Fellow crew mate CYCLE has some new works in a show right now in Brooklyn. I meant to post this the other day for the opening, but you can still see the show as it runs through March. Sorry C.
“Oddities”
Morning Breath & Cycle
February 27th through March 22 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, February 27th 7-10pm
A Nike project I’m working on with some friends got put on hold, so I spent last Saturday night until Sunday morning painting some characters for DC Noodles.
My friends Mike and Sak recently closed their old restaurant, Simply Home, and reopened it as DC Noodles. Sak is from Thailand and came up with some really good traditional noodle dishes with his chef. Mike is an art dealer as well and had some cool ideas for the new look of the restaurant, including some graff type characters I designed with them.
The original sketch has a silhouette of the city and a small Asian village, but I kinda like it clean without a background. So this might not be finished just yet.
A cool article over at the Baltimore City Paper:
Times are tough for a poster company that has been changing with the times and trends since the Great Depression, through circuses and vaudeville and R&B tours, all the way to hip-hop, and the Ciceros are beginning to look to their past to preserve Globe for the future. Last year, they started marketing reproductions of some of their most popular work, such as posters from the great R&B shows of the 1950s and ’60s, trying to turn a profit on posters from the company’s golden era.
Globe currently takes up every inch of a cinder-block warehouse building a few blocks off the commercial strip of Eastern Avenue in Highlandtown. It’s still very much a going concern, from the front counter where Frank and Bob rush to answer the phone to the cavernous and unheated back room, where employees feed corrugated plastic blanks into the rollers of a huge screen-printing press. But alongside the current operation, in drawers and cabinets and sometimes in piles, they have preserved the tools of their trade going back to Globe’s beginning: thousands and thousands of blocks of type, in different fonts and sizes, in metal, wood, rubber, and linoleum–some never touched by printer’s ink.
Wow. That was a long, fun night last night. Good to see BASER, DAKS and the Atlanta guys. Even got FELON out to the show. But it’s definitely time for a well deserved nap.
My crew mate and all-around funny dude, ENUE, has an interview over at the Ironlak site.
