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.
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…
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
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.
I was checking out Wooster Collective the other day and saw some extremely interesting and funny street paintings (literally artwork done on the streets). This artist goes by the name Roadsworth uses the world as his canvas, some people hate it because they say it’s destroying private and government property, but some people love it, I for one am one that enjoys his work. To come up with a number of different ways to attract attention to the surrounding roads in an artistic and new way is great to see, and he does just that. He distorts things we see every day and makes them intriguing things to stop and really pay attention to, such as crosswalk lines, stop signs :cough: I usually don’t see these for some reason. Roadsworth brings life to all these things as you can see in some of the images below.
I was intrigued by an article/video I found at Wooster Collective ‘EyeWriter Source Code Released To The Public’. At first by the title I thought it was a company trying to create a new way of laziness, having people accomplish writing, drawing and other handheld pen to paper tasks. But in fact this EyeWriter started out as a means for ALS patients to express themselves since they are incapable of physically doing so.
“Members of Free Art and Technology (FAT), OpenFrameworks, the Graffiti Research Lab, and The Ebeling Group communities have teamed-up with a legendary LA graffiti writer, publisher and activist, named Tony Quan, aka TEMPTONE. Tony was diagnosed with ALS in 2003, a disease which has left him almost completely physically paralyzed… except for his eyes. This international team is working together to create a low-cost, open source eye-tracking system that will allow ALS patients to draw using just their eyes. The long-term goal is to create a professional/social network of software developers, hardware hackers, urban projection artists and ALS patients from around the world who are using local materials and open source research to creatively connect and make eye art.” – EyeWriter.org
To learn more about Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) please visit ALS Association
“Paper Architecture: Posters by Michael Bierut opens at Syracuse University’s School of Architecture tomorrow, Thursday, 5 November. The exhibition is the first devoted to Bierut’s poster design and features 28 works from 1983 to the present for clients including the Architecture League of New York, the Yale School of Architecture, the New York State Council for the Arts and the University of Cincinnati. Bierut and his team are currently designing the environmental graphics for Syracuse’sConnective Corridor project linking the university to downtown. The exhibition is on view at Syracuse Architecture’s Slocum Hall Gallery through January 22.” – Pentagram
