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Joe Strummer DVD Cover – Cast a Long Shadow

I designed the cover for this working with photographer Michael Zagaris, and I’m happy to announce that it is available on January 25, 2011. I did the poster and went to Los Angeles to see the show back in 2007. What a great show! Here’s a trailer from the DVD:

2007 Los Angeles tribute and benefit concert for The Clash’s Joe Strummer whose influence on music is immeasurable. Performances by: LOVE AND ROCKETS, ZANDER SCHLOSS & THE WILDERNESS YEARS (featuring Flea, Martyn Lenoble, Dix Denney, Jonny Polonsky, Tim Aaron, Victor Indrizzo, Emiliano Almeida, Dermot Mulroney, Kieran Mulroney, Gus Seyffert, Charlie Wadhams, Craig Jackman, Stefan Lirakis and Pete Weiss), HELLRIDE (featuring Mike Watt, Jane’s Addiction’s Stephen Perkins and Porno For Pyro’s Peter Distefano), DAVID J, LA PLEBE, MELODEE FERNANDEZ and hosted by CHRIS SALEWICZ. A fantastic and poignant evening for all involved. Proceeds from the sale of this DVD will benefit the Strummerville charity. Set up by family and friends in the wake of Joe Strummer’s death in 2002, Strummerville seeks to reflect Joe’s unique contribution to the music world by offering support, resources and performance opportunities to artists who would not normally have access to them.

Track Listing

  • Hellride – 1977
  • Hellride – Hate And War
  • Hellride – Career Opportunities
  • David J. – Death Is A Star
  • David J. – Sleepwalk
  • Melodee Fernandez – Spanish Bombs
  • La Plebe – Revolution Rock
  • La Plebe – Washington Bullets
  • La Plebe – Rudie Can’t Fail
  • Zander Schloss & The Wilderness Years – Filibustero
  • Zander Schloss & The Wilderness Years – The Unknown Immortal
  • Zander Schloss & The Wilderness Years – Tennessee Rain
  • Zander Schloss & The Wilderness Years – Tropic Of No Return
  • Zander Schloss & The Wilderness Years – Gangsterville
  • Zander Schloss & The Wilderness Years – Trash City
  • Love And Rockets – Should I Stay Or Should I Go
  • Each sale gives a charitable contribution to Strummerville, the charity founded in Joe Strummer’s name.

Available here on January 25, 2011

Street Date: January 25th 2011 (US and Europe). Street Date: March 14th 2011 (UK). Proceeds from the sale of this DVD will benefit the Strummerville charity. www.strummerville.com

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Widespread Panic “Winter” Variant Editions

Widespread Panic “Winter”

Speckled Frost Edition

22 x 33

Edition of 25

7 color silkscreen (metallics, glazes and rich hand-mixed colors)

Printed on Speckled Frost Paper

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

Widespread Panic “Winter”

White Marble Parchment Edition

22 x 33

Edition of 23

7 color silkscreen (metallics, glazes and rich hand-mixed colors)

Printed on White Marble Parchment

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

Widespread Panic “Winter”

Snowflake Edition

22 x 33

Edition of 9

7 color silkscreen (metallics, glazes and rich hand-mixed colors)

Printed on Snowflake Patterned Paper

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

Widespread Panic “Winter”

Mirror Foil Edition

22 x 33

Edition of 12

7 color silkscreen (metallics, glazes and rich hand-mixed colors)

Printed on Mirror Foil

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

I’ll be making a very limited release of the variant editions on Sunday, January 9, 2011 at a random time.

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A portion of the sale of the Widespread Panic variant editions will go to help my dear friend Charles Bock and family.

You may remember, I designed the cover of his novel “Beautiful Children.” Check out the book cover design and the poster here.

I’ll quote Charles McGrath about Charles and his situation from the New York Times: “The writer Charles Bock made a great many literary friendships during the years while he struggled to complete his first novel, “Beautiful Children.” When Mr. Bock’s wife, Diana Colbert, was discovered to have leukemia and underwent a bone marrow transplant in the fall of 2009, many of those friends pitched in to offer household help. In October, Ms. Colbert’s leukemia returned (she is scheduled for another transplant next month), and three of the Bocks’ friends, the novelists Fiona Maazel and Mary-Beth Hughes and the writer Leigh Newman, decided they needed to help even more. “We said everything that can be done, should be done,” Ms. Maazel recalled. So on Feb. 6th, at P.S. 122 in the East Village, the Bock friends are throwing what they’re calling “the most literary rent party ever.” Full article

Article in The New Yorker

Here’s a link to donate to Charles Bock and his family.


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Moonalice at Slim’s SF Poster – January 3,4,5 – Moonalice TV Live

Moonalice is starting 2011 with a live three night Moonalice TV engagement at Slim’s in San Francisco. I made this silkscreened poster for the event at the request of the band, art directed by Chris Shaw.

The subject in my poster is hanging a poem or prayer in a tree. This is an ancient human ritual. People have been doing this in every quarter of the world forever. I was in England with Chris Hopewell from Jacknife posters and he took me to the Avesbury Stones (the little Stonehenge), and the oak trees around the site were streaming with prayer ribbons. My girlfriend Nancy hangs ribbons in the tree across the street. The ancient ritual again. It’s 2011, so we hang posters on telephone poles. And Moonalice, they livestream their rock show – and since we live in a technological new millennium – their poems are hung electronically on the air.

Moonalice at Slim’s San Francisco (M333)

January 3, 4, 5, 2011

Silkscreen Poster

16.25 x 33

Edition of 125

5 Color Silkscreen on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT

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Moonalice 333 Speckled Variant

Silkscreen Poster

16.25 x 33

Edition of 13

5 Color Silkscreen on speckled paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT

I’ll be making a very limited release of this poster on Thursday, January 6, 2011 at noon PST.



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