Jeremy Fish (Juxtapoz #71 ) makes great paintings and great tee designs. His latest collab is with Upper Playground for these new Spring tees. Our favorite might be the Mix-Tape, but you have four in total to choose from
New Jeremy Fish superFishal Tees for Upper Playground
May 26th, 2010Tags: fish, Graffiti, great-tee, Jeremy Fish, juxtapoz magazine, latest-collab, makes-great, News, Spring, upper, upper playground
SKETCH 4 SKETCH UPDATED & LOCKED!
April 28th, 2010
“Hey, Alex, a couple of the good folk who came by the Atlanta Sketch4Sketch stop said you were starting to resemble Tom Hanks in Philadelphia and almost passed out in your own filmy drool while drawing them a picture of a bulldog with elephantiasis. What the fuck man, I thought you were kinda professional!??”
Well, mysterious quotable person, I will answer your questions with sentences that have question marks at the ends but aren’t really questions:
1. We have so far travelled over 5000 miles by car in less than 2 weeks, slept less than The Machinist, stopped in 8 different cities and drawn close to a thousand drawings for artists of all ages who have been kind enough to grant us with some of THEIR art. Regardless of our near-perfect physiques, rigorous daily exercise routines, and military background, we recently hit a physical, mental & financial breaking point and had to figure out how to rearrange things in order to make it home alive. As now….it is survival?
2. What gave you the impression that we were professional? Was it my pink cosmetic bag? Or perhaps my proper use of the words “Dude” and “dick”?
So, with that lengthy desperate diatribe being typed, and though please understand that we have tried our hardest to accommodate the ridiculous overambitious schedule that I originally planned, we have officially made the rest of the SKETCH 4 SKETCH tour a little more spread out, a little smaller, but A LOT MORE FOCUSED. Yes, I know a lot of the places & cities that we promised we would be are not on this list, but let’s make this tour finish strong so that NEXT time, we CAN spend a little time planning it out and get to stop in more cities, spend more time with you, and continue to soak up that inspiration that we are DEFINITELY receiving on this tour. I can describe everyone we have met (except for these dudes at a Taco Time in Omaha) as something that rhymes with “zamazing” and “rinspiring”.
So, check out these dates, and click on the ones with links for a little more specific info about that venue. And, as usual, follow us on Twitter for any spontaneous secret stuff along the way:) Hint: what do Mickey Avalon, Jeremy Fish, Secret Treasures, Texas Chainsaws, Kevin Hayes, and N8 Van Dyke have in common? See below and get be-lown away!
Direct link to Follow Alex on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/alexpardee
Direct link to Follow DAVE on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/davecorreia
THURSDAY, APRIL 29
MONDO TEES/ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE LAMAR
AUSTIN, TX
5:30-8:00PM
(EXCLUSIVE ALEX PARDEE SCREENPRINT SET BEING RELEASED TOO! Shhhhh)
Mondo
1120 S. Lamar Blvd.
Austin,TX
78704
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
SUNDAY, MAY 2:
RED HOT ROBOT
PHOENIX, AZ
2PM-4PM
14 West Camelback Road
Phoenix, AZ 85013-2568
(602) 264-8560
www.redhotrobot.net
MONDAY, MAY 3:
THE ARTS FACTORY
LAS VEGAS, NV
3PM-7PM (with guest famed photographer Kevin Hayes in the house!)
107 East Charleston Boulevard
Las Vegas, NV 89104
(702) 383-3133
www.theartsfactory.com
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5:
ZEROFRIENDS SECRET ONE DAY ONLY POP UP SHOP
LOS ANGELES, CA
We are temporarily taking over The R&R Gallery in downtown LA and setting up a full ZEROFRIENDS store for 24 hours ONLY. The Sketch4Sketch event will happen there!
STORE HOURS: 11AM – ?
SKETCH 4 SKETCH EVENT (With Alex Pardee, Dave Correia, guest artist MICKEY AVALON, PLUS maybe more secrets: it IS Los Angeles. I have to be shady about it!): 1PM-4PM
SATURDAY, MAY 8:
UPPER PLAYGROUND / 5024SF Gallery
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
2PM-5PM
FINAL SKETCH 4 SKETCH w/ Guest artists JEREMY FISH & NATE VAN DYKE!
220 Fillmore St
San Francisco, California 94117
(415) 861-1960
www.upperplayground.com
Remember: You bring a sketch, or ANY kind of YOUR OWN art to us, and we will exchange it for a sketch that we do on the spot for you! (please keep in mind that because of the turnouts, which have been insane, we can only promise a quick sketch!:)
Also, we have raffle tickets for sale that are helping to fund our trip, as well as some other mercy like shirts and prints. Get on it!:)
For more info on the tour itself, the raffle, and all those good intentions, CLICK HERE.
We will see you there hopefully!!!!
Tags: Alex Pardee, california, eyes suck ink, fish, Jeremy Fish, machinist, pink, red, robot, Texas, tour, trip, words, Yone, zerofriends
Some photos buried from the first You Tube event
April 3rd, 2010
Some photos buried from the first You Tube event that Upper Playground was a part of…
Pardee, Choe, Fish
Alex Pardee
J Fish
Alex Pardee from above
Sam Flores from Above
David Choe
Mr. Fish from above
Alex Pardee
Sam Flores Jeremy Fish
Sam Flores
Tags: david choe, fish, fish-kids, flores, flores-jeremy, from-the-first, M. Revelli, pardee-done, photos-buried, sam-done
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS FOR HAITI
February 18th, 2010
BENEFIT ART PROGRAM TO HELP RAISE MONEY FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE HAITI EARTHQUAKE
SA Studios Global’s Film Marketing Division has teamed up with Quentin Tarantino, Upper Playground and The Weinstein Company to present, THE LOST ART OF INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS.
On February 18th, 2010 from 6p – 9p the world will get to preview and purchase the “Lost Art of Inglorious Basterds” at The Upper Playground Art Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles.
Tags: art, entry, Estevan Oriol, fish, haiti, Jeremy Fish, located-at-125, money, opportunity, phone, studios-global, upper
YOU FUCKING BASTERD
February 16th, 2010
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS The Lost Art of the Film
BENEFIT ART PROGRAM TO HELP RAISE MONEY FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE HAITI EARTHQUAKE
SA Studios Global’s Film Marketing Division has teamed up with Quentin Tarantino, Upper Playground and The Weinstein Company to present, THE LOST ART OF INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS.
On February 18th, 2010 from 6p – 9p the world will get to preview and purchase the “Lost Art of Inglorious Basterds” at The Upper Playground Art Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles. All proceeds from this program will be donated to The American Red Cross to help the victims of the Haiti Earthquake.
This creative team has assembled the following select group of accomplished artists, David Choe, Sam Flores, Estevan Oriol, Grotesk, Jeremy Fish, Patrick Martinez, Alex Pardee, Dora Drimalas, Munk One, N8 Van Dyke, Rene Alamanza, Morning Breath and Skinner Davis, to create their own poster art based off their interpretation of the Oscar Nominated film, “Inglourious Basterds” artwork.
Each print will be numbered and signed by Quentin Tarantino. Only six (6) of each amount will be made
The gallery will open will be open to the general public from 6p – 9p on Thursday February 18th, 2010 at Upper Playground Los Angeles located at 125 East 6th Street in Downtown LA. Attendees will have the opportunity to purchase the limited edition prints for $300. The prints are only available for purchase at Upper Playground, Los Angeles. Phone orders and web orders will not be accepted. Prints will be sold on a first come, first serve basis. The purchase of prints will be limited to one per buyer. 
Tags: art, Estevan Oriol, film, fish, haiti, interpretation, limited-edition, located-at-125, marketing, morning breath, opportunity, oscar-nominated, skinner-davis, street, upper
YAY! AREA
February 9th, 2010I have the best friends and fans in the whole world, I love my fucking fans so much, thank you for all your love and support, you made my dick so hard and my heart so heavy this last Friday night . All haters can suck my dick covered in harry’s pink eye tears, I keep stacking that paper and now I’m on to the next one! The adventure continues! Bay Area, My love/hate romantic love affair with you continues! Thanks to all the gays and lesbians for buttfucking the shit out of my show with a bumpy strap on, I love you gays! I’m riding this shit out till the very end of the road, I ain’t getting off this ride and I’m not waiting in line, cuz I love this fucking ride and I love that you all are down for this motherfucking ride with me, you could’ve been anywhere that night but you all rode shotgun with me ! In these interesting and shitty times thanks for lifting my spirits and my pocketbook, I was just informed my show has completely sold out! Thank you thank you thank you, 213-310-323-424-818-626-714-949- and 909 I’m fucking cumming for you next with a vengeance!!! (Photos by andrew wong, peabe, lee root, chris lee, and jrml)
The most asked question at my opening was, when’s dirty hands coming out on dvd? A question I don’t have the answer to,, ask this fucker! His presence was definitely missed in the bay, and harry’s not giving you the stink eye, he just got the pink eye, feel better fucker
ignored prayers closeup
a cold magical rain free night in February
lee root and crew
dropping sidewalk advice on the art school kids
james jean, petra,barron,emily, and jason
lynzy, N8 vandyke, jeremy fish, and fuckface
scott and mr. hahn
the bros
being a dick to my fans
the wonder twins
My mentor barron storey with Korean soul brother number one david choong lee
Some may have noticed my gratuitous or even obscene amount of red paint used in my latest body of work, I was fucking angry and I wanted to paint the town red, what can I say , thank god I have painting as an outlet.
One night I was watching a late night movie from my motel room (Home sweet home , yoshi disapproves of my light bulb color choice in the bathroom)
A clint eastwood flick High plains drifter came on where they paint the entire town red and rename their town lago to HELL, 
The same night I was getting donuts at 2 am and I saw this sign outside the donut shop and asked if they had any of the leftover paint which I bought off them
And later that week I found a giant can of red paint for 90% off you can see it in the corner by mickey avalon’s left foot. theres over 20 different shades of red used in the character assassination paintings, these are just some of the stories
dutch crunch
cunt crusher
Pat getting saint christopher on his arm from mister cartoon, plus a mr.cartoon illustration for hustler from way back in the day, look for a collab with toons coming this year.
rosie getting down with the syndrome
50k and a priceless homecooked meal from momma choe
what an asshole
lord vader
dissappearing act, trying to get lost…….fail 
megan rolling just sent me this photo of her, posing in the white house with my original obama hope painting!
joey in yermo
made a cool grand off the stupidest underdog bets on the superbowl ,,,,fucking blue gatorade!!! hater’s like “hov why you still talkin money shit?”
……….cuz I like money, bitch”
And to end this lovefest I’ll leave you with a quote from a few years ago, from….myself
“I’ve totally turned into this fat typical depressed neurotic self loathing art fag. But I can remember being hungry. I can remember the first time getting a rejection letter from a magazine getting rejected from a gallery. The anger and the fire that, that rejection created inside me like I was fucking nothing, like I didn’t matter. I was so angry then I wanted to destroy everything that made people feel safe, I wanted to terrorize America I wanted to throw the first rock and start a revolution, anarchy and riots all the way people would listen to me, but then I sold my first expensive painting and bought a car , and everything changed. People like Hitler and Charles Manson real monsters, yet human, how did they become like this? Rejection, Hitler’s paintings were rejected everywhere, and Manson’s songwriting skills were laughed at. With all that hate and anger I funneled into my art, what kind of monster would I have been now, if not for success?”
- David Choe
HAND OVER FIST
December 18th, 2009
the dudes at hemway industries and i made this print…its called hand over fist, and deals with demanding women…
