Great Show at Common House this past Friday

Yup, we had another fun and successful art opening at Common House this past Friday. This was our first sort of "interactive" art show. We hung cameras from the ceiling and encouraged people to take photos of themselves against the art covered walls. Also started/had a huge drawing on one wall and invited visitors to add to it. The doodles of course became more obscene as the night progressed. HA! I was awesome to have all the walls almost entirely covered by art and what not.

Here's a shot the cover to the Common X Crummy Mega Zine collaboration we did for the show. Rich, Mason, and myself each illustrated a layer and the screen printed the cover with three colorful layers. The pages inside are also a fun collaboration of several artsy folks. Order yours today! To see more pictures  GO HERE.

 

Mason and Jessica ARE Crummy House. Great job you guys!

Interesting Blog for Artists and Designers

Get a glimpse of whats going on in the art/graphic design world around the globe. Neat!
Fall down the wormhole
http://thescienceofdesign.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html

CRUMMY HOUSE MEGAZINE launch Tonight At Common House Artist Collective

So I have a few random ZINES that I picked up over the years, including some old school ones from an old friend, artist rockstar badass and personal hero of mine Mike Seiben called Programmed from India. They're a hilarious and a unique part of art history in ATX! But as an art collector/hoarder of sorts, I have ,for the most part, missed out on these unconventional artistic outlets. Maybe because they're usually pretty small? But NOW, thanks to new friends at Crummy House, and studio mates at Common House, I am now more aware of the creative awesomeness and power of zines. Anyone can make a ZINE! About anything, kind of like a BLOG but better because you can hold them in your hand, they're more fun to make, and there are no rules. Not only are they punk as fuck, in my opinion, they're cheap to mass produce and more fun to create and collect. PRINT WILL NEVER DIE.

Come to this at Common House tonight!

This Friday at Common House!

365 art pieces!
http://thedailydeck.com/

Screen Printing Awesomeness

I am a bit of a screen printing nerd/poster addict/collector so you'll probably see a lot of Snack Machine posts about poster art.  These are by designer http://www.shawnkknight.com/ Shawn K. Knight. Aside form Wu Tang, I don't know who the other bands are but the posters are bad ass art pieces. Amazing textures, composition and detail! (my art words for the day) Plus, I 'm a fan of anything that has a skull in it. I love that pseudo-mosaic texture inside the skull

More Great Art I Saw on the Interweb

I had a box of money like that one time. SIKE! It's completely made of wood! They all are! RANDALL ROSENTHAL carves and hand paints each piece from a single block of wood!! Check out the money in the envelope. You can see the money showing through. All of it, flawless detail.
Sorry for the excessive use of exclamation marks, I was real stoked about this.

Now For Something More Tasteful and Art Related

Another oldy but a goodie. I visit Pes' site at least once a week, and even though a new one gets added maybe once or twice a year lately, I never get bored of watching his incredible stop frame animations. I love watching how Pes breaths life into ordinary everyday objects. If you're new to PES definitely check out his site. You may recognize some of his stuff from a few TV ads his done.