Art Star is getting ready to relaunch.
After a great run in 2008 and 2009, we trickled off on an identity search in 2010.
Like a great band, the core members of Art Star took a break to work on various side projects.
However, now we are coming back together again, under new leadership and with fresh talent.
It seems fitting though to sort through the 582 posts on this site and highlight why you loved us in the first place.
Without Further Ado here are the best series on Art Star.
The Boundary Series
Our last daring attempt before the diaspora. Simply as real as it gets.
Welcome to the Boundary
The Boundary: Babykicker
The Boundary: Serial Heartbreaker
The Boundary: Sunday Steaks
The Boundary: The Price of Doing Nothing
The Boundary: The Tao of Pooh
The Boundary: The Door
However, we weren't always so serious. The Spray On Condom Series is a humorous take on male/female relationships.
The Spray On Condom: Art Stars Official Relationship Column
The Spray On Condom: Beware Of Cups
The Spray On Condom: How To Make Friends In A New City
The Spray On Condom: The "Pretty" Girl Syndrome
The Spray On Condom: Meeting People On The Internet
The Spray On Condom: Too Beautiful To Fuck
When Art Star wasn't being self absorbed, the backbone of the blog were our legendary interviews.
Exclusive Interview With The Co-Creators of Bittersweet Design House
Smart Is The New Gangsta
Omar Miller is a Fucking Giant, Part 1
Omar Miller is a Fucking Giant, Part 2
Clicking Around With Music: Paleface
Clicking Around With Music: The Big Sky Project
Clicking Around With Music: The Solo's Unit
Clicking Around With Music: Lori Kirk
Clicking Around With Music: Hot Vegas
Clicking Around With Music: The Roseburys
Clicking Around With Music: Teen Wolf
Clicking Around With Music: Which Way Is Home
Clicking Around With Music: Samantha Crain
Clicking Around With Music: Grand National
Clicking Around With Music: Savage
Clicking Around With Music: DJ Bam Bam
Art Star Interviews: Cederic The Entertainer
Get to know the real Brian Famous (Brian Gallarello)
Interview with Amy Bruce
Clicking Around With Music: PFLAMES
Cavata Clothing: 2010 Is Coming And They Are Ready
Interview With Jamie Derringer
Clicking Around With Music: Ze!
Clicking Around With Music: Kid Koala
Clicking Around With Music: The Iveys
Behind The Pink Hair: An Interview With Jen Shu
Behind The Freedom: An Interview With Raymond Butler
On The Other Side: An Interview With Sherry Smith
Also we were fond of reviewing various things, most notably our series of dueling film reviews, where two of our writers would both review a film, and then respond to the other person's review.
Dueling Film Review: JDUB on "Moon"
Dueling Film Review: WHayes on "Moon"
Round Two: WHayes on JDUB
Round Two: JDUB on WHayes
Dueling Film Review: WHayes on "Inglourious Basterds"
Dueling Film Review: JDUB on "Inglourious Basterds"
Round Three: Whayes on JDUB
Round Three: JDUB on WHayes
Dueling Film Review: JDUB on "Up"
Dueling Film Review: WHayes on "Up"
Round Four: JDUB on WHayes
Round Four: WHayes on JDUB
Dueling Film Review: JDUB on "The Hurt Locker"
Dueling Film Review: WHayes on "The Hurt Locker"
Dueling Film Review: WHayes on "Chasing Amy"
Dueling Film Review: JDUB on "Chasing Amy"
Round Five: WHayes on JDUB
Round Five: JDUB on WHayes
Dueling Film Review: WHayes on "Where The Wild Things Are"
Dueling Film Review: JDUB on "Where The Wild Things Are"
Round Six: WHayes on JDUB
Round Six: JDUB on WHayes
Dueling Film Review: JDUB on "Funny People"
Dueling Film Review:WHayes on "Funny People"
Round Seven: WHayes on JDUB
Round Seven: JDUB on WHayes
Dueling Film Review: WHayes on "Wait Until Dark"
Dueling Film Review: JDUB on "Wait Until Dark"
Finally we have the Bar Tales series, reflections on relationships and things that happened to one writer in Dallas bars.
Bar Tales Chapter 1: Slow Fuck
Bar Tales Chapter 2: Glynetta
Bar Tales Chapter 3: Longing
Bar Tales Chapter 4: Goddess Of The Hunt
Bar Tales Chapter 5: The Paradox Of Strength
Bar Tales Chapter 6: Lulu
Bar Tales Chapter 7: Muses
Bar Tales Chapter 8: Mirrors
Bar Tales Chapter 9: Mountains
Bar Tales Chapter 10: Falling In Love
Bar Tales Chapter 11: Rooster Feathers
Bar Tales Chapter 12: Vida Dulce
Bar Tales Chapter 13: Pumpkin
Bar Tales Chapter 14: Tea Cup
Bar Tales Chapter 15: Bottles
And just for kicks the top 10 most viewed blog posts of all time:
1. Compare and Contrast by CtotheB
2. Living With Bi-Polar Disorder:Three Lessons by smartblackboy
3. Am I The Baddest MOFO Low Down Around This Town? Sho' Nuff! by CtotheB
4. Who Plays Punch Buggy? Art Star Plays Smart Car! by PicMuse
5. Comedian Spotlight: Charlie Barnett by DJ NY
6. Building An Ark In Atlanta by PicMuse
7. Megaman, I Feel Your Pain by PicMuse
8. Bar Tales Chapter 7: Muses by smartblackboy
9. How To Use Machines For Good -RJD2's "GhostWriter" by JDUB
10. Behind The Pink Hair: An Interview With Jen Shu by smartblackboy
Thank you so much for reading Art Star and we look forward to launching our next iteration, October 2010.
There are few people in life who have the magical, alchemical effect of inspiring us not just to delve down and meet our own potential but to also expand the very possibilities and limits of what we can achieve.
These sirens, these alchemists, these catalysts of love force us to shrug off our mental laziness and look at ourselves with new eyes.
Their very beings change us forever, as their words reverberate through our lives like the echoes of a lullaby.
Even though some of us are lucky to meet more than one person like this - there is never a substitute for our first muse.
What a cosmic jolt of energy, what a pure act of love, what grace it is for another person to cause you to think.
Because even though the gifts of the muse originates in the heart, her ultimately good works are completed in the mind.
It is our mental faculties, once stimulated, that leads to great giant which we call imagination to be unleashed.
And so, Mariana Templin, it is no coincidence that I will always love you.
Because you inspired in me, at the tender age of 15, all the virtues of love, perseverance, faith, creativity, thought, and passion that I would ever need.
You taught me how to write - how to make sentences into hugs, how to make a word be just as perfect as a touch.
And even though you said you were a cynic, that you could never love me - you did.
You were and always will be my first love.
So it shouldn't have been a surprise that you were the one to save my life when I was 16.
That I would forget you for other girls at 17. That I would love you once again at 18. That you would haunt me at 19.
And so it shouldn't have been a surprise, that you would leave me, to figure out my own way in this world, just as suddenly as you entered it.
Yet, I still wonder, even after all of these years, whether your steel ever turned to porcelain?
Whether you ever found out if stardust tastes like honey?
Mar, what did you look like when you finally emerged from your cocoon?
I suppose you would be disappointed to find out that I never mastered saying goodbye, but happy to see that I also never stopped dreaming.
And even now, the memory of you, the letters you wrote to me back when the world still had its innocence, and the very air was heavy and dripping with possibilities, those words still urge me forward. Still has the ability to inspire me to new heights.
How, even now, I am still searching for that place, where you can be you and I can be me.
