Burney has a new print available! It’s limited to a run of 50, and they’re numbered and signed by the man himself. The dimensions are 20” x 20” and they’re screened with black ink on 80lb. French speckletone kraft. Send $40 Paypal payment (shipping included) to blobatax@hotmail.com and let them know where you’d like it sent.
Phil Guy has a new full color poster for sale, and if you want to grab one you better make it quick! There are only 25 prints available, and though this design is not screen printed, it’s been produced by Phil personally using a large format HP 8 color on heavy weight poster paper. It would make a great addition to your kids room, right?
Grab your poster HERE.
It’s finally here: the 1st annual Greasy Dozen Run.
The Greasy Dozen has been all about promoting grassroots builder culture and supporting home grown builds. We rallied many like-minded brands and the hard work paid off! The community and home-builders responded with great eye candy for us all to see, showing others how it’s done and encouraging a new generation of builders.
In honor of the builders, brands and followers of The Greasy Dozen, Old Bike Barnis putting on a corn boil and bonfire at my bro Dale’s farm. Riders will be treated to a well-researched 4-hour rip though some of Ohio’s best back roads (yes there are corners in Ohio).
On arrival there will be free corn and hot dogs, a big ass fire, music, free camping, and like-minded riders and builders. All brands are welcome!
GROUP RIDE: Departs from 1101 N. 4th St. Columbus Ohio rain or shine, and winds through the country side to the Clark Family farm at 1620 Cuckoo Rd. Peebles Ohio 45660
P.S. There will be a prize of $500 in parts for the rider that rides the longest distance to attend.
PRE PARTY: Friday Night at the start point 6-8pm
1101N. 4th St. Columbus, Ohio
Door Prizes and swag + Half and Half
The killer new documentary about artist Robert Williams hits today: Robert Williams – Mr. Bitchin’. Everything I’ve heard about it has been awesome, and I’ll be grabbing a copy for myself as soon as my wife leaves the room. Do yourself a favor and check this out!
Robert Williams Mister Bitchin’ CLS Trailer from Cinema Libre Studio on Vimeo.
Robert Williams was an artist in search of a movement. A prolific oil painter, whose painstakingly detailed work often featured naked women, death, destruction, booze and clowns, he didn’t quite fit the fine art mold.
In the early 1960s he was confronted with trendy abstraction and superficial pop art. Schooled in the Hot Rod Culture of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth and Von Dutch, he emerged as a leader in the Underground Comic revolution along with R. Crumb, contributing regularly to Zap Comix.
His antisocial paintings of an alternative reality were marginalized by the art world for decades although he became a hero of sorts for underground artists. His notoriety exploded when his painting Appetite for Destruction was used (and much vilified) as the cover for that 1987 Guns N’ Roses’ album.
When he started Juxtapoz Magazine in 1994, his movement found him. Legions of artists looking for a place within the contemporary art world for their cartoonish realism identified with his “LowBrow” aesthetic. At the time, Williams predicted that, “Low brow and alternative art are the crack in the dam and with this leak the art world will never be the same.”
By 2010 the art world could ignore him no longer and he was included in the prestigious Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. ROBERT WILLIAMS MR. BITCHIN documents this influential artist as he rises to the top of the art world, always an outsider.
Check out Motorcycle Graphics: Outsider Art, Graphics and Illustration, a cool new hardcover book by Gary Inman.
Classic and vintage motorbikes are once again at the epicenter of counterculture. Talk to any of the custom shops and you realize that filmmakers, artists, surfers, designers, skaters, and many A-list actors are buying, riding, and commissioning motorcycles that move them.
After decades of being marketed as a midlife crisis toy, the motorcycle and the culture that surrounds it are returning to their authentic roots—real machines ridden by those who care about the machine and the release from quotidian drudgery, rather than show.
In the wake of this cultural shift have emerged many new boutique custom shops and street riding outfitters. Even more significantly, a wave of vibrant new graphic design has emerged worldwide to give the movement its aesthetic stamp.
It is this work which is documented here, and will be hugely inspiring to anyone on the scene and graphic designers alike. Artists include Will Barras (UK), Dirty Donny (San Francisco), Leviathan (Spain), Shawn McKinney (Los Angeles), Scarlett Rickard (UK), Lennard Schuurmans (Netherlands), Silent TV (France), Tokyo Guns (Japan), Carby Tuckwell (Australia), Chris Watson (UK), and Jeff Wright (Des Moines, Iowa).
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