We're showing work in two shows this weekend. Here's the details.
1. The Left Field Project Show makes it's 2 stop of a 3 stop tour.
ARTIFACTS
819 E. 3rd Street
Tulsa, OK 74114
Opening reception is Friday, June 6th
Click here to find out more.
and
2.
OFF-REGISTER AUSTIN
Foundation Projects presents the second installation of Off-Register, featuring prints by Robin Cameron, Michael Coleman, Justin Fines, Ryan Giese, Grotesk vs. Lowrider [collaboration], Steven Harrington, Maya Hayuk, Cody Hudson, Evan Hecox, Ben Loiz, Geoff McFetridge, Colin Metcalf, Andy Mueller, Michael Perry, Jon Resh, Joel Speasmaker, Todd St. John, Andrew Townsend, David J. Weissberg, WEWORKFORTHEM: Michael Cina + Michael Young [collaboration], and Rory Wilson.
JUNE 7th – 21st, 2008
OKAY Mountain Gallery
1312 E. Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX
Opening recetpion is Saturday, June 7th, 7-10pm
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Friday, May 30th, 7pm-midnight
Rodan vs. Griffith
8207 W. 3rd Street, West Hollywood, CA
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Our new collection for Spring / Summer is now instock and ready to ship. Click here to see all the new T's, cut and sew, posters, and accessories.
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We're showing work in two shows this weekend. Friday Night is a group show in Chapel Hill and Saturday is a show in Culver City. But we're in NYC so we're sadly going to miss both of them.
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1. Here's a couple animation experiments that we just made for our friend Misato. Click here to see the longer version and here to see the shorter version.
2. Just got the new issue of Juxtapoz... it's the photo issue. Really happy to be in the mix with so many great photographers. ( Check out page 100-101.)
3. Looks like our buddy Evan Hecox got ripped off by Coke-Cola..... maybe the character in the front isn't exactly like Evan's work, but the background is such a rip it's insane.
4. The art dump has a really nice T-shirt for sale.... it's a simple pocket T and it comes with the Art Dump guest edited issue of Monster Children magazine--- only about 20 shirts are available, so check it fast.
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Our Camera Club guest editor, Isaac McKay-Randozzi, is having a show called Hot Junk at Drunken Butterfly this friday night. So if you're in the Madison ( Wisconsin ) area be sure to stop by and meet Isaac in person. He'll be giving away a bunch of QL stuff, so get their early if you want some free QL stuff.
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We're heading to Chicago for the Off-Register opening. Hope to see you there.
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• Here's a
link to a few images the LA Marathon artwork that I did with RPA for Honda. I think this might be the biggest illustration/design project I've ever done; it's everywhere in L.A. right now.
• Hershel Baltrotky ( new art guy at Girl Skateboards ) just sent me this about the end of Polaroid instant film. I'm sad cause i still use type 55 and 600 all the time.
• I love this song.
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We know it's been a long wait, but we are FINALLY releasing the winning t-shirt of our "Design A T-Shirt" contest - designed by Neil Doshi. (Now available in our online shop.) This shirt is the first in a series of shirts dedicated to a "Good Cause". 100% of our profits will be donated to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (www.cff.org). Check out the latest issue of GOOD Magazine. There is a little write up about the winning design. To find out more about Neil and see an online gallery of some of our other great entries visit the Good Cause section of our site. Hopefully together we can make a difference for those folks out there living with Cystic Fibrosis!
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We just realized that we never put any images of the QL10 zine online. Here's what it looks like... a spread by each of our QL10 guest artists. We're giving these zines away with each t-shirt ordered while supplies last.
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Hope you all had Happy Holidays...
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To celebrate the Holiday Season we're doing a special promotion through our online shop.
Click here for all the details. Happy Holidays!
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If you're going to Art Basel this weekend in Miami, be sure to stop by the Raleigh Hotel on Friday ( Dec. 7th) to see "Beautiful World." Details on the flyer below or click here for more info. Hope to see you there.
