Eat your heart out, OMG Posters

I like OMG Posters from time to time, but it's pretty much Fairey, Stout, Kinsey crazy. Try matching these sweet horror prints from Aiyana Udesen at Dirty Pilot. Totally 80s. 10 in the edition, $60.

Blek Le Rat - Buy Cheap

While there's time, make sure you pick up Blek Le Rat's "Getting Through the Walls" on clearance at Urban Outfitters.com. It's only $9.99.

SF, CA

I have been in San Francisco for the week for work and I can't wait to get home. I didn't even get to do half of what I wanted to do. I am a bit bummed because I'm here in between shows and missing out on a lot of cool stuff. Plus, I'm tired. My days and nights have been long.

So first off, the Warhol exhibition is at the de Young and I will miss it. It moves to Montreal at the end of the year in Montreal. Maybe I'll make it out. Joshua Petker's show opens tomorrow at The Shooting Gallery. Damn. Then, Harry Kim's film, Dirty Hands, is playing tomorrow. I also leave tomorrow. The only thing I got to see was the GRSF show. Albert Reyes is my favorite.

Oh, by the way, Jen Corace's Hansel and Gretal book (illustrations) is on clearance at Urban Outfitters. It's ridiculously good and ridiculously cheap (under $5).

Number 2 of the Beasts!

Make sure you pick up a copy of Beasts!: Book 2 that was just released from Fantagraphics. It's probably one of the best looking low brow art survey books I've seen. Speaking from publishing experience, of course. It's also really interesting, like a Weird NJ book crossed with the Bible with cool art. Hardcover, gold foil, beautiful print... Thanks Jacob Covey, who curated this massive collection. There's also a Beasts! show at Giant Robot SF that I'm really bummed that I can't see in person.

The Beasts! blog.

"Jack-in-Irons" (bringing the Glum back!), by Derek Albeck :



















And for your viewing pleasure, on a related topic:

Labs With Abs

How happy does this dog look? Because the dog is frolicking in a meadow or because it has a washboard stomach? Hmmm, both.



















(the above is a letterpress print from Poketo!)

Andrew Jeffrey Wright's Labs with Abs have popped up everywhere and he's even published a book on them. Sweet. You might know his collaboration with Obey Clothing and he's co-founder of Space 1026.

Reign in Blood

I finished reading Reign in Blood by D.X. Ferris from Continuum's 33 1/3 series. I've only read two other titles in this series - Unknown Pleasures and Meat is Murder. I'd have to say this was the most accessible of the three and it had really good coverage of the album as a whole. What I found interesting was the mention of artist, Larry Carroll, responsible for the memorable artwork on Reign in Blood. The 3-foot mixed media piece was given away by the artist who, in turn, sold it. Damn shame, because it's the most epic piece of album artwork and it still scares me.

You can read an interesting interview with Larry here. He also mentions what happened with the original piece.

Vice Knows Metal

Everything Vice puts out is incredible. I just finished watching Heavy Metal in Baghdad. I thoroughly enjoy documentaries but anything on metal is the shit. I think would have named it Iroq: Heavy Metal in Baghdad. Get it? Iraq. I-rock...Ahh, nevermind.

I definitely recommend watching this - you can definitely see the hopelessness in what was going at that time in Iraq (and currently still going on). Obviously the story is uplifting but I won't reveal to you what happens for you people that hate spoilers so here's a preview.



Not every story is so uplifting though. 4.7 million Iraqi's have left their homes of these, 2 million Iraqis are dispersed in Iraq.

Read up here.