San Francisco based artist / good friend of mine Jessica Wassil has launched her new illustration site Yelp Yack. She also has a new portfolio site up at jessicawassil.com. Yelp Yack is “a blog where each illustration is based off a brutally real, random, and anonymous Yelp review.”
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Thirty Days NY is a project that I’ve been helping out on for months now (with our crew from We Love You So and new people) which launched today. Dallas and Graham did the heavy lifting but I am behind the scenes helping and adding to the amazing content with artist interviews, music, and more. It’s been magical to see this all come together and if you’re in New York you have to check out what’s going on there.
Here’s what Graham posted on Future Shipwreck about the project:
“Following the release of Spike Jonze’s robot love story, I’m Here, Absolut Vodka and TBWA teamed up with Spike and the rad dudes behind Family Bookstore, David Kramer and Sammy Harkham, to create a live gallery space for one month only in New York City. But more than just a gallery, it’s a performance space, bookstore and an artist studio– and all the events are free! Located at 70 Franklin Street, Tribeca, Thirty Days will feature weekly performances, symposiums, and showcases from contemporary artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers from all over the world.”
Dallas Clayton and I were tasked with creating the online presence for Thirty Days, and it’s evolved into so much more than a blog. In addition to providing daily coverage of live events at the gallery, the site will host loads of original content including exclusive interviews with No Age, Little Joy, The Morning Benders, Humberto Leon of Opening Ceremony, Sumi Ink Club, and many more. There are so many awesome people contributing stellar content for the site, from We Love You So’s Molly Young to photographer Bryan Derbella to Matt Wolf, the filmmaker behind the stunning Arthur Russell documentary Wild Combination, who’s been shooting a ton of original video content to the site.
Among those participating at the physical space are some of my favorite artists, like Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, Ben Jones of Paper Rad (whose designs are all over the space– check out his bookshelves on the upper left of this post), Andrew Jeffrey Wright and SNL’s Fred Armisen, Albert Maysles, Shana Moulton, Matthew Thurber, and Lance Bangs. Take a peek at the full schedule and stop by if you’re in the area! I’m flying out tonight for the opening event on Thursday, which will include sets by the amazing Aska, Brian Degraw of Gang Gang Dance, and a psychedelic light show by Joshua White and cartoonist Gary Panter.“
View this amazingly beautiful work by artist Molly Dilworth.
“In the last year my practice has grown out of the studio in the form of large-scale rooftop paintings for Google Earth. This project uses materials from the waste stream (discarded house paint) to mark a physical presence in digital space.” (via Think Faesthetic!)
I’m excited and proud to have a photo in the first show at This, Los Angeles titled “These Friends” on February 12th 7-10PM. So many amazing artists and friends. View the image above larger by visiting thislosangeles.com.
My talented friend Mike Perry just released the newest issue #4 of Untitled Magazine, curated by photographer Anna Wolf. This is the biggest issue yet, presented as a perfect bound b/w 176 page book full of beautiful artwork by many artists I love.
Featuring:
Brie Harrison, Byrony Lloyd, Keith Newton, Scott Massey, Charlie Duck & Joel Garcia, Anna Wolf & Brigitte Sire, Andrew Ackermann, Erika Somogyi, Nicolas Haggard, Porous Walker, Stephen K. Schuster, Juan Betancurth & Riley Hooker, Ahndraya Parlato, Deanne Cheuk, Aliki Braine, Tom Bubul, James Mahon &Micah Lidberg, Ana Laura Perez, Agnes Montgomery ,Cedric Bihr, Aurelia Lange, Hanna Terese Nilsson,Georgia Kokolis, Hanna Waldron, Heather Culp & Francis Parrilli, Jacqueline Di Milia, Lizzy Stewart, Lober Nogen, Alex Witjas, Meredith Jenks & Kate Wolf, Ida Borg.
Get it now: http://www.untitled-a-magazine.com
Giving in to Live the Experience a new book by SF based artist Paul Wackers out now on Seems.
Limited edition 500 copies for more info visit here.
View the work of San Francisco, CA based painter Henry Gunderson.
I was pleasantly surprised when I walked into the Fecal Face Dot Gallery in San Francisco to see his work, it’s even better in person. If you’re around you should go check it out while it’s still up, If not here is a post about the opening on Fecal Face with lots of photos of the show.
View the work of Victoria, BC based artist Caitlin Gallupe. I discovered her work from the Little Paper Planes Buddy System show. You can get her Little Paper Planes book here.
This is the beautiful new exclusive limited edition print that is over at Little Paper Planes (part of Little Paper Press) by Jessica Cannon. You can read an interview with her here, purchase the print, and see more of her artwork at http://www.jescannon.com.