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The Lab 101 is having a goodbye show.... See you there.
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We're getting together with a few other brands we like to do a huge sample sale this weekend in L.A.
It's going to be in the Los Feliz neighborhood at a cool shop called YOUNG and JELINEK
Click here to see the flyer and for additional info.
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It's really hard to believe the first QL shirts were printed 10 years ago... but it's true, the first QL shirts came out in the fall of 1997 when we were based in Chicago. To celebrate this miletone we decided to do a 10 year anniversary series of shirts that we're calling the QL10. We invited 10 of our favorite artists / designers to each do a new design for this project. Contributing artists include: Todd St. John, Evan Hecox, Ben Loiz, Katsuo Design, Andy Jenkins, Ryan Waller, Rick Myers, Florencio Zavala, Cody Hudson & Megan Whitmarsh. A big thanks goes out to all of them for helping to make this such a great line! And thanks to everybody who helped make the past 10 years possible... Here's to 10 more!
P.S. We also made a DIY QL10 zine featuring a spread by each of the 10 artists involved with this series. We'll include one with each order while supplies last.
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We're sponsoring a design event called Cut & Paste this Saturday night. If you want some free QL stuff try to get your hands on one of the 40 gift bags that we helped fill. We're also going to have a small table/booth area set up showcasing all of our new Fall / Holiday designs... so if you make it out, be sure to find us and say what's up.
When:
Saturday, October 13th, 2007
Doors open at 7pm
Competition from 8 - 11PM
After party from 11PM - 2AM
Where:
The Music Box @ Fonda
6126 Hollywood Blvd
323 464 0808
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1. We just restocked several sizes for all the QL x Lakai shoes, so if you missed your sizes the first time around, you might want to take another look at what's available.
2. Needles and Pens, FTC, and The Hamburger Eyes Epicenter are now stocking the QL Camera Club books, so if you're in S.F. and want to see some of our stuff first hand, be sure to stop by any of these fine stores.
3. Our new designs for Fall / Holiday 2007 are coming very soon. Hopefully we'll have everything posted by the end of this weekend.
The size 9 Lakai / QL Caracas running shoes that we had sold out so fast that we asked Lakai if they would make us a few more pairs. Good news... 4 more
pairs are on the way and should be here next week. If you've wanted these, now is your second and last chance... to get on the waiting list go ahead and order
them.
Great show opening tonight to benefit restoring the wild fires of Griffith Park.
Our Fall 07 Collection is coming soon and we need to make some room.... so almost everything in our store is on sale!!!!! ( Everything except The Quiet Life x Lakai shoes series - since these items are so new and we only have a few pairs of each model left anyway. )
1. ART DUMP vs. MASS APPEAL show in NYC was a blast. So good to get back to NYC. Thanks to everybody who made this happen and came out for the opening.
2. UNITED TRADESHOW - LAS VEGAS. We're showing our Spring 2008 collection at United Tradeshow in Las Vegas this week. If you're in Vegas try to stop by the booth and say what's up our sales rep Casper. He'll be running the booth out there.
We're proud to announce the release of a series of shoes we did with our favorite shoe company,
Lakai Limited Footwear. We've beem hinting about this for monhs in our news section.... and finally
have all the shoe in and available. When
they first asked us to do a shoe, we were expecting to do
1 shoe.... so when it turned into 5 shoes we couldn't believe it.
Click here to find out more.
Just got back from a week in Japan. Had an amazing time and my 'Point & Shoot' show went off with out a hitch. Big thanks to everybody who came out for the opening and for everybody who helped set up, install, and make this happen. I just posted a bunch of photos from the show and trip on The Art Dump's Share the Air blog. ( My japan blogs don't all run in order, Jenkins and Larson have posted a few blogs that break mine up... so scroll down a bit to see them all.)
1. We are taking a 1 week break from shipping orders. Shipping will resume on Tuesday, July 25th, 2007.
Sorry for the delay... please please please be patient with us.
