Thursday, December 3, 2009

Zurcher Zine Sezession





Zürcher Zine Sezession
One-Day Publishing Fair
Sunday, December 13th, 2009, 12 am – 12 pm

Nieves and Rollo Press are proud to announce that over 50 independent publishers from around the world will be participating in the 2nd Zürich Zine Sezession.

One of the Zines that will be there among others is called Chinese Wax Job #2. Some of my art will be mixed with various artists inside of the issue.


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This weekend the Ssion is making a video for Peaches and Yo Majesty here in wonderful Kansas City.

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After the shoot is finished I will be taking a train to California for work and will be there for about a month.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

. . . Thanksgiving . . .

review of Heartland Exhibit at Smart Museum on Artforum

name checked on Dear Ada, a blog which "focuses on the exploration and celebration of contemporary art, craft and design"

Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk kicks off for a huge West Coast tour this Friday.

On Wednesday I leave for my hometown with the plans of having another well practiced and deliciously awkward Thanksgiving meal. The concept of Family is such a mind bender if you think about it. So much emotion and faith. It's as if every family dinner table is a Shakespeare play of motives without the superb dialogue.

Then again that's only one way to look at your family. Let's get positive. Up close, relatives or friends can be painstakingly predictable yet all the while still be so lovable that any of the warped positions that they live by (yourself included) falls to the wayside in importance. Here's to another Thanksgiving.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

How could you?

Fortuning recorded seven songs in the studio this week. The blams will be mastered next month and I'm excited to release them to the world. Our music buddies and fellow label mates Viking Fuck will be performing at the Social Pistol Club in KC tonight.

Last night was epic in Kansas City for Megan Mantea's Mythmaker art show opened like a storm at the Paragraph gallery.

Some of my drawings and paintings will be published in an art zine out of Hawaii called Chinese Wax Job.

"Chinese Wax Job is a art collective zine presented in black and white paper based in Haleiwa Hawaii USA."
Looks like in the last issue they had such heavy hitters as Ben Jones of Paper Rad and Travis Millard featured.

I'll be in issue #2 with the following artists:

Patrick Griffin
Julia Chiang
Marcus Oakley
Jeff Canham
Jaakko Pallasvuo
Jay Guillmero
Stine Belden Roed
Ryan Tatar
Ty Williams
Dominick Volini
Tofer Chin
Daniel Piwowarczyk
Steve Green
Ed Fladung
Scott Massey
Paul Gallegos
Pat Conlon
Manny Pangilinan
Brock Potucek
Betsy Walton

The zines are 48 pages black and white and will be available online December 1st and at Teeluxe in Australia and Neives in Switzerland.

Friday, November 13, 2009

halloween czar bar




















Thursday, November 12, 2009

Another day

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ZINES - NEW YORK CITY
If you live in New York City, you can pick up one of my fantastic Medium Rare zines, along two other artists from the same catalog, at a delightful boutique space in the Lower East side called Maryam Nassir Zadeh It's a real honor to have some of my art shown there. props to Milano!


GROUP SHOW - LAWRENCE, KS
I'm in a group show called I Think We Are Making Progress in Lawrence, KS at Wonder Fair Art Gallery and How! Here is a podcast from Lawrence.com's A.D.D. featuring the curators of the show talking about this and that. The opening is this Saturday 6-9 803 Mass. St., Lawrence, KS. Fortuning is gonna make an appearance too. See you there!

GROUP SHOW - KANSAS CITY, MO

Mythmakers, opening Friday, November 20, 6-9pm at Paragraph, 23 East 12th, embodies the youthful, make-your-own-fun, do-it-yourself-and-together spirit of the Kansas City art scene. Organized by artist/curator Megan Mantia, the densely packed exhibition will showcase a cross-section of emerging artists who place themselves at the center of their work, constructing mythic personas and fantasy narratives that fuse autobiographical aspects with illusions of grandeur, typically with a sizeable dose of humor thrown in as well. See you there!

GROUP SHOW - KANSAS CITY, MO
Grand Arts, a non for profit super arts bees knees Margaret Hall Silva Foundation in Kansas City is having an opening this Saturday with guest curator Emily Roysdon spearheading it. Artist Al Steiner, prof at UCLA/SVA and of Chicks on Speed is collaborating with me for the show. Also, one of the most influential artists upon my life, Adrian Piper is showing too, and I can't tell you how exciting I am about this. See you there!

Here's a copy and paste from the website. . .

the opening is this Friday, November 13th, 6-9pm

A live performance by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy at 7pm.

Saturday, November 14th
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Events & Symposia at Grand Arts
Performances by Ian White, Dean Spade & Craig Willse followed by a round table discussion with Emily and the artists.

8pm
La Esquina
Join My Barbarian and local participants at La Esquina, 1000 West 25th St. KCMO, for the performance of Broke People’s Baroque Peoples’ Theater, Co-presented with Charlotte Street Foundation’s Urban Culture Project.

ANOTHER GROUP SHOW- KANSAS CITY, MO
K. The Charlotte Street Awards are being presented at H and R block space this Friday for Jaimie Warren and Whoop Dee Doo show be performing. Plus. I'm on their website now. CHECK IT See you there!

SSION- EUROPE

The Ssion is touring Europe with the Gossip right NOW! Check www.ssion.com for more info.

SSION - FUN FUN FUN FEST

We just came back from Austin for the Festival. We had the good fortune to see Harlem, Sugar and Gold, Miko Mako, Atlas Sound, Jesus Lizard, and Fucked Up. there was a billion bands and the vip section was awesome. Free red bull baby. Check pitchfork, spin mag, for pics and info of the festival and Ssion.

FORTUNING - SHOWS

K. We are playing at Wonder Fair this Saturday, the Tap room on Monday, and at Peggy Noland's fantastic store in KC on 18th and Baltimore next Tuesday with Vice Cooler.

GROUP SHOWS - CHICAGO

The Heartland exhibit at the Smart Museum is still going strong and so is the Medium Rare show at Golden Age in Pilsen.

PICS TO COME PAY TO CUM

Monday, November 2, 2009

Chicago Smart Museum Recap and Halloween


















Sunday, November 1, 2009

dibby dibby doo