JONATHON VALENZUELA: TILTED SAGE

He started with zines, Time Out Sydney gave him a section in their funnies, Watch This Space gave him a show and now he's approaching the status of comic book mogul. If you have a chance come to The Wall this coming Wednesday and check out 14 brand new comics by Jonathon Valenzuela!

If you've never come across The Tilted Page before you can click on links to #1 and #2 of the zine below.


Tilted Page 1

Tilted Page 2

How Do THEY Do It?

On Sunday 9th August (tomorrow) the ACP is hosting the event "Tea With The Artistic Directors". Andrew Frost from Artlife will be hosting a discussion with Andrew Upton from the Sydney Theatre Co, Lisa Havilah from the Campbelltown Arts Centre and Kristy Edmunds - former Director at the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Come along at 3pm for tea and concepts. Cupcakes are rumored to appear.

Tony Curran

PLAY IN PLUSHTOWN

Hogi Tsai's latest work is in the window of Sydney's Gallery 4A. Across the road from Capitol Square where computer markets and Japanese skill-testers lurk is the perfect place for Hogi's work. Hogi is a UTS student PhD student from Taiwan. He's been involved in a few shows around Sydney and this work at Gallery 4A is a fun rainbow wind-chime of human motion. We should warn you though, we received a few funny looks while exploring this work.


Tony Curran and Sonya Gee

MAKING RADIO

On Saturday last Tony Curran (myself) and Jonathon Valenzuela (16 Tacos) were a radio twitter partnership where my iDrawings of "Action-Jon" were retweeted to FBi's twittership of almost 3,000. Collaborations don't always work well but thanks to Jon's not-so-diva-like attitude to my portraits he was happy that only one of them made him look like a "guido". His special request was a unicorn.

Twitter Art Skills and a Radio Star

Since smart phones every Tom Dick and Harry has become a twit. Richard Glover tells SMH readers that twitter is a fad that will vanish in no time just like facebook and the gramophone. However Glover never got his facts straight because he can't predict the future. But I can.

This Saturday (25rd July, 2009) between 8 and 10pm I'll be in the FBi Studios drawing action portraits of Jon Valenzuela - AKA 16 Tacos and author of THE TILTED PAGE - while he plays a "leftfield" hip-hop show. I'll be sending paintings out every 20 minutes or so on the FBi twitter account. So if you aren't following them yet, get to it! If you're not in Sydney for the occasion then jump on to fbiradio.com and listen online for free.

Predicted scenes will be Jon on the computer, Jon taking a smoke break and Jon severely playing music.


Tony Curran

Bravo

Bravo

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