Stephen Hawking portrait on black velvet

Nichole "The Toy Baroness" Lindsay commissioned this "Tijuana Velvet" painting of Stephen Hawking that anyone would be proud to place above their coal black mantle.

Tijuana Black Velvet Painting of Stephen Hawking (NewGallery_SH32.jpg) [Flickr.com] (Thanks, Bonnie!)

[#1 posted by Bonnie, August 12, 2008 12:58 PM]

Hey I just sent you that link suggestion!

[#2 posted by Jesse Raub, August 12, 2008 1:00 PM]

Lush!

[#3 posted by Joel Johnson, August 12, 2008 1:09 PM]

Oh, you did indeed, Bonnie! And I thought it was your flickr stream. But it is not! So let me add a healthy via.

[#4 posted by Anonyman, August 12, 2008 1:41 PM]

I would rather have a portrait of the younger, more ambulatory Hawking. This one is somewhat depressing.

[#5 posted by zuzu, August 12, 2008 1:50 PM]

It was funnier when Jamie did it.

Admiral Trout or a Sleestak, you decide!

I would rather have a portrait of the younger, more ambulatory Hawking. This one is somewhat depressing.

I would rather have a portrait of the future, more cybernetic Hawking. That one is somewhat awesome.

[#6 posted by guy_jin, August 12, 2008 2:22 PM]

that website is _SO_ 1995.

[#7 posted by zuzu, August 12, 2008 3:34 PM]

that website is _SO_ 1995.

If you're referring to the zenith of Internet culture, then yes, it is. :D

Ah, what a sweet the decade (1991-2001) of "The End of History" was -- after the "Red Menace" (USSR) but before the "Phantom Menace" ("terrorism"). When the United States had a balanced budget, wasn't "at War", and digicash and data havens were on the verge of rendering nation-states obsolete through the technological determinism of networking personal computers as "bicycles for our minds" on the "electronic frontier".

Slow as ever, even mass-media caught on four years later with films such as The Matrix and Fight Club announcing (to quote Aeon Flux): "The dream to awaken our world."

Then some angry guys made a couple buildings fall down and most people got the stupid idea that this "changes all the rules" and (to quote Spaceballs) to "do something!"

[#8 posted by Bonnie, August 12, 2008 4:43 PM]

Thanks for the via link Joel!

By the way, you Wil Wheaton fans might dig the Black Velvet tribute to him as Wesley Crusher -- http://flickr.com/photos/indignico/2713628024/

[#9 posted by zuzu, August 12, 2008 4:54 PM]

I'd love for Wil to do a video of himself discussing his Wesley Crusher black velvet painting lovingly adorned on his living room mantle... sort of a cross between Sister Wendy and Jack McBrayer's Living 'Neath the Law.

[#10 posted by Bonnie, August 12, 2008 9:33 PM]

@ZUZU: Well, I own the Admiral Ackbar Velvet Painting, so double win for me! ;-p