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Friday, June 26
7-10pm
LAB Boston
113 Brighton Ave Allston, MA 02134

LAB Boston is proud to present “Bare Knuckle Brawlers”, the poster show for “Died Young, Stayed Pretty”. The opening of the show will be tomorrow, June 26th from 7-10pm and will feature the following artists: James Quigley, Jesse Ledoux, Jeff Kleinsmith, theMiracle5, Dan McCarthy, Nate Duval, Darren Pasemko, Tofu Squirrel, Brian Butler and other local artists.

We have worked closely with Eileen Yaghoobian, Producer/Director and Kristin Groener to showcase artwork in connection with the documentary.
www.diedyoungstayedpretty.com

Died Young, Stayed Pretty is a documentary about the underground poster culture in North America, from the ’60s psychedelic masters, like Victor Moscoso, to the gig poster crew today. The artists represented in the film “push further into the pulp to grab the attention of passersby, plastering art that?s both vulgar and intensely visceral onto the gnarled surfaces of the urban landscape,” says director Eileen Yaghoobian.

Outside of their own subculture these posterists are virtually unknown. “But within their ranks they make up an army of bare-knuckle brawlers, publicly arguing the aesthetic merits of octopus imagery and hairy ’70s porn stars.” They’ve created their own visual language and have created posters that are “strikingly obscene, unflinchingly blasphemous and often quite beautiful.” Yaghoobian’s film is the first (and maybe the last) of its kind.

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Caught up with some Brooklyn homies and headed to Wizard World Philly this weekend. Did merch for Kaiju Big Battel, and checked in at Space 1026 to see the Matthew Palladino and Eric Shaw show. Visited Ben Sisto’s Brooklyn studio on Sunday. a couple more pics after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Colby and I broke out the putters to head down to Myrtle Beach, and unknowingly celebrate “Senior Week”, (the week following “Biker Week”). We played a profane amount of miniature golf, and learned a lot about the dirty south. Documentation after the jump… Read the rest of this entry »

Official Cut&Paste Barcelona website here. More Spain pics after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

The Berlin show was bananas. The owner of the venue, a warehouse turned club, was riding his motorbike around while we were setting up. The crowd was really lively, and weren’t bashful about expressing their opinions. More Germany after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

London was stop two on the tour. I had the pleasure of meeting a ton of rad people, and totally had the confidence to speak their native language! Here is the link to the official London Cut&Paste web page. More London flicks after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Amsterdam was the first stop on my European Cut&Paste adventure. The venue was this beautiful canal-side building with Louisiana paddle-boat type architecture inside. I had an oppertunity to quickly catch-up with Femke Hiemstra, who is a crazy-talented painted, in-tune with the Ice Cream People community. Official Cut&Paste Amsterdam web page here.