Been busy as hell this past month, boards for ROME, decks for MANIK, working on big project with COLOR this summer too, always some LIFETIME stuff, and throw in a little FATHME records in there too. Plus one half of the team is off doing their MFA in upstate NY, gotta keep learning folks! Expect more Fighting oriented projects come fall.

We have a work for sale in the new Complex magazine which you can purchase for $50.
There is a picture of it in the photo blog to the right (it's a wheel of burnt matchsticks). The print is a xerograph (photocopy), and is 36" x 36" in size. Edition of 50. If you're interested, please contact us. Hopefully we'll be putting up a "Prints for Sale" section soon!

The Teknoist(UK) and Eustachian (Fathme Records) will touring Europe this Spring.
The Teknoist & Eustachian
Pillaged and Plundered Tour
Europe 2008
22nd Mar - May 30th

For more info go here.
I'm sure it will be very destructive... hopefully even a little dangerous.

We designed a deck for Creature this past summer, a gnarly b/w scene of John Bonham and Keith Moon in a king of spades type position battling hell demons and stormy skies. They're limited to 500, hand signed, and each deck comes with a Creature x Fighting matchbook. Just got to see the printed decks for the first time yesterday, everything looks great, I'm stoked! Pick it up at your local harshmart.

Those Burton boards can now be found online or in a ton of stores. Next year, you will see Burton boards with our work on them and they will be much more 'of our ilk'. Have a happy Thanksgiving.

And also, have a look at Momument Snowboards - their entire line is an artist series, directed by Chris Glancy, and so most of the boards are pretty radical. We haven't received the product yet, but I'm sure their going to look tits on!

So our Seattle exhibit "Different Strokes" is officially down now, but certain pieces are still available through the gallery, check out www.weareokok.com for more info.
In other news Niall will be moving bases and working out of Toronto starting Dec.1st, expect to see some interesting collaborative projects with Jer Jansen from stitchphoto.com in the following months.
One more thing, the Burton Seven Series boards we designed last year arrived yesterday and I'm pretty stoked about them, some grimy, colourful, eye candy. Keep an eye out for them!

Hollee lord m'boy, It's been a good long while now since we've had a site worth looking at, but here she is: simple and enought content to tide you over no guff. There's a news and a photo blog on this here front page, and it will get new content now that we're up for it, and also I know how to update the site so that's a bonus. Grreat; show's still up in Seattle at OKOK Gallery until the start of November, and Lukas is heading back to Toronto for Hallowe'en. That's the news.

We will be exhibiting a collection of our work as Fighting as well as some individual pieces, at OKOK Gallery in Seattle this september.

"Different Strokes"

The opening is on the 8th, 'bout 6-10.
www.weareokok.com for more directions and to purchase work.

There will be pieces in a variety of media on display, performance, installation, work on paper, and books.
We're excited about it.
Come by if you're in town.

Check out FecalFace.com this week for mini-interviews with both us and a slew of other participants in the FecalFace 7.5 year anniversary exhibit at 111 Minna in SF, opening this thursday. Get there early or .... or... well it'll be really packed so get there early to get a good clear view of the work and then stay on cause it looks like a parrrrty!
We will not be present unfortunately with other projects and geographical considerations making it quite tricky to negotiate our way down there to that rad little city.
Regardless of our absence we are both very pleased to be participating and hope the opening is killer despite the lack of our glowing selves.
www.fecalface.com, son.

Soooooo...
Lukas is now living in NY and Niall is Living in Vancouver, we're currently keeping super busy working together on a variety of commercial projects and preparing for an exhibit this september in Seattle at OKOK gallery.
If you are in SF later this month check out the FecalFace anniversary exhibit where Lukas and myself will be showing our own individual work that's outside of the Fighting umbrella.
Take a look for our six page spread in the new Lowdown magazine and our deck and matches set out this august with Creature Skateboards, its gnarlsville son.
For more frequent and current news check out:
niallmcclelland.blogspot.com
lukasgeronimas.blogspot.com

Sum sum summertime!

We are showing new work, not as Fighting, but as ourselves, at LE Gallery in Toronto (1183 Dundas Street West) from May 11th to June 3rd. Please stop by during gallery hours, and come to the opening on the 11th from 7-10pm. There will be drinks and a little smorgasbord, and of course, some very interesting new art. We have new shirt designs, but they're on the back-burner until we move (Niall to Vancouver and Lukas to New York).

