Never Underestimate

meybe ticket for Japandroids

was a trick

um...

meybe not

opening

World's Greatest Ghosts (PDX) &

Surfer Blood (FL)

never

underestimate

ur freshness is the opener

the things I love

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new status message - HANDSOME

This is Team NERD.

Prolific print maker, installation artist and showboat!

PowFox scored this interview w/Nerd

as he is about to give Seattle his final word

in Dec 3rd through Installation in Art Lofts @619 bldg.

Seattle before beginning an internship w/

Yee-Haw Industries

Powfox got on top of this interview op

find out what is make a NERD tick.

TEAM NERD: Okay I'm here Team Nerd

Pastor Nathan 12:50 AM

Adam Beadel ready to report

Give me your best shot!

POWFOX: Rigggght. U r TEAM NERD

you make arts and in print

TN: and zines

PF: and you learned it from

Seattle Community Col?

Evergreen?

TN: I took an introduction to printmaking class

at Seattle Central four years ago.

I was making lots of stencils and zines at the time.

I liked carving because it was a lot cleaner than stencils.

I mostly taught myself though.

At e'ergreen, I learned better studio habits

and how to set type and do letterpress.

I just had to get my hands all over that studio.

PF: you prefer to call urself printmaker?

TN: Yup

I usually say Artist and Printmaker

PF: When did you get the idea u are the Team Nerd.

When/How did u get know this?

TN: Hmmmm.

I got this.

Back in '05, we were doing all this planning and organizing

at the Zine Archive and Publishing Project for a summer

school called DIY Academy. Every night

for about 6 months, my friend Davey Oil and

I put our heads together and schemed out this

series of workshops. I blurted,

"We're Team Nerd!"

but the label never stuck with him.

So I kept it for myself. I love collaborating

with other people, usually writers &

poets & friends & family. So for any one project,

there's usually a small team of nerds involved.

I just make sure everything looks pretty and

gets finished.

portrait of the artists' mom

Team Nerd w/Room Installation @Belmont Show Seattle

Also, I usually geek out on the work I do.

The rest of the world goes into the background

for a little bit. That's Team Nerd too.

Lastly, there's an open membership.

if you want in, you're in.

Let's work together on something!

OK.

PF: Allotta peops seem identify w/ ur title.

Do you think ur help as Nerd Therapy Outreach

TN: People like being on a team but

most people hate rules. I hate meetings.

Being a nerd is a pretty private affair.

The word Nerd usually follows a clarifying noun:

YAHTZEE nerd; Pancreas nerd, Health nerd, Beef Jerky nerd.

Different nerds geek on different things.

It's nice to know there's a bunch of loners out there

working together in some supernatural, non-committal way!

"Nerd Sport" is Team NERD outreach prgm

invites peops try on their Nerd

PF: Ur About to Go away to Tennasee and

work for Yee-Haw.

what do you most hope to get out of it?

TN: Yee-Haw Industries makes amazing work.

They carve, they set type, they do digital layout.

They make show posters, stationary, and large art prints.

They have a huge collection of antique wood type.

They have letters that are a 18 inches tall!

They have an 8 ft long letterpress modified etching press!

I can't wait to get my hands all over their equipment.

The people who work there are all real characters too.

I want to learn everything they have to teach me.

I want to collaborate with Kevin, one of the owners.

I want the most out of everything at Yee Haw.

PF: Do you got any longterm goals ur reach for?

TN: One day, I want to have a son or daughter named Ernie.

Before that happens, I want to keep building up my body of work.

My #1 mega goal is to own and operate my own

print shop / small press / publishing community center.

I want more people to stop writing in their dumb diaries

and broadcast their thoughts around the world.

PF: U Rock! Thank U for so much.

This is Final Question.

Motivation is always a huge part of being working artist,

I have seen you go on some "Print Making Benders"

Where does ur initial drive come from?

TN: A couple of places.

First, I have a lot of demons I have to keep quiet.

Second, the word has to be given flesh,

and in order to be given flesh, a sacrifice must be made.

Third, I have a responsibility, as long as I am able,

to keep producing and share with the

world beautiful things and introduce images

and items into people's lives that fills them with

joy and wonder and gratitude.

It's just what I do.

:)

Defiance
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New Paradigm Shift Key

Everytime you hitting ur Shift key, is doing way more than u r realize

beautiful unusable
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Taking UR Time

Being Patient & Taking Ur Time

Can Take Some Getting Used To.

However, the Reward Can Be Worth the Effort

Dec 15th is release date

"Fall Be Kind"

Animal Collective

is maybe collect animals

so...pounce it

waiting wanting unknowing
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Light and Matter

POWFOX LIGHT MATTER mix.mp3

Another Likely Story (Neon Indian Remix)-Au Revoir Simone
In America -Jogger
Sea With A Sea -The Horrors
Night Stalking -Jealousy
Catomaran -Candy Claws
In The Summertime -The Rural Alberta Advantage
My Boys -Taken By Trees
My Body's A Zombie For You -Dead Man's Bones
South Philadelphia (Drug Days) -Alec Ounsworth

i know it will
until the end.
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Ghost Magic and Skeli Hands

Portlander Ryan Bubnis has

got super doodler senses on 3D

is part of current exibit

@Flatcolor Gallery, Seattle WA

showing work for during Nov '09

Ryan Bubnis "Ghost Magic" & Ryan De La Hoz "Residual Energies"

lots of lil' liney faces and rainbow magic

off the beaten pallet...

upstairs the gallery feature

is Ryan De La Hoz of L.A./CA

What you cannot see on digital of these artists

hand touch is so much gentleness

Facing these work reveals quietly

paper layer and weightlessness

digi washed it out

like ghost magic.

shows through Nov.28.09

Flatcolor Gallery

528 1st Ave S

Sea WA 98104

Wed-Sun 12-6

"" ""

i tell u my song.
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watch out!

there is creepy things lurking here

Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days

drawings of AL Columbia

is sick, new book from Fantagraphics

the dark days of the inner conciousness

of American Cartooning.

Actually these works are current

and Al Columbia is on tour with book signing

for this title, so... it ur chance to catch him

get signing and hear the weirdness

he's been sharing along the way

the secret is success
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ha ha i dropped out

Hiding out in Olympia Washington for Halloween '09

off the grid

just for a second

it was so good

until misssed u interweb!

back on

ur the one
that i miss
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