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HOUSTON - HIWI: IKE, THE BOOK - Book Signing, September 10

HOUSTON - HIWI: IKE, THE BOOK - Book Signing, September 10, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

Domy Books, in association with HIWI and ttweak, is pleased to present

IKE: The Book
Book signing with the creators of Houston. It's Worth It.

Thursday, September 10, 2009 at Domy Books, Houston
1709 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77098
7-9pm, FREE ADMISSION

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LINKS

HIWI: www.houstonitsworthit.com/
ttweak: ttweak.com/

AUSTIN - Handmade Nation - Book Signing Party - September 5

AUSTIN - Handmade Nation - Book Signing Party - September 5, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

Domy Books, in association with Sublime Stitching, is pleased to present

Handmade Nation
Book Signing Party

Faythe Levine will be signing books alongside artists featured in the book (Whitney Lee, Jennifer Perkins, Magda Sayeg, and Kathie Sever) Sounds by DJ Bullet, free beer from Live Oak Brewing, and an awesome raffle, packed with prizes from artists and local businesses.

Saturday, September 5, 2009 at Domy Books, Austin
913 E Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX 78702
7-9pm, FREE ADMISSION

LOTS more info about the rest of the weekend's events here:
sublimestitching.com/ATX+HMN
and
sublimestitching.com/hmn+vendors

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LINKS
Faythe Levine: indiecraftdocumentary.blogspot.com/
Whitney Lee: www.madewithsweetlove.com/
Jennifer Perkins: www.naughtysecretaryclub.com
Magda Sayeg: www.knittaplease.com/KNITTA_PLEASE.html
Kathie Sever: ramonsterwear.blogspot.com/

This is what we were just listening to in the store...

I remember sitting in Brian's living room when we were 13/14... Watching this on MTV. I wasn't allowed to watch MTV at home, so it felt even cooler... I think I saw the "Jeremy" video for the first time that afternoon, too...

New Orleans After the Deluge...

Josh Neufeld came by the Houston store last week to share his new book, A.D. New Oreleans After the Deluge...



... C-SPAN and The New York Times showed up, too... click here (you may need to enlarge it if your browser shrinks it down) to read the NYT article about Josh...

We have a couple signed copies of the book in both stores... until they are gone. It's a wonderful, enlightening read and highly recommended...

HOUSTON - Thor Harris reads An Ocean of Despair - September 4

HOUSTON - Thor Harris reads An Ocean of Despair - September 4, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

Domy Books, in association with Monofonus, is pleased to present

An Ocean of Despair
a reading by Thor Harris

Friday, September 4, 2009 at Domy Books, Houston
1709 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77098
8pm, FREE ADMISSION

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This one’s a triple threat: Shearwater’s Thor Harris takes us into a year of his own personal hell with An Ocean of Despair, an illustrated comic describing Harris’ descent into depression in the early 90s. The book is accompanied by his remarkable and haunting ambient record, Fields of Innards, Harris’ first solo effort.

Known internationally for his work with Shearwater, Smog/Bill Callahan, The Angels of Light, and Devendra Banhart, Harris is also a legendary local craftsman whose superb woodworking skills are apparent in his handmade hobbit-like home and the myriad handcrafted percussive instruments that he employs on recordings such as this one. Though Harris is currently on tour in Europe with his band Shearwater, Monofonus is proud to be releasing such fine work from one of Austin’s most well-loved characters.

Domy Houston featured on Artbook.com

D.A.P. / Artbook.com

Give Up's newest zine is here at Domy

hatefuck 7 zine now in the store!, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

HateFuck 7 is here at Domy.