Hi! Niall and I are showing some of our work along with the work a few other fantastic Canadian artists that work with the Lifetime Collective at Receiver Gallery in San Francisco!! The show is entitled "All in Together Now". It opened on the 7th of April, and will be up until April 27th.

Receiver Gallery is located at 1415 Valencia St. and is open Monday to Friday 10am-6pm.

We will have some pieces in the He-Man art showing at Magic Pony this thursday (694 Queen St West) which starts at 7pm and all work is up for auction, and the money goes to charity. Also, there will be new Fighting shirts coming soon, so don't fret, if you ever fret about our shirts, which I doubt you do...so don't, uh, fret.

Hey, both of us have blogs too; Mine is called Promontory Point, and Niall's is called Swords and Stones. Those are the places where you'll find newer works, as they are updated more frequently. And this is the place where you'll find us putting together some of the works in the Graves zines and our shirts. Look for new shirts around the Vernal equinox (Mrch 21st ish)!

The Phantismes show is happening for real this time - It'll be up Saturday the 16th at our studio and there it will stay until the 15th of January.

Stop by between dusk and 8pm any night of the week ya'll.
Come by on Saturday between 7 and 9 pm for the opening.
2 Rusholme Dr. Toronto.

The Adidas Mural that we did with Robin Nishio is up and it's big. Head to the Adidas Originals store on Queen just East of Spadina and have a walk through the tunnel of design. A close inspection of the imagery will yield favorable results. It's up til Dec 7th.

Buy Fighting shirts from Umbrella market online.
so nice, so easy.

There are photos from our efforts at the Nike Store Toronto over on Dopefiend.ca. Have a look, it's happier than it is scarier, but that's them corperations, poody toots!
Oh, and there's also some Nike shoe posters Lukas drew for the Air Max 360 release. whew!

On the 1st of December we'll be opening our winter gallery to the public for our first Fighting show in Toronto since forever. We've got 13 large-scale collage works that will be on display high above and surrounding the audience, and an oil-drum fire in the middle, as well as a few more posters mounted on our wall along Dundas st. west, and also a large Billboard for Titling. Each poster will be printed in editions of 50 and sold for $65. The'yre big - 8 by 3 foot. And they're phantasmagruesome, and spiritual. All are welcome.

Phantismes
Gallerie d'Hiver
2 Rusholme Drive
(2 blocks East of Dundas and Dufferin)
Friday December 1st
7-10 pm.

... in toronto on halloween(tomorrow).
at the funeral parlour on queen across from bellwoods park.
same artists as below.
good times.
our buddo SwearWords will be playing the music.

There is a one night show comming up in Vancouver we're part of with a slew of buds, should be fun, check it out.

"Last Rights"

October 26th
The Chapel Funeral Home
#304 Dunlevy(Dunlevy & E.Cordova)

Andrew Pommier, Ben Tour, Ben Motz, Bob Kronbauer, Chris Wellard, Dennis Chow, Don Pendelton, Drue Langois, Fighting, Humongous, Marco Cibola, Mark Ward, Meghan Paterson, My Pal The Crook, Patrick Jilbert, Robin Nishio, Ryan Foerster, Seripop, SSUR, & Turf One

So go take a peak, lots of good folks involved.

There is also a book being released with it sponsored by Vice and DC, look around and try to score a copy cause you can't get em anywhere else but the show.

Ok, soooo... It's comming to Toronto on Halloween too, you should dress up evil.

Matt Irving just interviewed us for www.fecalface.com, take a look, give a read, spend a minute. Isn't that nice? There you go.
FecalFace is a really good thing.

... by Kansas.
Best song ever.

OK so everything seems to be in working order, and we're going to keep it that way, and we're going to take advantage of this blog here, so check back to see what's cookin' in and around town and other places.

In Burlington, there's a Phil Frost show opening at Pursuit gallery
Sept 29th 5-10pm

It's a fun 8 hour drive from Toronto, so why not, huh?

New site design, just pushing shit around. Need a few tweaks but we're nearly there son.
Thanks Janek, you're a polish prince!

... we should update our website cause this shit is OLD AS SHIT.
looking through it now... i'm gonna not be lazy for a minute and put up some new shit VERY SOON.

