dirt palace

show this friday FEB 3rd

2012-02-02T10:43:00.001-05:00

your future is here...

MEAGER SUNLIGHT - dance midi dance!
http://youtu.be/XUaWda2q8us

DIANA JOY- teenage future trash r n b. what a slut!
http://youtu.be/RG63F-iRvzs

the KOLOUR KULT - 80s synth pop. feel the instant nostalgia!
http://thekolourkult.com/

DJ EZPZIOTOMY- (Pippi aka Pizor) shed your snakeskin! Slam your booty! Grab your friend's d-piece, I don't care! This DJ will change your future!

PROVIDENCE COME TOGETHER! WE OWN THIS NITE!

@ the salon . 9pm . $3-$5 sliding scale

Bonedust Fruit of the Ash photos!

2012-01-24T13:15:00.009-05:00

Bonedust is recording the music composed for the Fruit of the Ash performance this spring at Machines with Magnets.

BLOGAHOLIC GARBAGE PALACE KIDS

2012-01-14T00:18:00.001-05:00

RABBIT CABINET

2012-01-13T23:48:00.007-05:00

Rabbit Cabinet

Cochlear rose on twisted vine
Innermost cavity red as wine

Vulture stare
Black egg lair

Twin candle
Wreath and mantle

Focal crest, diamond lace
Focal lace, diamond case

Mirror and glass
Etched crow pass

Bear claw foundation
Boy's curious fixation

Lightning angle, quarter hex
Bell and oak's queer objects

Lantern alight
Latch on tight

Hummingbird hand
Hare's command

Bats below, serpents on high
Wooden eye come gaze inside

Process pics of the Rabbit Cabinet installation in the Curiouser Exhibit in the Providence Natural History Museum.
Installation shots coming soon!!!!
Check out this Greg Cook review

Dirt Palace Facade project

2012-01-13T23:34:00.011-05:00

Finally!!!!! photos from the first phase of the Dirt Palace Facade project!!!!
Installation shots from the Bell Gallery!!!!

DIANA JOY's new video!

2011-12-15T21:06:00.000-05:00

Diana Joy's new album out now!!!!

2011-12-13T17:30:00.003-05:00

listen or buy here!

DIANA JOY's Etsy Sto' is outa CoNtRol

2011-11-21T21:48:00.002-05:00

Check it out:

Etsy Sto'

RAV 5 ---NEW COMIC

2011-11-10T17:27:00.003-05:00

HI GUYS ITS MICKEY
although i no longer have a studio at the dirt palace i still make comics, and here's one, and you can buy it, its new its called RAV its issue #5
sorry the cover is so ugly
you can buy it here: http://mickeyz.org/index.php?/comix/BUY-RAV-COMICS/

2011-11-06T20:57:00.000-05:00

2011-11-06T20:55:00.001-05:00

a peek at Xander Marro's installation @ Space in Portland, ME. 2011

Good triumphs over a genuine villain!

2011-10-14T20:39:00.003-04:00

On our way out of town a month or so ago, What Cheer? Brigade (Sam's in it) helped their trumpet player Joey quit his job in style. In case you mistakenly take this as bratty, Joey worked there under hostile management for 3 and a half years, while also paying for and attending college full time (graduated summa cum laude), and helped to start a much needed labor union that is now in effect at this hotel!

Pass it on!

new DIANA JOY music video!!!!

2011-09-13T08:07:00.001-04:00

Dirt Palace Facade project

2011-08-27T19:42:00.006-04:00

Here's a little sneak peek of a portion of my installation at the Bell Gallery.
This fall I will begin fundraising to complete the Dirt Palace facade.
Come check out the first phase of the project on September 9th at the opening!!!!
Invitation below....

2011-08-26T19:20:00.002-04:00

As the cast/forces of nature change at the Dirt Palace change I thought it might be a good time to dig this one out...just in case you wanted to see every single thing in the Dirt Palace in 2006!!! Play Loud!!! not for the light of heart!!! & yes...it is REALLY LONG!!!

Dirt Palace Facade! More process Pics!

2011-08-04T02:56:00.003-04:00

Things are rolling along in the fabrication of the Dirt Palace Facade!
(Thanks to my AWESOME assistants Erika Tazberik and Melanie Bohrer)
This week we start installing panels at the Winton Bell Gallery.

Dirt Palace Facade gets RISCA Funding!

2011-07-19T01:32:00.004-04:00

I'm working on a new stone mosaic facade for the Dirt Palace and just got partial funding from
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts!!

If you want to get to see a part of the facade before it gets installed in fall 2012
a portion will be exhibited at the Winton Bell Gallery this fall.
Here are some process pics! More to come!
This portion here is a little under 1/4 of the entire facade.
Next week I'll post pictures once I start the jeweled serpent!

Here's the rough drawingOne 1ft X 2.5 ft pane
laying out the panels on the floor!

SLIME live!

