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“Pay attention and grab your ideas”

// February 8th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // guest blogger

Will Butler

Our band androidkittyshit started writing some new songs last night and I have no idea but they are kind of Tool-ish (key word “ish”) and our style before last night was never like that it was strange.

TOOL . All Points West Festival

Watch this full TOOL video: CLICK HERE

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So it got me thinking about the writing process and how it morphs depending on mood, time of day, how high or not high you are (drunk stoned or whatever), calamity, weddings, children, books & Televisions, hurricanes, earthquakes, aunts & uncles, ants and snails, bells and whistles, dinners, starvation, zebras and even being slapped in the face.

photo by Will Butler

It helps me realize that art truly is within everything… EVERYTHING!! You really just have to pay attention and grab your ideas out of the air on a momentary basis and put pen to paper or whatever means you have to save moments as they come..

©2010 Will Butler

postcard art

// February 6th, 2010 // No Comments » // art

always painting on new materials

today i decided to go back to some roots

4got how much fun paint and postcards can be

kofie timelapse

// February 3rd, 2010 // No Comments » // art, video

Mid City Arts Backwall: Live art time lapse from Augustine Kofie on Vimeo.

Dirty Heads “Lay Me Down” Featuring ‘Rome’ of Sublime.

// February 1st, 2010 // No Comments » // music

Help Support Our Good Friends and Southern California’s very own The “Dirty Heads”

Request there new song “Lay Me Down” at KROQ’s request page then listen for it!

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Tom Waits -’Nirvana’ (by Bukowski)

// January 28th, 2010 // No Comments » // video

thanks to our good friend Chris in Portland for sending us this and reminding us to keep in-tuned with the greats along our way to discovering the emerging…

A Special Night @ The Museum on Feb 5th!

// January 28th, 2010 // No Comments » // events, music

A  Night @ The Museum on Feb 5th with the Brooklyn-based Yeasayer and LA’s very own Warpaint. Tickets still available here.

Warpaint’s hypnotic, layered, bass-driven music with ethereal vocals creates an atmosphere that seems to melt and float around the listener. This quartet is not to be missed. Hailing from Brooklyn, Yeasayer’s music is a genre-bending journey into pop, rock, Middle Eastern and African musics, folk, and dub.

First Friday paid admission includes full access to the Museum.

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DISTANCE DON’T MATTER – Swoon & friends @ SPACE Gallery

// January 26th, 2010 // No Comments » // art, video

out of the journal

// January 24th, 2010 // No Comments » // art

I appreciate all the comments and even donations you guys have made to help support the Pushgallery blog over the years! I am happy to see a full line of creative projects in-store for 2010!
Along with a few new writers I will be introducing to you over the year you can also expect to see few more films, events and projects from my little pushgallery production studio…
So cheers to you for following along…

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And a few things from my personal journal for you guys:

“homage to julian”

a poem by justin snyder

There was this little child trapped underneath loads of cement with only a spoon in his hand.

From the weight of the debris he was unable to clear space in his lungs to scream or talk to make any noise.

There was a window of light and the child kept banging his spoon against the glass hoping that someone would hear the sound and find him.

The spoon made the most radiant sound that anyone have ever heard. You could hear it ringing for miles.

It was sooo beautiful that people reached up to grab the air.

They never found the boy, he never got out of the rubble.

But man that sound. That sound he made. It filled the country side with beauty.

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also from the journal this week!

2 videos:

The first is Quentin Tarintino giving a review of Taxi Driver and the 2nd is a scene from Bufallo 66 that played a big part in my inspirations to film years ago.

Have a wonderfull 2010 and feel free to leave your comments!

3rd World- In The Studio With Wendell McShine

// January 22nd, 2010 // No Comments » // art, video

3rd world- in studio with artist: Wendell Mc shine from wendell mc shine on Vimeo.

Hello dear ones!

// January 19th, 2010 // No Comments » // guest blogger

While the search for the appropriate guest blogger has been a long one, the new year has led me to a friend who’s overwhelming passion for the arts and aesthetics while expressing them sold me on the need to get him aboard. The California native is a musician, film-maker, photographer and comes from a long line of amazing artists. Today it it’s my pleasure to welcome our first guest blogger to pushgallery. Guest posting requires a lot of preparation and foresight and he’s generously agreed to periodically accompany myself and help keep pushgallery up to date and pushing forward. I look forward to the new niches he may bring and the glimpses into his thoughts as we read new posts.

I’m happy to introduce to you Mr. Will Butler

will butler

VEUCH at Dune in Paris

// January 17th, 2010 // No Comments » // art, video

VEUCH @ Dune from kitsuney on Vimeo.

Polar Sketches

// January 15th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // cinema

Helping donate to the victims of Haiti Earthquake

// January 13th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // HAITI earthquake, art, charity

7.0 earthquake rocked Haiti at 4:53 p.m., leaving an already vulnerable and impoverished country in total chaos.

The earthquake — the strongest to hit the Caribbean nation in more than two centuries — struck just 10 miles off the coast of Haiti’s capital city of Port-Au-Prince, according to the Associated Press.

With videos online and on the news flooding in from the earthquake torn area in Haiti. There’s a really helpless feeling that comes over you. What can really be done to help such a devistated area when we ourselves are not better off with money or luxuries.  I figured that the least I myself could do this morning was offer one of my paintings for sale with all the proceeds being delivered straight to help the victims of the devastating Haiti Earthquake.

Below is the painting that I have put up for sale just last night. It’s a piece from my personal collection done in 2007 while living in Long Beach CA. The theme of the painting is surrounded by homelessness. The painting has been named “of plenty” If you do make a purchase please note in an email to me after the purchase your name and I will sign in over directly to your name on the back of the painting. As well whomever purchased this painting I will also offer a link to any site you wish on the pushgallery blog. If you have a company or blog yourself please let me know about it in the email and I will make sure to connect to you here on the pushgallery art blog. Also any other paintings sold this week I will be donating 10% of those sales towards the Haiti Earthquake fund as well.

The donations will be donated to edeyo (http://www.edeyo.org/haiti.html) and will be used directly for the aid of the victims of the Haiti Earthquake. All Receipts of the donation will also be sent to the purchaser of the painting to have a copy for yourself and a reminder of your help. If you have a specific request on the donations going to a different organization surrounding the aid of the Haiti victims I will take them into consideration and you can email me directly here: justin@pushgallery.com

Edeyo is an independent not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the future of children in Haiti by rebuilding dilapidated schools, supplying students with learning materials, and providing them with nutritional support.

Here are a few images of the painting. Please click the link below them to see the full painting and the information on purchasing it. Thank you, Justin Snyder

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"of plenty"

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U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that his “thoughts and prayers” were with the people of Haiti. “We are closely monitoring the situation and we stand ready to assist the people of Haiti,” Obama said in a statement. The Obama administration said that the State Department, USAID and the U.S. military were working to coordinate an assessment of the situation and any possible assistance. – huff post

The American Red Cross is pledging an initial $200,000 to assist communities impacted by this earthquake. They expect to provide immediate needs for food, water, temporary shelter, medical services and emotional support. They are accepting donations through their International Response Fund.

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