Oscar Arriola aka Fotoflow took these pics of us at Ottoman Empire.
Gracias Oscar!
Here is his blog: http://fotoflow.blogspot.com
Here is his flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotoflow

I’m playing a show on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010
Lazer Crystal, Juiceboxxx, Pooper & Pizza Dog.
Pilsen Haus
1850 S. Blue Island
10pm
$5 donation

http://chicago.timeout.com/articles/pitchfork-music-festival/87272/bitchpork-festival-2010

I had a holler in Time Out Chicago as one of the acts to see. they said I wouldn’t ever be in a Starbucks compilation. Wait till they hear my Xmas song “Turkey Dance”, a follow up to the “Ham Dance”.  Hee hee.

I am playing Bitchpork on Sunday, July 18.
Pizza Dog is also playing!

Here are our slots:

A 7:40 Pizzadog
O 8:00 daniel lutz (our ex-roomie plays outside)
A 8:20 Pooper

Friday, July 9, 2010

10am Doodlenutz, a drawing event hosted by Pooper and Pizza Dog
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We are drawing with folks at 10am on Friday at the MCA. Get ready for “Pizza Corpse”, “Fax Machine” and other drawing collabs. But that’s not all, there is lots more happening at Club Nutz after our hour of fun in the club!

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11am 3-D video screening of Rasmalai Dreams by Xav Leplae
Noon – 1:30pm Get Nutz open-mic: tell a joke and win a prize!
1:30pm – TBD
2:30pm – Bernie Circuits, robot comedian
3-3:20pm – Sonata in 2-D performance by Scott and Tyson Reeder
3:30-5pm DJ Nevin Tomlison

MCA info page
http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=251

Facebook Club Nutz at MCA page
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129180683782041

Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611

Me and Thorne are showing/raffling work off in this benefit/art raffle.
Please come and check it out.
It’s for our artist residency we are attending this August.

ACRE Summer Benefit
Venue: Johalla Projects
Auction,Party: 9 July 2010, 6:00pm–11:00pm
Address: 1561 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Cost: $10

ACRE‘s boredom-banishing night of art, music, and mirth. Even the broke among us can win stellar contemporary art from Chicago and beyond! Plus the folks from the The Hornswaggler Bar will be on hand providing unique refreshments.

Raffle and auction items include paintings, photographs, drawings, and sculpture by local Chicago artists and ACRE’s 2010 residents. Entrance is $10, which includes 3 raffle tickets and a door gift. Additional tickets can be purchased for $4, or you can get 7 tickets for $20. The silent auction closes and raffle winners are announced at 10:30pm. Funds raised go toward ACRE’s inaugural summer residency.

Featuring work by over 30 artists including Caitlin Arnold, Alex Chitty, Ben Driggs, Paul Ershen, Scott Fortino, Rebecca Gordon, Elisa Harkins, Kelly Kaczynski, Irena Knezevic, Young Joon Kwak, Jason Lazarus, Aliza Morell, Heidi Norton, Jennifer Ray, Matt Siber, Montgomery Perry Smith, Greg Stimac, Brian Ulrich and more.

I’m on Acid Marshmallow.  Click on link below and see a video of me and Thorne doing our performance.

acid-marshmallow.com | Pooper.

New animation/song “No More Bad Dreams” by me!

Rodan (superstar bar in Wicker Park) is having a benefit for my 100K face tonight.  There was a mention of this on the Time Out Chicago Blog.  Thanks Rodan, and thanks Time Out.

Banksy in Chicago II + Rodan benefit for Elisa “Pooper” Harkins

Posted in Art & Design by Lauren Weinberg on May 11th, 2010 at 5:21 pm

Having studiously ignored yesterday’s Banksy blitz, I was not pleased to see the street artist’s supposed contributions to Chicago mentioned on the TOC blog this morning. TOC senior web editor John Dugan encouraged me to explain why instead of ranting at him. “We obviously thought the same thing,” John IM’d. “I just went in a different direction with it.”

Why doesn’t a shitty stencil of a pram on a staircase make my soul soar? The answer can be found in Banksy’s movie Exit Through the Gift Shop. After watching Banksy add a dummy dressed as a Guantanamo prisoner to Disneyland’s Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride, it’s hard to get worked up about an Untouchables reference that looks, as John put it, “subpar.”

My favorite parts of Exit Through the Gift Shop are the moments when Banksy’s antihero Thierry Guetta or artists such as Shepard Fairey explain why they love street art: because creating it is a thrill; because stumbling upon a cool piece changes the way you see your everyday surroundings.

I didn’t stumble upon the Chicago Banksy; I got a press release about it from Maxwell Colette Gallery, which sells his work. The timing of its appearance suggests it’s an ad for Exit Through the Gift Shop, which is still playing at Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema. Wow, an ad: There’s something you don’t see every day.

Banksy’s well aware that some people consider him a sellout. His movie’s largely about what happens when street art is commodified. It mocks those who line up to buy it without considering whether it’s good or whether they like it. Oohing and ahhing over every rat that shows up in Chicago makes us just another punch line.

On another note, if you’re a local fan of street art, you might be familiar with Elisa “Pooper” Harkins. Heaven Gallery sent out an e-mail yesterday saying that Harkins was injured in an accident April 4, but is “recovering beautifully and amazingly.” Rodan is hosting a benefit for her May 12 at 10pm. “Most of the proceeds from the evening will be donated for her living and hospital expenses. And donations will be accepted at the door,” according to the e-mail.

Read more: http://www3.timeoutny.com/chicago/blog/out-and-about/2010/05/banksy-in-chicago-ii-rodan-benefit-for-elisa-pooper-harkins/#ixzz0x1fgm3Ws

I am selling work online at the Pooptronica Store!

Get some pieces while they are hot hot hot!
I hope to sell other items in the store like zines, DVDs, Cassettes, MP3s, and paintings.  Keep your eyes peeled for goodies!