i want a kaws dollar

This is new to me.

it kills

Nick Swardson

This past weekened jess, mike, knewman and i saw nick swardson at the ryman do standup. holy crap it ruled. just as funny as i had hoped. he did talk about reno 911 and grandma's boy. basically just the dude you would think he would be. so he just started his tour and i encourage all to go check him out.

for reals

kozik steps up the game with a real deal bronze bust aka Ludwik. Retailing for several thousand and limited to 20
still WOW

befo and after

a couple years ago when i was more of a chubster




current not as much

walking is still honest

these days its really hard to get my close friends to do anything. most the time they have excuses and complain about money or just dont do anything but stare at a box at home. so i like doing things and one thing i like to do is walk around and look at shit, take pics of things, and have little excurions or see things. anyway last week i walked around downtown for a bit and FINALLY checked out the mural on one of the walls. totally badass as you can see

my Sketchbook

Well every now and then ill post pics from my lil black book i have that i get sketches in from artists
so up first
muthafuckin JAMES JEAN!!!

Loving this work

a friend of mine told me to check out ayako one's work and so i did and DAMN these are rad! remind me of TP geisha stuff and i love the blues!
more here
http://www.bluepaintings.net/index.htm

youtube tuesday

in honor of earth day, i give you one a fave band of mine and it seems appropriate

Bwana's killer

I finally got my first Killer by Bwana Spoons. and with a nice little mini print!
black tiger out of 80

my yard

if anyone drives by my house
Think of the sick designs i cut in the grass as art!!!!!!!!!!

NOT
that i tend to miss spots and cut the grass pisspoorly

once again i think

audrey kawasaki's new grey scale black and white work is the best to date of all she has done!

Animation at the Nash Film Fest

I checked out the ANIMATED EXPRESSIONS I at the Nashville Film Fest this weekend. All and all it was good. tickets are too $$$ imo, but it pays to have hookups I guess. anyway, the Animated expressions I was the more "adult" themed of the two and rightfully so with Teat Beat of Sex (Signe Baumane, USA 2007, 4 min.) is a shocking take on sex from a woman's point of view. and In A Letter to Colleen, (Carolyn & Andy London, USA 2007, 9 min.) Andy, who has been haunted by the events of his eighteenth birthday for years, attempts to put his demons to rest.
By far the best of all the animated shorts was A curious nun ventures into the darker side of her animated world in Lapsus, Juan Pablo Zaramella, Argentina 2007, 4 min.). This short ruled and I kinda wanna see it a few more times. Also my second fav was Michelle Meeker's When I Grow Up (USA 2007, 7 min.) juxtaposes the boundless ambition of youthful expectations with the unpredictable- and sometimes tragic -realities we end up living. An international team of 12 artists each bring their unique visions to a series of interviews with children and elders. I encourage all to go check out the other showing of Animation and all of the film fest.

sick work all for $100

Gallery Nucleus is doing a benefit show of over 100 works for all $100 each.
Tons of good stuff stil avail

http://www.gallerynucleus.com/gallery/pieces/141?page=all

GID usugrow

i just emailed japan. lets see if I can get one

Thank woody for this one

If you didnt know, I am a star wars nerd and this guy just made me all stoked. Great photography and manipulation of star wars blokes and what not in modern settings or should i say our settings. there are tons more on his site at
http://www.cedricdelsaux.com/

thanks woody for showing me this

PeE Review!

Someone give me a HELL YES!!! The new Atmosphere is schweeets! Brad, jacked the title in another post, and it is well deserved. This cd reminds me of classic slug but with some Everlast-style vibes mixed. The turntable mixing combined with the live band mixes well. Slug's lyrics are just as introspective as any other release. How can I just say "it is good shit yo". This isn't hip pop but good roots hip hop!

PeE

all artists...read this shit

taken DIRECTLY from jux
"Whether you’re a professional artist, or someone that once took a few photos you think are rad, you should know about some new legislation facing Congress.
Currently before Congress stands the new Orphan Works Bill. If passed, this bill will adversely affect visual artists, as it would drastically affect copyright laws.
Right now, anything you create is protected by copyright, whether you register it or not (although if you don’t register it, you cannot later claim copyright infringement.) Under this new legislation, nothing you create would be protected unless you commercially register it. You would have to pay to own rights to anything you create, commercially or just for your own pleasure, so that other people cannot steal your work.
The idea behind the Orphan Works Bill is to “free up old work” from copyright owners who have passed away (currently copyright laws last through the owners lifetime, plus 70 years.) But what if you’re still alive and making new work? You basically get screwed. In a sense, it will “orphan” anything you’ve ever created.
Unless you want to digitize all your work, or pay big bucks to register your creativity, you’ll want to check out more on this legislation. A good clearinghouse of info can be found here. "
go to juxtapoz.com and read it yoself and get a sub to their awesome mag

youtube tuesday

since this week i go imitate tony soprano twice i thought id post this video. maybe I have before who the fuck knows.
Nashville version to the Sopranos opening

the vegan chalenge

So inspired by the Top Chef blind taste test, I had the idea to throwdown the vegan chalenge.
Now this is in the planning stages and I talked to homie sarah and she is in to cook and do it too.
We will have three omnivores (nick so far is the only one stepping up)
each blindfolded and given a something vegan and the equivalent that is not vegan.
The contestant must decide what is vegan by blind taste test.
oh its gonna happen!!!