AUSTIN Project Space: Trophy Room by Jade Walker - September 12

AUSTIN Project Space: Trophy Room by Jade Walker - September 12, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

Domy Books is pleased to present

Trophy Room
new work for the project space by Jade Walker

Saturday, September 12, 2009 at Domy Books, Austin
913 E Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX 78702
7-9pm, FREE ADMISSION

Exhibition runs September 12 – October 17, 2009

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"Trophy Room" is an experiment in combining scraps of personal accolades, images of the body, and the epidemic of injury in sports. Recent interests in gender related sports texts including Warrior Girls by Michael Sokolove, in which he discusses the bias between young male and female athletes, as well as Feminist Sports Studies edited by Pirkko Markula laying out a history of this specific study, has fueled this installation to include bodies forms and sports models. In tandem with a larger installation, Spectator Sport, opening at the Austin Museum of Art in November, this installation is a display of fatigue and failure of the human body and the temporal methods for repair.

From the artist: "My work consists of a personal struggle with spectatorship, binaries within gender, abstraction, narrative, found objects, desire, and the body as temporal. I am interested in focusing on the ideology of American society in respect to the image of the figure and translating that into a tangible object. The macro of the body and the micro of each organ or skin feature are present in each work, evident in small stitches and massive stuffed bulbous forms. Empathy, fear, longing, and rage all find viable moments in the work with an underlying feeling of familiarity, sometimes nostalgia."

"Walker's work conjures up a slew of images from the lineage of female sculptors, such as Eva Hesse's circular, almost breastlike pieces to the long drip shapes within Louise Bourgeois' work. Yet since Walker comes from a significantly different generation and set of influences, it is striking to see the lineage of the shapes move in and out of her work. Each piece has subtle nuances of color on the edges or seams that tie the separated pieces both literally and figuratively together." – Rachel Cook

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BIO

Home grown in Florida, Jade Walker graduated with a BFA from the University of Florida. Prior to entering graduate school, Walker held the position of venue coordinator at the Baughman Center, a division of the UF Performing Arts Center. She received her MFA from The University of Texas at Austin in the area of sculpture. After graduate school, she served the Austin Museum of Art as an instructor and an administrator in The Art School at the Austin Museum of Art, Laguna Gloria. She currently holds the position of Director of the Creative Research Laboratory, Curator of the Courtyard Gallery at AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, as well as Lecturer for the Department of Art and Art History in the College of Fine Arts.

Her work has been exhibited regionally at the Conduit Gallery in Dallas, Arthouse in Austin, and upcoming exhibitions include solo exhibitions at Austin Museum of Art (New Works). Her work has also been exhibited internationally in Taiwan, where she also completed an artist residency and developed and implemented an arts outreach program between children in Hsinchu, Taiwan and Austin, Texas.

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LINKS

Jade Walker - jadewalker.org/
Event invite - domystore.com/austin/atx_invites/jadewalker.html

AUSTIN - Your Heart is not a Museum, Levi Dugat & Leah DeVun - September 12

AUSTIN - Your Heart is not a Museum, Levi Dugat & Leah DeVun - September 12, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

Domy Books is pleased to present

Your Heart is not a Museum
new work by Levi Dugat & Leah DeVun

Saturday, September 12, 2009 at Domy Books, Austin
913 E Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX 78702
7-9pm, FREE ADMISSION

Exhibition runs September 12 – October 22, 2009

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“Your Heart is not a Museum” is Levi Dugat and Leah DeVun’s second collaborative gallery show. Taking inspiration from traditional craftmaking, romance novels, daytime television, and Southern kitsch, Dugat and DeVun’s graphite drawings offer fantastical and iconographical portraits of their extended band of family, friends, and favorite soap stars.

DeVun’s obsessively rendered drawings of diamonds and soap opera characters explore gender, heredity, and temporality through hyperfeminine imagery. Her work alludes to the longevity and significance of female-oriented symbols and stories, which are generally viewed as purely decorative or frivolous. It’s worth noting that the longest-running soap, the now-defunct “Guiding Light,” recently turned 50 years old, making it the longest continuous narrative in human history. DeVun’s work imagines how escapist entertainment presents an exaggerated and alternative feminist reality that connects women across generations.