We'll be back up and running in a week.
2. Thanks to everybody who submitted to our Design a T-Shirt Contest! We're going to do the final round of judging next week
and will be announcing the winners soon.
3. Lakai X QL product is almost here.... we'll be getting a few of each item to sell through our online store so check back soon!!!
4. Point + Shoot, Andy's first solo photo show in Japan, opens this Friday in Tokyo.
Click here for more info .
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We invited our friend Isaac McKay-Randozzi to guest curator our Camera Club for a 6 week residency. He's taking over until the end of July. He's a rad S.F. based photographer and one of the OG camera club membmers. Big thanks to Isaac and be sure to check out his website to see some of his photos and to find our more about this good person.
If you're in or around L.A. on Saturday Night, June 23rd, you should check out the Parking Lot Art Show. Should be a good one.
1. We've extended our GOOD CAUSE T-SHIRT CONTEST til JULY 1st to give you all
a little more time
to finish up your designs. We're going to make a little online gallery to show the top 25 or so of the
submissions... we hope you participate in this contest; it's for a really good cause.
2. Went to see Morrissey at the Hollywood bowl last night; it was amazaing.... Moz still has it.
3. Coming Soon; A collaboration between The Quiet Life and Lakai Limited Footwear.
4. stAAAmmering opens next week at Lab 101. See you there.
Our Spring / Summer 2007 Line is finally here. Check out our Shop Section to see all the new designs - lots of new things including a our first cut and sew polo shirt and shoulder bag, a new jacket, lots of new T's and the second issue of our camera club book. We're also running a new design contest for a very good cause. Hope you like all the new stuff.
Two Art Dump shows open next week in Europe.
Check the Art Dump site for more info.
Art Prostitute's "One Up" show opens this weekend. Wish I could figure out a way to make it to the opening.
We're doing a contest with the April issue of XLR8R.
Click here or look on page 12 of their new issue for more info.
Good Luck!
1. And I thought we were having a sale... This one reallly trumps ours.
2. QL spring / summer product is coming very soon! Hopefully it'll be posted by this weekend.
3. Have you been here lately?
We finally picked and posted the winners to the "Poo Poodles Video Contest"!!!! Very impressed with the entries. Thanks to everyone who made a video for this contest.
Here's a flyer to a show we were involved with that we forgot to tell anyone about.
Here's a few for this week:
1. Sibylle Baier 2. The Mr. Move 3. Peter, Bjorn and John 4. Babyshambles 5. Silversun Pickups
See you there.
Big thanks to everybody who entered the "Make a Poo Poodles Video Contest!" We are shocked by the number of entries, the variety of idea, and the quality of the videos - Very impressed to say the least. We need a week or so to sort through them all and to pick the winners, hopefully by Feb. 1st, so stay tuned and will announcements soon! ( Thanks again to everyone who participated in this project. )
Alright, this is it... time to make the last call for all videos for our Make a Video Contest! If you have yet to send it in, do so now. We'll be reviewing them this weekend and announcing the winners soon!
Andy Jenkins, Tony Larson and I are doing a 3 person show in Sydney at the er Children Galley. The show is called Taking Turns and opens Jan. 11th. It should be an interesting show.... it's a collaborative show were the 3 of us are all working on each other's pieces.
We're blogging about it on our Share the Air - Art Dump blog.
We teamed up with Stop Smiling Magazine to do an "Ode to The Midwest" for their Midwest issue. This is an amazing deal, plus theirs a cover story on Kurt Vonnegut.
2007 is going to be a good one... I can feel it!
Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!!!!!!! ( We're out of the office for a few days, so orders won't be shipping until Jan, 2nd 2007. )
We're extending the deadline for the Poo Poodles' Make a Video Contest to Jan 15th.
( Thanks to all of you have already submitted videos; very impressive submissions so far!!! )
Chris Waycott and I just updated The Art Dump site. Take a Look.
