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We’re excited about all our new boxes! This week brings us the new Kidrobot “Smorks & Mongers” button box Series 1. We’ve limited Production to 400 boxes, once they’re gone, they’re gone. Have a store? Pick one up today.
Check out this translation of Retard Riot’s latest review in Sydsvenskan:
With a fantastic imagination à la Bosch Lyon gets his nourishment from popular culture, news flow, contemporary society, international politics and doomsday prophecies. Noah Lyon ”Look at All Your Stuff”
Galleri Thomas Wallner, Malmö, Sweden through May 27
Noah Lyon’s drawings are like graffiti-covered walls. Bright colors call you in to take a closer look; in the multitudes I’m drawn to “All Your Stuff”. A man, or is it a bird, in a wheelchair is chewing, like Moloch, on a naked figure, who is expelling gas in anticipation of death, while another guy without a head slinking away with a turd on his shoulders. Some poor wretch is flushed down the toilet, and a miserable bastard, trapped in an orange bag, is vomiting from his torture. The colors of U.S.A. are shining through like a dirty rainbow. The doomsday horn is blowing.
Figure is added to figure, scene added to scene, one image next to another, in a color scale that would do credit to any Concretist. With a fantastic imagination à la Bosch Lyon gets his nourishment from popular culture, news flow, contemporary society, international politics and doomsday prophecies. Full to the brim. It is important to say everything, all at once. Then he can leave the words and thoughts to the beholder. Implicitly he is offering his world, what does yours look like? ”Look at All Your Stuff” is the name of the exhibition!
The pressure in Lyon’s imagery is kept high by the small format. Sometimes down to mini size. Then they are small picture buttons that are also put together into “button paintings”. The effect is stroboscopic; quick punch lines about his world.
Alongside the image fury Lyon shows more conventional paintings. Loaded with air, light and dreams of a sort of American mythology. The painting “Pyramid Me” is just a small picture of a man in a cowboy hat in front of a wall that has been sewn together; the seam resembles a pole with a small owl. Within, I hear Hank Williams’ tragic dreams and painfully beautiful music!
Lyon’s images collide in a way that would have put André Breton in ecstasy.
- Thomas Millroth, art critic - Sydsvenskan April 30, 2009
Get some of Noah’s art on his rad one inch buttons - available from Badge Bomb!
The Streets of Jeremyville invaded Italy at the Area B art gallery in Milan, which opened on April 7th. Badge Bomb even shipped them some Jeremyville button boxes made specially for the show- (we love the thought of our buttons being intercontinental.) He has some other great events coming up too, like a Giant Robot event in New York. Click the pic below to check out more details in the News section of his website. Good work Jeremyville!
We wish we could check this out… Badge Bomb button designer Noah Lyon’s work will be featured in an upcoming event showcasing works that prove pens are much mightier than swords:
“An exhibition of pen and/or marker drawings including photographs of the pens used to make them. The over one hundred drawings in this exhibition cover a broad range of pens from the generic ball point to the traditional rapid-o-graph and feather quill to the modern array of jell and artists’ pens.”
Peep these links for more info and radness:
Retard Riot , Lump Gallery , Lump Gallery Blog , PENNED flickr
And don’t forget about Badge Bomb’s “Retard Riot” button series, straight from the brain of Noah Lyon!
Retard Riot buttons on sale through Badge Bomb and manufactured in the USA by One Inch Round Buttons.
- How did you first hear about Badge Bomb or how did Jeremyville and
Badge Bomb start hanging out?
We met in a dark steamy chat room online. Scott invited me back to his place to see his button collection. It grew from there.
-Are you or have you ever been a “button guy?”
I’ve been wearing buttons since the womb, which proved problematic at birth, but I survived to tell the tale.
- Are you pumped on the idea of people rocking Jeremyville art,
button style?
Pumped till the prick of a button pin deflated me.
- Do you think you’ll wear your own buttons, or is rocking your own
gear some kind of artistic faux pas?
