27/06/08
... have a new and quite astounding album. We did up their cover like for em - some more info on that here. Go forth and buy it! Even better try somehow to experience the pleasure of seeing them perform it aboard the Cape Don ship. We got to see that not long ago and it was a totally magical evening indeed.
We've also uploaded the artwork we made for the upcoming Clue to Kalo release Lily Perdida.
Also also while your down the shops buying Youth Group, pop into the newsagents and get a the latest issue of Monster Chlidren, which comes with photos of our ugly mugs and some very nice words about us too. Somehow we totally lucked out and got included in their list of things you should know about Australia.
27/06/08
Some Things...
We Made...
Not So Long Ago.... include a new creepy-crawly poster for Belles Will Ring - based on the artwork we made for their video a while back, a bit of a judge jury and executioner one for These New Puritansbased on how much we like guillotines and a black magic science thingy for a tshirt for Something For Kate, which is based on some press ads we did for them which were based on some molecular diagrams bassist Stephanie had. (breath)
06/06/08
Breakin' Tha Law
40 Thieves Show
We'll both have some work in the 40 Thieves show opening 19 June at the new Gorker Gallery in Melbourne. More info available here.
04/06/08
Now Showing
Now Showing
If you are in London you should go see Now Showing at Cosh Gallery, which opened last Thursday. The Cosh Gallery is located at:
69 Berwick Street Soho London W1F 8SZ Darren Firth has a Flicker page with shots from the opening and pages for each work. We made this one, and you can even buy it. Or you could buy me this amazing one by Tomer Hanuka and I'd love you forever.
25/05/08
Localizationaries
The zine, the exhibit, the beers on the streets, the giant wooden phalluses.
This is stupidly late notice but if you happen to be reading this RIGHT NOW (as in Sunday May 25th, in the arvo) - shut your computer down, get your skates on mate - and get to the MCA for the zine fair. We are heading down in a minny (as in the small amount of time, not the small amount of car) to check out the wares and particularly the wares of Izrock Press and HeSheItTheyI
We were recently involved in their Localism project where Joe and Dave asked a list of artists they know personally to create work based on themes of locality and community. We were really honoured to be included in that. If you check Joe's blog he has some pics of them installing the work for the launch at Sedition (and if you have been to this amazing barber shop you know what I am talking about with the giant wooden phalluses) - here and here, plus some of the launch night itslef - here The work was all then lovingly packaged by Joe and Dave in their beautiful zine. There was such a great array of photography, drawings, sculptural works (poo-venirs!), crosstich, cookies and even an unwelcome mat. Try and get your hands on one of the first 100 copies of the zine as each of those comes with badge art by Rob Milne.
09/05/08
2008 - A Face Ploddity
My god its full of wahwahs!
We were lucky enough to be asked by the lovely lovely twothousand to write a list of things we like. It all went out in Issue 135 and more props to them for running our photo of Sonny's fists of frenzy as their banner. This is why you won't see a Photography section on this site. You should subscribe to them cos then you get it conveniently emailed to you each week and theres always good stuff on in it.
07/05/08
Hands. Full.
No rest, no rest.
Lotta lotta work we've been a doin of late - here's some recent - this for the Kimya Dawson tour, this one for an upcoming issue of Wooden Toy magazine and then this for a few bands we love. Who are all playing on the same night. In the same place. Unless you are a crazy person, or you live in Spain, you'll be there too. All these posters appear to have been brought to us by the colour green.
07/05/08
Purple Sneakers Three
The Dancening
Congratulations to Purple Sneakers for going three years strong. Thats pretty freakin impressive. We made them a little chompy 3 fellow to advertise the birthday night - here, and they are also branching out the Sneakers events to include a live night at Hermann's. The first night of that is themed "Naughty and Nice" so we made them a picture of a wet willy - here.
07/05/08
Good Moaning!
I shall say this only Wance.
Just updated our Motion section to include illustration work we did for Mighty Nice for the recent ABC1 spots, and an update on the short film "Piet and the Wooden Statue".
07/04/08
The Gnus is Dead.
That joke isn't funny any more.
But we did upload some pics of the work we had in the Kids Today exhibition - see the 3 latest prints in our handy Miscellaneous section. Also Blanket magazine have a bit of a Q & A thing, whereby we provided some As, about our CD cover for The Bank Holidays. It's in Issue 9 and you can download that for free here.
26/03/08
MOOR GNUS
Out on the wiley windy moors...
..there's a bunch of angry wildebeests. They ate Kate Bush and now they're down the shops to buy the SHORT zine we spoke of earlier. More info, some photos of what's inside and where you can buy it - here.
19/03/08
GNU
Gnus on the Street is...
... maggots take a really long time to draw! They also totally gross us out. We found this out drawing our poster for Suspiria for the WIWP exhibition. More maggots here. And we also got some new posters up that we did for MTV - one for The Hills and another for The Lair.
Also.. I love you Wacom. Like a woman has never loved a small flat metallic slab before.
05/03/08
Shortly
Contribution To Kids Magazine
We made a maze and a spot the difference for Ed Sleeper Studio's "Short" magazine for wee folk. The book should be available soon through VA Editions. But we've added our pics to the illustration part of our site already - here. Other peoples who have made drawings, puzzles, and instructional artworks include the likes of Mike Giant, Will Sweeney, Geoff Mcfetridge, Stefan Marx, Noah Butkus, Kate Gibb, Genevieve Gauckler, Anthony Burrill... it's pretty amazing. We recommend you have children just so they can read it.
05/03/08
Kids Next Month
Semi Permanent Exhibition at MTV Gallery
We are most happy to be included in this exhibition, alongside some of our favourites. Put on by the folk from Stupid Krap.
11/02/08
This Season
We are mostly been makin' posters
Added some more new work up on the site - a poster for Tommy Dassalo's "Viewmaster" show at the Mebourne Comedy Festival (which is where he finds an old vewmaster with a parrallel universe inside - funniness ensues). We also did a poster for MTV which they used at The St. Kilda Festival, this year's Beachball at Sydney Uni poster, and another one for Damo Suzuki.