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POSTED BY: Tara McPherson
SUBJECT: 'Illustration in the Age of Anxiety' lecture - video link...

I finally found a link to the video of the lecture I was a part of at Parson's, along with Ruth Marten, Steven Guarnaccia and Nora Krug.We speak about love, life, art, hair and tattoos...ILLUSTRATION IN THE AGE OF ANXIETY

POSTED BY: mWo RIOTsquad
SUBJECT: Looking for Toledos Newest Hottest Groups!

To be featured on our new podcast shows starting in 2008...is it you?
Send us a reply!

POSTED BY: S.W.P.
SUBJECT: winter show: next weekend

Jan 4th 5th & 6th
see my profile calendar for details

POSTED BY: upso
SUBJECT: toledo art people, check out http://www.toledotoboggan.com/

toboggan moved! the awesome dudes at TT finally have a proper URL ( http://www.toledotoboggan.com/ book mark the site and visit often this will be, if it's not already the best art related toledocentric blog in americai just stopped by and read some crazy shit! you should too!

My Toledo's Butter than Your's

I've heard a lot of griping about the 'Most Livable City' award lately, so Toboggan has decided to set it's sights a little lower- how about the 'Most Livable City Named Toledo' award?

The beating starts in Toledo, Iowa, where a local woman has created a Barack Obama sculpture out of butter. Toledo, Ohio wins for two reasons here: our artists make Obama sculptures that don't melt. And with the abundance of nicotine fans in Ohio, we're smart enough to know that much butter is way dangerous for a guy like Obama. Smoking and high cholesterol only lead to one thing.

Stay tuned for future Toledo v Toledo matches, there's plenty more where that came from- I'm looking at you, Spain.

Post Holiday Regift Levels at All Time High, Heads Will Explode

Reminder for The Regift Party tomorrow night. Aside from the regift exchange, attendees are also encouraged to bring their own creations to barter and trade. And no, burning illegal DVDs does not count as 'creating' them. Although I'd be willing to trade a super rare Toboggan card for an Oskar Fischinger bootleg.

www.toledotoboggan.blogspot.com is Dead, Long Live www.toledotoboggan.com!

Rohn really spoiled Toboggan this year for Christmas. Not only did Toboggan receive a new domain name, but he also printed up cards. So the website formerly found at http://www.toledotoboggan.blogspot.com/, has been relocated to http://www.toledotoboggan.com/.

I'll wait while everyone updates their bookmarks (or in Rohn's case, their homepage) ...

...As you can see from the above photograph, the only problem now is which card will rule them all. You see, Rohn printed up 50 of ten different styles (flashback to the business card scene in American Psycho,

) so collect them all.


I also spruced up the Myspace page.

Merry Christmas!

Toboggan Digs

I'm still recovering from Toboggan's 12th annual Christmas party. Here are some links to fun:

Basquiat and Warhol above ^

Lydia Dekker's 'Nylon Beings' at www.rauwekost.nl

Todd turned me on to the new Usher single

Holy uninsured Picasso thievery!

The one thing I hate about art is the ugly by-product of snobbish elitism

Send your friends a personalized Britney Spears phone message

Quite possibly the greatest book ever written- read the whole thing online! (it really won't take you that long)

Guerrilla Marketing #2

Kids love Toboggan.

PSA: Splish Splash Rehash

I really don't even know where to begin. Seems earlier this year some really great street art got messed up by a really not-so-great person (NY Mag article). No one knew who 'the splasher' was, but suspicions arose at a Shepard Fairey opening in June when a guy was caught trying to light a stink bomb (Art Lovers NY article). After a long and diligent investigation the finger pointing landed squarely on two young men: James Cooper and Zac Dempster.

What does any of this have to do with anything you ask? Well if we look a little closer we see that both of the accused are from Toledo! Zac's Flickr account shows a home town of Toledo, and he also used to write for Clamour Magazine, while James' myspace claims that he is a 'Dick Helmut, Ohio' native, and shows that he is terrible actor.

As a public service to artists I would encourage you to keep both men away from your work. I know the one kinda looks like Harry Potter so you could be fooled into thinking he's a good guy- but he's not! I personally invite either men to contact me with their side of the story.




above photo by Nancy Smith/artloversnewyork.com

Guerrilla Marketing

I encourage this.

The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Scientist have discovered a new use for unwanted Christmas gifts. They call it 'regifting'. The new technology is still being tested, but should be available by next Friday. The helpful diagram below explains the process.

(fig. 1)

Works on Whatever, and Whatever

Don't know what to do with that Target gift card you get for Christmas. How about an artist towel by Kehinde Wiley or Cindy Sherman? Produced by the Art Production Fund for their Works on Whatever project, these glorious summer garbs seek to supply art to the masses, and beaches.

Toboggan Still Has an Email Address!

I've been lagging behind on the posts lately, but not much seems to be going on with the holidays coming up. Send me things to write about, via electronic mail.

toledotoboggan@gmail.com

It Came From Detroit ...er, I Mean Toledo

Soledad Brothers

Ordinary Monday Turns Extraordinary -Feasthetic # 7 Drops Today

Faesthetic looks like it's been working out. The great Tim Biskup cover, the new-found distribution power... the matching shirt!

