Archive for the ‘Art Stuffs’ Category
Okay – so I realize it has been FOREVER since my last post! My apologies! I’ve been changing gears and changing focus which means spending many hours on The Wootini Gallery Art Tour! Check this puppy out – I traveled around the USA with both New Zealand and American friends, interviewing artists and snapping photos! Now – I have brought back the artwork with me and am holding an exhibition at Wootini Gallery in Carrboro!
SEPT 3, KIDZ!
My apologies for being so slack in writing the last week. On top of having a quite severe sore throat, I was working incredibly long hours and running on minimal sleep. BUT! Enough about being lame. Today, to get back into the swing of things, I will present you with a lot of music. Ready? Ready.
First up is Yelle with the song ‘Ce Jeu.’
This music video combines fashion, french fries, plastic dinosaurs and electro pop beats. Hello, heaven? Yeah, go ahead and take me now. I’m ready. Swoon.
Next up is Tokyo Police Club with ‘Your English is Good.’ On tour now!
And noooow here is Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros with ‘40 Day Dream.’ I would like to go to their parties. They’re on tour now too!
And here is Bear Hands with ‘What a Drag.’ It took me a few times of listening to this to really enjoy it but now I’m hooked.
The cherry on your music cake – A lovely image from the UK artist Gemma Correll. Check out her etsy!
On a personal note – my eyes hurt from looking at the computer screen all day long. Don’t get me wrong – my job is great. The reason I’ve been looking at a computer all day long is to find new artists to exhibit here. In my efforts, I started thinking a lot about typography. Then I remembered the NOT MY TYPE: An Out of Character Experiment in Birmingham, with a different letter made by each contributing artist. Here’s Jon Burgerman’s J. This led me to Flickr, so I could perv at some typography pools. Flickr is where I came across Lindsay J. Haynes’ work, which is the reason for this post (not that you could have figured that out by the poorly written sentences above – apologies – I am running on empty). Here are some pieces taken off of her website:
How looooverly.
Now stop looking here and go perv on Flickr at some stellar hand drawn type.
XO.
It’s true, I do. Saki also hearts cools stuff and she has an awesome blog reporting all the best tidbits of art shows, vinyl art and everything awesome. I met her while I was in NYC recently and got to be on her vlog! Haha, it was my first vlogging experience, so go easy on me.
Marc Johns’ simple messages convey an awesome wit that I really appreciate. His work reminds me a bit of NZ artist thisisrabbit. Marc has a show at GR2 in LA at the moment called Butter and Blood, where his work will be showcased alongside Steven Weissman’s. If you live in LA, which I don’t, go check it out and make me jealous. The show is up until June 2.
Apologies for the delayed post. Things have been quite busy lately for me. Who knew applying for grad school and trying to start a band would be so time consuming?!
I went to NYC to see Hot Chip with one of my very good friends, Miss Wolf. You can see pics of our trip here and here. We ate and drank our way around Manhattan. A sesame bagel with veggie tofu cream cheese and a giant iced coffee is the breakfast of champions. We made a trip to Jonathan Levine Gallery, as per my employer’s suggestion. I especially enjoyed the Date Farmers‘ exhibition, Smother Your Mother.
I met up with SakiWaki, the driving force of IHeartCoolStuff.com and we spent some quality time together waiting in line to get sketches from Alex Pardee and Dave Correia who are touring around the USA on the Sketch4Sketch tour. It’s simple – if you sketch them something, they’ll give you a couple of sketches in return. My sketch was a poor looking representation of a shirt I designed for Makeshift but they humored me, saying it was quite lovely and then they drew a couple of crazy looking narwhals in return.
Next Post (tomorrow I promise): Boston and Local Natives. Yum Yum.
I am constantly inspired and impressed by what my friends do. They are all ridiculously talented people. Recently, my friends Davy, Eddie (EDMO!) and Jake Hope have been working on art pieces for an exhibition in Auckland, NZ at Roasted Addiqtion Cafe (Kingsland). As part of the exhibition, Davy has taken my old laptop (I’m glad to be a silent contributor, ha), built it into a table and set it up so that the user can play all sorts of games from different gaming consoles! It’s brilliant! Jake and EDMO! have then added their artistic skills to the table as you can see below.
Translation: “There is no avarice without penalty.” (by EDMO!)
Translation: “Have a nice day.” (by Jake Hope)
The exhibition begins officially on April 19th but the table will be at the cafe on the evening of Wednesday April 14th.
The other day, on a mission to find my mom the perfect birthday gift, I went into one of my favorite shops in Carrboro, Nested. While there, I recognized some art by 64 colors on an awesome shopping bag.
The company that makes them is Blue Q and they have a wide and varied range of products. Some I really dig and others… not so much. I picked up a tote bag and a water bottle. The water bottle is BPA free and is stainless steel and decorated with lead-free inks! Huzzah, what a find! It’s also pretty awesome that their bags are made from 95% recycled woven polypropylene aaaand that 1% of the sale of their bags and water bottles go to support the work of The Nature Conservancy.
I ended up buying my mom a lovely dish towel, which was hand-woven in India and screenprinted with water-based, non-toxic inks. Lovin’ it. Good job, Blue Q.
NOW FOR SOME AMAZING MUSIC. If you can go to a live show of King Khan and the Shrines, do it.
First we had this from Letter Pressed:
And these for goodies bags at Rotofugi:
So now we have this:
Toasted by Rotofugi and Squibbles Ink in Chicago… no two are alike! Gotta love 64 colors.
Misery is an artist from NZ. I just noticed that she has some stickers in at Rivet Gallery in Ohio! nice one.
This photo was taken from thisisrabbit’s flickr account. By the way, you should check out thisisrabbit. He’s just put out a book of his work.
The XX are on tour. This band makes me feel sexcellent. FACT.
Have you gotten your tickets yet? Hurry up because they are sold out in a lot of places!
I am lucky enough to be friends with the talented and kind Podgypanda of New Zealand and he’s been sweet enough to sneak us a little peek at a sculpt of one of his Geeks of Nature – a concept featured at his solo show at Nation Toys + Tees in Calgary, Canada in July of this year.
This lil’ lady is Betty Yeti, a kind and mischevious Yeti, who likes hangin’ with her best buddies Snowpal and her cute neighbor, Bigfoot Bryan. I’m loving her hair and glasses! Be ready to check out all six of the Geeks of Nature in 2D and 3D form at his solo show. And if you’re in NZ, come see Podgypanda at the Armageddon Expo in Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington!