That's it friendos. I'm heading out to meet up with Shea'la for the opening of We = Trouble tomorrow (Saturday) at Secret Project Robot in Brooklyn. If you live in the area, I would highly recommend stopping by and saying hellooooo. The opening block party will be gigantic - BBQs, a million artists, some tremendous bands, including Oneida, Ex Models, Golden Triangle...

I am bummed for you if you will be missing this one. Here's Jay Howell posting about some of the collaborative pieces that were created for the event. Man, ohhhh man.

For those of you who will not be in attendance, we will be unveiling the artwork to the mailing list next week. If you have not yet signed up, hopefully this will serve as the inspiration.

For the Rhode Islanders reading this, I would strongly recommend visiting AS220 this Sunday, September 7. The Print Shop will be unveiling their First Biennial Print Lottery. Tiny Showcase has donated work to the show, as well as some of our favorite printmakers (and people in general) of all time. A few blocks away at the AS220 Project Space, our good friend Pete Cardoso's Ten Years of Rock and Roll Posters Retrospective will be opening. We love the Fall and we love its gallery openings.

Enjoy a hurricane-free weekend.

Visit Ian Dingman's portfolio site and browse until your eyeballs pop out. He's got a gigantic collection of affordable art for sale in his online gallery. He also just announced that he created original packaging artwork for these vintage camera ornaments, which we think are pretty rad.

Thanks for supporting our TS Learning Press project. We're pretty psyched at the response. We've started shipping prints and shirts and we should have everything into the capable hands of USPS by the end of the week.

All of the other goodies, seasonal artwork, bookplates, stickers, and whatnot, are shipping a little ahead of schedule.

Catbirdseat just posted a brand new (spectacular) September mix. He also has some incredibly kind words about WE = TROUBLE, officially opening in just a few days.

Our buddy R. Kikuo Johnson on the cover of this week's NY Times Magazine.

And, of course, Ray Fenwick's "Rad" shirt in organic galaxy-colored cotton. We gave first dibs to the mailing list on Friday and they are available to the rest of the world today.

Ray Fewick's "Rad"

And now some links:

Just announced: Fall courses at Providence's Steelyard.

Book By Its Cover talks to Jez Burrows and Lizzy Stewart about their recently-released I Am The Friction, which is amazing and just about sold out.

A photo of Richard Neutra's Maxwell House being driven by Amoeba Music in Hollywood.

And finally, the news we've been waiting on for abouuuut ever since it was my favorite movie ever: The Criterion Collection edition of Bottle Rocket. Aaah! With new, original artwork by our buddy Ian Dingman. Aaaaaaaah! Wait, woah. Imagine if Ian Dingman allowed us to feature another of his pieces of artwork? Wouldn't that be stellar? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Where do I start on this one? Jaw-droppingly beautiful illustrations? Milk-out-of-nosingly hilarious text? We began working on the TS Learning Press wing of Tiny Showcase because we had such fine memories of staring at amazingly detailed education resources when we were children - The Golden Book Encyclopedia; old Richard Scary illustrations; How and Why Wonder books, H. A. Rey's celestial guides. We wanted to create something just as intricate and wondrous without being burdened by pesky things like, say, facts.

Ray Fenwick was kind enough to come up with the perfect contribution to our new branch. I feel like if I were a child and someone hung this chart in my room, it would forever alter the course of my life. I mean, even as an adult it made me want to break out my old Hardy Boys books - and those things have been buried in my parents' basement for years. The shaping of chilrdens' futures, inspiring basement cleanouts - we're talking about monumental life changing events here.

You can, of course, find much much more of Ray's work on his portfolio site. If you scour his news section you will be able to find some of his original artwork for sale. Highly recommended.

Some stuffies before we head out:

I See It All, the work of our pal Deth P. Sun, opens tomorrow (Saturday) at Gigante Robot in New York. Those of you who are unable to catch the show because you will be attending weddings along the Rocky Coast of Maine can catch a preview of Deth's work here.

Required weekend listening: Music Go Music

Jay Howell and Matt Furie's Return To Innocence closes with a bang tomorrow at Receiver Gallery in San Francisco. You can catch work from the show right here. I consider "Grey Wolf w/ Burger" to be amongst the greatest pieces of artwork ever created.

Tomorrow evening at Subliminal Projects, Somehow, We All Seem Connected, artwork by Steven Harrington and
Justin Krietemeyer.

"The exhibition will feature handmade multiples and sculptures exploring human connectivity and humorous points of similarity, through our perception of reality, experience, and imagination."

I leave you with this itty bitty sneak peak at something fantastic.

If you are on the market for more Lizzy Stewart printed matter, please check out I Am The Friction, a book of illustration and very short stories with collaborator and Friend of the Showcase: Jez Burrows. Lizzy and Jez also have a Running Amok in the works, and I understand it is to be released next week. Please note, TS is DOMINATING the Running Amok blog with two back-to-back mentions. We need to do something real cool real fast to go three for three.

