John: Right now I’m thinking of
href="http://www.christoferchin.com/">Christofer Chin stoked me out quite a
bit… There are just way too many.
Amir: Laura Owens
Flying
Fortress: Fruhstuck
Craig:
Nathan Fox and Robin Nishio (I can’t pick just one)
Bucky: James
Farsetta
Favorite Single Piece of
Art in 2004:
Swoon: this didn’t happen in 2004 but i did get
to meet the hostage in 2004, as she was being held in gothenburg sweden, it’s
zev’s kidnapping of the lavazza girl, he repelled down a 50 foot vinyl billboard
in germany and stole the lavazza girl with an exacto knife, then proceeded to
write ‘visual kidnapping pay now!’ across the blank space above her missing
shillouette. he cut the image’s pinky off and sent it to lavazza with a ransom
note. they contacted him saying ‘oh it’s brilliant, we’ll pay if we can use it
for next season’s ad campaign’, but he didn’t bite.
John: A piece
that Tiffany Bozic gave me. It was very personal and sincere. Makes me smile a
lot… that, and a picture I took of my mom and sister. My mom is sick with cancer
and that photo means a lot to me.
Amir: Anything by Lari Pittman
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Craig: The hot tub drawing by Maya Hayuk.
Bucky: Matos work
in ANIMAL magazine; Armageddeon issue, specifically “Thug life.”
/>Favorite New Product of 2004:
/>John: I don’t buy many things expect for office supplies and camera equipment…
not sure what’s new… I’m sure there’s some amazing digital camera that would
make me all wet. Have they invented the beer that leaves no hangover?
/>Amir: G5
Flying Fortress: iPod mini as a gift
Craig:
Treo 600 (can’t live with out it now)
Bucky: ANIMAL B/LOVE GHOST
Sweatshirts
Favorite CD/Song of
2004:
Swoon: tom waits and catpower both showed that your
favorite people can get even better this year, that was good.
John:
Tough question… Jet Black Crayon “Inaccuracies Of The Mind Machine” is very
good.
Sweden makes some good music. I like a lot, but let’s say that The
Concretes and Komeda are enjoyable for the ear. SF Local: Jet Black Crayon.
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Flying Fortress: Goldenen Zitronen “Am Tag als Thomas Anders starb”
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Amir: Patrick Wolf
Craig: The Black Keys (Rubber Factory
CD)
Bucky: Lady Saw ” I got your man”
Favorite “Moment” (memory) of 2004:
Swoon:
trains, ship graveyards, skinny dipping in in the center of manchester. lot of
lovely adventure this year.
John: Long term g-friend breaks up with
me. Mom gets lung cancer. Opening of Low
Gallery. Throw in a lot of work and beer and you have my year in a
nutshell.
Amir: When I sold a painting and got to make out with a
beautiful girl all in one day
Flying Fortress: Chimp243 and Ichi243
surprising me with their visit on island Mallorca on my birthday holidays!!! i
was looking for a barbeque grill….
Craig: So many to choose from.
Biggest moment is when I realized I was leaving NYC to live in LA (lived in NYC
all my life). It still hasn’t really sunk in yet.
Bucky: When
Farenheit 9-11 was finally picked up by a distributor.
style="font-weight: bold;">Favorite Toy of 2004:
John: My new
10-speed is awesome. For real. I don’t know how I lived without it. I have the
biggest smile on my face when riding it.
Amir: I’m a grown up
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Flying Fortress: haha, sure it is the “FF and Chimp Barcelona Teddy
Trooper”
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Craig: Any Air Soft Gun by Tokyo Mauri
/>Bucky: PUMA - CANNONDALE graffiti track bikes, only 15 made worldwide, if you
mean vinyl toys, then it would be Tristan Eaton’s 18k gold Dunnie’s
/>Favorite Website of 2004:
/>Swoon:
href="http://www.visualresistance.org/">http://www.visualresistance.org
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Amir: Designiskinky.com
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John:
href="http://www.howstuffworks.com/">http://www.howstuffworks.com/ I love
reading about how things go tick.
Flying Fortress:
href="http://www.beinghunted.com/">www.beinghunted.com
Craig:
href="http://www.ebay.com/">ebay of course
Bucky:
href="http://www.insect.co.uk/">www.insect.co.uk
style="font-weight: bold;">What do you most want for Christmas?
/>Swoon: a mig welder.
/>
John: Wow, this has to be the first Christmas
where I want nothing but friends and family. Guess I’m getting old.
/>Amir: LOVE
Flying Fortress: a stressless family meeting within a
snowy landscape outside
Craig: Besides the war ending in Iraq…I’m
not sure.
Bucky: A whole bunch of advertisers for 2005, lol
/>What is your New Year’s wish?
/>
Swoon: this year i am looking for a clearer understanding of what needs
to be done to move ourselves out of the political social environmental dark ages
i think we are approaching, seeking compassion and decisive action at the same
time. or maybe you were looking for a more concrete, less hippie-dippie answer?
impeachment anyone? sounds delicous.
John: A year better than last…
Another election to oust Bush. Maybe they’ll impeach the goofball.
/>Amir: Not to get a 9 to 5
Flying Fortress: not growing older.
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Craig: To be less negative and less judge-mental
Bucky:
Bigger circ and staff, animating the Three Thug Mice
style="font-weight: bold;">How will you be spending the Holidays this year? /
What will you be doing on New Years Eve?
Swoon: making
something with my little brother maybe, and lighting it off.
John:
Home in Ohio with family playing with nephews and drinking with old friends… New
Year’s? Shit, maybe I should throw a private little New Year’s eve Party @ Low
Gallery. That’s a good idea… Then after midnight stumble around bars in the
Mission or over to someone’s house party. Howl at the moon about 5am.
/>Amir: Hopefully cuddling it up with a certain cute redhead in bed with laptops
in our laps.
Flying Fortress: going to barcelona with my friends.
barcelona is the law!
Craig: Driving cross country with my wife to
our new home in LA. We might be in the
Grand Canyon at that point.
/>Bucky: In style with friends, drugs, and art. New Year’s is overrated, but
hopefully I will be smoking a huge spliff with the ANIMAL crew.
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