I like to think it will go / went something like this:

Thanks!

Artspace at Untitled! OKC! 5-8pm. Come out and support 52 local artists who are involved in Function & Design, an exhibit of handmade goods for your home and office, including  the work of Professors Bryce Brimer and Denny Schmickle  and Joshua Meier.
[Artspace] at Untitled 1 NE 3rd Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73104 405.815.9995

Native Lights 7″ now available for pre-order: with 5 tiers of maximum awesome.

I just wanted to remind you all that on Thursday the 17th, I’ll be
participating in the 2nd Annual Print Jam at Philbrook. Details as follows:

Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009
Times: 5:30pm to 8:00pm
Free with Museum Admission
Room: Mabee Lobby

The Print Action is back! Celebrate the end of the year and the end of the
decade by creating your own silk-screen prints at this wildly popular event.
Printmakers Kelly Foshee, Michelle Martin, Darshan Phillips and Denny
Schmickle will be on site with silk-screens of their own original designs
celebrating the highs and lows of the last year Sand the last decade. Select
the ones you like, layer them, and add your own touches – all while a DJ
spins. Bring along a tote or t-shirt too!

Made possible through the generous support of Z-104.5 The Edge, Ervin
Photography and Urban Tulsa Weekly.

Dirty Fingernails

A One-of-a-Kind Collection of Graphics Uniquely Designed by Hand

John Foster

The artists featured in Dirty Fingernails, make a concerted effort to do projects that require them to step away from the computer to create one-of-a-kind designs for clients and themselves. They demonstrate that good design doesn’t have to be clean–in fact, the messier the better. From silkscreen prints to collages created from photocopies, to hand-drawn lettering, each designer explains their process and why they’ve chosen to work in their chosen medium. It’s an inspirational collection that will make even the most computer-savvy designer drool.

John Foster is a world-renowned designer, author and speaker on design issues. His work has been published in numerous books and every major industry magazine, hangs in galleries across the globe, and is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian. He is the proud recipient of both a gold and silver medal from the Art Directors Club as well as a Best of Show from the ADDYs. He is the author of New Masters of Poster Design.

Rockport
Amazon

My super-cool, mega-famous, and uber-talented designer/author John Foster wrote a great book about hand-made design objects. It looks great. And I’m not just saying that because he was kind enough to include me in it.

Mark Jenkins

Cory Arcangel

It’s a photo of a replica David outside Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. Awesome!

Here are some snapshots from the event (wish I were there):

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey

High On Fire

Native Lights

Featuring Heidi Bartlett, Jake Gillespie, Peggy Gomez, Justin Kemerling,
Joey Lynch, Denny Schmickle and Nolan Tredway

Tugboat Gallery is located at 116 N. 14th Street, Lincoln, NE
Second story above Gomez Art Supply

Elevator entrance at 1410 ‘O’ Street

Tugboat Gallery hours are First Fridays, Saturdays 2-5 and by appointment

Questions answered by Gomez Art Supply at 402-477-6200

TugboatGallery.com
GomezArtSupply.com
DennySchmickle.com
JustinKemerling.com
JakeGillespie.com
Heidi Bartlett

For the comprehensive collection of photos from my trip to Italy, check out my Flickr collection here: Italy 2009

Goshka Macuga

Tauba Auerbach

Richard Aldrich

Navid Nuur

Kilian Rüthemann

Simon Denny (no relation)

Nicola Toffolini

For example, the view from my room:

Check out the rest of the photos (many more to come) here.

(According to my webhost, these are the search terms that have lead people to my website. Huh.)

Get it here: http://www.gigposters.com/book/ PLUS bonus special limited edition Jay Ryan prints (while supplies last).

See more in the posters section…

then we had a $2.00 burger and a bottle of delicious root beer at Pops

then we wandered around the “riverwalk” and “Bricktown” in downtown OKC and stumbled across this guy:

ok. then, we went to a meeting at Untitled Artspace to talk about an upcoming project. While we were there we checked out the current exhibition by Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G STUFF. Seriously. When someone described this show to me, I thought “yeah, wahtever. It can’t be that great. It sounds like a Photoshop disaster waiting to happen.” Well, I was wrong. It was SEAMLESS.

From the Untitled Artspace website:

The works are from two recent series, the Apollo Prophecies and Eisbergfreistadt.

Kahn and Selesnick, Astronaut and Lunar Rover
© Kahn and Selesnick

The Apollo Prophecies proposes that the first U.S. astronauts to go to the moon discovered that a lost mission of Edwardian-era explorers had already colonized it. The narrative is woven together with large scale panoramic prints illustrating the expedition from beginning to end. Kahn and Selesnick have also created life size props and costumes to further document the story in a fabricated setting that blurs the line between eerily realistic and outlandishly make-believe.

Eisbergfreistadt is a fictional narrative inspired by an actual incident that took place in 1923 when a mommaoth iceburg ran aground in the Baltic port of Lubeck, Germany. As a result, many of the citizens believed the iceberg was a sign of the apocolypse. Kahn and Selesnick have taken this factual event and turned it into a what-if tale of a frozen social utopia that explores currency inflation, global warming, and end-of-world rhetoric. Large-scale panoramic photos, mixed-media drawings and prints, and an assortment of props from both series will be featured in this thought-provoking and entertaining exhibition.

Kahn and Selesnick, Three Musicians
© Kahn and Selesnick

Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick, born in New York City and London, respectively, have been collaborating since 1986. They have exhibited internationally, and their work is included in many notable collections including The Smithsonian Insititution, Addison Gallery of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Untitled Artspace is a non-profit contemporary arts center located in downtown Oklahoma City committed to stimulating new ideas and creative thought through contemporary art. Untitled Artspace is dedicated to providing access to quality exhibitions, educational programs, performances, and publications and to involving the community in collaborative outreach efforts. This exhibition is free and open to the public. For more information about Untitled Artspace or this exhibit, visit www.1ne3.org or call 405.815.9995.

For more information about the artists Kahn and Selesnick, visit their website.

Then we came home.