Kemosabe: Loyalty, Friend House

Zachary Granger Moldof and Anna Kerlin are working on a journal. According to Zach, the first issue:

...is going to be unbound, and it will come in a plastic bag. It’s going to be ideas, drawings, design, writing, and objects from our friends.

The project gets exciting before the first issue is published. To support the publication costs, Zach and Anna are selling “subscriptions” to out of print issues of National Geographic dating back to the 1930’s.

• they’ll send a questionaire to the subscriber
• the subscriber will fill it out and return it

• Zach and Anna will go through a massive collection and select issues based on the relevance of the content to the survey response

  Subscriptions are $40 for a year or $20 for a half-year. To subscribe, contact natgeoreissues (at) gmail.com.

  

I’ve heard good things about Transit Antenna, “an experiment in mobile life.” Recently the traveling creative collective stopped in our former stomping ground: Orlando, FL.

While there, they spent time with Wheat Wurtzburger. Their Florida experience is recounted here along with an incredibly sincere and endearing depiction of our dear friend Wheat.

We’re excited to be participating in The Sketchbook Project, hosted by Art House in Atlanta, Ga. 500 sketchbooks are sent out, 1 to each participant, to then be returned and exhibited together. The theme of the project is what drew us in: “How to save the world.” According to Art House:

Everyone has ideas on how they would save the world. Whether its something as small as planting a tree or as grand as beating up every boss at the end of each level on the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game, it’s your solution to the world. Show it in your sketchbooks.

Of course, we’re advocates of getting out and doing, but a lot of our doing starts with a scribble or note in a sketchbook.

9 of 500 spots remain. Why not join in?

Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July’s Learning To Love You More project, which features photographs from our beloved Wheat Wurtzburger, is now in book form.

To launch the book, a new exhibition opens Saturday, October 6th at The Journal Gallery (168 N 1st St, Brooklyn, NY) and runs through October 26th, before it’s packed up and shipped off for a 6-12 month European tour.

Opening party Saturday the 6th from 6PM-9PM. We hope to see you there.

Fellow Brooklynites Urban Inks are opening a screen printing and design collaborative space in Long Island City. LIC happens to be my other ‘hood, so I’m especially excited about this.

Post Expose will house the work spaces of several designer and artist printers beginning in November.

Grand Opening
November 1 2007

Hours
M-F 10am-6pm
Sat 12pm-8pm

Location
21-36 44 Road,
Long Island City
Queens, NY

They’ve also invited Citizen Scholar to include a poster in the opening exhibition. Thanks, guys! You’re swell.

We hope to see you there.

Wheat Wurtzburger’s work is plastered all over San Francisco right now. The photo, made with Anna Kerlin, was originally captured for Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher’s Learning To Love You More public art project.

Now, Let Love In is promoting the next in a series of artists talks at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

(larger view)

Our friend Mark Parrish is having a show in Williamsburg and it opens this weekend. Come say “hi” at the opening reception.

Gitana Rosa Gallery invites you to attend the opening reception of Let’s All Drink to the Death of a Clown! A series of new paintings inspired by Mark Parrish’s latest short film titled “The Shadow Boxer” (Currently in pre-production, release in Winter 2007.) There will be a reception and special screening at 9PM, with the artist on Saturday, April 28th from 7-10pm at the Gitana Rosa Gallery located on 19 Hope Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

I won’t miss this one: SVA design student Anthony Defranco has organized this Saturday’s (Marth 24th’s) Bubble Bath bubble-blowing event in Union Square. Anthony’s charming inspiration story is spot on.

Design 21: Social Design Network is hosting the photography exhibition Voices of Our Time featuring portraits by Jacques De Melo of more than 100 immigrants from around the world who’ve settled in urban areas of France.

The portraits are on view 5-7pm each weekday from February 27th through March 9th at the Felissimo Townhouse: 10 West 56th Street, New York City.

Wheat Wurtzburger is part of Humble Arts Foundation’s Group Show No. 12.