New illustrations by Sophie Roach
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I’m a self-taught artist and illustrator kicking it in lovely Austin, Texas. I didn’t start drawing until I was 21, but now I happily spend the majority of my days with my dear micron pens.
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Pillow Talk: new music by Austin’s Wild Child
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Pillow Talk by Austin’s folk-pop band, Wild Child, is a perfect soundtrack for that road trip you’re taking this Summer. It’s probably still good if you listen to it on the way to work in the morning.
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Underage: a group show of young photographers
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Our friends over at the awesome photography site, Feature Shoot, are presenting the group exhibition, Underage, at this year’s Photoville Festival in Brooklyn between June 22-July 1, 2012, featuring work by six young photographers who document the joys and travails of growing up: a time of first loves, experimentation, and the search for belonging.
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Haunted Ground: a new art series by Erika Jane Mallette
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I’m a self taught artist out of Austin, Texas. My Haunted Ground series touches on addiction and destructive self behavior that we all can relate to in one way or the other. But it’s our job to turn our ugly side into something beautiful, such as in the case of my subjects. Johnny Cash’s addictions were well known, as were Edgar Allan Poe’s. But through their addictions, they wrote and cultivated it into something haunting and splendid and that have truly stood the test of time.
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Fabulous Glitter Art by Sue Zola
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A pioneer of glitter art, Sue Zola has been a fixture of the Austin art scene for the past decade, with subject matter ranging from pop art, rock stars, movie posters, portraits, and other nostalgia. Her art is expertly executed, glitz, and glam, and all around fabulous. Her work will be showing at Halycon Coffee in Austin in September.
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Eyes Project: new art by Jonathan Windham
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I met Jonathan Windham while in Austin working on a benefit art exhibition. He contributed an incredible scratchboard piece to the show that came with an artist statement that, on a particularly difficult day, made us all cry. Usually Jon does not make me cry.
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Mutable Maintenance: a new work by Texan artist Paul Meyer
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Montgomery, Texas-based artist, Paul Meyer contributed a painting for the recent ART from the Ashes Lost Pines Recovery benefit exhibition in Austin. The work, Mutable Maintenance, became one of the focal pieces of the show. His work is at once textural, sculptural and gloriously subtle. Look once at a piece and it may appear to be a landscape of texture and shape; look closer, and characters and stories emerge.
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Brilliant black and grey tattooing by James Spencer Briggs
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Oh man. There are tattoos, and then there are Tattoos, if you know what I mean. And LA-based James Spencer Briggs practically defines the latter. His black and grey tattoo art is just stunning: a dramatic wash of neo-rennaissance themes with deft surrealist elements, all impeccibly designed and done with exemplary taste. If only he made a quick trip to Austin, I’d have him ink me up in a heartbeat. Hint, hint.
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Reminders photo series by Austin’s Erin Hanson
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Austin-based Erin Hanson believes everyone is prey to bouts of laziness. Presumably this is why he has set up so many magical photography and graphic design projects on his site, Recovering Lazyholic. I love the deliberate flippancy he brings to his Reminders series (self-described as ‘childish treatment for childish behaviour’), where he sticks colourful reminders around the house to alter his lazy tendencies.
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Movie poster designs by Austin-based Mondo
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Austin’s Mondo is described via their Facebook page as follows: ‘If we have to explain what we are, you wouldn’t understand’. Which I guess is true in many ways, but the bottom line is they showcase numerous artistic renditions of movie posters, which span everything from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre to Duck Dodgers and the 24 1/2th Century, and everything in-between. Apparently the posters sell out within minutes, and sometimes even seconds, but you can still check out the archive and eventually pick up your jaw from the ground after viewing all of the awesome work that has beed done.
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The Hipster Games: may the trends be ever in your favor
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We misplaced our horn-rimmed glasses for an entire fortnight. Which explains why we’ve been so fashionably late to get our eyes on The Hipster Games, the witty Hunger Games parody with hipsters from Portland, Austin, Brooklyn, Oakland, and Silverlake fighting to the death to save their district. As they say: ‘May the trends be ever [...]
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Dudley and Bob radio show: KLBJ-FM Austin
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I moved to Austin in August 2011 and randomly came across this long-established radio show during a flick across the dials whilst driving the ever-jammed I35 one day. Joy! These guys are about the best thing I’ve heard on radio (yes, and that includes you, Mr Stern). Their brilliantly scattered, sometimes bitter, always amusing banter [...]
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New music by Austin band The Black Angels
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Hailing from Austin, psychedelic rock band The Black Angels conjure spirits with rumble and haze. With primitive beats and layers of sound, the band of nomads has had plenty of success since their 2006 full-length album, Passover. Not only do they pleasure the world with their psychdrone sound, but also present Austin with their annual Austin Psych Fest. Founded in 2008, this year’s festival takes place between April 27-29.
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Documentary about a haircutting contest in a Scottish jail
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I saw this documentary short at this year’s SXSW festival in Austin and was captivated by the simple storyline, so elegantly and beautifully related. The premise is simple: ‘the butchiest prisoners in Scotland cutting the hair of fellow inmates inside some of the toughest jails in the country? Your chance to experience first hand the [...]
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Austinspace: a cultural guide to Austin, Texas
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I’m an East Coast girl with a growing lust for Austin, due in no small part to the incredible discoveries and adventures of Mirgun Akyavas, photographer extraordinaire. Austinspace takes you on a troll through the back roads, eating and drinking establishments, street art, and music scene of this colorful blue sky town.
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