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.
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:
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…
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.
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.
Syracuse has an artistic atmosphere to it, whether it be drawing, design, photography, architecture or musical talent. There I always something artistic to see up here and it is extremely motivating waking up an having it all thrown in our face everyday. Lately there has been tons of amazing musical talent coming to various venues around down town Syracuse, last week friday Mickey Powell showed up at Jazz Central to wow the crowd with his amazing performance. Tonight at the Westcott As Tall As Lions and Twin Tigers will be playing and Minus The Bear will be the featured artists of the night, doors open at 7:00pm, show starts at 8:00pm. You may see us there as well. For more show details visit The Westcott. Here are a couple of sample songs/videos from Minus The Bear that are pretty entertaining.
