Tacky Smack Vinyl Wall Art Installation Photos

Some pics of a recent installation for our new company, Tacky Smack, at the Seattle retail store Retrofit Home located in Capitol Hill... In these shots i'm putting up a bunch of our vinyl wall art designs in preparation for our launch party!

Getting the squeegee on "Hanging Gardens"

Removing the transfer tape from Mermaid Spice, which is going up next to the Bombass collection (Fairy, Bleeding Heart, Unicorn)

Tacky Smack Vinyl Wall Art Launch Party Flier

Join us for our Tacky Smack launch party! One year of hard work behind us... let the good times (vinyl)roll. We'll be celebrating October 8th at Retrofit Home!

Tacky Smack Sneak Peak

My team and I are getting ready to finally launch our new company, Tacky Smack, providing vinyl surface art to the masses. After a long year of super fun and creative work, we're only weeks away from going live. Following are a few sneak peaks of our more than 60 products that will be a part of the initial launch...

PLANE AMAZEMENT

LIPS

GOLDFISH LIGHT BULB

From Plastic Bag to Laptop Case

Beautiful!

The Way the Wind Blows

WiiSpray

Spray painting with the Wii! Check out the virtual stencil.


WiiSpray Teaser from Martin Lihs on Vimeo.

Tacky Smack TAG!

Herakut... Beautiful and Inspiring

Trashpimp... Trashson's Father?

Javis Fir found this image after one of her usual google search inquiries (god only knows)... I really want to visit this land of creatures with hot pink sunglasses and furry moss ladies! Anyway. Stop animation inspiration?

Bonez Frame & Mermaid Stencil T

Wood frame for the Bonez Comic is complete, minus a paint job. Trying to work out a good easy treatment for the cardboard, and of course the sutures, so that the piece will look awkwardly massacre-like.

Jind Federal using his new dope ass graffiti spray paint on his mermaid horny stencil thru a perforated metal panel. I think the stencil now looks super fantastic yeah. Also, his decision to use a crappy 7 year old white shirt was questionable, but... well, i don't know?

Trying out some new paint

New York Disposable Photo Camera Project

Joanna Godard from Glamour.com left two disposable cameras on NY park benches. One in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn. She was curious to see what would happen... would they get stolen or would people take photos and leave the camera?

A note was left with the camera that said: "Good afternoon! I attached this camera to the bench so you could take pictures. Seriously. So have fun. I'll be back later this evening to pick it up."

Check out the full collection.

A.N.Y. Post

Knitters turn to graffiti artists with 'yarnbombing'

Photo: BNPS (via Telegraph.co.uk)

Quote from article: "Hundreds of knitters around the world have begun wrapping their huge woolly creations around public property like trees, street signs and lampposts.

They then take photos of their colourful "art" and post them on internet sites for fellow knitters to view and comment on."

Read full ARTICLE or check out the Yarnbombing site

A.N.Y. Post

Bonez Comic Strip & Trash Gurber Stop Animation

The design process in full effect! How do we do it... like this: Javis Fir sees abandoned xrays at work and a GAS light bulb explodes above her head. She brings up the idea and we agree, something sweet shall be squeezed from the xrays. Javis Fir and Mollen 18 meet for a session, and start scheming. Something to do with frames, back lights, all the cool broken bits being held together with BOLTS! Hmm... what, what, what. Then Jind Federal shows up and hears our scheme. He starts churning. Goes to get a beer, and walks by the graffiti comic strip art on the walls of Mollen 18's house. WhaBam! The idea is formed. We start cutting and pasting...

It was a super great organic approach to the design process yo. And a lesson. Just start and do it and keep going and voila! Eventually something dope happens and you end up with art. Ideas spin and form and grow and evolve until an idea larger than all or one of us erupts into existence. Further plans for the Bonez Comic Strip series will include stitches to heal the xrays onto the framing, treatment of framing to look like skin or hide, maybe some spray paint overlays such as a sledgehammer whacking in the bolts... and then a frame to support the piece and hold a battery powered led light.

