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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.

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.

Angie & I were asked to submit a piece of art for Dara Naraghi’s newest Ferret Press art-book for which he has chosen, appropriately, the theme of ferrets.

Though Dara assuredly wasn’t expecting anything written, we decided to put this together and shipped it off to him, to good response. Enjoy!

Scratches

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.

Some photos from the Alternative Press Expo (APE) and one one multiple accompanying after-parties.

Check out Bookgasm’s comparison of Max Brooks’ ‘World War Z’ to Omnibucket’s very own ‘Brainchild…a collection of artifacts‘ :

Posted by Senecal in his Deviant Art page:

So…as it turns out, the gang from Omnibucket was hanging out a bit with Kent Williams and Barron Storey this past weekend.

“Kent who?” you ask?

“Barron what now?” you say?

If you don’t know who those fellas are, then smack yourself because they are The Rockasaur.

April

Fri 4/20 - APE Mixer at Last Gasp

Sat 4/21 & Sun 4/22 - We’ll be at our Artist’s booth at APE in SF