Another week and another round of your drawings submitted on a random theme. This week's theme: Out of Order with a great prize pack from Dallas Clayton who's the author of the new great book, An Awesome Book of Thanks... He wrote the very popular book, An Awesome Book and will send the winner of this week's Free Fridayz a surprise pack. Thanks, Dallas!
This week's prize is generously provided by our friends at Chrome Bags. Not only a great durable messenger bag, but you get to fully customize it by selecting the color scheme. It's a great prize. Thanks, Chrome!
Win a custom Chrome messenger bag as this week's prize for Free Fridayz. You can only win if you get your drawing in by Fri afternoon.
This week's theme: "AAAAAAAAhhhhh Holes"
~email yours to freefridayz (at) fecalface.com, and be sure to include the words "Fecal Face" (NOT in photoshop) on your drawing so we can insure it's actually yours.
Our weekly drawing contest is a couple days early (or really late), and this week's winner wins themself a NOOKA watch, Neon Indian album, Psychic Chasms / Mind Ctrl: Psychic Chasms Possessed, and a tour tshirt. (*USA winners only this week) --> nice round of gifts.
Be sure to get your drawings in for next week's awesome CRHOME BAG prize... That's right, next week's winner is going to get to customize a Chrome buckle bag by choosing their own color combinations... So check out this week's Free Fridayz and then get your drawings in by next week's deadline (Friday, Dec 3rd) with a the theme: AAAAAAAAhhhhh Holes
We missed last week's Free Fridayz, but it's going up this Friday leaving you with more time to get your Black and White themed drawings in... And this week we have some good prizes: a NOOKA watch, Neon Indian album, Psychic Chasms / Mind Ctrl: Psychic Chasms Possessed, and a tour tshirt. (*USA winners only this week)
Email in your Black and White themed drawings by Fri, Nov 12th to freefridayz (at) fecalface.com
NOOKA watch up for grabs
Rafael Vasquez (São Paulo, Brazil) got his drawing in already
May I have some candy and whatever else you wanna throw in the bag? Maybe you're still asking strangers for candy. Maybe you're smashing pumpkins when they all go to bed? Maybe you'll be spending 3am to 4am at the toilet vomiting... Maybe you'll be at home watching Halloween?
This week's Free Fridayz is a great one. Excellent drawings emailed in, people.
We're keeping up with the Halloween themed Free Fridayz this week with Murdering Misfits and next week with the theme: "Trick or Treat".
Be sure to get your "Trick or Treat" themed drawings in for the next round, Friday Oct 29th. Make sure they're 700 pixels in width, refrain from using Photoshop to create your works, make sure the words "Fecal Face" are included, then email it to: freefridayz (at) fecalface.com
Get your drawings in for this week's Free Fridayz. Tomorrow's theme in keeping with the halloween spirit: MURDERING MISFITS, and can't believe we have yet to get any drawings featuring The Misfits. Whatever, get your drawings in, and we're increasing the size, so be sure to send your drawings in at 700 pixels in width. freefridayz (at) fecalface.com
Paul Robert from the UK emailed in his submission. Get yours in by Friday afternoon.
Got a lot of great entries this week. NOTE that for next week, we're going to increase the size of the images. So be sure to email yur drawings in at least 700 pixels in width... The theme: MURDERING MISFITS!
How quickly one Free Fridayz goes up and then we're preparing for the next week's. This week's theme going up Friday: CREEPS which is the first installment of our Halloween themed Free Fridayz. You know the drill. Make sure the words "Fecal Face" are in there and that your work is at least 600 pixels in size. Email them to: freefridayz (at) fecalface.com by Friday morning for a chance at winning.
Ok, absolutely no F'in around any longer. Free Fridayz WILL go up THIS Friday. This week's theme: Confusion (like we've been with getting Free Fridayz up). Email it over to freefridayz (at) fecalface.com by Friday morning. Make sure your drawing is at least 600 pixels in width and that the words "Fecal Face" are incorporated in the work... We'll be giving away a Jeremy Fish Fecal Face 10 Year Shirt to this week's winner.
Got this Free Fridayz submission for this week's theme: Happy 10th Birthday, Fecal Face - Since Free Fridayz didn't go up last Friday, you have till Friday to get your drawing in. Alexis and Gmos from Gainesville, FL emailed over the great one below.
Last Week's Winner: was Brett Millard (Kansas City) for their "Fallin' Into It". Brett wins a bitchin' tee shirt from our good friends at African Apparel.
We're giving away a few David Choe's "Munko" Vinyl Figures to the winner of next week's Free Fridayz. This week's theme: Small Dogs. Get your drawing in before Saturday afternoon 2pm Pacific time for a chance at winning some of these little guys above.
This week's prize is a toasty TShirt from our friends at the London based African Apparel. Our favorite still has to be the John Marley shirt.
