Too Blessed 2 Be STRESSED! posters are now available at Karma. Very limited quantites.
Update: SOLD OUT
Karma
21 Downing Street, Ground Floor
New York, NY
karmakarma.org
Depressingly Awesome: Fourth Printing, November 2011. Letterpress printed in Los Angeles by the Colby Poster Printing Company. Available three ways: yellow, flourescent pink, or blue/yellow/pink split fountain. Twenty bucks. Only 100 available.
Available at KIOSK.
KIOSK
95 Spring St. (bet Mercer and Bway)
2nd Floor, New York, NY
kioskkiosk.com
Excursus I: Reference Library
Up On My Back, And I Will Take You Thither
Excursus is a new series at ICA that invites the public to come together, converse, and peruse archival material in the context of the present. Andy Beach, known for his blog and curatorial interventions under the name Reference Library, inaugurates the series with Up On My Back, And I Will Take You Thither, a project that takes inspiration from the Centaur Book Shop, Philadelphia’s own Prohibition-era radical press, record store, and bohemian meeting place.
Celebrate the opening with a talk about the Centaur by curator Lynne Farrington of Penn's Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To be followed by an after hours reception on the ICA terrace. Tonight at 6:30!
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Top: The Centaur (sign for Centaur Book Shop), Wharton Esherick, 1924; at his home in Paoli, Pennsylvania. Bottom: The Sign of The Centaur, Andy Beach and Happy Signs; installed at the ICA, Philadelphia.
* 1000 tea bowls
@ $20 each
= 100% to Japan
Friday, May 6, 5–10pm (opening)
Saturday May 7, 11–5pm
Peter Shire Studio
1850 Echo Park Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
Go to support a good cause and get some handmade ceramics for cheaper than dirt. Stay to take in the wildness of Peter's studio. Have fun!
The Wary Meyers's awesome blog has been hacked by Vietnamese cyber douchebags. Do NOT go to the old, original site (warymeyers.blogspot.com); it's been taken over by the hackdicks and covered in advertisements. Coolly, John and Linda have saved old posts and have a new blog URL: warymeyersblog.blogspot.com. If anyone out there has an in with Blogger's tech support and can help shut down the illegal blog, help a blog brother out.
This one is by the hackers (BAD):
This one is by Wary Meyers (GOOD):
I'm heading out of town for a few days. Take a blog break; I'll get back to it next week. In the meantime, check out Ricky's place, Mary and Matt's candy, and Nathan's hood. Sayonara.
1903 World Series era pin via Boston Public Library
Sort of sorry for the recent lack of posts around here. Among other things, we've been camping, roasting s'mores, playing cards, eating tomatoes, collecting rocks and beating the heat. (Above: campsite view of a fiery sunset). I hope you are all having a good summer. Posts should pick up again sooner than later. Some things coming up: an exhibition with/by Mary Manning; a couple new editions; and another printing (the last?) of the Depressingly Awesome posters. Stay cool.
I reorganized and added to this blog's link list (over there --> under "recommended"). I'll do my best to keep this edited and up-to-date. If you think I missed anything, let me know. Enjoy!
The South Willard and Stork Bites Man 
Shrimp Shop opens this Saturday!
Boro Pants
Ceramic Mobiles
Creative Playthings
Down Vests
Handmade Toys
Little Bloomers
Silver Cups
Vintage Overalls
Wooden Blocks
and more, made in the USA, by Brett Cody Rogers, Camden Rose, Creative Playthings, Crescent Down Works, Erin Mulcahy, Kelly Breslin, Mari Eastman, Wary Meyers, Ramsey Conder and Ready 4 The House.
Opening party on Saturday November 21, 2–4pm
Music and singalong by StoryTimeFunLand
South Willard
8038 W. Third St.
Los Angeles
Come on out on Saturday it's going to be fun!
In addition to regular posts on Reference Library this week, I'll be posting over on the Design*Sponge guest blog. Different stuff each day this week. Today: Stuff from eBay.
I've been working on another little something with Apartamento magazine. This time it's just for kids, but you'll have to wait until issue #4 launches in October.
Photo: Marco Velardi
