ART OF ZINES 2010
featuring hundreds of zines from basements, bedrooms and midnight copy shops throughout the US and abroad.
We love zines… those little diy, cut-and-paste, copied-on-the-cheap, hand-folded, self-distributed gems that continue to surface because someone, somewhere feels the need to express themselves. It's that simple. Zines exist and fleurish outside the mainstream with no particular interest whether you're paying attention or not. According to Chip Rowe, creator of Chip's Closet Cleaner, "They're Tinkertoys for malcontents. They're obsessed with obsession. They're extraordinary and ordinary. They're about strangeness but since it's usually happening somewhere else you're kind of relieved."
Opening Reception: First Friday, February 5, 2010 from 8 p.m. 'til late
Featured Zine sellers: Marc Arsenault, John Bobst, Silvia Chenault, Michael Foley, Ben Henderson, Chris Kardambikis, M Undead, Yumiko Miyagawa, Tomas Moniz, Kyle Pellet, Mahoney Perkins, Louis Schmidt, Matthew Seigel, Kate Steward & Meagan Zupancic
Music & Performance: Adam Lynn, Zoe Boekbinder (Vermillion LIes), Corpus Callosum
Adam Lynn's "scrapbook-y collection of mostly melancholy stripped down tunes recalls a wide variety of influences from the raw end of Mogwai's catalogue, to the acoustic balladry of Nick Drake, to the sparse and almost-robotic piano embellishment of Pinback." http://www.myspace.com/theextras
Zoe Boekbinder is one half of the popular duo Vermillion Lies which she formed with her sister Kim Boekbinder. Her voice is evocative of jazz vocals music circa 1930’s and 40’s; in keeping her style she sometimes performs with a full cabers act. http://www.myspace.com/zoeboekbinder
Corpus Callosum is part puppet show, part performance art ensemble and part experimental-folk-orchestra. At a Corpus Callosum show you will see stilt walkers, instrumental oddities; you will hear lovely music and you may even be called upon to sing along. http://www.myspace.com/corpuscallosumband
Exhibit on view through March 13, 2010
LOCATION & HOURS
Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design
366 So. First Street map
San Jose, CA 95113
408.271.5155
www.galleryAD.com
Remember BLOODWORK:SLEEVES exhibition at Anno Domini? It just opened in Japan today kicking off its tour. First stop OSAKA on February 5th at Three Tides Gallery, then off to TOKYO for a booksigning at Tokyo Tower on February 13th and exhibition at The Last Gallery opening on February 14th. Watch for coverage on Analog Weather Report and some great behind the scenes posts on photographer, Max Dolberg's blog.
Here's a timelapse below from the Osaka setup posted on youtube.
RVCA / VASF is delighted to present 'Hand Over Fist', a collection of new and recent work by 8 excellent emerging contemporary artists from around the west coast. Curated by Gabe Scott.
An opening reception will be held @ 6pm on February 4th with some of the artists in attendance. The exhibition will run from Thursday, February 4th - March 26th.
Featured artists in this exhibition are: Jason Jagel (San Francisco, CA), Ryan Bubnis (Portland, OR), Katy Horan (Austin, TX), Derek Albeck (Los Angeles, CA), Paul Urich (San Francisco, CA), Jessie Rose Vala (Portland, OR / Brooklyn, NY), Tahiti Pehrson (Nevada City, CA) and Marco Zamora (Los Angeles, CA).
RVCA / VASF
1485 Haight St. at the corner of Ashbury
open 7 days a week, 11am-7pm.
Posted by Cherri Lakey at 9:43 PM January 21, 2010
In the late 1990s, a hybrid form of graffiti began appearing in cities
around the world. Enlisting stickers, stencils, posters, and sculpture
and spread by the burgeoning Internet, it would be labeled "street art"
and establish itself as the most significant counterculture movement of
a generation. Los Angeles-based filmmaker Terry Guetta set out to
record this secretive world in all its thrilling detail. For more than
eight years, he traveled with the pack, roaming the streets of America
and Europe, the stealthy witness of the world's most infamous vandals.
But after meeting the British stencil artist known only as "Banksy,"
things took a bizarre turn.
The San Jose Comics Fest is sponsored by SLG Publishing, America's Coolest Comic Book Publisher.
A quarterly mini-convention, Comics Fest celebrates independent comics, DIY culture and everything cool and good in life.
Produced by the founders of the Alternative Press Expo (APE) Comics Fest hopes to bring the worlds of independent and alternative comics to a general audience.
The first show of the year showcases mostly local talent and mainly SLG creators including: Jamaica Dyer (Weird Fishes), Tom Hodges (Clone Wars web comic), Mel Smith (Gumby) and Vernon White (Birdhouse).
Eric Searlman (VIZ Comics) and Dan Vado (SLG Publishing) will be on hand to review portfolios.
Saturday January 16th, 12pm - 5pm
Admission is FREE
SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery
577 S. Market Street
San Jose, CA 95113
408-971-8929
www.sjcomicsfest.com
Elad (http://hesaidnonono.blogspot.com/) & Shonna drove all night up from Los Angeles just to come and check out Fresh Produce for the day. Elad visits Israel about once a year and loves the street art there so was excited to see Know Hope, Zero Cents, Foma <3 and Klone representin' Tel Aviv urban art.
A pocket sized digital graffiti blackbook designed for recording more than just ink.
DustTag is an iPhone application designed for graffiti writers that visualizes the motion involved in the creation of a tag. Motion data is recorded, analyzed and archived in a free and open database, 000000book.com, where writers can share 3-D animated representations of their hand styles. All tags created in DustTag are saved as Graffiti Markup Language (GML) files, a new digital standard used by other popular graffiti applications such as Laser Tag and EyeWriter. DustTag is fully compatible with the Graffiti Analysis 2.0 software suite, which is available online for free at graffitianalysis.com and can be used to playback DustTag creations from the iPhone on your OSX, Windows or Linux desktop systems.
We at Anno Domini are resurrecting our ART of ZINES exhibition (a former annual event) and we are still in need of great zines. We believe zines are one of the last frontiers for freedom of speech and self expression and we need it now more than ever.
We are especially interested in art, music, poetry, photography and other creative disciplines but are open to all zines in any format and content. Current and past issues are accepted, one copy of each is adequate. (If you choose, you may send zine multiples and/or promo cards and we'll put it out on the counter for the taking.)
Our audience is very diverse at our openings, we typically expect 800+ people to come through and the exhibit will run for approximately 6 weeks.
The opening is on First Friday February 5th, 8pm 'til late. We'll have live bands and zine makers in the area are invited to be present to sell their zines (please let us know if you'd like to sell at the opening, there are no vendor fees nor commission on sales, but all spaces must be reserved.)
This short film explores the creative process of London based artist WordToMother and the lead up to his third solo show 'Lost For Words' at Stolen Space Gallery.
Audio + Visuals Produced by Andrew Telling
Grade + Colour by Simon Payne
Thanks to all kind folks at Stolen Space Gallery. More info on Word To Mother