We just posted 20 new club member photos in our Camera Club section.
I've been doing a travelling solo show in Europe over the past few months called "All Day All Night." It features some of my commercial design work, lots of silkscreen posters, mono prints, a few small paintings, as well as some of photography. The 3rd stop on this tour is happening at a great shop/gallery called Lockwood in Antwerp, Belgium. Runs from Dec. 8th to Jan 6th. - Opening reception is Dec. 14th. Stop by if you're in the area.
Getting ready to head back to L.A. tomorrow.... I've been in Wellington, New Zealand all week. I love it over here. Big ups to my bro for the great week!!!! and to Ruben and Johnny at Good as Gold for telling me where to go and what to see.
Our Fall / Holiday 2006 collection is now available!!! Check out our shop section
to see all the new designs. ( We're especially proud to introduce a few cut n' sew pieces as part of this collection.... )
We have also repressed and restocked the sold out Poo Poodles CD and CD/Tshirt combo pack.... to celebrate this release we are doing a
MAKE A VIDEO CONTEST. To find out more about the rules and prizes click the Video Contest banner graphic to your right.
( And please don't the word "video" sway you from entering... you don't have to shoot video to make a video--- you could do it in flash, aftereffects, photoshop animation, iphoto to imovie, etc. etc. --- there's not many rules except that the final format has to be in quicktime.)
We've extended our store wide sale by a few days.... it will be ending any day now, as soon as we finish updating our site and adding all of the new Holiday 06 product. Stay tuned! ? Poo Poodles contest coming soon as well! • Our friends, Pinebender, just put out a new record on Lovitt Records. It's been well worth the wait for this one.... • There's an interesting event called Cut & Paste in Echo Park tonight, I'll be there cause I've been asked to be one of the judges. Hope to see you there.
New QL designs for Fall/Holiday coming soon. If you want a sneak peak check out these links: High Snobiety / Tee Shirt Blog / Reed Space ( scroll down a bit, just under the new issue of Art Prostitue.)
We almost made the Top Ten, almost.
We're looking for a part time intern / assistant. Click here for more details.
( You must live in Los Angeles or surrounding area. )
On Sunday October 1st Chocolate Industries and ReDe host Boombastic in Chicago's Wicker Park. Those of you who are unfamiliar with the annual event will witness/ participate in a community gathering where we invite people to come to the park with their Boom boxes and we transmit music from 1pm to until 7pm. Within the past five years this all ages event has grown into a special day where some of the best DJ's and musicians come to play records that blur genre of classification. Get your batteries and any kind of radio you have to amplify the sound, we'll see you there!!!!
• My brother and a his friend wrote us an amazing PHP backend script for our Camera Club section that makes it much easier for us to quickly keep it updated, I just posted 20 new photos so take a look....... ( Be sure to poke around my brother's website - amazing photos from around the world.)
• The Camera Club Book - Volume 2 is in the final editing proecess.... so stayed tuned for the next issue our this project. Should be out in early spring at the very latest.
• Does anybody know what Rollei and Flash Stephen Shore used to shoot hit book "American Surfaces" - I goggle for it but couldn't find the exact model and info.
• Big thanks to Matt Daley and Erin Canning for confirming that Matthew Friedberger from the Fiery Furncance is the guy we used to know back when we all lived in Champaign, Illinois, when he played in Corndolly. Small world, always.
• Since we're on the subject of Champaign ( Illinois ), do you all know about parasol.com? Parasol is a great indie rock distributor / mail order store - I shamelessly recommend that you go to their site and buy this and this.
• Went to Buelton this past weekend and ate Pea Soup at legendary restaurant called Anderson's. Interesting history, great food, amazing soup ( and I don't even like Pea Soup. ). If you're wondering why the town of Buelton may sound familiar it's because it's gotten some recent fame for being was the location for the movie SIDEWAYS.( I highly recommend a road trip to Buelton, Solveign, and the other neighorhing towns to anyone within driving distance. It's about 2 hrs. north of L.A. / 3 hours south of S.F.)
