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Ninja August 9th, 2009

I can always count on Penguin for some good tunes! He sent some much-needed Mike Relm my way. ^_^

Mike Relm perfoms Lionsgate Mash-up on YouTube Live

Mike Relm performs at the 13th Annual Webby Awards

Everytime (feat. Del The Funky Homosapien & Adrian Hartley)
Directed by: Mike Relm
Starring: Laura Pronge and Steven Jasso
Cinematography: Peter Songsiri

Downloads from Mike’s site
+ MP3: Mike Relm, “Everytime (feat. Del the Funky Homosapien and Adrian Hartley),” Spectacle

+ MP3: Mike Relm, Body Rock (feat. Morningwood and Gift of Gab)

+ MP3: Mike Relm, Hot to Trot (feat. Alfredo Ortiz)

+ MP3: Mike Relm, Tron

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Ninja August 7th, 2009

Whew, what a night! It was a totally packed house—my folks came by and almost got turned away until Kaki stepped in and gave them the OK. Thanks, Kaki!

Kaki King performing Pink Noise with pink paint
Photo credit: Stephii Jou

I met some immensely talented artists, shared some laughs with new friends, and witnessed a very cool performance by Ms. King. A huge thanks to everyone who came out!!

Kaki King standing next to my guitar, I never said I love you

Night After Sidewalk
China Morbosa

I’ve been a fan of this girl’s work since I saw it on Juxtapoz’s site. My photos don’t do her guitar justice. I was totally speechless when China told me she thought my guitar was “fucking beautiful.” ^_^

So much for so little
Katherine Guillen
Katherine usually works in watercolor, ceramics, and etching—this guitar was her first attempt at using acrylic paint. You wouldn’t know just by looking at it; she executed the painting very well. The painting is even more beautiful in person.

Can Anyone Who Has Heard This Music Really Be A Bad Person?
Vincent Hui

Pull me out alive
Andrea Arceneaux

These are the armies of the tyrannized
Eric Rodriguez

Eric has the cutest giraffe hat (not pictured here).

Yellow Cake
Amanda Hoddy

Can the Gwot Save Us?
Morgan Grenier

It looks like Morgan spent quite a bit on this lap steel piece, but there’s only four dollars cut up and pasted there.

Sad American
Reni Papananias

Open Mouth
Lennie Peterson

Ahuvati
Joseph Zacker

I Need A Girl Who Knows A Map
Kate Havnevik

You don’t have to be afraid
Amanda Zackem

Jessica
Nina Ulloa

My Insect Life (currently sans live ant farm)
Brian Ponto

Brian Ponto is the art director behind Kaki’s Legs to Make Us Longer album.

Much love & hugs,
Ninja

Related links
+ Become a fan of Kaki King Guitar Art on Facebook
+ Kaki King SPIN interview

Album purchasing links
+Mexican Teenagers, $8.49
+ Dreaming of Revenge, $13.98
+ Until We Felt Red, $14.98
+ Legs to Make Us Longer, $12.98

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Ninja August 6th, 2009

Guitar goddess/song bird, Kaki King, presents The Exhibition: a one night exhibit of guitars turned into pieces of artwork inspired by a Kaki King song title. The highlight of the evening will occur around 9:00 pm when Kaki puts on a solo performance of several songs, then plays the song Playing With Pink Noise with pink paint covering her hands on her iconic blue guitar. That guitar and several others will be auctioned off to benefit VH1’s Save the Music foundation.

Where
The Littlefield
622 Degraw Street between 3rd and 4th Avenue in the Gowanus
Brooklyn, New York 11217 (map)
718) 855-3388

When
Friday, August 7, 2009
One night only!
Doors open at 7:00 PM

Cost
Free admission
All ages welcome

Here’s a sneak peak at some of the guitars on display:

Sad American
Reni Papananias

Can Anyone Who Has Heard This Music Really Be A Bad Person?
Vincent Hui

I Need A Girl Who Knows A Map
Kate Havnevik

Can the Gwot Save Us
Morgan Grenier

Here’s my contribution:

I Never Said I Love You

Detail

All my process photos and comments can be viewed here.

Come out and say hi! I’ll be the one with the pink streaks. ^___^

Big smiles,
Ninja

PS. Correction: looks like Magic Hat won’t be there after all, so no free beer. But hey, it’s a free Kaki show with some amazing art—that should be enough reason to come out and join us. ~__^

Related links
+ To see more, become a fan of Kaki King Guitar Art on Facebook
+ Kaki King SPIN interview

Album purchasing links
+Mexican Teenagers, $8.49
+ Dreaming of Revenge, $13.98
+ Until We Felt Red, $14.98
+ Legs to Make Us Longer, $12.98

• I never said I love you: Process 1 (0)
• Kaki King Guitar Art Project in Brooklyn (4)
• I never said I love you: Process 9 (2)
• I never said I love you: Process 8 (0)
• I never said I love you: Process 7 (7)

Tags: Acrylic, Brooklyn, Exhibitions, Hair, I never said I love you, Kaki King, Kaki King Guitar Project, Littlefield, Painting, Process, Tanya Dakin, The Exhibition, Wood

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Ninja August 6th, 2009

Illustrator, Craww, has put up some nice giclee art prints on etsy. All the prints are signed and are printed on 300gsm Hahnemule paper. Each print measures approximately A3 in size and go for $45.00 US.

