this is the secret handpainted poster somewhere on the streets of los angeles. All the rest are silkscreened of a different design. I wonder who will find this one. See you at the show!

dublab are the nicest!!! this is such a short funny video! you can listen to the whole session here… hmm... i do think we are still learning out how to play live on the radio… ha! but! there’s also a dj mix we made in there too… music of friends! friends of music! check it out!!!

Today was another momentous day of drawing. Today sumi ink club convened at siteLA and created what may become the world’s largest keychain attatched to the soon to be created “Key to the City of Los Angeles (or Hercules Key)”. We were joined today by Luke F, Isabelle A, and Prerna a student of philosophy visiting LA from New Dehli, India.



Everyone is welcome to join in–we’ll convene again next week same place same time (1:00 at SiteLA), see you then old and future friends.

two tapes that are no longer being bought and sold in the world are now available as free downloads:

“FUTURE FEELINGS” (released in 2006 by undereducated tapes) (25.2 MB zip file)

and

“FEAR MELODY” (released in 2008 by death bomb arc) (8.8 MB zip file)

i declare it is time to share

These wonderful drawings were made during a summer session at PS 19 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn organized by Ms. Denise Schatz and her students. One of the boldest and most incredible chapters of Sumi Ink CLub to date, a total of 60 sumi ink artists ranging in age from 5 -9 made 6 large-scale, collaborative drawings in one day with markers. This session’s theme: superheroes + how sharing can be heroic.

Drawn by 10 hands. Many thanks to participants luke, sarah c., david, and thomas. So many amazing humans strolling through the door from around the world. If you see a sign on sunset blvd that says “Sumi Ink Club” follow the arrow, walk through the door, and pick up a brush. This is what can happen. See you in the future!!!

This book is the first physical object to spin off internet content from our favorite new media magazine, triple canopy. “Woven Waves and Sumi Cinema 1″ by Sumi Ink CLub, 43 pages, 4.25″ x 6.88″, perfect binding, black and white interior ink

“Sumi Ink Club’s collaboration with Triple Canopy exists online and in book form. Both versions feature two of the group’s drawings, each of which has been enlarged, divided into parts, contracted, and reconfigured. The resulting discrete, yet interconnected, segments manifest varying levels of distance from or closeness to the original ink drawings from which they were extracted. Digital and print incarnations of the project prompt different modes of spatial and temporal engagement with its components. Encountered across multiple forms, “Woven Waves + Sumi Cinema 1″ modulate between order and fluidity.”

You can order or download a copy from lulu.com or by following the link below.

Sumi Ink Club made a cover for not not fun’s “bored fortress” series…. a split seven inch between shepherds + ignatz.

Amid seashells and lava flows, this drawing was made by many hands on the shores of a tropical island in the middle of the pacific ocean: