my love for you is a stampede of horses.

New Work from Elbow Toe.

Every time my friend Elbow-Toe sends me images of his new work, I just sit back and gasp "Goddamnitall". I'm not even joking I have chat transcripts to prove it. Elbow-Toe is by far one of my very favorite artists working today. Not only for his talent, but the sheer tenacity he exhibits in stamina and his process around his work, both street and gallery pieces. From everything to the amount of time he puts into a piece to the references found subtly in his work, he blows me away every time.

Double Trouble: Opening Shots.

A few weeks ago I posted about Double Trouble, a show that opened in SFat Ever Gold Gallery. It paired nine young adults with artists that they admire. Some of the artists involved were: Barry McGee, Troy Lovegates, John Casey, Tara Foley and Monica Canilao. Andrew, the owner, sent over some opening night shots for us to have a little satellite visit of our own...

Travis Louie: Portrait of the Artist as a young Monster.

Opening tomorrow night at Seattle's own Roq la Rue is Travis Louie's solo show Portrait of a young Artist as a Monster. The show consists of eight larger scale works. Kirsten from Roq sent over a link for me to post a few of these beauties. I am always in awe of Travis' work. His paintings look like old photographs from another dimension, that for lack of a better way to say it jsut kinda blow my mind. He uses transparent layers of acrylic paint over a tight graphite drawing on a smooth flat surface to conjure this effect. As if they didn't stimulate the imagination enough, these paintings each have a little story to go along with them:

"No one knew exactly who or what he was. He spoke with an unusual gurgling voice and interrupted himself every third sentence with a loud bubble noise that seemed to come out of his ears. He often swatted flies with his tongue in mid sentence. He always mentioned the sturgeon. Following them, was a hobby of his."

Can you guess which painting it belongs to? Travis will be at the opening signing his new book Curiosities.

Ye Rin Mok.

I was reminded yesterday of how much I love Ye Rin Mok's photography. I was also reminded at how little I write about photography on the blog when a friend asked me to send him good photography links. Well, we've all got shortcomings haven't we folks?

Ye captures that perfect, soft light we've all been chasing in some form or another. She even makes flourescent lighting look soft and lovely. That my friends is a feat in and of itself. You can purchase her book of photographs of Ichikawadaimon, the Japanese townshe stayed in last fall. Each book comes with a small, signed c-print.

Joe Van Wetering.

I just bought this t-shirt at Threadless, designed by Joe Van Wetering. I'm pretty selective on my t-shirt consumption, if I bought every rad t-shirt out there I'd be broke as a joke. But I had to make an exception for this one. Joe's work bursts of color and juicy shapes, my favorite. It's the kind of color that makes me salivate and want to pop the images straight into my mouth.

Joe would like to bring you into the fold of his proverbial creative playground. He's posted the below mega-long ribbon on his flickr page with a link for you to download. Do what ever you want with it! Just get creative and hit him back with it. Check out his flickr page and take him up on his offer.