Red Vines, Candy & Junk Become Celebrity Portraits In The Hands Of Jason Mecier.

above: Kim Kardashian made of Red Vines & Black Licorice twists

Los Angeles born, and now San Francisco-based, mosaic artist Jason Mecier creates portraits of famous personalities with assemblages crafted of candy, food, yarn, dried beans and just plain junk.

In his licorice mosaics, He artfully twists red and black licorice to create uncanny likenesses of some of today's most popular entertainers and images from popular culture.


above: detail of Kim Kardashian made of Red Vines and Black Licorice

In his "junk" portraits, the objects he uses to craft the images include things relevant to the celebrity or personality of his subject, such as the Campbell's soup cans and banana used to compose a portrait of artist Andy Warhol:



Red vines and black licorice:

Mo' Nique:

Michael C. Hall as Dexter:

Elizabeth Berkely in Showgirls:

Taylor Lautner:

Robert Englund as Freddy Kruger from Nightmare on Elm Street:



Other Candy
Taylor Swift made with Good n' Plenty Candies:


Pam Anderson made of various hard candy and candy bars:

details:

Christina Aguilera made of candy:

The Olsen Twins made of candy:

The Spice Girls made of candy:


Some of his impressive "junk" portraits.

Mary Louise Parker (star of HBO's Weeds):

Conan O'Brien:

Tina Fey:

Chelsea Handler:

Donald Trump and detail:

Frida Kahlo and detail:

Singer Pink:

Kathy Najimy:

RuPaul:

President Obama:



To see more, visit Jason's website.

Frameworks Posters By Moxy Creative Celebrate Famous Eyeglass Frames.

Framegeek.com, a blog about Men's eyewear, sunglasses and glasses, has just issued a series of posters celebrating 'Eyewear Made Famous' by Moxy Creative.

The collection consists of six different aesthetically pleasing graphic art posters. Five of the posters each feature one iconic outline of recognizable eyewear frames on the subdued colored silhouettes of Andy Warhol, Johnny Depp, Mahatma Ghandi, Kanye West, and Yves Saint Laurent respectively. The sixth poster is a compilation of iconic white frames with call-outs beneath each of the face to whom the glasses belong.

The Warhol's:

The Depp's:

The Ghandi's:

The Ye's:

The YSL's:

The Frameworks poster:


01. Woody Allen 02. Kanye West 03. Buddy Holly 04. Michael Caine 05. Kurt Cobain 06. John Lennon 07. Geordi LaForge 08. Malcolm X 09. Johnny Depp 10. Dame Edna 11.Stephen Colbert 12. The Blues Brothers 13. Austin Powers 14. Yves Saint Laurent 15. Elton John 16. George Costanza 17. Bootsy Collins 18. Elvis Costello 19. Terry Richardson 20. David Hockney 21. DMC of Run DMC 22. Andy Warhol 23. Mohandas Ghandi 24. Steve Urkel 25. Napoleon Dynamite 26. Clark Kent 27. Shock G of Digital Underground 28. Truman Capote


Each of the six 11.75" x 15.5" prints costs $30 and is limited to a run of 50.
Buy them here.

DVF, Maharishi, Steiff, CB2 and More Still Worship Warhol

Andy Warhol, despite no longer being with us, continues to decorate the world with his iconic images adorning everything from luggage to beachwear. For the past decade, several manufacturers and designers have collaborated with the world's best known pop-artists' foundation to create products for the home and fashion for the body. And the collabs just keep coming.

Of course there are tons of Warholesque amateur creations on sites like Cafe Press and Zazzle, but I'm talking about actual authentic Warhol collaborations or Limited edition Warhol items.

Here's just a few of the recent collaborations:

Fashion diva and designer Diane Von Furstenberg has a beautiful line of swimwear this summer in which she has 2 Warhol inspired flower beach towels and 2 cover ups.



The towels:


Which go perfectly with her wonderful Warhol Flower Beach Cover-ups:


all of which can be purchased here.