Brainchild of Upso, this little homespun zine grew some muscle and issue number seven sees Faesthetic partner-up with Threadless.com. They make t-shirts from user submitted designs, voted on by users- make sense? You can buy the magazine or shirt separately, or in a bundle, and make sure to check out their $10 sale going on through the 16th.

BGSU- Sucks at Basketball, Great at Art

After a pretty pessimistic article in the Blade yesterday, the BGSU girls basketball team almost pulled-off an impressive upset against No. 16 Notre Dame. But that's alright, because I'm an Irish fan anyway, and there's an even bigger game tomorrow night: the BGSU art department vs. everybody. And I hope they kick your ass.

Tomorrow night (Friday, the 7th) the University hosts ArtsX. Described as, 'the largest collaboration across the arts in a single night at BGSU', the evening is jam packed with things to do and see (or see and do, whichever you prefer).

Whether you like painting, sculpture, music, video, dance, whatever- it's bound to have something for everyone.

Misheard Nelly Lyric Prompts Firenation to 'Back that Glass Up'

I know this is a recycled headline from October, but I couldn't resist. Anyway, you know the deal- Firenation open house tomorrow night (Friday, the 7th). Fun starts at 7:00, with free addmission, free glass demos, and free drinks. Need directions?

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POSTED BY: Zohn Grookshier

SUBJECT: this weekend 2 cool shows at mickey finns

awsome garage indie show saturday nitecool all ages early ska show sundaycheck italso sagittarius party friday night...

POSTED BY: J*dub~

SUBJECT: musee

Toledo Friends of Photography

:::: 2008 National Juried Photography Exhibition ::::

January 2008 University of Toledo Center for the Visual Arts at the Toledo Museum of Art

There were 366 artists from 44 states and guess who was one of the lucky ones! yep. lil ol' me. i got one print that will be there during the show which will go from jan 13 to feb 3. i'll post more info as i receive it, but ya'll should come check it cuz i'm uber excited!!! i'm gon be bonified n shit. hee hee hee.

POSTED BY: Dolan Geiman

SUBJECT: Free pass to the One of a Kind Show & Sale Chicago

This week marks our third annual participation in the One of a Kind Show & Sale Chicago. To celebrate the occasion, we'll be unveiling a wide assortment of box art reproductions, including the popular piece Field Guide Tennessee.

Dolan Geiman Booth 3049Thursday, December 6 noon-9:00 p.m. - 10% of our proceeds on Thursday benefit the Children's Memorial HospitalFriday, December 7 11:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.Saturday, December 8 10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.Sunday, December 9 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Print a complimentary pass to the show>>

To preview original works and fine art prints on paper available this weekend, please visit our Etsy page. Our online holiday sale continues through November 15!

Happy Holidays!

Ali Walsh

www.dolangeiman.com

Contemporary Art with a Southern Accent

POSTED BY: Arthur Magazine

SUBJECT: Only 30 copies left of INVASION OF THUNDERBOLT PAGODA dvd

Long, Strange Trip for a Hypnotic Film

By JAMES GADDY

August 27, 2006 (SUNDAY) NEW YORK TIMES

It took 38 years, but Ira Cohen’s cult film, “The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda,” which was first screened in 1968 at the high point of the psychedelic hippie head rush, is now commercially available. Given the close calls, the long absences and his chaotic archival system, Mr. Cohen, 71, is a little surprised himself. “It didn’t really involve patience,” he said in his apartment on West 106th Street in Manhattan, surrounded by books stacked waist high. “It was just reality.”

In 1961 Mr. Cohen built a room in his New York loft lined with large panels of Mylar plastic, a sort of bendable mirror that causes images to crackle and swirl in hypnotic, sometimes beautiful patterns. After a few years experimenting with the technique in photographs, he invited his friends from the downtown scene — like Beverly Grant, Vali Myers and Tony Conrad — to make a film.The finished product sets languid images of opium smokers (in fantastic makeup and costumes) against a droning, chanting, tabla-beating soundtrack by Angus MacLise, the original drummer of the Velvet Underground. Xavier Garcia Bardon, film curator at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, said the film is an important artifact of the era.“It’s like going on an ecstatic journey to another planet, full of magical beings, animals and plants,” he said. “It’s a hallucinatory, almost trance-inducing experience.”

ONLY 30 COPIES LEFT OF SECOND 1,000-COPY PRINTRUN. Order now direct from Arthur Magazine, using PayPal. Thank you.

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I'm not sure how long this website has been around, but 53 o's kept me entertained for awhile. Not only that, but it also opened up a wonderful world of animated .gifs, HTML experiments, and web art.

Now we could argue forever about whether this is really art or not, but we'll save that for AARON, truth is I'm not sure what else you would call it.

Explore more with these powerful links, or these equally powerful links.

Tis the Secor Photos

Despite the weather there seemed to be a good turn out for the 'Tis the Secor' event, and now that I have a Flickr account why not use it right? Here's some photos for those who couldn't make it (or got their car stuck in a ditch).