Rick Bliss

The Hard Rock San Diego Condo sales office has been transformed into my new Art Gallery and Studio. The address is 345 6^th St, in between J & K Street, half a block from the Hard Rock Hotel. This 7,000 sq. ft. facility was originally built out as the office space to sell the condos in Hard Rock San Diego.

The next time you’re downtown in The Gaslamp area of San Diego, come check out the gallery.

If you’re looking for an ultra unique gift for that special someone, a body imprint of yourself will be remembered forever.

Call the gallery if you have questions (866) 652-8375

The first edition print is ready and you’re the first to know about it. The piece is called New Years Day 1 of The 365 Project. I put together a very basic store to sell 100 prints.

http://365project.myshopify.com/

Part 1

Part 2

The Final Work Up Close

SOLD!!!! In Less Than A Mintue

The First Installment of The 365 Project
This auction starts with the first bid and will last
3 Days 6 Hours 5 Minutes

Auction title: 1 of 365
Category: Original Art
Quantity: 1
Starting Bid: $100.00
Length of Auction: 3 Days 6 Hours 5 Minutes – The auction will extend by 60 seconds if a bid is made within the final 60 seconds.
Bid Increment: $2.50
Reserve Price: $100.00
User level allowed to bid: Anyone can Bid
BuyNow Price: $1000.00
User level allowed to BuyNow: Anyone can BuyNow
Details : http://us.ebid.net/perl/auction.cgi/19562075

Happy Bidding!!

And here is the Ustream Live link for Saturday’s event at Voyeur
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-rick-bliss-365-project—art-of-the-body

Painting starts around 11 pm pacific tomorrow.

November 15th 2008 Dallas Texas
It was a pleasure to work with both Pilar Lastra and The Margarita Ball.
Pilar Lastra, Deal Or No Deal Girl - Case #14 and Playmate August 2004.

My most recent art project was inspired after seeing the innovative art project by Swiss artist Marcel “Sala” Salathe of One Thousand Paintings. Here is Sala speaking at Google about Onethousandpaintings.com which has become a global art project that has received worldwide media coverage (BBC, Wired, BoingBoing, and many others) Sala will tell the story behind the project that started as a thought experiment in the heart of Europe, and took him on a trip around the world, eventually bringing him to Mountain View - Googletown.

Oshiguma is a Japanese form of body imprinting. This highly valued art form is created from cloth (often silk) pressed on to a Kabuki actors face at the end of a performance to take the imprint of his makeup. The Kabuki actor peels off the silk to reveal the oshiguma, a perfect mirror image of the actor face make-up in that particular role on that particular day. This procedure is likely to be repeated everyday for a month long run, and when the face imprints are completely dry, the actor signs, dates, and stamps them with his personal seal.

Here is an interesting Adidas ad campaign that used body imprinting I found. This company, 180 Amsterdam won the 2003 print Epica d’Or award for their press and outdoor

campaign “Impact” for Adidas international in support of the Rugby World Cup in 2003. It’s an interest story, Read More …