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Ramp Gallery

Ramp Gallery has one of the best show print collections around. They specialize in the Pacific Northwest which makes it a perfect resource for a couple of my all-time favorite area bands Hazel and Heatmiser. 

Daily Receipts

Daily-Receipts is a new digital project from Joseph Lupo. Follow along as he explores consumer identity.

Yuck Book

Fat Possum will be releasing a book of Yuck's Daniel Blumberg's drawings in a limited run of 1000 copies.

http://yuckband.blogspot.com/ 

 

 

In Scale Review

Thanks to Libby and The Artblog for supporting the In Scale show. You can read her review here.

 

To Scale: Joseph Lupo showing at Philadelphia's The Print Center

Art lovers in and around Philadelphia will get a chance to check out a fantastic show at The Print Center. The show opens on September 8th and will include several prints from Joseph Lupo's receipt series.

Exhibiting artists include: Jenn Figg, Talia Greene, Kay Healy, Gary Kachadourian, 
Nichola Kinch, Joseph Lupo, Taylor McKimens, Roy McMakin, Caitlin Perkins 
and Shelley Spector

If you get a chance, please get out to this show and support the gallery and these talented artsists.

To Scale
September 8 – November 19, 2011
Thursday, September 8
Gallery Talk by the Artists: 5:30pm
Opening Reception: 5:30-7:30pm

To Scale is a group exhibition of contemporary printed works created in a one-to-one ratio with reality. Not a traditional exhibition of neatly framed images, the galleries will be filled with works ranging from exuberant, large installations to very tiny works wheatpasted directly onto the walls. 
 

The Print Center
1614 Latimer Street 
Philadelphia, PA 19103

215 735.6090 
215 735.5511 fax 
info@printcenter.org

 

Kickstarter and the PARALLAX SOUNDS documentary

I've been interested in Kickstarter for quite a while but haven't had much time to explore. This morning I spent some time looking through some of the inspiring Chicago-based projects. This project seems to be a perfect blend of doc, music & architecture.. I think it's a great way for indiePulse to begin pledging and supporting projects. Hopefully I can do more of this in the future. If you haven't had a chance to check out Kickstarter, I encourage you to set aside some time and check out all of the cool projects happening in your city.

 

One of my favorite album covers

A while back I was going through my music collection and came across this favorite. Hazel was a Portland-based band, signed to Sub Pop during the early to mid-nineties.. The record's called "Are You Going To Eat That" and it featured some great vocals from Pete Krebs and Jody Bleyle. The band was awesome live. Not only did I love listening to this record during my final year as an undergrad - I spent a bunch of time looking at the album cover. It's a piece that Pete painted and I think its brilliant.The colors are nice, the logo is cool and the layout is clean. If you don't have this record in your collection, you should check it out. Anyone still have the teal "Dogfood" t-shirt?

G1988 print from Todd Slater

Todd Slater recently released a new print for Gallery 1988's annual Crazy For Cult Show. This print reminds me of when I was six and had a head-on collision with a guy on a 10-speed. My little bike was built like a tank and I turned a blind corner and took him head on. After he got up he looked down at me with a stunned gaze and walked away in a style similar to this. I think his front wheel was a little worse than this one though..

Here's what Todd had to say in his email:

I was asked to participate in Gallery 1988's yearly Crazy for Cult Show.  Artists from all over are commissioned to illustrate their favorite scene from a number of films.  The small text on the bottom of my print reads: "Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone".  In addition to the regular run there is a beautiful metallic copper variant signed and numbered to 20 copies.

The gallery's copies sold out the night of the show and I have limited copies.

New Jay Ryan prints

Jay Ryan released some new prints this week. Included in this batch are f'n engines, how do they work?, flatstock 25 - san francisco, flatstock 26 - chicago and pitchfork music festival 2010.

New prints from Jay Ryan

Jay Ryan recently announced the release of several new posters including the 18x24 print shown above for the chicago underground film festival. The other new posters are for a group in tokyo who's working to outlaw the practice of shark finning, The Melvins, Nonagaon, the Thins and Joe McPhee and the PRF BBQ Rockfest. For more info check out www.thebirdmachine.com