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Devil Chicken Fine Art + Design

About: I am a visual artist based out of Buffalo, New York.   The working class, blue-collar attitude of Buffalo has had a heavy influence on my work.  It is an attitude that drives me to follow my artistic goals and dreams.  It is an attitude that that motivates me to find my own niche in a rich and vibrant artistic community.  Buffalo has also provided me with an “underdog” will and sense of perseverance.  Although my work pulls from a number of sub-cultures in terms of imagery and technique, I strive to get my message out to a broader audience. Read more!

Online or in-person — visit TrashandVaudeville.com

TRASH AND VAUDEVILLE HISTORY

Trash and Vaudeville opened in 1975, and has been providing Rock n’ Roll to wear ever since.

Born out of the 1970’s rock and punk scene on St. Marks Place in New York City, Trash and Vaudeville has always provided a wide variety of alternative fashion for Rockers, Mods, Punks, Goths, Rockabillies, and everyday working class heroes who just wanted to walk and dress on the wild side.

Trash and Vaudeville was founded by Ray Goodman in June of 1975. Ray discovered St. Marks Place at the age of 13, and never left. He was immediately attracted to the incredible energy that surged throughout the block. Whatever the scene was – Beatniks – Hippies – Glam – Punk – it was all going down on St. Marks Place.

Ray spent most of his free time on St. Marks Place. There was the Electric Circus, the Fillmore East, and CBGBs, all within a few blocks of the area. Some of the greatest Rock n’ Roll Meccas all right there. Ray’s love for Rock music inspired him to open a clothing store that would be entirely influenced by Rock n’ Roll.

Right away Trash and Vaudeville attracted musicians and bands looking to dress in a style that embraced their individuality and creativity. St. Marks Place has always been a gathering place for the ‘cool’, with an energy that still flows today.

The store has been in its original location since opening. The list of artists, musicians, actors, street dwellers, teenage rebels, and people from all over who have shopped at the store goes on and on. Whoever it is, when they leave, they look and feel great!

We hope everybody can get a piece of that dream, that feeling, that spirit, that youth which is both classic and new, but always Rock n’ Roll.

SHOP BY BRANDS ONLINE:
Tripp NYC, Trash and Vaudeville, Underground Shoes and more

Angry Young and Poor SELLING EVERYTHING PUNK SINCE 1995

ANGRY, YOUNG AND POOR began as an independent punk store on North Prince Street in Lancaster PA in 1995 by Jeff and John (myself).  We’ve known each other since pre-kindergarten and have been into punk rock since the early 80s when our older brothers, neighborhood punks, college radio DJs and local punk shop owners turned us onto what good music sounded like.

When one of those local punk stores closed doors in 1994 we lamented the loss of the only place in town to get decent music (not to mention shirts and other stuff).  After a few beers one evening we began to fantasize about what would be the perfect record store, and thus the idea for AYP was born.  Neither of us had any other serious career opportunities lined up so we figured, why not?  If it didn’t work out we could always return to manual labor.

A friend’s Dad was our mentor for the first year or so.  Neither of us had business experience, only punk rock experience, and he helped us ask and answer the many questions needed to help get AYP off the ground.  We pooled what little money we had and borrowed from family to cover start-up expenses, found the North Prince Street location, spent a few months redecorating, ordering inventory, building display stuff and promoting, and opened our doors on Black Friday, November 25, 1995.

The name Angry, Young and Poor comes from a song by the Damned, Lively Arts “culture’s just a bore when you’re Angry, Young and Poor”.  Jeff’s brother had Angry, Young and Poor written on his chuck taylors in the mid-80s, and I guess the phrase stuck with us.

We built a mailing list from our customers and ads in MRR and in 1997 we assembled our first cut-and-paste catalogue.  We soon discovered that there are thousands of small towns like Lancaster that are not lucky enough to have a punk store.  We sent out a few more catalogues, but catalogues were difficult because of the limited nature of punk rock merchandise.  Often by the time the catalogue was ready to ship, half of the stuff in the catalogue would be sold out and no longer available.

Thank you to the genius who thought up the internet.  We launched our first website about 1998 and that quickly became the main way we reached you people.  Our last catalogue was printed in 2001.  Since that time we’ve redone our website several times and it continues to be the main way we bring punk rock to the masses.

The Creeping Museum. Enamel lapel pins designed by independent artists, with the proceeds supporting wonderful causes.

About Us

The Creeping Museum, born in a North Portland laundromat in the spring of 2016, is the nonprofit creative vision and labor of love of two friends trying to save the world with art.

Our mission is to help independent creators share small works of strange and unusual art with a wider audience, while supporting some of our favorite causes. We believe every lapel is a potential gallery, and that there’s a curator creeping inside each and every one of us.

If you’re an artist interested in collaborating with us, drop us a line at hello@creepingmuseum.com.

The Creeping Team

Alyssa (@chaletpancakes) has two decades of experience as a content strategist, producer, and designer, and has a graduate degree in museum studies with a focus on collections management. She’s been fortunate enough to work with some of her favorite cultural institutions including the National Civil Rights Museum, MoMA, Sesame Workshop, and National Geographic. In addition to creepy art, she loves books and coffee, scary movies, cuckoo clocks, and making pictures with thread.

Layla (@hircumvetulum) is an artist, hair stylist, and salon owner. Raised by artists, and trained as a printmaker/bookbinder, she’s been “making” in one form or another her whole life. She loves art (hi-brow to no-brow), music ( ’50’s r&b to doom metal), horror movies (the ghostier the better), and could easily survive on a steady diet of meatball subs and cafe con leche.

Stay up-to-date and follow @thecreepingmuseum on Instagram!

Meet Jason Soles. Grimoires, macabre art, and cold-cast bronze skulls and bones.

About

I am a Seattle-based sculptor with a fascination with antiquity and the passage of time. Through my work I explore tradition, myth, and belief. Spanning the gamut from the pharaonic funeral masks of unknowable space gods to the tactile remains of pre-Christian deities, my sculptures are the relics of fantastical civilizations and lost tribes.

You can follow my work at: https://www.facebook.com/artofjasonsoles

Tormented Artifacts: home of the deranged artwork, custom leatherworks, and other imaginings of Dmitri Arbacauskas

Not much is known about Dmitri Arbacauskas, before he came riding in out of the east with only a paintbrush, a leather punch, and a host of mad ideas snaking their way through his head. It’s said that he’s one of the few people to have attended both Cornish College of the arts and Miskatonic University. It’s also said that he’s been known to howl at the moon, and to hold strange rituals on its dark, demanding sacrifices of rum, tobacco, and entire bottles of paint.

But then, people tend to say a lot of things.

Who am I? An artist. A bit of a geek. A bit crazy, sure, but then, that’s all of us these days. I’d rather let my work speak for itself, rather than you try to deduce how my own personal history affects it (generally, it doesn’t), but should you feel the need to find out more about me, you can always try my personal Twitter or Tumblr accounts.

evilsupply.co – evil paper goods company! Here to make the Netherworld a better place!

PUBLISHER & PRODUCER OF HAUNTED WONDERS

We are professional villains working to improve the quality of evil. Our unending mission revolves around understanding the eldritch nature of the Netherworld, reinforcing diplomatic relations with fey creatures, improving the existence of the undead, and building ever more powerful doomsday devices.

Evil Supply Co. was established on October 31, 1879 (via time travel) at sundown, because we enjoy the occasional dramatic flair.

https://evilsupply.co/product/not-a-menu-notebook/

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