THE ART OF FASHION 2
STRAPHANGER MEMOIRS : 002
EPISODE 002 Time 3:56 Release Date 11-3-09
LOCATION: Webster Hall NYC (East Village) 10-23-2009
SHOW LINKS: straphanger memoirs, art of fashion, webster hall, nyc, sketches, fashion photographers, brooklyn baby doll, wwe magazine, burlesque, art exhibit, gallery, complementary bar, october 23, cojo art juggernaut, artsucks.com, cojo
SHOW NOTES: Last week's event was so popular, Webster Hall invited us back. In this Vlog Cojo exhibits 48 sketches from SKETCH365
s (S)EX, (S)OCIALITE, (S)LUMBERLAND, and (S)IN paintings in "The Art of Fashion 2" Exhibit and Performance at the Legendary Webster Hall NYC. The event had a Halloween theme and Cojo had a personal photographer tag along for this one.
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THE ART OF FASHION
STRAPHANGER MEMOIRS :001
EPISODE 001 Time 2:27 Release Date 10-18-09
LOCATION: Webster Hall NYC (East Village) 10-16-2009
SHOW LINKS: straphanger memoirs, art of fashion, webster hall, nyc, sketches, fashion photographers, miss em, burlesque, finnegan's, 10 in one, circus sideshow, doc coyle, god forbid, art exhibit, gallery, complementary bar, october 16, cojo art juggernaut, artsucks.com, cojo
SHOW NOTES: In this, the first ever Straphanger Memoirs video blog (vlog) Cojo exhibits 24 sketches from SKETCH365
s (S)EX and (S)OCIALITE paintings in "The Art of Fashion" Exhibit and Performance at the Legendary Webster Hall NYC.
Excerpts from an interview with Doc Coyle, guitarist from God Forbid as well as a circus side show, a burlesque performance and a runway show are featured.
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THE WILDE YEARS AT THE VISUAL ART GALLERY
10-20-09 POST KEYWORDS: richard wilde, the wilde years, meiling chen, mtv popcorn, piven, the troggs, wild thing, shepard fairey, school of visual arts, sva, visual arts gallery, jayson atienza, timothy o'malley, gail anderson, frank anselmo, vagina monologues, drew hodges, cojo art juggernaut, artsucks.com, cojo
What a great night to honor 40 Year SVA AD / GRAPHIC DESIGN chair Richard Wilde. Every SVA alum who's been in the Graphic Design or Advertising undergrad program has taken Richard Wilde's Visual Literacy class, and had to fight each week to have their solutions chosen to be projected on the screens. . .
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GAIL ANDERSON'S DESIGNS LIVE FOREVER
10-20-09 POST KEYWORDS: rolling stone, michael jackson, avenue q, gail anderson, man of la mancha, waiting for godot, the philanthropist, cojo art juggernaut, artsucks.com, cojo
One of the greatest mentors I had during my time at SVA was the prof who taught me editorial design with a side of freelance illustration.
Gail Anderson is not only one of the best designers on Earth, she is one of the best teachers. I ran into Gail at THE WILDE YEARS soiree where she had a bunch of her work from the Rolling Stone years, up till. . .
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COJO'S NEW PAINTING STUDIO PRE-CONSTRUCTION
10-18-09 POST KEYWORDS: painting, sketch365, 10 subjects, painting studio, studio, basquait, basement, cojo art juggernaut, artsucks.com, cojo
Being that my small studio isn't going to fit the ten 8ft x 3 ft canvases I'm tackling for my big "10 (S)ubjects" series based on the sketches of sketch365. I'm going to be doing it à la Basquiat in the movie Basquiat. My neighbor generously is lending me her basement to get the ball rolling, as you can see in the pictures, it is a basement.
Over the next few weeks I'm going to be transforming it into a full blown painting studio. I'll keep posting pictures and video as I go.. . .
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THE ART OF FASHION JOIN ME THIS FRIDAY NIGHT!
10-13-09 POST KEYWORDS: the art of fashion, webster hall, nyc, marlin room, sketches, fashion photographers, art exhibit, gallery, open bar, october 16, cojo art juggernaut, artsucks.com, cojo
I would like to cordially invite you to the Annual "The Art Of Fashion." Photography & Illustration Exhibition & Designer Runway
Show to be held on the evening of Friday October 16th from 9pm -
11pm at the legendary Webster Hall NYC. . .
