The following is an account of a beautifully sunny late summer day in Minneapolis Minnesota at the fantastically magnificent U of M football TCF stadium. This piece of the world is also called Stadium Village, right next to world famous Dinkytown, where the streets run red with letters. You’d be right to notice the sea of gold and maroon, the school colors of this particular institution, and the fabulous show of pageantry in the name of school spirit. I never thought I’d be one for celebration for the team in this manner, but you really can’t help but get caught up in the giganticness of it all. Behold, Gopher Country.

These photos were taken October 2nd, 2010, between 9:45 AM and 2:06 PM. If you would like to use any of these photos in a publication of ANY sort, please either mention the name “WFDJ MPLS” or link back to either this post or the site. No requesting necessary, just be respectful and make sure not to cause a ruckus.

M! I! N! N! E! S! O! T! A! MINNESOTA! MINNESOTA! YEAAAAAAA GOPHERS!

Oh joyous day how I love abandoned places. I don’t like how dangerous they can be – say away! But I do love how the photographs of these places look once they’re taken. It’s fabulous to see nature take back what is hers, and although this location’s not been desolate for a giant amount of time, you can see it falling apart already.

According to Hot Costa, this mining facility in Alquife, in Granada, Spain, was shut down in February 1997. I suppose that is almost 20 years now, isn’t it? That’s long enough for quite a bit of rust and plants to set their butts on in. The project we’re featuring here is a photo project of the mines as done by the fabulous Alejandro Maestre Gasteazi, who mentions that the project is not done to tell the tale of why the mines closed, but to explore and document what’s left. Of course, in a Jane Fossey sort of way, he tells the story anyway.

This project is titled “El abandono de las minas de alquife” aka “The Abandonment of The Alquife Mines.” and it comes with some details about how it’s produced: Printing Features — Limited edition of 10 prints per image. Dimensions: 50×33, 3 cm. Inkjet printing with pigmented inks on 100% Cotton barium support of 315 g / m².

Keep your eyes open for the church; certainly the most exquisite building in this photo area set is this holy place left for tiny animals and birds to worship in. All rusty, all pretty.

To get in contact with the photographer Gasteazi, head on over to his portfolio site and give him a ring up! Give again my compliments to the chef, also, if you speak with him.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies unnatural nature category.

So me and my fiance lady E went for a walk. We live basically a block away from the Walker Arts Center sculpture garden, and we’d never been there before together, and she’d never been there at all! So we went! Along the way there were many shapes. Lots of green tones. Some glass, a bit of metal, and grassy floors. Through the sculpture garden we went, then back around the area, around and through. On the way back we took some cool pics of graffiti, or rather paint splashing, I’m sure you’ll agree.

These photos are all taken in the general area of the Walker and toward Loring park. The last picture you see is of the apartment where we stay, shown for contrast. Pay attention to the aforementioned splasher, otherwise known (to us) as the dripper. It’s paint dripped as street art. Very pretty.

Then look for nice shapes, excellent arrangements, and in general a short look at the garden, good for peeking if you want to ever visit yourself. The work Spoonbridge and Cherry is of course the most iconic work along the whole trip, and is basically included by law in any collection of photos of Minneapolis. Any trip done right.

Please feel free to use these photos for any project for a school project, work project, etc, with some form of attribution, contact me if you’d like something in a bigger size.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies sculpture category.

Hello Spinal Tap Anvil Antwoord. You see back stage. This project right here is a photo collection taken on tour with two German bands (Bosse and Frida). The photographer has the name Heinrich Holtgreve and is really good at taking photos and making one photo tell the story of the whole space at once (or lack of story if that’s the case, if you know what I mean.) This set’s meant to show through documentation that touring with a band’s definitely not all glamourous diamond baths and sex with dollar bills and cheese snacks. Definitely not. Take this journey and smell the glove.

9 Pigmentprints / 100x150cm
2009

It’s a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll. I’m in love with photographs of generally dirty or poorly kept spaces in buildings. What a simple wonder it is to see where people have left things. Drawings on walls, stickers filling mirrors, stains and burns.

These heavily trodden places have a more than invaluable stash of cultural information smashed into them. How to harvest it though is the question and the quest.

Holtgreve does well.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies bad taste category.

OR Design Your Way Out of a Elevator Paper Bag. That’s not as silly as it sounds! This man right here, Gabrizio Gianella, has designed a new couple of icons that will change, ever so slightly, millions of peoples lives. In the elevator. I think you might understand rather quickly. It’s all just a matter of removing some arrows and adding a couple vertical lines.

