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.
The Pirart Society Univers
The Pirart Society, Art you wear (l’art que l’on porte)
Clothes
Guns
Toys
Stamps
Posters
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
If someone needs a banner to enhance a web page or decorate a wall, here is a good one:
The Pirart Society: clothes for boys!
A little art, a little fun, some lateral thinking, a bit of life: that’s Pirart. Add Tany and a few people you get the Pirart Society.
Kalashnikov art toy by the Pirart Society
by Tany, 2009
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
That’s nice: how it feels. It feels new yet like you already know it, no? That’s the Pirart Man, a typical one, in its human form; all in style and French joie-de-vivre. But where does he get his “je ne sais quoi”, his “carismatic charm” as mentioned the highly aclamed design magasin Prö Baganda? Just there, in a Secret Society.
The Pirart Man, by Tany - About Pirart
C’est relaxant n’est-ce pas? Comme de reconnaitre quelque chose de familier qui pourtant vous semble nouveau. C’est l’homme Pirart, qui porte l’art de Tany; Tout en style et en joie-de-vivre, qui emporte avec lui nos envies, c’est un homme au “charme charismatique” qui l’a souligné la revue avant-gardiste Prö Baganda. Just là, auprès de la Société secrete.
Tany has been working a lot on paintings but lately with the opening of The Pirart Society, he has been more than ever involved in digital media creation.
Here are some works done for Pirart, mostly for packaging or promotional support. He develops here the themes that are dear to him: Pirates, Pirart, the smoking pipe, the crossed paint brushes, the eye patch etc.
The Pirart Society Logos
Tany a travaillé principalement ces derniers moi sur supports digitaux, afin de mener à bien le projet Pirart Society. Ci-dessus sont quelques travaux utilisé comme support packaging et vecteur promotionnel; les thèmes classiques de Pirart sont ici développés: Pirates, la pipe, les pinceaux en croix, le cache-œil…
It is difficult to find or come across new things, fresh ideas that smack you in the face and make you want to do better and progress. There is a new place in town, a little shop – a shy one – that opened very recently and is still secret to most of us.
It is a place where you will find old things, new things, clever things and ugly things. A place where you can participate and act, be the actor of your present instead of just being another consumer. Where you can ask for some alterations and changes and make the hole project get better.
It’s not only that, it’s a place where one man, an artist – our artist – has been working on; an area with a real touch and feel, where items are well thought and unexpected. An artsy place.
It’s also somewhere people think about the big picture: globalization, global warming and fare trade. Where they purchase from only very respectable merchants and artisans. A nice place.
Also the nice thing is that they are only producing in limited series so you are sure not everyone will wear the same snazzy shirt or dashing top.
It’s a Society, The Pirart Society. An e-shop selling handmade clothes and toys, produced in France or Los Angeles, with good old needles and paint brushes and nothing else. A fun fare where you can buy some great apparel but it only limited series.
They say: Art, Fun, Life, Pirates. PirArt.
Art you wear
Work by Isabelle Terestchenko
Mixed media, 2009, Spain
3rd of a series of 4 images
Work by Isabelle Terestchenko
Mixed media, 2009, Spain
2nd of a series of 4 images
From time to time you take a minute to look back and contemplate the path you have taken. Usualy you don’t take the time, or you don’t care. So what do you do?
Well you comr across something that makes it obvious.
For instance take an artist, Isabelle Terestchenko, in 2008 and come back a year later. Today! Bam. And what do you see? Progress, talent, power. All what you like in Art. I am thrilled by the new artworks that she just sent us, and so that I am sharing with you know. Three other works coming up from her new series.
Work by Isabelle Terestchenko
Mixed media, 2009, Spain
1st of a series of 4 images
So here we are, fall of 2009 and Tany has his first picture published in the renowned Courrier International – Issue n°989 in the additional leaflet on “Cahier des tendances N°2″ (trends).
The piece, page 10, is about the Secret Science Club, and the picture was done for that SSC in 2007. Unfortunately the work is a little old and not the best of the lot but it’s still something worth mentioning.
Courrier International, October 2009
Publication n°989
Tany has designed business cards for his business Pirart, and some DJV Dollars for the headhunting game.
Dejavu Dollars by Tany
Dejavu Dollars by Tany
Pirart Business Card by Tany
Pirart Business Card by Tany
Pirart Business Card by Tany
This is a follow up of our own little propaganda network: World Wide Fame post.
Here is a new batch of prop’ a ganda images done by Tany.
Paris FRANCE, 2009
Grenoble FRANCE, 2009
San Fransisco USA, 2009
Manchester United Kingdom, 2009
