Small Time Adventures is a three-colour flag designed by Nigel Peake. It measures 20.5" wide by 18 inches tall and was sewn and hand-printed in Rhode Island on a 100% cotton-based natural-white canvas.
The flag has been grommeted for wall-tacking, flagpole-clipping, and sailboat-style rope tying. Each flag comes packaged with its own certificate of authenticity.
Nigel has chosen Kopernik as his artwork's charity. Kopernik works to allow the most progressive technologies to reach poor people in developing countries. The organization's is to accelerate development through 'leapfrogging' or skipping inferior, less-efficient technologies and practices and moving directly to more advanced ones. $250 dollars from the sale of his artwork will be donated to the organization.
All 100 of the flags in this evening's Nigel Peake release were cut by hand and sewn by my mom during the hottest summer on record in RI. Just thought I should point that out in case one or two of you thought there wasn't enough love involved.
This Saturday : COMEX OR BECAMUS August 27, 2010
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Friend of Showcase KWG aka Keith Warren Greiman aka Other Keith, or First Keith, depending on which Keith you are speaking to, has a show opening at Part Time Studio, an artist collective in Philadelphia, on September 3rd. You can also read a new interview with that dude here.
Friend of Showcase Ryan McLennan and his friends at Triple Stamp Press have released a loose-leaf art book that I am holding, in my hands, and it is gorgeous. The set of twenty prints come packaged in a box made of baltic birch and white pine and features a selection of Ryan's greatest work to date.
And friend of Showcase Marci Washington and I are getting pizza for lunch; we decided. It's been decided.
Witness: Katrina
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Our friend Erik Carlson (aka AREA C) recently completed a score for a two-hour documentary on Hurricane Katrina. Witness: Katrina premiered on the National Geographic Channel and screens again on Monday August 30th, 2010 at 5pm Eastern Standard Time.
A unique documentary, it's made up entirely from video footage shot by people who rode out the storm, whether by choice or not. Much of the musical score uses sounds taken from the actual video footage as well.
Over the course of 72 hours, Hurricane Katrina went from a cataclysmic storm to a catastrophic flood, which in turn became an apocalyptic human tragedy. All the while, amateur videographers, news crews, and countless others were recording the sights and sounds of the unfolding chaos. Weaving together more than a dozen of these sources, Witness: Katrina reconstructs Hurricane Katrina as it happened, entirely through the eyes of those who experienced it.
"This work is a model for three brothels to be incorporated into a model utopian city, located in an unidentified rain forest area anywhere, to be inhabited by residents employed solely in telemarketing."
Casey Roberts
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We just missed Casey Roberts' show at Walker Contemporary in Boston BUT you can catch more of his work on his portfolio site. I would advise you to blow off your work and spend your Friday looking through his recent works.
Wednesday, August 18
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August 17, 2010
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We're going to hit LAUNCH on this week's Tiny Showcase edition in a few moments but before I forget, I wanted to mention that the closing party for the GUNSHO Drawing Show is tomorrow evening at Milk and Cookies in Pawtucket, RI. Art at 7pm. The music of hector 3 at 8pm.
GUNSHO's illustrations for Andrew WK's latest single, "I Want To See You Go Wild," can be oogled below:
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