We made two new shirts for Delphi, part of the Northen Exposure series with our buds Matt Irving, Robin Cameron, and Marco "old man" Cibola. They look great! go to www.delphicollective.com to find out some more details or just buy em straight up from www.umbrellamarket.com, where you should be able to buy our tees from soon... whenever they put em up...
...hmm... what else...
new illustration and titles for the new Color magazine, the Mastodon illustration in particular looks rad.
some new album covers for some bands...
some more magazine shit...
more beer...
fuck i dunno, tons of shit that is rad and fun and pays shit all.
ooookay... so yeah, i have some beer to drink and stoop to sit on.
laaaaater.

We're in a group show this saturday in NY, come down if you can, it'll look big and be fun as shit:

Kindled Spirits

Works by 5 young Canadian artists.

niall mcclelland
lukas geronimas
ryan foerster
dylan eastgaard
chris parker

Opening Reception + Rooftop
Saturday May 13, 8:00.

MarkJames Gallery
98 North 6th Street
Brooklyn NY

Directions:
L Train to Bedford Avenue
North 6th Street btw Berry + Whythe

markjamesgallery.com

you can also see some progress shots here www.livevicariouslythroughdylan.com

Lukas and I are going to NY tomorrow to paint this big mural for a group show here: www.markjamesgallery.com, we'll be there for 10 days... something like that, i need to fucking relax and work away from home for a minute.

I was asked to do some drawing at this Adidas/Vice party last night, a bunch of folks turned up and we were all just pumping out neat shit all night long, it kinda felt like highschool. oh yeah, i nearly got into a fight with some dude... it was retarded and he was l-a-m-e, just some schmoe, but a tough guy friend of mine gave him a few choice words and he cleared out pretty quickly. fucking 'tard.

also, i worked a bunch last year with Kalle Lasn, he's the guy who runs/started/owns Adbusters Media, I would go in and kinda hang out with him for a few hours at a time and draw stuff we were talking about. He was rad, and totally old! I think he's swiss? whatever, he's a fucking character. anyways, he just put out his new book Design Anarchy and its a thick motherfucker, like a goddam encyclopedia. The production quality is pretty bonkers, and the art direction and design are pretty unique too. I have a bunch of drawings in it, ie. i didn't have to pay for a copy! i'm sure it'd cost a few dimes.

Lastly, you need to check out the new Color mag, we did a nice wide illustration for the High On Fire interview, super dense stuff. Chris Allen did a total design makeover for it and he's got skills, so watch out for it, best issue yet I'm predicting.

We just got back from a trip to NY this weekend, saw Dylan, Ryan, Doug, Sarah, Liz, Robin, Nick, Janna... fuck, too many folks. We also got to check out PS1, which has a dope Wolfgang Tillman show up, also Tim Barber happened to be having his Tiny Vices(know his site? www.tinyvices.com, s'good) oppening on saturday so we checked that out too, lotsa familiar vancouver faces showing, it was packed to the tits. We're going back in about 2 months for this group show ditty, look for it.

We just got a new home at Dundas and Rusholme!
G'yeah boy.

We have our Spring shirts designed.
Interested?
Email us for the line sheet.
Hssssp...

A little while back I was asked to design a beer can along with Andy Dixon, Andrew Pommier, Fontski, and Karen Klassen. So tonight Vice and Kokanee are throwing a party(free beer) for the release of the series, its at the Silkhaus(keefer and main-ish) in Vancouver. Andy Dixon did some installation work for it, I'm pretty curious about that, his work is dope. I won't be there cause I'm in Toronto, I always seem to miss this shit. It should be fun despite the hip fucks inside with scarves and attitude and the young overly self-aware girls snappin' party flicks. Still, free beer right? That's what I'm saying. And you get to see a poster size print out of my can design, at least you could see it if they have any lights on it. not likely. I'll probably be drinking BOH. Sorry.

We went to the cd release show last night, it was colder than a witches tit but they ruled the rulers, rammer is tight.

I'm gonna be in a group show at GoonPack(vancouver) on sat. feb 11th, shuold be good, some of the other artists getting down with this are Nick Pittman, Chris Allen, Andrew Pommier, Scott Pommier, Sandro Grisson, Bob Kronbauer, Dylan Doubt, Ephka, and a bunch more folk on top of that. Should be fun. The Owners of GoonPack are super nice. It's on Cordova, around Abbott, just look for the dope green(that should be an actual colour name) neon sign. I love that sign.

New site for us, thanks Janek.

i'm going to vancouver tomorrow.