must perfect my baking tho

All We Ever Do is Talk About Wood

All We Ever Do is Talk About Wood
By Tom Horacek
I was told by one of the PeEs to look at the lil book of cartoons. they said "since you are a fan of Charles Schulz’s work, you will adore this book hands down".
So I will look for it at great escape this week. If someone else has insight let me know.
This review was taken from drawn.ca after i googled it
"Tom Horacek’s All We Ever Do Is Talk About Wood is the newest petit livre from Drawn&Quarterly. The Vancouver artist’s first book, it’s a collection of single panel gags that seem to act as a celebration of pain, suffering, and life’s slow march to the grave. But the bitterness is sweetened by Horacek’s too-cute renderings. His round-headed characters not only evoke images of Charles Schulz’s Charlie Brown, but also the Peanuts-creator’s philosophy that “happiness isn’t funny.”"

When Life hands you lemons, paint that shit gold!

the subject i stole from Atmosphere.
anyway, I had plans to go take some pics of good and bad street art this weekend but alas the weather was shit. I would say that a good amount of the shit I see on walls around here is horrible, but two things have caught my eye as of late and I wanna take pics before they are gone. There are some douchebag horrible horrible horrible taggers that keep writing in the herm. it looks like if i tried to write with my left hand ha.

now here is something that is good

danzig is amusing

a list of films that caught my eye at the Nash Film Fest. Yes it is a long post dont be lazy and read it

even tho most of my good friends wont go to this or watch more movies than i do but tend to make more excuses than a junkie i'm
bringing back my love for celluloid
i was looking thru the list of films at the Nashville Film Fest and here are a few that caught my eye, besides william h macey being there and besides all the animation

Pussycat Preacher
Documentary

Green Hills Cinema - Theatre 16
Sunday, Apr 20, 2008 3:15 PM
The true story of a former stripper who found Jesus, won over some young housewives in one church and started a project to reach out to other strippers only to run into objections from some church members.


In the City of Sylvia
Narrative Feature

Green Hills Cinema - Theatre 4
Sunday, Apr 20, 2008 5:00 PM
A young foreigner spends his afternoons in an outdoor cafe, sketching the women he sees...while looking for Sylvia, who he met years before in the same city. An exceedingly graceful work that captures a youthful sense of a world filled with an almost limitless sensuality.


Young@Heart ( i got sneaks to this at opry mills today anyway)
Documentary

Green Hills Cinema - Theatre 4
Monday, Apr 21, 2008 5:00 PM
The touching and heartfelt portrait of a New England senior citizens chorus that has delighted audiences worldwide with their covers of songs The Clash to Sonic Youth to James Brown.


Cornered
Documentary

Green Hills Cinema - Theatre 16
Tuesday, Apr 22, 2008 1:00 PM
In a 1983 boxing match at Madison Square Garden, the padding was removed from the gloves of Luis Resto and for 30 minutes he assaulted Nashville’s Irish Billy Collins. The film not only investigates this brutal crime but follows Resto’s quest for redemption.

Trailer Park of Terror
Narrative Feature

Green Hills Cinema - Theatre 3
Wednesday, Apr 23, 2008 9:00 PM
A romping gory picture show about a group of stranded youth who end up in a desolate trailer park inhabited by zombies who were former residents of the park that had blown up years ago. Beware! Preceded by the film "SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE ."


Deal, The
Narrative Feature

Green Hills Cinema
Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 7:00 PM
William H. Macy is unforgettable as a Hollywood producer who sees a way to revive his so-called career by casting an action star in a film about 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and in outwits his financiers and the studio along the way. With Meg Ryan as a studio exec, LL Cool J (as an action star who has converted to Judaism), Jason Ritter as the scriptwriter and Elliott Gould in a supporting role as LL Cool J's personal rabbi.

Screening: April 17, 7:00pm

In Attendance: Director Steven Schacter, William H. Macy, Jason Ritter


Searchers 2.0
Narrative Feature

Green Hills Cinema - Theatre 3
Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 7:30 PM
Alex "Repo Man" Cox's laid back, funny sendup of The Searchers follows two men who seek revenge on a B-move screenwriter who mistreated them on the filmset of BUFFALO BILL VS. DOC HOLLIDAY many years before.


haha Nick needs this one
Art of Negative Thinking, The
Narrative Feature

Green Hills Cinema - Theatre 16
Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 9:30 PM
A dark and hilarious story about a depressed but bitterly funny and articulate paraplegic who rejects the sympathy his injury generates and the fiasco that results when a "municipal positivity" group comes to their home. Preceded by the film "Three Towers."

