Thanks to everyone who came to the After School Social we had with TRIBEZA last Thursday. Casey and I decided since it was Veterans Day that day we’d shoot some patriotic portraits of those in attendance. Here are some of our favorites. If yours isn’t here, check back tomorrow when we’ll post everything else for you to grab for yourself.
Lu Cong’s portraits are absolutely beautiful. His porcelain-like figures possess a slightly unsettling and very slightly distorted realism, all the while managing to completely draw the viewer in. A couple more examples after the jump.
Say howdy to our friend Roberto Ainslie. He’s one of Casey’s childhood friends, and someone we’ve all spent a lot of time with in the last couple of years. A little known fact is that before our old studio was transformed in to PUBLIC SCHOOL, it was a gallery called Gallery 1906, which Roberto curated. He hosted many great shows including Matt Rainwater’s Untitled Bat Study and the work of Christa Palazzolo. Though he shut the gallery down to focus on teaching, he has come full circle and is going back to grad school for curatorial studies.
Recently along with Jessica Olsen, we enlisted his curating help on the PUBLIC SCHOOL blog. Additionally, to satisfy his art habit, Roberto started the Tokyo Blues blog which you should check out.
Though this is the side of Roberto that most of you will encounter through the blog, its his overall personality that we dig. He’s sort of an unofficial PSchooler as you can generally find him upstairs at our studio throughout the week. He comes up to hang in the lounge and dole out advice on the random happenings of the studio or discussing why Tim Tebow should have gone higher lower in the NFL draft. He’s one of our favorite visitors and all around favorite dudes. We’re proud to consider him part of the extended family and proud to have him call PUBLIC SCHOOL his home away from home.
In the future, we’ll all have hoverboards (that apparently won’t work on water), iPads that can stream Family Guy on Hulu and all sculptures will be made out of CAT-5 cables. Kasey McMahon may be ahead of her time (or visiting us from the future) as she has already gotten started on that trend and created this self portrait.
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Let’s jump rope!
The internet, it’s open.
Not your typical Walgreen’s pharmacy.
It’s called the spoon prank, and it is hilarious.
Brine Icicles don’t mess around. They’re killer.
Would you ride a giant spoke-less ferris wheel?
Stop annoying your neighbors with these cheap soundproofing techniques.
One of our favorite Austin spots receives FFFest praise for their “Slayer Dog”
One used time traveling DeLorean for sale. $600,000 OBO.
How good at Kerning are you? Why not test yourself?
It’s October, so why not celebrate with some Dia De Los Modernists posters?
While we’re talkin’ food, how about a pencil sharpener that dispenses parmesan pencil shavings? Yum!
Need to peel an entire head of garlic in under 10 seconds? Do it with two bowls.
This is the kinda Garden Gnome that lets people know you mean business.
Darth Vader blows some hot air.
You really need to be following Adam Garcia’s sketchbook blog.
That’s a really cool fountain. I want that in my yard.
Hey Portland! Cheat Local!
Marty McFly and Doc Brown have a backstory finally.
It’s the cartoon color wheel.
What if Charles Schulz wrote Jaws?
If there’s anything you learn from this, it’s that you shouldn’t get a discount taxidermist.
Not that you don’t already, but keep in mind that chain emails are bad.
I’m all for this kind of nuclear proliferation.
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