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Beatlemania Museum Show, Hamburg

Grab your 3D glasses to get the most out of this interpretation of the Octopus' Garden in the shade. :) It will be showing at..

Beatlemania Hamburg
Nobistor 10/Reeperbahn
22767 Hamburg
Germany

The new Beatles museum in Hamburg, celebrates the Beatles formative days on the Reeperbahn. It's called the Beatlemania Museum. It has five floors, 1300 square meters of Beatles stuff, a yellow submarine... It's right on the Reeperbahn near where Flatstock is located.

The Participating artists created an art print, as a visual interpretation of a Beatles song of their choice. Each is the artists own response to the song, done in the artists own style, as a limited-edition art print.

Some of the artist's are Luke Drozd, Graham Pilling, Cameron Steward, Lars Krause, John Howard and Malleus

It's an 18x24 4 color screen print edition of 100 some will be available here after the show.

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18x24″ , 4 color screen print, signed/numbered edition of 100 on French Starch
Available $50.

Treasure Island Music Festival !

Jason Munn, Gregg Gordon, Lil Tuffy, and myself will be showing work at the Treasure Island Music Festival, all day both days. This should be a great time and a beautiful spot on the island with a stunning view of San Francisco. Come say hi!

The music lineup...

Saturday
MGMT, Girl Talk, MSTRKRFT, LTJ Bukem Feat. MC Conrad, Brazilian Girls, DJ Krush, The Streets, Dan Deacon, Passion Pit, Federico Aubele, Murs, Crown City Rockers, The Limoisines

Sunday
The Flaming Lips, Yo La Tengo, The Decemberists, The Walkmen, Beirut, Bob Mould, Grizzly Bear, Vetiver, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Spiral Stairs, Thao with The Get Down Stay Down, Tommy Guerrero, Sleepy Sun

Eclectix gallery opening Friday

"Dementions"
Eclectix Gallery's Fourth Annual Halloween Show!
Exhibit dates: October 16th - Nov.29th
Opening Reception: Friday, October16th, 7 to 10 pm.
With live music by "Eclair De Lune"
Catered by "Fume" Bistro of Napa
The "SweetRoll" truck will be rolling by...

Jam packed with scary, fun, demented, surreal, strangely beautiful and emotive art! The ultimate in Halloween viewing, hung salon style. With works by 50 artists in all mediums: dark gothic portraits, monsters, sexy vampires, voodoo dolls, skeletons, devils, surreal landscapes, Day of the Dead imagery and cute pumpkins.

Demented Artists: Patricia Anders, Christine Benjamin, Jude Berman, Ken Brose, Sean Chapell, Monica Crawford, Kristen Cumings, Jenny Dayton, Sheri DeBow, Jamie Fales, Missy Feigum, Dean Fleming, Jackie Gallagher, Mike Gallegos, Gabrielle Gamboa, Chris Gibbons, Heather Gleason, Nemo Gould, Chris Granillo, Dan Harding, Randall Heath, Dion Hitchings, Scott Hove, John Howard, James Ivey, Brooke Kent, Frances Lerner, Alexis Lopez, Leon Loucheur, Polly Mania, Katie McCann, James McDaniel, Dean McDowell, Derek McKindles, Sonia Melnikova-Raich, Buddy Nestor, Onomar, Annie Owens, Barbara Rockhold, David Rose, Isabel Samaras, Xandria Sarmenta, Clee Sobieski, William Stoneham, Tina Tarnoff, Mark Thompson, Les Toil, Sam Vaughan , Sherwin Viray, Michelle Waters, Anna Zusman

Preview Artwork Here!

Three New Stickers Preview

Three new stickers are here.. the monkey is a 4 inch circle, others are relative to that. The last one will tile in any direction, and is in red/blue 3D. I know, right?

Also a new book/prints about this years euro trip is in the works. No screenshots yet.. All will be available at the Renegade Fair in SF in December. More on that soon.

3D Dream Print

A brand new 3D print! that's become called Dream for short. There are a couple of other titles that give away more about the inspiration, but Dream captures it. On most of these, clik for the big pic.

Dream 3D
18x24″ , 4 color screen print, signed/numbered edition of 100 on French Starch
Available $45.

I Am Therefore I Think show in Portland

I'm showing 8 prints ( Dream, Octipus' Garden, Euro8 3D set, Scorpiowl, Twenty Drawings , el Perro, and Washed Ashore ) and there are about 100 artists, showing 300 works (etching, painting, mixed media, photography, etc) in this group show. Jason always fills the walls with eyepopping goodness, go see.

