Tonight in Los Angeles! Vinyl Frontier Screening

If you're in LA tonight, and into vinyl toys (if you read this blog, I'm pretty sure I'm talking to you), then swing by Kevin Smith's SModcastle (Santa Monica Blvd. in Hollywood) and screen "The Vinyl Frontier." It's a documentary that explores the world of boutique vinyl toys and features some of your G1988 favs like Luke Chueh, Bwana Spoons and Tristan Eaton. It will run tonight, Friday September 24th at 7 PM and tickets are $10. There will be a special Q&A after the film with artists Luke Chueh, Dave Bondi and many more. You can purchase tickets by CLICKING HERE.

Jensen
G1988:LA

SMOD GIG

We are so pleased to announce our recent partnership with Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier on creating original and new gig posters for their recent bus tour, going city to city and recording their extremely popular podcast, called SModcast, live in front of an audience. These limited edition posters were first offered to ticket holders and now can be purchased on our website by CLICKING HERE - http://www.nineteeneightyeight.com/la/smodcastlivegigposters.html

And here they are, each limited to 335 copies all together. We have both signed and unsigned (by Kevin and Scott) available (but all from the same numbered edition) -

Todd Slater



Drew Milward



DKNG (this one can be flipped!)



So if you're a fan of Kevin, SModcast, great design or just gig posters, pick these up at $30 unsigned or $40 signed. Yeah!

Jensen
G1988:LA

SModcast Art NOW VIEWABLE

image by Danielle Rizollo

Kevin and Scott just left our SMArt show and we're so happy to have housed this one-night event! SO MUCH FUN! And thanks to everyone who came through and braved the door opening line.

And even though it's a one night event, you can see all the artwork here FOREVER....

http://smodcastg1988.blogspot.com/

It's ADULT THEMED. Like all of our lives.

Jensen
G1988: LA

SModweek!

The Gallery1988: LA crew has been looking forward to this week all year! Friday night, our gallery will play host to "SMart: Artwork Inspired By Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier's SModcast." If you don't know about SModcast, no worries, because just like with everything I know nothing about....I can teach you....through Wikipedia.

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SModcast is a weekly podcast featuring filmmaker Kevin Smith and his long time producer partner Scott Mosier, although guests occasionally feature. Released each Sunday night, the episodes are generally one hour in length and feature Smith and Mosier discussing current events and other non-sequitur topics. The name was derived from taking the first letters of "Smith" and "Mosier" and replacing the "P" in "Podcast". The podcast is distributed through Smith's entertainment website Quick Stop Entertainment. New episodes are made available for download there each Sunday night or Monday morning, and are then released through the RSS feed the following Friday in order to ease bandwidth strains on the Quickstop Entertainment.
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And they've been doing it quite some time, as they are currently about to release episode #96. And this is not your father's podcast (cause your Dad LOVES podcasts). These are dirty, real, free and tremendously funny. Topics like how long it would take for Kevin to eventually make a sexual advance on Scott if they were stuck on the LOST island, how people would react if Jesus came back to fight Osama Bin Laden, what Hitler's dog was probably like and how one might confront a member of 80's rock band Foreigner if you were to see him at the supermarket are brought up on the program with extreme delight. And Titan Publishing just released "Shootin' the Sh*t with Kevin Smith: The Best Of SModcast," which takes some of the show's best bits and transcribes them into the written word. So to celebrate the book release and Kevin's Q & A event at the Orpheum Saturday night, we enlisted 25 artists to take these transcribed SMod moments and turn them into original paintings and prints for display and purchase. "SMart," hosted by Kevin and Scott, is a one-night event at G1988: LA, this Friday, Oct. 23rd from 7-11 PM and has spawned some amazing pieces. And we're excited to see the SMod-inspired pieces from:

Tom Whalen
Daniel Elson
Scott Campbell
Andrew Wilson
Allison Reimold
Dave MacDowell
Jim Horwat
Israel Sanchez
David Eichenberger
Lesley Reppeteaux
Kiersten Essenpreis
Danielle Rizzolo
Ben Walker
Joey Spiotto
NC Winters
Roland Tamayo
Scott Derby
Tom Haubrick
Dan Santat
Misha
Sean Clarity
Gideon Boomer
and 3 lucky submission winners...
Travis Kotzebue
Jen Brazas
& Razzah Wunderbar!

And one more artist Dave Perillo, who's contribution below is a depiction of SModcast episode #38, where Kevin and Scott talk about getting VERY drunk and attempting to ride It's A Small World at Disneyland (and running into some problems because of Kevin's weight).



Do yourself a favor, go over to iTunes or Quick Stop Entertainment by CLICKING HERE (if foul language and adult themes don't offend you - p.s. That's a warning!) and check out some episodes of SModcast before the event this Friday night.

Kevin will also be on KROQ all week, sitting in with Kevin and Bean, and also on G4's "Attack of the Show" tonight promoting the week of KS festivities.

We'll be doing updates all week for "SMart" - so stay tuned, and come hang with Kevin, Scott and the G1988: LA gang on Friday night.

Jensen
G1988: LA

Something For Your Sunday

This is announced.



More on that soon.

And our SMart Show with Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier is this coming Friday. We'll be full speed on that hyping that up next week, as 25 artists will be taking aim at Kevin and Scott's popular podcast series, SModcast. If you are not aware of SModcast, it's hilarious, free on Itunes or the Internet, and super dirty (so don't say we didn't warn you). We'll break down the artists participating and give you some previews, etc. throughout next week. And we obviously suggest coming by Friday night, 7-10 PM, as Kevin and Scott will be in the house, signing, talking and also celebrating the release of Kevin's new book, "Shootin' The Sh*t With Kevin Smith," which transcribes a lot of greatest hits from SModcast. Going to be a lot of fun, leading up to one of Kevin's infamous Q&A evenings the next night at the Orpheum. It's a View Askew weekend and we're happy to be a part of it.

Again, more on all this SOON!

Jensen
G1988: LA