Brett Millard's great entry for this week's Free Fridayz - Theme: Fallin' In It... We try and stay clear of this sort of thing for obvious name reasons, but Brett's submission is too good not to add to the front page.
Free Fridayz will be going up on Saturday this week to give you some time to email your drawings in for the theme: Falling Into It. For you people who may be confused: make a drawing with that theme. Make sure the words "Fecal Face" are incorporated the drawing (NOT Photoshopped in after the fact) ~This helps us to ensure the work is in fact yours. Email it by Saturday morning to: freefridayz{at}fecalface.com - and don't submit drawings for a theme that's already been posted, meaning, don't submit your "falling into it" drawing on Sunday. It's too late. This week's prize: a tshirt from African Apparel.
I don't think at this point it needs to be written since the last update to Fecal Face was a long time ago, but...
I, John Trippe, have put this baby Fecal Face to bed. I'm now focusing my efforts on running ECommerce at DLX which I'm very excited about... I guess you can't take skateboarding out of a skateboarder.
It was a great 15 years, and most of that effort can still be found within the site. Click around. There's a lot of content to explore.
Hit me up if you have any ECommerce related questions. - trippe.io
I'm not sure how many people are lucky enough to have The San Francisco Giants 3 World Series trophies put on display at their work for the company's employees to enjoy during their lunch break, but that's what happened the other day at Deluxe. So great.
SF skateboarding icons Jake Phelps, Mickey Reyes, and Tommy Guerrero with the 3 SF Giants World Series Trophies
When works of art become commodities and nothing else, when every endeavor becomes “creative” and everybody “a creative,” then art sinks back to craft and artists back to artisans—a word that, in its adjectival form, at least, is newly popular again. Artisanal pickles, artisanal poems: what’s the difference, after all? So “art” itself may disappear: art as Art, that old high thing. Which—unless, like me, you think we need a vessel for our inner life—is nothing much to mourn.
Hard-working artisan, solitary genius, credentialed professional—the image of the artist has changed radically over the centuries. What if the latest model to emerge means the end of art as we have known it? --continue reading
"Six Degrees" opens tonight, Friday Jan 16th (7-10pm) at FFDG in San Francisco. ~Group show featuring: Brett Amory, John Felix Arnold III, Mario Ayala, Mariel Bayona, Ryan Beavers, Jud Bergeron, Chris Burch, Ryan De La Hoz, Martin Machado, Jess Mudgett, Meryl Pataky, Lucien Shapiro, Mike Shine, Minka Sicklinger, Nicomi Nix Turner, and Alex Ziv.
"[Satire] is important because it brings out the flaws we all have and throws them up on the screen of another person," said Turner. “How they react sort of shows how important that really is.” Later, he added, "Charlie took a hit for everybody." -read on
As we work on our changes, we're leaving Squarespace and coming back to the old server. Updates are en route.
The content that was on the site between May '14 and today is history... Whatever, wasn't interesting anyway. All the good stuff from the last 10 years is here anyway.
Opening tonight, Friday May 23rd (7-10pm) at Park Life in the Inner Richmond (220 Clement St) is Again Home Again featuring works from the duo Jacob Mcgraw-Mikelson & Rachell Sumpter who split time living in Sacramento and a tiny island at the top of Pudget Sound with their children.
Jacob Magraw will be showing embroidery pieces on cloth along with painted, gouache works on paper --- Rachell Sumpter paints scenes of colored splendor dropped into scenes of desolate wilderness. ~show details
NYC --- A new graffiti abatement program put forth by the police commissioner has beat cops carrying cans of spray paint to fill in and cover graffiti artists work in an effort to clean up the city --> Many cops are thinking it's a waste of resources, but we're waiting to see someone make a project of it. Maybe instructions for the cops on where to fill-in?
The NYPD is arming its cops with cans of spray paint and giving them art-class-style lessons to tackle the scourge of urban graffiti, The Post has learned.
Shootings are on the rise across the city, but the directive from Police Headquarters is to hunt down street art and cover it with black, red and white spray paint, sources said... READ ON
Los Angeles based Alison Blickle who showed here in San Francisco at Eleanor Harwood last year (PHOTOS) recently showed new paintings in New York at Kravets Wehby Gallery. Lovely works.
We haven't been featuring many interviews as of late. Let's change that up as we check in with a few local San Francisco artists like Kevin Earl Taylor here whom we studio visited back in 2009 (PHOTOS & VIDEO). It's been awhile, Kevin...
If you like guns and boobs, head on over to the Shooting Gallery; just don't expect the work to be all cheap ploys and hot chicks. With Make Stuff by Peter Gronquist (Portland) in the main space and Morgan Slade's Snake in the Eagle's Shadow in the project space, there is plenty spectacle to be had, but if you look just beyond it, you might actually get something out of the shows.
