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• London artist found fame when she painted famous works on Charlotte Olympia shoes for exhibition commission
  
• Pop Art Bottoms prints are available to buy from Affordable Art Fair with Cynthia Corbett Gallery for under £3,050
  
• Boyarde Messenger, 32, accepts private bottom portrait commissions to ‘bring out inner goddess’ from £6,000
  

By Deni Kirkova

PUBLISHED: 09:56 EST, 17 May 2013 | UPDATED: 06:31 EST, 18 May 2013

A quirky London painter has found a brand new way to make the female form into a work of art.

Boyarde Messeger, 32, paints various famous pop artworks including pre-Raphaelites, Lichtensteins, pieces from the golden age of comics and icons of photography and cinema onto perky behinds for her new series of works.

‘The work features familiar imagery that addresses female gender stereotype, from Hollywood Glamour to golden age 1950s comic strips to Pulp Fiction Thriller Romance novels from the same era,’ she says.

Describing her process, Boyarde tells the MailOnline: ‘I paint onto their flesh then paint a backdrop to match.’

Baang Baang Baang: Messenger paints art onto real bodies – only using Photoshop to flip the colourways

‘I then photograph them in front of the backdrop. The only Photoshop I use is for contrast or colour flipping the original colour Warhol style. Retouching is kept to a bare minimum – perhaps the odd brush mistake or crack in the paint.’

‘The final product for sale is the limited edition photograph. People love them as they can’t tell If they are photographs or paintings. Then they find out it’s a real woman and I have actually painted on her flesh.’

‘Clients like to pick and mix and buy a range of different colours. My clients are equal ratio men and woman as bottoms are sensual not sexual – and are on the safe side of naughty.’

Her Pop Art Bottoms pieces boast collectors from Australia, the Royal palaces of Jordan, Paris, New York, Belize – and of course Messenger’s home town of London.

She combines hand painting and photography to produce playful, mischievous works that result in a brand new take on making the beautiful female form into a work of art.

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‘For me it’s all about embracing the inner goddess inside and having fun whilst doing it,’ she says.

‘I embrace every bottom no matter what size as there is the right pose for each body shape to bring out the best in your derrière!’

When focusing on her painterly work, Messenger describes herself as ‘painting on everything but paper’.

And it’s not just bottoms, either.

‘I have just finished painted a bespoke Pop Art Hermes Birkin for a private client,’ she tells us.

Her new project explores her fascination with the female form and the nature of its power, engendered in Scopophilia, the pleasure of looking.

Messenger tells the MailOnline exclusively that she is now accepting private commissions for her Pop Art Bottom series where she paints your bottom for a one off piece ‘to bring out the inner goddess in us all!’

‘I have done five private derrière portraits for very happy female clients. Women love it because they can choose whether to reveal their identity or not’

‘I have done five so far for very happy female clients. A portrait of their derrière! Women love it because they can choose whether to reveal their identity or not,’ she says. Willing models can apply through her manager at EZ PopArt.

In terms of cost for a personal bottom portrait, Messenger says it would be between £6,000 and £17,000, dependent on agency fees, location, brief and exclusivity of the final image. Painting times can also take from three to eight hours, plus the backdrop.

‘So far my clients ages have ranged from 26-55, and each image has been as gorgeous as the last as there is a pose for everyone no matter what shape or size, be it tilt, hoola hoop swivel, arch or lift,’ she says.

Messenger has exhibited internationally with The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, with her first solo show in 2009 in Cork Street, London, and has taken part in three Women In Art shows at the Mexican Embassy in Belize City, Central America.

She exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, London, with The Art of Giving: there she created a spectacular live installation of the female nude, exhibiting four hand painted women in her unique pop art style, creating a fusion of art and fashion.

Butt Butt Butt: Messenger accepts private commissions where she paints your bottom for a one off piece

Various artworks from Boyarde’s impressive collection of shapely bottoms painted with Warhol and comic book style images

The bottoms continue to exhibit in New York, The Hamptons International Fine Art Fair, Art Wynwood and Palm Beach, Miami.

The origins of her ability to paint on ‘everything but paper’ started when Boyarde teamed up with Charlotte Olympia for Vogue Fashion Night Out, to hand paint Charlotte’s signature Dolly shoes in the style of Great Masters, from Picasso to Mondrian, as seen in US Vogue.

The project was extended and she was commissioned to hand paint a further 100 shoes.

Messenger studied Art at Bedales and Wimbledon School of Art finally graduating with BA (Hons) in photography from The Bournemouth Arts Institute.

Londoner ‘through and through’, Messenger says she is currently ‘in love with Belize in the Caribbean, as my husband is from there.’