2011-07-15T22:52:00.001-04:00

SLIME @ machines with magnets 7/11/14

(Diana Joy and Brian Gibson)

2011-07-13T16:56:00.000-04:00

Spellcasting Misshaps Vol. 1 (How i became a sandwich) from xander marro on Vimeo.

Project for Summer (and some fall!) 2011

Cursed New England:

New England: Ingenuity and immigrants and the roar of the Atlantic!

New England: Clapboard and stone walls fencing in rocky soil and hardened hearts!

New England: Paste gemstones and one time wealth!

But olde new england dirt, you were born for revolutions!

Lovecraft! Reich! Oh Witches of Salem! Oh live free or die! Oh Yankees of the Swamps! Shakers! Nearings! Oh stiff lips & corruption & cold!

In an odyssey that begins along the banks of the Woonasquatucket River, I set out to find what New England has to offer in the way of joyful spells and rituals performed for the creation of a new consciousness! In this effort I join forces with a musician (or band of musicians) from each New England state. From their songs I seek visions to build into new worlds made out of paper and glue, pixels and frames. Specifically, the plan is to build sets and dioramas, make cut paper animations, costumes and panoramas that will be used in the production of five fantastical musical videos. The “stuff” of these videos (sets, dioramas, costumes, drawings etc.) will be on display at Space Gallery in Portland, ME throughout the month of October.

Heavily curious about New England's past practice of harboring feminist spiritualists, witches, revolutionaries, and radical souls. I believe that there is, now more than ever, a place for music, rituals of the night, and local idiosyncratic customs in personal and collective transformation. For now is the time to remember the magic inherent in being made of flesh and bones and synapse and song!

2011-07-01T09:00:00.002-04:00

Still on epic adventure of uploading olde movies...think i have to purge and get the old ones all up before i can start new ones!

The Pattern of Ritual from xander marro on Vimeo.

website

2011-06-22T15:25:00.004-04:00

I finally finished my website: it's a little rickety and needs some fixes...but check it out - enjoy!!!

it's xandermarro.com

Movies!!! from the vault!!!!

2011-06-14T09:14:00.003-04:00

In the epic adventure of building my website I've been getting a bunch of olde movies on to youtube! Wow they're old! I mean timeless! Enjoy!!!

New Mythologies in Crudo Magazine

2011-06-14T08:42:00.007-04:00

Review of New Mythologies Show in Crudo Magazine
New Mythologies was a show that I (this is Xander Writing) did last month at Candita Clayton Gallery with Corey Grayhorse, Andrew Moon Bain and David Allyn.
Crudo is a web and print culture zine out of Puerto Rico - i'd tell you more, but you should just go and check it out - here's the link!: http://www.crudoprod.com/new-mythologies-in-providence/

More shitty phone photos

2011-06-14T00:31:00.003-04:00

Wallpaper

Image above
Piece below for SMMOCA's "Incognito"
etched glass

BONEDUST
Fruit of the Ash Print

New Old drawings

2011-06-13T23:22:00.003-04:00

Once someone told me I wasn't prolific.
Fucking Mother Fucker
2011
The pathetic year of the blog
ie
in middle school I talked on the phone for hours

VISIT Diana JOY's ETSY STO'

2011-06-01T17:25:00.004-04:00

yo check my etsy sto'
new CRUCIAL 80s gear!

go visit store

LOSE CONTROL

2011-05-16T15:08:00.003-04:00

former DP resident DIANA JOY just came out with a new music video. CHECK IT!

Bonedust: Fruit of the Ash

2011-04-10T02:13:00.002-04:00

Bonedust : Fruit of the Ash
2 performances
Saturday April 16th
with Haxen and Taboo
10 pm Donate
and
Sunday April 17th
7:30-8:30pm free
at Machines with Magnets
400 Main street, Pawtucket

This performance was funded in part by a a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts

I LOVE CENTER ALIGNMENT!!!
ARE YOU ALIGNED??

GHOST DAD gross t shirts for sale

2011-02-28T19:08:00.002-05:00

hey guys! i made these idiot t shirts! ha ha
3 color silkscreen on 50/50 cotton-poly blah blah
30 bux! free shipping USA CAN MEX... email for INTL.
click here to buy and for more info: http://mickeyz.org/2011/02/ggggghost-dad-shirt-s/

THE WHITE LOOP

2011-02-17T22:45:00.000-05:00

The White Loop from diana joy on Vimeo.

2010-12-19T13:49:00.000-05:00

by diana joy

diana joy ALBUM RELEASE!

2010-12-12T22:51:00.004-05:00

that's right! DIANA JOY's album entitled MONOLITH is available now in iTunes!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/monolith/id409703427

9.99 smackers!

i know, it may seem like a lot to some of you po ayuss biatches like me so if you can't afford it, drop me an email and i will gladly send you a crappy bootAYleg! just wanna get it out there so i can be famous sooner rather than later.

dianajoylive@gmail.com

good old garbage (found at the dirt palace)

2010-12-12T16:53:00.003-05:00

old fort thunder wrestling schematic??? loser takes it up the butt. blame xander she found it.

