11 days until Pittsbirds as I’ve been calling it. I will be showing my ever expanding series entitled ‘birds’ in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Saturday the 20th.
There will be work from 15 different artists on display, work in all sorts of media & available for purchase. Five bucks to get in which includes a free beverage.
The name of the event is ‘Art Bash’, in addition to the artists, there will be music and a pretty solid representation of variety studios and friends heading down. It’s going to be pretty awesome, check it out if you’re in the Pittsburgh area or feel like a destination for a road trip!
I will also have prints available in addition to the canvases and wood paintings!
This past weekend was the 24th Annual AM-JAM TATTOO EXPO in Syracuse/Liverpool NY, where Winky Dink Ink’s Bobby Ciffone and Matt Truiano participated in the festivities. It was an impressive convention that I expect to attend every year from now on. So many talented artists from all over set up shop at the Holiday Inn with tattoo enthusiasts mingling and getting tattooed everywhere you turned.
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…
Music of the Week: Common “Universal Mind Control”
by
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.
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
This week check out of the collaboration ‘DangerDoom’ which is a collaboration of DJ Dangermouse, and MF Doom. I took interest at first by the masked mouse illustration, and when I started absorbing the smooth old school beat with the clever, sometimes humorous, sometimes too sharp rhymes, and read up on a little bit of the background story driving the cartoonish aesthetics, it was obvious this should be music of the week.
DJ Dangermouse is a producer whom I first heard of when he combined Jay-Z’s ‘Black Album’ with the Beatles ‘White Album’, creating the Grey Album.. which was pretty interesting. He also has worked with Gnarls Barkley, and the Gorillaz who are famous for appearing only as their cartoon character incarnations in videos and even a ridiculously elaborate .
So this collaboration is with one, MF Doom. The ‘Doom’ in his name references supervillain Doctor Doom because of their similar masks. After reportedly going through some hard times he re-emerged on the scene in NY masked.
Image taken from hiptics.com
MF Doom is an underground lyricist with some sharp rhymes, combined with the unexpected beats, and on top of everything for the shroud of mystery. They get my stamp of ‘awesome’ approval.
A few months back cruisin’ around the webs I heard about this sticker place that prints stickers.
Scoping out their website, I discovered a fun project they were doing where you decorate an envelope containing a Self Addressed Stamped Envelope, send it to them, and they send back fun stickers.
So…
Sarah, and I sent them in, and check it out! They put our illustrated envelopes on the flickr stream.
In return they sent us some awesome stickers that we added to our bicycle rack / sticker collection two by six.
(Notice our awesome charlie brown Christmas tree, acquired via the barter system from the Hadzor Forest in exchange for one carton of heavy whipping cream.)
The ‘S.A.S.E Shindig’ has concluded but you can read more about it and see lots of wild mail/envelope art on the sticker robot s.a.s.e. page.