While the icons on elevator door buttons used now are sort of… understood by doing once or twice, they aren’t as intuitive as they could be. What Gianella aims (aimed?) to do was to turn it from a moment of deciphering to a moment of simple understanding.

All he did was change the elevator door buttons from A to B.

A ) The door icons show the doors in their closed position all the time, the arrows show the direction of the doors, but simplification is just a matter of…

B ) It’s just the doors. Doors apart, doors close together. Simplified!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies industrial design category.

Should you ever find yourself in feudal Japan, you’re gonna need, NEED!, to know what symbols are what. And I’m not talking about signs for the bathroom and the sword hut, I mean crests. Badges that express heraldry in Japan since 900 A.D., peaking in production and diversity in the feudal age. Lots of badges made right around there in time. In this post there are over a hundred unique crests, each of them marked and categorized, each of them reproduced faithfully from the greatest book in the world, Ernst Lehner’s long out of print hard and soft cover symbologists dream book “Symbols, Signs, & Signets.”

Some of y’all might remember earlier this month when we took a look at a different part of this same book for some Hobo Symbologies. Really excellent stuff. The symbols you’re about to take a look at are from a completely different part of the universe – Japan.

Worn on garments on the back of the neck, the shoulders, and on each breast. Worn on everything, fighting uniforms, skateboard gear, birthday suits, figure skating costumes, everything except wedding robes, mourning robes, and hara-kiri garments.

Below you’ll find symbols from basically every wild category you’d ever want to symbolize about: flowers, fruits, vegetables, canopies, umbrellas, fans, ships, sails, weapons, helmets, butterflies, insects, birds, fish, mammals, scrolls, and dragons. There’s also a few illustrations of some folks from that era by artist Totoya Hokkei. – and on that note, if anyone has any Hokkei prints just lying around their house, they can feel free to send em on over!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies museum category.

I mean in Ireland. Maybe. Probably from all over the place. These photos of buildings or what otherwise might just be considered constructions were taken by photographer / design minded individual Ronan Gallagher. They’re all considered “personal project” to him, but personally, to me, they’re super professional. And they’re in a professional collection. Also they’re here in the gallery below. Look up!

Born on the west coast of Ireland in 1985, Ronan has found himself photographing around the world. While traveling Ronan aims to capture the true characteristics of the person or place that he is photographing. Some of his work has been published in well know magazines like Carve and National Geographic.

He is now living in London pursuing his career as a fashion and journalistic photographer.

Ireland +35385 1411953
London +4478 16183611
Email: info@ronangallagher.com

Website Design by: Eoin Stanley
Coded with: Indexhibit.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies architecture category.

This post is a collection of hundreds of Star Wars photos from the set, of the movies, and from the promotional shots of the 70′s and 80′s. Doesn’t matter how you feel about Star Wars, it’s affected the way you work. The world you live in today is the world you live in today because of Star Wars. You’d better believe that. Its basically like this: Luke Skywalker: New York, Princess Leia: Los Angeles, Han Solo and Darth Vader: Minneapolis.

These have been scrounged from all over the internets. If you are one of the photographers of these phantastic photos, shoot me an email or a comment here. If you’d like to take credit for bringing an image here to the internet, I give you a hearty thank you and internet hand shake. If you’ve got photos you’d like to add to the collection, feel free to also contact!

This post is composed of photos from the movies, (the original trilogy,) making-of photos, a few posters, products, and advertisements. MOSTLY it’s photos from cut scenes and promotional photos. Everything is super amazing and very wild.

Star Wars: one of, if not the greatest non-Jesus brands in history.

UPDATE: There is now another Rare Star Wars Photos post by the name of More Star Wars Rarities. More on-set, behind the scenes, during shots, and good time havin by the crew.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies outer space category.

This is a bunch of photos from inside the airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They’re snapped by me, author designer Chris Burns, as the first mission on this amazing fact-finding mission in Albany, NY, and the surrounding areas. These photos are taken with the most extremely specific mission in mind: photograph a photo every 5 seconds or less.

It almost worked. Results below!

These photos taken Friday, November 6th in the afternoon, 2009.

Minneapolis International Airport. Inside.