Master Pizor Interview in Cheap&Plastique

2010-11-23T12:58:00.002-05:00

CHEAP & PLASTIQUE AT THE DIRT PALACE

Interview with Pizor
Dirt Palace Photo Spread

dark times

2010-11-03T10:14:00.003-04:00

photo by NATALJA KENT

clothing by DIANA JOY

eyepatch, full-length velvet skirt, and dark times power top worn by DIANA JOY

lace bodysuit and timetube capelette worn by GLENNA VAN NOSTRAND

diana joy's HALLOWEEN

2010-11-03T10:11:00.001-04:00

incase you forgot about performance art!

2010-10-05T23:51:00.001-04:00

CRAZY LADY RADIO

2010-10-05T23:46:00.001-04:00

incase you forgot about comedy, because i sure did!

http://dianajoy.podbean.com/

galaxy of the joy

2010-09-29T21:13:00.001-04:00

NIGHT 444 DAY

2010-09-28T11:43:00.004-04:00

a collaborative zine/installation project by NATALJA KENT and MICKEY ZACCHILLI
opens THIS SUNDAY, 4-7pm,october 3rd, 202010 @ 95 MATHEWSON ST. PROVIDENCE, RI 02903 and will be up for the month of october.
on october 29th at like 5pm or something we're gonna do something in there too. WHO KNOWS!!!

STOP BY, c u there!!! <33333

another new DIANA JOY video

2010-09-21T22:46:00.002-04:00

Bullshit Frank & Gorilla Joe ONLINE WEB COMIC

2010-09-17T13:39:00.006-04:00

the futuurree
2002012

jacob berenedes helped me make a web comic of the BULLSHIT FRANK & GORILLA JOE comics! it'll be updated every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and FRIDAY til i run out of comics.
CHECK IT OUT: http://mickeyz.org/bs/

new DIANA JOY music video

2010-09-09T09:40:00.000-04:00

RESPONSE TO SHELL from diana joy on Vimeo.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

2010-09-08T23:04:00.004-04:00

ok my lovelies here's the deal...Friday I (xander!!!!) will be in NEW YORK CITY...I have some work in a show at a brandy new gallery on the isle of manahatos. It would be a dream come true to get to see you there! If you can't make it maybe i'll imagine that you were there anyway! Anywhooo the show is open through the 26th so if one day you happen to be in the neighborhood killing time...stop by and visit my naked ladies dressed as horses and snakes drinking dr. pepper! (they will sing you some songs!..well actually the songs, while they may seem like they are coming out of the mouths of my puppets are actually being sung by the ever wonderful Amil Byleckie! hurray!)

On View: September 4 — September 26, 2010
Reception: September 10, 2010Please join us for DODGE gallery's inaugural exhibition, DRAMATIS PERSONAE, featuring work by artists from the roster and artists by special invitation. The reception will be Friday, September 10th, 6-8pm.

REBECCA CHAMBERLAIN
DAVIS,CHERUBINI *
DAVE COLE
DARREN FOOTE
DANIELE FRAZIER
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES ©
SHEILA GALLAGHER
JANE FOX HIPPLE
XANDER MARRO
DANIEL PHILLIPS
LAUREL SPARKS
LORNA WILLIAMS

screenprinted poster sale 2010!!!

2010-08-23T11:40:00.003-04:00

i'm selling a bunch of posters off my website! all are hand-silkscreened (except one which is a photocopy), and everything is between $12 and $31 bucks, shipping included!

http://www.michaelacolette.com/2010/08/big-boy-print-sale-2010/

yeah check it out or whatever!

racerback jumper

2010-08-13T11:35:00.001-04:00

by DI∆N∆ JO¥

you want one, email me. i give you g00d price!

goth lace

2010-08-13T11:33:00.002-04:00

lace zentai and timetube capelette by DIANA JOY

DI∆N∆ JO¥

SURF'S UP

2010-07-20T11:17:00.006-04:00

FRIENDS, EX-FRIENDS, AND FUTURE EX-FRIENDS- THANKS FOR CELEBRATING 10 YEARS WITH US!

