Bateau en papier sur la mer du japon par Captain Tany. Image numérique.
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Paper boat on the Sea of Japan by Captain Tany. Digital media 101.

Bateau en papier sur la mer du japon
Captain Tany, digital media, 2010
Artists who collaborate to create fresh art throughout the world
If you ever go to the Minibar in Paris, you can ask for a special – only for your eyes cocktail. Take some Pirart Society spirit, some Minibar spirit, shake it, blend it and there you go. The spring 2010 wallpaper Minibar x Pirart Society.

Full Pack (imac, macbook, ipad, iphone…)
2560/1440 for imac 27 si possible
1920/1080 for imac 21
1680/1050 for imac 24
1600/1200
1024/768 & 768/1024 for ipad
1440/900 for macbook 15/17
1280/800 for macbook 13
320/480 for iphone
I don’t really like creating logos because it is a very complicated task. The format is very limited, you need to reach unconscious cognitional processes, at the same time it must be very clear and straight to the point. Not easy at all.
On the other hand it is a very important exercise, a little bit like the “Elevator Pitch” in management, you need to go through that process to better understand your limits and… well and get better at what you do by knowing what you need to work on (and as there still so much for me to learn it’s quite depressing to do logos…).
This is a logo for a bed and breakfast in Brittany (France). My original idea was to show that the business is based on the manor, and also as I wanted to suggest that it is an ancient house – they do their own calvados and cider etc – I thought of working around the idea of the wax seal they put on bottles and letters.

Logo of La Haye d’Irée, www.chateaubeton.com, by Captain Tany
Saint Remy du Plain, FRANCE, 2010
I have been producing a lot of digital works for the past two years (websites, logos, promotional adds, communication support) and by doing so I have been neglecting a little bit traditional painting.
I have been wanting to issue a special art piece based in digital tools for a while. Also creating a piece using digital tools is quite different from brush painting as you can totally differentiate color and shape when using computers. So for me it was quite interesting to really explore the “color arrangement” issue in this work. It takes you back to childhood where you already have the shape and you need to choose the colors. It’s not as easy as it seems.
I have added many of my late inspirations in that work, and as always taking some themes of childhood and working around that.

“Adolescence” by Captain Tany
MacBook, 2010
Carte de visite réalisée par Captain Tany pour une boutique de déco-design d’intérieur de la Drôme. Version 2010 inspiration – salon de thé d’un hotel particulier design / caché-chic.

Carte de visite par Captain Tany
pour l’Espace Flirey, Drôme, 2010

Carte de visite par Captain Tany
pour l’Espace Flirey, Drôme, 2010
The latest creation of Captain Tany: Snowboard boots to enhance your winter gigs and urban cruises. This work is a Pirart Society x minibar mix up. “When you walk around with these in the city, it’s like walking on sushine.”
This is a design project and these are not for sale, unless you want to spend an extravagant amount of money on these.

