Fred Harper's Art

jimmyaquino: kimboekbinder: Dear London, let’s make this show...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:17:17 -0400

kimboekbinder:

Dear London, let’s make this show happen. (TICKETS)

In 2011 I started pre-selling shows on Kickstarter. I sold tickets to concerts before I even booked them, ensuring an audience for myself and the venue before I did any of the heavy lifting. The idea made so much sense that I got a ton of press: BoingBoing, BBC’s World Service, CNN, and more. But the logistics were… tricky. Fast forward two years later and Songkick launches Detour - a way for fans to help bring the musicians they love to wherever there is enough demand to see them play (London only for now, but there are plans to expand once London proves the concept.)

I LOVE performing - it is essential to me. But being a truly DIY artist means I don’t have the cash flow required to tour at a loss until things pick up. Detour is the perfect solution for me to play a London show.

Fans pledge to buy tickets to come see me. Once enough tickets are pledged Detour will find a promoter who will take care of the logistics and then the show is booked and confirmed. Fans who pledge for tickets are only charged after the show is confirmed for a date they can make it to.

If you want to see me play in London (or the UK at all) this is the way of the very near future.

TICKETS

I need about 50 more pledges to make it onto the leader board and confirm a show. London, let’s do this thing.

*photo by Ruth Ann Arnold

UK pals…if you make this happen then I will try to come over as well! DO IT!

Demographic of One: The Situation of Andrew "weev" Auernheimer

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:43:12 -0400

Demographic of One: The Situation of Andrew "weev" Auernheimer:

mollycrabapple:

via a friend who just visited him in prison.

Andrew is currently serving 3.5 years for revealing a security flaw by AT&T. He has been in administrative segregation for twenty days as punishment for using his payphone calls to post to Soundcloud, and for sending pre-written tweets to a friend to…

I am staying on Tumblr, but...

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:39:45 -0400

paulmasonnews:

If they try to own my data, or integrate it with any other Yahoo service, I will leave. Also if there is any attempt to censor others, or if the cat pictures stop

mollycrabapple: Carson Daly That’s my girl!

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:38:17 -0400

mollycrabapple:

Carson Daly

That’s my girl!

nevver: Los Angeles New US currency.

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:58:16 -0400

nevver:

Los Angeles

New US currency.

jimbatt: I Have Your Heart will be making it’s festival...

Thu, 09 May 2013 15:02:39 -0400

jimbatt:

I Have Your Heart will be making it’s festival premiere at the prestigious Sydney Film Festival, where it has been nominated in the short film awards for Best Animation and Best Director!

www.ihaveyourheart.com

Winner!

mollycrabapple: There’s an American tendency to accuse those...

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:53:03 -0400

mollycrabapple:

There’s an American tendency to accuse those who want social services of entitlement. Who are you, the thinking goes, to demand college? To demand food? To think that you should work fewer than 12 hours a day, or not die of untreated illness, or have a dignified old age? The Cooper Union students are getting their share of that. But they make a particularly poor target. They are largely bright working class kids who passed brutal admissions to attend a school whose reason for existing is to educate them for free.

Cooper Union students are the paragons of that most sacred American myth: meritocracy.

-“The Fight to Save America’s Best Free College”, my latest from VICE

Shits fucked up.

muscleart360: Number 59 “Bar built”. A spot illustration about...

Sat, 04 May 2013 19:47:25 -0400

muscleart360:

Number 59 “Bar built”. A spot illustration about how hypermuscular people can feel out-of-place in normal society. Gouache, watercolor and ink on paper. 2006

A nice spot by my friend Lyman!

Spring in Bryant Park

Thu, 02 May 2013 19:06:07 -0400

Spring in Bryant Park

A review by Kathryn B. Wells History Instructor : Today I am...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:38:00 -0400

A review by

Kathryn B. Wells

History Instructor

Today I am sitting with the Joe Bonham art exhibit, which documents wounded warriors in their hospital beds, in physical therapy and in various stages of recovery. Many of them are double or triple amputees and have scars you can see, and most assuredly, many you can’t. The gallery is adjacent to the student lounge; a loud place full of students laughing and cussing, the tv blaring the never-ending news cycle and the cacophony that is fast food service. Students are walking by the door, droning into their cell phones, yelling to their friends and complaining about mundane teenage drama… “Bitch, if you was real, you wouldn’t play with me. You gonna bump into me in the hallway? It’s gonna be like that?”

