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---See all of the stencil pieces from June08 Phoenix Gallery show---

news and happenings

16-aug-08 2:33 AM

> Green Acres is the place for me.
Some may say that the grass is always greener on the other side, but i proved it wrong. I was doing the Mr Mom thang and freelancing while trying to find a full time gig and found, on my stint ala employment, not all companies operate in the present and some are still stuck in the past only dreaming of the present. That's nice....the dreaming part.
At any rate, SoulSwirl DTM is now officially reopened for business and will remain freelance until i have to go to work stocking shelves or working as a Walmart® Greeter.

>Papertoy Snippet via PHIL
A few months ago i did procrastination #1345 and took a papertoy template from PHIL and dropped in some SWRL art and stylee. PHIL said it was cool but little did i know that he thought it was worthy. He posted a YOUtube video of his interview on MTV and at the 46 second mark, my G-boy makes a cameo (circled in red).
Check out the interview here. You better be fluent in Italian. Big Thanks PHIL!

> Blanket Magazine Bingo
Check out issue 9 page 25 of Blanket Magazine for a SWRL visual. Submitted a couple of slides to Blanket on a whim and got to drop a piece on some real estate.

> New Series At The Horseshoe Lounge
Series 3 is hanging at the Horseshoe Lounge located at 29th and Logan just off Park Ave West. All robot monsters ala the Goosetown show. If you didn't get to see that show go check out the walls at The Shoe and use your stimulus money to stimulate my economy.

> When Pigs Fly!!
Not being a huge Pink Floyd fan and yet knowing enough to make me dangerous in any rock and roll trivia binge, I've was invited to paint the Roger Waters Pig that floats over the crowd during "Sheep" (for the most part). Imagine my suprise to get there and have to do a restoration on a pig that had gone thru the war. No original art for SWRL. Boooooooo! I did manage to stick a couple of stencils on the ass though.

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