References to the abuse of pink and octopi, a nudie flip book sequence with an ode to spider webs voice over and a series of all-to-brief, intimate conversational excerpts found in the trailer for Eileen Yaghoobian’s doc about rock posters all leave me hoping it way to the states much sooner than later.

The film’s description and featured artist list from the site only serve to hammer the anticipation home. See for yourself:

Died Young, Stayed Pretty is a candid look at the underground poster culture in North America. This unique documentary examines the creative spirit that drives these indie graphic artists. They pick through the dregs of America’s schizophrenic culture and piece them back together…Yaghoobian shows these artists for what they are: the vivisectionists of America’s morbidly obese consumer culture.

Brian Chippendale • Art Chantry • Print Mafia • Andrew Bird • DMBQ • Clyde Jones • Ron Liberti • Tom Hazelmyer • Stephen McClellan • Bryce McCloud • Seripop • Ames Bros • Methane Studios • El Bado/William Ballard • Tyler Stout • Rob Jones • Jay Ryan • Mat Daly • Nick Butcher • Keith Herzik • Steve Walters • Shawn Wolfe • Noel Waggener • Jeff Kleinsmith • Mig Kokinda • Dale Flattum • Mike King • Dan Schlissel • Stainboy • Uncle Charlie • American Poster Institute

via: Eileen Yaghoobian / diedyoungstayedpretty.com

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My friend Jess Gibson has been busy in the NEMO basement making strides on his side film project with Portland designer Aaron Draplin appropriately titled, The Draplin Thing. From the sound of things at Jess’s site, editing is closing in on completion — just as soon as they get back from the World’s Largest Yard Sale.

Check out the new trailer (Draplin vs. USA) and join us in the ranks of those eagerly awaiting a deeper look into the mind of a true American original.

via: Jess Gibson / Draplin Design Co., North America

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Continuing with the toner thread, I recently found the blatantly semi-local (mere excuse for a JFA ref) Jason Willis Flyer Collection (’81-’06) while searching out resources for giving visual direction to one of our designers on a Nemo project. I actually remember receiving multi-generational copies of these used as stationary for scrawled notes folded into zines during the early eighties. 

Bryan Ramond Turcotte has a wider sourced compilation in his book, Fucked Up and Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement, the predecessor to Punk Is Dead Punk Is Everything and the source of this post’s title.

It seems obvious to mention Bryan Coley, Lydia Lunch and Thurston Moore’s No Wave — a chronicle of the collision of art and punk in the New York underground of 1976 to 1980. No Wave was recently released with an exhibition at KS Art and a Teenage Jesus and The Jerks show at Knitting Factory NYC. Thanks to Rich for the tip on this one.

more: TJ+tJ show (sb_t) / No Wave (prefix,vid)

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New, official site for all things related to the show, There is Xerox on the Insides of Your Eyelids. Updates, show calendar, galleries.. the works.

xeroxeyelids.com

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The coordinated effort of reconnecting the mind to the eye to the hand is no easy task after clicking mice and clacking keyboards for far too long an interim. Upped a few recent scrawls to Flickr™ and sharing them here as a humbling incentive to keep the connections wide open.

Thanks to a grueling month of life-implosion, the drawing that served as the initial impetus made it to Cinders Gallery in New York too late for the opening of the show, Don’t Paint Your Teeth — yet another show the prolific artist/organizer and incentive-engine, Rich Jacobs (tixotioye) invited me to take part in.  Bummer too, considering the amazing company it would have shared the wall with. Next time.

I should mention that the drawing for the show is a tribute to Asobi Tsuchiya’s Long-Eyelash photo set, which has captivated and freaked me out for years.

via: MyFlickr (spiralstares) / Cinder’s Gallery / Don’t Paint Your Teeth: Opening Night, Drawings

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Needles + Pens have updated their site with new images from opening night of There is Xerox on the Insides of Your Eyelids. They’ve also made the show Catalog/Zine by Rich Jacobs available for $5 along with #13 of his ongoing exploration in toner, MOVE.

Speaking of Rich, I just received word that he’s hanging the next installation of the show in London. More to follow…

Opening photos / Catalog / Move #13

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Girl Skateboards has collaborated with (RED)™ in the global fight against AIDS with an Eric Koston limited edition deck series. Designed by old friend and Girl AD, Andy Jenkins the decks are beautiful and ready for hanging or wiping clean this Summer.

(PRODUCT)RED™ (+vids) / Girl Skateboards / Purchase

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by Sister Corita Kent

via: hi+low / design observer / i love this world / weekend america

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Amazing illustrator and overall good guy, Adam Haynes is showing this Friday, 3/7 at the new Life+Limb here in PDX/OR.

Adam’s work with us at Nemo for Nike6.0 is so damn good. He also collab’d with Justin Dickau on a kickass limited edition s/s poster for the show (click the header img).

Go go go.

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Rad Fangorian guerilla art from The Decapitator, a UK-based street artist/culture-jammer known for graphically severing the heads displayed on major advertising media and reducing them to bloody, bony stumps.

His latest efforts include a foray into newsprint, having hijacked the London Paper’s back page Motorola ad and distributing it both by hand and via the distributor’s supply. The event was even documented for prosperity, here.

Originally found on either cpluv or ffffound, it’s seems the East London Decapitator’s work has been getting around.

From Wired:

The mutation of art into other forms of art is always fascinating — even if the recipients aren’t always willing, as was in the case with New York-based graffiti defacer, known as the Splasher. Splasher became infamous this summer for tossing paint onto the work of well-known street artists like Shepard Fairy and Momo, citing controversial claims that their work was gentrified, banal and irreparably appropriated and commodified.

the decapitator: flickr
via cpluv / ffffound / notcot / wired

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