First 2008 Postering!!!

Robbie Conal's First 2008
GUERRILLA POSTERING NIGHT: FEB, 29th
(Finally!)

The bunnies are ready to hit the streets and put up a nasty new,
double-sided, no more Mr. Nice Guy, DUBYA poster:
“EMISSION ACCOMPLISHED”
One side is “COMING”, the other “GOING”.

New location*, thanks to our great pals, The Actors Gang
when: Friday, Feb, 29th—Leap Day! @10:30PM
where: Ivy Sub-Station, 9070 Culver Blvd, LA 90232
(*Venice Blvd at Culver Blvd–parking in Trader Joe’s structure across the street.)

Robbie will give his “Guerrilla Etiquette” talk and flash the poster around the building, maybe do a demo of postering technique for newbies.
(Hey, come early and see the Gang’s wicked satire of televangelism: “Carnage”, beginning at 8pm.
More info at http://www.theactorsgang.com/).
The National Lawyers Guild will be in the house to prep us on our legal rights and help anyone who develops point of enforcement issues in the line of duty. Before midnight we hand out the goods to our teams: each team of 2-4 peeps gets a roll of about 30 posters, a bucket of glue and brush. (Please keep one for yourself and go do your thing wherever you desire).

GET UP AND STAY UP!
Thank you so much for your help!

Happy Holidaze!

Hi All Bunnies Everywhere:

Happy Holidaze! We’ve been busy, happily expressing our gratitude to all the lovely people who’ve contributed to our guerrilla “projects”, over the last year—You know, just saying “Thanks.” And making some new stuff.

Here it is—on sale for the very first time. A NEW “Darth Condi" print with Darth Vader helmet, red light saber and Condi's custom “W-M-D” bling in place. (Plus a bonus gold tooth!) “COPY BRAT”, limited edition, glitter & pearlesent color silk screen, is a brand new portrait of Andy Warhol, the patron saint of arty consumerism. Here's something we're really proud of: new T-shirts we designed for the awesomely inspiring LA band, OZOMATLI. (On sale at www.ozomatli.com).

And my real true love: CATS! (No, not the musical. Yes, Virginia, I draw cats). We’ve got a soulful trio of cat prints or maybe that’s a printed trio of soulful cats? Please check’em out. We only made 5 of each. Get 'em while they last.

Oh, yes . . . A NEW double-sided, and hopefully very last Dubya poster is oozing toward the presses as I type. A New Year’s Resolution kind of thing, I promise to slap Dubya up-side the headquarters of the presidential campaign office nearest you . . . (Of course, you’re welcome to join us—to receive postering bulletins just type your email address into the “join my list” slot on the homepage). See you in 2008!

Thank you all!
bunnyhugs,
robbie

New Gandhi Glitter Silk Screen

Yo Bunnies!

It’s been forever--maybe longer--but I'm back...with a new Gandhi glitter silk screen, still, "WATCHING". Now, for a limited time, in a limited edition, we've got all three of the good guys in their own glitter prints: the G Man, Dalai Lama and MLK.
Hard Pressed Studios did a great job, as usual, on the color blends and the sparkles...take a look!

Not that we've gone, like, totally soft: a final Dubya poster is almost done and it's got a “No More Mr. Nice Guy” vibe about it. He's a skeleton (with a gooey face) doing something nasty. When Punxsutawney Bill gets done with the graphics (and the gummy worm), we'll get'em hot off the press and hit the streets. Dumb Dub’ll be squirming on a street corner near you by end of September/early October. Boom Boom is so feelin it, she’s already into her guerrilla wrangling mode. So check out the box next to this post, if you got ants in your pants and just gotta dance. La Boom’ll, uh, keep you posted.

Bunnyhugz (and more blogs very soon, I promise...is that a good thing?...I'd be the last to know.), robbie

Yo Mah Bunnies!

Maybe I shouldn’t be so possessive---it’s been way too long since I wrote (or did) anything worthy of you.
But the bunnies in the machine have some new shtuff fo ya:
A shizzled-up Gandhi t-shirt, produced by The Original Lefty’s on beautiful cotton (NOT on American Apparel)... www.theoriginalleftys.com.  
The Debster and Anne Kelly worked overtime to make it good looking (ahhh, if we could only live up to the man) quality shtuff...once again, one of the only positive images I’ve ever done.

Oh, I did have an actual gallery show of original drawings—skeletons––at Track 16 Gallery, in Santa Monica last October. You can see’em on the web here. If you’re into the National Pastime (Baseball, that is—not dumb-ass permanent war on the rest of the world), we’ve got 3 left of an edition of 6 Skeleton Pitchers, “A Little Chin Music”.....yes, the skellie’s grilled out nicely!

