Craft Chemistry is a neat little gallery up the street in little italy, syracuse. Tonight they will be showing ‘beautiful losers’ at 7pm
check out the teaser:
I’ll be showing my ever expanding series of birds with the newest fuzzy little guys and prints available for purchase! Check it out at Mr. Smalls Jazz Club in Pittsburgh, PA.
February 20, 2010; 7pm.
Here’s a photo from the last show, which was a blast.
Lots of stuff going on lately, we’ve been putting together some promo stuff for a band out of Brookline, Mass called ‘Wolves and the Radio’. Above is a bunch of hand out cards that we had some fun painting in accompaniment with the printed illustration I’ve been putting together.
Marcus and I got to meet up with the guys from the wolves as they performed with some of their side project groups, up in Oswego, where the whole venue pulsed, singing along. This illustration will be available soon on t-shirts and stickers.
Also exciting news, there is beginning phases of a new cycling team going into effect with the combined effort of BTB Athletics, Mello Velo Bicycles, Variety Studios, and a handful of other local people who like to ride hard and have fun. Nothing solid yet, but their is some potential! Let us know what you think, or if any of you cyclists are interested!
Hopefully this rain stops soon and it gets nice and cold for some pond hockey!
Featuring New & Rising Artists along side the Great & Legendary
The AM-JAM Family proudly presents the 24th Annual
Tattoo Expo
Featuring The Lizardman / Shows Daily
January 29th-31, 2010
Fri: 6pm-12M
Sat: 12noon-midnight
Sun: 12noon-6pm
continuous entertainment
live music
over 75 working international artists
piercing artists & assorted vendors
Our friends at Winky Dink Ink will be having their own booth so come join the fun and support these great artists! Read More…
“The Facebook Facelift is a self initiated project to challenge the form and functionality of Facebook. It’s streamlined, structured and linear interface is more comprehendible, enhancing the user experience and absorbability of content.
The home page features many new benefits: the publisher toolbar enables users to post content from any page within facebook, saving time in navigating needlessly through profiles; the streams’ two-tiered filter (content type & content contributers) also creates a more coherent structure with the core elements retaining their position throughout most of the site; and the live feed displays a constant stream of all content posted in a users network, which expands upon mouse over.
Profiles also integrate with the system more seamlessly. Just as friend lists filter the stream by a select number of people, user profiles simply filter content to a single person, creating a clearer and more comprehendible layout.
The Facebook Publisher subsite is designed to support the growing use of Facebook as a primary form of contact as email once was. The separate address, publisher.facebook.com, would be permitted in businesses where Facebook is banned, allowing users to send messages without the distractions of user generated content. The interface is a mirror of the publisher toolbar ensuring a consistent interface.
Skimmer: I openly accept that components of this were inspired by the beautiful Skimmer but I think there is more than enough individuality in this project to not call it a copy. I’ve never understood making things different just for the sake of it, it is a method of progression. From using Skimmer I found that the feed layout and expanded view were useful, and tried to improve these aspects through further simplification and clarity.
Advertising: As this is a concept, I intentionally omitted banner advertising. However the layout has been designed to accommodate ads to the right, user content would simply scale to make space. It’s no different to a concept car leaving out, say… the engine.” – Barton Smith
Music of the Week: Common “Universal Mind Control”
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Marcus Lewis
Sat Jan 9th, 2010:
Some music is an acquired taste and some you just have no choice but to like because of the beat it lays down.
Personally I have song for everyone and some songs simply to get laughs out of friends and family. I’m not opposed to some (emphasis on some!) country music, love me some good ole caribbean reggae, dancehall music, baltimore club, definitely must have classical music in there too. Lots of R&B as well as old school hip hop and R&B can get the mood right, can’t turn away from pop and recently a little bit of rock. I have to place Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5 in their own category and I’m definitely not against some good folk music (going to see The Wiyos in a little over a week).
*The Robot is Pharrell
Today we bring you Common’s Universal Mind Control ft Pharrell. Read More…
An architect friend has been working with Joel Fitzpatrick, rumor is there should be a new site released soon with some of her work on there. Thought this was a pretty cool stop animation project…
It’s also been a while since I checked up on the Cracker Jack Gang. I hadn’t seen this one yet, check it out.
These are some self initiated projects I have been doing to practice working faster with my goal to improve turn around time while still practicing good design sense. I call them 10 minute blitz projects.
Basically, I give myself 10 minutes to start with nothing and create a digital promotional flier for Variety Studios with the dimensions of 640 by 480 pixels.
Here are some other practice projects I have also been experimenting with, just to keep the skills sharp and always experimenting with ways to communicate visually.
Nothing like simulating being the world champ riding aero bicycles through the snow Syracuse nightscapes.
Gotta keep at it.
Good luck with all of you endeavors in the new year.
A while back, Richard Airey of Evolution Perfomance Training had us do some branding for the New Jersey based strength & conditioning coaching program he is steadily building. He is a tremendous athlete himself and is currently training some impressive specimens.
Richard has been posting work out videos on the you tube, this one features the logo and logo type we put together for him at the beginning and close of the film. During the film you can see the variety of training he and his athletes work with, as well as hear a bad ass excerpt from the movie snatch incorporated in the remix soundtrack.
This December, Factory Fresh pulls out all the stops as we welcome The London Polic and Galo as they return to New York to celebrate more than a decade in the game.
If you’re going to be in Brooklyn tomorrow I highly recommend stopping by Factory Fresh for an incredible art showing of The London Police and Galo. Factory Fresh is located at 1053 Flushing Avenue between Morgan and Knickerbocker, off the L train Morgan Stop, the art show called “Fresh Geezers” and starts at 7pm sharp. The show will run up until January 10th 2010.
Make some time to get there is you’re around, it should be great! Enjoy
Next Generation Hoody or Actual Urban Security Suit?
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Marcus Lewis
Mon Nov 23rd, 2009:
I like crazy, I like weird, I like out of the ordinary and as we all know, I like my sweats, hoodies and comfy pants. I also occasionally where my dress sweats out, yes I said dress sweats (if you really knew me you’d understand). So when I came across this article on Dornob.com about Fashion for the End of the World I was intrigued that it was based off of a hoody.
