Eaten Alive Books

2-11-07
STUDIO SIX UPDATES

Big things happening in Studio Six this weekend:

1. Andrio Abero (of 33rpm) moved to NYC!
2. Our new studio mate, Aviva & Cori from The Adventure School moved in.
3. A Priceless Way launched their new website! Check it out at www.apricelessway.com

Here's some random studio six shots:

3-3-07
NEW BIKE FOR SPRING!

I just scored this great new bike: it's a 10-speed Raleigh made in England from the 1970's and it's practically in mint condition. It has hand painted pin striping and little R's all over the place. Check it out:

2-8-07
EXQUISITE ACTS
& EVERYDAY REBELLIONS

Check out this awesome feminist art project my friend Elana Mann is organizing at Cal Arts during March:

exquisite acts & everyday rebellions

2-7-07
WELCOME BACK:
NYC, Philadelphia & Seattle Updates

Wow, so it's been awhile since I've updated the ole website and lots has been going on this winter. So here it all is in chronological & categorical order!(pro)text: independent press fair
noon- 5pm, February 17th, 2007 at the Hugo House

Eaten Alive Books will be participating in (pro)text: an independent press fair sponsored by the lovely ladies of Cranky literary journal:

"This ain't Book Fest or Bumbershoot. It's a free-for-all. It's a chance for small publishers to show off the work they're doing and to get their texts in the public eye. We'll also have some swanky and provocative performances and a panel on the ethics of literary contests. 36 small publishers will be displaying their work. The event is FREE to the public (and co-sponsored by Hugo House). We are also having a raffle of goodies -- signed copies of book, chapbooks, and journals -- so bring lots of cash. Who will be there?

Ahsahta Press (Boise) , Bird Dog, Burnside Review (Portland) , Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Series , Crab Creek Review, Cranky, Cult Of Youth, Eaten Alive Press , Egress Studio Press (Bellingham), en theos Press, Filter, Future Tense Books (Portland), Gazoobi Tales Press , Knock, Letter X, Last Tango Editions, Manic D Press (San Francisco) , Mare Nostrum/Writ In Water Press, Poetry Northwest, Pongo Publishing , Raven Chronicles, Ravenna Press, Rivet, Rose Alley Press, Scala House Press, Seattle Review, Silverfish Review (Eugene) , Soultheft Records, Stringtown (Eastern Washington), Swivel, The Wandering Hermit, Track and Field, Wave Books , when it rains from the ground up, Willow Springs (Spokane), and Wood Works Press."

The event should be a ton of fun and it's free! Come on down and say hi.
1634 11th Ave (in Capitol Hill on 11th & Pine) 7 DAYS IN NEW YORK CITY

My trip to NYC was long LONG overdue which made it super extremely fun. The best part was seeing old friends and running around the city. Considering this was my third time to visit new york, I think it really started to click. Now the question is "Will I live here?"

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

Shopping in Williamsburg: Spoonbill & Sugartown have the best books. About Glamour boutique had a really great art show and super cute stuff.

Seeing radioactive rocks and learning about the Galapagos Islands at the Museum of Natural History.

WICKED on Broadway was bad-bad-bad-ass! The sets, costumes, acting and story were all amazing.

Bi Bim Bop, street meat, dessert houses, bagels, Restaurant Florent (of the M & Co. fame), cupcakes, diners, south american tapas, wine bars, sushi... food in new york is a whole 'nother level. (And it's so cheap!)

I visited the new Printed Matter space and the David Choe exhibit at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in the Meatpacking District.

Subway music is really the best. So this crackey little Indian guy had a stage set up with a big blanket on the ground. In front of him set up like an alter were a dozen musical dancing robots (like santas, animals, creatures... the kind from the Walgreens holiday aisle). All of these robots were playing and dancing while the guy pounded away on his keyboard in the back of this psychedelic multi-level alter. Like nothing I've ever heard or seen before.

Visiting NYU & Columbia was pretty great. I'm still trying to figure out why there's not a program for me at Bank Street School though...

We met this amazing guy at a flea market on the upper west side... he (somehow) had access to the sewers beneath fancy Manhattan hotels and he basically sifts through sewage and procures antique jewelry that has been dropped down the drain. He cleans off and sterilizes the jewelry and sells the less-precious stuff at the flea market. During the day he's a bookkeeper for a restaurant, in the off-hours a strange "under-world" anthropologist.

A COUPLE THINGS I NOTICED:

#1 topic of conversation is the melting ice caps... I couldn't help but feel the heavy weight in the room while a movie about global warming, "The Future of Life" was screened at Museum of Natural History.

New York inspires an animalistic desire to shop...

New Yorkers are actually overall pretty nice. They love to give directions and it seemed like conversations were struck up everywhere I went. One lady did step on my foot in a bookstore and she snarled at me but in some weird way, it was really great.

Here's some pics:

In the east village

in the meatpacking district/chelsea:

"Fountain of Life" in the Galapagos Island exhibit at the Museum of Natural History

3 DAYS IN PHILADELPHIA

I took the Chinatown bus from Manhattan to Philly for a 3 day jaunt into the city. I have to admit, I kind of fell in love with Philadelphia right away. Here's why:

Really really good sandwiches EVERYWHERE. I did get a philly cheese steak from Jim's on South street that was pretty great, but I also had two delicious sandwiches that were the size of my head and $5.

First Friday gallery walk was super fun and packed with all sorts of folks but most notably lots of young artists. We visited Space 1026, FUEL, falling cow gallery and a buncha other galleries. Overall, the art was really good. I especially like visiting with Tim Bowen and learning about his latest project, PeopleTIME where he made 100 paintings based on current events from People & TIME magazine.

The University of the Arts was amazing. I accidentally took a tour of the school with a bunch of undergraduates (it's primarily an undergraduate school) and I was really impressed by the students' skill and ability. The MA in Art Education program kind of feels like a perfect fit...

The city is bike & scooter friendly and for the most part pretty flat (compared to Seattle)... rents are inexpensive, cost of living is low and row houses with bay windows are pretty great.

You occasionally see an American Revolutionary walking around in full on costume.

The Mutter Museum was the first museum founded to educate doctors about anatomy and human medical anomalies. I visited it and saw a wall of human skulls, 2,000 objects extracted from people's throats, a comprehensive history of Siamese Twins, and the tallest skeleton on display in the US. Plus the guy in the gift store tells really gross jokes.

Philadelphia has the most murals of any city in the USA! (more than LA, more than San Francisco...) Plus they have mosaic murals...

Philadelphia also has a ton of greenspace... apparently also the most in the country.

Did I mention the sandwiches?
Now I guess the question is "WILL I LIVE HERE??? "

Some pics from the trip:

Mosaic murals

Jim's Steaks on South Street

The future of branding?

I spotted this in Manyuak,Philadelphia... a little unnerving

Woodblock Printing Party

My friend Jenny invited me to a printing party at her friend, Pete's house. I was the first to print so its a little chunky and uneven but all in all it was pretty exciting to be in the vicinity of a press again. Check it out:

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