And here I am, surrounded by portraits of people in intense pain, who have given their service and their bodies to their country. The Americans depicted on the walls have lost limbs, faces, vision, the ability to walk or eat and drink normally. They have gained endless therapies, doctor appointments, surgeries, and a life that revolves around a grinding daily schedule. Attempting to gain ground against wasted muscles and emotional rawness. Or just maintain.

In the midst of the noise, I just want to be very still. Quiet. Drink it in. As if my doing so will somehow protect these men from further harm.

A young student comes in without the hesitation of most. 22, I’m guessing, from the class of ‘08 sweatshirt she wears. She immediately asks a lot of questions. “What’s an LED?” It’s an IED, I explain. Improvised Explosive Device. A homemade bomb. “Oh,” she says. She puts her bookbag down. Then her purse. And tears start to run. “Oh.”

She takes her time. Examines each piece. Portraits of men hooked to machines, bandaged and battered. Asks more questions… Are these all the same artist? What happened here? Is that the same man with the infection? Then her appreciation. “This shit is deep.” “These are someone’s brothers. And sons.” Then her wonder. “How can they do this?” “You just don’t realize… unless you know someone…” More tears flow that she wipes away before they get out of control. We talk some about the physical and emotional support these soldiers will need. “The scars you can’t see, bet those are worse.” She gathers her things and turns to go. She whispers a thank you, and goes back to her day.

Mona Eltahawy on Egypt’s Next Revolution

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:18:31 -0400

Mona Eltahawy on Egypt’s Next Revolution:

claytoncubitt:

“The Egyptian-American activist speaks out on the dangers women still face in a changing Mideast” (portrait by me)

More cool friends!

The Village Voice Did a Profile On Meeeeee

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:15:56 -0400

stoya:

…and Clayton’s shots look fucking awesome.

http://www.villagevoice.com/2013-04-24/news/stoya-pop-star-of-porn/full/

Coolest friends!

Painting still available at Last Rites 5th Anniversary show!

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:09:09 -0400

Painting still available at Last Rites 5th Anniversary show!

"…she often gets Hieronymus Bosch comparisons. But if you showed most Bosch paintings to a small..."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:51 -0400

“

…she often gets Hieronymus Bosch comparisons.

But if you showed most Bosch paintings to a small child, he or she would run away crying. They’re scary, and they’re supposed to be. Molly’s paintings, from a distance, are gorgeous and cheerful to look at; you often don’t realize they’re disturbing until you look closely. A child would look at one of her 6’x4’ paintings and spend all day staring at what looks like a fun story about balloon-wielding cats and police-force dogs and masked rabbits and little birds working on laptops, in Arabic no less. You’d have to be a grownup to realize the subjects of her giant, impassioned panoramas are dissident bloggers in Tunisia and the rise of rightist movements in Greece and the Occupy protests. To a kid, they’d just look like God’s very own circus posters, or a bunch of gorgeous, incomprehensible hieroglyphs whose only purpose was to be looked at.

”

- “Molly Crabapple- Occupy’s Greatest Artist” by Matt Taibbi

(sorting through all the press Shell Game got, now that we’re taking this down tomorrow. Taibbi has been one of my favorite journalists for a decade, and this article he wrote about my work means more than I can say”

(via mollycrabapple)

Very proud of my girl!

Me and my gouache. Work in progress.

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:58:38 -0400

Me and my gouache. Work in progress.

mollycrabapple: photos from the Shell Game VIP opening out of...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:31:50 -0400

mollycrabapple:

photos from the Shell Game VIP opening

out of SO SO SO SO many

photos by Steve Prue

Veronica Varlow, latex, me. Not necessarily in that order.

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:36:29 -0400

Veronica Varlow, latex, me. Not necessarily in that order.

theweekmagazine: Found The Week on Meet The Press this...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:07:22 -0400

theweekmagazine:

Found The Week on Meet The Press this morning!

Boing

theweekmagazine: Sneak peek at our new cover HA! Pretty good...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:14:32 -0400

theweekmagazine:

Sneak peek at our new cover

HA! Pretty good if I do say so myself

kimboekbinder: kickstarter: Today in Kickstarter, Thursday...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 02:23:52 -0400

kimboekbinder:

kickstarter:

Today in Kickstarter, Thursday April 4th 2013:

- Jeremy Bailey’s Important Portraits exhibit opens tonight in Toronto!

- The New Yorker examines Tahir Hemphill’s Hip Hop World Count

- Our pre-MoCCA meetup is tonight in Brooklyn

- Kim Boekbinder shares her new song “Stellar Alchemist”

I’m on the Kickstarter blog, y’all! Whee!

Kim is so talented, all you need to do is listen!