In other news I will be picking up the remaining pieces from the Something’s Better Than Nothing show this week and making a few selections available next week, which will include some one of a kind pieces from the “OUTSIDE THE LAW” print run. Stay tuned for that.

I believe I have found my next interviewee(but I’m keeping it secret until posted this time), pretty big deal as far as I’m concerned. Big fan of his work and it’s not someone I know as well as Todd Slater or Brad Klausen, I’m stretching my wings internet! Fly with me won’t you?

That’s it for now. Have yourself a fine Thanksgiving, internet. And if you don’t happen to be American and want to get in on the Thanksgiving action: take the day off work, pour gravy on everything you eat for the day, wear your most festive sweater, argue with your family, drink some Egg Nog(spike it), take a nap and force yourself to watch the Detroit Lions…you might have to youtube that, Good luck!

Greetings internet. For those of you in Seattle, I officially invite you to join me this Friday night at The Greenwood Collective for the opening of an art show I’m putting together with my pal Owen. There will be new prints, test prints and new prints made from test prints, you’ll have to show up to really see what I’m talking about.

It’s Art Walk this Friday in Greenwood anyway so there will be other folks in the house with purty new art all over the place anyway and word on the street is that Mad Rad are going to be performing upstairs. I have no idea what to expect but it ought to be a fun night.

The week leading up to Flatstock here in Seattle is always long and tedious. I wanted to get a new art print done to have on hand, didn’t happen. Wanted to publish the second half of the Todd Slater interview, no time, but I can guarantee it’ll be up on Tuesday.

I did just update the 1982 Store with a couple Test Prints from Spoon and Black Keys posters.

A reminder again, if you’re in Seattle you can check out the The Seattle-Moscow Poster Show for FREE tonight. Open from noon til 7pm, the Shaw Room, Seattle Center.

That’s about it for now, I did want to include some kind of sneak peak at the Ween poster I just finished. Should be available next week, the show is at the Sunshine Theater in Albuquerque on Saturday. Here’s your cropped sliver of imagery:

The time has come my friends! The Seattle Moscow Poster show is happening this week!  The third and final intalment of the poster series highlighting the thriving poster scene in Seattle and politically contrasting cities the world over, this might be the best one yet. Features works by my lovely self of course and other neat Seattle designers including Jeff Kleinsmith, Andrio Abero etc.

Official word from the Curator, Daniel R. Smith:

COME TO THE PREVIEW
Attend the Curator’s Preview on Sept 3 in Fremont at Adobe HQ. I’ll show slides from Moscow, Tehran & Havana, talk about the process & sort out what it all means. Purchase advance tickets at:
http://aigaseattle.org/events/index.asp?include=September_2009#3

SEE IT FOR FREE
The Seattle-Moscow Poster Show opens Sept. 4, noon – 7pm, the Shaw Room, Seattle Center. The final exhibit in this series of city-to-city poster shows (after Havana & Tehran) Moscow is the largest exhibit yet. This is the FREE Bumbershoot arts preview day—no bands, no crowds!

GET THE CATALOG
The Seattle-Moscow catalog is the biggest & best yet. Dual-language, full-color, only 500 copies. Available at the exhibit & preview for $10.

VOTE ON-LINE BEFORE END OF DAY MONDAY
The poster series has been nominated for a $10,000 “grant for change” from Nau in Portland. The top 5 vote-getters will be interviewed for the grant. I am current at 9th place out of nearly 300 projects. To vote, register w/ Nau & then click on the “rate/share” tab:

http://www.nau.com/collective/grant-for-change/daniel-ryan-smith-423.html

I just voted myself, you should too!

So they asked me to punch up a bio for myself, it was last minute so I replied with what came to mind in the few seconds I had. So of course  it was a little sarcastic and goofy. I give them mad props for using the whole thing:

http://screensnspokes.blogspot.com/2009/08/screens-n-spokes-09-jon-smith.html

But anyway, it’s a benefit and they have rad prints by great artists like Jay Ryan, Leia Bell and my boy Doovs. Check that shit out!

Here’s what’s in the works: Nate and I getting the 1982 store up and running very soon, should be this week.  My Screens N Spokes print is done along with another art print that will be released in the near future. I’m helping my roomate do his first screen printed gig poster ever for a Girl Talk show….I have some art space booked for a show in October. I’m registered for Flatstock at ye old Bumbershoot.

Aside from figuring out how many prints I can get done before said Flatstock, I am working behind the scenes on some fresh new content for this site. I need to beef up the Flickr account and add a fresh header graphic but I’m working on something way cooler than that, that should pan out in some consistent content for all you poster freaks out there. Stay tuned!

Until the next update(which should be toward the end of this week) enjoy my rejected concept for a Kenny Rogers poster from about a year ago. It was for a show at a Casino down south, the design was rejected immediately. This is 100% real, I had it all setup for a metallic silver to gold blend with a layer of glow in the dark on black paper but y’know…true genius is not always embraced in it’s time.

Fresh news from Daniel Smith(no relation and as far as I know he’s not the Art Supply store guy), curator/visionary of the Seattle Tehran Poster show:

“Hot off the presses + just in time for the Iranian Festival at Seattle Center, the exhibit catalog for The Seattle-Tehran Poster Show is ready! The full-color, dual-language (English-Persian), 36 page catalog documents the first exhibit of contemporary Iranian graphic design in the U.S. It will be available for $10 at the festival. Proceeds will go to the IACA (Iranian American Community Alliance).”

The Festival is tomorrow, June 20th.  http://iaca-seattle.org/iranian-festival-seattle-center

The Seattle Terhan show debuted in 2008, you may have caught it if you attended Bumbershoot. The Seattle Moscow Poster Show is in the works for 2009, I believe the selections of my work in the upcoming show are my Black Angels and Ghostland NYE posters. These shows are very interesting and offer a fresh perspective on the poster world, literally. Check out the links below to see what it’s all about.

http://www.seattletehran.com

http://www.seattlemoscow.com

and it all started with 2007′s Seattle Havana Poster Show.