Ahoy Matey! Welcome to the 39th edition of Screenprints & Gigposters of the week brought to you by HALFTONE DEF STUDIOS. This weeks featured Screenprinters can shiver your timbers and blow ye down with some rad three color pirate inspired posters. I really really love these posters, and the color combo kills. No list this time, just check them out at the link below and buy one already, well arrrgggghhh ya? Support Your Local Screenprinter! ps. their logo play off of the East India Trading Company is Rad.
If the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION has its way, a giant fine art version of SHEPARD FAIREY’s iconic portrait of the now-president elect BARACK OBAMA will enter the collection of its NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY as the first official fine art rendering of the future president. The only hitch? Money. The $75,000 price tag for the piece, which was created by Fairey as the centerpiece of his “Manifest Hope” Obama art show that took place in Denver during this year’s DNC, must be raised through donations, though word on the street is that the museum is close to meeting this figure. As if having a street artist with a criminal record branding a presidential campaign weren’t enough, this move can definitely be filed under the headers of “Hope,” and “Progress.”
That’s right folks, Bomb It The Movie is coming back to Jacksonville for round three at Raglands in 5 points on Friday Night. Director Jon Reiss will be in attendance and speaking at the event. It is open to the public and $5 at the door. Come see it once more in a cool little venue and drink some beer. Also, the hamburgers there are awesome. See you at the Show. Props to Varick and Ron at AIGA as well for making it happen once more.
It’s that time again. I’M BOARD III, the annual Skateboard Art Show is coming up soon and we are really excited. This will be the third time Chad has put together and hosted the show. I will be posting more and more on this as he finalizes the details and we get closer to the event and we get off our asses and make a show poster and flyer. For now here are the submission guidelines.
I’M BOARD III – Skateboard Art Show: Wednesday, January 7th 2009 6-9 pm, 122 Bay Street – Basement of the old library.
Submission Guidelines: Anyone and everyone is encouraged to participate. All art must be on a skateboard deck. Any medium can be used but take into consideration that these will be hung so please do not make them to bulky or heavy for display. An artist may submit more then one piece. Include your name, number, email address and price on the back of your work.Deadline for submissions is Saturday, January 3rd.
Drop off locations: BURRO Bags: 1520 N. Main St. Jacksonville, FL 32206 (Near Downtown) Daily 12-6pm nGen Works: 1807 Hendricks Ave Jacksonville, FL 32207 Mon-Fri 9-5:30 pm Square One Skateshop: 1019 S. 3rd St. Jacksonville Beach, Fl 32250
Thanks to GREASE over at Halftone Def Studios, we have a brand new segment on UAW called HOW TO NOT 2. This Segment gives tips and advice on various step-by-step process in hopes that you don’t have to do it twice to get it right. Or at least very very close. In lesser words, We done did it and here’s what went right and wrong. So enjoy this very first one about how to make a one-off skateboard from an online manufacturer.
Step 1 - Find a link on notcot.org to Zazzle.com/skateboards - a place that prints one-off skate decks…among other random shit Step 2 - Ponder why someone would ever name their company after - what sounds like -the 5th member of Gem & the Holograms. Step 3 - Check out site & dig for 15 minutes to find a downloadable design template for custom skateboards Step 4 - Write Mr. Zazzle to try and get free board hook-up in exchange for write-up on custom skateboard printing. Wait 5 days. Cuss Zazzle & their non responsive asses. Say fuck-it, and continue. Step 5 - Check out design spec requirements for resolution, file type, ect. Cuss Zazzle again… this time, for not having skateboard specific art specs. Conclude mo’ resolution, mo’ bettah & continue.
Step 6 - Search for a project deserving enough to grace the bottom of skate deck (Thanks Reid). Step 7 - Drink beer. Sketch. Design. Execute. Repeat until desired effect achieved. Step 8 - Sign up for Zazzle account Try & upload image 1,2,3 times (ah ah ah) with no success. Condemn Zazzle’s site as complete ass ca-ca….realize Browser preff.s have to be changed in order to sign-on to account & upload images. Feel stupid, and continue. Step 9 - Finish uploading image to skateboard customizer & proceed to check out. Cuss Zazzle for outrageous 2 day shipping charge…reluctantly pay & swear that someone will die if board turns out like shit. Step 10 - Wait five days for production & delivery. Drop jaw over impressive production qualty of final product. Step 11 - Realize it was worth the experience & repeat.