She currently lives in London where she creates her pop art bottoms.

She is exhibiting her new work at Affordable Art Fair in Hampstead 13-16 June with The Cynthia Corbett Gallery – all under £3,050.

Her work is always for sale via her gallery.

Happiest when she’s painting bottoms: Her new project explores her fascination with the female form and the nature of its power

» by Alvin aqua Blanco (@aqua174) May 18, 2013, 9:17am

Kanye West just may be a marketing genius. Last night, Yeezy sent out a rare tweet, revealing his new video for a song called “Rare Slaves” would be shown across the world. However, the clip wasn’t premiered via YouTube or Vevo, but projected on the sides of buildings.

“NEW SONG AND VISUAL FROM MY NEW ALBUM BEING PROJECTED TONIGHT ACROSS THE GLOBE ON 66 BUILDINGS, LOCATIONS @ http://KANYEWEST.COM,” read West’s tweet. His website provided addresses and times for when the video would be projected.

Stateside, the video appeared in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami. Other locales included Toronto, Sydney, Berlin and, of course, Paris

Plenty of Vines of the projection came in but the homie Mike Fresh nabbed the full clip. Watch below before it gets yanked off the net. Peep the lyrics after.

Tonight, Kanye West will be the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, which starts at 11:30 p.m. ET on NBC.

My mama was raised in an era when/Clean water was only served to the fairer skin
Doing clothes you would have thought I had help/But they wouldn’t be satisfied unless I picked the cotton myself
You see its broke n?a racism/That’s that don’t touch anything in the store
And there’s rich n?a racism/That’s that come here please buy more
What you want a Bentley, fur coat and diamond chain?/All you blacks want all the same things
Used to only be n?as /Now everybody play me
Spending everything on that Alexander Wang/New Slaves

[Hook]
You see it’s leaders and it’s followers/But I’d rather be a d-ck than a swallower
You see it’s leaders and it’s followers/But I’d rather be a d-ck than a swallower

[Verse 2]
I throw these Maybach keys/I wear my heart on my sleeve
I know that we the new slaves/I see the blood on the leaves
I see the blood on the leaves/I see the blood on the leaves
I know that we the new slaves/I see the blood on the leaves
They throwing hate at me/Want me to stay at ease
F-ck you and your corporation/Y’all n?as can’t control me
I know that we the new slaves/I know that we the new slaves
I’m about to wild the f-ck out/I’m going Bobby Boucher
I know that pussy ain’t free/You n?as pussy, ain’t me
Y’all throwing contracts at me/You know that n?as can’t read
Throw him some Maybach keys/F-ck it, c’est la vie
I know that we the new slaves/Y’all n?as can’t f-ck with me
Y’all n?as can’t f-ck with Ye/Y’all n?as can’t f-ck with Ye
I move my family out the country /So you can’t see where I stay
So go and grab the reporters/So I can smash their recorders
Yeah they confuse us with bullsh-t/Like the New World Order
Meanwhile the DEA/Teamed up with the CCA
They tryna lock n?as up/They tryna make new slaves
See that’s that private-owned prison/Get your piece today
They prolly all in the Hamptons/Braggin’ ’bout they maid
F-ck you and your Hampton house/I’ll f-ck your Hampton spouse
Came on her Hampton blouse/And in her Hampton mouth
Y’all ’bout to turn sh-t up/I’m ’bout to tear sh-t down
I’m ’bout to air sh-t out/Now what the f-ck they gon’ say now?

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» by Latifah Muhammad (@TheLatifah) May 17, 2013, 19:05pm

A man in Zimbabwe was believed to be deceased, when he abruptly woke up, effectively freaking out everyone in the room. Brighton Dama Zanthe was thought to have succumbed to a long bout with illness  when he “returned from the dead,” last week.

While others tripped over one another trying to get away from the resurrection, Zanthe’s boss faced it head on walking up to the coffin to inspect the medical marvel, and calling an ambulance (which came in seven minutes–the medical workers were also surprised to see a dead man alive and well). Once at the hospital, the 34-year-old said he had no recollection of all that had transpired. “This issue can be best told by people who came to my house to attend my funeral. I don’t know what happened and I only remember being on a life support system in the hospital,? he said. “Everything is history to me. What I can only confirm is that people gathered at my house to mourn but I was given another chance and I am alive. I feel okay now.”

As far his family and friends knew, Zanthe passed away a week prior. He started moving his hands and legs as funeral attendees walked by his casket, which came right on time because he was headed for burial. “At first I could not believe my eyes but later realized that there was indeed some movements on the body as other mourners retreated in disbelief,” said his employer, Lot Gaka. The  Gettingson Bus Company owner was the first to notice Zanthe’s movements. “Zanthe had been on sick leave for some time and everyone at work was aware that he was critical,” Gaka continued. “We would visit him at his home. I was not surprised when I received a call from Zanthe’s wife saying that her husband had died.”

