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Arrested Motion posted a great video they took from the new Kris Kuksi exhibit.
Check out Arrested Motion for more details on the video.

Beautiful Decay Book 2

Beautiful Decay’s Book 2, titled What a Mess!, arrived yesterday in the mail.

Details:

Book 2: What A Mess!

The artists of “Book 2: What a Mess!” all interpret the idea of “messiness” whether through disorganized methods of displaying work, or rough hewn aesthetics. Others take a conceptually “messy” approach, creating works that cause public outrage, or manipulate typically taboo imagery or themes.

In the spirit of the theme of the issue, Beautiful/Decay got a little messy ourselves, using a playfully “messy” approach to our page layouts, including crumpling photos and creating a custom typeface of childhood favorite construction materials: googly eyes, popsicle sticks and puff balls.

Book 2: Special Features

* Hand Signed Silkscreen mini print by Cody Hoyt
Each copy of Book 2 comes with a dazzling taco and fruit loop eating glue-sniffing guru print by Cody Hoyt. On the back, each mini-poster is hand signed and hand numbered by the artist!

* Sticker Insert
Custom collaborative sticker featuring a rock n’ roll wookie/Bigfoot character by Moritz Schleime.

* French flaps & Gatefold
Book 2’s front and back lining gatefold of the book opens out to stunning three part geometric diagrams, abstracting photos of the artists and their studios into a dizzying digital display replete with a secret code!

* Hand Numbered Edition
Each and every copy of Book 2’s exclusive 1,500 print run are hand numbered.

* 164 Pages of Pure Content- No Ads!
All traditional advertising has been eliminated, meaning 164 pages of pure, unadulterated content. Book 2 features some of the most in-depth interviews and image-rich spreads on emerging and establishing artists available today.

Check out the a full video preview here.

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Tragic Beauties

Tragic Beauties is a photo series by Barbara Abel documenting antique wax mannequins that sat in a “dimly lit mannequin warehouse in downtown Detroit. There they sat, covered in plastic for decades, until a few years ago when they were sold to collectors.”

More pictures at Marieaunet (where the above images are from) and Barbara’s site.

Camille Rose Garcia, on the cheap

Roq La Rue has had this available for a bit, however it seems to be flying under the radar. Its a decent print and its for a good cause. available here

Nightmare

Aeron Alfrey’s print based on American Werewolf in London:

Here is my depiction of the nightmare Nazi demons from An American Werewolf In London, originally published (in black and white) in Electric Ant #2.

I am selling signed and numbered high quality art prints of this in a limited edition of 666. An unspecified number of prints will be held back for a future solo show.

Buy this print and some other great stuff here.

Gum

Looks like Dentyne decided to get WEIRD…from Anthony Yankovic:

If you like chewing gum, then pick one of these Dentyne bottles up at your local gum store. They’ve been slowly popping up here and there, as the old stock depletes they are replaced by these newer fancier ones.

Also, check out one of his new deck designs:

Dust

Paul Hazelton’s sculptures are made of dust.

The dust of everyday life – the unavoidable and necessary by-product of living, engrosses me. Art, also an unavoidable and necessary by-product of living, engrosses me. Art, like dust, is a residue of life and therefore, the making of art is like an extreme act of self-exfoliation. For me, making art is a per-version of life that has many possible diversions. Sometimes these diversions take you somewhere unexpected, sometimes somewhere gross but you have to keep going.

Check out more of Paul’s work and bio here.

Float

Coolest record player (concept) ever:

The record player uses a carrier and dock outfitted with a magnetic and auto-calibrating control system which carries the LP into thin air as it is playing music. a self-running record player shaped
in the form of a red sphere, contains a needle, amplifier and speaker, spins around the record,
bringing the music to life. the sphere that plays the vinyl was technically influenced by the ‘vinyl killer’,
currently the world’s smallest LP player that has a built-in motor, amplifier and speaker.

Skull Transformation

Kenn TwoFour’s hand screened woodcuts.

Jazz up that dark corner with this handmade set of skulls which depicts the transformation from normal powerless human to an all powerful telepathic space zombie overlord. Shocking but colorful!

Set of four skulls. Each is 3 1/2 X 5 inches. 2 color screen print on 1/4 inch wood. Blue,green,yellow and purple. Hand cut and hand printed by me at Wearwolf Press in Atlanta. Comes ready to hang on your wall and also has a magnet attached.

Each set is hand signed.

Buy them, and more, here.

Burlesque

Burlesque of North America, fine purveyors of impeccably designed printed materials and beyond, have a holiday themed coloring contest up.
After voting at their Holiday Bonanza the lucky winner will receive a poster pack from Burlesque!
Get all the details and the coloring page here.
Hurry, judgment night is December 12th.