sweet window


and a quote i just made up
"if you sit on your ass and watch the world go by, you have no excuse whn your ass gets fat and you have no good stories to tell"

word

Watch the new Fantastic Four Teaser with the silver Surfer all over it right here

YOUTUBE TUESDAY

Ok ive been lax in posting because ive been sick for a week and the holidays etc...

here is a youtube gem today. nope not the godfather of soul!
more mark ryden set to bjork

for as long as Ive been a fan of Mark Ryden, Ive heard about his GREAT christmas cards. One day I will be on the list to get the sick cards damnit!!!!

here is what the friends and fam got this year. a card and print


i did some baseman and mass ryden cards tho!

More vinyl from ledbetter

Toxic swamp dof is up for order at club2r.com

the new transformers teaser
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/transformers.html

Frosty

To get in the holiday spirit, how aboot some Justin Degarmo?

I look at numerous sites a day and stumble across multitudes of artists and things I have never heard of. Justin is an example this morning. His concept illustrations are great, not too into the painting side of his work. www.justidegarmo.com

I cant embed this because youtube wont let me.
It is a great take on classic album covers. I think I started watching this at one point and had to stop because my boss walked in.
It is worksafe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6bUD9PJ6i8

Is it just me or does Nathan ota's work look alot like Soto, Craola, and Fontana?

Dining Review

WOODLANDS VEGETARIAN INDIAN3415 W End Ave # 101B
Nashville, TN 37203

After several months of not eating here out of pure laziness, I finally made it down for dinner. My compadre Sara went along with me, and since both of us are vegan, why not. Most Indian places in Nashville are really good and some are less accomidating to my dietary practices (cough sitar cough), but Woodlands was simply badass. The menu was huge and detailed. Indian dishes I have never heard of at other places around town. I got a curry veggie koofta dish HOT. It wasnt as hot as I wanted to clear up my head, but still yumster. My friend got an eggplant dish that was ever so spiced perfectly. The owners talked to us for a bit and were very helpful when I asked about cream in the dish. Overall I give it a A+, the only downfall is that there were so many things on the menu I wanted to try and I couldnt.
This just means I need to go back.

YOUTUBE TUESDAY

Today on youtube tuesday im showing you something badass
and
something festivus

First
a VERY Badass Mr. Rogers
In 1969, the US Senate had a hearing on funding the proposed Corporation for Public Broadcasting, but President Nixon wanted it cut in half for the Vietnam War. Sometimes nice guys do win some




and then sufjan


and actual festivus

Joe Barbera
1911-2006

Inert reader Woody, let me know aboot
http://www.vinylmesh.net/index.php?s=news

it combines most of the news sites!

Festivus

KAWS x BOUNTY HUNTER
someone in Japan needs to hook a fella up

HERE GO LOOK AT KOZIK'S NEW BLACKMETAL PIECE
i dont have time to change images sizes and stuff so just go look

http://xs310.xs.to/xs310/06500/Kozik_Ningyo_Box.gif

FINALLY

the newest piece in my collection
KAWS
MONO DISSECTED COMPANION
out of 500

!! spring street

here is a video of a piece thats been int he works for a long time it seems.
11 spring street. part of me finds this ugly as hell and too clutter driven and the other part of me actually enjoys it

Untitled this Friday

skip your parties and go to the UNTITLED show this Friday
UNTITLED ARTISTS GROUP PRESENTS WINTER SHOW 2006: MISSILETOE

On Friday, December 15, Nashville's Untitled artists' group invites you to our 2006 Winter show, MISSILETOE. This one-night-only art event will be held at Lucky's Garage at 14th and Church Street and will feature new painting, photography, sculpture and mixed media from some of the city's most innovative visual artists.

Untitled is comprised of over several hundred Nashville artists, including exhibiting artists and staff from Zeitgeist, Dangenart, Plowhaus, Twist Gallery, (fov) gallery and others as well as art faculty and students from Watkins College of Art and Design, Belmont University, Vanderbilt University and MTSU. MISSILETOE is the latest in a series of wildly successful quarterly exhibitions including BLOOM, HEAT and CONCRETE.

