Here’s a poster Niko and I designed this fall for a lovely independent film that has been making the festival circuit for the last few months. It just got picked up by Paladin Films for national release this spring. Coming to a city near you! Trailers and stuff can be found here.
Plazm designed this teaser ad as well as a series of posters for New York City-based Red Bull Theater’s latest production “The Witch of Edmonton.” The show was recently extended through February 20, 2011. Details on the Red Bull Theater web site.
There is also a great review from the New York Times’ Ben Brantley that ran a few days ago. Check it out while you can.
I will be continuing to perform my Collateral Damage piece at the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place shopping mall during a four-gallery reception Saturday evening, 6-9pm. Photo and stop motion here were shot by Drew Andreson at the last opening.
More details on the event at the Place Facebook page or at the Settlement web site
Check out this new limited edition shirt – 100 printed on American Apparel cotton – we are stoked!
Internationally recognized, New York based Luba Lukova is regarded as one of the most distinctive image-makers working today. Whether by using an economy of line, color, and text to pinpoint essential themes of the human condition or to succinctly illustrate social commentary, her work is undeniably powerful and thought provoking.
Plazm’s Joshua Berger will be on display along with his Collateral Damage project during the opening of PLACE. PLACE can be found in the Pioneer Place shopping mall on the third floor between Starbucks and Game Stop. The event opening is December 18. Also showing: TJ Norris and Dustin Zemel. Also check out STORE next door run by PNCA’s BFA student body.
Publication Studio Makes A Book from Mike Merrill on Vimeo.
Plazm will participate in the second annual holiday Publication Fair which features tons of great portland publication projects all in one room. Put together by Publication Studios. Come on down and get limited edition Plazm books, magazines, t-shirts and free popcorn!
December 19, 2010 11 am – 8 pm
@ The Cleaners at Ace Hotel, SW Stark & 10th Street, Portland, Ore.
Here is a partial list of vendors at the Fair:
Pinball Publishing
Reading Frenzy
Veneer Magazine
Benefit show for local non-profit print studio Flight64 is a great place to get some one-of-a-kind silkscreen posters.
Dec 8 at Someday Lounge
A raffle of a signed Shepard Fairey silk-screen print. Tickets are $1, and are available at
the event. Tickets are also available in advance at the following locations; Together Gallery,
Grass Hut, Backspace, and Upper Playground/FIFTY24. The winning ticket will be drawn at
Midnight at the benefit. The winner does not need to be present to win.
Silent auction of framed fine art prints featuring; Mike King, Christy Wyckoff, Martin Ontiveros,
Tom Prochaska, Shepard Fairey, Guy Burwell, Art Chantry, Yoshihiro Kitai, Joshua Berger, Adam Garcia, many more…
Woodblock printing workshop from 6pm to Midnight. Guests can create their own block
and print cards, and art prints on a printing press. Workshop sponsored by McClains Printmaking
Supplies.
Live music by Agora Four (Jazz), Fun Yeti (Rock), The Morels (Rock), and DJ Just Dave starting
at 9pm. $5 – $10 suggested donation for cover.
This event is 21 and over.
New lecture posted online (in 3 parts) by whiz kid Adam Greenfield of Do Projects and former design director at Nokia. Called “Becoming Real”, Adam chronicles how and why certain projects fail while others succeed.
Produced by the kind folks at AQ. Worth a watch- you’ll learn crazy stuff.
Eric Mast is a very busy person: he runs an excellent record label, Audio Dregs, is a painter/electronic artist/dj, and recently started the project Dreem Street with friend Matt Chambers. He is seriously a force of creative nature. Below he somehow found time to answer a few questions. (Please, someone, get this man an intern! The world NEEDS a hand-drawn video for the remix of R. Kelly’s “Real Talk”, seriously.) Photo above by Nilina Mason-Campbell – thank you.
Why did you start Dreem Street and what do you want it to be?Dreem Street is a collaborative project disguised as a commercial venture that my friend Matt Chambers and I started about a year ago; doing small runs of prints of drawings on T-shirts. Matt did a small gallery, zine and clothing line called Trudi out of LA, where he lives, which was a similar idea. Trudi had a two year expiration date as a project and Dreem Street is the sequel to that. We collaborated on a painting that he sold and we used that money as the capitol to buy a pile of blank shirts. We draw the images directly to the screens, print a few and reclaim the screen for another image right away. This way its as direct as possible, just drawings on shirts. It takes things out of an “art” context. Matt is a full time painter these days, but we both have DIY music backgrounds, punk, skateboarding, etc. So this project is about making objects that have a direct relevance to your life; something an 18 year old kid can wear rather than a print on the wall in a gallery. There’s also an underlying “humor” theme of why things are funny from a psychological stand point. We like to talk dissect a joke the same way we would discuss art or philosophy, as in they are all a means to the same end. That’s why the Groucho face is sort of an unofficial logo.
Is the limited edition of it all due to the new economy of small runs or for environmental reasons, or because you want to add things frequently and want to do tons of work, or, what?
Basically we have no commercial sense, and we’d rather work than sell. Its more fun to have an idea, actualize it and move on quickly before you have a chance to second guess your bad ideas. So doing small runs is easier for the working process and you don’t have to spend much time promoting if there’s less money ventured on materials. This way we can lose money more slowly, stretch it out like a long painful death scene; I’m thinking of Peter Sellars in the opening scene to The Party (1968). The best ideas are often the worst ideas so this gives us more chances to make bad choices.
Copy just came out with a rad cd on yr record label audio dregs, are you gonna make any crazy flash videos for that limited edition R Kelly Remixx cd??????
I’ve thought about it. I wanted to do a remake of “Real Talk” but all hand drawn ink on paper. I’m not sure I’ll have time. I still haven’t gotten around to doing the Copy vs Bone Thugs “Ecstasy (Remix)” video that I wanted to do 2 years ago, and I’ve been trying to spend less time on the computer these days. If I get an intern before the end of the year then I can make it happen.
What are you working on now?I’m working on a series of larger ink drawings and a new E*Rock album and trying to solidify a new video based E*Rock set. Also I’m working on getting this dabke inspired band that I started with Panther Charlie re-formed as a live/performance based group. In other Dreem Street related news: Matt Chambers finished 80 paintings for a show that opened last week at Untitled gallery in NYC.http://nyuntitled.com/2010/10/23/matthew-chambers/?pid=35
what is inspiring you right now?
It’s been a pretty bleak year for me as far as finding external stimulus that I find motivating me to want to work. Its all too distracting. Matt has honestly been my biggest influence in getting me to make art, go bigger and put in more hours. Ratatat has been inspiring to me musically. I like to go offline, go into another part of the house to record or read a book or the New Yorker and then put on a loud record and tune out and draw.