In the self-portrait series “_____ me waving at _____ me,” Dugat offers a candid glimpse at reconciliation between himself and himself. It’s fitting that the series rubs shoulders with portraits of a few of his family and friends that have directly and indirectly inspired that reconciliation, with banners paying homage to wisdom he’s inherited from them. Saturated with reverent sentiment, the portraits invoke nature, folklore and heirloom photography to remark on themes of family of origin vs. chosen family, devotion, protection, personal history and heritage.

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BIOS

Levi Dugat wants you to love yourself a little more than you do right now. Maybe you could stand to love yourself a lot more right now. Either way, Levi lives, works and makes art in Austin with his partner, their two yappy dogs and lots of potted plants that he waters every day with an old plastic milk jug and some empty wine bottles. Though his choice of medium tends to differ from project to project, each has a tendency towards a central theme involving the use of wistful humor and unguarded sincerity in an attempt to inspire himself and his audience into becoming the most fabulous versions of themselves the world has ever seen.

Leah DeVun is an Austin-based artist and writer whose work is concerned with gender and identity, especially as they intersect with popular culture and the media. Her photography and drawings have shown in galleries throughout the United States, including Bow & Sparrow Gallery in Los Angeles, Queerfest Midwest in Chicago, Houston Center for Photography in Houston, and Orchard 47 Gallery in New York City. She was recently included in Arthouse at the Jones Center’s “New American Talent.” She writes about feminist and queer culture for a number of magazines in Texas, including Artlies, Glasstire, and SPOT. She has also written for national magazines, including Wired, and she is a regular contributor to the feminist magazine Venus Zine. DeVun received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2004.

domystore.com/austin/atx_invites/leahdevun_levidugat.html

HOUSTON - Mister Meatball and the Doo-Doodler - September 11

HOUSTON - Mister Meatball and the Doo-Doodler - September 11, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

Domy Books is pleased to present

Jim Tozzi & Dave Bryant are
Mister Meatball & the Doo-Doodler

Friday, September 11, 2009 at Domy Books, Houston
1709 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77098
7-9pm, FREE ADMISSION

Mister Meatball and the Doo-Doodler will be in attendance.
Exhibition runs September 11 – October 22, 2009

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From Dave Bryant:
"For our first exhibition together, Jim Tozzi and I will be showing a series of collaborations made between 2004 and 2009.

We became tight friends after I had moved to New York from Austin to work on the MTV comedy series Wonder Showzen. Jim is one of four members of the art collective PFFR, whose activities include a band, numerous videos and comedy sketches, a friendship with Gordon Lish, and two cable television shows: Wonder Showzen for MTV2 (for which Jim was the character designer and onscreen personality) and Xavier: Renegade Angel for Adult Swim.

At Wonder Showzen Jim had a little office inside a closet. Most of the time I would have no idea what he was doing, but I could count on a daily bullshit session and his doodling drawings of nasty little characters that were his own take on '50s-style illustration and cartooning. This became very influential to me.

Until this point, I was trying to stay in some 'spiritual' zone when I made drawings by going into a gentle place of abstraction and color and very rarely drawing 'anything.' So hanging around Tozzi and seeing the way a drawing could produce laughter or otherwise, I started acting more like a teenager in a boring history class, drawing 'things' just to give to Tozzi. I'd be running bags of Betacam tapes from somewhere around Tribeca up to Times Square to drop off at MTV daily, and as I'd ride the subway I'd typically keep a piece of paper folded four ways and draw whatever came to mind. I'd get back to the office hours later and place it on Jim's desk. A week later I'd get something on my desk. We probably did this on and off for a year, casually. The show ended, I took a few unemployment checks, and then moved back to Austin.