Zanthe’s story isn’t unique. A South African man woke up in morgue freezer after he was declared dead.

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For eight years, the main cast of How I Met Your Mother has been just the five principle stars. Adding Milioti as a series regular makes sense since she is the Mother and Ted’s future wife, but it also means we’ll get to see a whole lot of her.

However, this doesn’t mean we’ll be seeing her with Ted. The final season of How I Met Your Mother will, in fact, take place entirely during Barney and Robin’s wedding weekend, beginning where we left off, Friday at 10am, 56 hours before the wedding. Fans can bank on learning how everyone else met the Mother before Ted throughout the season.

While some might be worried about doing an almost 24-style season that only covers less than three days of time, I have faith that How I Met Your Mother can do it. The show’s best trait is its ability to find unique ways to tell its stories. From the memorable “Three Days of Snow” to Barney’s elaborate Playbook stratagems to the ongoing saga of Ted and the goat, the show has always played with the concept of time, telling stories in layered, complex ways, weaving a beautiful tapestry.

The final season will simply take that idea one step further. Since they know it’s the last season going into it, they can carefully map out how everything will work and then have fun getting there. It seems to be a popular trend in comedy these days.

ABC just ordered a new sitcom, Mixology, where the entire first season will take place over the course of a single night at a bar with 10 singles. And the fourth season of Arrested Development, coming to Netflix on May 26, will apparently feature a different character’s story in each episode, meaning some jokes may start in one episode, but a punchline won’t come until someone else’s episode.

TV fans are more sophisticated than they were in the past, and HIMYM fans are at the top of that trend. The show has repeatedly made use of the phrase “We’ll get to that later” (Robin’s boyfriend played by Michael Trucco, the goat, the ducky tie, the ongoing Slap Bet, the build-up to Lily and Marshall’s wedding, etc.). The fans can handle an entire season spanning three days.

Most importantly, Milioti being upped to series regular status is enough to make fans confident that the writers know what they’re doing. There was a real worry that the introduction of the Mother was a tease and that she would then go back to obscurity until the end of the final season. Keeping her around all year is a good thing because fan’s will get to know her, hopefully grow to love her, so when Ted finally meets her, we’ll be happy for him instead of scratching our heads saying “Who the heck is that chick?”

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Deion Sanders‘ estranged wife would’ve SCOFFED at a $6k credit card bill when she was happily married to a rich guy … but now, she’s RUNNING from it, this according a new lawsuit obtained by TMZ.

We’ve learned … Capital One has slapped Pilar Sanders with a big, fat lawsuit in Texas for allegedly failing to make payments on a $6,160.25 bill … an amount she used to consider chump change.

We’ve been reporting for months … Pilar and Deion are at WAR — and Prime Time even kicked her out of his Texas mansion. Pilar has lawyered up and wants a cut of the NFL legend’s fortune, estimated at more than $250 million.

But for now Capital One just wants its $6k … and according to court docs, the bank says it reached out to Pilar in January, 2013, demanding she cough up the cash … but she never paid.

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By Jamie Oliver UPDATED: 16:58 EST, 17 May 2013

A delicious but underrated veg takes centre stage this week ? the artichoke.

This springtime beauty is really popular in Italy, but for some reason us Brits seem to treat it with a caution I don?t think it deserves, and often only eat it when we see it on restaurant menus and someone else has done the prep and cooking for us.

True, it has a bit of a prickly exterior, but once you?ve mastered the preparation, you?ll see the artichoke can be taken in so many different directions. It can be simply dressed and served as a side or eaten as part of a main meal such as a pasta, risotto, salad or traybake, and even sprinkled on a pizza.

My good mate and long-term member of my team, Peter Begg, is a big lover of this beautiful veg so we?ve teamed up to give you a few recipes that?ll show you just how incredible it really is. There are loads of different kinds of artichoke but for these recipes we?re using violet artichokes, which are much easier to prepare.

Kicking off, this super-simple Rocket & Shaved Artichoke Salad is the perfect light dish for spring.

Pete?s shown you how to make a fiery chilli salt that tastes incredible with the peppery rocket and buttery artichoke. There?s nothing quite like making fresh pasta, so have a bash at this tagliatelle recipe.

Teamed with creamy, garlicky artichokes and topped with salty prosciutto and fresh parsley, it?s an Italian favourite.

