I’ve been wanting to go to SXSW, the film & music festival in Austin, for years. I can’t make it again this year, I’ll explain shortly, and this year I actually had two really good reasons to go.

As you all know, I work with charity/art organization RobotsandMonsters.org. Its founder, Joe Alterio, is taking part in a panel on March 15. Titled Indirect Collaboration: Collective Creativity on the Web, the panel will discuss how the internet and crowd-sourcing affect the creative process. more info

Test Everything, the zine that I did these drawings for, is cohosting a whirlwind of zine making. Winners! Press, Domy Books, and Test Everything are going to try to create 20 zines in 2 days, and they need your help! All of the content is going to be created at the event, so drop Domy books by March 19th & 20th if you’re in the area.

The reason I won’t be going to SXSW is because I’ll be gone all next week on my HONEYMOON! We’re headed to beautiful Barcelona. My wife wrote a little bit about it on her blog. I might post a couple pictures while I’m there, but if not, I’ll see ya’ll back here in a week.

Meg Hunt relaunches her site with lots of great work.

P.S. It’s her birthday today! As an inverse birthday present, she has desktop wallpaper available for download on flickr.

Artists Raphael UHRWEILLER and Mayumi OTERO used a steamroller to create some amazing prints.
[via Drawn!]

It’s been quiet on this blog lately because I’m trying to get a new site started up called FridayNightFeature.tv.

I’ve been working on some animation and video projects lately and I gotta say, it’s a lot of work trying to do everything by yourself. Animating, concepting, finding music, etc, gets pretty tiring. And I know I could take on more ambitious projects if I could just get some people to work with (not to mention it could be a lot more fun). Friday Night Feature is a site where I hope to find collaborators of any kind.

Eventually I would like the site to become about more than just helping me find some cool people. I would like to see it grow into a whole community of talented people that easily contact each other for whatever they want. WriterX has an idea and thinks that CharacterArtistY has really great style and that AnimatorZ obviously knows his way around after effects so they all end up working together. Something like that.

So, please, if you want to join in on Friday Night Feature, or you know someone who might be interested, email me at emoryallen@gmail.com.

Happily Ever After 2, an art show featuring 13 artists, opens this friday at Suite 100 Gallery in Seattle.
More info and a few pieces can be found at the show’s blog, happily2.blogspot.com.

Suite 100 Gallery
2222 2nd Avenue, suite 100
Seattle, WA 98121
open Mon-Fri 12:00-6:00

A couple pieces from the show by Susie Ghahremani and Meg Hunt below.

Fantastic work from Russ Mills a.k.a. Byroglyphics.

My Plastic Heart is hosting an art show featuring 30 pieces by Nakanari and Dave “Outta My Mind” Quiles.

Drop by the myplasticheart gallery for art ranging from paintings and canvas prints, printed acrylic compositions, wood engravings, custom vinyl toys including Munny Mobile and 20” Dunny, to metal sculptures, plush, t-shirts, and very limited hand-cast figures.

Technobabble
Featuring works by Nakanari & Dave “Outta My Mind” Quiles
Opening Friday March 28th 2008
6 – 9pm
Show runs until 4/13

Last Friday saw the opening of Limited Edition, a wildlife themed art show put on by Vinyabuse and Okkle hosted at Go Go Plastic. For anyone in the UK, the show runs through March 30th (hours can be found at go go plastic’s site).For all of us that aren’t able to make it to the show, Vinyabuse posted a ton of pics on their site.
All of the artwork is for sale and will eventually be made available online at, you guessed it, Go Go Plastic’s website.

St. Louis, MO—On June, 6, 13, 20 and 27, you’ll find the largest collection of plushies and stuffies in some of St. Louis’ hottest shops from artists and crafters all around the world. Organizers seek ardent fans of plush to submit essays and hand made plush goods for inclusion in a show and comprehensive book, Crammed Organisms, to be published this spring. Artwork and essays should align with the theme: Fairy, Folk and Fable. The published book will be for sale during the show. What is plush? Plush is the modern word for stuffed animals (no, we’re not talking about taxidermy…), also known as stuffies, plushies and now Crammed Organisms.

Full info at www.crammedorganisms.com/