You should know that on World Famous Design Junkies there’s a constant search going on for projects that document different parts of the world, especially small areas like cities and towns and even buildings and events. The design elements, the graphic awareness is what’s sook. What have we got here? The shore area around Lake Ontario – one of the great lakes of North America. Taken in the question – “what if there was no lake?”

by Michael Fuchs, photographer / designer.

Colonized Waterways: Lake Ontario — My project is concerned with the shore region of lake Ontario. These photographs are a medication on the infrastructure and spaces that are dependent on the lake. The question is how much do these places create perception and shape ones relationship with a landscape? If Lake Ontario is perceived as a standalone character devoid of it’s surrounding how does that change the perspective? What’s the effect of framing it only through it’s context? The resulting view is a narrative that compared to the romance associated with Lake Ontario becomes a more difficult story to tell. -MF

Most of the photos are speaking for themselves but some of them have ads or found write-ups that pair with the subject matter.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies environment category.

A mister David Lasnier, designer and 3D pro, has replicated Marseille. In an extended stay and discovery mission on the streets of France’s largest commercial port, Lasnier exercised his skill on the ol’ 3D rendering engine to replicate iconic items he found all around the city. What a fabulous set of virtual items he’s conjured up!

It’s an interesting time in history for designers of all sorts. What tools do you need? That’s the question. Do you become a jack of all trades, master of none? Or is learning how to use every different tool the only way to become a true master?

From the looks of his portfolio, Lasnier‘s mastered several tools which are the following (and if not these, something comparable): Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, some sort of 3D rendering and animation engine(s), a pencil, a stamp, iPod touch (plus finger), some lovely video editing software, and the internets.

That’s hefty.

See the Marseille set below. This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies 3D category. Not just renderings, not just sculptures, but a big fat giant category full of basically everything past the second D.

Street artist Sam3‘s been up to some good, goodness sake. Look at these two newest works of his, both of them gigantic black figures rolling away the bad vibes of the billboards they live at. What a spectacular gesture. It doesn’t even have to be about advertising, it’s just that excellent. These were painted with simple black acrylic/oil/mixed paint, whatever was free at the time, painted with rollers on long sticks. See the other one below.

Above you can see the image called : “In The Autumn Leaves Fall.” Below you’ll find a collection of similar works by Sam3, followed by the other most recent work of his, “Getting Through The Back Door.” Both of these works were done in the past few days (14th of October and 19th of October, 2009.)

Check out the details also! Notice the fine ripping skills.

Nice rip, Sam3!

SAM3 is an artist that paints big (and we mean big) as well as small shadows and silhouettes in his urban surroundings. Sometimes ironic, other times poetic, always thought provoking, his work is more than a pretty picture.

Born in Elche, Spain, SAM3 currently lives and works in Madrid, Spain. His large street murals are certainly hard to miss to say the least and can be found across much of Europe.

Info above from print shop Paper Monster. They have a couple of his works (he does etchings and such) in their store – he’s exclusive if you know what I mean. This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies billboard category.

Noone can resist that title. This is a project by one Emanuele Nardoni, a photographer from Milan who likes to hit the road and the airplane and basically go on the photo outings that you WISH you could go on. This one’s set in Tokyo and I believe in the surrounding areas, and it is titled, yes, “Made in Japan.” And it’s lovely. Just fantastical. My favorite photo is the one above “This is My Art” because although it’s sort of totally self-referential, juvenile, silly, goofy, I think it’s right on cue. I wonder if it’s tile, sticker, wood, or what?

The rest of the set can be found below, in all it’s glory, click on the link connected to Nardoni’s name up there to find him on twitter! This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies architecture category. Didn’t see that one coming, did ya? The rest of the categories it’s in are listed above the title up there. Click them all for a treat!

Daniel Eatock does it. He’s a photographer, designer, idea-haver. This project of his reorients the perspective of the world, rather than seeing the trees as broken. A lovely way of seeing things, or the highest form of vigilanteism? A photographer is a sort of Batman, isn’t he? Capturing images with either no concern for one’s self, or just the opposite. Batman complex. Eatock complex.

Vandalized Trees Reoriented
ink-jet prints from digital photographs

Re-aligning the fallen trunks with the vertical edges of the frame, these photographs of damaged saplings give their subjects a second life as representations.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies photography category.