These days Tozzi and I usually see each other once a year when we go somewhere in the West Village to have a lobster roll. I enjoy living back in Austin, where I try to concentrate on making money through odd jobs and being a good person. This show at Domy is a long-time dream for me. I've held on to these drawings and forced Jim to help me make some new work knowing full well that they are just little doodles, but they are just weird enough, I think, that you would like to see them. And if you are curious about the title: Jim won the "Mr. Meatball" contest back in 2005, which is quite an accomplishment, and I enjoy referring to myself in this context as the "Doo-doodler" because when I draw you can almost smell the "doo-doo."

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LINKS
Dave Bryant: davebryantart.blogspot.com/
Jim Tozzi: domystore.com/images/them_jimtozzi_press06.jpg
Wonder Showzen: www.mtv.com/shows/wonder_showzen/series.jhtml
PFFR: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFFR
Xavier: Renegade Angel: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier:_Renegade_Angel

domystore.com/houston/htx_invites/jimtozzi_davebryant.html

This week in Houston - A.D. : New Orleans After The Deluge w/ Josh Neufeld - 8/20

Domy Books, in association with Pantheon, is pleased to present

A.D. : New Orleans After The Deluge

A presentation and signing by Josh Neufeld

Thursday, August 20, 2009 at Domy Books, Houston
1709 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77098
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830pm – Visual Presentation
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FREE ADMISSION

MORE INFO HERE:
http://www.domystore.com/houston/htx_invites/joshneufeld.html

Now at Domy

Beasts!, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

Beasts! Book One

90 artists depict mythological, folkloric, and otherwise elusive creatures from historical accounts of eyewitness description.

Artisans are drawn from the fields of comics, skate graphics, rock posters, children's books, and the commerical and gallery arts.

Spent the day editing these beautiful, shocking photos...

Ha. This is funny.

I think it is funny, anyway. Cody finds some pretty bizarre stuff out there.

Kara Hearn's The Need for Grand Emotion -- FRIDAY in Houston

Kara Hearn's The Need for Grand Emotion, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

Domy Books is pleased to present

The Need for Grand Emotion
a short film by Kara Hearn

Friday, August 14, 2009 at Domy Books, Houston
1709 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77098
830pm, FREE ADMISSION

Mark your calendar... 2009 Dunny Series arrives September 9!

More here.
Checklist is here.
And if you don’t feel like reading the tiny text... Both stores will be hosting an official party this year...

Polymict at Okay Mountain this weekend!

From Okay Mountain

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 15th, 7-10pm

Okay Mountain proudly presents "Polymict", a group exhibition featuring the works of Warren Aldrich, Lillian Gerson, Logan Grider, and Ludwig Schwarz. The term polymict refers to a geologic classification of a conglomerate rock, where its physical makeup is comprised of densely layered modules from a wide range of origins. A similar description could be used to characterize the way in which these artists function, both independently, as well as a combined group. In a sense, each of the works in the show can be thought of as a conglomerate, where modules are placed within a larger matrix, and over time merge into a singular formation. This approach to working generates countless opportunities for reconfiguration and in doing so, creates the potential for endless possibilities.

HOUSTON -- A.D. : New Orleans After The Deluge w/ Josh Neufeld -- August 20

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Domy Books, in association with Pantheon, is pleased to present

A.D. : New Orleans After The Deluge

A presentation and signing by Josh Neufeld

Thursday, August 20, 2009 at Domy Books, Houston
1709 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77098
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830pm – Visual Presentation
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FREE ADMISSION

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A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge is a masterful portrait of a city under siege. Cartoonist Josh Neufeld depicts seven extraordinary true stories of survival in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina.

Here we meet Denise, a counselor and social worker, and a sixth-generation New Orleanian; “The Doctor,” a proud fixture of the French Quarter; Abbas and Darnell, two friends who face the storm from Abbas’s family-run market; Kwame, a pastor's son just entering his senior year of high school; and the young couple Leo and Michelle, who both grew up in the city. Each is forced to confront the same wrenching decision–whether to stay or to flee.

As beautiful as it is poignant, A.D. presents a city in chaos and shines a bright, profoundly human light on the tragedies and triumphs that took place within it.