DIRT PALACE: Life & Death - 10 Year Anniversary Zine

2010-07-03T12:46:00.003-04:00

DIRT PALACE: Life & Death (10 Year Anniversary Zine) (2010)
1-color silkscreen outside cover, 1-color silkscreen inside cover, risograph-printed interior (black ink on various off-white & yellowish colored papers), 56 pages + bonus sticker + 10 year anniversary mix CD, edition of 300. $10 + S&h
http://www.etsy.com/shop/dirtpalace

zine contributors (in no reasonable order): Pippi Zornoza, Rebecca "Auntie Reba" Mitchell, Polina Malikin, Carrie Collier, Kristina Brown, Xander Marro, Jacob Berendes, Sam Merrit, Kimi Rich, Laura Rodriguez, Sasha Wiseman, Serena Elston, Diana Joy, Li Pallas, Mickey Zacchilli, Brian Oakley, Glenna Vannostrand, Lauren O'Conner, Xavier Valentine, Mike Taylor, Arley Rose Torsone, Cassie Tharinger, Cybele Collins, Alex Goldberg, Natalja Kent, and Corinne Teed.

music contributors: VVLTVRE, DIANA JOY, CLEAR LEADER, MADE IN MEXICO, HOT BOX, OMNIVORE, WHORE PAINT, WIDE (())N, DELTA, NEON VOMIT, ARLEY ROSE TORSONE, and RAGNAROK.

click for more images:

PRINTED MATTER 8

2010-06-23T18:18:00.002-04:00

me (mickey) and xander are in this show! siiiiick come see us.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Art Show Opening

Printed Matter 8

July 10 - August 4, 2010

Reception: Saturday, July 10, 6:30 - 10:00 p.m.

Giant Robot Gallery

437 East 9th Street

Between 1st Ave. & Ave. A, in the East Village

New York, New York 10009

(212) 674-GRNY (4769) | grny.net

Giant Robot is proud to present Printed Matter 8 at GRNY.

The latest installment of the popular Printed Matter series of art shows will feature more than 60 artists with a wide variety of aesthetic styles and printmaking techniques. Limited-edition prints are one of the best ways for budget-minded and new collectors to acquire artwork and support independent artists, and we are committed to providing this venue on a recurring basis. Prints will be cash-and-carry, so keep your hands free and join us for this unique summer event.

Participating artists are schedule to include the following:

APAK!, Nick Arciaga, Sasha Barr, Erik Bergstrom, Christopher Bettig, Bigfoot, Blinky, Kelie Bowman, Sean Boyles, Ryan Bubnis, Bwana Spoons, Tad Carpenter, Ako Castuera, Louise Chen, Shawn Cheng, Allison Cole, Rob Corradetti, Eleanor Davis, Tony DePew, Dennis Dread, Dutch Door Press, Theo Ellsworth, Fortress Letterpress, Matt Furie, Tim Gough, Katherine Guillen, Sam Handleman, Lizz Hickey, Andrew Holder, Patrick Hruby, Martin Hsu, Kaori Kasai, Jeremiah Ketner, Lauren Kolesinskas, Little Friends of Printmaking, Justin Lovato, Alex Lukas, Sara Antoinette Martin, Xander Marro, Kiyoshi Nakazawa, Yuko Nishigaki, Martin Ontiveros, Mika Oshima, Hiroki Otsuka, Mike Perry, Sidney Pink, Albert Reyes, Jay Ryan, Rob Sato, Caleb Sheridan, Hannah Stouffer, Studio MIKMIK, Diana Sudyka, Deth P.Sun, Daria Tessler, Elisabeth Timpone, Joe To, Aiyana Udesen, Chris Uphues, Edwin Ushiro, Jon Vermilyea, Angie Wang, Jing Wei, Steve Weissman, Chadwick Whitehead, Chelsea Wong, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Michaela Zacchilli, Madeleine Zygarewicz.

Giant Robot was born as a Los Angeles-based magazine about Asian, Asian-American, and new hybrid culture in 1994, but has evolved into a full-service pop culture provider with shops and galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City, as well as an online equivalent.

A reception featuring many of the artists will be held from 6:30 - 10:00 on Saturday, July 10. For more information about the show, GRNY, or Giant Robot magazine, please contact:

Eric Nakamura

Giant Robot Owner/Publisher

eric@giantrobot.com

(310) 479-7311

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making out with jim

2010-06-05T11:01:00.000-04:00

CRAZY LADY RADIO

2010-05-27T16:56:00.003-04:00

when Diana Joy isn't busy being goth and owning this town she gets on the radio and makes some comedy. Tune in every Tuesday for a new episode! Sometimes Mickey makes an appearance too!!! Enjoy!

CRAZY LADY RADIO!!!LISTEN!!!

RAGNARÖK

2010-05-24T10:46:00.001-04:00

xavier valentine and diana joy: goth cops of RAGNARÖK.
dirt palace based swamp wave

MAY window artist: ALEE PEOPLES

2010-05-24T10:28:00.003-04:00

Alee Peoples plays with image and text recognition in fabric, film and drawing. Group alignment, dormant memory, media dissemination and visual cognition are common threads in her work that sometimes get screen printed, embroidered, hoisted up a flag pole or projected on a wall at 24 frames per second. For her month in the Dirt Palace window, the space becomes a chronological billboard changing every 10 days. Stay tuned in to glimpse this 1982 hit reach #2 on the R&B charts. Or don't bring your own left field associations to the message.
This spring listen to more LiLiPUT, Quincy Jones, Nina Simone and Roy Ayers while you slurp your Slurpee and stare into the sun.

view slideshow

dirt palace window

spiderman knows what's up

2010-05-19T20:13:00.000-04:00

WE OWN THIS TOWN!!!!!

