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…
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 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.
I was invited to Jazz Central in Syracuse yesterday night to sit in on some music played by a few professors at Syracuse University and the featured artist of the night Mickey Powell. He’s a singer/songwriter raised in Carthage New York and travels the country booking gigs and enjoying the gift he’s been given. I was floored by his performance, as we sat to the right of the stage if facing the crowd, in a studio sized room that holds close to 100 people.
I think it’s amazing to hear talented individuals really know how to sing without any gimmicks and tricks and this is definitely someone you need to hear in person. Listening to it anywhere else doesn’t give him justice, but since the show has past I think its necessary to share his work.
You can learn more about Mickey, where he came from, inspirations and motivation from his site The Polite Rebel. Also check out where his upcoming shows will be and try to get to one, it’s definitely worth it!
Winter is coming fast and I’ve been told plenty of times, I will need to buy winter tires, even before there was a thought of winter and the snow that accumulates up here in Syracuse. Well I think I just found some that I’m interested in getting, but I want some opinions before I do the purchase. So here’s what I’m looking to get…
Fresh food is always the best when you’re starving, and when it’s breakfast time it’s even better because everyone knows breakfast is pretty much the best meal of the day. Mother’s Cupboard is the place to be to satisfy that void in your stomach when you’ve been craving a good breakfast. Make sure you get there early, they close at 1:00pm and are usually packed with people looking to literally roll out the door after their done.
“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
