Thank you to everyone who attended our preview reception at Trifecta Gallery last Thursday. We enjoyed our time together tremendously. What a pleasure to have one lovely conversation end, only to find another friend ready to keep fresh company! I could go on.
Another highlight for us, beyond seeing so many of you, was the fruition of our Green Screen Painting Portraits. The results are beyond our expectations, and we hope that you will visit our Green Screen Page and share our enthusiasm. Thank you again for letting us take your photos; we left that night with 55 portraits, and we hope to better that number at our next event, coming in the fall! We will keep your abreast of developments.
Ripper Jordan @ Trifecta Gallery continues through the month. We encourage first-time and repeat visitors to the exhibition. And when you see our prices, you will know that our dear wish is to see our wares find worthy homes. Don't hesitate to make purchases and orders, as we have items sold-out already!
Until next time, we are yours, etc.
Ripper J.
Hey, everyone! We've been busy doing three things that are not our website: making art for the big show July 2nd at Trifecta, Facebookin' it and practicing being gnarly.
The new show is going to have two classics: Repent and Live Theatre (now on shaped MDF!). After that it's brand new magic. Glance an inch or two to your right for examples of fresh SHAZAAM!
In addition to artwork for your wall (one piece rhymes with Papoleon) there are some for your baseboards (or in lieu of said objects! Wha?!) and plenty for your shelves, tables, desks, car hoods, toilet tanks, or spare hands.
We hope to see you Thursday night at Trifecta Gallery between 5 and 9pm. And we got more news after that happens. Oy, stay tuned!
Ripper Jordan unveils four new designs this First Friday at Trifecta Gallery, people.
The economy got you down? Lighten up your life with Awesomely-Made (TM) pieces that are $25-$40. These aren't pieces of paper we printed on our 1998 ink-jet Epson; they're shaped wood, all hand-painted and screened. Yes, they are gems of delight.
Plus one of them asks the eternal question, "WAZUUUUP?" Indeed, what is up? Try our ever-present thanks for supporting what we're doing by visiting Trifecta Gallery and www.ripperjordan.com.
See you there!
Hello there my Computer Savvy Friend!
Nice to see ya and thanks for stopping by and stuff. While you're here why don't you shift your eyes to the right a bit and enjoy another delicious installment of Ripper Jordan's Comic of the Week. As usual it's a brain-scratcher!
Knowing how you like new stuff and surprises, we've got some goodies in the oven for you but you'll have to wait until April's First Friday to get your eyes and hands on them. They will be unveiled at Trifecta Gallery and limited to only those who want them enough to purchase them. Exclusive? Sure! But when it comes down to it...you are worth it.
Speaking of surprises...the cat is out of the bag! Ripper Jordan will be putting on a jaw-dropping exhibition in July at Trifecta Gallery. It's true and we are quite excited so get your fireworks together and meet us there for an explosive show.
As always, Ripper Jordan knows you have a choice when browsing the Intrawebs and we appreciate you taking the time to double-click on us every now and again in order to get an eyeful of our goodie-goods. We've got loads of new inventions coming your way so don't be a stranger!
Lovingly Yours Forever,
Ripper Jordan
Ripper J is just centimeters away from feeling that finish line ribbon breaking across our collective, broad chest. We have a few things coming up soon; you'll want to keep clicking us up in your bookmarks bar to get the details. Additionally, as always, RJ will keep pumping out the weekly comics as an added bonus for your checking in!
Trifecta Gallery will soon unveil new, small Ripper Jordan shaped pieces for their Rack, where they sell artwork to the rest of us for just nickels and dimes. Look for these Little Artworks That Could on the First Friday of April 2009. Never has a month seemed so far away.
Amid Ripper's rush rushing about, we do try to slow down and smell the Venus fly traps when we can. And we never miss our weekly NBA Fantasy League Tai Chi sessions. Kareem simply defies gravity, doesn't he?
Real quick, click here and send us an email. First email RJ gets, we send you an RJ drawing (see the bottom of our Gallery page), you name the subject matter!
Here's the deal. We received a FWD in our email last week with a bunch of scary pictures of our new president feeding off the flesh of small-town, midwestern babies. Needless to say, all Americans should be concerned about this. Ripper J has been so worried about nieces and nephews back in our red state hometowns, that we couldn't sleep a wink, much less update our website last week.
Dave has been tirelessly researching ways to combat this new administration's latest assault on our values. He thinks mass Ripper-Jordan-Artwork-Ownership by every American might be the only way to stave off this dark threat.
James just waited 9 minutes for his streaming web radio station to buffer, only to hear 20 teasing seconds of jackals whooping over a string quartet before his connection dropped. Does he think Washington isn't involved in this? Did Einstein ever forget a decimal?
Sean has thrown himself into his passions, summed up by RJ's old friend, Theresa: Boys, Food, and Dancing. He believes one should be the change one wants to see in the world.
Please, enjoy our new comic. Ripper J's role in this economic recovery is quite small on paper, but ask anyone who has seen our comics how they're doing, and you'll see that our impact is immeasurable. Click here if you made it to the end of this long news piece. You'll win a drawing, too, but don't be greedy if you already won the first one!
Oy vey. If you'd like to see two new paintings please go to Trifecta Gallery. They're $100 each. We know the recession is ending within 100 days, but till then, you get bang for your buck with these puppies. (Or a buck for your bang. Call us. We're interested.)
