hey Hey" song

In one year and out the other. A year ago today...
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