My shadow, hold me down for whatevah. Even if I tried my best I couldn’t run from my shadow. My shadow. My shadow. My shadow. My shadow. Shadow. Shadow. Shadow.
Free Gucci is my introduction to Gucci Maine. Here’s what I know: Gucci makes a zillion mixtapes a month, he probably made six while I wrote this post, and this mixtape is extra–extra dope. Free Gucci is presented by Diplo and it’s free. Download. Play. Repeat.
I make stuff all the freakin’ time! It’s what I love to do. Lately, I’ve been making some handmade zines. I started doing this because my next zine, II, was taking a longer time than I thought it would to complete. I was also kinda slackin’ on it for a month or two. Anyways I got some handmade paper from Oblation, and then decided to make some handmade zines.
I really enjoyed the thought of making these one-of-a-kind zines, and I immediately knew what I wanted to do with them. Give them away! I’ve always dropped one-page zines off at random places around Portland, it’s something I really love to do. The idea of people finding art in a rack of fliers or somewhere random has always made me smile.
I also enjoy how rough the zines are. I kinda treated them like a most of my art. No plans just dive and make some radical mistakes. Draw, draw, draw.
All the handmade zines I have made so far were dropped off yesterday. More will be made.
I love it when people e-mail me dope things! Today was one of those days when I got something dope in my mailbox. This e-mail was from David Lasnier, introducing me to some of the things he creates. After poking around his web site for a bit I stumbled across this amazing project of his, 50 Copiers.
Draw, draw, draw. This is what makes your drawings rad. David took this idea and started a project, he decided to draw 50 copiers. It’s a really awesome project, I never put together that there were so many different types of copiers. I’m really hoping that he does some more projects like this. What about 50 televisions, pencils, or square shaped objects?
Hand Made Book is a zine I recently received in the mail from Maxime Francout. I’m a big fan of Max’s work, and he was actually nice enough to send the first print out of 100.
The zine is a collection of his recent work. The copy I got had a nice little drawing by Max below the Thanks To section, not sure if he did this for every copy though. The zine is really nicely printed and put together. I recommend you pick the zine up if you are a fan of his work.
Today, I pulled two random zines out of my collection to post. The first is a zine I’ve had lying around for awhile, RRR.001.
“We make waste for a living. So now we’re gonna make waste live.”
This line describes RRR.001 perfectly. For the most part the zine is a collection of things made from waste. There’s a lot of forgotten doodles, cut up photographs, and re-purposed projects. Basically it’s zine full of recycled art. It’s a really big zine and features too many artists to name. It’s co-published by Untitled Publishing, printed on recycled paper, and limited to a 1,000 copies.
It’s a great zine and I recommend you pick it up if you get a chance. It’s awesome to see people make something out of waste. The zine is only fifteen bones and they are already working on a second one. Also, I encourage you to make some recycled art of your own and submit it to the RRR Flickr Group.
I’m a gigantic fan of people who doodle everyday. I’ve been doodling ever day for awhile, as you can see in my sketchbooks. One thing I don’t do though, is post a doodle everyday, but Chris Piascik does.
He’s been doing this for two years I believe. If you go to his Flickr page you can see the archive of his daily drawings. If you take a look at his first daily drawing you can see how much he has improved over two years.
I love to see how people evolve with their art. Lately he has been doing some totally rad doodles on black paper, this really makes the colored pencils pop. Take some time to look at his work, get inspired, and start a daily project of your own.
Growing up I used to look at old Popular Mechanics at my Grandma’s house. The one thing that fascinated me the most was: the cars, houses, and gadgets of the future. They always had beautiful illustrations of what these things looked like. Out of all those things the houses of the future amazed me the most. They were always so interesting.
Once I got older I always found it fascinating when I would stumble upon pictures of interesting houses, living spaces, and artist’s studios. There’s just something interesting about the way other people live. Which brings me to my point, The Way We Live is a collection of dope images of how people live and might live.
It’s a bummer that the blog is pretty much donzo, it’s so amazing. Looking through it reminds me so much of those old Popular Mechanics. I do have to admit that a short article about the image/ways we live would’ve made the blog a zillion times better. If anyone knows a similar blog let me know.