MISSILETOE (yes, "missile") will take place December 15 from 6 to 10 p.m. at Lucky's Garage. Admission is free, and the public is invited to meet and mingle with the artists and view their work while enjoying a cash bar, music by DJ Cosmo Shitay, and complimentary snacks. At 10:00 PM the art comes down and the volume goes up for Friday night dancing at Lucky's. Patrons may purchase artwork by cash, check or charge and may take their pieces home with them at 10:PM that evening.

Founded in 1991, Untitled is a non-profit organization dedicated to offering alternative visual arts experiences in the Nashville community. The artists are a culturally diverse group working democratically outside the traditional gallery scene. Recent shows have featured hundreds of artists and have attracted thousands of attendees.

For more information about MISSILETOE or the Untitled Artists' Group and its programs to support and promote the visual arts, please visit our website, www.untitlednashville.org , or email info@untitlednashville.org.

Contact: Erika Johnson
info@untitlednashville.org

or Nathaniel Brindley
a.medium.of.figments@gmail.com

Dunny madness amigo

Dunnys are so hit or miss these days, but then Kidrobot drops a bomb on the Vinyl community with the release of the Azteca Dunny series in January. Sweet as hell designs that will probably drive the collectors mad! I'm into most of these designs and cant wait to see the chase versions that havent been leaked yet.

From Kidrobot
Azteca Dunny Series
$5.95 each, available from Kidrobot retail locations and www.kidrobot.com and select retailers worldwide

Curated by Headquarter in Mexico City, the Azteca Dunny series showcases some of the hottest names in Mexican art, fashion, graphic design, music, and industrial design. The series is comprised of 19 tequila fueled designs in total. A unique collaboration of this magnitude comes very rarely, so grab ‘em while you can!

Bigfoot

I was reading my new Juxtapoz last night and saw an Ipath Bigfoot skate shoe. Now Bigfoot I kinda find amusing and Ipath are known to make good vegan footwear, and if you combine the two, I guess I get funny footwear. Anyway, the new color for the Ipath Bigfoot is not too bad but not vegan either. I couldnt find an image online so until i scan it, here is what the old one looked like.

some bigfoot tags

Heiko Mueller

I am loving the work of Heiko Mueller. A new artist for me to look into. Never heard of him before until today, so VERY NICE.
go to the page link at the bottom and read his bio along witht eh paintings. It is very interesting thought pattern he is trying to express.
Then when you read that and look at the work, you can actually see the poin the is trying to make quite well!

MUELLER MUELLER

Snoopy goes Spidey

Have you ever thought to yourself what the Peanuts gang would be like as super heroes?
well I know most of us have. So I found a place where you can tickle your comic book and comic strip fantasy world at the same time

Many more can be seen here

From Brazil

Herbert Baglione from Brazil

Spent my lunch hour checking our Herbert's work. Im liking it. reminds me of woodcuts slightly of the Northern renaissance.
I suggest everyone go look at his site
http://www.herbert.ind.br/main2.html

Alice

Thanks to Inert Reader Jessica, I got an email saying I should check out tis work, and what to my contact laced eyes should appear?
well
look for yourself

Wonderlost

link is also on the side

YOUTUBE TUESDAY

This week's youtube tuesday spotlights artist Bill McMullen.
before you watch the video here

an idea before the video

Dissection without the smells

My Kaws grey companion comes in this week from Japan, but here is a photoshop version of what an entire KAWS dissected would look like

Flores working before the show

Craola and Alex Pardee now have blogs.
Word!

I know it isnt tuesday but
CHarlie Brown Christmas performed by the cast of SCRUBS

Toki Doki

Toki Doki now have some New Era hats ont he market. as always the designs are pretty damn nice, but 70 clams for a hat is out of my budget.


