April 2nd

Smokebrush Gallery

Art Opening

5-8pm

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April 3rd

Stargazers Theater

Doors Open-3:00pm

4:00pm – Abraham Obama Screening /Q & A

5:30pm – The New Depressionists perform

6:30 -7:30pm – The Electric Illuminati video shoot/performance

7:30pm – Abraham Obama book signing

Tickets $12 (coupon in Indy $5 off)

By Sonia Zjawinski

In the movie Back to the Future II, a gigantic shark from a mock Jaws sequel springs out of a theater marquee and engulfs Michael J. Fox. Now, a Canadian company has developed a way to print lifelike holographic posters that could make that kind of eye-catching advertising possible.

Last week, 10 U.S. theaters rolled out full-color 3-D posters with motion and photorealistic detail to promote the movie How She Move. Made by Quebecois company RabbitHoles, the advertisements feature one of the film’s characters tearing up the dance floor in an eight-second clip that can be “played” in 3-D by walking from left to right of the poster. Despite the images’ slightly transparent quality, what you see is pretty close to the real thing.

“The sensation you first get when you look at this is your mouth automatically responding with, ‘Oh my God,’” says Michael Page, visiting professor at the University of Toronto’s Institute for Optical Sciences and a RabbitHoles board member.

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Podcast Episode 26 – Ron English

by Thomas James

Episode 26 of the Escape From Illustration Island Podcast features an audio interview with Ron English, well-known artist and “Billboard Liberator”.  Together we discuss his sometimes controversial work depicting Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, and Mickey Mouse; and what it means to create work for a deeper purpose.

Click here to listen.

Juxtapoz Blog

Posted by: Nathan Spoor

So Ron, tell us a little about your connection to Rock ‘n Roll and why this event at SXSW is important to you.

Well, this is a signing of high end prints with Planet Illogica in Austinduring the SXSW music festival that’s happening in Austin next week. There are some really well known and popular images that we’re going to show out there and I’ll be signing things as well. There are images from my HISTORIC KISS series, as well as THE KURSED KIDS and my new SLASH album cover and other music related pieces.

I have been to SXSW a few times in the distant past. The first time I was living in Austin and it was all unsigned bands. I came back a couple times to promote my brother in law’s band THE SUTCLIFFES and my concept CD POPaganda. I seemed to run into everyone you can think of at SXSW. When I was there with THE SUTCLIFFES we hung out with Chris Douridas and a young man he was introducing to the world named Beck. We had just been talking to Linklater and for some reason I thought Beck was one of the characters in Slacker and told him how much I loved the movie. He seemed a bit confused by me.

Other years we hung out with Space Hog, Sara Hickman, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, John Doe, Jello Biafra, Mojo Nixon, Daniel Johnston, Sonic Youth, the list goes on and on. You saw everyone 5 minutes before they were famous. I don’t know if there has ever been anything like SXSW. As for my own relationship to music, I think that probably really took form in college. I threw a lot of parties and used a lot of bands as entertainment. In exchange for their services I would do their flyers and the occasional album cover. I also let them rehearse at my house. It was a big old southern house we painted psychedelic with over turned cars as lawn ornaments. There were jazz bands, classical, punk, you name it. We had bands rather than a stereo. Musicians that played my parties in the day included Michelle Shocked and REM. Later when I started releasing concept CDs I had a lot of talent I could tap. My band The Electric Illuminati just mastered our first CD so I should be able to premiere the tracks at the event.

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I don’t mean to offend
Or speak out of turn
But the man they called Jesus
Shall never return
He’s not indifferent
Or above our concern
2000 years later
We still haven’t learned
No matter how we may pray
No matter how we may yearn
No ascension
No return

No he’s not in heaven
No he’s not in an urn
He’s not in that place
Where sinners all burn
No Jesus never died
High up on that cross
No human kind
Never suffered that loss
Being a martyr
Just wasn’t his role
Dying so young
Just wasn’t his goal
Jesus just aged
Into a jolly ole soul
On top of the world
High on the North Pole