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70 + HARVEY HEADS FOR HARVEY PEKAR'S 70th BIRTHDAY
10-12-09 POST KEYWORDS: harvey pekar, crumb, american splendor, paul giamatti, harvey heads, pekar project, cojo art juggernaut, artsucks.com, cojo
Anyone who knows anything about underground comics, Crumb, or have seen the movie American Splendor knows the name Harvey Pekar. This week he turned 70, and as part of the Pekar Project they asked artists from all over the industry to draw a Harvey Head to give to him on his birthday. The object was to get 70 Harvey heads for his 70 years, and we ended up with 90+.
I felt honored to be asked as Harvey is an icon in underground comics. My dad Jorgy contributed a head as well. Below are close ups of our heads.
To see the full edition of heads visit THE PEKAR PROJECT.
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CHOKE BY CHUCK PALAHNIUK
10-5-09 POST KEYWORDS: choke, chuck palahniuk, sam rockwell, clark gregg, anjelica huston, writer, fight club, alfred hitchcock, dylan, cojo art juggernaut, artsucks.com, cojo
I finally got a chance to see the screen adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's CHOKE the other night on DVD, and I can see why it didn't get the same Hollywood buzz Fight Club received. I love Chuck's work, and have read almost everything he's written, and as I've mentioned on my blog before (SEE- Art Sucks 5-13-05) one of my proudest moments as an artist was when Black Book Magazine stacked my contributor bio after Mr. Palahniuk's.
Before I talk about the movie, first I would like to get into the ascetics of the Silhouette Profile Portrait-poster design (see above left), which is a total aside from the book or movie. The poster is beautiful in it's simplicity, and any movie poster that uses illustration or painting in any form is alright by me.
Molly and I were debating what we thought the design was derivative of. . .
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BANANA FACTORY FIRST FRIDAY IN BETHLEHEM
10-2-09 POST KEYWORDS: artquest, ben marcune, plein air paintings, photography, olaf starorypinski, banana factory, bethlehem, steve tobin, john choi, south side, experimental artists, international society, 18th annual juried exhibition, time out ny, monsoon gallery, first friday, art walk, live music, larry homes, sculpture, easton, pennsylvania, glass blowing, glass foundry, cojo art juggernaut, artsucks.com, cojo
The main event of the Bethlehem art scene is Pennsylvania's cultural arts & education center The Banana Factory. Canvas Gary had given me a brief tour of the place a few weeks earlier and it's pretty amazing. A gallery and gift shop on the main floor, as well as dance studios, presentation rooms, an acting wing, and a full glass foundry called Glass Works. . .
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ORGANIZATION BEGINS
10-3-09 POST KEYWORDS: home depot, paintings, organization, painting studio, staples, binders, wood, angry wave, cojo art juggernaut, artsucks.com, cojo
This is the first weekend I've had in the past three where I have time to do something other than sketch water. From everything I've learned about the business of art thus far, unless you are far enough along to have an office manager and research staff, there is a lot of business you have to handle and keep in order yourself. As a working artist, this means getting organized. I took a trip over to Staples and picked up a few more two inch D-Ring binders. I have quite the collection now, and when I added labels to them they really started to take shape. If I'm doing this I'm gonna do it right. Fifteen years of disorganization later and I am finally taking some advice from the village elders. . .
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ONE POWER
10-1-09 POST KEYWORDS: wave, logo, acting, molly, pisskup, peekay, south africa, aqua teen hunger force, the power of one, cojo art juggernaut, artsucks.com, cojo
It's been a while since Molly has done a children's theatre tour but she recently landed one of the leads in a two person production titled THE POWER OF ONE. Through a series of skits her and another actress will teach kids about the evils of bullying. They will be heading up the first ever New Jersey tour of the world wide production.
Today I was a stand-in for the other actor, highlighted script in hand I read aloud. . .
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ARTSCAPE BALTIMORE ART FESTIVAL
7-18-09 POST KEYWORDS: artscape, baltimore, free arts festival, the metro gallery, robert matteson, robert mcclintock, phil kutno, cake, cojo art juggernaut, artsucks.com, cojo
It's touted as "America's Largest Free Arts Festival" with a projected attendance of 350 thousand over three days. Considering I've got a brother already living in Baltimore, a full tank of gas, and my girlfriend Molly along for the ride with an ipod full of a week's worth of Ron & Fez Audible Podcasts to get caught up on I decided it would be worth the drive down to check out ArtScape Baltimore. . .