ArtScene Visual Radio did their first web radio interview with me: Peter Clothier and I chatted about something real that I don’t usually get to talk about: process. Why skeletons? Why baseball skeletons? How do I make’m? Here’s the short answer: I don’t know. Basically, I banged my head against a brick wall for 3 months...that’s technique!
If you’re still with me here, please check out the interview...it’s one of the best anybody’s done with me. Not the usual RobSMACK. Just go do something meaningful for the first 5 minutes or so, you’ll skip the self-aggrandizing yakkity-smackkity.

I got a lil show goin on at Crossroads School in Santa Monica—a bunch of original ahhht—never before seen by humans: opening party: 2-15-07—closing: 3-21-07
Tricky Dick never looked so good. The Supreme Court never looked so BIG. For info: 310 329-7391 and gallery hours: M-F 1pm-3pm.

I’m hoping we’ll have a new poster ready around Easter...yes, it’s almost BUNNY TIME! The verrry last Dubya poster I’ll ever have to do (I hope).
I promise I’ll write more often.
Bunnyhugz, Robbie

Yo Almost Naked Bunnies!
I’m having a little show of new drawings in a real art gallery and everything. Fancy-shmantzy. But FREE! Music, booze, little bits of used food (it’s the CHEESE), you know what I’m tawkin about! The art is all skeletons, all the time. Bush administration thugs doin’ their dance of death. Buns, here’s your chance to catch Dubya and Condi in the act: doing a bone rattling Tango (she’s leading).
Let’s party! Bring your crewest! (Everybody) Even the Debster’s excited. She’s out lookin’ for a giant skull piñata this very minute. Already got her Louisville Slugger.
Please join us on Thursday, October 26th, 2006, from 7 to 10PM for the opening celebration of Apocalypso Facto at Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Avenue, C1 in Santa Monica.

YO Mah Bunnies,
Been too long (as usual), but we finally got the Dalai Lama in the house. HELLO DOLLY!
Very limited edition full-color silk screen prints—25 only. Our fearless Lama’s got his glitter on—glowing all golden and that robe and saffron scarf thing are positively humming in harmony.
He’s still WAITING for us to get hip...ahrum-ah...we’re doin our best (ain’t dat right, Ralfie Schmerberg?* )...The Hip Gand (kudos to Lord Buckley) is next, tho he was already WATCHING us (along with Dalai and MLKjr—got to represent!) at a lil chatfest thang in East Berlin called “Table of Free Voices”, produced by www.droppingknowledge.org. The Debster and the very old man did short time with over 100 participants from all over the world, answering 100 questions (from the same place: everywhere) in one verrrry looong day at the Bebelplatz, where Hitler burned books. Seriously. Check out the Sept. 9th mob scene on their website: www.droppingknowledge.org, all archived, sound and pix—you can scoot around the big circular table and see anybody answering anything. Well, I didn’t get to, “If you could be a tree, what tree would you be?” Kinda flaked on that stumper, but I grew up in NYC. Know what I’m sayin? Ask me my favorite ethnic sandwich and I got somethin fo ya, aight? (A tip for the most adventurous big city sandwich scarfers out there from my best friend, Lenny: “You just can’t get good Mongolian Yak in this country.” Don’t say you weren’t warned.)

Peace-Angst-Action, Robbie

DOWNLOAD THE POSTER HERE

KNOWLEDGE IS A FLOWER
In the 20 years (yikes!) I’ve been doing satirical guerrilla street posters, half the gag has been to wrangle an alternative-direct-
mischievous-cheap form of distribution: invading public spaces around the U.S. Hopefully SPITTING CONSCIOUSNESS. Including, “we don’t need no stinkin’ permission” to express ourselves in public about public issues. Hooking up with droppingknowledge.org and remixing just about my only “positive” message with the transcendent help of Debbie Ross (drfilmdesign.com) and Yelena Ebel(www.bigla.com) in a copyleft, mashable format is like a dream come true. A bunch of us bad bunnies working together to share ideas on how to spin the globe another way might not make another revolution, but, as Che Guevera (my apologies in advance) would have said, if he’d been from Brooklyn, “It couldn’t hoit.”

HERE’S THE DEAL: Download the poster here or at www.myspace.com/robbieconal, check out the blank 4th quadrant and let 'er rip.  Draw your question, paint your question, stick figure it if ya want.  Show me your best mash, then send an image of it to mashconal@droppingknowledge.org and the world is gonna check you out in a virtual gallery at www.droppingknowledge.org/mashconal