Fighting Field Collectible

Molly Magid Hoagland: Same Old Things This scuffed tool -- a comb -- which I thought contained no memories, has been with me every day since my late adolescence. Now for a decade it has been smoothing first one, then two boys' heads. Fender started to produce the Stratocaster or Strat in the spring of 1954. The earlier vintage 1954 Strats, are slightly different than later 1954 Strats. Some of the most obvious noticeable traits of the very first production are: o Serial number are on the plastic tremolo cover plate instead of the metal neck plate. o The Bakelite knobs are a slightly different shape, with smaller "skirts". o The Strat case is shaped like the guitar (known as a "poodle"...

Andy Collins Exhibitions and Paintings at Saatchi-galleryAndy Collins was born on 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia. He did BFA, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia in 1994 and MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York in 1999. Andy Collins’s paintings are lusciously synthetic. Cold and glossy, his large pastel canvases are suffocating vacuums of glamour. Working from fashion photos, Collins’s abstracted forms are derived from the overlooked in-between spaces of supermodel spreads. Folds in fabric, creases in elbows, knees and armpits become a pattern of fetishised contemplation. Their contours are retraced and suggested forms are embellished, creating ethereal motifs that are both...

Vietnam war's toxic legacy Thirty-five years after the Vietnam War, a $US300 million ($NZ431.2 million) price tag has been placed on the most contentious legacy still tainting US-Vietnam relations: Agent Orange. Facts about the Vietnam WarThe Vietnam War was started in 1959 in an attempt to stop the spread of communism to neighboring countries. The country had split at the 17th parallel in 1954 when the French had attempted to takeover the country but was defeated at Dien Bien Phu. The split wasn't supposed to last, but an election was never held to reunite the North and South. The ruler in the North, Ho Chi Minh, did not agree with the anti-communist government in the South and started...

Machete Review Coming on the heels of Piranha 3D, Robert Rodriguez's latest takes a similar approach to gratuitous sex and violence, consciously pushing the boundary beyond realism into the realm of the ridiculous. Machete: the Marvelous MacheteIf you often find yourself in dense jungles, in tangled masses of undergrowth, you know about the machete. It is your best friend. There isn't anything, anywhere that can compare to the marvelous machete.

Roughly described, a machete is a very long, heavy knife. It's made in varying sizes and designs. A very popular blade size is one that is usually 18" in length, 2 and a quarter inches in width and just a few millimeters thick. ...

Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh Chanel! A several-story-tall golden lion -- a modest homage to Chanel founder Coco, a Leo -- presided over the luxury giant's over-the-top fall-winter 2011 haute couture display Tuesday, where models in sequin-covered sheath dresses and cropped jackets emerged from inside a giant pearl to trace figure eights between the towering feline's oversized paws. Chanel - Haute couture - Paris - Karl Lagerfeld ... [phpbay] Leather Sheaths , 40, 4719, ""[/phpbay]