Hot dogs! Oh my goodness hotdogs! Coney Island Dogs. That’s what’s up. We’ve got a place around here (Minneapolis, Minnesota) called Uncle Frankey’s. Perhaps you’ve heard of it. They make amazing Coney Island Dogs. Supposedly they’re better on the REAL island, but who knows! These people do. And when I say these people, I mean all the people who took the photos included in the super insanely huge World Famous Design Junkies Coney Island Sign Explorer Collection. Oh wow the signs. Look at them all!

Ah yes, the island. All of these photos are straight off the island. Coney Island was the biggest park in the USA between 1880 and World War II, but now it’s sorta… fading… but that’s alright! It’s still insane! It’s a fast collection of fantastically clean painted signs and erratic, calculated oddities. And of course, the lights at night, or as we love to call signs of just this nature: Night Type.

BEHOLD, and be held… by the excellence.

Ironically, “Coney Island hot dog” describes a product that is unknown in its namesake, Coney Island, New York, where hot dogs (usually called “franks” from frankfurter) are traditionally made only from beef and served plain or with sauerkraut on a bun without other adornment except the availability of mustard, which at Nathan’s was applied by the customer. The only reason for the name is the generic hot dog’s origins in Coney Island, where it said to have been invented by Charles Feltman in 1867, who put a Vienna sausage in a roll and called it “Coney Island Red Hots.” Some people, unsure of its ingredients, called it a hot dog. Different references claim that the locals thought the sandwiches reminded them of Feltman’s ever-present companion, a dachshund, called a wiener dog even back then,and the term hot dog became a popular term. – WEEKII

The photos you see in this post are from the following contributors: I Follow, Brooklyn Bridge Baby, Maisa NYC, hut234, Mattron, Whiskey Gone Bad, Matt Daniels, Megga Llucci, Brunocerous, NB Photo Flash, Charles le Brigand, Andy Brannan, Nauga Style, PSLove1982, Me-Myself-I, Tucker Photography, Lost in Brooklyn, Coney Island History Project, Gordon Gattsek, and a couple others I cannot yet identify. Thanks to yew all!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies environment category.

This post is also part of the World Famous Design Junkies street signs category.

ALSO ALSO SAVE CONEY ISLAND!

Hooray for photographer Landry A! It’s a fabulously graphic-minded photo-taker who covers both au-natural photographs AND unnatural design. I jest, of course, as all good design is natural as the grass. What L.A. has done here is to keep a photo series going of all the excellence in the several countries Landry is able to visit on a regular (and irregular) basis. The set you’re about to peek and flip through is out of Africa. Black and white and color are two separate sets, I’m sure you’ll be able to tell which is which.

The photos you’re about to see are from Niger, Africa, and surrounding areas (I think some from Chad and Mali maybe too.) The collection we’ve got here are mostly the signage and graphic-natured photographs from the set. The extended set you can see on Landry A’s full portfolio site.

“PHOTOGRAPHS” by Landry A.
Based in Barcelona
contact email landry@mydogispolite.com

After you have a flip through this ongoing set, take a look at the rest of Landry A’s works for a treat: Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, Aragon, and more Africa! This particular post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies Public Space and Street Signs categories.

You know how sometimes it’s time to go for a stroll on Queens? Well sometimes it’s time for a bit of a jaunt in Dublin! That’s true, you know. It’s a fact. And with eyeballs like resident Niall O’Riordan, you’re bound to be clicking around too, it’s your duty! Photographs in this post are all from that fellow, and pay attention! This is how to document “unnatural” loveliness in the urban landscape.

Niall O’Riordan is a Dublin born photographer and artist. He graduated with a BA in Photography in 2002.

You can visit his website www.norphotography.com or follow him on Twitter >@botasky

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Sometimes it’s just time for a stroll down the street with the camera in your hand. You’ve got that designer eyeball and you’re looking to capture some sharp lines and pretty pretty patterns. That’s what Matthew Lapiska did the other day.

And oh my goodness here it is.

Queens Boulevard by Matthew Lapiska

Exploration is of supreme importance to a designer, especially one that hopes to avoid anonymity in today’s world of nickle-a-dozen design firms and world-wide access. You live on Queens Boulevard? You should photograph Queens Boulevard.

This post is straight outta the World Famous Design Junkies photography department, and boy wouldn’t you know it indubitably.

Nice typographics! Nice typographies that’s what this has. It’s got nice style and nice pinkness. I didn’t go inside, if that’s what you’re up on, but I did find something lovely behind the building. Explore with me, if you will, the wonders of the exterior of the building that goes by the title “Jake’s Exotic Dancers.” And if you’re lucky, you might just get more than you bargained for (a pdf file!)