"Josh Neufeld is a master story teller. A.D. is intimate and yet seismic in its scope. Through six finely drawn lives, we end up with new understanding of both devastation and redemption. His art takes us to the depth of the humanity of those we cherish."
— Cornel West

“One of the best-ever examples of comics reportage, and one of the clearest portraits of post-Katrina New Orleans yet published” — Dave Eggers

“I particularly liked the combination of economy and strength in Neufeld’s work. His two-page spreads are very nice. And his use of varied colors for different chapters helps keep the reader involved.”
— Harvey Pekar

"Raw and painful, down to the detailed depictions of ruined homes and the frenzied dialogue among friends.” — Newsweek

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JOSH NEUFELD

Josh Neufeld is the writer/artist of the Xeric Award-winning graphic travelogue A Few Perfect Hours (And Other Stories from Southeast Asia & Central Europe). Shortly after Hurricane Katrina, Neufeld spent three weeks as an American Red Cross volunteer in Biloxi, Mississippi. The blog entries he kept about that experience turned into a self-published book, Katrina Came Calling, which in turn led to A.D. Neufeld works primarily in the realm of nonfiction comics. His work has been featured in The Vagabonds, Keyhole, and Titans of Finance, as well as in numerous comics anthologies, newspapers, magazines, and literary journals. He is a longtime artist for Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor, and his art has been exhibited in gallery and museum shows in the United States and Europe. Neufeld lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, the writer Sari Wilson, and their daughter.

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LINKS
Josh Neufeld - http://joshn.home.mindspring.com/

Esther Pearl Watson on TV! ... plus, her daughter Lili!

Art&Seek on Think TV: Flying Saucers, Teen Angst and Esther Pearl Watson


and Esther’s daughter, Lili, makes art too!

New issue of Anorak just arrived in Austin!!

Best kids magazine I have ever seen...

R.I.P. John Hughes

Thanks, J.

Handmade Nation comes to Austin... want tickets to the Special Edition VIP screening?

These are going to go fast... but if you are interested, here is a link.

$25 ViP Ticket Package Includes:

-One ticket to the Austin premiere of Handmade Nation (Sunday, September 6, 2:30pm)

- Two Raffle Tickets for a drawing featuring great handmade items, the work of artists from the film, and gift certificates to local businesses. (Drawing to be held at the Book Signing party at Domy Books)

-Deluxe Handmade Nation Bag packed with samples from artists from the film, as well as local crafters, and other cool companies (worth $30+) Happy Owl Glass, Jill Bliss, Little Friends of Printmaking and more!

This ticket is for the early screening of the film at 2:30 p.m. in Austin, Texas at the Alamo Drafhouse on South Lamar. Tickets will be available at will call at the Alamo box office. Time of screening is subject to change. Please see The Original Alamo Drafthouse for the most current info. When ordering, be sure to enter your e-mail address when prompted, and save your receipt. The raffle will be held at Domy Books, during the Handmade Nation book signing on Saturday, September 5th. You need not be present to win, but we sure hope you'll come! For more information about all the crafty happenings in Austin labor day weekend, take a look here.

My friend Delaney is trying to raise money... think this is a cool project? Support it!

Ha. Two minutes, thirty one seconds... I used to love this movie.

Anyone remember Crapcrapcrap.com? They used to have a TON of stuff related to Cannibal the Musical. It's a dead URL now.

The FRIENDS show opened in Houston....

If you haven't seen the FRIENDS show yet, it's great... and up until September 3rd

This opening was everything it promised and more...

The OTIS IKE and Ivete Lucas show is up in the Austin store until Septermber 3rd... don't miss it.

HOUSTON -- Until the Light Takes Us, a film about black metal -- August 7

Domy Books is pleased to present

Until the Light Takes Us
a film about black metal

Friday, August 7, 2009 at Domy Books, Houston
1709 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77098
830pm, $9 at door

More info here: http://domystore.com/houston/htx_invites/untilthelight.html