The second installment of “Artificial Dissemination: Propaganda to Popaganda” is an exhibition devoted to Propaganda Posters. Last year Masthead Print Studio hosted the first Artificial Dissemination: Dissent on Paper. If in an alternate universe a band of scruffy, beer-swilling artists were the resistance, fighting the tyrant regime of Kindle, Septa, and Homophobes, Artificial Dissemination would have been a fair cross-section of the posters wheat-pasted all over their city.Now the crew is at it again with their new space on South Street. This is the perfect venue for such a show. South Street was once the hub of culture in this city, with awesome record stores, skate shops, and all other kinds of weirdness. These days, it’s been almost entirely overrun by crappy corporate stores, meathead barhoppers, and pawn shops. Phantom Hand is working to take back South Street one show at a time. Artificial Dissemination’s social commentary in poster-form will range from political/social issues to jabs at celebrity and pop culture.
Soxx is back with “Pedal Pumping“, another video on Youtube this time in response to this video of a man filming a woman’s foot revving her car. There is more woman revving footage than you might expect on Youtube. Or maybe you would expect it? Anyway of course Soxx knows about it and was moved to respond.
New limited edition print is in Tomer Hanuka‘s store which is very sexy news for all you print-appreciating roof-smoochers out there. Always keep your eyes peeled for more on Tomer and Asaf’s blog.
Farel has been up to a lot of full color comics making between his The Wrenchies book in progress and a new weekly story here on the new Study Group Comic Books website. The comics each are scheduled to update weekly on this new online comics venture organized by Zack Soto who is also behind the comics anthology magazine of a similar name, Study Group 12 Magazine.
I found my new favorite photo website, Internet K-Hole. It’s like the blog author got everyone’s uncle’s personal photo album from 1977-1992 and posted their party pics and family fun shots. They all take me to somewhere familiar.
So I’m facing my fear, which is posting this box. I certainly enjoy digging through massive offerings to Meathaus, but then I am crippled with the dread of trying to somehow represent them in a few snapshots or scans that will fit on the blog. I first faced this box when I opened it cautiously at the front door. No white powder or explosive force met my face so I rummaged in. I was attacked by a VHS copy of Unbreakable and some Bazooka Joe wrappers. After I cleared away the garbage, I had in front of me quite a variety pack of visual material to investigate from three kind gentlemen (EDIT: gentlewoman? sorry.), Kendell Harbin, Frederick VB, and Randy Mozier, and a letter that reads:
“Deeeaaaaar Meathaus,
After a splendid breakfast of cornflakes + hashbrowns Frederick and I put together this package for you, and I must say it has been long overdue. I have been following your site for quite some time now + just recently purchased GO FOR THE GOLD! 4 + S.O.S. Your stuff had been an integral part of my not-so-well balanced breakfast, so consider this package a thanks of sorts… I’m actually very curious about what your incoming library must look like at this point. This is a compilation of pictures and zines from a few of my confidants Frederick VB + Randy Mozier, myself included. I hope you enjoy!
P.S. Our collection somehow duplicated a few films. Please consider a copy of this mediocre film to be a holiday bonus!
Best – Kendell“
Kendell, thanks indeed for putting this box together. It’s always a pleasure to have a good breakfast. I was joking about the VHS garbage above, it just seemed snappier. But forget the VHS. Let’s look at this package. Frederick has sent some photos of some spray paintings up on boxcars and a hand assembled zine with silver metallic paint stenciled in and tissue paper glued in with some paintings and collaged shots of art and drawings. Randy produces Beef Stik and included issue 2 with a cover by him and Kendell, edited by Patrick Drake. Also included were some drawings and a print and a big binder clipped zine called Lose Ends of color pages of collages, paintings, drawings and photos of a lot of different things as the title suggests which I am pretty sure is by Kendell because there is a scan of a postcard addressed to him inside that Climbing Magazine sends to people who try the one issue free in the hopes that they will subscribe. So thanks for the box which I am adding to that Meathaus incoming library that you mention… I’ve been trying to think of ways new to share that in a new form too, online or off. But I can photograph the piles.
Strange, I swear that JD Deardourff tipped us off about these prints he made somehow using comics pages as the raw source material for the final compositions, but I can’t find the email where he may have offered further information. Well I guess it is not that strange to lose an email. I especially like this piece. Above top is one of his pieces and beneath is the a test print sheet that is really something pretty to look at. See more on his website and then more of his work is on his blog.
I was trying to embed Rob Donnelly‘s latest animated bit for Slate which shows off the most refined version of his animation/illustration process to date which I think somehow involves clay three-dimensional head shapes, but the ding-dong player didn’t give me custom width options so it was going to break our layout here. Anyway, that’s fine, Slate, I’d rather just link to all of the other neat work Rob has been cranking out since he’s moved north to be a woodsman.
As promised here is my latest daily drawing load to clog up these internet channels here as well. If you want to see them get drawn/colored in time-lapse motion checkitout.
