05 December 2008

Weekend Blog

Tonight @ The Showroom

Tyler Ramsey - 12/5/08 -
Friday9:00 pm - 12:00 am
Tickets: $10 advance/$12 door

Ramsey is best known for his guitar work. Crafting delicate, finger-style guitar picking reminiscent of John Fahey and Leo Kottke, but with a sum effect that is all his own. Whether it’s indie folk, country blues or finger style guitar – Ramsey is a composer of intricate, ethereal songs of melancholy and rumination. It's taken Tyler some time to get to this point. Tyler has spent years perfecting and honing his sound. It's been a journey that has taken him through many different genres of music, numerous and varied bands, and all around the world. While living in the mountains of Western North Carolina he immersed himself in the varied folk styles of the area. Inspired by the traveling country blues musicians that used to pass through the mountains, Tyler spends his time experimenting with his piano and guitar playing while continuously honing his craft as a songwriter and instrumentalist. He is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist who is always willing to sit in with friends or jump on board a promising project, no matter what the musical style.

This willingness to contribute to other projects has put Tyler in a very fortunate position; playing guitar with Band of Horses. Last year Bill Reynolds, long time friend and bassist for Band of Horses invited Tyler to visit him and the rest of the band in South Carolina. Tyler quickly hit it off with lead singer Ben Bridwell, who asked him to open for the band on their fall tour and come on board as their new guitar player. Tyler has since been on several tours across the country and abroad with Band of Horses and continues to play his own shows in between in support of his incredible solo release, A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea released in January on Echo Mountain Records. Don't miss this opportunity to see one of our regions best guitarist and songwriter.

Remaining Christmas Specials for this Week: ( A new list will be posted Monday )

Friday:
How The Grinch Stole Christmas @ 8 Pm on ABC ( The Movie, NOT the Animated Special ) ( Charter Channel 13 , or Digital 13.1 )
Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer @ 8 Pm on The CW ( Charter Channel 9 , Digital Ch. 62.1 )
The Story of Santa Claus @ 9 Pm on The CW ( Charter Channel 9, Digital Ch. 62.1 )

Saturday:
Miracle on 34th Street @ 8 Pm on MY Network TV ( Charter Channel 5 , Digital Ch. 40.1 )

Sunday:
Celtic Woman:The Greatest Journey-Holiday Special @ 8 Pm on UNC-TV ( Charter Channel 16 , Digital Ch. 33.1 )

Saturday @ The Showroom:

Hub City Bookfest - 12/6/08 - Saturday
11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Hub City's annual pre-Christmas sale!

and.....

Stencil Nation - 12/6/08 - Saturday
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Russell Howze will present his slide presentation for " Stencil Nation ." This one hour presentation will give a great overview of the art form, using examples from the book as well as other outside sources, materials, and interesting items. Russell will also have actual cut stencils and will allow time for questions about all things stencil. Some art from the Stencil Archives may be on sale as well.

About the book:

"More street artists are turning to stencil art's speed, efficiency, and neatness as a means of expression. All it takes is a piece of cardboard, an X-Acto knife, and a can of spray paint to pose an idea or tell a story with the potential to change the gait of pedestrians and make them stop and think."-San Francisco Weekly

"Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community, and Art" packs over 500 full-color photographs in a 192 page, 8 inch by 8 inch pound of paper and ink. The book presents work by more than 350 artists from 28 countries, including Iran, Australia, Japan, Canada, Spain, Lebanon, Israel, and the United States. Featured artists include: Banksy, Jef Aerosol, Logan Hicks, Adam5100, Arofish, M-City, SWOON, Hao, John Fekner, Peat Wollaeger, Klutch, and others.

Without a doubt, stencils are the fastest, easiest, and cheapest method for painting an image on a wall, a sidewalk, or almost any object anywhere. Stencil Nation focuses on the unexpected mix of this lively, accessible medium to reveal engaging aspects of an intentionally secretive international creative community. With dynamically illustrated perspectives from diverse niches of the art form, hundreds of photographs and numerous essays have been curated by StencilArchive.org’s founder, Russell Howze. Stencil Nation builds upon previous published works to give the most extensive and up-to-date history of stencil art, as well as how-to tips from the artists who work within the art form.

About the author:

Curator Russell Howze saw his first stencil in 1990, which was J. R. "Bob" Dobbs on an apartment wall in Clemson, SC. In 1995, Russell saw an amazing sight on the exterior wall of the Reichstag in Berlin: a huge stenciled Bertolt Brecht poem. He snapped a photo of that stencil, then found one in Budapest, Hungary. Then a few more stencils appeared in Basel, Switzerland. When he landed in San Francisco in 1997, he found dozens on the sidewalks of the Mission and Haight neighborhoods. He's never stopped photographing the sometimes temporary, always intriguing art form.

In 2002, Russell created the first version of Stencil Archive, thinking that he would have time to scan and upload his own collection before anyone discovered the site and submitted their own work. He was gladly mistaken, so Stencil Archive (www.stencilarchive.org) took off, outgrew its parent site HappyFeetTravels.org, and ended up becoming a site with over 10,000 uploaded photographs. At the time of its inception, Stencil Archive was the only international stencil site out there (for a few months). Now there are dozens of sites with tens of thousands of photographs. Russell continues to curate his site, posting stencils from around the world and featuring dozens of amazing artists.

In June 2008, Russell launched "Stencil Nation" with a successful stencil art exhibit, his third curated show, in San Francisco, and then went on a six-city book tour up the West Coast. He will also took his one-hour slide presentation to Melbourne, Australia for the 5th annual Stencil Festival in early August. He will tour the East Coast in November and December, bringing stencil goodness to the holiday masses.

When not photographing, making, painting, and uploading stencils, Russell fills his time by doing one or more of the following fun things: being a carny for the Sustainable Living Roadshow, riding his bike, writing for his blog www.HappyFeetTravels.org, cooking healthy food, creating vector art and putting it on stickers and buttons, producing events, puppeteering, listening to good music, traveling, and volunteering/protesting to make the world a better place.

Russell is a Wofford College alum and currently lives in San Francisco's Mission District, he is usually seen on his bike with his camera slung around his shoulder.


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