Master Blaster

Darrin Bendall: true master! Australia's raddest import.

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Poster Initiative 001

I just started a new series of two-color posters called "Poster Initiative" that will be distributed for free around Tokyo. The first batch were dropped off at Nagi Shokudo last night and another went to Cafe Pause today. Poster Initiative 001 was printed in a series of 1,000.

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Jon Raymond + Zak Love + Quasi = ???

This Thursday, Today, June 18
Portland, Disjecta

Tin House and Disjecta's latest installment of "Arty Words" features a reading by Plazm editor Jon Raymond, live music by Quasi, and art from LA's Zak Smith. Disjecta, 8371 N. Interstate, 7:30 pm, $7/door.

event: http://disjecta.org/events/artywords-tinhouse-v2.php
signed book: http://plazm.com/books/livability

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Entarte Kunts

Dennis Dread's amazing annual collective exhibition of punk art, Entartete Kunts, resumes again in Portland on June 19 at the Life Gallery.

Featured artists:

Nick Blinko (Rudimentary Peni)

Arik Roper (High On Fire, Sleep)

Rob Miller (Amebix)

S. Clay Wilson (The Accused)

Away (Voivod)

Necrolord (Dissection, Emperor)

Lino Reca (Villains, Hemlock)

E. Danielsson (Watain)

Chanel Adair (Lebenden Toten)

 

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Tokyo Party Alert!!! Exercise: Lesson Three

What happens when you give two graphic designers and three programmers turntables, then team them up with a duo of professional sound artists?

THE ASS-SHAKING, MIND-BLOWING, BUDONKADONK-CLAPPING, EYE-REDDENING DANCE PARTY OF THE YEAR!!

If you are in Tokyo, you obligated to make your way to Lesson Three of Exercise, the official unofficial dance party of IMG SRC/Non-Grid, Tokyo's top web design and interactive agency.

Friday June 19th
@ Rubyroom Shibuya
11pm - 5am
¥1,500 including one FREE drink

Get out from behind that monitor and get your sallow, pasty ass on the dance floor, motherfucker!!!

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Liza Ryan Catalog Release Tomorrow at Griffin

Artist Liza Ryan's catalog, designed by Plazm creative director Joshua Berger, will be released June 17. Cooley Gallery director and Plazm contributor Stephanie Snyder will discuss the work with the artist beginning at 7 pm at Griffin, 2902 Nebraska Ave., Santa Monica.
Info at http://www.griffinla.com

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ART FOR THE MILLIONS

On Sunday, June 28, the Dill Pickle Society, a newly-formed experimental education/ cultural center, warmly invites you to "ART FOR THE MILLIONS: THE ENDURING LEGACY OF THE WPA," a leisurely bicycle tour of Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in Portland. The ride will make several stops along the way to hear from leading scholars and examine the WPA’s relevance to contemporary society.

From 1935-1943, the WPA put more than 8 million people across the United States back to work, many in Western states, including Oregon. While many are familiar with Timberline Lodge, the WPA also helped create and improve Portland city parks, public school buildings and a variety of other public projects.

Among the tour stops are Paul Grellert’s mural at the Morrisson Street post office, the Portland Art Museum, Woody Guthrie Circle, Skidmore Fountain (where David Milholland will talk about C.E.S. Wood and the history of public art in Portland) and Abernathy School (where Friends of Arts in the Schools will show us their efforts to restore a WPA mural). The ride will also stop for lunch (provided) at Westmoreland Park (itself a WPA project), where attendees will participate in a discussion on the feasibility of implementing a federally-funded arts program today.

Registration is required to attend and space is limited to the first 40 participants. A $10 donation goes towards lunch, admissions, a “merit badge” and supplemental materials. To RSVP, e-mail: yes@dillpickleclub.com.

For more info, check out the attached poster (feel free to forward on to friends, colleagues, neighbors etc) or visit us online at: www.dillpickleclub.com <http://www.dillpickleclub.com/> .

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