Trash Gurber ~ first character for Trashson Stop Animation

The stop animation process will fill gaps in sessions over periods of time. Having more than one project at a time allows for going where the art is happening and back and forth when ideas form. We'll have a message for the stop animation, and expect it to take lots of fun sessions to complete...

~Mollen 18

Art Rib

This is my next art project. Will go in the nook next to my fireplace and be hung on the wall. There will be a hidden rope light behind the art rib that will make the whole nook illuminate. The panels will probably be metal that I'll spray paint, using something like the pattern shown on the below right image. The whole thing will be pretty big, around 8' tall by 30" wide.

~Mollen 18

Super Seer Mirror, or i

Design of art piece in Photoshop, drawn full size. Using a grid, I transferred the lines over to the mirror, measuring off each point.

First I masked off the bevel edge, then masked off the main trapezoidal shape, then printed the eye on stickyback for the stencil and stuck it on. You can see some points measured on the bevel that I used as a guide.



Then I masked off the eye with paper, and sprayed the red paint.
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Next I reversed the mask and covered the red, then sprayed the black paint.

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Voila! Self portrait of the "reflection" or maybe the "i" with some pretty apropos images coming thru...

~Mollen 18

Trashson Storyboard - Stop Animation

This is a super duper rough 5 minute storyboard for Trashson stop animation project. The camera angles would be different, I kept them the same in this sketch for clarity.
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~Tollen 18

Trashson : Storyboard : Scene 1 : Frame 1

Suicide Kinky Treemunan Owl Doll Session

Phone pics following showing the 2/11/09 GAS session for making dolls that are to be hung around the city in the near future. Agent Narris Yale, Agent Javis Fir, and Agent Mollen 18 in attendance. Yale made a kinky suicide doll, Fir made an owl, and 18 made a Treemunan...

Kinky Suicide Doll

Owl

Sewing

Treemunan

Sustainable Limbs

Kinky is taking shape

Kinky "the Suicide Doll"

Mollen 18 – Your sustainable TreeMunchkins are adorable! I doubt that Ms. Kinky, the Suicide Doll finds them very scary. All she cares about is lookin' good when she is dead. And dead she is, even before she commits suicide, which she will – ALL OVER TOWN. God bless her!

Treemunan

Here's my plan for the "Doll" session coming up on 2/11/09

Shown are skeletal bits, I'm thinking about dressing in natural wears:

Since the plan is to make our figures and then place them somewhere in city so that they can go on their own adventure, I making mine out of mother nature and putting the Treemunan in a tree. I've started collecting his limbs and other bits of import from around my neighborhood. If you dare put your kinky suicide doll in a tree, then plan to be eaten.

~Mollen 18

Which answer is the one?

G.A.S. WORK SESSION
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11th

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A.N.Y. STUDIO

DIAL AGENT DIGITS FOR ENTRY

Theme : Appliances (and a cat)

The art is ready to hit the road!

Cardboard Robot Street Art

This is image is pretty funny. Saw it and thought we could make a cardboard robot or something and then put it in a pickup truck and drop it off (very quickly) somewhere downtown and have people already there with video cameras filming. Then I wondered how long it would be before the police would show up with a bomb squad and close off that block and stuff. And then I wondered even if the police didn't show up, what would happen to all the cardboard? Would it become litter? Cuz we don't want litter or defacing or vandalism to be a part of G.A.S.

And then I thought, thinking is pretty ridiculous and we should probably get some cardboard soon. Oh, and a kitten. Old women love kittens, especially ones inside of cardboard robots.

~Mollen 18

G.A.S. MEETING TONIGHT

7.00pm SHARP

A.N.Y. STUDIO

DIAL AGENT DIGITS FOR ENTRY

A.N.Y. Retro TV & Radio Stencil

From retro TV and Radio to guerilla symbols.

A.N.Y.

Agent Mollen 18 Appliance Stencils

Following are two stencils for the "appliances" theme happening during our next GAS session on 2/4/09 at Agent Narris Yale's studio...

Laundry Machine

Sinkerator

I think there's some meaning to this one, a message even perhaps.

Reverse Graffiti

You can't arrest these guys!
reversegraffitiproject.com
www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/18/reverse-graffiti-san-francisco