The dancers are “Totally Exotic!”

Exciting development! Since I started posting this post, I’ve discovered a wonderful PDF file that relates directly to Jake’s. Turns out that some time in 2002, the city of Coates, Minnesota (where Jake’s is located) tried to outlaw erotic dancing in their city limits (or something to that effect.) This PDF that I just came across is a several page, nicely typed appeal to the higher Minnesota courts asking that Jake’s first amendment rights be upheld so that the ladies could shake their booties forevermore.

That PDF is so importante!

Thing is, I don’t know what happened to that case, so I don’t know if you can even go in Jake’s anymore at all! The signs are sort of decrepit (as you can probably see), but there was a pretty fresh car parked behind the building. So who knows!

Take a peeker at the pictures here on in and look at that lovely couch! It’s probably still there if you want it.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies architecture category, just for fun!

Check out Finsta Graphics! Totally excellent stuff and such. Illustrations of fat proportions, mainly. Discover the covers of albums and the backs of tshirts, and don’t miss the fruitillustrations on the walls of the streets, airbrushed to such a weirdness. But first, check above. Look at that thing. Nike and Adidas together at last. In truth a label made by Finsta for a (defunct?) clothing brand by the name of JIV.

Finsta is an artist from Sweden.

For questions or joboffers please e-mail: mail@finstafari.com

From the World Famous Design Junkies environment category. The JIV may be the most iconic moment of genius, but feast your eyes upon the installation artworks, especially the MTV painting. Then look upon the badness of the POP-EM records label.

Bad. Reeeeal bad. Ow!

So I’m sure you, being a rather wild person, were one of the 10 people that went to see the 2009 version of Land of the Lost – me too! I’m surprised I didn’t see you there! Well check it out. That movie was jammpacked full of pop-culture and brand-references because the idea of the Land of the Lost is that it’s a publishers clearing house of time and space! So of course there’s going to be Virgin Recording Studios spaceship, a tyrannosaurus rex, and an Urban Outfitters. Of course! And who concepted the heck out of all those things? This man right here, conceptual artist extraordinaire, Nathan Schoeder.

When you take a peek at these concept shots (below) you might say to yourself “wtf is going on here?” and that’s exactly right. Because that was the entire aim of the Land of the Lost tv series, and now it’s even MORESO the aim of the film. Giant crabs and sleestack creatures and hotel-motels and the Golden Gate Bridge and all sorts of wackiness!

Nathan Schoeder has worked as a concept artist in the motion picture industry since way back in time, (all the way back to the 1990s!,) creating artwork for such films as: X Men, Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull, Star Trek XI, Fantastic Four: The Rise of The Silver Surfer, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, National Treasure 2, Chronicles of Narnia, and more.

And very soon (I hope) we’re gonna see some of his work on TRON LEGACY holy mother! This post is a part of the World Famous Design Junkies 3D category. Because it’s totally 3D! And of course it’s part of the conceptual category too.

Stick with me here, because even though this post is about a soccer table, we’re about to get hella scientific. In nature, there is a thing called a fullerene. A fullerene is any molecules composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube. These bits connect together to create hollow ball-like forms. The first fullerene to be discovered was the C60*, and it mimics the shape of a standard soccer ball exactly!

In naming this particularly nice soccer table “The Beautiful Game,” the designers at Gro Design took unto themselves the task of doing homage to the creator of everything, I think, because even in nature there can be found a football.

*The C60 is also known as the buckminsterfullerene, named after the creations of Buckminster Fuller, named by the discoverers of the C60, Robert Curl, Harold Kroto and Richard Smalley. At this point I’ve also got to name a friend and former professor of mine Erik Brandt, without whom I might never have taken such an active interest in the connections between fussball (aka soccer) and graphic design (or the design of all creation, for that matter.)

Besides that little blurb, there’s not much that has to be said about this exquisite football table. It’s made to replicate the grandeur of the modern sporting arena, while on the playing field: “its atmospheric lighting and chromed metal players capture the excitement and drama of a classic sporting encounter.”

Each piece hand finished. By “skilled European craftsman.” What more could you ask for in life than that? How about asking for this table to be put into production? Yes you can have that too! But they ain’t cheap!

Designer: Gro Design. Part of the World Famous Design Junkies industrial design category. And don’t forget the sports!

