Robert Rauschenberg Screen Printin. Somewhere I have a cool book of photos Rauschenberg took while in boston. . .
Monthly Archive for January, 2010
“People from Boston to Ireland are complaining that “iPad,” in their regional brogue, sounds almost indistinguishable from “iPod,” Apple’s music player. ” Thank You.
Trying to tell a friend about the new Apple product was almost as confusing as the time I walked into that bookshop on Bedford to see if they had copies of this new book about deer. They told me repeatedly that there were no new titles about the arts foundation in Beacon, New York. Oops. I still contend that I don’t have an accent, I only talk funny. People in Boston think I’m European.
And while I’m at it, The Edge of Darkness is going to be torture to watch. (The Times also gets credit for this gem of a review line : “ ‘Edge of Darkness’ is rated R — though that letter is rarely pronounced in this super-violent, obscenity-laden motion pickchah.”) And add Julianne Moore to the list of actors who should talk just normal when portraying Bostonians.
The Temple University Continuing Ed catalogue showed up in the mail the other day. I was very excited.
More after the break.
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Our good friend Meribah Knight has a short piece in The New Yorker this week.
Way to go Meribah! So cool!
Okay, I promise this is the last time I mention Steve Powers’ A Love Letter For You, but Free News Projects has just released the in-print companion to this amazing endeavor. A beautiful book for a beautiful project. Go order a copy.
A few spreads after the break.
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Doug Cunningham and Jason Notom of Morning Breath doing good design for big names, I really dig their work and I bet you will too, some more samples after the break.
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Black Xerox on light blue paper with transparent process cyan over the top, man am I excited about this look.
. . . when I wish the rest of the state (and country) was more like our hometown.
via Boston.com
I did another small illustration for Philadelphia Weekly, this one focusing on the latest incarnation of a year-centric series of parties that these kids have been throwing. All the music they play was released in a specific year of our youth. I went to the 1994 one and it was amazing. I don’t think 2001 can measure up.
Isaac Tin Wei Lin’s solo exhibition, A Place Near Here, opens this Thursday, January 21st, at Fleisher/Ollman here in Philadelphia. I can’t wait.
So I just saw the most recent episode of 30 Rock and lo-and-behold, there was Jack Perry! Jack and I worked together for 3 years at this bar/restaurant out in Brooklyn, and he still stands as one of my favorite bartenders of all time. BUT, now he is on TV, and that is decidedly better. It is so much nicer to see an old friend on the television when it isn’t their mug shot. Way to fuckin’ go Jack! So Cool!
British ‘zine Raspberry is pretty much the best publication I have seen in a long, long time. Focusing on idiosyncratic on-the-street painting, from civilian graffiti to weird murals to bizarre signage, this book is beautifully on-point. Issue #3 is full color, in an edition of 50, with photographs from Dan Murphy, Stefan Fitzgerald, The ERS, Jack Bechtler and myself. I think you can grab a copy from Chapter One in London, other than that, good luck, it’s worth the hunt.
EDIT: It looks like aNYthing has copies. 51 Hester Street.
More images after the break.
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James Kirkpatrick came through Philadelphia last week for a show here at 1026. In addition to his amazing paintings, James brought some really good looking ‘zines. He left me with A Dog Named Dracula, published by Anteism, and Snake Mountain.
More images after the break.
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I did some illustrations this week for an article in Philadelphia Weekly on Pennsylvania’s crazy liquor laws.
Some spot illustrations from inside after the break.
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