From his site…

‘’BUDDY WAKEFIELD is the two-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion featured on NPR, the BBC, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, and signed to Strange Famous Records. In 2004 he won the Individual World Poetry Slam Finals thanks to the support of anthropologist and producer Norman Lear then successfully defended that [arbitrary] title at the International Poetry Festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands against the national champions of seven European countries with works translated into Dutch.

In 2005 he won the Individual World Poetry Slam Championship again and has gone on to share the stage with nearly every notable performance poet in the world in hundreds of venues internationally from The Fillmore in San Francisco and Scotland’s Oran Moore to San Quentin State Penitentiary, House of Blues New Orleans and CBGB.'’

That being said, he will be reading at Edifice Gallery on July 17th, 2008. WORD!!

Check out the following video of some of his reading, or visit buddywakefield.com, or look him up on youtube, or fucking google him.

Here are some new designs that we’ve been working on here at the gallery. You can also find them online at EdificeClothing.com

Resles by Sewn, Colorado Springs, CO

Hack Design by Hack, Denver, CO

Cricket King by Jason W. Herzog , Colorado Springs, CO

and the *funnest of all, FUNLAND! by Michael Sebastian , Colorado Springs, CO.

(*Disclaimer, not everyone is happy in Funland, but they are all having fun.)

We’ve been busy in the dark room and on the carousel printing some new shirts for the gallery, and for our clothing website edificeclothing.com

Here are some images of the new goods. Click on them for an awesome lightbox enlarging experience

Powerlines by killtheliterate and Jason W. Herzog

Pearls by Jason W. Herzog

Facing the Thousand by Jason W. Herzog

Saecula by Jason W. Herzog

And the new Aria Taria Shirt by Jeff Cloutier

All shirts are available at Edifice Gallery, or EdificeClothing.com

It’s officially hit the stands. One of the bestest covers ever, IMO. Plus it’s The Sex Issue, and it has a whole page of dirty haikus like:

take off your panties.
What? You wear none?! You bad girl!
get down on all fours.

and

not yet don’t cum yet
just hold on for a minute
I’m cumming with you

and here’s the revised cover

I usually visit many favorite websites, like woostercollective.com for daily jolts of creativity.

I found this video to be inspiring. Now it’s your turn to post something inspiring-

I just got an email from Rafa Jenn announcing the release of a new giclee print made specifically for the FASHIONISTA show on June 6th. This will be available at the show opening for $80, and will be strictly limited to 12 signed and numbered 30×10in prints.

Email gallery@edificeclothing.com to arrange a preorder.

check out some freakin’ photos of nocturnal mockery

www.ffffound.com has ruined my life.

But I’m in love with the things I find. Like this Brian Dettmer’s remixed art. Especially his book autopsies:

Suddenly I know what to do with all these ridiculously worthless text books I have lying around….

I saw this site a while back, and was just reminded of it by something. It’s hilarious, and has absolutely nothing to do with art, except that it is cleverly written.

Take a look at it and then be thankful for your day job.

The Indie Spirit Film Festival is coming to Colorado Springs, and Edifice Gallery will be hosting films the day of Saturday, April 26th, from 10am-10pm.

You can find a schedule of the films by clicking here , and purchase tickets through Tickets West here. Make sure you purchase tickets for the correct day if you’re not buying a VIP pass.

After several tedious weeks of research, Edifice Laboratory has determined that Second Saturdays and Third Thursdays are the overall best nights for our poetry events. They will start at 7:30 and happen twice each month.  Yay!