BIZARRE MAGAZINE NO. 146 FEBRUARY 2009

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No, this is not another magazine dedicated to portable toilets as the title suggests, rather it is a magazine for very specific fishermen. The crappie is a North American genus of freshwater sunfish and they look utterly delicious. One popular method for catching these delectable little beasties is called ‘spider rigging’—this fishing method employs multiple rods arcing over the water (if you imagine looking down at the multiple rods with the boat at their centre, it’d look like a spider, see?) How do I know this? Thanks, Crappie Now! We also take a keep dive into Alessandra Maria’s work, where the figures depicted are portrayed with very soft features. Paying homage to Renaissance drawings, Alessandra uses her chosen medium’s advantage, shading lightly enough for facial features to emerge but not dark enough to fall into the shadowy depths of the charcoal’s true nature.

Next we are welcomed to look through the creative lens of Anna Karvounari. She is her own Venus, her own artistic subject. Her photographs are self-portraits and explorations of femininity that oscillates between pain, sorrow, joy, melancholy and euphoria. A woman represented by and for herself, in all her complexity. is our 10 th year in business – time sure does fly when you’re having fun! I still have to pinch myself sometimes, when I consider how very fortunate I am to be working every day immersed in my passion. To be surrounded by an amazing, dedicated team, and so many inspiring creatives on a day to day basis is both a blessing and a joy, and for which I am deeply grateful. Danijela Krha Purssey I have always been interested in the way humanity chooses to portray feminine divinity across cultures. There are many converging threads historically, primarily around the idea of the woman as maiden, mother, or crone [which are] categories structured primarily by [women’s] utility to men and reproduction. Alessandra Maria Finally, the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize has a Yasha Young Sculpture Award Category, which Art Dolls can be entered into, to ensure all the amazing emerging and leading Art Doll sculptors around the world get the recognition they deserve – entries for this year’s Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, in all Award categories are now open! I can’t wait to see your entries.

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We hope you have enjoyed our week of reveals! The Winners of each Award [ RAYMAR Traditional Art Award, Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award, INPRNT Photography Award, iCanvas Digital Art Award] have now been announced. Aren’t they all incredible? And last but not least, enjoy a collection of the amazing hash tagged #beautifulbizarreartwork from our social mediacommunity of over 1 million followers!

Oh. Yeah. Please, I need all of the news about tiny versions of airplanes that nobody can actually fly in! Phshh. Crave Online The most trusted voice in the potato industry. Except the only other voices in the potato industry are probably inside this guy’s head. Just saying. Spudman A magazine about private islands?! Seriously. Who’s buying this? The richest 1 per cent of the world’s population? They don’t need a magazine telling ’em what to do with their money! They hire PROs to do that! (not that kinda PRO, though) Crave Online

We’ve been making fun of a lot of the entries thus far (no offence meant to all you emu farmers and elevator engineers out there by the way), but that’s simply not going to fly with this venerable, thought provoking magazine. This is the type of mag we need to counter the prevailing culture obsessed with cancelations, moral purity tests and an insistence on self-immolating ideologies. Stemming from the writings of Charles Fort, The Fortean Times could be a shining light that guides us out of the mire. Exposure to a successful commercial gallery’s collector base with the opportunity to sell their work Why Girls and Corpses, you ask? Well, if you’re like me, you like two things, beautiful girls and rotting corpses. So, I thought, why not bring these two great tastes together in one magazine?” Receive exposure to a successful commercial gallery’s collector base with the opportunity to sell their work Let your voice be heard! The People’s Choice Award Winner will receive a year’s worth of social media advertising through the Beautiful Bizarre Magazine socials to ensure they are able to connect with the right audience of engaged creatives, collectors and gallerists, raise their profile, associate their work with other leading creatives, and of course to grow their social media following.

Profile listing [including artwork gallery] on the Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Artist Directory for 12 months. The go-to platform for artists, curators and collectors to discover exceptional artists and explore their work. The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is a non-acquisitive art prize which provides an amazing opportunity for traditional and digital 2D + 3D artists, and photographers to:

83. Kika Dolls

Given that so many publications today have become overly politicised and preachy, as well as living on borrowed time in the wake of internet media, you’d be forgiven for thinking that nobody in their right mind buys magazines anymore. Despite this slow death, some super niche mags are still doing it the old fashioned way—providing the reader with stuff they want to read about… if you really like potatoes or corpses, that is. So without further ado, it is with great pleasure and much pride that we share with you the Grand Prize Winner of the 2022 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, the Honourable Mentions, and the Winner of the ArtStation People’s Choice Award. Grand Prize Winner 2022 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize Kristin Kwan Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-01-11 17:01:40 Associated-names Kroll, Eric Boxid IA1758110 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Ornatotus-Maximus” by Tony Tran, Resin, Marble, 50 x 46 x 30 cm Yasha Young ProjectsSculpture Award As an international ambassador of the arts, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine’s long term vision for the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is to make contemporary representational art accepted, valued and respected, alongside traditional “high brow art” in homes and cultures around the world. Now it its 5th year, the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize already surpasses all known Australian and many international prizes both in volume and caliber of entries! Our Thanks

USD cash, generously donated by RAYMAR, creators of the finest panels! Panels are their passion. They craft their panels with the world’s finest materials to serve as the foundation for your artwork. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd Prize Winners in each Award category, and the Grand Prize Winner of the 2022 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize have been invited to participate in this year’s Beautiful Bizarre Magazine exhibition ‘ Halcyon Days‘, at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco later this year. We look forward to presenting their work as part of this prestigious annual exhibition! These works will be shared in the coming weeks leading up to the opening.The Cranes Today Magazine talks about cranes. Today. Which is, I presume, fascinatingly different from cranes yesterday. Or the day before. Crave Online