Andrew Bell has new art prints
‘This is Your Life’ set of 3 art prints:
‘Slipped Discs’, ‘Possible Parasites’ and ‘Vindictive Virus’
Limited to 30 of each print
- signed and numbered.
- 4″x6″
- archival inks on acid-free Hahnemühle fine art rag
- hand deckled edges
Buy them HERE.
Sket One Art Show
Wheaty Wheat presents Controlled Substances, a custom toy and urban art
show, opening October 22nd at Toy Qube in Flushing, NY. Controlled
Substances is MAD x Sket One redefined and reloaded. The show will consist
of a massive array of custom toys, skate decks, prints and original canvas
art. They¹ve thrilled countless collectors with their incredible custom
toys. This is about restating and refining who each artist is and who they
will become.
To read more visit Vinyl Pulse
( http://www.vinylpulse.com/2005/09/controlled_subs.html )
Next Saturday at Toy Qube ( http://toyqube.com/ )
Store Info:
Flushing Mall
133-31 39th ave. #F36
Flushing,NY 11354
TEL:718-939-8605
Alex Grey Live Painting in NYC
ALEX GREY LIVE PAINTING with Sound Tribe Sector Nine
Saturday, October 15th
Nokia Theatre in Times Square
1515 Broadway, the corner of Broadway and 44th Street
For information: http://www.sts9.com/
(Listen to STS9 artifact 21 tokyo radio edit)
For those of you who don’t know who Alex Grey is,
And for those who dont know Sound Tribe Sector 9:
Sound Tribe Sector Nine is an accomplished quintet of experimental sound vibration with the intent of making the world a more peaceful place so we may all dance as one love. Their name spawns from the Sacred 13 Baktun count. The 9th Baktun was when the Classic Maya were at their peak of living in harmony with the natural time and telepathic communications.
School band plays DJ Shadow’s ‘Endtroducing’ with real instruments
The after-school percussion group at Minnetonka High School, Minneapolis, rehearsed for months and can now play two tracks from DJ Shadow’s ‘Endtroducing’ album. The music was arranged by 25 year-old geographer/law student/vibraslap enthusiast Brian Udelhofen, who teaches the group. The Shadow Percussion Project page links to this amazing video [65mb WMV] of the group’s live performance in May 2005. They play ‘Building Steam with a Grain of Salt’ and ‘Changeling’. What’s amazing is how much like the record they sound (given the rather fuzzy audio), at least on ‘Building Steam’. The drummers recreate the glitchy MPC-60 loop editing pretty much perfectly. This could possibly be the coolest thing we have ever seen.
I almost wish the camera was on the audience instead so you could watch the reactions of an auditorium full of mid-western parents as they realize their kids have been training all year to recreate DJ Shadow tracks. Hopefully they were all as high as we were teh first time we heard Entroducing.
(via Musicthing)
POST NEO EXPLOSIONISM lands in New York City at CBGB’S
So this weekend the dankster.org team rolled out and hit up the PNE show at CBGB’s Gallery.
Here are the results. Click read more for the pictures….
Tristan Eaton Signing @ Kidrobt Thursday.
Tristan Eaton will be at Kidrobot NY this Thursday, September 15th, from 6-8pm to bail out his delinquent friends: Purple Felony and Red Cutty Skumbo. If you can’t make it to the signing don’t worry, these new vinyl figures will be available online this Thursday as well.
Neil Gaiman Invades NYC
SEPTEMBER 18th BENEFIT CBGBs Gallery – $10 Advance / $12 Day Of ShowPaulette Powell & Mariah Aguiar Present:ANGELS ON THE BOWERY — A Benefit To Help Save CBGB! Featuring: NEIL GAIMAN KYLE BAKER JOHN HOLMSTROM NEIL SWAAB FLY starting at 8:00 pm
September 19th — Susanna Clarke discusses her remarkable debut novel, the BookSense Book of the Year, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell with her friend, novelist Neil Gaiman.
Tickets: $18; Members $15; Students/Seniors $16; Rush $10 call day of show for availabilityVenue: Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
http://www.symphonyspace.org/genres/eventPage.php?genreId=4&eventId=1334
Tuesday, September 20 6:00 PM EDT
Book Signing
Barnes & Noble #2675
33 E. 17th Street
New York, New York
212-253-0810
POST NEO EXPLOSIONISM lands in New York City at CBGB’S
On Saturday, Sept. 17th POST NEO EXPLOSIONISM lands in New York City at CBGB’S, ‘ground-zero’ of punk-rock history, for a one night showing of pivotal rock-and-roll concert poster art called ‘PNE x NYC: Post Neo Explosionism At CBGB’s’, presented by SCION, CMJ & CBGB’s. PNE is honored and excited to be giving support to CBGB’s in it’s effort to remain at it’s present location. ‘Post Neo Explosionism’ (PNE) is a periodic artistic collaborative ‘idea’ involving 3 well-known rock-and-roll concert poster artists: Jermaine Rogers, Justin Hampton and EMEK. Individually, each of these artists has created artwork for numerous bands, including Radiohead, Tool, David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Neil Young, Pearl Jam, Mars Volta, The Melvins, The Deftones, and hundreds of others. Collaborating as ‘PNE’, they’ve handled exclusive contracts for the likes of Queens Of The Stone Age, Audioslave, and Built To Spill.
