10/10/08
Fiiiiiiinally we've uploaded images from our Surrender show at Lamington Drive in Melbourne in August. This here website is officially bustin' out the sides so we put up a special page for all the work in this show here. Have a looky if you like.
We made all the work in just over 3 weeks and in working at such furious break-neck and panicky speed we think we managed to create a bunch of work that represents who we are and what we do far better than if we had had more time to think about it all. Urgency seems to work okay for us. Everything comes back to witchcraft, horror movies and doom metal. And the Laydeez.
Unfortunately we took only a few photos of us setting it up and basically none of the opening, but you can also see a nice shot of the cardboard gallery in this interview with Jeremy The Man Wortsman.
This is the animation we made that was projected on the wall inside the gallery entrance. It just looped and looped but we cut it up here to a Boris song.
04/10/08
Spainazoid Art-matique
Brain broke.
Do you live Spain?
Then you will most definitely know the Vallery gallery, and if you go there now you can see the Spanish leg of the "Now Showing" tour. Darren Firth has taken the show he put on earlier at Cosh in London to Barcelona. And we're still in it! And now there are a few new pieces too - including a beauuutiful one by Siggi Eggertsson.
Do you live in The Internet?
I do. So I look at that exhibition by clicking here. I pretend I went to the opening by clicking here. And I do the good thing and cough up someserious Euros to buy my own work by clicking here.
04/10/08
September
was nice.
Here's some things we made during it - for theredsunband and Youth Group's Super Tour, for Purple Sneakers' NYE House Party and for the Telekinesis / Cloud Control split 7".
04/10/08
Sopps Ongoing Moment Site
is alive
Sopp Collective have put up a site detailing all the work made for their "Ongoing Moment" project with Alpens Working Bee. We were a part of it too. Have a look here - they have made a beautiful site, a beautiful package and they are beautiful people.
Also we've uploaded the work we put in the Palmer Project 202020 show here.
Also we've uploaded the Empty magazine feature on Biddy here.
Here here!
07/09/08
Clutch
For Daddy
If you can get to Hermanns in the next 40 minutes, you should. That would make your arrival at 4, giving you an sweet half hour to get ready before Talons start playing as the beginning of your Best Sydney Sunday Lineup Ever. Just look at that lineup! It will set you back a mere $12, and then when Talons go on to release their awesome future album you can sit back and pat yourself on the back that you put in 12 bucks towards making that real. Aaaaaaah.
01/09/08
Birthday
FBI Happy
We made a picture of some kitties in a boat - a poster and a style guide of sorts for the FBI Radio 5th birthday. We haven't made all the ads and posters bearing them but we made the original kitties that have gone out into the world via various designers in the community. You know - community.. helping hand.. cats in a boat ... thats the poster. We love cats. FBI love cats. We love FBI. Its all good. These cats seem to be singing an Architecture In Helsinki song.
30/08/08
Mecca
Cosmetica Windows
If you're walking around the city in Sydney or Melbourne this week have a looky at the Myer windows - Biddy's drawings are decorating 6 in each city for Mecca Cosmetica. They will only be up fo one more weekthough. More info and some photos here.
28/08/08
More Exhibitions
Than you can stab a rusty nail at
Here's another couple of group exhibitions we're in very soon. Somehow we seem to be averaging approx 1.385 exhibition per week. And these two will be realy great. 202020 opens tonight at Palmer Projects and has an awesome lineup and the opportunity to buy a Lister or a Ben Frost or a Trent Whitehead print for 20 bucks. Or one of ours if you would like. More info on the Palmer Projects site. And Ears vs Eye is a Throwshapes night with people like Catcall playing and people like Eamo and Greedy Hen and us showing. I think there's an auction of the work. It's on Sept 3 at World Bar.
15/08/08
TheWebuyyourkidsSurrenderProductionLineOfDeath
Printing and Stuff
The work is in the mail! The paint is all over our floor! The beard on Sonny's face has grown down to his knees! The evidence is here!
We've uploaded some bad grainy photos to the Flickr thing showing some of the print production line for our upcoming show at Lamington Drive. There's just a coupla shots of the screen-prining happening, and also the work that was printed on the Old Fagette - which we are hoping to keep utilising in the future cos its rad. Thankyou Agatha for that hookup.
15/08/08
Some posters
what we have made recently
Added some new stuff to the poster section including this one for the dream line-up show on the 7th September. You should go to it.
15/08/08
Sidewayz Holez
Exhibition at MTV Galleries, and Design Week photos
Got a work - another handpainted skateboard - in this exhibition opening Wednesady night - more info here. All for a good cause so head along.
And we also contributed to Ambiguous Horses's Hole In Bucket project for Design Week 2008. Like they say, and I am lifting straight from their site - they "have distributed 100 yellow buckets (with a hole) to various locations around Sydney. The first 20 have been given to Sydney-based designers, who have photographed them in settings that they consider badly designed - the proverbial 'hole in the bucket'. The remaining 80 buckets are now available for you to collect from 8 different locations around the city. "
We took a photo of the staples and gum-tacked street pole outside our house. Which is the beautiful sight your tax dollars go to revealing when the council come round and remove all those nasty gig-posters and flyers people post on the poles, and make the walk down the street kinda interesting - for us at least. You can see the other photographic responses here. They are all really interesting - my favourites are Andrew and Bri Secret Squirrel's pretend bus-stop, and the cinema "whacking door" - surely the 3 Stooges had a hand in designing that one.
06/08/08
Fear Of A Black Hat
Our big Fat Hexploitation Exhibition... in Melbourne... in two weeks.
The time is upon us... the signs are all dark and there's definitely some bad vibes creeping around. There you go... we Surrender. Melbourne. Lamington Drive. August 21st. 6pm onwards for the Hex Mex.
Don't blame us, we tried to warn you.
What does that mean? It means please come! to our exhibition opening - we've been making prints and drawings for the grand opening of Lamington Drive in Fitzroy. Its made us so giddy we've lost all ability to write anything that makes sense. Where is Lamington Drive? Why it's here of course! Hope to see you there - we'll be the two hiding behind the young priest and the old priest.
Brooms and capes optional.
01/08/08
Lamington Drive
Yessssssssssssssssss
August 21 http://www.lamingtondrive.com/
24/07/08
Goodwood
NZ COCA BA2008 SAC&E THGSK778.?
Sonny painted up a board for this exhibition at the New Zealand Centre For Contemporary Art. You can see a photo he took of it here. He was very excited by the shape of the board, which apparently was really good. And I was very excited that he is in an exhibition with amazing New Zealand people like Chris Knox, the Kilgours, Martin Freakin' Phillipps for crying out loud! who we love the sounds of - and also some peoples we love the sights of - like our lovely lady mates Greedy Hen and Michael Deforge, who is King Trash and we is big fans of. Interesting sentence-construction - Much? whaaaaa?. This great art is by Dylan Taylor - who asked us to be in the Board Art show.
18/07/08
Some
New
New for Popfrenzy (and this one too), and New for Dew Process.