Jill Colinan --- window artist for April!

2010-04-23T18:18:00.002-04:00

slideshow!!!!

wed april 7th 2010

2010-04-01T18:34:00.002-04:00

"wed - 04.07.10 - 8pm SERIOUS - donate $5
terrors = baltimore, like death vessel on syrup doing covers of lavendar diamond & billie holiday! tapes on the monorail trespassing label etc. easily some of my favorite stuff from the last couple years.
taterbug iowa city torched creeper. tapes on the night people label (who've also done russian tsarlag, SHV, & blueshift). geoff mullen recommends highly.
tracey trance pdx, or. unknown synth and drums, though probably not mindflayer. also on the night people label.
clear leader former mems of chastity wig, teenage waistband, the germs, old guy breakfast, [zacchilli house], chatroulette, gbx house, etc...
humanbeast the other house band. mudboy says, 'THEY REALLY ARE THE BEST BAND IN PROVIDENCE!'
work/death something medium-quiet. probably first.

GBX - gorgeous butt xerox
westside behind julian's (but not on the back patio of julian's)
THIS WILL START EARLY! FOR SERIOUS. WEDNESDAY NIGHT APARTMENT SHOW!"

new RAGNARÖK music video. MTV 90s GOTH!!!!

2010-03-22T10:39:00.000-04:00

SEXAPHONE!

2010-03-17T16:44:00.003-04:00

this band rocks the hot. git yer booty sleep with these mamas!

POP BATTLES----march 12th!

2010-03-09T11:39:00.002-05:00

the crowds are getting restless for some of that good old fashion rock and roll music. by which i mean bird noises, pop battles, gutter south grumbles and canadian tweakers.

buffalo bangers (atl, ga) http://www.myspace.com/thebuffalobangers
devil eyes (montreal, quebec) http://www.myspace.com/wehavedevileyes
living things (brooklyn, ny) http://www.myspace.com/stephencoopermusic

watch diana joy and amil battle it out song for song! ow!

diana joy (dirt palace, pvd) http://www.myspace.com/dianajoylive
amil (da dirty streets of pvd) ??

9pm at BUILDING 16
FRI March 12th

yay for pisces!

2010-03-08T22:24:00.000-05:00

drawing of pisces princess reba by diana joy

spiderman at the DP

2010-03-08T22:13:00.001-05:00

Spiderman loves to come and chill at the Dirt Palace

Diana Joy has her own blog!!

2010-03-08T22:10:00.001-05:00

http://blogofeternalstench.tumblr.com/

V-day fashion show

2010-02-12T17:25:00.005-05:00

valentine's day blows, i know... so why not just come see DIANA JOY mess it up even more! watch out for the vomiting rainbow mouth! see you there wizards!

Dirt Palace Window FEB. LOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-02-12T17:09:00.002-05:00

LAFF RIOT
Who is Providence?

on view February 2nd through February 26th

at

The Dirt Palace
14 Olneyville Square
Providence, RI. 02909

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dirtpalace/sets/72157623379557748/

xander is a real artist

2010-01-21T21:55:00.004-05:00

in case you didn't get the memo, or don't have eyes... it's true!

the 2010 DeCordova Biennial will feature the magical, majestic and debatably mysterious work of our very own XANDER MARRO!!! horray! in addition to the work of the following New England artists:
Greta Bank, ME; Ross Cisneros, NH; Georgie Friedman, MA; Paul Laffoley, MA; Phil Lique, CT; Christopher Mir, CT; Liz Nofziger, MA; Oscar Palacio, MA; Otto Piene, MA; William Pope.L, ME; Randy Regier, ME; Ward Shelley, CT; Laurel Sparks, MA; Mark Tribe, RI; August Ventimiglia, MA; Karin Weiner, ME.

if you're interested in attending the opening (which is free, by the way... and will probably feature wine and cheese. heeeeey!) it's Thursday January 28th from 7-9pm at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts and will feature a performance by William Pope.L at 7pm. Further info can be gathered at www.decordova.org.
see you theeerreeee....! p.s. mama needs a ride, so give a call.
hey thaaankss! <3

weird shit i spend my life doing

2010-01-12T11:53:00.004-05:00

oh hey, i just make shitty comics i guess! well i just made a new one. do you want to buy it? if we are already good friends you can come over and have one, but otherwise you can buy it online: http://www.michaelacolette.com/buy-something/. p.s. its $5 s&h
OR pick it up at ada books/armageddeon/craftland when i drop it off there if you live close.

weird shit we have in our library part 4

2009-12-24T12:06:00.003-05:00

SCHWINN bike thrills!!!
some sort of catalog/educational bicycle comic book printed sometime after 1958. i dunno exactly when, but it was back around the time bikes cost $39.95 wholesome american dollars.

