“Sweet Ride is a collection of
27 drawing of people posing with bicycles and tricycles,
Based on old photographs. Chris Koelle really digs these old photographs,
so he did
A bunch of drawings of them . . .” - https://store.portlandstudios.com/
 As someone who collects old photographs and postcards,
I can appreciate Chris Koelle’s artwork. If I could travel back
in time I would probably just get a bunch of old stuff like the
bicycles in Koelle’s book and bring them back to our time and sell
them for big bucks and maybe save the good ones and ride them around
my town. I think I once saw a guy riding around on one of these
here near the Claremont Colleges. My friends and I were really drunk
and we thought it was fucking awesome. I imagine the ones with big
tires in front and small wheels in back are hard to ride though.
I don’t get how they even get on them.
- Tommy Rayburn
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Destroy All Monsters; Geisha This
A compilation of the first six issues of Destroy All Monsters magazine 1975 –1979
Artwork by Mike Kelley, Carey Loren, Niagara, Jim Shaw
First Published in conjunction with the Destroy All Monsters exhibition, Book Beat Gallery April 22 – May 30, 1995.
Format: Paperback, 8.5 X 11 in. / 100 pgs / illustrated throughout
This isn’t a zine, but a collection of visually generous work done for the Destroy
All Monsters magazine printed from 1975-1979. It features early collaborative works
by artists Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw along with fellow musicians Niagara
and Carey Loren.
Carey Loren says in his Manifesto of Ingnorance; Destroy All Monsters, “ Destroy all monsters
began as an anti-rock band. Our menagerie of words, images and sounds were an attempt to thumb
our noses at the circus of rock star bullshit and musical emptiness that filled the air waves
during the mid-1970’s. Images that moved us then were a combination of film-noir, monster movies,
psychedelia, thrift shop values and the relentless drone of a crazed popular culture.”
Very cool artwork along with hordes of strange monsters, weirdos, and familiar looking women. This DAM zine is the best! |
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