{"id":6461,"date":"2021-07-06T09:22:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T16:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=6461"},"modified":"2021-07-06T09:22:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T16:22:11","slug":"no-cause-kaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2021\/07\/no-cause-kaws\/","title":{"rendered":"No, &#8217;cause Kaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a fan of the work of conceptual artist Kaws (real name: Brian Donnelly.) I can see where taking someone else&#8217;s character and replacing the eyes with Xs may make some statement in some context once or twice, but as a style for a lifetime, no&#8230; and when I see a Kaws-traced Simpsons album cover selling for eight figures (while the artist of the cover &#8211; a pal of mine &#8211; gets $0), I question the general usefulness to the culture.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, a few years ago Kaws did some Peanuts-oriented work, some of which ended up on Uniqlo products. And there&#8217;s a 2016 book of that material, <strong><a id=\"amznPsBmLink_8269620\" class=\"amzn_ps_bm_tl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0692600639\/ref=as_li_bk_tl\/?tag=aaugh-20&amp;linkId=d680c88ea27346d766d6fde7d938b0c0&amp;linkCode=ktl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword=\"KAWS: Man's Best Friend\" data-amzn-link-id=\"d680c88ea27346d766d6fde7d938b0c0\">KAWS: Man&#8217;s Best Friend<\/a><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"amznPsBmPixel_8269620\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?source=bk&amp;t=aaugh-20&amp;bm-id=default&amp;l=ktl&amp;linkId=d680c88ea27346d766d6fde7d938b0c0&amp;_cb=1625588230110\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/>. It&#8217;s there for any of you who want to spend a couple hundred book on Kaws material, but I think I will allow this hole to remain in my collection.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6462\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Kaws.jpg\" alt=\"Kaws book cover - altered PigPen image\" width=\"300\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Kaws.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Kaws-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a fan of the work of conceptual artist Kaws (real name: Brian Donnelly.) I can see where taking someone else&#8217;s character and replacing the eyes with Xs may make some statement in some context once or twice, but as a style for a lifetime, no&#8230; and when I &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic-finds","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}