Hope you all had a great holiday season. Our last show was a lot of fun, thanks to all of those who came out and showed support to fellow Purple Razor, Lem Bartley, who showed his solo exhibition. If you missed last’s month’s show, Thoughts Behind the Wheel, here is a link to some photos. We also were lucky enough to participate in the Gimme Baby Robots Art Show. Also last month some of us showed up at the Greenwood Collective for the Holiday Bizarre. Needless to say, with the holiday’s we have been busy.
So for the New Year we are excited to announce another group show full of many talented folks. Slash in the New Year w/ the Purple Razors, a show focused on B rate horror and gore, is our way of breaking out of the old and preparing for the new. Shed, rip off, rip out, or peel back that old skin and emerge into the new year covered in blood and guts ready to charge yet again into that dark unknown scary basement we call life. Come celebrate with us as we pay homage to the things that have frightened us in the past and join with us as we spear all of those fears in the heart. Or just come get grossed out, either way it is going to be a fun time with the usual suspects, good art, good friends, and stubby bottles of brew. We are bringing Evil back, yeah.
The show will take place on First Thursday, January 7th, 2010 , at The Electric Coffin Studio from 6-10pm. 212 Alaskan Way S, Seattle, WA 98104.
Spacecraft had an official “Sales Meeting”… more of a rally the troops, meet the new reps, check out the newly designed line and head up to The Method Cabin in route to Mt. Baker. See what happens when we gather some sales Astronauts and unveil our next seasons line for the first time.
Peel your eyes for Fall 10… Spacecraft is knitting up some goods
Photos and captions below : photos by Ryan and his new camera
Spacecraft co-founder Stefan and lead designer Colby present the Fall 10 line of headwear ::
We had our Sales meeting at a Burlesque theater... staff and reps were loving the mood lighting :: Mid Atlantic rep Gary Clayton made the journey ||
NW Road Warrior Brice. Pulling the triple SSS... skating, snow shredding and Spacecraft ::
Spacecraft "rep of the year" Tony Perez tries on a magic hat... John Crouch in the background dreaming of rain boarding ::
“Get up and Go.
I love this shit all the cliche sayings all the naysayers all the inbound warriors. Bro bonics in full effect. From rail warriors in Minnesota to pow pirates in Revelstoke.
Lets go snowboarding.” -Byron Bagwell
split to win this shot is on a split board I split myself. I see split boarding as a area for snowboarding to grow- mt baker backcountry- photographer Stephen Matera
color in willows, This is a cool shot without the snowboarder. Tree riding in chile is rare- Nevados de Chillan- Photographer Justin Kious
big white wave. The wind in blowing 60 mph above the lip. Slasher - Valley of tree Volcanoes Chile- Photographer Justin Kious
old tree taper. This old boy was begging for exposure- Side Country Las Trancas Chile- Photographer Justin Kious
heart pounding good times- Little AK mt baker backcountry- Photographer- Justin Kious
Feliz Navidad! Hope everyone had a nice little vacation.
Got a few days off from filming “real” things to do some front yard shredding and chair lift laps. Please only watch this week’s report if you are down (with the sickness).
Why is it ok to take down someone else’s work (/advertisement) and put my work up instead:
The message of this work is not “buy! buy! buy!” it is “look, enjoy, think, like, don’t like, form an opinion.” It engages viewers in a dialogue which advertisements do not. Each piece of art put in a public space, in place of an ad, is an opportunity for viewers to reconnect with the space they inhabit.
I didn’t sign this work:
If this poster were an advertisement for me-as an artist-it would be just as problematic as a conventional, legally paid for ad. Jordan Seiler uses this quote from Lewis Hyde’s The Gift to describe his work: “unlike economic exchange, a gift has no expectation of return.” As a gift to the city, I have no expectation that this work will garner recognition or accolades. It was a very small way to change a very large cityscape. It was perhaps a utopian gesture which has the potential to lead to more concretely efficacious ones.