Maharishi gets together with the Andy Warhol Foundation (again) as part of their Spring 2009 Collection. Using Andy's famous dollar graphic, filled with an Andy Warhol camouflage:


buy the t-shirt here.
buy the hoodie here.

Maharishi's previous Andy Warhol tees:


Maharishi and the Andy Warhol Foundation also collaborated with Medicom Toys to bring us some fun kubricks, designed to stand on their heads:



you can buy them here.

Dupont has some special limited edition Warhol lighters and pens:


buy them here.

Hysteric Glamour of Japan has a full line of Andy Warhol products with some new additions:



check out the full line here.

Hysteric Glamor and the Warhol Foundation also teamed up with Medicom toys to bring us a Warhol Bearbrick:

no longer available, check ebay.

Steiff's special Classic Teddy Bear Margarete uses the original Steiff owner's image in a Warholian pop art print:

buy it here.

CB2, Crate and Barrel's hip sister store, carries Warhol plates:

buy them here.

Warhol Marilyn Umbrella (Brolly):

buy it here.

Not so recent collaborations:

Nearly 40 years after Andy Warhol transformed Campbell's soup cans into art form, Campbell celebrated the pop artist with limited edition soup cans bearing his colorful renditions of the classic tomato soup label. Campbell unveiled a special four-pack of Campbell's tomato soup at Giant Eagle supermarkets. The pack features the Warhol-inspired labels instead of the trademark red and white labels that have adorned the can for more than 100 years.

Almost impossible to find now, try ebay.

German porcelain manufacturer Rosenthal has various lines of Warhol dishes and vases:



Visit Rosenthal's site here.
Or buy them here. Or here.

Hip perfumer Bond. no.9 has used Warhol's images and name for some of their fragrances and bottles:


buy them here.

Launched in 2006, the Warhol Factory X Levi's label paid tribute to the pop-culture art made famous by the late American artist Andy Warhol. Priced between $190-$250 for jeans and $80-$300 for tops, the said collection is only available at such high-end stores as Barneys New York, Fred Segal and American Rag.




In 2007, Burton snowboards and ski wear collaborated with the Warhol foundation to come up with a limited collection that included softgoods and hardgoods like parkas, bindings, luggage and snowboards. Mostly sold out, you can still find some items on ebay or in various ski stores.
Here are a few examples from the collaboration:





And there are Andy Warhol puzzles as well. Marilyn, 24 Marilyns and Shoes Galore:


buy them here.

Andy Warhol Elvis Duvet and pillowcases:

Warhol's Campbells soup duvet and pillowcases:

buy them here.

There are 100% wool Andy Warhol Rugs made by Sphinx for the home:

You can purchase the 2 rugs above and more from the Andy Warhol Collection here

Below is a previously auctioned off Andy Warhol rug original:


Betterwall has a wonderful Museum Banner from a past SF Moma Warhol exhibit for sale:


buy it here.

And if you, too worship the pop artist/filmaker/celebrity, you can have your choice of Andy Warhol Dolls.

Plush Designer Collector Doll, 2000, limited to production of 5,000:

buy it here.

Oddfellows makes a miniature Warhol figure clutching a soup can:

buy it here.

A collaboration between the founder of Maharishi and Medicom yeilded detailed 12" "Ultra Detail Figure" Andy Warhol Dolls from the sixties, seventies and eighties. They sold out long ago but you can find some vintage ones on ebay or various collectible toy stores.



Medicom also makes a little Andy Warhol Kubrick set:

buy it here.



Of course, the Warhol Museum store carries tons of authentic Warhol products from watches and dinnerware, posters and calendars, nite lights and more:

you can browse or buy them all here.

For real Andy Warhol originals, check here. And here.
To learn about the origin of Warhol's soup cans, check this out.


The Warhol Foundation
The Warhol Museum

Andy Warhol on Wikipedia
www.warholstars.org
www.andywarholposters.org

Buy Andy Warhol Books, Films And Items Here