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Monday, we’ll be setting this up in Las Vegas at POOL Tradeshow for Badge Bomb’s booth (we’re in booth #805 nudge nudge). We hired the folks down at Sirrocco Labs in Los Angeles to build us this cardboard 3/4 scale rendition of the city of Portland. Okay, maybe 3/4 scale is a bit of an exaggeration, but my math doesn’t take away from how sweet it is.
Keep an eye out for their new movie “Red Moon”. Yes, the submarine cockpit featured here is also completely made out of cardboard. We can’t wait to see it. Maybe it really will play at the Laurelhurst Theatre? One can hope.
Portlanders, check out the rad PDX storytellers tonight at Mission Theater & don’t forget to grab one of their free custom buttons!
Backfence PDX - Mission Theater
While participating in this years infamous SXSW Indie Rock extravaganza in Austin, TX, I had my eyes peeled for any festival goers with particularly interesting button stylez. I figured someone would be thinking outside of the button box at a week-long festival showcasing the newest of new and hippest of hip in the music-verse. It wasn’t until the final day of the festival that I spotted this beauty at the roller rink show on Cesar Chavez Blvd.
Matt, of Toronto based band dd/mm/yyyy (spoken aloud as day-month-year), doesn’t seem to think one button is enough, or even that the front of a button is what’s important. To me, Matt’s DIY masterpiece is a “meta-button,” or a button about buttons; by velcro-ing smaller, building block buttons together to form one mega, franken-button, Matt forces us to focus on the buttons themselves rather than the images they display. Thanks Matt for being so rad! Check out dd/mm/yyyy’s myspace here. I recommend the “Imagine” video.
We at Badge Bomb are ecstatic that our buttons, button packs, & button boxes have made it to one of our favorite locals, Carnaby St in London! And not only that, the ladies of the Lazy Oaf shop are the best!
Meet Gemma and Alex of Lazy Oaf, a rad retailer and designer specializing in the cute, bright, & hip designs that Badge Bomb can’t get enough of. Here’s a bit of history about Lazy Oaf from their website:
“This East London based creative label was started by Gemma Shiel back in 2001 with hand screen printed tee’s and a market stall in East London, skip to the present and lazy Oaf is available in over 150 stockists worldwide. 2004 saw the opening of the lazy oaf store in Soho which houses all of the collections and further Oaf oddities sourced from Japan and the US.”
UK Chapter of the Badge Bomb Squad: keep your eyes peeled for fabulous buttons by Jeremyville, Retard Riot, & Gama-Go at Lazy Oaf.
“London Calling to the Underworld, Come out of the Cupboards, you Boys and Girls…” -The Clash
Check out the Badge Bomb booth up NOW at POOL Trade show in Las Vegas, featuring new button packs and button boxes from Jeremyville, Loyal Army, Retard Riot, Gama-Go, Park La Fun, Naranjas Chinas, and more!
For more info on POOL Trade Show, click here.
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.
Hey Badge Bombers! Streets of Jeremyville button sets have arrived and they look sweet! We’re going crazy over this fresh Badge Bomb loot. Behold!
Streets of Jeremyville goodies will be available for pre-sale at Badge Bomb’s booth at the POOLTRADESHOW and soon here at Badge Bomb.
All Streets of Jeremyville eventually lead here.
Manufactured in the USA by One Inch Round.
- 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!
Q: What’s one of the greatest things about Portland?
A: Voodoo Doughnuts!
Atleast in our land of custom buttons, we enjoy many a Butter Fingering or Maple Bar:
http://www.oneinchround.com
What exactly do we do with all these donuts? Well to be quite honest, we bought 2 boxes this week, then we washed them down with coffee, and we’ll be back for more next week! Maybe they are the source of inspiration for some creative art buttons? Who knows!
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