December 2010

Our Rambling Roadshow!

December 28, 2010


We’re going back out on tour in April! Check out dates here! The Rambling Roadshow.

Joe Biel will show a selection of new videos highlighting bicycle culture and activism in and around Portland, OR, many featured on his Cycling Shorts DVD. De-classified police documents and interviews have painted a different picture about Critical Mass, which Biel will talk about and shows clips from Aftermass, his forthcoming documentary about bicycle activism in Portland, Oregon over the last forty years. Joe has been part of Microcosm Publishing since he started it in his closet 15 years ago.

Joshua Ploeg is a traveling vegan chef, who improvises climactic culinary masterpieces on two hours’ notice for you and your date and perhaps also your entire circus troupe, using ingredients from the nearest store in your fully equipped kitchen or just the rice cooker and blender someone left behind in the corner of your squat if that’s how you roll. In adverse circumstances, his food only gets fancier. His book In Search of the Lost Taste is a Microcosm smash hit. He has several cookzines, including the popular Fire and Ice and the brand new So Raw It’s Downright Filthy.

Elly Blue is a writer and bicycle activist in Portland, Oregon. She tells you fascinating tales of the bicycle movement, accompanied by photographic evidence. She may also be convinced to juggle. You can see parts of her presentation from the tour she and Joe did in August here; this time she’ll do something different. She writes regularly about bicycling news and issues for venerable online news outlets Grist and BikePortland and publishes a feminist bike zine called Taking the Lane.

Watch our 2011 Tour Video:

Watch our 2010 Tour Video:

And lastly, here’s a little video we made in prepartion of our 2010 tour:

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Henry & Glenn Gang Bang

December 28, 2010

In February, The Igloo Tornado Collective is curating a group art show “Gang Bang” at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles.

Read about it here and look at a
preview here.

Henry & Glenn Forever, a comic book by the Los Angeles art fraternity Igloo Tornado that finally answers the question, “what if Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig were a little more than ‘friends?’” has become a cult phenomenon in the comics and music scene since its release in April. Now, Igloo Tornado members Tom Neely, Gin Stevens, Scot Nobles and Levon Jihanian have put the question to more than a dozen other artists, who will offer their own answers in a group show opening Feb. 18 at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Hollywood. Participants include critically acclaimed L.A.-based artist Eric Yahnker, low-brow superstars Coop and Clayton Brothers, and alternative cartoonists Ed Luce, Johnny Ryan and Kaz as part of a diverse group of artists, cartoonists and oddballs.

The Igloo Tornado will also debut their own new Henry & Glenn-themed works in the show and be on hand at the opening to sign copies of Henry & Glenn Forever. The Misfits cover band GLENN will perform live.

Henry & Glenn Forever has sold more than 30,000 copies since its release by Cantankerous Titles less than a year ago. What started as a joke scrawled on a bar napkin has become a bona fide hit, spawning dozens of print and online write-ups from outlets including Spin, National Public Radio, MTV, LA Weekly, Decibel, Maximum Rock’n’roll and Razorcake. While the comic book has reportedly inspired outrage from singer Glenn Danzig and indifference from former Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins, the lighthearted send-up of two of punk’s most macho icons has gained thousands of fans.

Artist list: Jose Gabriel Angeles, Bald Eagles, Ben Claasen, Shane Brown, COOP, Clayton Brothers, Jordan Crane, Dave Davenport, Justin Hall, Levon Jihanian, Rusty Jordan, KAZ, Keenan Marshall Keller, Ed Luce, Patrick Morgan, Kiyoshi Nakazawa, Tom Neely, Scot Nobles, Jonah Olsen, Shauna Peterson, Johnny Ryan, Reuben Splatterbeast, Gin Stevens, Billy Reynolds, Jeff Ward, Steven Weissman, Eric Yahnker and more…

So far it’s looking pretty awesome.

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