The Further Collective: Mario Martinez (Mars-1), Damon Soule & Oliver Vernon were in Flagstaff last week collaborating on an outdoor mural at The Flagstaff Brewing Company located in the historical district of downtown Flagstaff, AZ.

The mural was 10ft x 16ft organized by Brian Chambers & Tim Reuter. Photos: Julianne Yates

Damon Soule & Oliver Vernon

Director of the documentary film DRAGONSLAYER --> DRAGONSLAYER is a documentary about the skateboarder Josh "Skreech" Sandoval. He's a character and the film follows his many ups and downs dealing with young parenthood, competing, and relationships. However, rather then try and make some type of statement about him, it just presents him objectively in the way that he is through wonderful cinematography.

I spoke with Tristan Patterson, the film's director, over the phone and asked him some of the questions I had after watching his film.

ATTENTION: The following interview may contain SPOILERS -- so you may want to watch the film before you read it.

Skreech is what I describe as a crusty kid. He doesn't seem to shower often and often hangs around a semi-homeless group of friends. Anyways, midway through the film they all take a road trip together and all I could think about was how bad the van must've smelt.

"To be honest, I think we all smelt pretty bad," said Tristan "so I can't really be judgmental about it"

It's that approach to the filming that allowed Tristan to capture so many intimate moments though. Especially, in some of the scenes where he got footage of underage kids drinking and using drugs, which I imagine would've been next to impossible if he had started preaching at them.

"I wasn't witnessing anything that I wasn't doing at their age. So who am I to tell people about how to live their lives"

But what about when they would trespass onto peoples' properties to skate their pools? Wasn't he nervous?

"I figured that if anything happened, we'd be able charm our way out of it."

Photo: Lingo (South Africa)

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Remember Marty Machado's great feature he did here at Fecal Face called Life and Work on a Containership? Well, over the years he took a lot of video and has recently got around to putting together this 20 minute short below.

Marty is also a very talented painter, and his newest paintings are on display here in SF at Gallery Hijinks through May 26th for the show Too Far Gone. View the show here.

In this short documentary, I tried to answer some of the common questions that I usually get about shipping. The footage I took myself using fairly basic cameras that I could fit in my pocket while I was on the job as a deckhand. The story follows me on my six month journey around the world on a container ship which was on a run between New York and Singapore via the Suez Canal. Thanks for watching. -Martin

Great new work from Toronto based Winnie Troung who's in a group show that opened last night in NYC at Bold Hype Gallery.

Winnie showed in our group show 11.11.11 @FFDG this past fall and we interviewed her awhile back.

Got two new zines from Mildred and Pacolli for us to share with you. Pacolli's The Last Chance Kids is published through Volcom's Artist Series and is 40 pages and sells for only $7 printed on thick quality heavy stock.

Mildred's newest Whats This Bullshit not only has bad lanugage in the title, but is also 40 pages of black & white gloriousness and comes signed by the artist himself for only $6. You can purchase both zines here.

Whats This Bullshit
zine by Mildred
$6

The Last Chance Kids
zine by Pacolli
$7

Logan Crable emailed us the other day with an offer to view his Blow Job series. Normally we don't get offers to view someone's porn project, but we quickly learned that the blowing is more in the literal sense as opposed to the pleasuring form.

Logan Crable is a brooklyn based editorial photographer who specializes in creating surreal and thought provoking imagery.

http://www.logancrable.com

Thanks to Michelle Ramin for emailing us some her recent paintings. Michelle will be displaying her work as part of SFAI's MFA graduate show running this weekend and opening Friday, May 11th at the Pheonix Hotel here in San Francisco.

"The MFA Graduate Exhibition is one of the most exciting times for SFAI’s Graduate Program, when we see in one place the manifestation of two years of labor, sacrifice, and commitment by a new generation of artists ready to contribute to the landscape of contemporary art and culture," says Tony Labat, Director of MFA Programs. "The Bay Area has always been at the forefront of artists and curators seeking alternative spaces for exhibition and production, and this exhibition continues that important tradition." -Details (scroll down)

Whether conceptually motivated or intuitively created, the process of painting has been a main attribute in art for sometime now. Controlling the surface of a canvas is at the root of most contemporary painting. Vancouver native Jeff Depner's work creates avenues for visual discovery through a process based aesthetic. Layers upon layers of paint each relating to the next. Masking some, if not all, of the past creates a visual history within. The work ebbs and flows between graphic qualities and thick painterly styles with muted but contemporary feeling colors. The constant process of ‘improvised moves' allows some of the work to be based in grid like structures. It allows some of the smaller paintings a chance for inquiry in constructive qualities and aspects of painting, inserting his work into the long history of painting.

I usually have a general idea of what I want to do going into a painting, but it's usually a series of improvised moves piled on top of each other until something starts to makes sense. There's a lot of building up and tearing down going on, it's a slow process.

Deciding what stays and what gets painted over is a balancing act, long periods of looking followed by painting things in and out, and moving things around on the canvas. Not much escapes being painted out at some point.

It's tricky, usually when I can't think of anything else to do to it.

Bay Area artist Cahill Wessel emailed over a couple gems- food/human hybrids with wonderful titles. Made our morning.

great title: If Bill Murray was a Triple Bacon Cheeseburger

One Classy Slice

You can check out more work by Cahill by following this link, knuckle head: http://www.cahillwessel.com/

Erik Derman interprets the great poem The Hollow Men by T S Eliot in his recent video entitled Twlight Kingdom -- Filmed in San Diego and Los Angeles.

We're a little backed up with POTD, but had to squeeze this one in from Christopher Haas of Hamburg, Germany... Too good to not be added right away.

This is a small but i think really funny work done in Hamburg in one of Hamburg richest neighborhoods. They tearing down this house from the old days of the city because the property it self is far more worth than the building on it. I guess thats why the old house puked out its guts... by the way the artist are called "tien n haze".

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