We visited The Pop Culture Gallery and saw some great posters and a spectacular 3-d Ron English print. Wowza. The Gallery Director, Ski, is nice. Tell him Ripper says howdy. Thanks, Andy Rock, for telling us about the place!
One final note. Q: Why did the neutrino leave the black hole?
A: It didn't, asshole. Don't you know nothing?
Greetings, fellow citizens of the United States of the World! Ripper Jordan has felt the great coming together of our fellow human creatures. The camaraderie we've experienced with you all during this historic week inspires us. We feel we could just reach out and touch each of you; don't touch us, though, please. Germs are germs.
You all know we're talking about the Great Coronation and Anointment that occurred on Tuesday. The world got better right away; seriously, the next morning James got a call to do some work and got paid for it. This new leader, President Neo we like to call him, has already helped James earn 80 bucks. Indeed, it is so.
In other news, we found out that the new teen music girl thrashes to death metal when the Jonas Brothers aren't looking, and that we aren't the only ones who wake up after a hard night with Cheeto socks.
Have a beautiful week, and may our new comic be with you.
OY VEY! It came to fisticuffs over a black line.
It's that idiotic dedication that's keeping these paintings off your petite and lonely walls. (Don't worry they can handle the girth--it's what they've wanted all along). Handmade paintings (Look, Ma--no gloves!) are coming soon. They'll pop off your walls just like 3-d glasses turned up to ZOOM.
Enjoy our RJ art lesson or look at the new comic and check back next week for more. Our New Year's resolutions: lose weight and update the website once a week. If only one comes true, we still win, nuck-fut!
Last year may be 4 days behind us, but for Ripper Jordan it may as well have never happened, because Ripper J only sees the future. The present is nothing more than the future's closest bits, like the car you were tailgating a second ago and just rear-ended. Those who live in the moment are always getting in wrecks.
That's not Ripper.
Ripper's always got his eye on that elusive Dodge minivan on the horizon, trying to make out the plates to see if it's from somewhere cool like Hawaii or Aguas Caliente.
So as we embark on 2009, RJ brings you an image of the future, and it looks a lot like this...
It will be some time before this artwork, modest yet majestic, will be available to you and your friends; we aren't getting much done around here. We just can't stop looking at these paintings. I think one of us may have turned into a tree. Strung with lights and tinsel. Off to water him!
Snow in Vegas! Like school in summertime. Huh? Oh, one of us likes school. Check out the public interaction videos on these people's webpage. That's our beloved McCarran Airport they're at. She's gonna be on TV representing Russia whilst dancing. We'd vote for her but we're slightly scared of the accommodations at Guantanamo Bay. GO USA! Speaking of Guantanamo Bay, we burned ourselves in the eye with cigarette ash that the crazy winds kicked up this weekend. We were making new painting prototypes. You owe us $80 for our troubles. Love, RJ.
This is Sean writing to apologize for the lack of news and updating since we launched the site. The good news: our focus on entertaining you and getting affordable artstuff into your head and hands is stronger than ever. The bad news: i had a damned heart attack at the age of 32, 8 months and 1 day. I don't feel ready to go into all that happened (but I thought it was just a panic attack and didn't go to the doctor for over a day). I did learn that life is better lived doing what you gives you enjoyment. With the help of the other Rippers I've regained the ability to work again and can't wait for us all to get the connection going again, with each other and with you. (PS Don't drink or smoke. Get your exercise. Or whatever, Oprah weighs 200 pounds so why listen to me?)
We're back from Austin. More on that when we finish perspiring from the humidity. Dave toured every single place he ever lived there, insisting on introducing himself to the current occupants as the original inhabitor of the place and forcing them to take pictures of him in his old bedrooms. James picked up the slightest addiction to Shady Grove Green Chili Fries. Things should get better for him as Vegas doesn't have a Shady Grove. (Well, we do, but it's not the same.) Sean settled for sleeping in a hammock (Thanks Mr O3!) since no one would take him under a bridge. Tales and drawings of the adventures are on the way. (Hey, who's that in the menu up there? Get Down and Kareem??)
Yey! You're reading our Ripper Jordan express site. No construction guy on a yellow sign to tell you we're working on this but we wanted to get this up for all the people we hope to meet when we visit Austin for Kissinger's show at Shady Grove. Please poke around and check back for new adventures. (PS We enjoyed meeting you, Austin-person.)
A HUGE hello to all the people we miss from our time with First Fridays and when we had an office at VURB magazine. We think about you lots. If you have pics from those days please send them and we'll get them on the community page. The work we've done since then has been fun but we can't believe how much we miss talking to you. If you miss us, too, email us us your phone number for random Ripper Jordan Drunk Dialing. Maybe we'll call you during a Wednesday bender (if you're in the corporate world that's a meeting), probably very late. We also have some Drunk Jott's (there's a trademark sign after that Jott, it's just really, really tiny).
A gigundo goal is to get a shopping cart on this site so we can exchange painted wood and stuff for your money. In the meantime email us if you see something you might want.
One of us had a stoner over for drinks last night. He won't be named but he's French. Ehhh. Why do stoners love to outline things? Saturn doesn't have rings. It's got one long-living stoner with a Sharpie. Anyway, I still love my French stoner even though he did this ...
PS Sean doesn't like American Apparel. Maybe during a Ripper Jordan Drunk Dial he might tell you why.
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