V.V. BOOKS AT VINYL FRONTIER

V.V. LOGO BY JACK RAMUNNI

V.V. BOOKS IS NOW OPEN AT VINYL FRONTIER (51 E. Gay St.).

After the jump are pictures of V.V. BOOKS' bookstand at the Fall Flea.

CH1LL TEQ - HABOOB

Your first glimpse into the burgeoning Texas Techno scene. My avant-dusty trio with Tatyana Kagamas and Jack Ramunni.

Other News: 

* Ryan Eilbeck and Richard Wehrenberg gear up for their October poetry tour.
* Shaver streams a track from Peace Train.

Party Pics

Other News:

* I featured Jack Ramunni on Beautiful/Decay.

* My Name is Mud's new issue has two poems of mine.

* On April 30th I'm reading with Tatyana Kagamas at the North Side Library in Pittsburgh, PA, as part of my residency at the Cyberpunk Apocalypse. 

* On May 5th I'm reading at Skylab Gallery with Die Kinder and Jeremy Ruggles.

Bookstore Exhibition at Drift Station

Austerity Pleasures, the first two volumes of Jack Ramunni's One Hour Publications series, and the first issue of Slave Labia's zine will be available for free at Drift Station, a gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska, during its exhibition Bookstore, which opens March 2nd. 

Re: Bookstore: "For the duration of the exhibition, Drift Station will become a bookstore/reading library where the public can look through, peruse, and purchase artworks."

Other News:

* I featured AJ Fusco's artwork on Beautiful/Decay. 

* Elijah Funk redid his artist's site.

* A review of El Jesus de Magico's new album on Columbus Discount Records.

* The Max Caldwell and Mike Shouldis episode of Safe Passages is up.

* "We are all dreaming, and the dream is Chelsea Clinton." 

Presents 2012

Presents 2012, an exhibition by the Art Bong collective, opens February 20th at the Acock Gallery of the Columbus College of Art & Design. Presents 2012's closing reception is followed by an after party at Skylab Gallery. Find pictures of the last Art Bong show after the jump.

Other News:

* I'm reading poetry at the Monster House on February 11th with Cuddle Magic, Jordan Castro, Moon High, and Saintseneca.

* The cover I made for Delay's Rushing Ceremony gets NSFW-ed.

* Black Cloud reviews Slave Labia's first zine. 

* I like this Shoppers band that recently played at the Monster House. Choice lyric: "After all, what's the point of being young and dumb when you're always too drunk to come?"

Jack Boy Big Get Present

Open publication - Free publishing - More birthday

These Things Are Hip: 2011, a book of drawings I made for Jack Ramunni's 22nd birthday, is above.

Other News:

* Columbus Street Style's Tatyana Kagamas frees a season's greetings viral video from the confines of Secular Village.
* Black Cloud posted soon-to-be iconic Slave Labia photos from their recent 15th House show.
* Alex Ross has an artist's site now; it includes photo documentation of Max Caldwell's recent Blitz Minded/Blitzed Mind show at CCAD.
* Aaron Lake Smith published an essay in the Utne Reader; it's illustrated with an Edward Gorey envelope.
* Some site, "The Hot 17," wrote about Carabar, the black hole at the center of my social universe. 

Party Pics

Rushing Ceremony Cover

These are the front and back covers and labels for Delay's new album Rushing Ceremony. I designed them with the indispensable/incomparable aid of Jack Ramunni, a former runner-up in Ohio's Photoshop Context Contest who deserved first. 

Rushing Ceremony comes out in December on Shout Out Loud Records. The album will also be available on Bandcamp at what I'm told will be a "politically-progressive" rate. Purchase Rushing Ceremony at a record-release show in the very near-future; for more definite information, watch Delay's Tumblr. 

One Hour Publication

Open publication - Free publishing - More heatspace

One Hour Publications is a zine series exploring collaborative situations, artist publications, and self-publishing. Each book's content is made within one hour by Jack Ramunni and one collaborator in Heat Space at the Columbus College of Art and Design. 

For the first One Hour Publication, I extemporaneously wrote a suite of twelve poems about the city of Columbus, memory, and decay. Jack then drew a companion illustration for each poem as it came off the typewriter.

The next One Hour Publication features Alex Ross and it is funny.

The One Hour Publication on Goodreads.

Other News:

* Ben Bennett, Patrick Elkins, Ryan Jewell, Justin Clifford Rhody, and Hannah Stephenson will be performing at Skylab on November 27th.
* New art history blog for lonelies, fun.
* I "signed" this letter in support of the Occupy movement.
* Peterbd sent me another email. This site collects emails that Peterbd has sent to internet literature types. Reminds me of Ray Johnson. Here it is:

all the leaves are brown and the lit is bleak

this lit is just so bad, very ununique

i'd be very blessed if all lit was by payne. james payne prose i'm dreamin, there's not much else to say

walked into a store because i love to read. well the books were just so bad, i got down on my knees. and prayed to god to stop this prose, so i'll see brighter days

james payne prose i'm dreamin, cause every book is lame

all the kids are sad and so down on luck

they just want something good to read. somethings that doesn't suck

our savior is in payne, he must write everything. james payne prose i'm dreamin, on his every word we cling

                                                                  - Peterbd

New Work

Other News:

* Jack Ramunni and Alex Ross on the streets of post-apocalyptic Columbus, Ohio. 

* My piece in the Heat Space Art Collection.

* I'm on a panel December 1st discussing the art of the book at the OSU Urban Arts Space.