Hike Up the Perils of Night Flying!

2009-12-23T13:34:00.004-05:00

the latest window piece: Hike Up the Perils of Night Flying!

by Julia Gualteri, Maureen Keaveny, and Lauren Mackler.
www.jtgualteri.com
www.maureenkeaveny.com
http://lmackler.com

olneyville tea party photos

2009-12-23T13:30:00.003-05:00

Li Pallas' window project Olneyville Tea Party slideshow.

I hope to finish updating the website http://olneyvilleteaparty.wordpress.com with conversations by the new year...

Li's Poetry Book

2009-12-01T13:52:00.002-05:00

chapbook folded and stapled! my first screen print ever cover! only 28 copies!

six bucks, obo, trade or barter. click the buy now button, email me at ecoaesthetic@gmail.com, or come talk to me in person. you know how it goes.

dirt palace cookbook!

2009-11-22T18:09:00.009-05:00

hhaayyy we had a bunch, it was great thanks for coming!!
if you wanna experience the deepest cooking experience known to man you can buy this zine about cooking which was made many moooonnsss ago! it's $10 + $4s&h us, can, mexico, s.america & all the $$$ goes to the space. we have exciting dual cover options but you don't get to pick unless you REALLY have a preference, ~~and also most books contain a sexy 2-color screenprint centerfold that i think xander probably made~~*. yea so do it!!! email if you live international and want one!

*EDIT actually we sold all those pretty much, and i don't want to false advertise! everyone who ordered already got a screenprint centerfold, but from this point forward, don't expect one with the cookbook (although it might still happen by freak accident). sorry!!!!!

Brunchy Times This Sundayyyyyy!

2009-11-20T13:29:00.000-05:00

Good news, west side eaters. This very Sunday you can enjoy all the comforts of fancy restaurant dining without any of the hassle of pulling it together to be seen in public. Triumphantly returning by popular demand (and by our need to buy some oil, if we ever want heat this winter) is the DIRT PALACE SUPER SECRET BRUNCHTIME HIGH FIVE EXTRAVAGANZA! Cruise by the DP this Sunday between 11-3 to enjoy some Mythical Meats with your tofu scram. Hearts of Harpies, anyone? Yes, there will be booze there. No, it will not devolve into a 36 hour caffeine driven rave. Or, ok, maybe, as long as we don't run out of nice coffee and have to resort to Maxwell House. Enjoy the dazzling culinary stylings of guest chefs JAMEZ DAY of ST JAMES FAME and CHIP KING WHO ALSO COOKS STUFF AND IS NICE!!!! Munch to the beats of radical brunchy djs MONTANA BLANCO and ALEE PEOPLES! Git It!!!!

What: Top Secret Brunch Restaurant
Where: Le Palace de Dirt
When Sunday November 22, 11-3
What Else: Super vegan friendly, $5ish donation or maybe more if you want to get totally housed on our Popov

xoxo!
the Palace

brlunch

2009-11-19T12:06:00.002-05:00

more on this from dr reba phd later
p.s. this poster makes me want to vom. open your mouth.

CAVE MIND: book release + print exhibition

2009-11-17T15:20:00.003-05:00

CAVE MIND
book launch & print show
@ 107 shaw gallery (in toronto)
opening saturday november 28th 7pm-11pm
runs until december 17th
featuring works by: Steph Davidson, Michael Deforge, Tomas Del Balso, Jesjit Gill, Reid Jenkins, Alex Mackenzie, Alicia Nauta, Fiona Smyth, Seripop, Ryan Duggan (US), Noel Freibert (US), Keith Herzik (US), Chris Kline (US), Tetsunori Tawaraya (Japan), Brent Wadden (Germany), Yannick Val Gesto (Belgium) & me.
sweet flyer by jesjit gill (who curated and coordinated the show, and handprinted the entire zine cuz he's a crazyman)

October Window! Sarah Bearse!

2009-10-25T23:31:00.003-04:00

You'll want to go to http://www.stillframed.net/providence/ to see the video log. It's pretty entertaining. Here are some stills (in a slide show) of the installation.

Unicorns!

2009-10-25T12:40:00.000-04:00

Real Unicorn Found!!!!

2009-10-20T17:49:00.002-04:00

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/history/demon.txt

sometimes I wish I belived in god
then these magnificant demon creations would be real to me.

Which is you favorite?

mine is Caym

The Brown Daily Herald - A lens into Olneyville?s community

2009-10-15T11:01:00.002-04:00

Our Window Project gets some Press.

The Brown Daily Herald - A lens into Olneyville?s community

Library of Insults

2009-10-13T18:55:00.001-04:00

maybe this dude can help us organize our library....

xx!