You, the Living
Narrative Feature

Green Hills Cinema - Theatre 15
Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 9:45 PM
A highly subjective and darkly witty series of fifty portraits (from deeply touching to laugh-out-loud funny) of the human race. A mosaic of human destinies on more or less the theme of "how to behave around others." Preceded by the film "The Apology Line."

Nashvile Film Fest

APRIL 17-24
http://www.nashvillefilmfestival.org/

somehow the film fest snuck up on me. mainly because i havent looked up in weeks and dont give a shit about alot of things it seems that i used to.


It is all aboot the animation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Animation Expressions I and II. see links below
http://prod1.agileticketing.net/WebSales/Pages/EventDescription.aspx?EventID=7717
and

http://prod1.agileticketing.net/WebSales/Pages/EventDescription.aspx?EventID=7721

hats off to flores

its no understatement that i love sam flores' work and it is also well known i think the hat trend and leaving stickers on and the bill flat means you are a douchbag. so
this hat rules the school but take the damn stickers off

new for the walls

time for some recent additions. OBEY print a friend gave me for letting him in on some releases and a 12" record original by Squidnik.

youtube tuesday

not youtube this week but a video. basically, THIS IS HOW WE DO IT!!!!
fan standing ovation during the entire commercial break at the last preds regular season home game. unsolicited or prompted!

DELETED BECAUSE IT KEEPS MESSING UP THINGS

new music

Brad told me to make a post this week on music I have been spinning on my record player.
For this I emailed him a simple answer 27.
I have no real thought on how to describe this except for a blend of sigur ros, cat power, isis, and denali. One song will be 180 degree turn from the next or the the song may be sacrificed in the middle for a 180 turn. the point is, the female vocals are very soothing. do not listen to "heaven owes me one" on the myspace because that song is boring.
stay with the 7"s

Out
http://www.27.vg/news.htm

http://www.myspace.com/twenty27seven

"MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS"

my word i looked at the preview of the collab show by Kathie Olivas and Brandt Peters and holy crap the pieces are badass.
i cant show pics except maybe some from their myspace as seen above but daaaaaaaaaamn. my favorite i cant link up yet grrrr
New Works and Installation By:
Kathie Olivas / Brandt Peters
a special collaboration show

Runs 04-11-08 through 05-02-08

thinkspace Gallery
4210 Santa Monica Blvd.
(near Sunset Junction)
Los Angeles, CA 90029
Telephone: 323.913.3375

Camilla D'Errico

Gallery Nucleus has a new print by Camilla D'Errico called "MILK THISTLE NINJA GIRL" that i tottaly dig. her work is growing on me like chicken pox.

Exhibition:Ninja Show 2 (Revenge of the Ninja)Height:9.0"Width:24.0"Printing Method:8-Color ProcessPaper Type:Velvet Fine ArtFeatures: Limited Edition(50)
Signed & Numbered on Piece

Bring IT!

the PREDS are in the PLAYOFFS. so all you hypebeast fairweather hockey fans, grab your tickets before the scalper scum do!
Preds in playoffs
FUCK DETROIT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Art Gallery Crawl this weekend

i dunno if its bad or just pathetic or what, but when someone takes something away from you it sucks. Like lets say you used to love riding a rollercoaster but your mom dies on one, well the rollercoaster is ruined probably. i used to love the art crawl but it has kinda been soured for me because of people. Ill probably go back at some point but it just isnt the same right now. but that shouldnt stop the rest of the world from going. First Saturday of every month the Nashville Galleries host a crawl. Here is a site for more info
http://www.artatthearcade.com/images/3.jpg

NEW ISSUE

a very badass magazine for art and culture that is put out buy one of the nicest guys on the planet (attaboy) is HI FRUCTOSE. Anyway, finding an issuse here in town can be difficult BUT no fear!!!!
Davis kidd in Green Hell and Barnes and Noble in Opry Mills have it!!! Seriously this slick as hell magazine is worth it!

in case you forgot

If you forgot about the funniest blackmetal pics of all time
well Go look again

Link to funniness!!!!!!!!!!

Stella minis

Stella IM Hultberg has a mini print series that just dropped. Gallery 1988 put it out (they also put out the Luke Chueh mini set that I own). Anyway, it will only cost you $80 and there is a chase print thrown in a few and 5% of the sets have an original in the mix.The sets containas the Stella prints,
"Nowhere Near"
"Bruised"
"November"
"Always..."
10% of the sets will have the chase print.

Each giclee is 4 x 5 in and 500 made






Here is one of the originals



found on the G1988 blog

youtuber tooesdai

Borrowed this from wooster. Paper bag art. Watch the video! If we had subways here, id wanna walk by and see this