Opening Sept 24th from 5-11pm, the show is up until Oct 26th.

The goodfoot
2845 SE Stark
Portland

Flatstock Europe 2009

Graham D Pilling photo of last year's team

click here

The exhibition will run parallel to the Reeperbahn Festival,
from 24. to 26.09. and will be open daily from 15.00 to 23.00.
Admission to Flatstock Europe 4 is free.

Squeegeedragger Show

Some of the poster artists attending Flatstock Europe customised a squeegee handle (New/old, in any medium of the artist's choice) for Nick Rhodes Squeegeedragger Show. My contribution is a studio kitty with her red rubber tongue out from grooming.

Galerie auf Halb Acht
Hein-Hoyer-str. 16
Hamburg Germany

23-29th September

The stand there is hinged 2x4's used to hold the squeegee while working on it. They will be hung on the wall for the show. There are more in-progress pics on the link below.

At some point in the making of this the idea came up to to make a squeegee cozy with the same image, but pixelated in needlepoint. Dina embroidered the image and it came out pretty great. In the end we decided a crudely upholstered squeegee was just as funny, and a lot easier to make. Hehe Cheers Dina.

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Doc will I look.. normal?

Rawr !

Careful...

dinner?

Washed Ashore serigraph

Washed Ashore
16x20″ , 5 color screen print, signed/numbered edition of 100 on French Blue
Available $45.

This print is a personal take on the history of Caffe Mediterraneum on Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley.

In addition to being the oldest coffeehouse in the East Bay and the birthplace of the Latte, The Med has a history of being a mecca for burgeoning Beatnicks, Hippies, Punks, Artists, Writers, Political Radicals.. a myriad of people who 'dropped out' of their set life path to become something more interesting. This piece is for these people who Washed Ashore in Berkeley over the last five decades.

]]> I see the faces of the mural inside The Med as a set of gritty 'regulars' frozen in time. I imgine them witnessing Allen Ginsberg writing Howl in the summer of 1955. Later they watched as Lino Meiorin first refused, then capitulated and allowed Mike Nichols to bring his film crew in to film Dustin Hoffman for a scene of The Graduate in 1967.

This piece has the stark light of late afternoon, as these regulars are sitting, sipping and reading. The central figure is based on a woodcut by Lynd Ward from his graphic novel about a young artist called 'God's Man', which inspired Ginsberg in writing Howl. In the background to the left you can see a vintage AC Transit going by as a reference to the scene of the Graduate that was shot there. And the fishes below speak to the personal evolutions that began on these shores.

I was born in Central Kentucky and Washed Ashore here via Greyhound a few years ago...

el perro ciencia serigraph

el Perro
Comissioned by el perro magazine to represent science for a gallery show in Mexico City.
16x20″ , 5 color screen print, signed/numbered edition of 100 on French Blue
Available $45.

note. this print is the same colors as Washed Ashore

Napalm Death in San Francisco Poster

Napalm Death at The Regency Grand Ballroom
with Kataklysm, Coliseum, and Trap Them
April 4 2009
18x24, 5 color screen print, signed/numbered edition of 150
Available $20.

Nick Cernak posted a really nice entry on 'the making of' this poster on the hangar18 blog.

Acid Mothers Temple Tour Poster

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. North American Tour Poster
"Lord of the Underground Tour"
18x24" 3 color screen print
s/n edition of 300
Available $35
click pic to zooom