Sarah Bearse installing 10/10 with opening at 3pm

2009-10-09T23:08:00.002-04:00

Sarah Bearse is an installation artist currently straddling the Providence/Boston divide. She is interested in creating pieces that facilitate an experiential engagement with art. Her current focus is exploring the multi-layered border between private and public identity (through images, text, speech, data, etc.) and the movement of this information into the cultural framework.

Her installment in the Dirt Palace Storefront Window Gallery asks you to adventure into the realm of self-portraits. Passersby will be encouraged to take their own photos at the push of a button and have their image displayed on a projector in the window. You will also be able to contribute self portraits through a website.

With the proliferation of the self-portrait in recent years due in part to the invention of social networking sites, she has chosen to ground this piece in the self-portrait to examine modern modes of reproduction and distribution of image.

On view Oct 10th-Nov 6th.

Opening Oct 10th from 3pm-5pm with hot apple cider.

September Window

2009-10-09T23:03:00.003-04:00

Aylyn Carlson:

bon voyage k-rock

2009-10-07T16:00:00.004-04:00

this week kristina traded in her life on land for a treacherous two month swash-buckling adventure on the high seas ina tiny sailboat!!! when she left it was pretty much exactly like that scene in the little mermaid where that mermaid gets legs except reversed and not about mermaids at all... that and all that remained was this tiny egg in my fridgerator that says "dear mickey, here's my last egg. eat it and know that at sea i will be missing you and the taste of delicious fried egg". thanks, kristina. i will eat your egg and know those things that you said on that egg!
safe travels please!!!!!! every one will miss you! may you catch many fishes and find buried treasure and pillage many villages and slay many kraken WITH YOUR BARE HANDS

Tigons and lirons

2009-10-02T16:05:00.001-04:00

http://www.messybeast.com/genetics/hyb-tigon.htm

weird shit we have in our library part 3

2009-10-01T11:17:00.009-04:00

so anyway me and jacob berendes and james mc shane went to spx this weekend which was totally fun and sort of adorable. me and jabob even stopped by the picturebox table and checked out the new issue of ninja by brian chippendale!photograph by jacob berendes

also, i got lots of weird shit, none of which i am going to blog about because it is as of yet not part of the dirt palace library. but issue #2 of ninja by bro chip totally is, so i'm gonna blog about that!
i dunno what year this was printed or how many copies there are, but anyway whatever! bro chip is our esteemed next door neighbor! his name is actually brian chippendale or something but i call him bro chip behind his back because i'm pretty sure it's a good nickname. despite his being right next door, i only ever see him at the grocery store. which i guess is fine, because everybody likes groceries.
anyway, in case you were unsure, ninja is actually a really phenomenal comic. lots of people have the collected edition picturebox published a few years ago, but less people have copies of the adorable single issues with silkscreened covers (like this issue #2, like i said)!i can't say i could sum up what ninja is about in just a few sentences, but that's ok because my favorite part about comics anyway is pacing and dialogue. so really what i feel like i want to say is that i really like the pacing and dialogue. and duh the pictures. and the story too, but i just can't sum it up you know? partially because i haven't read this comic in like 2 yrs, and i only didn't read it for this post because i figured i should just show the weird shit and not review it, like how i accidentally reviewed deforge's lose #1 when i just meant to show it!!

also bro chip's new book called if n' oof will probably be available thru picturebox sometime in the next future or so. i had a copy of one of the tiny ones but it actually didn't belong to me so i don't have it anymore so since i didn't have a copy to scan i had to draw this picture:
then i was like "duh mickey the internet", and found a real picture of them. BUT i think i came pretty close to reality for drawing from memory. i know the sunglasses and the bowtie aren't for real, who do you think i am?
well so ANYWAY when bro chip isn't drawing tiny manic comics, he's blogging online about his favorite comic book "daredevil", by kevin smith. be sure to subscribe it to your RSS feed reader before you forget how to type!

lose #1

2009-09-15T13:58:00.004-04:00

today in our mailbox we got michael deforge's 24 pg b&w masterpiece, a copy of which he so kindly donated to our library!! i don't even know what its about. actually i kind of know what its about, its an epic story about a tiny man who has to go to hell and has several darkly humorous and/or mildly depressing interactions with multiple melting once-adorable characters, speckled between vignettes illustrating the super-real misery of the justice league america & friends. presumably to achieve freedom, our tiny man hero must reach the drooly eyeless pinnacle of mt. ABANDON. it's sort of like looking in a mirror.
deforge draws minute brilliance in the form of tiny triangles, cirlces, an abundance of sweat and details detail that most others would find irrelevant. he's also totally mastered comics in black and white, which i feel like is an often underrated achievement these days and uses a computer in a way that might spark the question "really? he uses a computer?".
additonally, despite a slew cameos by famous cartoon characters such as bullwinkle, homer simpson, dottie or whatever, garfield, mr fantastic, the waitress from that strip about the lawyer bird and the entirety of the JLA including totally wasted batman, never does the suspension of disbelief falter and never do you feel like deforge has made a comic that is anything but his own.
also, can we just talk about 'dogs in college'? i don't even know. so charming. i like that deforge draws great comics so i don't have to.
there are more pictures below! if you want your own copy you can PAYPAL michael.deforge(at)gmail(dot)com $5 plus $1.50 shipping to north american or $3 overseas published 2009 by koyama press
ADDITIONALLY if you want to be cool just like mike deforge, you can donate your comic or zine or book or whatever to the dirt palace library collection and maybe i'll blog about it like a total blog nerd!!! mail to: dirt palace, 14 olneyville sq. providence ri 02909 u.s.a.

dirty cheap yard sale!