I’ll wear anything once. It’s a good item to hand out at parties too, cooler than business cards.
- If you do rock them, have you scouted out any potential garments or
belongings for ideal Jeremyville button zones?
I usually stick them on the side of my trucker caps, or on my satchel shoulder bags. suit lapels are good too. I like the look of an expensive suit jacket with a $2 button on it. Not that I have any expensive suits, but if I did, that’s what I’d do.
- What kinds of characters and scenarios can Badge Bombers expect to
encounter while hanging out in Jeremyville?
Diner dudes, neon signs, fast food ads, slogans scrawled on the streets of Jeremyville. I love the urban detritus, subway steam, graffiti, neon and water towers of a big city. The button series is called the Streets of Jeremyville.
-How does one obtain citizenship to Jeremyville?
There’s a very strict admission process that involves shouting me a few beers next time you see me.
Keep an eye out for Jeremyville’s brand new Button Box available for pre-sale at the 2009 Pool Trade Show on Feb. 17th. You can also check out more radness at Jeremyville.com and also more images of his artwork on the Badge Bomb flickr page. Made custom in the USA by Badge Bomb!
Yetibama Back In Stock - Let’s Get It Out There! |
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The Yetibama design is officially a hit. We’ve sold through two runs of the shirt and have raised over $1350. With exactly 4 weeks left in the campaign - let’s fire it up and get the Yetibama love out there. We just received our third-round of shirts and want them spread far and wide to all the Joe six-packs and hockey moms across America. To make it happen, we’re going to sell the shirts at cost. While supplies last, they will be $10. |
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| If you’ve got a grandma, a cousin, a next door neighbor, a friendly bus driver - get them on board the Yetibama train as it roars into the station on Nov 4th. | |
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Interview with Noah Lyon
SG: Please tell us about yourself?
NL: Let me answer that question by answering the next 14 questions.
SG: Where do you currently live and work?
NL: New York City
SG: What mediums do you work with?
NL: I’ll take a medium and take it to the extreme. So it would be way more than medium, more like maximum. Maximum rock’n’roll. Maximum markers. I use paper too. But maximum doesn’t always mean the biggest it also could be, like, the smallest. So I’ll take a 1”x 1” piece of paper and make the most incredible drawing ever, nowhere near medium, if it were a pepper it would be the most hot and if it were Bob Marley it would be the most high. One-inch drawings turn into one-inch buttons & I’ll make the most of that too. Like make the maximum amount of buttons. I think 50,000 might be the max. Anyways that’s where I’m at right now. Way beyond medium. Push it to the limit, walk along the razor’s edge. I’ll make a painting with no paint. Is that medium or minimum? I try to work as little as possible. Minimum work, maximum results, any medium, bring it on.
SG: Describe your working process when creating a new work.
NL: Like I said no work is the best work so usually I’ll take something old and try to pass it off as new. I do work about 10 years in advance just so I can sit around doing nothing all day. That’s conceptual art.
SG: What kind of things do you do when you get blocked or find it hard to create something?
NL: I pull my boxers up to my nipples and walk around the house. You’d be surprised. A lot of really old men do that with their pants. They wear the waist of their pants around the middle of their chest. That’s where I get a lot of my ideas from, the elderly. So I’ll strip down to underwear & yank them up really high. That’s pretty much the equivalent of me putting on my thinking cap. Who the cap fit, let them wear it, that’s what I always say. For my birthday (September 11th - gifts and honorariums are always welcome) my wife is going to buy me a rasta hat with big dreadlocks attached to it. I think that should help with the creative process. I also like prune juice. I make my own corn syrup free Dr. Pepper. The secret ingredient is prune juice. That’s one reason people call me Doctor Ninja.
….. read the entire interview here on the Spraygraphic Blog
Check it out, signed and numbered limited edition Noah Lyon prints are now available at www.newmuseum.org and www.printedmatter.org in NYC.
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