Fifty24SF opened Street Anatomy, a new solo show by Austrian artist Nychos a week ago last Friday night. He's been steadily filling our city with murals over the last year, with one downtown on Geary St. last summer, and new ones both in the Haight and in Oakland within the last few weeks, but it was really great to see his work up close and in such detail.
Nate Milton emailed over this great short Gator Skater which is a follow-up to his Dog Skateboard he emailed to us back in 2011... Any relation to this Gator Skater?
Congrats on our buddies at Needles and Pens on being open and rad for 11 years now. Mission Local did this little short video featuring Breezy giving a little heads up on what Needles and Pens is all about.
In a filmmaker's thinking, we wish more videos were done in this style. Too much editing and music with a lacking in actual content. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Matt Wagner recently emailed over some photos from The Hellion Gallery in Tokyo, who recently put together a show with AJ Fosik (Portland) called Beast From a Foreign Land. The gallery gave twelve of Fosik's sculptures to twelve Japanese artists (including Hiro Kurata who is currently showing in our group show Salt the Skies) to paint, burn, or build upon.
FFDG is pleased to announce an exclusive online show with San Francisco based Ferris Plock opening on Friday, April 25th (12pm Pacific Time) featuring 5 new medium sized acrylic paintings on wood.
Backwoods Gallery in Melbourne played host to a huge group exhibition a couple of weeks back, with "Gold Blood, Magic Weirdos" Curated by Melbourne artist Sean Morris. Gold Blood brought together 25 talented painters, illustrators and comic artists from Australia, the US, Singapore, England, France and Spain - and marked the end of the Magic Weirdos trilogy, following shows in Perth in 2012 and London in 2013.
San Francisco based Fecal Pal Jeremy Fish opened his latest solo show Hunting Trophies at LA's Mark Moore Gallery last week to massive crowds and cabin walls lined with imagery pertaining to modern conquest and obsession.
Well, John Felix Arnold III is at it again. This time, he and Carolyn LeBourgios packed an entire show into the back of a Prius and drove across the country to install it at Superchief Gallery in NYC. I met with him last week as he told me about the trip over delicious burritos at Taqueria Cancun (which is right across the street from FFDG and serves what I think is the best burrito in the city) as the self proclaimed "Only overweight artist in the game" spilled all the details.
Ever Gold opened a new solo show by NYC based Henry Gunderson a couple Saturday nights ago and it was literally packed. So packed I couldn't actually see most of the art - but a big crowd doesn't seem like a problem. I got a good laugh at what I would call the 'cock climbing wall' as it was one of the few pieces I could see over the crowd. I haven't gotten a chance to go back and check it all out again, but I'm definitely going to as the paintings that I could get a peek at were really high quality and intruiguing. You should do the same.
The paintings in the show are each influenced by a musician, ranging from Freddy Mercury, to Madonna, to A Tribe Called Quest and they are so stylistically consistent with each musician's persona that they read as a cohesive body of work with incredible variation. If you told me they were each painted by a different person, I would not hesitate to believe you and it's really great to see a solo show with so much variety. The show is fun, poppy, very well done, and absolutely worth a look and maybe even a listen.
With rising rent in SF and knowing mostly other young artists without capitol, I desired a way to live rent free, have a space to do my craft, and get to see more of the world. Inspired by the many historical artists who have longed similar longings I discovered the beauty of artist residencies. Lilo runs Adhoc Collective in Vienna which not only has a fully equipped artists creative studio, but an indoor halfpipe, and private artist quarters. It was like a modern day castle or skate cathedral. It exists in almost a utopic state, totally free to those that apply and come with a real passion for both art and skateboarding
I just wanted to share with you a piece I recently finished which took me 4 years to complete. Titled "How To Lose Yourself Completely (The September Issue)", it consists of a copy of the September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine (the issue they made the documentary about) with all faces masked with a sharpie, and everything else entirely whited out. 840 pages of fun. -Bryan Schnelle
While walking our way across San Francisco on Saturday we swung through the opening receptions for Kirk Maxson and Alexis Mackenzie at Eleanor Harwood Gallery in the Mission.
Jeremy Fish opens Hunting Trophies tonight, Saturday April 5th, at the Los Angeles based Mark Moore Gallery. The show features new work from Fish inside the "hunting lodge" where viewers climb inside the head of the hunter and explore the history of all the animals he's killed.
Beautiful piece entitled "The Albatross and the Shipping Container", Ink on Paper, Mounted to Panel, 47" Diameter, by San Francisco based Martin Machado now on display at FFDG. Stop in Saturday (1-6pm) to view the group show "Salt the Skies" now running through April 19th. 2277 Mission St. at 19th.
For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to quit my job, move out of my house, leave everything and travel again. So on August 21, 2013 I pushed a canoe packed full of gear into the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Lake Itasca, Minnesota, along with four of my best friends. Exactly 100 days later, I arrived at a marina near the Gulf of Mexico in a sailboat.
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