whoa!!  it’s leap day!  february 29th only comes along so often…  and once, long ago, there was actually a february 30th!?!?!?!  true story.   read about more leap year junk.

our friend, jessica, is back from egypt!!  we’ll hear her story soon, some time next week..

our austrian magnet art show is tomorrow, march 1st at matter studio!!  tons of surprises will happen then!

matt is going to san diego tomorrow morning, so he won’t be at the show, but he’ll be emailing us fresh pix of magnets that he gets up out there!!  those will be shown tomorrow night as well…

our super secret toy for the diy toy art show is nearly complete!!  a little bit more engineering and voila!!  the most craziest magnet toy ever!  we’ve been filming a little bit of the process, so hopefully we can have a short vid ready to post on youtube or other video channels online.  hope to see everyone tomorrow night!  come see what the hype is all about!

- it is divisible by 400.  (gregorian)

it’s no surprise that shoe shine is highlighted in the current issue of vapors magazine…  the shoe shine event/concept developed by musa bailey and lilian marsh has become an extremely successful campaign; showcasing custom painted sneakers, custom painted backboards, art on canvas, and displaying sneaker fanatics’ collections of sports gear and memorabilia has put shoe shine into the spotlight!  musa and lilian run the company known as pulse arts, a non-profit organization (the shoe shine beneficiary) built to provide underprivaledged youth with beneficial programs that develop their artistic and musical interests…  the second installment of shoe shine was a massive success!  if you missed it last october, don’t make the same mistake again…  hit us up if you want more info on pulse arts or shoe shine!  congrats you two!!!

a leap year cannot be divisible by 100, unless…  (gregorian)

every year that is divisible by 4 is a leap year… (gregorian + julian calendars)

 Artopia was pretty sweet this year!

 

It’s the annual art/food/fashion party put on by Westword held at Club Vinyl and 2AM…  It’s also where they officially announced the winners of the Masterminds awards.  The winners were published in this weeks issue of the periodical alongside our 4 page spread.  We didn’t win for the visual arts category as we had hoped, but the winners, RiNo were definitely more deserving of the honor than we were…  That doesn’t mean we won’t be after it next year, so we’ll be asking for everyone’s support again in the future.  Back to the event.

Tickets were $25 presale and $35 at the door, but it was way worth it for all of the festivities going on inside!  Free food from a handfull of local establishments and samples of different liquid refreshments kept our tastebuds exited.  Matt even found a booth with a pyramid of assorted flavors of donuts, he claims they had bbq flavored donuts too!  I put my name in a raffle for a funky flower arrangement from Moon Doggie Gardens and I won!!  My mom became the proud recipient of the bouquet…

 

Art exhibits from the Photo Martini Club, Matt Doubek, and Amanda Marie massaged our retnas.

 

The music was bumpin on all 4 levels, and our friends, Hearts of Palm (an 8-piece band formerly known as Nathan & Stephen) jammed out in the lower level..  The Unity fashion show on the roof was ultra hot, the models and the gear, props.  Indy Ink flashed some gear on the runway too…

Halfway into the night, the party made the move from Vinyl to 2AM, half a block up on Broadway where there was even more craziness going on…  The line getting into 2AM was long but it moved fast and the mural that decorated the normally tagged up construction barrier was a refreshing distraction.  A whole lot of dope Denver artists got down on it, including Mike Graves and MOEH.  Once inside, there were major art installations from our friends Dunn the Street Sign Artist and the crew from Your Name in Graffiti.  Performances reminiscent of a circus with a guy juggling while balancing on a yoga ball and ladies doing amazing acrobatics while suspended overhead from the support beams blew our minds!  Down in the lower level we enjoyed the slam poetry of our friends, Lucifury and Lady Speech with other members of the Slam Nuba team and PodSlam.org crew, they were so intense with their verbal delivery…  A burlesque show, a film projected on a translucent curtain and a mini art gallery rounded everything out pretty nicely.  The promotional reps from the Smoker Friendly booth were like vultures all night, they were literally throwing cigarettes at people by closing time!

Overall it was a very fun night, we saw plenty of friends that read the Westword article and congratulated us.  For the most part we still remained anonymous which was awesome, we didn’t know what to expect, so aside from our names people still don’t know who we are!!  The Mafia is not about us, it’s about the art and the community…  On another note, we love Ray Young Chu!!!

it’s saturday!  whoops…  things have been super crazy lately with the big article and the magnet exchange and searching for a venue to show the magnets that came back from austria, but that’s all in the past! 

what’s new?  not much…  yeah right, we just sent a bunch of magnets to egypt!!  hopefully our egyptian ambassador, jessica, will have no problems sticking them up in one of the oldest lands on earth!  pics will be posted in a week or so…  check out jessica’s kitchen till then!

 

other magnet packs will be getting shipped to places like texas, florida, west virginia, california, and hopefully canada by the end of the month.

we’re also working on a top secret toy for the custom toy show at the “block,” not the “block building,” it consists of plastic chapel, the fabric lab, and newly opened and incredibly tasty “the shoppe.”  take a guess what our toy will be made out of…  this show will be march 8th, 2008.

last but not least, come hang out with us next saturday (march 1st) at matter studio, 2134 market st, in denver.  we’ll be showing every single magnet that came back from austria!!  along with a giant slideshow of all of the photos of the spondere ladies getting up in a handfull of cities out there.  flying dog brewery is helping us with the beer and we’ll probably be painting live!!!  it’s been 2 months since we’ve painted at an event, so we’ll be primed.

Westword that is!! Our heads are magnets on the front page of the Westword!!

click here to read the article online