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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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:

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.

Home Taping

“Make no mistake! Home Taping is what is killing music.” Heh…
Buy the shirt at Mondo.

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.

TV Carnage

These DVD’s are total mind fucks in the best possible way.

In case you don’t know: Each TV CARNAGE volume is hundreds of hours of exceptionally bad TV lovingly fused together into an hour plus; glorious cesspools of retardation. These are the compilations that have been featured and loved by VICE MAGAZINE, NME, SHARPEWORLD, FORT DRASIC, OK FLAVOR, DAILY CANDY (see CARNAGE KUDOS for more) and shown in festivals and porn theatres throughout North America, Europe and Japan.

Get them here.

Chris Mars

I had the pleasure of catching Chris Mars’ show at the Jonathan Levine Gallery a while back. He has quickly become one of my all-time favorite painters.

Read more about Chris here (you may know him from drumming for The Replacements), pick up his book here and check out his upcoming show at Billy Shire Fine Arts in Culver City, CA December 12, 2009 – January 2, 2010.

Kristian Hammerstad

Kristian Hammerstad is an illustrator/designer from Oslo, Norway who straight kills it.
Check out more of his work here.

Bags of the Living Dead

Sport your love for flesh tearing zombies with these Reload bags.
Check out the rest of the “Bags of the Living Dead” collection and buy them here.