Flutter

Glutton

Crescendo

Purchasing link
+ Craww’s etsy store

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Ninja August 6th, 2009

In a collaboration with Art in Odd Places (AiOP), Sura Khudairi and Sophia Hadjipapa, will be presenting public art on 23rd street.

SIGN 23
Today, Thursday, August 6, 2009
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
23rd Street between Broadway and 7th Avenue in Manhattan

30 DAYS 2386 BOMBS
Artist: Sura Khudairi
Performance will be across the Flatiron Bldg on 23rd Street and Broadway
5:30 pm and 6:30 pm
Two females, one dressed in military uniform and the other as an Iraqi civilian, start marching from the south end of the Flatiron Building where the streets divide east and west, to reference the political and social climate. As they cross 23rd street into the triangle, they will give a mirror performance that graphically translates complex statistics into an iconographic representation of the female cost of war.

THIS LIFE IS GOOD: A PARIPATETIC POEM
Artist: Sophia Hadjipapa
23rd Street between Broadway and Seventh Avenue.
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm – On going
Next to information signs or advertisements, identical signs are placed, mimicking the informative typography and color of the original ones. In place of the real text there is a verse from a poem, corresponding literally or metaphorically to the site, creating a poetic and strangely perplexing atmosphere for the passerby. In order to experience the piece in sequence one must navigate back and forth the street according to the routes specified by the map. (From A to B to C etc.) This kind of navigation requires not an ‘efficient’ straight line moving about the city, as we are used to, but a sort of meandering, piecing it together through exploring and treasure hunting, a childhood joy that we have long forgotten. Sophia Hadjipapa-Gee is a Fine Artist working in painting, video, text, installation. The poem is by Stephen Gee.

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Ninja August 5th, 2009

Hyper-realist portrait painter, Robert Standish, used go by the alias, Basil Hallward—one of characters from Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Before becoming a painter, Robert held down various jobs—boxer, jeweler, actor, lifeguard, and he even dabbled a bit in psychology. In 1996, he received his BA in psychology from Antioch University; he does not have any formal art training.

My work mirrors individuals’ private moments of introspection. I find myself compelled to capture the moments when a strong desire and need to feel comfortable in one’s own skin are present. Similarly, I want to capture a person’s attempt at reconnecting or discovering some form of greater magic (conventionally speaking, God)  and the candid instant when a person reveals how far he or she feels from that magic.
–Robert Standish

Woman on Sunset Blvd, 2000
oil on canvas (13 ½” x 19 ½”)
From Robert’s street series

Untitled (Woman with Folded Arms), 2004
oil on canvas/panel (26 ½” x 18″)
From Robert’s bather series and solo show at the Shoshanna Wayne gallery in Santa Monica, California

Sarah, 2004
oil on canvas/panel (50″ x 38 ½”)
Also from Robert’s bather series

Girls, Girls, Girls (VIAGRA), 2006
oil on canvas/panel (85″ x 130 ¼”)
Part of branded series, featuring corporate logos embedded in night time street scenes among prostitutes and the homeless

Gael, 2008
oil on panel (20″ x 17″)
Cover art

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Ninja August 4th, 2009

Illustrator, Frank Stockton, started a really great drawing tutorial series, titled Teaching Yourself to Draw from Your Imagination. You can read the first installment from his blog here.

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Ninja August 4th, 2009

I <3 Gocco screen prints! They’re small, intimate, and becoming rarer since Riso Kagaku Corporation
stopped manufacturing Print Gocco devices. Then Yudu (silly name, I know) came on the scene. Yudu is a home screen printer (larger than a Gocco, but smaller than your average press).

Some sample Yudu projects:

Handmade Detroit did a wonderful video review/tutorial. Take a look:

I’d love try the Yudu out, but it has a bit of a hefty price tag ($299.99 in stores, and $195.25 online from Amazon).

Purchasing links
+ Yudu 62-5000 Personal Screen-Printing Machine, $195.25 (with free shipping)
+ yudu 62-5009 3-Pack Ink Primary, $22.00

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Ninja August 4th, 2009

Buttermilk is the first font from Brooklyn-based illustrator/designer/typographer, Jessica Hische. It’s a delightful, bold display script which features decorative caps, huge array of ligatures, and lovely numerals.

Jessica’s design work, editorial illustration, and hand-lettering has attracted many clients including AIGA, American Express, Bath and Body Works, Chronicle Books, O Magazine, Penguin Books, Random House, The New York Times, Victoria’s Secret, and Wired Magazine to name a few.

Purchasing link
+ Get Buttermilk from MyFonts for $49.00

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