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Chronicles and Monocles: Professor Fliggins Comes to Life at A.Okay Gallery

Wed, Mar 11, 2009

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Well this event really looked like a lot of fun. And as our friend Tamika from VIMBY and Candied Cartel notes: the whole agenda mapped out in the press release makes a ton more sense when you pair the words with their visual counterparts. Shawn Smith will be working on this project for the next year, releasing a plush a month. Cheers to Shawnimals and the curators at A. Okay Official (Lana Crooks and Max Bare, shown below with Shawn’s partner, Jen Brody) for bringing high-concept back to lowbrow art. Pictures from the A.Okay Official blog, where a member of the Fliggins clan left a comment seeking to ID Shawn and the Professor for her family tree. I love the Internet! The show runs through March 28th.

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Shawnimals Sneak Peek! from Tamika C on Vimeo.

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Jeremy Brautman - who has written 1965 posts on ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected.

Jeremy Brautman joined ToyCyte in 2008 and has been writing about toy culture ever since. You can currently find him contributing to a variety of blogs, artkiving doodles at Doodlesplatter.com and cataloging artistic ephemera at ARTkivers.com.

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2 Comments For This Post

  1. Lana Says:
    March 11th, 2009 at 1:07 pm

    Thanks for the awesome reporting on this show (I love Toycyte)! I had not seen the video yet…do i really sound like that? haha who knows!?!

    Anyway, just wanted to add that pieces are available to purchase online:
    http://aokayofficial.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=21_38_89&sort=20a&page=1

  2. Kylo76 Says:
    March 11th, 2009 at 2:14 pm

    Great article. I met Shawn at Pitchfork music festival last summer, what a great down to earth guy. Awesome show, awesome artist, awesome gallery..wish I coould’ve been there. There are some really cool pieces left at their site too..go on git some.