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Tour dates April
3 (fri) @ Echoplex LOS ANGELES CA (http://www.attheecho.com) w/ Kinski, Sonic Suicide Squad
4 (sat) @ Bottom Of The Hill SAN FRANCISCO CA (http://www.bottomofthehill.com) w/ Kinski, Sonic Suicide Squad
5 (sun) @ Holocene PORTLAND OR (http://www.holocene.org) w/ Kinski, Sonic Suicide Squad
6 (mon) @ Sunset Tavern SEATTLE WA (http://www.sunsettavern.com) w/ Kinski, Sonic Suicide Squad
7 (tue) @ Biltmore Cabaret VANCOUVER BC (http://www.biltmorecabaret.com) w/ Kinski, Sonic Suicide Squad
10 (fri) @ 7th Street Entry MINNEAPOLIS MN (http://www.first-avenue.com) w/ Sonic Suicide Squad
11 (sat) @ Empty Bottle CHICAGO IL (http://www.emptybottle.com) w/ Sonic Suicide Squad
12 (sun) @ Grog Shop CLEVELAND OH (http://www.grogshop.gs) w/ Sonic Suicide Squad
13 (mon) @ Magic Stick DETROIT MI (http://www.majesticdetroit.com/stick.asp) w/ Sonic Suicide Squad
14 (tue) @ El Mocambo TORONTO ON (http://www.elmocambo.ca) w/ Sonic Suicide Squad
15 (wed) @ La Sala Rossa MONTREAL PQ (http://www.casadelpopolo.com/contents/lasalarossa) w/ Sonic Suicide Squad
16 (thu) @ Middle East Upstairs CAMBRIDGE MA (http://www.mideastclub.com) w/ Sonic Suicide Squad
17 (fri) @ Mercury Lounge NEW YORK NY (http://www.mercuryloungenyc.com) w/ Sonic Suicide Squad
18 (sat) @ Johnny Brendas PHILADELPHIA PA (http://www.johnnybrendas.com) w/ Sonic Suicide Squad
19 (sun) @ DC9 WASHINGTON DC (http://www.dcnine.com) w/ Sonic Suicide Squad
20 (mon) @ Ottobar BALTIMORE MD (http://www.theottobar.com) w/ Sonic Suicide Squad
21 (tue) @ Local 506 CHAPEL HILL NC (http://www.local506.com) w/ Sonic Suicide Squad
22 (wed) @ The Earl ATLANTA GA (http://www.badearl.com) w/ Sonic Suicide Squad
23 (thu) @ Hi-Tone Cafe MEMPHIS TN (http://www.hitonememphis.com) w/ Sonic Suicide Squad
24 (fri) @ Hailey's DENTON TX (http://www.haileysclub.com) w/ Sonic Suicide Squad
25 (sat) @ Emos Alternative Lounge AUSTIN TX (http://www.emosaustin.comnet/) w/ Sonic Suicide Squad
27 (mon) @ Plush TUCSON AZ (http://www.plushtucson.com) w/ Sonic Suicide Squad
28 (tue) @ Casbah SAN DIEGO CA (http://www.casbahmusic.com) w/ Sonic Suicide Squad

Sleepy Sun @ Noisepop poster

Sleepy Sun at Noisepop SF poster
with Lumebians, True Widow, Kings & Queens at Bottom of the Hill
16x20" 3 color screen print
s/n edition of 69
Few left.. $25

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on bar postcards.. nice drawing music :)

eur08 3D Artist Book

eur08 3d Artist Book
8 x 10 inchs, 12 plates (12 pages)
four color Screen Printed
anaglyphic 3-d
on black French paper
signed/numbered edition of 100
$40 (3-d glasses included)

This book comes from drawings made while traveling in Europe last summer. First in Denmark with family, which was very peaceful, and later while showing posters at Zstock in Tilburg and Flatstock in Hamburg. It was most fun showing the 3d posters. I like that people really stare into the drawings on the 3d prints ..and say oooh and ahhh! which is great.

When I got back home and began planning out a book of the sketchbook drawings, it made sensto make it a 3d book.

Click below for videos and process pics showing how the 3d is put together and very basic bookbinding.

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At first thought, laying out the book on two 18 x 24 inch sections seemed like it would be about as much work as two 18 x 24 posters, but after I was into it a couple of weeks, it became obvious that it was closer to 10 posters worth of layout work.

Each level of depth in each panel consists of 3 or 4 photoshop layers, the last 2 being the red and blue line drawings that create the 3d effect.

Eventually all those layers get punched out, combined, and deleted until there are only four left, one for each color ink that will hit the paper. I send those files to Steve at D&L Printing who dead-eyes the color, prints them perfectly, and ships me the resulting bubble wrapped brick of fine printed material.

Print order: opaque tan - transparent green - red - blue

Putting the book together.

A couple pieces of are wood nailed together to make a V shaped jig to hold each book in place to awl the holes for the binding chord. The piece of chipboard is marked to indicate about where the 3 holes will be.

bookbinding 101

100 books signed, numbered and slid into archival sleeves (with 3d glasses & extra treats) ready to ship.

eur08 3D Diptych Print Set

eur08 3d diptych
2 print set 18 x 24 inches each
four color Screen Printed
red/blue anaglyphic 3-d on black French paper
signed/numbered edition of 50
$50 (3-d glasses included)

Print set of the eur08 3D Artist Book 18x24 art prints, here framed with simple black ready-made frames (not included)