Sonny Kay is a late 20th century and new millennial musical and artistic Renaissance man. He’s founded and run everything from bands to distros to labels and is currently taking a hiatus from his own musical projects to focus on his multi-textured digital collage pieces, many of which color the covers of your favorite band’s [...]
Faythe Levine and Sam Macon have broken new ground with the first real study of the handcrafted signage that decorates and educates folks on the businesses that operate and the products that they sell. The book is published by Princeton Architectural Press and runs the gamut of sign painters from young folks like Steve Powers, [...]
by Kevin Casey (See more photos at Arrested Motion) Stephen Powers is an artist who came up writing graffiti in Philly and NYC, as ESPO (“Exterior Surface Painting Outreach”). In 2000 Powers gave up writing graff to focus on studio and public art. Many are familiar with Powers’ work as ESPO, as well as his [...]
Recently Effluvia had the opportunity to chat with Aaron Rose about the origins and future of the “DIY school” he founded in the wake of his touring gallery show, book and documentary film Beautiful Losers. Rather than waste the money they had to market the project, Rose and company decided to redirect the funds into [...]
Counteract Collective is an amazing new all screen printed distro and skill-sharing organization. They print everything under the sun and have a huge assortment of silk screened patches for the punk, post-punk, ex-punk and straight up anarcho-crusty. Effluvia had the opportunity to get to know one of the founders, Rio, over the interweb and he [...]
This is part of a new series that Effluvia is doing on independent booksellers, info-shops, distros and other collective and individual exercises in the dissemination of “alternative” media. As the behemoth B&N adds more kitsch and subtracts more books from its brick and mortar stores and moves more of its business online, we at Effluvia [...]