2009-09-10T11:41:00.004-04:00

hello! this sunday, september 13th we're having some semblance of yard sale from NOON-4PM on our 'front porch' next to the art window (which has some new stuff in it byyy the way) facing olneyville square.

the yardsale will feature exotic goods from distant lands such as:

functioning pump organ (mysterious!)
homemade vegan muffins
giant 18-ft sturdy-as-a-mountain wooden ladder
a inkjet printer (that needs a USB cord and color ink cartridge)
fancy photo paper (color or b&w? who can say! 18x24?)
handmade furniture
outrageous wood stove
books? i would assume? all yard sales have books
preserved blood from a variety of authentic vestal virgins
one million hats with various debateably "ironic" logos
aaaand frog

stop by on your way back from the speedway!

August Window: Erik Ruin

2009-09-06T19:19:00.003-04:00

"Featuring the first of a series of an open-edition lending library of large banners on the theme of liberation to be made to various causes, events and monuments, Ruin's hope is to evolve/construct a set of images that reflects not only ongoing liberation movements but also more personal methods and movements of liberation - in the sense of individual escape from societal structures and pressures."

updating our mailing list!

2009-09-06T18:15:00.001-04:00

It's true. I'm collecting addresses for the DP so we can mail you one measly postcard a month informing you about our fabulous window artist. Please send email addresses to dirtpalace@yahoo.com You're spectacular!
xx.
li

hhhumanbeast

2009-09-06T14:18:00.005-04:00

human beast is the nicest band!!! it's like noise/distortion/pop/jam, sort of like distant electrical storm--- catchy (but not nagging!), fun to watch but not because of novelty-- also with girlscreams, wonderful singing and vibrating static. maralie plays the microphone and eli plays the tiny twisty thing that's electronic while stretching. sometimes maralie takes off her blank face and has totally freaky white eyeshadow on, and then i suddenly feel like i'm too close and try and back up (in a good way) but there's a pole behind me so i can't. maralie is like a tiny rapper who doesn't rap and eli is like the best kind of pink gumbie if gumbie was less boring (and wasn't wearing flared pants). anyway currently human beast is on tiny tour! i love to see them so this is great, because other people can see too.
here they go!!!:

SEPT 8 Kansas City, MO.. crossroads info shop
SEPT 9 Iowa City, IA…… tba
SEPT 10 Bloomington, IN.. Rachel’s cafe w\ Universe
SEPT 11 Columbus, OH…. help help!!!
SEPT 12 Pittsburg, PA….. generator show
SEPT 14 W. MASS………. inquire

additionally, the best part about this post is you can download their album soft and removable without feeling like a sketchy internet thief cuz they posted it themselves!! i dunno which one is my favorite favorite track but i really like oignons and i wanna hurt!

weird shit we have in our library part 2

2009-09-03T10:53:00.001-04:00

godzilla file!!!!! yeah!!!!! it's an 11x17 folder with sixteen or something 11x17 glossy b&w prints of drawings by (possibly) north american artists of godzilla! published by dark horse comics in 1988
featuring work by: arthur adams, paul chadwick, doug widley, mark badger, cynthia martin, alan moore, bill wray, hilary barta, ryan brown, kevin eastman, peter laird, steve lavigne, steve bissette, michael dooney, eric talkbot and jim lawson
sorry for the wicked crappy photos

besides the folder cover, this one by cynthia martin is totally my favorite:

weird shit we have in our library part 1

2009-09-01T20:32:00.000-04:00

judex by judex? plus noise-core cd. 5 color silkscreen book printed by le dernier cri, hyper surrealist french realist screenprinters. not that weird i guess. kind of though.

july window "safety school"

2009-09-01T14:32:00.000-04:00

"safety school" by william and joe buzzell, june/july 2009

"William and Joseph Buzzell transform the front window of the Dirt Palace into a 'Safety School'. The installation focuses on presenting information about the plethora of city run and non profit programs, ad campaigns and initiatives designed to help the citizens of Providence."

here are some photos:

go here to see more photos of this window: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dirtpalace/tags/willandjoe/

DESTROYING BLOGOSPHERE

2009-09-01T14:00:00.000-04:00

dirt palace blog! events, window project updates, exciting library content etccccc
thanks for asking.