Make sure you bend the bill because if you dont, you look like a tool

Toki Doki Hats

speaking of Toki doki. A friend informed me of a scam on ebay and I know some people that fell for it. The Toki Doki tshirts come with hair clips or pins FREE. DO NOT buy them seperate, if someone is selling them indiviually, you are getting scammed

I met a kid this weekend who was busting at the sides because of Urban Outfitters opening a store in Green Hells. I know some people that will just be stoked they can get Dunnys at an inflated price.

More people are stoked on Anthropolgy moving into the same facility.

roadtrip

Dates have been announced for the upcoming Isis and Jesu tour. Additionally, Torche and Zozobra will appear on many of the dates. Here's the schedule:
dates w/ Torche

3/3 Birmingham, AL @ Bottletree Lounge
3/5 Orlando, FL @ The Social
3/8 Athens, GA @ 40 Watt
3/9 Charlotte, NC @ Tremont Music Hall

These are made to be seen in person

FLORES
here are some images from the recent show. These are made so above and beyond. (even in price)


see more here

I sure would like an OG Flores for xmas ha so click here and look

Wanna know more about Biskup?

Jessica, emailed me this link (below) that has some interesting facts about Tim Biskup. I had the pleasure of meeting Tim a few times and have a few pieces of his vinyl work in my own collection. The dude is super nice and I watched him sketch for a friend and honestly, it was one of the oddest things ive ever seen how he holds the pen and does his work.
Interesting read, so check it out

Tim is here

Belmont Blvd.
Holy Smokes on a pole

oh this rules

HOLY CRAP HOLY CRAP

I may be able to own a MArk Ryden in 2007!!!
I am part of an email list of a printing company that does great work and Ryden has been in the "works" for over 2 years. Today I get an email about this

Everyone on the email list has a very good chance of getting one of the prints limited to 100.
I must start saving now

YOUTUBE TUESDAY

So it is youtube tuesday!!!

Up first
a classic HUGE piece
and then
a British show aboot Banksy. (yeah maybe they should say identitties haha)

Basically in this post click here

this show has some of my favorite artists in it, AND look at the orange print in the ad that i never noticed.
Oh strangeco, how you taunt me.
the first of which you can see at www.vinylpulse.com

Possessed

Look like this lil bastard wont be out to January. Ive been waiting on him for over a year now.
Luke Chueh's Possessed prototype from SDCC 05 I went to

Blaine Fontana has a book coming out soon "sedimental promises".
96 pages and a hardcover of a good majority of previous works.
not too pricey at 20 bucks retail

Holiday Banksy and more show

Banksy’s
"Michael Jackson in the House of Hansel… "

BANKSY along with Faile, Kelsey Brooks, Invader, Dolk, and Insect had their annual holiday (or anti) “Santa’s Ghetto” at the temporary art space at 15 Oxford street in London.
ill try and upload more images soon.
I better see some of this type of stuff when I am in London next year!

Nashville Opening

Thanks to April for emailing aboot this!

Harry and Becca Durnin along with Sugar & Spice: Twist’s Holiday Arts Salon
Saturday December 2, 2006
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Twist Art Gallery
Nashville
December 9th through January 5th All Sugar & Spice artwork priced under $250!
Sharing: Share w/ Friends

I keep intending to go check out the arcade but I always get busy. This should not be the excuse for anyone else tho!!
Ive alreadyd ouble booked myself for saturday night, so someone go to the opening and take pictures!

Good, I need a new scarf

It looks like evey week there is some new KAWS merch to report. I guess he has a full blown line now of clothing and things. Most are not my hting, but the new scarf coming out from Original Fake might have to be searched for.
as always, you never know exactly when this stuff comes out.

Eelus time

For EELUS fans out there!
The image below is an old one but the new one will be a different color print.

They will all be available from eelus.com at 10am on Monday 4th Dec, first come, first served. I can’t take pre-orders I’m afraid folks so please don’t ask. The prints will also be available from POW and Santa's Ghetto at a later date.

http://www.picturesonwalls.com/art.php?aid=9

Now this is British time, so I have to figure out the conversion to get the other print coming out.