What was the other cool thing we were doing... OH YES - A SHOW IN BROOKLYN WITH A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF AWESOME ARTISTS THAT OPENS (softly) ON SEPT. 4 AND THEN AGAIN (really loudly with bands and open studios and galleries and BBQs and everything) ON SEPTEMBER 6th.

You are insane if you are even considering not being there. I don't understand anything if you're not excited for this show. I had to stop drinking coffee I'm so psyched about it. Or stressed. I am so psyched and/or stressed about this show that I had to stop drinking coffee. My eyes hurt. Now when I want a coffee, I eat a salad, it's no life. Don't even consider it. It's no way to live.

Too bad Ferris let someone steal all the art. I don't care what you say, it's me that loves Liana the most.

We just wrapped up preparing Andrea Offermann's "Life of Pi" and it will be shipping within a day or two.

Seasonal print orders will be heading to USPS by the end of the week.

Everything else is shipping pretty much immediately.

Enjoy!

Hey guys, I'm home sick with my second brutal cold of the summer. No fun. No fun at all. Well, except for the part where I get to play Bionic Commando and whine all day. Before I head back to the couch, may I point out two things?

1. We will be debuting three new items on Tiny Showcase this evening. I am wearing one of them right now.


2. Death Vessel's Nothing is Precious Enough For Us is available today. With music by Joel Thibodeau and cover artwork by Alec Thibodeau, we can't tell you how much we love this album. The band heads out on their gigantic tour in a few weeks. You can find dates here.

Good night.

The good news: Three weeks until the Tiny Showcase-curated WE = TROUBLE, debuting at Brooklyn's Project Secret Robot.

The bad news: Artist-on-artist violence.

Yup. There is much excitement looming on the Tiny horizon. The days are ticking away until the unveiling of our show in Brooklyn. We've got some massive projects debuting, starting with next week's release. Our offices are, quite literally, filled to the ceiling with artwork waiting to be unleashed upon those who are true enough of heart to gaze upon it. We're going to sit down for a moment and compose ourselves but we shall return on Tuesday. Until then:

Opening tomorrow (Saturday) night at Giant Robot in LA: The Wild Life, new works by Susie Ghahramani.

Photos of Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch and Saelee Oh's collaborative mural at Market and Laguna in San Francisco.

A tour of the new California Academy of Sciences building in San Francisco. Woah.

"It is full of airy, glassily transparent galleries and research labs, and everything from the 'living roof' of plants and birds and butterflies already at home there, to the heat-recycling systems, is aimed at making it one of the most environmentally friendly museums on the planet. The exhibits being readied push the old paradigm forward several expensive steps in many ways - from adding bubble-shaped observation windows for viewing coral reefs and sharks to presenting the nation's largest planetarium, with digital film quality so precise it will make visitors feel like they're flying through space." - SF Chronicle

Visionaire No. 53: Sound. Also woah.

"Packaged inside a specially produced domed case, this issue consists of five 12-inch picture disc records, that together contain more than 100 minutes of sound content - from audio experiments to unreleased songs, samples and spoken word pieces. Also included is a MINI Clubman 'Vinyl Killer' record player: a battery-operated toy car, containing speakers and a needle. As the little car moves along a record's groove, it plays each track, acting as a fully portable record player and sound system. Beyond all this, the issue also includes two CDs with all of the sound content gathered digitally, as well as a booklet of credits and instructions."

Later guys. Have a weekendy weekend.

We're working on getting Andrea's artwork packaged and shipped right now.

Mike Bertino's work is ready to go and should be shipping out within a day or two, along with shirts and other fun stuff.

Need more Mike Bertino? We hear you loud and clear. Let's post some of his upcoming shows and help curb your appetite:

Where Have All the Heroes Gone?
This Friday, August 15 @ Secret Headquarters in LA from 8pm - 10pm. The solo show features Mike's new paintings and comics.

Our Kind of People
This Friday, August 15 @ Sugar Salon in LA from 8pm - Midnight. Right down the street from Secret Headquarters. The show features new drawings and murals by Mike Bertino and Erin Althea.

Tiny Showcase presents WE = TROUBLE
September 6 @ Project Secret Robot in Brooklyn. We're calling this one "The greatest collaborative group show of the 21st century." We'll be featuring Mike's work, along with the work of nearly a zillion other artists. I've had to hire an armed convoy to ensure that the armored artwork van makes its way from our headquarters to Brooklyn.

If you have not yet signed up for the weekly Tiny Showcase email then your train has already arrived and departed. Those of you who have signed up should have just received a sneak peak at this week's artist, along with a link to his contribution to WE=TROUBLE.

This looks handy: "Black & Decker Accu Mark: Hang Frames and Shelves Accurately"

Less handy, more awesome: The blackbird, fly twin-lens 35mm reflex camera.