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Historical ramblings on Mutant Bike Organizations (aka MBOs): CHUNK 666, BLACK LABEL BIKE CLUB and Naughty NYC…

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Remembering CHUNK 666′s Chunkathlon and BLACK LABEL BIKE CLUB’s Bike Kill (among other bike-fun-fests): …a little bubble of mutant-bike utopia – Megulon 5 BLACK LABEL BIKE CLUB The Black Label Bike Club is an international freak/mutant bicycle organization specializing in tall bikes and choppers, established in 1992. Jacob Houle and Per Hanson started the club [...]

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Collage Art We Dig! by Trystan Bates, Ben Giles, Sonny Kay, Nicolas Lampert, Alexis Anne Mackenzie, Monica René Rochester, Bryan Schnelle and Judith Supine

Thursday, February 14, 2013

“Collage is still a very contemporary medium, whether it is done with little bits of paper or in the cinema.” –James Rosenquist “…the principle of collage is the central principle of all art in the 20th century.” – Donald Barthelme Trystan Bates “My work and progress is centered largely around the construction of something new [...]

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Pixação or pichação: I prefer you to hate me than ignore me… from potitical graff to acrobatic bombing as voice of the favela

Saturday, February 9, 2013

“Street Art” not even approximately intended for the gallery… (Glad the cool hunters have caught on!) Pixolita, Jensine Eckwall Pixolita is a decorative typeface with inscriptional roots. It is sans-serif in the conventional sense, but has invented serifs made from arrow-like forms. The letter-forms have irregular counters and a high crossbar, with a fixed line [...]

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Song of the Day and Related Information: my congressman by fifteen

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

I know… these posts are getting a little heavy on the youtube videos… This one carries a little more weight… More to come on the Effluvia Magazine side of the site… Look for our review and interview with the talented pair (Faythe Levine and Sam Macon) behind the Sign Painters book and documentary! My congressman [...]

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Double up!!! S.O.T.D. Survivor by Jeff Ott

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Of Crimpshrine and Fifteen fame… Keeping it really really real on the self-cover pulling tio… One of us… Now a punk rock nurse!!! Keeping it real on the non petrol-based acoustic set!!!

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