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ART CARS OF BALTIMORE
7-18-09 POST KEYWORDS:artscape, baltimore, free arts festival, art cars, mondrian car, camera car, lobster car, yellow submarine, piet mondrian, cojo art juggernaut, artsucks.com, cojo
Near Penn Station there were the remnants of what had been the art car parade, which happened at 11AM and we had unfortunately missed. Above you see the car modeled after Piet Mondrian's work. . .
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CAKE AND LEGS
7-18-09 POST KEYWORDS: artscape, baltimore, free arts festival, john mccrea, cake, cojo art juggernaut, artsucks.com, cojo
John McCrea and the rest of Cake jammed the main stage of ArtScape Baltimore 2009 getting an audience of thousands to chant Sheep go to heaven, goats go to hell for about 5 minutes. . . literally.
It was a great show even though I had to watch most of it through the butthole of this young hippy chick who decided to dance to every song, even the slow ones that are not meant to be danced to. . .
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ARTSCAPE MEETS ZATARAIN'S
7-18-09 POST KEYWORDS: zatarains, jazz art, artscape, baltimore, musicians, free arts festival, bad art, cliché, cojo art juggernaut, artsucks.com, cojo
At ArtScape Baltimore I took only a few photos as examples of what I now dub "Zatarain's Art", "The Zatarain's Style" or "The Zatarain's School." I didn't want to take too many because at this fair there was probably more of this type of art than any other. It's this faux New Orleans / Louisiana imagery of abstract musicians playing jazz with twisty keyboards and distorted saxophones. It really just annoys me at this point because it sucks so bad in a "soulless-pretending to have soul" kind of way. I like the color and use of line art in the one above, but it's the subject matter. . .
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ART SUCKS YOUR LIFE AWAY. . . AND THAT'S A GOOD THING
7-8-09 POST KEYWORDS: business card, art sucks, self promo, fine art, commercial art, illustration, art sucks archive, cojo art juggernaut, artsucks.com, cojo
My vacation to the redneck riviera beautiful Panama City Beach, Florida is over and I'm back in the studio with a new crippling sunburn tan, and a frenzied urge to rip the top off a can of creative whoop-ass! I wanted to get this art blog up to date so I can start actively posting current stuff while working on restructuring the backlog into the newly flux integrated format
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COJO & THE ART SUCKS COMMUNITY FOR NEWBS
7-8-09 POST KEYWORDS: art sucks, self promo, fine art, commercial art, illustration, newbs, newbie, kevon glickman, first time, art sucks archive, cojo art juggernaut, artsucks.com, cojo
ABOUT COJO ® "ART JUGGERNAUT"
If you don't already know me, I'm an artist. You might have seen my illustrations, cartoons, and writing in Maxim Magazine from 2002-2006 (COJO MAXIMFOLIO) or in any number of hip hop or sports magazines from 1998 to present. Commercially I've worked freelance for print, broadcast, fashion, advertising, and for various fortune 500 companies (COJO CLIENT LIST) and for the past few years aside from all my other projects have been a regular contributer to WWE Magazine and WWE Kids Magazine (COJO WWE FOLIO).
I've done covers for the Voice, commercials for Nickelodeon, shirts for Nike and Fubu, portraits for Rolling Stone, logo art for college football teams, and I'm the fantasy sports mascot character design artist for AOL . . . I enjoy keeping busy (VIEW COJO COMMERCIAL PORTFOLIO).
I used to be represented by Super Agent Kevon Glickman and his former artist management firm Respect Management. I was the first and only visual artist they signed in a roster of mostly musicians and rappers: Rick Ross, Trina, and Akon to name a few.
Thus far 2009 has been a major R & D year for me. I'm knocking on doors and knocking down walls. Just soaking up all there is to know about the fine art world and how it relates to the commercial art world. The secrets and the pitfalls. Much like Andy Warhol, my end game is the evolution to full-on branded fine artist. I love working in print, and for the web. I love illustration. If I can juggle the two worlds for as long as I can I will. Art Sucks chronicles this evolution; this juggling act, and all the shit and spectacle that comes with it.