Dozens of rare and collectible posters will be on display at CB’s 313 GALLERY and available for purchase during this one day event. A portion of all proceeds will be donated to the Red Cross and support for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The artists will be in appearance, mingling in with the crowds and soaking up the vibes of the final night of the CMJ Music Marathon, a co-sponsor of this event. Prepare to be blasted away by the music of The Black Out Pact, Amber Pacific, Nural, Aberdeen City, The Late Greats, & Tim Williams.
‘PNE x NYC: Post Neo Explosionism At CBGB’s’ will be on display from the afternoon hours until approx. 2am. Come get a drink, an eyefull of amazing artwork, an earfull of awesome music, and show your support for rock poster art & the greatest punk-rock stages in the world: CBGB’s.
CB313 Gallery is located at 313 BOWERY in Manhattan, NYC & is part of the CBGB’s complex.
Secret Wall Tatoos
Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age has a cool way to beat motel boredom.
Check out his site to see how!
Very Cool, indeed.
Interview With Poster Artist Todd Slater
The growth of online trading forums has allowed music related poster art to flourish in recent years, and a number of the best artists have quickly risen to the top of the food chain. Emek, Kozik, Jermaine Rogers, and Pollock, are becoming household names for young art collectors. A Jermaine Rogers print will typically sell for anywhere from $100 to $150 on the secondary market. As a result, this type of art is becoming popular not only with art and music enthusiasts, but with people who buy only to "flip" the prints online for profit, much like online ticket scalpers do these days.
Meanwhile, Todd Slater, a young artist from Texas, has been quickly gaining prestige from critics and art lovers nationwide. His prints are unique and practical in their presentation of striking artwork that accurately speaks to whatever band’s personality and attitude he is working with, which probably explains their rising prices and the increase in online trading frequency.
Recently Todd spoke to us about his tastes, his influences, his methods, and what the term Dankster truely means to him .
Hi. How are you?
Ok, just getting over the flu but all in all good.
How long have you been doing posters for?
About 1 and a half years professionally.
What would you be doing if you weren’t making money as an artist?
Geez, I dunno, assistant manager at Best Buy? Something really
mundane and boring.
Do you collect posters and art yourself or strictly make them?
Oh yeah, I collect/trade with fellow artists all the time. I have a
collector’s mentality and posters are addicting.
How do you feel about relying on community sites like Gigposters to
sell your artwork? Do these sites help or hinder young artists?
It helps. Internet forums are brutal because people can hide behind
their anonymity and say exactly what they want which is what artists
needs to hear to make them better. There’s so many great poster
artists on that site that it’s a great networking tool too.
I like selling on gigposters because of the amonunt of exposure it
gets. It would be pretty rare that a personal artist’s sites would
get as many hits in a month as gigposters gets in day. I am working
on a personal site now but will continue to sell on gp.
Most of your work is music related it seems. Have you done anything
non-music related, or do you plan to in the future?
I did alot of painting in college. It was mostly me imitating Peter
Saul though and for the time being I’m content to make posters. It’s
possible that I would paint again though.
Do you have any shows coming up in New York?
None right now. NY rules tho, and I will live there someday.
Can you talk a little bit about your methods? For instance, is your
work all hand done, or do you use computers?
It’s just different with every print. Some sketching and some
redrawing in illustrator. If your methods start feeling to easy it’s
probably time to change them.
A lot of your posters are HUGE. Framing costs a fortune. Any thoughts?
Heh. I think there are some cheap places to frame stuff online but I
can’t remember them. Ikea or American Frame maybe? Whenever I pay
$25-50 for a poster I’m always disappointed when there like 11×17 size
and I’ll always try and make big posters as long as I can.
You have done work for such a wide range of bands. Are you a fan of
all the groups you do work for? Do you listen to a band’s music
before doing a print? What goes into your thought process when
designing a print for a band/artist?
Not a fan of every band I’ve done posters for but I’ll always listen
to their music before making the poster. When I do a poster I always
think about how the band would want to be portrayed and whether they
want to seem sexy or dangerous or both or something else and then I
try and and do that in my style (whatever that might be).
What’s type of music are you into? What is your favorite band of all
time? What do you think is the best band/artist out there right now?
My fav band ever is the greatness that is WEEN. Some of my favorite
bands ever are Sonic Youth, Pixies, Meat Puppets, They Might Be
Giants, and of course Ween.
I saw Eisley in Dallas a few weeks ago and was blown away. They will
develop a large devoted following in the years to come.
What is your favorite piece you’ve done?
Interpol.
Some of your posters are getting pretty valuable. Your Arcade Fire
print recently went on ebay for over 88 dollars. How do you feel
about the secondary market? How do you feel about people who buy
multiple copies of your posters with the intent to "flip" them on the
secondary market to make a quick buck?
It’s ok with me. I mean if people are buying then that’s good. I
feel really uncomfortable telling people a poster is $100 but when I’m
down to last few that’s what I have to do. Looking back on things I
really should have archived more posters for myself.
What are your favorite movies artistically speaking?
I love Wes Anderson movies: Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums
& Life Aquatic. There’s something about them, I never get tired of
watching them and quoting them. I really like Paul Thomas Anderson’s
movies too.
What have been some of your influences, artistically or otherwise?
For painting there’s, Peter Saul, Jenny Saville, John Currin, and Lisa
Yuskavage and really the directors and musicians I mentioned above
too.
What blogs do you read?
Really just gigposters and ween.
What is your interpretation of the term "Dankster"?