Just getting my feet wet:
As I prepared for my project (reading about street art, about Jordan Seiler’s work, about resident/public-space interaction) the holes in it became quite clear to me. I’m not sure such an obviously political work is the best use of reappropriated ad space; it’s a case of the message is the medium; I think just putting a piece of art in a space conventionally used for advertisements is enough of a message itself. Or perhaps I just needed to put my work in a more specific location—out side the TimeWarner center or maybe even very close to a news stand. My lack of experience entering the instillation limited me in some ways in these options.
We all know the tigers are almost extinct in the Jungles of indonesia, but when was the last time you saw a friend wearing a genuine tiger fur or boots to dinner?
Today I was shocked to find my regular leather supplier is also one of Bali’s largest Python skin suppliers. I began questioning my Javanese friend on the python market, Where he bought them? how much he paid? how many snakes were killed?. He was so excited to tell me how popular python skin is today, he even showed me a movie on his hand phone of them killing a 4 meter long reticulated Python, which can grow up to 9 meters, the worlds longest snake.
What I have learnt is, unlike crocodiles or cows, which are farmed for meat and skins , the pythons are taken directly form the jungles of Sumatra by local villages, and sold to dealers who will kill and skin the snakes. On average the python is about 4 meters long and is sold to my friend for $10 per meter. I estimate the villages receive $5 or$10 a snake. My friend believes the supplier kills about 15 until 20 pythons per day.
To export the python skin , a buyer must have a certificate from the Indonesian government which will state the animal was taken from the wild. However I was informed this is just a formality and most customers lie about the quantity.
When I asked my friend what will happen when the snakes run out, He laughed and replied, they will not run out.
Pythons are not farmed as they are too expensive to keep, Python skins have recently boomed in the fashion world.
Please make your friends aware of this.
As they say on animal planet “when the buying stops the killing stops”.
I have attached a link to a more detailed article for those that would like more info
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Spacecraft Astronaut “Pat Milbery” appears on Fuel TV’s Daily Habit. Word has it the Spacecraft hand made masks were placed on heads and chaos ensued.
Airing Wednesday, December 2 at 9:00 pm Eastern Time (6:00 pm Pacific Time) and telecast three additional times, Pat Milbery will appear on “The Daily Habit.”
A Spacecraft star sighting: Gwen, husband Gavin Rossdale, kids Kingston and Zuma are enjoying a night out on the town. Zuma is wearing a Spacecraft Buddha Bear hand knit beanie. Thanks for the love Gwen and family ::
One Saturday morning, on October 29, 1966, a massive 60-foot-tall painting of a nude pink lady holding flowers suddenly appeared as you headed into the tunnel on Malibu Canyon Road.
As word of the massive pink lady spread, and the traffic on the highway grew to a halt, city officials decided “The Pink Lady” had to be removed. Firefighters were called to hosing her off the rocks. It didn’t work. Buckets of paint thinner were thrown on the rocks. It only made her pink skin pinker.
As county officials worked on figuring out a way to remove The Pink Lady, a 31-year-old paralegal from Northridge, a woman named Lynne Seemayer, suddenly showed up on the road and admitted that she was the artist who did the piece.
Seemayer said that she was annoyed by the graffiti that was all over the canyon wall (”Valley Go Home” was a memorable slogan) and so, over a 10 month period, she started to secretly climb up under the moonlight and suspended herself by ropes to remove the graffiti.
At 8 P. M. on October 28 Seemayer painted the Pink Lady using ordinary house paint. By dawn it was done.
The Pink Lade lasted only a week. Seemayer sued LA county for $1 million for the destruction of her work, and the county counter-sued for $28,000 in removal costs. Since the painting was on private property, both cases were dismissed by the court.
On Thursday, November 3, workers covered the painting with 14 gallons of brown paint.
At 8 P. M. on October 28 Seemayer painted the Pink Lady using ordinary house paint. By dawn it was done.