And last up, give Pete?s Dressed Artichokes With Crushed Almonds a go for a deliciously zesty, springtime side dish. It requires a bit of extra effort, but believe me, this is really worth it. So embrace springtime seasonal veg and give artichokes a go ? you won?t regret it!

Artichoke tagliatelle with prosciutto

Serves 6

1½tbsp olive oil

6 violet artichokes

6 garlic cloves, finely sliced

60ml (2¼fl oz) double cream

Pecorino, for grating

Juice of ½ a lemon

½ a bunch of flat-leaf parsley, leaves picked and chopped

6 slices of prosciutto

For the semolina pasta

4 free-range eggs, plus 2 yolks

200g (7oz) type 00 white flour (from supermarkets)

300g (10½oz) finely ground semolina flour, plus a little extra

For the pasta, pulse all the ingredients in a food processor until they come together. Divide into four pieces and squash slightly with the palm of your hand. Add a little more semolina flour if necessary. Work the dough in a pasta machine and roll it out, but not too thinly (1½ setting). Cut into strips about 5mm (¼in) wide, like tagliatelle. Toss in a little extra semolina flour, then place on a tray and set aside. Prepare the artichokes as shown below, then roughly chop. Heat the oil in a wide saucepan, add the artichokes with the garlic and fry for about  1 minute. Don?t let the garlic colour. Add about 200ml (7fl oz) water, season, and cook gently with the lid on for 10 minutes, or until the artichokes are soft. If there?s any liquid in the pan, reduce until there are only a few tbsp left. Add the cream, bring to the boil, then simmer for 2 minutes. Squish some of the artichokes with the back of a fork, then turn the heat off and cover. Cook the pasta in salted boiling water for about 3 minutes, or until tender but retaining bite. Drain, reserving a large cupful of the cooking water, and add to the pan. Turn in the sauce until coated, adding a splash of the reserved water if it?s too dry. Grate in a little of the pecorino and season with salt, pepper and lemon juice to taste. Tip onto a serving plate, scatter with parsley, drape over the prosciutto slices and top with a little more grated pecorino.

Rocket & shaved artichoke salad with peperoncino

Serves 4 as a side

4 violet artichokes, stems trimmed to 3cm (1¼in) but otherwise whole

1 unwaxed lemon

2tbsp white wine vinegar

4tbsp extra-virgin olive oil

1tbsp runny honey

A few fresh thyme sprigs, leaves picked

50g (1¾oz) blanched almonds

Put the artichokes in a pot, cover with cold water and add 2-3 pinches of salt. Place the lemon in a small pot and cover with cold water. Season heavily with salt ? lots more than for the artichokes. Bring both pans of water to the boil over a medium heat then simmer until the artichokes are tender and you can easily poke a small knife through the lemon ? 10-15 minutes, depending on the size of the lemon. Lift the artichokes and lemon out  of the water and leave to cool. Pick the outer leaves off the artichokes, stopping when you get to the tender inner ones. Trim the stems right back and chop off the top half of each bulb. Scoop out and discard the furry part (the choke), then cut in half lengthwise and break into pieces with your fingers. Cut the lemon in half and scoop out the soft pulpy inside. Remove as much pith as possible, too, and discard, so you?re only left with the peel. Tear this into thumbnail-sized pieces and place in a bowl with the artichoke. Make a dressing with the vinegar, olive oil, honey and seasoning. Crush a few thyme leaves with a pestle and mortar and add to the dressing. Taste and adjust the flavours and seasoning, if needed. Pour most of the dressing over the lemon and artichoke and turn gently to coat. Taste and adjust the seasoning, and add a little more dressing if necessary. Add the rest of the thyme, then drop handfuls of the mixture onto a serving plate. Toast the almonds in a small pan over a medium heat for around 5 minutes, being careful not to let them burn, then smash with a pestle and mortar. While hot, sprinkle over the salad and serve.

Dressed artichokes with crushed almonds

Serves 2

5 small dried peperoncino chillies (see note below)

½tsp rock salt

2 large violet artichokes

Juice of 1 lemon

Extra-virgin olive oil

A handful of fine rocket leaves

Parmesan, for grating

Smash the dried chillies and salt with a pestle and mortar until finely ground. Prepare the artichokes as shown below. Remove from the lemon water and drain on kitchen paper. Using a mandolin or very sharp knife, shave the artichoke vertically from the base, as finely as you can. Put in a bowl with the lemon juice. Season, and toss to coat. Add a good glug of olive oil and the rocket. Mix everything together and drop in handfuls on serving plates. Grate a little Parmesan over the top and sprinkle with pinches of the chilli salt before serving.

Note: Peperoncino is a hot chilli you can buy at Italian delis or from breadtree.co.uk. Substitute dried red bird?s eye chillies if unavailable.