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Rihanna police photos to be displayed as art
examine ^ | March 27

Posted on 03/28/2009 9:15:19 AM PDT by JoeProBono

Police photos of a broken star as art?: E! Online leaked news earlier today that LA based pop artist Sham plans to release a Warhol-like colored print of Rihanna’s bloodied police photos to raise awareness of domestic violence. The print is to be featured in the World of Wonder Storefront Gallery new group show Name That ‘Toon to open tonight in Hollywood.

The 24-inch by 36 inch print was made by transferring digital tracings of the police photo onto canvas, Sham reports.

“It’s not meant to look cool hanging on your wall and that’s it! I’m not into deep meanings,” says Sham to E! Online. “There is no message to my art.”


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: rihanna

Sham hopes to raise awareness of domestic violence

Weapon of choice: Rihanna shows off her new tattoo of a handgun


1 posted on 03/28/2009 9:15:19 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

OH GOOD GRIEF


2 posted on 03/28/2009 9:16:55 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: JoeProBono

Those remind me of Warhol's silk screens of Marilyn Monroe. Aren't her 15 minutes of fame up?

3 posted on 03/28/2009 9:23:11 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: al baby

I like the gun tattoos...but i’d have to add some type of wording,such as “from my cold dead hands” or my favorite, “Molon Labe”.Plus,i’d make it something like a revolver or rifle-maybe held by a minuteman/patriot.


4 posted on 03/28/2009 9:31:02 AM PDT by gimme1ibertee (For the sake of our Republic....RAISE HOLY HELL!)
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To: JoeProBono

If he wants to make a statement, just post the damn picture of her face beaten all to hell. The “artwork” doesn’t show the violence.


5 posted on 03/28/2009 9:37:53 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Serkit 3/19/09 "Slow Joe needs to stay out of the deep end of the Think Tank")
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

“Sham to E! Online. “There is no message to my art.”

.............?


6 posted on 03/28/2009 9:49:06 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

beating women is now art.


7 posted on 03/28/2009 9:54:55 AM PDT by Tempest (The Republican party, racing to lose 2010)
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To: JoeProBono

Sham is a startling appropriate name for the “artist”.


8 posted on 03/28/2009 9:56:21 AM PDT by Tempest (The Republican party, racing to lose 2010)
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To: JoeProBono

That photo is a few days afterword. Media is not making available the photos taken immediately after the beating!!!!


9 posted on 03/28/2009 9:57:30 AM PDT by acoulterfan
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To: JoeProBono

His message: His support for Biden by replicating, almost identically, the Warhol painting. Somehow using Biden and Sham in the same sentence makes sense.


10 posted on 03/28/2009 10:00:16 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Serkit 3/19/09 "Slow Joe needs to stay out of the deep end of the Think Tank")
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To: Tempest

Ok, she read a text he got, then she attacked him. He fought back. How is she suddebly this celebrated “poor victim”? The guy is no good, that’s beyond debate. But this pistol-tatooed hood rat girl who started physically attacking a guy because she was mad, isnt exactly the poster child for legitimately battered women.


11 posted on 03/28/2009 10:16:32 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs earn the title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
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To: DesertRhino

Are you crazy? I mean seriously are you? Did you see the beating riahnna got and the jet ski that Chris the loser Brown got?


12 posted on 03/28/2009 10:21:18 AM PDT by Tempest (The Republican party, racing to lose 2010)
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To: acoulterfan

Immediately after isn’t always worse. Bruises often look much worse 2 or 4 days later. Cops often go back after a few days to re-photograph a person beaten at home, by bouncers, by a stranger,, etc, because the bruises are far easier to see.


13 posted on 03/28/2009 10:25:16 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs earn the title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
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To: Tempest

NO, not crazy, seriously. And i havent been rude to you. I just read the story that they were in a dispute over him cheaping or something when she physically attacked him. He fought back way harder. But isnt the normal message of domestic abuse that there is no excuse to express your anger with violence? (like her)

He’s dead wrong, but she isnt some innocent victim, she started beating on him because she was mad. So whats the story on the jet ski?


14 posted on 03/28/2009 10:32:23 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs earn the title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
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To: DesertRhino

I don’t consider asking defenders of domestic abuse if they’re crazy or not to be rude. Just practical.

As for the jet ski Chris Brown was photographed riding around on one a few days after giving Riahanna a beat down without a scratch on him. While Riahanna was at home trying to cover up the scars of her beating.


15 posted on 03/28/2009 10:38:09 AM PDT by Tempest (The Republican party, racing to lose 2010)
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To: Tempest

Again, thats obnoxious. I NEVER once defended domestic abuse. I just asked why she is treated as an innocent by the media, and by star struck morons,(you), when she started attacking him. She’s an abuser too.


16 posted on 03/28/2009 10:44:40 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs earn the title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
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To: Tempest

Please point to what i said that defended Brown. I said its *beyond debate* that he’s no good. I simply stated the obvious that she has about as much good judgement and self control as him, only she’s not as strong.

And yes, the jet ski photos were pretty stupid, i looked em up.


17 posted on 03/28/2009 10:59:16 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs earn the title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
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To: DesertRhino

Where are Chris Browns scars?


18 posted on 03/28/2009 11:31:49 AM PDT by Tempest (The Republican party, racing to lose 2010)
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To: DesertRhino

what sort of loser FIGHTS BACK by hitting a woman? you were done a serious disservice if you weren’t taught that MEN don’t hit women. no matter what.


19 posted on 03/28/2009 11:38:19 AM PDT by xsmommy
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