420~OPENING NIGHT!

well the holiday for the, "opiated masses" finally came... and it didn't disappoint!

opening night @ antebellum's- 420~CANNABIS AS ART exhibition was whimsical & magical.
everyone was in such a good mood, except perhaps for me...
curating can be a real strain, and very stressful. the combination of artists & potheads makes for a very mañana attitude, if you know what i mean...... never-the-less, fun was held by all, including an exhausted gallery owner.

here are the first batch of pics taken by antebellum's official photographer~ BOOTS BRYANT-






































420~ CANNABIAS AS ART exhibition is now open~ wednesday thru saturdays, 1-7pm, thru may 7th.. come check out the art, it's guaranteed to give you a "buzz."
www.antebellum.us.ms

HAPPY 420!

(henry hemp)

in honor of our unofficial holiday~4/20~ ANTEBELLUM gallery presents~ 420~CANNABIS AS ART,
opens tonight, (april 20th, 2010) @ 7pm thru 9pm. featuring live performances & surprises!

(pussy pipe by billy pacak)

local & international artists creating images related to cannabis~ in all mediums
erotic interpretations
political banners
historic memorabilia from richard eastman & dennis peron, (creators of the normandie hotel~ the first "pot-tel," in los angeles, (see article below)

$10 cover

ANTEBELLUM
1643 n las palmas ave
hollywood, ca 90028
323 856-0667
antebellum@earthlink.net
www.antebellum.us.ms

LA'S FIRST "POT-TEL"

Jazz Age Normandie Hotel may roar again as ‘pot-tel’


Marijuana advocates are renovating the aging Koreatown building, starting with Room 420.
: L.A.'s first hotel billing itself as pot-friendly

By John Hoeffel- LATIMES
The Hotel Normandie, a stoic brick building weighing down a corner of Normandie Avenue and 6th Street, opened in the Roaring '20s as an elegant residence, promising in tasteful advertisements to "leave nothing to be desired by the most experienced and exacting."

Tuesday night, the hotel will host another grand opening, for a very different, experienced and exacting clientele: pot smokers.

The aging Koreatown edifice has been rechristened Dennis Peron's Normandie Hotel, and the late-night event was timed for April 20, the annual day of celebration for cannabis worshippers worldwide.

Peron, a hero to the marijuana movement, started the first dispensary in San Francisco and led the state's medical marijuana initiative. Now, he and a team of weed-loving friends hope to turn the 106-room Normandie into America's first pot-friendly hotel. READ MORE-

both dennis peron & richard eastman have contributed memorabilia, posters & banners to ANTEBELLUM's 420~CANNABIS AS ART exhibition,

WE MADE THRILLIST!

check out our story on THRILLIST, or read about it here~

($ex artiste~ sukeena the pot smoking cat)

Cannabis As Art
High art. Literally.

(scott siedman~ the source~2010)

Opening reception tomorrow~ tuesday~ 4/20/2010~ 7-9pm; then open Wed-Sat 1-7pm til May 7 at 1643 N Las Palmas; Hollywood; 323.856.0667

At art shows, there always comes a moment when you come across a particularly wacky piece, and wonder "Damn, what was that guy, high?" Well, now you've got your answer: the Cannabis as Art show.

(kobe leah~pothead~2010)

Opening on... wait for it... 4/20(!), Cannabis As Art's a collection of toke-worthy pieces covering the range of stonerdom, from flat-out munchie-ridden psychedelia to political commentary to shamanism, all curated by a guy inspired by herb's potential all-out legalization in November, which he thinks will inevitably pass, so you know he's stoned. Pieces range from paintings to sculptures to, well, pieces, with some of the more interesting work including an Elmo-like puppet that's made to look like a budding plant made by one of the mastermind musicians in GWAR, to an 8x10 sheet made of Zig Zags w/ a Renaissance-style drawing of Saturn The Nymph (obv), to an all-mahogany pipe shaped like a vagina, w/ the clitoris acting as a bowl, suggesting that it does exist. Other stoneyness includes a hand-drawn "Marijuana God" who resembles an Aztec Bob Marley; a computer-generated face composed entirely of pot leaves, and pieces from a Pittsburghian who does portraits of famous potheads made entirely out of spent roaches, but not Papa Roaches, 'cause the dude's not desperate.

The opening party costs $10 and is gonna include live music, an in-costume appearance from that GWAR guy, and...um...other stuff, which leads to another pressing question: "Are you a cop?"

(cliff maynard~ jerry garcia)

More art's on the gallery's page at Antebellum.Us.Ms

LIFE OF THE PARTY

KKKRAP

sorry, i'm for free speech and all, but i find this downtown rally disgusting and scary!

A white supremacist group rallied against illegal immigration in downtown Los Angeles Saturday as hundreds of counter-protesters gathered to shout them down in a tense standoff that included several arrests, thrown rocks and police in riot gear.

Police officers stood between the white supremacists and counter-demonstrators on the south lawn of Los Angeles' City Hall, where about 50 members of the National Socialist Movement waved American flags and swastika banners for about an hour.

i also find it disturbing that you cannot tell the white supremacists from the police!

ZIGZAG ART

we're getting ready for the big~ 420~CANNABIS AS ART exhibit~
opens on tuesday~ 4/20/2010~ 7pm~$10cover

this ink drawing on zigzag paper is by SCOTT SIEDMAN entitled~ "THE SOURCE"
a stayar smoking a pipe dances with a nymph wearing a garland of cannabis.

WWW.ANTEBELLUM.US.MS

SEX HOTEL FOR ANIMALS!?

WFT! talk about animal husbandry... this story takes it to a different level-

A guy in rural washington state has been arrested for running what authorities say appears to be a bestiality farm in Washington state in which visitors could engage in all sorts of twisted sex acts with animals.

Douglas Spink was arrested at his ramshackle, heavily wooded compound near the Canadian border in Whatcom County along with a 51-year-old tourist from Great Britain who is accused of having sex with three dogs.

Dozens of dogs, horses and pet mice were seized, along with what investigators described as thousands of images of bestiality and apparent child pornography. The mice were euthanized, said Whatcom County Sheriff Bill Elfo, whose office assisted federal agents in the case.

"This stuff is just truly bizarre," he said. "These were mice that had their tails cut off, they were smothered in Vaseline and they had string tied around them."
READ MORE-

BTW, if any of you remember the film ZOO, which i screened @ THE FETISH FILM FESTIVAL last year, there is a conection to this guy and the person that died in the film- "MR. HANDS."

PINUP?

my neighbor~ design ASHTON HIROTA, doing what he does best, relaxing & drinking in SHOEZ!