What a perfect day, a wondrous day, for today a baby is born. My friends Erik Brandt and Elisabeth Workman have tied their lives together and shot out a whole ‘nother life into existence. This child you see before you has three glorious names, one more excellent than the last, all in a circle: Beatrix Lulu Sakile!!! She was born at 6:45AM this morning (CST) and is already dancing on the dance floor with the whole world. As per request by the parents, I issue you the demand that you get down and boogie in celebration too!

Musical selections below!
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Drodding about the internet helped me happen upon the image you see above this sentence. It is a high-quality patch made in the real world reflecting the alternate-reality depicted in the 1986 story “Watchmen.*” This patch is presented by The New Frontiersman Watchmen fangroup, made by the people who were in charge of promoting the 2009 Watchmen movie, I’m pretty sure. Inspired heavily by this excellent manifestation of what was and what wasn’t, I went on a hunt for other, more “real” patches from the Vietnam war, as worn by the real soldiers on either side of the conflict.
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And so, BlackOsprey shall be at a place with a bunch of works. Aaron Horkey makes ultra amazing fantastic works of magnificence. He’s the most insanely wonderful detail oriented illustrator I know about, and he’s got this show coming up. It’s at Remick Gallery in Windom Minnesota and the opening night is on September 12th 2010. It’s totally free and there’s refreshments. Dranks. It’s from 2-4PM which means it’s more of an Opening Afternoon sort of situation, which is more than totally appropriate for his excellent works.
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Apparently David Choe is the most baddest of all dudes or something because he’s always hanging out with naked women and terrifyingly brutish looking men. Did you know this? Just four days ago he released these photos he took of Danny Trejo. Choe is known on the whole for his undeniably masterful paintings, but he’s also an intense photographer. And he’s got a book out right now to promote, and Trejo has a movie coming out (“Machete”), so they called each-other up on their dial-tone phones and decided to have a play date.
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Designer / Bookmaker / Illustrator Sami Foust has created a teeny tiny book. Five copies of a teeny tiny book. This book is called “Foust Feast” and it’s all about the foods that are served up at her extended family reunions. Ever so cute, ever so tiny. And with some ever-so miraculous hand-drawn letters and tiny stuffings, too.
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We live in a time, right here right now, where many things are called beautiful. The state of modern art is in such a broad, diverse place right now that basically everything goes. We are still reacting off of Pop though, so more often than not the objects you’ll see in a gallery are derivative of something found. For example, artist mister Richard Prince whose photographs of cowboys were (and are) lifted directly from cigarette ads. But this work right here in this post, it’s all new. Designer / artist Jacob Lysgaard not only drew the feathery headdress in this image, he took the photograph of the boy wearing it.
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I’ve always liked bunny rabbits, those cutest of little land mammals that lived under the sheds of my childhood neighborhood, driving everyone up a wall with their eating of flowers and greenery. Oh how they were hated by everyone else! I though (and think) it’s cute to see little nibbles here and there and everywhere, and yes, since you asked, I AM a gardener as well. But most people want them to die, especially people who plant gardens and wear real fur coats. You know who doesn’t want them to die? Designer Dave Whitley. He’s a bad mother and he knows that bunny rabbits can be bad mothers too. Battletime begin now!
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Recently, personally, I’ve been struggling with the idea that everything I do in life must be aimed at functioning in our global community in a way that will allow me to continue living the way I’m living. AKA it’s all got to be for the cash monay. Harsh, yes? Totally harsh. Then today, right now, comes along an amazing set of photos done out of love and in the spirit of experimentation, a set so beautiful that, gosh, what do you know, I bet people WOULD give this man some money for some prints of his work! Smart, God, smart.
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Although I’m sure there are many… pieces… missing from MST3K – pieces of brain matter, sensicality, other bits of film and metal, this is the piece we’ve got. What’s going on right here is the collected POSTERS from the movies watched and spoken on by the MST3K robots and dude. The films this crew watched ranged many years, through the 50′s, 60′s, 70′s, etcetera, through graphic design terror and genius. Turns out the posters for the movies they featured on this show have QUITE a range and, now that the internet is around, are totally sitting around all over the place. And now they’re all here.

A big fat gallery of posters from the MST3K movies. Here. Now. Instantly.
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A wise character on a TV show once said: “Why tip someone for a job I’m capable of doing myself? I can deliver food. I can drive a taxi. I can, and do, cut my own hair. I did however, tip my urologist, because I am unable to pulverize my own kidney stones.” This is the exact same concept that is going on in the photographed objects going on here in this project by artist / designer / photographer Ben Innes. They are called “Separations” and they are exploded objects held up by string and photographed against single-color backgrounds. They make a person understand the nature of the object in a way one, even one who uses these objects every day, does not think about.

Components. Many, many components. I am not capable of making these objects.
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Let me show you something drawn on black. Then more on white right afterward. Some colors glittered all around, and like the title of this post suggests, some fatboy outlines. These are the illustrative works of Tin&Ed. They’ve got their eye on perfection whist living the fabulous life of whimsy. This is the line you’ve got a real option of riding your bike on if you’re going to function in this hipster aesthetic world. It’s like a bio-dome of confident light-bike speeding. Don’t run into the wall! Tin&Ed don’t.
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Let me begin here by apologizing to you for not showing this artist earlier. Mike Brodie aka the “Polaroid Kidd” is a photographer who’s ushered his work into the houses of hundreds of patrons, photos, ironically enough in this sentence, of the homeless. Not homeless necessarily by necessity, but more likely and more often than not by choice. These photos are taken by Brodie and of his friends and associates. All along the road and all along the railroad tracks. All the way from Florida to California to Minneapolis and back again.
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