First off, take a peek at this album artwork. It’s newly online, and it’s totally kewl. It’s designed and executed by designer Philip Kennedy for the band Funeral Suits. It’s collage work mostly, with some lovely typography on top. Just so nice!

Not oft is a person able to do nice collage that also looks so naturally lovely. Collage work is a finicky partner that way. And then it’s also translated well across a few media, too. Well played. BONUS there’s a music video Philip Kennedy also worked on.

Eye Spy a neat collabora.

From the naut-oft tagged World Famous Design Junkies album art category.

Copenhagen based design and art studio Hvass&Hannibal has their hands on a meeting room for meeting-room central DGI CITY (basically a gigantic hotel/restaurant/meeting area complex in Copenhagen.) Big time! DGI did right by the world to hire H&H for this thang. Take a look at those hot lines! Take a look at the rest of the room below.

DGI CITY
Client: DGI-byen

DGI-byen invited 7 artists and designers to redecorate their conference meeting rooms, in order to make meetings here a different and inspiring experience. For this project we worked on a scheme aimed at creating possibilities for dividing the room into smaller spaces with mobile boxes that serve as a system of flexible walls giving the room atmosphere and colour. In this mid-city meeting space we wanted to bring in a reminder of nature and did so by painting mountains on the wall. These, together with the highrise-like boxes, are meant to create a dynamic interaction between landscape and cityscape. Thank you to our assistants Nina and Lasse for their help on this project! Photographs by Hans Kruse.

While we’re on this note, I should mention: a fellow junkie and friend of mine, Mister H we shall call him, works for Epic – a place that sells software to hospitals and doctors offices and such – and they’ve got meeting rooms on top of meeting rooms in front of and behind meeting rooms just like this one – all themed differently. If you’re the sort of person in charge of making your workplace a pleasant one, consider it your prerogative to bust out some designs like this. Take a peep.

PLUS don’t forget to hit up the environment category for hot hot fun in the sun.

This is one of those sort of things where you see the work done for the project that’s done spectacularly and you say “who got to work on that?!” And well, in this case, it’s a fellow named Ramon Contini. And this job is the concept art for the electronic video game for a small independent film by the name of “Terminator Salvation.”

TERMINATOR SALVATION
© 2009 WB and Warner Brothers Interactive, Terminator ® StudioCanal S.A. Salvacion.

Skynet Roofs: Terminator 4: concept art
Revised Street: Terminator 4: concept art
Skynet Tower: Terminator 4: concept art
Park: Terminator 4: concept art
Vegetation concepts: Terminator 4: concept art
Skynet walkway: Terminator 4: concept art

Ramon Contini aka RAMONCITO aka Blood, Sweat & Art Since 1982 has a portfolio that’s simple divine enough to check out for certain. He’s a sketcher, illustrator, designer.

Check out these amazing beats! They are conceptual. They are for the new Terminator movie video game. It’s the sketch above and the sketches below that make a video game (or movie, for that matter,) the bulk of it’s funding. Just ask Ridley Scott – he’s a big proponent of this method for money for mayhem. Don’t ask the director of Terminator Salvation though, McG – Idunno what he thinks. Finally, keep your eyes open for the games of World Famous Design Junkies – small but wacky.

You might also find yourself home in the grotesque category.

Welcome to the North end of downtown Minneapolis’s neighborhood bar, Grumpy’s. It’s got basically everything made real good. It’s got live music every once in a while in the side room, and karaoke on Thursdays. The Melvins have played here more than once, poster(s) by Shepard Fairey. Test Prints by Aesthetic Apparatus decorate the side room, while the back of the bar, (now on hiatus, not open,) is the OX-OP gallery.

Here’s hoping the OX-OP opens up someday in the future. There was hell of amazing shows in there! Nathan Jurevicius, Aesthetic Apparatus, Shepard Fairey, Jeff Soto, Mark Mothersbaugh, Gary Baseman, Niagara, Shag, Tim Biskup, Frank Kozik, Camille Rose Garcia, Glen Barr, Yumiko Oksana, Buffmonster, Burlesque Design, Kii Arens, Derek Hess, Gary Taxali. It seems to have been open 2003 to 2006, it’s going out show being the first Juxtapoz Magazine yearly show ever held in a city other than New York or Los Angeles. MINNEAPOLIS FO LIFE YEEE.

P.S. I’m sure I have some pics from at least the Nathan Jurevicius show I attended in ’06, so I’ll keep an eye out for those for the future.

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