• Photos of some of the work from the ART DUMP show in Chicago we did last month are in the Art Dump blog right now.... scroll down a bit and you'll see it.
• I like Claudine Longet.
• Issue Eight is out now. Good work Joel - looks great.
• I want one of these.
• These guys are amazing, but have way, way too much free time.
• If you're a photo geek and shoot 4x5 check this out. ( You'll drool. )
• Poostack cracks me up.
• Is this guy the same guy that I used to know when he was in this band, or am I mixing things up? anybody know? ( read the description about the conrdolly release, they mention a male base palyer. same guy? someone must know. please email me. )
• I'll admit it, I always look forward to a new CD by this guy.
• My son rolled over for the first time today!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Art Dump is having a show this weekend in Chicago.
Click here or here for all the details.
Two posts in one day! How's that for staying current? Anway, I was just surfing around at pitchforkmedia.com trying to see if the new Quiet Life ad was running and happened about this article. It's funny, In the mid 90's I kinda remember thinking I didn't like them at all ( but I don't think I actually heard them ) and now they are one of my favorite bands. What was I thinking back then? ( Oh yeah.... back to what i mentioned about the The Quiet Life ad -- it shows up randomly so if you cruise around pitchfork's site a bit you'll probably see it. )
If you live anywhere near Atlanta, you should definitely go to Swayze's tonight ( Sunday, July 9th ).
Happy Birthday to Fourstar! 10 Year anniversary party tonight! Check the invite ( scroll over to see who all is involved ), should be a good show and celebartion party.
Big thanks to the good people over at Red Alert for this.
Check out the "GRAB BAG" that we're offering as part of our SUPER SALE in our shop section. We originally only going to sell 4 of these, but we're having so much fun packing up older designs we're going to offer 8-10 more of these ( or until supllies last. )
We have a million CD's here at the QL headquarters but for some reason we keep playing this one over and over. It's a classic for sure.... perfect music for hot summer days.
Thanks for the fine folks at Hitch for reviwing the Poo Poodles CD.
The Poo Poodles continue to move up the CMJ college radio charts. They are just jumped 38 spots from 194 to 156. We also just got a report that a few stations have been playing the album in its entirety.... as far as individual songs go - "He is the autobahn," "Freddie Merucy," and the title track seem to be getting the most spins. Big thanks to everyone that's helped make this such a success. If you happen to listen to a certain college or indie radion station it would be amazing if you'd call them up and request the Poodles.
We just reprinted 10 more of our new Pencil Tote Bag, so if you want one - now is your chance.
Spring/Summer has just landed! We've got a new collaboration with an amazing band called the Poo Poodles, a awesome design by guest artist Ryan Waller, lots of new t-shirts and accessories, etc. etc. Take a look around at all the new stuff....
All Day All Night, a travelling solo I've been doing, opens tonight at No Void Plus in Aix-en-Provence, France. I just added 9 new Monoprints to the show....
We're having a Sample Sale at our friend Misato's studio at the Brewery's "Art Walk" this weekend. Hope to see you there.
We just picked the winners to the Draw a Camera Contest that we did in conjuntction with Fecal Face. Big Thanks to everybody who sent in submissions!
We're sponsoring a photo show at Yo-Yo in Atlanta this coming weekend... We won't be there in person,
but be sure to say hey to Jewel and Paulita. Good people!
Thanks to Yo-Yo for asking us to be involved.
Big updates over at Ohio Girl, especially the Ohio Gold section.
Just wanted to give a warm welcome to Owen T., the newest member of the QL family.
Faesthetics issue 5 out now! Big thanks to Dustin for asking us to be involved...
Buy this now..... 100 Posters 134 Squirrels
We've know Jay since way back in 1989-90 and he's been a frequent Quiet Life contributor.
Great work, great book, Jay! Keep it up.