"Hey, Alex, a couple of the good folk who came by the Atlanta Sketch4Sketch stop said you were starting to resemble Tom Hanks in Philadelphia and almost passed out in your own filmy drool while drawing them a picture of a bulldog with elephantiasis. What the fuck man, I thought you were kinda professional!??"
Well, mysterious quotable person, I will answer your questions with sentences that have question marks at the ends but aren't really questions:
1. We have so far travelled over 5000 miles by car in less than 2 weeks, slept less than The Machinist, stopped in 8 different cities and drawn close to a thousand drawings for artists of all ages who have been kind enough to grant us with some of THEIR art. Regardless of our near-perfect physiques, rigorous daily exercise routines, and military background, we recently hit a physical, mental & financial breaking point and had to figure out how to rearrange things in order to make it home alive. As now….it is survival?
2. What gave you the impression that we were professional? Was it my pink cosmetic bag? Or perhaps my proper use of the words "Dude" and "dick"?
So, with that lengthy desperate diatribe being typed, and though please understand that we have tried our hardest to accommodate the ridiculous overambitious schedule that I originally planned, we have officially made the rest of the SKETCH 4 SKETCH tour a little more spread out, a little smaller, but A LOT MORE FOCUSED. Yes, I know a lot of the places & cities that we promised we would be are not on this list, but let's make this tour finish strong so that NEXT time, we CAN spend a little time planning it out and get to stop in more cities, spend more time with you, and continue to soak up that inspiration that we are DEFINITELY receiving on this tour. I can describe everyone we have met (except for these dudes at a Taco Time in Omaha) as something that rhymes with "zamazing" and "rinspiring".
So, check out these dates, and click on the ones with links for a little more specific info about that venue. And, as usual, follow us on Twitter for any spontaneous secret stuff along the way:) Hint: what do Mickey Avalon, Jeremy Fish, Secret Treasures, Texas Chainsaws, Kevin Hayes, and N8 Van Dyke have in common? See below and get be-lown away!
Direct link to Follow Alex on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/alexpardee
Direct link to Follow DAVE on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/davecorreia
THURSDAY, APRIL 29
MONDO TEES/ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE LAMAR
AUSTIN, TX
5:30-8:00PM
(EXCLUSIVE ALEX PARDEE SCREENPRINT SET BEING RELEASED TOO! Shhhhh)
Mondo
1120 S. Lamar Blvd.
Austin,TX
78704
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
SUNDAY, MAY 2:
RED HOT ROBOT
PHOENIX, AZ
2PM-4PM
14 West Camelback Road
Phoenix, AZ 85013-2568
(602) 264-8560
www.redhotrobot.net
MONDAY, MAY 3:
THE ARTS FACTORY
LAS VEGAS, NV
3PM-7PM (with guest famed photographer Kevin Hayes in the house!)
107 East Charleston Boulevard
Las Vegas, NV 89104
(702) 383-3133
www.theartsfactory.com
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5:
ZEROFRIENDS SECRET ONE DAY ONLY POP UP SHOP
LOS ANGELES, CA
We are temporarily taking over The R&R Gallery in downtown LA and setting up a full ZEROFRIENDS store for 24 hours ONLY. The Sketch4Sketch event will happen there!
STORE HOURS: 11AM - ?
SKETCH 4 SKETCH EVENT (With Alex Pardee, Dave Correia, guest artist MICKEY AVALON, PLUS maybe more secrets: it IS Los Angeles. I have to be shady about it!): 1PM-4PM
SATURDAY, MAY 8:
UPPER PLAYGROUND / 5024SF Gallery
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
2PM-5PM
FINAL SKETCH 4 SKETCH w/ Guest artists JEREMY FISH & NATE VAN DYKE!
220 Fillmore St
San Francisco, California 94117
(415) 861-1960
www.upperplayground.com
Remember: You bring a sketch, or ANY kind of YOUR OWN art to us, and we will exchange it for a sketch that we do on the spot for you! (please keep in mind that because of the turnouts, which have been insane, we can only promise a quick sketch!:)
Also, we have raffle tickets for sale that are helping to fund our trip, as well as some other mercy like shirts and prints. Get on it!:)
For more info on the tour itself, the raffle, and all those good intentions, CLICK HERE.
We will see you there hopefully!!!!
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
SKETCH 4 SKETCH UPDATED & LOCKED!
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17 comments:
Well, you guys for sure changed it up and I definitely can't go now. Hopefully you guys come to Little Rock, Arkansas next time around!!
DUDE!!!! what happened to the dallas date?!?!?!?! I have been looking forward to it since you posted it, please tell me this is a bad dream!!!!
No shit. I understand things change but I was really excited for the Dallas arrival
haha.... i like the whole machinist reference. Sounds like you guys have been a whole lot busy. I just hope you do this again and come back around out east... maybe even NJ
WTF!! I was really looking forward to meeting you guys in dallas. Oh well maybe next time.
Can you come to Dallas instead of austin! like seriously we were skipping class all day for this.
we had a giant group prepared. we worked on our sketches ahead of time. our art class is completely bummed out now. now we're totally uninspired. please make some changes! or come to our school..... and draw for us. that would be okay too, like on the way to austin :)
-love,
students of plano east AP 2D art design.
Noooo!!! you must come to Houston >.< go to like a music place like the meridian or somewhere :( or a small place like the junction in cypress right next to downtown :D
it's cool that you stopped in Wisconsin to meet Mark Borchardt but couldn't meet anyone else...
you have a whole two days between texas and arizona its only right you stop in albuquerque!
Since you canceled tours is some areas is ok for us to send sketches to a address so we can get some a sketch back?
Dear Alex Pardee,
My name is Lauren, I live near Dallas and I am a huge fan of yours. I was inspired by one of your pieces recently, "The Walrus Rider," and I did my own interpretation of it. I am hoping to use it for my AP art portfolio, but since it was based your idea I must have permission to use it. I have sent an email to info@zerofriends.com with an attached photo of my painting. It is watercolor, acrylic and ink on two canvases, hence the line in the middle. I know that you are very busy but thank you and please respond with your answer as soon as you can.
Did the three of you really let those awesome illustrations that were tied with balloons just float into the air?
I hope not!
-Dean
So. I missed you in Denver, you tricksy bastard. Because I was in Montana, which should be on your trip. A little town called Missoula. Do it.
Hi, listen, I've been following your work and watching some of your entries and I¡d really like to know if you ever took a course or something like that... say "professional" before you worked doing your art?
I just love this kind of blog, everything is brilliant, each entry has something special and it'll be the nicest part if you can add something about the exercise routines!
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