_Tabitha Gwyn Osler lives in Halifax, but used to live in Vancouver. She takes pictures, draws, makes sculptures and jewelry, and we hope everyone in Vancouver is that cool.
2009: Noah and The Cramps
Ok people listen up: is December 29h, midnight’s approaching and we haven’t decided yet which song will end up being our last post of 2009. You know how it is: you plan to work all night but then wine uncorks itself, fake moustaches appear [ and piñata hats ] and eventually zig-zag is the new A-to-B; so, in honor of this pleasant dilemma of too much music to share, and too many guests to entertain, the according tic-tac-toe solution: a tie. [...]
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_Michael Latimer’s words: “I am a freelance artist and designer, I have worked as a creative director for many years for various companies, if you give me some pounds then i can do the same for you too.”
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_speaking of residencies, have you heard about Tokyo Wonder Site before?
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_the fellas from hangar.org in Barcelona just released an online magazine featuring their resident artists.
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_no gifts under that tree? Fret not. Tao Lin is the author of Shoplifting From American Apparel. He also has a blog that is very funny. Go buy his book or read his blog.
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_for those of you looking for an agent, 2agenten is s nice German agency. They even represent our beloved Mario Wagner [ check out their store! ].
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_We Are The Friction is a book of illustration and short fiction created by 12 pairs of international writers and illustrators, published by Sing Statistics.
Jimmy Turrell Cuts and Paints
For the Gopher follower [ we love you! ] this won’t come as a surprise: we effing love collage. Tonya Harding + Tokyo + Macrame we like. Velázquez + The Maharishi + Oscar D’Leon we like even more. So, as the year comes to an end, read a short interview with one of our favorite cutandpasters – and a hell of a good artist with paint and brush – Jimmy Turrell
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_tuesday, drooling, Jason Karolak.
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_Spencer Charles lives in Salt Lake City. He created the packaging for his band on his kitchen table. Look at some more of his work here.
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_the posters that Paul Rogers has been doing for the Los Angeles Metro are so nice that they keep getting stolen out of the train cars. Also, check out his “name that movie” series.
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_Christina Ung retroactively affirms she left her native Bangkok for the Barbie Doll rich lands of Canadia. Her images are geared “towards young adults”
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_”your mind, a wild monkey” the website of Ommwriter told us. Oh yeah? well, your mind a bunch of 00101010110111′s, you, dumb website.
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_Pat Pat Robat: thousands upon thousands of little colorful triangles together.
Candy Claws are Coming to Town
When the Candy Claws told us they wanted to visit The Gopher on their Online World Tour, we were excited to learn what an online tour was. We asked them hopefully “does this mean the band plays live on our website? ” and they were like no you simple gopher dontcha know anything at all?” and we were like “well then what is it?” and they were like “we make a new exclusive video featuring one of our songs for each destination [...]
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_wow! the Gopher is featured on Kickstarter!!! we’re making our first edition and you can be part of it! go! go! go!
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_we may be a bit late in catching this, but Brock Davis makes something new and different every day.
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_the answer to a question we had for months [ and keeping the Dutch theme in this little blackboard ]: the wonderfull Jazz-a-Palooza Festival @ Utrecht artwork is put together by the people at Autobahn studio.
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_Yusuf Sevincli is a photographer living in Istanbul.
Hi Ho Silver Oh: On State Lines and the Internets
Communion – Put It All in One Place and Burn It
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
When we learned about Hi Ho Silver Oh, a musical project spearheaded by Casey Trela, we thought it was a holliday album. Turns out our Bruce Springsteen reference radar was broken and HHSO’s music is (blissfully) jingle-bell free. The present iteration of the band is a foursome made up of three Chapel Hillians and a Los Angelino, making music that is lyrical and fun. We [...]
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_nerdy fan confession time: one day we would love to work with “Studio on Fire” design and letterpress studio. For now, drooling over BeastPieces will have to do.
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_for some weird reason we keep callin Karen Mrisk by the name “Fernando”.
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_we are loving Mike Davis’ blog “So Much Pileup” and its “Philately Fridays”
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_it’s tuesday and we’re listening to Jenny Lewis with the Watson twins, and by “we” we mean Lope, ‘cuz Michu doesn’t like Jenny Lewis even a little bit.
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_what you see here is part of a campaign for MAMBO by the Australian art and design collective Rinzen. They have offices in Berlin, Brisbane, Melbourne and New York.
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_Greer Honeywill is an artist, photographer and sometime educator living in Melbourne, Autralia. We also like her work with birdcages.
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_woke up and felt like practicing Portuguese: María Valentina.
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_ this series by Artist Julie Rrap reminds us a bit of our friend Lucia Pizz‘s work.
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_Carolina Raquel Antich is an Argentinean currently based in Venice, she won the Italian Youth Art Prize in 2005, and exhibited at the 51st Venice Biennale. In recent years she has held solo shows in New York, London, Rome, and Art-U-Room @ Tokyo.
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_Scott Campbell is a printmaker, illustrator and musician and one of the founders of the Young Monster collective in Tennessee.
