Dara Naraghi, co-creator of our very own God’s Acre just wrote me with some exciting news.
Dara says:
Aside from the usual daily life and work stuff, I’ve been
quite busy the last few years working on a big project that’s finally paying
off: my first graphic novel is being published this December and will be
available in all bookstores!
LIFELIKE has been in the works for about 2 years now. It started out as a
free weekly webcomic, which you can still read online. It’s a series of
Here’s a weekly roundup of goings-on.
We’ve teamed up with a distribution company to deliver a second edition of Brainchild. This will be a slightly modified version of the original limited release and it will be an open (non-limited, non-numbered) edition.
There’s nothing quite like seeing a perfectly respectable mid-sixties woman in her evening wear on a hot sunny summer San Francisco day with a lime green vinyl lunch box atop her head. That was the scene at my favorite lunch spot today, Yerba Buena Gardens, where the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra put on a one-hour free concert. With a full belly and the sun beating down on your face, the heavy metal timpani makes your chest swell with drama and life. Ahhh. Oh yes, they gave out free vinyl insulated lunch boxes, and someone told the audience to use them as hats. At least 25% of the crowd believed them, the most proper of the audience being surprisingly the most willing.
As you have noticed by now, we’ve massively overhauled the Omnibucket site.
In Keeping with Omnibucket’s reputation as a creative incubator we would like you, dear user to explore the new site and let us know what you would like to see.
Tell us:
- What you like or dislike about the new design.
- What you want to see or things we don’t need.
- What you see that is broken.
And did we mention…by providing us with your feedback you will be entered into a random number drawing to win cool Omnischwag? So go ahead, roll down the windows, honk the horns, kick the tires and let us help you, help us, help you.
Thanks for your support!
Regarding our upcoming “Book of CLAV”, we have a few bits of interesting news.
First, we can now show you what the cover will look like, more or less:
We’re in the final production stages, scanning a whole lot of things in and such ‘n’ such. Once the layout is complete we’ll post images and give available dates for pre-order and shipment.
Stacey writes…
I came upon this perusing CNN this morning. If she is truly a prodigy she would have read Ulysses. Haven’t found out if that is so. Ha ha.
Seriously, if you have a moment check it out. Inspiration or a big kick in the ass. Either way.
Scott
Swarm show went great! Saw many friendly faces and met quite a few new ones. I posted some photos in the blog here already.
Printing out the final Book of CLAV manuscript today.
Finishing up my materials and syllabus this week for the 826 Valencia workshop at the end of July.
Continuing to work on the new website…working out bugs, fleshing out and tweaking content. Feel free to offer suggestions.
A very big “Thank You!” to Svea and Swarm Gallery for helping us successfully host The Writing Is On the Wall last night.
Thanks to FlavorPill for featuring The Writing Is On the Wall in their 268th issue! Here’s what they had to say:
TTA Press posted a review by Peter Tennant today of ‘Brainchild…a collection of artifacts’.
Thanks Pete and Andy! Here’s the review:
“This is the way the world ends. Courtesy of Romero reborn, Shaun of the Dead and a slew of bestselling Horror novels, the coming zombie apocalypse has about it a sense of immediacy that sitting around waiting for peak oil or the polar ice caps to melt just can’t compete with.
And hence this book, the first production off the line from new kid on the block Omnibucket, slim as a supermodel and every bit as drop dead gorgeous, with emphasis on the dead, and the intriguing tag line ‘a collection of artifacts’, but actually what we’re talking about is short stories, articles and artwork, all of them featuring those flesh eating zombies we love to hate. In tone it reminded me of nothing so much as the grounding moments in a Living Dead movie, with news reports coming in over the wire and earnest commentators trying to make sense of it all, while the army shoots first and asks questions later, and all of these snapshots and individual stories, the necessary adjuncts to our suspension of disbelief, interweaving to convey the immediacy of disaster on a global scale and empowering us to think the unthinkable.
This installment of Artiscopic focuses on our cover artist, Francesco D’Isa.
D’Isa is also known as “Giza” is an emerging artist and member of the prestigious Breed art group. We caught up with the Italian artist whose sensual, flowing, linework and conceptual imagery is known for simultaneously attracting and repelling the viewer while challenging them to question art- historic concepts of beauty, specific to the traditional role of ” woman-as -icon”.
(Special OLOGY Thanks: This Artiscopic interview was translated by Lucy Faro)
Wilted Flowers by Denise McIvers
Tony Rose was my ‘Girl-what-were-you-thinking?” experience. Anyone with any kind of common sense would not have ignored the red flags that waved back and forth in my mind that day. He was much too charismatic, beguiling and too wonderful. What everyone — men and women alike — found so appealing about him was his smooth criminality. Finally, I realized he embodied all the characteristics that would have made him a successful pimp. His dangerousness made him vicious and deliciously nasty at the same time. I was Eve, and he was the deceiver.
Omnibucket and Swarm gallery present:
THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL:
A Macabre, Multimedia Fairytale
The author and artists of the macabre fairytale “God’s Acre: The Ravens & the Rhyme” invite you to join them in an enchanting evening of music and stories. For one night only, Swarm and Omnibucket present “The Ravens & the Rhyme” in a unique format, accompanied by a soundtrack composed exclusively for this event.
We’re doing a bit of a ‘mini’ show tomorrow at 111 Minna gallery.