Pirart society snowboard boots
by Captain Tany, 2010
Une équipe de télévision coréenne a fait un reportage sur un bon ami à nous, Yoon Ji-Hiuk, le meilleur joueur de baseball de la décennie en Corée. Là-bas, le baseball est le sport national donc Yoon y jouit d’une aura particulière.
A Paris il se promène incognito, et parle un peu de sa relation au sport et à la perfection. De belles images de Paris, en particulier sur la fin de la vidéo. (On notera qu’il porte pas mal de vêtement de la Pirart Society! Merci Yoon)
Élu Meilleur joueur de la décennie par la “Korean Baseball Association” (KBA)
You can do amazing things like become a worldwide sex-symbol and if you do, do it with class. Life’s an art; Pirart Society.
Steve McQueen left an indelible imprint as one of Hollywood’s sexiest leading men. His balance of masculinity and sensitivity made him both a man’s man and a ladies’ man all at once. His revered roles in films such as Bullitt, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair and, Papillion have been often imitated but never repeated. An actor, race-car driver, and father, McQueen was the epitome of the American dream, rising from hardscrabble circumstances to become one of the most famous movie stars in the world.
McQueen bio from stevemcqueen.com
You can do dirty things like shave your head and play hide and seek in the Cambodian jungle with 12 year old orphans, but if you do, do it with class. Life’s an art; Pirart Society.
I’ve seen horrors… horrors that you’ve seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that… but you have no right to judge me. It’s impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror… Horror has a face… and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies! I remember when I was with Special Forces… seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate some children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn’t see. We went back there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember… I… I… I cried, I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out; I didn’t know what I wanted to do! And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it… I never want to forget. And then I realized… like I was shot… like I was shot with a diamond… a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought, my God… the genius of that! The genius! The will to do that! Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we, because they could stand that these were not monsters, these were men… trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love… but they had the strength… the strength… to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men, our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral… and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling… without passion… without judgment… without judgment! Because it’s judgment that defeats us.
Col. Kurtz
You can do nice things like save the world, and if you do, do it with class. Life’s an art; Pirart Society.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874-1965) described himself as “an English-Speaking Union,” being the son of Lord Randolph Churchill and the American heiress Jennie Jerome. He was educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, and was sent to India with a cavalry commission in 1895. He won early fame as a war correspondent, covering the Cuban revolt against Spain (1895), and British campaigns in the Northwest Frontier of India (1897), the Sudan (1898) and South Africa during the Boer War (1899). Churchill had authored five books by the age of 26. His daring escape from a Boer prison camp in 1899 made him a national hero and ushered him into the House of Commons, where his career spanned 60 years.
text from winstonchurchill.org
You can do nice things like fighting for equality and freedom, but if you do, do it with class. Life’s an art; Pirart Society.
Harvey Milk was a city supervisor of a San Francisco and the first openly gay officer in the city’s history.
He, along with San Francisco mayor George Moscone, was shot and killed on Nov. 27, 1978 by Dan White, a former supervisor who had resigned his seat and who became enraged when the mayor would not reappoint him.
Mr. Milk was elected in November 1977 to the district that represented Haight-Ashbury and upper Market Street areas where much of San Francisco’s gay population was centered.
Mr. Milk had campaigned unsuccessfully for the supervisor position in 1973 and 1975 before winning two years later with 30 percent of the vote over 16 candidates.
Born in New York City, Mr. Milk and received a bachelor’s degree in 1951 from from Albany State College for Teachers. He had worked as a financial analyst in New York City before moving to San Francisco in 1969.
Though open about his sexual preference from the start, Mr. Milk campaigned on a broad platform that included expanded childcare facilities, low-rent housing and a civilian police-review board, rather than primarily on the issue of homosexual rights. However, he had been instrumental in passing a homosexual rights ordinance that was considered the most stringent in the nation at that time.
Mr. White was charged with murder, but convicted of the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter, leading to chaos and riots throughout the city.
text from nytimes.com
You can do nice things like being a winner, and if you are, be it with class. Life’s an art; Pirart Society.
The Pirart Society supports Winners
Olympic games 2010
Vancouvert CANADA
Vous pouvez faire de belle choses comme être un gagnant, et si vous l’êtes, soyez-le avec classe. La vie est un art ; Pirart Society.
I remember that late night of may 1965. The crappy town of Lewiston, the half crowded gym and cynical reporters from Boston and what not. I remember the tension before the bell rang and the people swearing at Ali. The hell if I had any pleasure watching them fight. And Bam! Liston was down in the blink of an eye. Damn, did Ali look good in that shirt.
You can do dirty things like beating people up, but if you do, do it with class. Life’s an art; Pirart Society.
We know the battle ahead will be long,
but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way,
nothing can stand in the way of the power of a Pirart calling for change.We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics who will only grow louder and more dissonant.
We’ve been asked to pause for a reality check.
We’ve been warned against offering the people of this Society false hope.
But in the unlikely history of the Pirart Society, there has never been anything false about hope.
(text derived from a too famous speech, anybody paying attention to what’s happening in the word will recognize)
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Vêtements et objets d’art -PirartSociety.com
Not so long ago, a friend of mine asked me a Pirart Society polo, a black one with a white garment: a man smoking a pipe, with an eye patch and a hat. The Classic fans would state. ‘Aye’, did I say to the.

Pirart Society Classic black long sleeve t-shirt with white Pirart man smoking pipe
But that was not a regular order, it was for a young man called Mehdi Abdesmad. To most of you that’s just an Arabic name but to some sport fans he’s a young talented Canadian football player (American Football, yes dear) going 18 y.o. in 2010. Not playing for college or NFL yet but one of the very best defensive player in world at the moment. So I wouldn’t try to steal his mama’s purse when he’s around, you’ll end up snapped and squashed by 250 pounds of bones and muscles even before you can start saying ‘got ya!’.

Pirart Society Classic black polo with white Pirart man smoking pipe - detail

Pirart Society Classic black polo with white Pirart man smoking pipe - detail

Pirart Society Classic black polo with white Pirart man smoking pipe - detail
Special requests call for special care. I thus customized the usual Classic polo, with the usual sportman’s fetish number. I didn’t want to come up with the usual 45 (45’s Mehdi Abdesmad’s jersey number) on the shoulder or in the back. So I worked around the idea that the Pirart would have put a playing card with that number tucked in the bandeau around his bowler hat.

Pirart Society Classic black polo with white Pirart man smoking pipe - detail
The Classic is on sale at PirartSociety.com and you can ask for customizations here.
What I like around new year is that it’s a season where everybody is very generous. Not give-food-or-shelter-to-people-on-streets generous but buy-useless-stupid-toys-for-grand-kids generous.
And so I feel generous and consider all of you as my kids that I want to please. To help ou pass winter here is my gift to you: Pirart Society Wallpapers.

Pirart Society wallpaper by Tany, January 2010
Sizes available for download : 1650 x 1050 ; 1280 x 1024 ; 1280 x 800 ; 1024 x 768
To me, as Pirart is inspired by many things of our childhood such as American TV sitcoms, pop culture as well as traditional french culture and child-associated references, it makes sens that in the end some images turn out to look very much like something we are used to but yet something new. Alright that’s the definition of dejavu-production.com
Nevertheless I like to play with anachronism and classic imagery; I also need to come up with a visual support for the promotion of Pirart Society. One image I came up with is the following which for some strange reason makes me think of the 80’s and Michael Jordan amongst other things.
Kalashnikov art toy by the Pirart Society
by Tany, 2009