Productions = $60.00 | 2 day after production Shipping = $25.00 | Overall = $85
Jeremy Fish is back again and has just released the 3rd set of deck collaborations with Mike Giant, Will Barras, and Andy Howell. These screenprinted decks are made of 100% hardrock canadian maple. Limited to 300 per graphic. The concept is to take two artists with completely different styles and have them converge to make a really unique board graphic. I personally liked the first series better but these are still dope. Any kind of collaboration with Mike Giant and Andy Howell is fire. The Decks are $80.00 each.
Just in time for the elections, Our homie DOLLA sent in some photos from a session in O-Town and here is what he had to say about it - “Hey Guys, thought you would appreciate these photos. Shepard sent a grip of posters to Tommy at covert. I put em up around Orlando last night along with my own Obama posters. I put some up downtown as well, but it looks like they were pressure washed or pulled down while they were still wet. There wasnt a trace of poster left. The City Beautiful don’t waste time with the buff. These are the survivors!…DOLL4′” Theres always good stuff in the inbox from the Dolla Lama.
I guess if there was an opposition to the phrase “Bombin 4 Peace” Shepherd has found it, “Pasting 4 Politicians”. Who knew that some much vandalism could do so much good? Shepherd has been postin up Obama images like rabbits havin… Well you know. But Once again, Shep/Obey has found more than one way to beat the system. Post up Obey Images, Political figures look down on it. Post up Political figures with obey icons shuffled in, well thats ok they say. With the exception of the Denver arrest but I dont think that had much to do with the content as much as the task. But we gotta give it up to ya for your single handed efforts in creating outsider imagery that is almost as Iconic as Andre himself. Me Personally, I wanna see Obama in Andres wrestling outfit on the next poster. But I digress, Never before have I ever seen so many people come together under one Idea and collaborate more than right now. Artist and musicians alike. The Video is hot not only for the giant stencil and pasting but the soundtrack kills as well. Get er Done Obey Crew, Us down here in the dirty south are behind you. And to all you haters out there that still think that Obey was fluke, The Obama poster proves that wrong. Because it’s not the logo or name that defines it or makes it great, It’s the action, hard work, and diligence that precedes it.
Welcome to the 38th edition of Screenprints & Gigposters of the week brought to you by HALFTONE DEF STUDIOS. This weeks posters are from Sara Turner of Cricket Press! Nothing like some good ol’fashioned illo. skills to make a poster wicked-rad-ass. Sara turner has got the chops & shows them off in these fine examples. In addition, she also helps run Cricket Press - a modest, but talented screen printing shop out of Lexington, Kentucky. There’s def. something to be said for keeping an operation small… more control over the entire process is yielding this little cricket a bountiful crop of prints! Here is a list of links that correspond to the posters above from left to right, top to bottom! Support Your Local Screenprinter!
Ahoy Matey’s!!! Welcome to the sixth edition of Urban Art Warfare’s sporadic editorial of Album Art Interviews and Reviews with the unsung heroes of the music industry, the Album artist. We here at UAW are huge fans of album art just as much as the music and have always wondered what crazy stories and symbolisms lay within them, and what kind of behind the scene production it takes to make them. This edition features Michael Byzewski of Minneapolis’s own Aesthetic Apparatus. After a long long wait and a bunch of poking with a stick via the internet, we bring you 11 mind blowing questions about the making of CAKE’S scratch and sniff album packaging. But be warned, you might find some of these questions completely ridiculous and un-called for but hey, we try to keep you on your toes these days. Thanks to AA and Micheal for taking the time.
GIGPOSTERS.COM COLORING BOOK: #1 40 pages of deranged childish fun from today's top underground artists! 8.5 x 11 printed on old-school coloring book paper, $10 each. get em while their hot.
SARAH BUTSCH GETS PHOTO OF THE DAY Our good friend and photog Sarah "The Butsher" got featured today on fecal face's photo of the day for November 5th. Photo of Stella the Dog.
PODCAST INTERVIEW WITH SHEPHERD A 45 minute interview with the artist Shepard Fairey (including podcast), Covering subjects such as fine art, being a dad, political views...pretty much everything.
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