Enjoy.
ABOUT ART SUCKS & THE COMMUNITY:
Art Sucks was the first Art Blog personally invited to join the Viacom / Flux Network. If you are checking out Art Sucks for the first time, welcome. Please JOIN THE ART SUCKS COMMUNITY. It's free, and only takes a few seconds. By joining you will create an online presence which will allow you to post comments, network with other Art Sucks users, upload video and photos on any of the flux / viacom properties including Mtv.com, The Daily Show.com, Comedy Central.com, Colbert Nation.com and many others without having to re-log in.
Art Sucks was and is the first Art Blog permanently blogrolled by TMZ.com. Up your ass Entertainment Tonight!
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NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE HUMAN PROP
ART SUCKS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: STEIN SMITH
AKA PUNK IN BAR AS SEEN IN COMMERCIAL TRAILER
9-23-08 POST KEYWORDS: nick and norah, infinite playlist, stein smith, stein, jain, popular science, cojo art juggernaut, artsucks.com, cojo
One month after the issue of Popular Science Magazine where he reference modeled for me for a full page feature opener illustration about a hallucinating inpatient hit shelves my friend Stein Smith was on the set of the new Michael Cera Sony Pictures feature "NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST". Being that MOLLY and I are big Arrested Development fans I dropped him a line and asked him to tell me about some of his experiences of working on the film for Artsucks.com here is what it was like in his words:
"I was hired last year to be a background actor for the Sony Pictures
movie, "Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist" (release Oct 3rd 2008).
The movie is shot inside and outside of a hipster type bar. . .
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MSI FRONTMAN JIMMY URINE EATS MY ARTWORK
7-1-08 POST KEYWORDS: royal flush, royal flush magazine, mindless self indulgence, jimmy urine, hot topic, josh bernstein, cojo art juggernaut, artsucks.com, cojo
While Molly and I were chilling out on vacation attending weddings in the middle of Tennesse my friend and Royal Flush Magazine Publisher Josh Bernstein was chilling with JIMMY URINE frontman for the band MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE who munched on my cover after their performance at TERMINAL 5.
According to Josh "The band LOVED the mag." The portrait I did of them for the back cover of issue Five of the mag hit the shelves of Barnes & Nobles, Borders, Hot Topic, FYE and Virgin Megastores nationally everywhere. You can also buy it directly from Royal Flush on their site HERE
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02: "LIVING A DREAM"
ART JUGGERNAUT PROGRAM
EPISODE 02 Time 15:49 Release Date 3-20-08
SHOW LINKS: Art School, Opryland, Jeff Koons, Jason Schwartzman, Wes Anderson, Rushmore, Bill Murray, NYU Steinhardt, School of Visual Arts, Art School Confidential, John Malkovich, Following your dreams, Cojo Art Juggernaut, Artsucks.com, Cojo
SHOW NOTES: In this episode Cojo and Molly discuss: Following your dream, and the secret to a happy life. The artistic drive that compels you into a career of starvation. 1 out of 100 art students making it. Following your dream with shitty unsupportive parents.
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YES WE CAN. . . COJO MEETS BARACK OBAMA - NYC - 2004
9-13-04 POST KEYWORDS: Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father, John Kerry, John Edwards, Eliot Spitzer, Toure, Q-Tip, Star Jones, Obama Campaign, Political, Presidential Poker, Cojo Art Juggernaut, Cojoart.com, Artsucks.com, Cojo
I went to Barnes and Noble and picked up Barack Obama's book DREAMS FROM MY FATHER. Stopped by SVA to see what new renovations they had done to the building and make myself feel old by seeing how young the freshman looked, picked up some take out, ate it in the SVA cafeteria, and then shot uptown to CrowbarNYC for the Obama fundraiser.
After the ordeal of the beginning of the day, the 20 minute wait at the door was a breeze. I watched as the NEWS 1 van with the giant antenna wrapped up their filming from across the street.
I was first on line, and from the looks of the line behind me, I was amazingly underdressed. The line was composed of 95 percent beautifully dressed African Americans, 3 percent white suite and tie democrats, 1.9 percent Asian and other races, and shabbily dressed me. . .
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